1669-1926
Guide to the Microfilm Edition
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| Creator: | Mann, Horace, 1796-1859 |
| Title: | Horace Mann collection |
| Dates: | 1669-1926 |
| Physical Description: | 24
document boxes, 10 narrow boxes, 1 volume, and 1 oversize
box |
| Call Number: | Ms. N-1620 |
| Microfilm Call Number: | P-372, 40 reels (microfilm) |
| Repository: | Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
library@masshist.org |
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Abstract:
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This microfilm edition is composed of five
collections: the Horace Mann papers, 1669-1926; Horace Mann papers II,
1826-1882; Horace Mann papers III, 1709-1904; Horace Mann papers IV, 1827-1835;
and Horace Mann papers V, 1841-1849. These collections pertain to the lives of
Horace Mann (1796-1859), Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, Thomas Mann, Elizabeth Palmer
Peabody, Elizabeth Amelia Dwight, George Albert Hubbell, William Bentley Fowle,
Benjamin Pickman Mann, Horace Mann (1844-1868), and George Combe Mann, among
others.
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4 May 1796
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Mann is born in Franklin, Mass., the son of Thomas and Rebecca (Stanley)
Mann.
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20 June 1809
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Thomas Mann, father of Horace, dies.
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22 July 1810
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Stephen Mann (born 1792), brother of Horace, drowns in Uncas
Pond.
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Fall 1816
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Mann enters Brown University in Providence, R.I., as a member of the
sophomore class.
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Fall 1819
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Mann obtains a legal apprenticeship in the office of Josiah J. Fiske of
Wrentham, Mass.
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1 Sep. 1819
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He graduates from Brown University with high honors.
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Feb. 1820
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He returns to Brown University as a tutor in Latin and Greek; he is
later appointed school librarian as well.
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Feb. 1822
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He attends Tapping Reeve's Law School in Litchfield,
Connecticut.
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21 Dec. 1823
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Mann is granted the privilege of practicing law in the Norfolk Court of
Common Pleas (Mass.).
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1824
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Calvin Pennell, Mann's brother-in-law, dies.
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1825
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Thomas Stanley Mann, Horace's older brother, loses three children within
days of each other.
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21 Dec. 1825
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The Norfolk bar recommends that Mann be admitted to practice before the
Supreme Judicial Court.
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1 May 1827
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Mann is elected as representative to the Massachusetts General Court
from Dedham.
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29 Sep. 1830
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He marries Charlotte Messer, daughter of Brown University president Asa
Messer.
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1 Aug. 1832
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Charlotte Messer Mann dies.
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11 Aug. 1834
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The Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, Mass., is attacked by a mob. For
ten days, Mann heads an ad hoc committee of citizens to investigate the
incident, until he falls ill.
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Nov. 1834
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Mann is elected as a Whig senator in Massachusetts. He is president of
the Senate from 1836 to 1837.
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1835
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Thomas Stanley Mann (born 1788) dies.
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11 Oct. 1836
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Asa Messer dies.
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1837
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Rebecca Stanley Mann dies.
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29 June 1837
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Mann is elected secretary of the Board of Education of
Massachusetts.
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Jan. 1840
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Barre, Bridgewater, and Lexington are selected as sites for the new
Normal Schools.
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Spring 1840
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Mann journeys south along the coast and then westward with George
Combe.
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4 July 1842
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He gives the Fourth of July oration in Boston.
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26 Mar. 1843
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Mann proposes marriage to Mary Tyler Peabody.
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1 May 1843
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The couple marry and depart on the Britannia for Europe with Samuel G. and Julia Ward Howe.
They visit England, Scotland, Hamburg, Magdeburg, Berlin, Potsdam, Leipzig,
Saxon Switzerland, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Baden-Baden, Utrecht, Leyden,
Haarlem, Amsterdam, Paris, England, and Ireland.
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Nov. 1843
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The Britannia arrives in Boston after a
rough passage.
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24 Feb. 1844
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Horace Mann, Jr., is born.
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27 Dec. 1845
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George Combe Mann is born.
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Apr. 1848
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Mann is elected from the Eighth District to the U.S. House of
Representatives.
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15 Apr. 1848
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At midnight, Daniel Drayton and Edward Sayres sail down the Potomac in
the Pearl with 76 escaped slaves. They are
apprehended on Apr. 16.
