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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. [Date of source: 1997. Description is in English. Feb 16, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00240::Edward Everett Collection)//EN" "ViU00240.sgm" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Edward Everett Collection A Collection in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature 7572

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1997 Courtney Boissonnault Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #7572 Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Edward Everett Collection 1811-1864 7572 13 items English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

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

 Acquisition Information

Deposit [1963 Dec 17]1964 Jun 3

 Funding Note

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

 Item Listing Manuscripts "The Influence of Imagination" [1811] AMsS, 3 p.

[signature on verso]

 "Guizot's Washington" ca. 1840 AMs, 4 p.

[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)

 Letters Edward Everettto [Dr. John G. Palfrey?] ca. 1840 ALS, 2 p.

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

 Edward Everettto William H. Prescott 1842 Oct 31 ALS, 4 p.

[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.]

 Edward Everettto Benjamin Pierce 1846 Nov 25 ALS, 2 p.

[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. ]

 Edward Everettto Epes Sargent 1847 Feb 24 ALS, 2 p.

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

 Edward Everettto Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1847 Mar 9 ALS, 1 p.

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

 Edward Everettto Nathan Appleton 1853 Nov 7 ALS, 2 p.

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

 Edward Everettto L. A. Dimock 1858 Dec 20 Printed letter w/AN,1 p.w/env

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

 Edward Everettto D. Appleton Company 1858 Dec 29 ALS, 3 p.

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

 Edward Everettto William A. Wheeler, answer from George Ticknor 1862 Dec 20 ALS, w/AN 1 p.

[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.]

 Edward Everettto William A. Wheeler 1864 Sep 6 ALS, 2 p.

[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.]

 Miscellaneous Receipt by Edward Everettfor map presented by John G. Palfrey, Secretary of State, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to Law Library, Harvard University 1847 Aug 26 DS