Edward Everett Letter Book


Book Description

Autograph copies of letters written by Everett to various family members and friends, including several to Harvard president John T. Kirkland, chiefly concerning Everett's travels in Italy. He gives detailed descriptions of various important landmarks and buildings, especially in Rome. He also describes meeting Letitia Bonaparte and discusses various plans for adding to library collections in Boston.







Autograph Letters Signed and Initialled from Edward Everett Hale, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, to Various People


Book Description

Correspondents: [Cyrus Augustus] Bartol, [Noah] Brooks, [Henry Wadsworth] Longfellow, Judge Lowell, Mumford, [Alfred Porter] Putnam, [George Edward] Ellis and others. Letters (2-3) to Brooks discuss Thomas Starr King. Letter (8) to Putnam and Ellis introduces General Armstrong, head of Hampton Institute for educating black teachers.