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30 Apr. 1848
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Benjamin Pickman Mann is born.
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30 June 1848
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Mann gives his maiden speech in Congress, strongly supporting the
anti-slavery cause.
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July 1848
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Mann decides to serve as attorney for Drayton and Sayres in "the
Pearl case." Drayton's trial begins.
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Nov. 1850
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He is re-elected from the Eighth District.
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15 Sep. 1852
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Mann is nominated as the Free-Soil candidate for governor of
Massachusetts. He is simultaneously appointed by the "Christian Connexion" as
the president of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He loses the
gubernatorial election and accepts the presidency of Antioch.
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Sep. 1853
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The Manns arrive in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
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5 Oct. 1853
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Mann is inaugurated as president of Antioch.
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Aug. 1858
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George Combe dies.
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20 Apr. 1859
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Antioch College is sold at auction to a group of Mann's friends led by
Josiah Quincy.
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29 June 1859
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Mann gives his final baccalaureate address.
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2 Aug. 1859
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Horace Mann dies.
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This microfilm edition of the papers of Horace Mann is composed of five
separate collections of Horace Mann papers held by the Massachusetts Historical
Society (MHS). The five collections are: the Horace Mann papers, 1669-1926; the
Horace Mann papers II, 1826-1882; the Horace Mann papers III, 1709-1904; the
Horace Mann papers IV, 1827-1835; and the Horace Mann papers V, 1841-1849. The
first collection is the largest and is represented in Series I-III of this
microfilm. The Horace Mann papers II, III, IV, and V are represented in Series
IV-VII of this microfilm. Series VIII consists of oversize material from all of
the Horace Mann papers.
This collection consists of the papers of Horace Mann and other family
members, including material from Mann's career as a lawyer, legislator,
abolitionist, educator, and president of Antioch College in Yellow Springs,
Ohio. Mann's correspondence constitutes the bulk of the collection. His
correspondents included most of his prominent contemporaries in his various
fields of interest. The collection also contains the correspondence of
reformers Mary Tyler Peabody Mann (1806-1887) and Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
(1804-1894), as well as some of the letters of Elizabeth Amelia (White) Dwight
(1809-1883). Also included in the collection are a number of Horace Mann's
journals, legal papers, and speeches on wide-ranging subjects, such as
education, politics, slavery, temperance, and religion.
Other individuals represented in this collection are: Thomas Mann
(1756-1809), George Albert Hubbell (b. 1824), William Bentley Fowle
(1795-1865), Benjamin Pickman Mann (1848-1926), Horace Mann (1844-1868), and
George Combe Mann (b. 1845), among others.
The Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) holds the following collections
related to the Horace Mann collection:
Horace Mann family photographs, ca. 1870-1905. Photo. Coll. 500.56.
Horace Mann papers: Gift of George Combe Mann and Benjamin Pickman Mann,
Jan. 30, 1915. Additional material gifts of Laura E. Richards, 1940, and Horace
Mann, Oct. 1945.
Horace Mann papers II: Deposited by Horace Mann (of Maine), May 1952.
Horace Mann papers III: Acquired by purchase, 1954.
Horace Mann papers IV: Gift of Mr. Wilder Dwight, Oct. 4, 1920.
Horace Mann papers V: Acquired by purchase, Waterston Fund I, Nov. 30,
1918.
The collection is organized into the following series:
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| I. General correspondence, 1669-1926 |
| II. Lectures, sermons, and legal notes, 1820-1859 |
| III. Volumes, 1782-1880 |
| IV. Horace Mann papers II, 1826-1882 |
| V. Horace Mann papers III, 1709-1904 |
| VI. Horace Mann papers IV, 1827-1835 |
| VII. Horace Mann papers V, 1841-1849 |
| VIII. Oversize material, 1709-1864 |
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| Reel | Contents |
| I. General correspondence,
1669-1926
Arranged chronologically.This series consists of Horace Mann's correspondence with many of his
important contemporaries, including George Combe (1788-1858). Almost every one
of the letters is individually described in the MHS manuscript catalog.
