Papers, 1846-1924.

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Papers, 1846-1924.

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Correspondence, notes, and drafts of writings by Edward Waldo Emerson. Major topics of Emerson's writings are Dr. Charles Thomas Jackson and the discovery of ether anesthesia, the life of Civil War soldier Charles Russell Lowell, and the history of the Saturday Club. Correspondents include Henry Lee Higginson, Charles W. Eliot, Carlotta Russell Lowell, and Josephine Shaw Lowell. A scrapbook contains photographs and biographical material on several Union soldiers killed in the Civil War.

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Jackson, Charles T. (Charles Thomas), 1805-1880

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Physician, chemist, and geologist. From the description of Papers of Charles T. Jackson, 1829-1915. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71066585 Physician and chemist. From the description of Papers, 1871, July 21-Aug. 9, Boston. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35149330 ...

Emerson, Edward Waldo, 1844-1930

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Lowell, Carlotta Russell.

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Lowell, Charles Russell, 1835-1864

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Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 1843-1905

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Josephine Shaw Lowell, civic volunteer, born in West Roxbury, Mass., in 1843, brother of Robert Gould Shaw and widow of Colonel Charles Robert Lowell, was active as a social reformer in New York City. She was the first woman appointed to the New York State Board of Charities and founder of the New York Charity Organization Society and the Woman's Municipal League of New York City. From the description of Papers, 1906-1909 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 2320073...

Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926

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Eliot served as president of Harvard University (1869-1909). From the description of Correspondence of Charles W. Eliot, 1870-1920. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339031 Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) was President of Harvard University from March 12, 1869 to May 19, 1909. He also taught mathematics and chemistry at Harvard University (1858-1863) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1865-1869). Eliot was one of the most influential educa...

Saturday Club (Boston, Mass.)

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Higginson, Henry Lee, 1834-1919

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Higginson was a Boston banker and philantropist; he donated Soldiers Field and Harvard Union to Harvard University. From the description of Papers relating to the gift of Soldiers Field, Harvard University, 1890. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 82295797 Higginson was a Boston banker and philanthropist. Higginson attended Harvard (1851-1852), but left because of poor eyesight. In 1856 he went to Vienna intending to make music his life work, but he returned to Boston...