Edward Everett Collection 1811-1864

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

Collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred citation:

Edward Everett Collection, Accession 7572, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Summary

Creator:
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Edward Everett Collection, Accession 7572, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Background

Scope and content:

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[A review sent to John G. Palfreyof Life, Correspondence and Writings of Washington Published After the American Ed. and Preceded by an Introduction on the Influence of Washington on the American Revolutionby Pierre G. Guizot. Comments that Guizot's introduction is valuable to the Americans because it was written by an objective and enlightened foreigner] (incomplete)

[Covering letter for AMs of "Guizot's Washington"; mentions George S. Hillard's translation of the Introduction to Guizot's Washington.]

[Thanks Prescott for copy of his History of the Conquest of Mexico; mentions that it is not yet published in England; tells of death of his oldest daughter and expresses his deep sense of loss.]

[Concerns Joseph Henry's and John Romeyn Broadhead's qualifications to be the first Secretary of the Smithsonian; mentions Alexander Dallas Bacheand Sir Charles Wheatstone. ]

[Thanks Sargent for copy of his Songs of the Sea With Other Poems. ]

[Requests him to stop by his office before going to class.]

[Requests that William D. Ticknor's and Joshua Bates' letter concerning Boston City Librarybe returned; mentions William Appleton. ]

[Declines invitation to speak to Young Men's Lecture Associationof Westfield, Massachusetts. ]

[Promises to send article on Thomas Dowseand discusses the proposal made by Dr. Palmer for the publication of the "Mount Vernon Papers."]

[Praises Wheeler's proposed new work (either Dictionary of Noted Names of Fictionor Concordance to the Poems of Shakespeare); Ticknor notes his agreement with Everett's compliments.]

[Acknowledges receipt of Wheeler's Quarto edition of Webster's Dictionary, with Supplement: "Explanatory and Pronouncing Vocabulary of the Names of Fictitious Persons and Places"; praises supplement but suggests Joe Millerbe added.]

Acquisition information:
Deposit [1963 Dec 17] 1964 Jun 3
Processing information:

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

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Physical description:
13 items