1758-1935
Guide to the Collection
Restrictions on Access
The original autographs in this collection have been removed to Special Collections. Photocopies are available for use by researchers.
Abstract
This collection consists of autograph letters and cutslips written by prominent American and British authors and statesmen, collected by Benjamin Whitwell.
Collection Description
This collection consists of autograph letters and cutslips written by prominent American and British authors and statesmen, collected by Benjamin Whitwell. All items are individually described in the MHS manuscript catalog.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Miss Gertrude Townsend, Oct. 1962.
Restrictions on Access
The original autographs in this collection have been removed to Special Collections. Photocopies are available for use by researchers.
Detailed Description of the Collection
I. Autograph letters
Arranged alphabetically.
Box 1
Unidentified autograph, 12 Nov. 1932Box 1
Unidentified author, 12 Dec. 1932Box 1
Abbott, Ezra (1819-1894), undatedBox 1
Adams, John (1735-1826), 19 Feb. 1818Box 1
Agassiz, Alexander (1835-1889), 19 Sep. 1877Box 1
Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873), 16 Aug. 1871Box 1
Allingham, William (1824-1889), undatedBox 1
Anagnos, Michael (1837-1906), 26 Mar. 1885Box 1
Andrew, John Albion (1818-1867), 12 Sep. 1861 (photograph removed)Box 1
Andrews, Sidney (1835-1880), Jan. 1872Box 1
Bancroft, George (1800-1891), undatedBox 1
Banks, Sir Joseph (1744-1820), 3 Aug. 1815Box 1
Bellows, Henry Whitney (1814-1882), 17 May 1865Box 1
Bennet, George, 10 Oct. 1830Box 1
Bigelow, Jacob (1787-1879), 24 JulyBox 1
Bowles, Samuel (1851-1915), 21 Aug. [1868]Box 1
Boyd, A. H., 24 May 1862Box 1
Bright, John (1811-1889), 3 Aug. 1869 (photograph removed)Box 1
Brooks, Charles Timothy (1813-1883), 27 May 1862Box 1
Brown, J. W., 25 Feb. 1884Box 1
Brown, John, undatedBox 1
Burnett, Frances Hodgson (1849-1924), July 1884Box 1
Bushnell, Horace (1802-1871), Feb. 1872 (photograph removed)Box 1
Byles, Catharine (1753-1837), 6 Apr. [1790]Box 1
Byles, Mather (1707-1788), 6 June 1785Box 1
Byrd, Richard Evelyn (1888-1957), 15 Dec. 1932Box 1
Byron, 5 June 1839Box 1
Candolle, Augustin Pyramis de (1778-1841), 13 Mar. 1828Box 1
Cary, Alice (1820-1871), 5 Apr. 1862Box 1
Chandler, Peleg Whitman (1816-1889), 5 Mar. 1872Box 1
Child, Lydia Maria Francis (1802-1880), 14 July 1862Box 1
Choate, Rufus (1799-1859), undatedBox 1
Clarke, James Freeman (1810-1888), Mar. 1871Box 1
Clay, Henry (1777-1852), 28 May 1827Box 1
Cobb, Harriet, undatedBox 1
Collyer, Robert (1823-1912), Mar. 1872Box 1
Conant, James Bryant (1893-1978), 18 Feb. 1935Box 1
Conder, Josiah, 24 Apr.Box 1
Crane, Walter (1845-1950), 6 Nov. 1891Box 1
Cropsey, Jaspar Francis (1823-1900), undated (photograph removed)Box 1
Curtis, George William (1824-1892), 15 July 1861 (photograph removed)Box 1
Cushman, Charlotte Saunders (1816-1876), 13 Oct. (two photographs removed)Box 1
Dana, Richard Henry (1787-1879), undatedBox 1
Dana, Richard Henry (1815-1882), 1859Box 1
Darnley, Earl, 1829Box 1
Depew, Chauncy M., 5 May 1824Box 1
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) (no letter; photograph with signature removed)Box 1
Eliot, Charles William (1834-1926), 15 July 1913Box 1
Elwes, Robert, June 1866 (sketch)Box 1
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882), 16 June (photograph removed)Box 1
Everett, Edward (1794-1865), 1 June 1825 (photograph removed)Box 1
Felton, Cornelius Conway (1807-1862), 22 Oct. 1860Box 1
Forbes, Sir John, 21 Oct. 1840Box 1
French, Daniel Chester (1850-1931), 8 Feb. 1917Box 1
Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins (1787-1851), 7 Apr. 1818Box 1
Gannett, Ezra Stiles (1801-1871), undated (photograph removed); July 1826Box 1
Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879), 31 Dec. 1862; 8 Feb. 1877 (photograph attached)Box 1
Gilbert, Ann, 18 June 1818Box 1
Gilman, Caroline Howland (1794-1888), 1844Box 1
Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898), 1 Nov. 1870 (with clipping)Box 1