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| Reel 1 | | Undated material, 1.1-1.13 |
| Reel 2 | | Correspondence,
1669-1830 |
| Reel 3 | | Correspondence,
1831-1833 |
| Reel 4 | | Correspondence,
1834-1837 |
| Reel 5 | | Correspondence,
1838-1840 |
| Reel 6 | | Correspondence,
1841-1842 |
| Reel 7 | | Correspondence,
1843-1844 |
| Reel 8 | | Correspondence,
1845-1846 |
| Reel 9 | | Correspondence,
1847 |
| Reel 10 | | Correspondence,
Jan.-May 1848 |
| Reel 11 | | Correspondence,
June-Sep. 1848 |
| Reel 12 | | Correspondence,
Oct.-Dec. 1848 |
| Reel 13 | | Correspondence,
Jan.-May 1849 |
| Reel 14 | | Correspondence,
June-Dec. 1849 |
| Reel 15 | | Correspondence,
Jan.-Feb. 1850 |
| Reel 16 | | Correspondence,
Mar.-May 1850 |
| Reel 17 | | Correspondence,
June-Aug. 1850 |
| Reel 18 | | Correspondence,
Sep.-Dec. 1850 |
| Reel 19 | | Correspondence,
1851 |
| Reel 20 | | Correspondence,
Jan.-July 1852 |
| Reel 21 | | Correspondence,
Aug.-Dec. 1852 |
| Reel 22 | | Correspondence,
1853-Mar. 1854 |
| Reel 23 | | Correspondence,
Apr.-Dec. 1854 |
| Reel 24 | | Correspondence,
1855-Mar. 1857 |
| Reel 25 | | Correspondence,
Apr. 1857-1858 |
| Reel 26 | | Correspondence,
1859-1926 |
| Reel 26 | | Horace Mann to George Combe, copies of letters,
1839-1858 |
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| II. Lectures, sermons, and legal notes,
1820-1859
Arranged chronologically.This series contains Mann's lectures, sermons, speeches, and legal notes.
Undated miscellaneous notes are at the end of the series.
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| Reel 27 | | 1a. "Speech of Horace Mann in Boston Legislature,"
[182-] |
| Reel 27 | | 1b. Closing arguments for a civil suit,
[182-] |
| Reel 27 | | 1c.
[1825] |
| Reel 27 | | 2a. Bill in aid of the Western Railroad,
[183-] |
| Reel 27 | | 2b. Legal notes, Commonwealth vs. Leach &
Manley,
[183-] |
| Reel 27 | | 3a. Insanity,
[183-] |
| Reel 27 | | 3b. "Chaos,"
[183-] [probably 1838] |
| Reel 27 | | 4. Education, physical education, and health matters,
[183-] |
| Reel 27 | | 5. "Remarks upon the comparative profits of Grocers and Retailers as
derived from Temperant or Intemperant Customers" and other remarks on
intemperance,
[1834] |
| Reel 27 | | 6. "Lecture on Elementary Education, Delivered at the Annual Meeting
of the Association of Teachers in Barnstable County,"
11 Nov. 1835 |
| Reel 27 | | 7. Education,
1839 |
| Reel 27 | | 8a. "Normal Schools,"
[184-] |
| Reel 27 | | 8b. "Acquisitiveness,"
[184-] |
| Reel 27 | | 9. Importance of the study of nature and physical laws,
[184-] |
| Reel 27 | | 10. Practicability of the improvement of man,
[184-] |
| Reel 27 | | 11. Truth and knowledge,
[184-] |
| Reel 27 | | 12. Education,
[184-] |
| Reel 27 | | 13. Language,
[184-] |
| Reel 27 | | 14a. Historical view of education, its dignity and degradation,
[1840] |
| Reel 27 | | 14b. Knowledge, with a lecture on the Commonwealth school system on
the left-hand pages, crossed out,
[1842] |
| Reel 27 | | 15. "Darmstadt," trade schools and 'real' schools,
[1843] |
| Reel 27 | | 16. "For the Common School Journal," "How is Reading to be taught?