Gould, Hannah Flagg (1789-1865), undatedBox 1
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of (1735-1811), 23 Mar.Box 1
Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885), 1 Jan. 1865 (photograph removed)Box 1
Granville, George Leveson-Gower, Earl (1815-1891), 29 Aug. 1870Box 1
Griswold, Roger (1762-1812), 22 Feb. 1812Box 1
Griswold, Rufus Wilmot (1815-1857), 20 Dec.Box 1
Hale, Edward Everett (1863-1932), undated; 19 July 1814Box 1
Hall, Anna Maria, undatedBox 1
Hall, Samuel, 20 JuneBox 1
Hamlin, Cyrus (1811-1900), 29 Feb. 1872Box 1
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864), 16 May (photograph removed)Box 1
Hawthorne, Sophia (1809-1871), 13 Mar. 1870Box 1
Hay, John (1838-1905), 7 Mar. 1903Box 1
Hayes, Isaac Israel (1832-1881), 17 Sep. 1873Box 1
Hilliard, George Stillman (1808-1879), 5 Dec. 1829Box 1
Hoar, Elizabeth, Nov.-Dec. 1844Box 1
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894), 26 Jan. 1871Box 1
Hoover, Herbert Clark (1874-1964), 6 Feb. 1934Box 1
Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue (1830-1908), [1858] (one photograph removed, one attached)Box 1
Howe, Robert, 17 Mar. 1779Box 1
Howe, Samuel Gridley (1801-1876), undated; 3 June 1875Box 1
Howitt, M., undatedBox 1
Hyslop, James Hervy (1854-1920), 13 Sep. 1912Box 1
Jackson, T. J., 13 Apr. 1862Box 1
Jesse, Edward, 6 May 1860Box 1
Johnson, Reverdy (1796-1876), 18 Jan. 1864Box 1
Judd, Sylvester (1813-1853), 15 Nov. 1844Box 1
Keith, Alex, undatedBox 1
Keith, Thomas, 20 Mar. 1876Box 1
Kemble, Fanny [Francis Anne] (1809-1893), undatedBox 1
Kirkland, John Thornton (1770-1840), 26 June 1826Box 1
Laurens, Henry (1724-1792), 18 Apr. 1788Box 1
Lawrence, William, 14 Mar.Box 1
Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824-1903), 1870Box 1
Lester, Charles Edwards (1815-1890), 8 Apr. 1862Box 1
Lieber, Francis (1800-1872), 11 July 1867Box 1
Lodge, Henry Cabot (1850-1924), 7 Apr. 1924Box 1
Long, John Davis (1838-1915), 2 Jan. 1881Box 1
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882), 7 Mar. 1862 (photograph removed)Box 1
Longfellow, Samuel (1819-1892), 4 Apr. 1884Box 1
Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891), 4 Sep. 1870Box 1
Lyell, Sir Charles (1797-1875), 15 May 1866Box 1
Lynch, Anne, 1843Box 2
Macauley, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron (1800-1859), 15 June 1844Box 2
MacKay, Charles (1814-1889), 16 May 1860Box 2
Mann, Horace (1796-1859), 5 Apr. 1848Box 2
Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876), 18 Feb. 1836Box 2
Masquera, Tomas de, 24 Jan. 1865 (photograph removed)Box 2
Massey, Gerald (1828-1907), undatedBox 2
Meade, George Gordon (1815-1872), 9 Sep. 1863; 11 Sep. 1865; 26 Dec. 1867 (photograph removed)Box 2
Morrison, Robert, 12 Sep.Box 2
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese (1791-1872), 29 Feb. 1864 (photograph removed)Box 2
Mulock, [Mrs. Craik] Dinah Marie (1826-1887), 7 July 1859Box 2
Norton, Carl, 10 Mar.Box 2
Otis, E. Henderson, undatedBox 2
Parker, Euphemia, 1 Feb. 1934Box 2
Parker, Theodore (1810-1860), 25 Sep. 1858Box 2
Parker, William Harwar (1826-1896), 14 Aug. 1862Box 2
Peabody, Andrew Preston (1811-1893), 22 Oct. 1861Box 2
Phillips, Sir Benjamin, 9 Feb. 1841Box 2
Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884), undatedBox 2
Powers, Hiram (1805-1873), 27 Nov. 1843Box 2
Prescott, Harriet, 9 JuneBox 2
Prescott, William Hickling (1796-1859), 20 Sep. 1850; 17 Nov.Box 2
Quincy, Josiah (1772-1864), 17 Dec. 1862Box 2
Rammohun Roy [Raja] (1774-1833), 24 May 1831 (sketch)Box 2
Ranke, Leopold von (1795-1886), 19 Sep. 1834Box 2
Read, Thomas Buchanan (1822-1945), 11 Mar. 1862Box 2
Reade, Charles (1814-1884), [1859]Box 2
Reid, Thomas Mayne, 10 JulyBox 2
Roberts, Henry, 19 May 1866Box 2
Rogers, James Edwin Thorald (1825-1890), 1 Feb.Box 2
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945), 13 Mar. 1918Box 2
Root, Elihu (1845-1937), 21 Jan. 1908Box 2
Russell, W., undatedBox 2
Schurz, Carl (1829-1906), 11 June 1874 (photograph removed)Box 2
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria (1789-1867), undatedBox 2
Sewell, Elizabeth, 7 Jan. 1866Box 2
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of (1801-1885), 19 Apr. 1859; 17 May 1866Box 2
Shillaber, Benjamin Penhallow (1814-1890), 23 May 1873 (photograph removed)Box 2
Sigourney, Lydia Howard Huntley (1791-1865), undated; 8 Dec. 1863Box 2
Smith, James, 30 May 1821Box 2
Sparks, Jared (1789-1866), 20 Feb. 1837 (photograph removed)Box 2
Spencer, John C. (?-1855), 23 Apr. 1840Box 2
Sprague, Charles (1791-1875), undatedBox 2
Stanton, Edwin McMasters (1814-1869), 12 June 1862Box 2
Stiles, Ezra (1727-1795), 18 June 1784Box 2
Story, Joseph (1779-1845), 29 Dec. 1836Box 2
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896), 28 Aug.Box 2
Sturge, Joseph (1794-1859), 15 Feb. 1847Box 2
Sumner, Charles (1811-1874), 27 July 1861 (photograph removed)Box 2
Swain, Charles, 5 Apr. 1860Box 2
Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878), 20 Mar. 1862Box 2
Taylor, Isaac (1829-1901), 2 May 1837Box 2
Taylor, Jane, undatedBox 2
Tennyson, Emily, 30 June 1859Box 2
Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862), 17 Oct. 1855Box 2
Trollope, Anthony (1815-1882), undatedBox 2
Trumbull, Jonathan (1710-1785), 10 May 1758Box 2
Trumbull, Jonathan (1740-1809), 14 May 1798Box 2
Tuckerman, Henry Theodore (1813-1871), 23 July 1862Box 2
Tupper, Martin F., undatedBox 2
Wardlaw, Ralph, 8 June 1826Box 2
Warren, Jonathan Mason (1811-1867), 14 Apr. 1864Box 2
Warren, Oliver, undatedBox 2
Washington, Booker Taliaferro (1856-1915), 8 Jan. 1915Box 2
Webster, Daniel (1782-1852), 27 Dec. 1842Box 2
Webster, John White (1793-1850), 24 May 1849Box 2
Weiss, John (1818-1879), 19 June 1874Box 2
Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784), July 1769Box 2
Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892), undated (photograph removed)Box 2
Wolcott, Oliver (1760-1833), 16 Nov. 1787II. Cutslip autographs
Arranged alphabetically.
Box 2
Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888), undatedBox 2
Bremer, Frederika (1801-1865), undatedBox 2
Browning, Robert (1812-1889) and Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861), undatedBox 2
Combe, George A., undatedBox 2
Curtis, Charles Pelham (1891-1959), undated (two signatures)Box 2
Dewey, Orville (1794-1882), undatedBox 2
Dore, Gustave, undatedBox 2
Everett, Edward (1794-1865), undatedBox 2
Farrar, Edgar Howard (1849-1922), undatedBox 2
Graham, James Duncan (1799-1865), undatedBox 2
Grant, Anne (1755-1838), undatedBox 2
Griswold, Matthew (1714-1799), 1799Box 2
Hayes, Everis A., 17 July 1914; 6 Oct. 1914Box 2
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (1823-1911), undatedBox 2
Howitt, Mary and William, undatedBox 2
Knox, Henry (1750-1806), undatedBox 2
Knox, Philander Chase (1853-1921), 10 June 1910Box 2
Liverpool, undatedBox 2
MacDonald, George, undatedBox 2
May, Samuel Joseph (1797-1871), undatedBox 2
Naito, Saitaro, undatedBox 2
Otis, Mrs. Harrison Gray, undatedBox 2
Proctor, B. W., 1839Box 2
Russell, undatedBox 2
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907), undatedBox 2
Shaw, Lemuel (1781-1861), undatedBox 2
Stebbins, Emma, 16 Dec. 1878Box 2
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863), undatedBox 2
Wales, Albert Edward, Prince of (1819-1861), 19 Oct. 1860Box 2
Washington, Booker Taliaferro (1856-1915), undatedBox 2
Webster, Daniel (1782-1852), undatedBox 2
Webster, Noah (1758-1843), undatedBox 2
Wickersham, George W., undatedIII. Photocopies of autographs
Included are photocopies of autograph letters (Series I) and cutslip autographs (Series II).
Box 3
Stored at Ms. N-507.IV. Miscellaneous clippings and printed material
Box 3
Stored at Ms. N-507.Preferred Citation
Benjamin Whitwell autograph collection, Massachusetts Historical Society.
Access Terms
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.
Subjects:
Autographs--Collections.
Materials Removed from the Collection
Photographs from this collection have been removed to the Benjamin Whitwell photograph collection (Photo. Coll. 115). Collection guide available at: http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fap052.