Lesson on the Sounds of Letters,"
[1844] |
| Reel 27 | | 17. Definition of education,
[1845] |
| Reel 27 | | 18. "Educated Manufactory Labor,"
[1845] |
| Reel 27 | | 19. "Bridgewater speech,"
19 Aug. [1846] |
| Reel 27 | | 20. "Motives of Teachers,"
[1847] |
| Reel 28 | | 21a. Liberty, and miscellaneous notes on slavery, Drayton &
Sayres case,
[1848] |
| Reel 28 | | 21b. "Speech in Drayton & Sayres Case,"
1848 |
| Reel 28 | | 22a. "Mercantile Association,"
[185-] |
| Reel 28 | | 22b. "Political Economy,"
[185-] |
| Reel 28 | | 23a. National government,
[185-] |
| Reel 28 | | 23b. Morality and politicians,
[1850] |
| Reel 28 | | 24. Samuel G. Howe,
[1850] |
| Reel 28 | | 25. Slavery or freedom in newly-acquired territories,
[1850] |
| Reel 28 | | 26. "Temperance -- Following Gen. Houston's Speech,"
[Feb. 1852] |
| Reel 28 | | 27. "Portland, Maine, 4th of July Address," on slavery,
[1 July 1853] |
| Reel 28 | | 28. Dedicatory, Antioch College,
[Oct. 1853] |
| Reel 28 | | 29. "No. 1, Georgie,"
30 Oct. 1853 |
| Reel 28 | | 30. "No. 2, Horace,"
4 Dec. 1853 |
| Reel 28 | | 31. "Liberty,"
[1854] |
| Reel 28 | | 32. "Miracles,"
[1854] |
| Reel 29 | | 33. Education,
[1854] |
| Reel 29 | | 34. "No. 4, Horace," "Liberty is the Law of God,"
19 Feb. 1854 |
| Reel 29 | | 35. "No. 3, Georgie," "Sin -- the Transgression of the Law,"
9 Apr. 1854 |
| Reel 29 | | 36. [No. 5], "Testimony against Evil, a Sin,"
14 May 1854 |
| Reel 29 | | 37. [No. 6], "The Prodigal Son,"
17 Sep. 1854 |
| Reel 29 | | 38. Cincinnati Mercantile Library Association, introductory lecture,
28 Nov. 1854 |
| Reel 29 | | 39a. Class lists,
[1855] |
| Reel 29 | | 39b. Astronomy,
[1855] |
| Reel 29 | | 40. "The Two Natures,"
6 Nov. 1855 |
| Reel 30 | | 41. "Sermons: Retribution,"
24 Feb. 1856 |
| Reel 30 | | 42. "The Kingdom of Heaven,"
23 Nov. 1856 |
| Reel 30 | | 43. Graduation speech,
[1857] |
| Reel 30 | | 44. "Psalms 139: part of 14th verse, I am fearfully and wonderfully
made,"
20 Sep. 1857 |
| Reel 30 | | 45. "Where God's creatures dwell,"
31 Oct. 1857 |
| Reel 30 | | 46. Baccalaureate addresses,
[1857 & 1858] |
| Reel 30 | | 47. "Temptation,"
21 Nov. 1858 |
| Reel 30 | | 48. "Relation of Colleges to Community,"
15 Dec. 1858 |
| Reel 30 | | 49. Human immortality,
[May 1859] |
| Reel 30 | | 50. "Last Baccalaureate of Horace Mann,"
1859 |
| Reel 30 | | 51. Mary Peabody Mann, "Comment on H.M.'s Management etc. of
Antioch,"
[186-] |
| Reel 30 | | 52. Notes by George A. Hubbell,
[1900] |
| Reel 31 | | 53. "Great Britain," n.d. |
| Reel 31 | | 54. Poverty, n.d. |
| Reel 31 | | 55. Speech in Mass. Legislature concerning spending of funds,
n.d. |
| Reel 31 | | 56. 4th of July address, n.d. |
| Reel 31 | | 57. Peace on earth, n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 58. Legal publications, n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 59. Address to Milton Social and Benevolent Society,
n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 60. Education, n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 61. Different types of knowledge, n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 62. Address to Milton Social and Benevolent Society,
n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 63a. Knowledge, n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 63b. Physical laws, n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 64. The mind, n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 65. "Bunker Hill Monument," n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 66. Education as organic necessity, n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 67. Miscellaneous notes, n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 68. Miscellaneous notes, n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 69. Miscellaneous notes, n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 70. Miscellaneous notes, n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 71. Miscellaneous notes, n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 72. Miscellaneous notes, n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 73. Miscellaneous notes, n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 74. Miscellaneous notes, n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 75. Miscellaneous notes, n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 76. Miscellaneous notes, n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 77. Miscellaneous notes, n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 78. Miscellaneous notes, n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 79. Miscellaneous notes, n.d. |
| Reel 32 | | 80. Miscellaneous notes, n.d. |
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| III. Volumes,
1782-1880
Arranged in arbitrary numerical order.This series consists of journals, letterbooks, notebooks, accounts, and
other volumes, with some loose pages. Included in this series are some of
Mann's writings on slavery and those of Mary Tyler Peabody Mann on her
husband's life and other topics.
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1837-1843 |
| Reel 33 | | Ia. Typescript extracts of journal,
1837-1843 |
| Reel 33 | | II. Journal,
May-Oct. 1843 |
| Reel 33 | | III. Letterbook,
1838 |
| Reel 34 | | IV. Pocket book,
[1850] |
| Reel 34 | | IVa. Loose pages from Volume IV |
| Reel 34 | | V. Teachers' Institute accounts,
1846-1848 |
| Reel 34 | | Va. Loose pages from Volume V |
| Reel 34 | | VI. Notebook,
1843 |
| Reel 34 | | VII. Notes on slavery, n.d. |
| Reel 34 | | VIII. Commonplace book,
[183-] |
| Reel 35 | | IX. Notebook, History of England,
[183-] |
| Reel 35 | | IXa. Loose pages from Volume IX |
| Reel 35 | | X. Mary Mann's Estimate of Horace Mann,
1860-1880 |
| Reel 35 | | XI. Horace Mann and Slavery -- manuscript of a book, apparently two
copies, neither of which is complete |
| Reel 36 | | XII. Mary Mann, Sequel to Mr. Alexander's "The Wooing of
O'T" |
| Reel 36 | | XIII. Thomas Mann's Cyphering Book,
1782 |
| Reel 36 | | XIV. Jacob Cushing, Almanack for
1795 |
| Reel 36 | | XV. Benjamin Pickman Mann, "A List of Horace Mann's Publications,"
1867 |
| Reel 36 | | XVI. Benjamin Pickman Mann, "A List of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody's
Publications,"
1869 |
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| Reel 37 | IV. Horace Mann papers II,
1826-1882
Arranged chronologically.This series contains correspondence of Mary Tyler Peabody Mann and Elizabeth
Palmer Peabody, 1826-1882.
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| Reel 38 | V. Horace Mann papers III,
1709-1904
Arranged chronologically.This series contains correspondence and miscellaneous papers, including
deeds and will of Thomas Mann, correspondence of Horace Mann, correspondence of
Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, and correspondence of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody,
1709-1904.
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| Reel 39 | VI. Horace Mann papers IV,
1827-1835
Arranged chronologically.This series contains correspondence from Elizabeth Amelia (White) Dwight to
Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, 1827-1835.
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| Reel 39 | VII. Horace Mann papers V,
1841-1849
Arranged chronologically.This series contains correspondence from Horace Mann to William Bentley
Fowle concerning Mann's lectures and writings on education and religious
liberty, 1841-1849.
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| Reel 40 | VIII. Oversize material,
1709-1864
Arranged chronologically. This series consists of oversize material from the various Horace Mann
collections that are joined in this microfilm edition.
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Horace Mann collection, Massachusetts Historical Society.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in
ABIGAIL,
the online catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Researchers
desiring materials about related persons, organizations, or subjects should
search the catalog using these headings.
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| Persons: |
| | Dwight, Elizabeth Amelia, 1809-1883. |
| | Fowle, William Bentley, 1795-1865. |
| | Hubbell, George Albert, b. 1824. |
| | Mann, B. Pickman (Benjamin Pickman),
1848-1926. |
| | Mann, George Combe, 1845- |
| | Mann, Horace, 1844-1868. |
| | Mann, Mary Tyler Peabody, 1806-1887. |
| | Mann, Thomas, 1756-1809. |
| | Mann family. |
| | Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894. |
Photographs from this collection have been removed to the Horace Mann family
photographs. Photo. Coll. 500.56.
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