Concord Free Public Library letter file, <1755>-<1995>
(Mixed Material)

Organized in a single file, arranged alphabetically by writer of letter. (Items of unidentified authorship are filed following the alphabetical sequence.)

Artificial, open collection of misc. letters written by or to various residents of Concord, Mass., presented by individuals connected with Concord, or otherwise relating to Concord.

Writers represented in the collection include: Charlotte Adams; Ebenezer Adams; John Quincy Adams; Felix Adler; Chester G. Atkins; Molly Bailey; Mary A. Barrett; Richard Barrett; Benjamin Dixon Bartlett; William B. Bartlett; Ruthy Batcheller; Lavinia B. Bates; Josef Bernas; Ferdinand Bôcher; E.H. Brainard; William Brewster; Laura Dewey Bridgman; Edward W. Brooke; Phillips Brooks; Elizabeth Stow Brown; George W. Brown; Helen Dawes Brown; Simon Brown; Alexander Hamilton Bullock; Aaron Burr; Samuel C. Burr; John Burroughs; Anne French Bush; Alden Buttrick; Harriette Buttrick; John Caldwell Calhoun; Simon Cameron; Archibald Campbell; William Ellery Channing (1780-1842); William Ellery Channing (1817-1901); John M. Cheney; Robert Collyer; Peter Cooper; George William Curtis; Ralph E. Dakin; Richard Harding Davis; Dorothea Lynde Dix; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Waldo Emerson (with Ellen Emerson as amanuensis); William Emerson (1769-1811); Charles Carroll Everett; Edward Everett; David Glasgow Farragut; Dorothy Canfield Fisher; Benjamin Franklin; Allen French; Daniel Chester French; Henry Flagg French; Barzillai Frost; Philip Gibbs; Henry Giles; Herbert Wendell Gleason; George Lincoln Goodale; Doris Kearns Goodwin; Hersey Bradford Goodwin; Jane Loring Gray; William Greenleaf; Ephraim Whitman Gurney; Edward Everett Hale; Walter Harding; John Hay; Henry Z. Hayner; Horace Heard; Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar; Samuel Hoar (1778-1856); Heinrich Hofmann; Sarah Watson Holden; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Eben Norton Horsford; Josephine Hosmer; A.E. (Alfred Edward) Housman; James B. Hovey; Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe; Samuel Gridley Howe; William Dean Howells; Thomas Ford Hunt; Frederic Dan Huntington; Isaac Hurd; Andrew Jackson; Charles Thomas Jackson; William A. Jackson; Edward Holton James; William James; Thomas Jefferson; Richard M. Johnson; Ephraim Jones; Wilbur Kitchener Jordan; John Fitzgerald Kennedy; John Keyes; John Shepard Keyes; the Ladies of Concord; William Lawrence; Abraham Lincoln; Mary E. Lockwood; T.M. (Thomas Morris) Longstreth; Harriet Mulford Stone Lothrop (Margaret Sidney); Margaret M. Lothrop; Wilhelm Lübke; Harriet Martineau; Alfred B. Mason; Samuel Joseph May, Jr.; Julian S.C. Maynard; James C. Melvin; George E. Messer; Lydia Minot; Nahum Mitchell; Edward S. Morse; Daniel Munroe; B. Nagarkar; Albert H.Nelson; Egbert S. Newbury, Jr.; Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland; Charles Eliot Norton; François d'Orléons, Prince de Joinville; Alice Freeman Palmer; Theodore Parker; Johnson Parkman; Daniel Todd Patterson; Andrew Preston Peabody; Elizabeth Palmer Peabody; Wendell Phillips; Fred S. Piper; George Lincoln Prescott (1829-1864); Herbert Putnam; Josiah Quincy; Robert Rantoul; Elias Richards; Walton Ricketson; Lincoln Ripley; George D. Robinson; William B. Rogers; Theodore Roosevelt; Samuel Worcester Rowse; Benjamin Russell; Ward Duren Safford; May Sarton; Edmond Hamilton Sears; William Henry Seward; Daniel Shattuck; Mary Pasco Sherwood; Mary Emerson Ripley Simmons; Charles E. Snell; Charles Stearns; Joseph Story; Mary Stowe; Charles Sumner; Thomas Whitney Surette; William C. Swain; George A. Tewksbury; Louise Hall Tharp; Sophia B. Thayer; Thomas Tingey; Daniel D. Tompkins; Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens); Charles M. Tyler; John Tyler; George Washington; Francis Wayland; Daniel Webster; John Weiss; Harriet Lincoln Wheeler; Arthur Whiting; J. Wiley; O. Whyte; Robert Charles Winthrop; Fannie L. Wood; George Edward Woodberry; organizers of the Wright Tavern Coffee House; H.C. Wyeth.

Recipients represented in the collection include: American Statistical Association; Nathan Appleton; Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Bailey; Richard Barrett; Eliot Fitch Bartlett; Eva Myrtle Whitcomb Bartlett; George Bradford Bartlett; Sarah Ripley Bartlett; Florence Benson; Isaac Bishop; Austin Blair; John Branch; Lucy A. Brimblecom; Elizabeth Jane Broderick; George M. Brooks; Mary Dillingham Brooks; Mary Merrick Brooks; Nathan Brooks; Benjamin W. Brown; Elizabeth Stow Brown; Helen Dawes Brown; Jonathan Buck; Benjamin Reynolds Bulkeley; John Buttrick; Sally Chandler; Sarah Chapin; Lydia Maria Child; Sarah B. Cragin; Andrew J. Crawford; Charles W. Davis; Mahlon Dickerson; Paul Dudley; Rebekah F. Dunning; Louisa B. Dutton; Mr. Eaton; Frank Edwin Elwell; Edward Waldo Emerson; Mrs. Emerson (of New York); Lucy Everett; George O. Farnsworth; Mary Fenn; Alexander Forbes; G.A. Fox; Gustavus Vasa Fox; Maude Dorrance French; Miss Gade; W.P. Garrison; John M. Gourgas; Nathanael Greene; Mrs. Austin Grimshaw; Harvard, Mass. Christian Church and Congregational Society; Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar; Silas Herbert Holden; Mr. Holland; Mary F. Hollis; Mr. Holt; Benjamin Homans; Herbert Buttrick Hosmer; Nathan S. Hosmer; Mrs. James S. Hovey; Benjamin Peter Hunt; Madeline Hurley; Edward Jarvis; Mary Hayward Jones; Grace Keyes; J.C. Keyes; John Keyes; John Shepard Keyes; Prescott Keyes; the Ladies of Concord; William Lee; Harriet Mulford Stone Lothrop (Margaret Sidney); Mrs. John Lowell; Mr. Lyon; Managing Committee of the Sailor's Fair, Boston; Humphrey Marshall; Sarah Melvin; Judge E. Miller; Hans Miller; Marian Blackall Miller; A.C. Mitchell; Elizabeth G. Mitchell (Glenn Mitchell); James Monroe; Louisa Munroe; Mrs. Murphy; editor of the New England Farmer; Theodore Parker; William Parkman; James Kirke Paulding; A. Payne; Rev. Dr. Percy; Lord Bishop Percy of Dromone; Rev. Jonas Perkins; Louise DeRevere Pratt; George W. Prescott; Sarah Barker Edes Prescott; Lydia Priest; Grindall Reynolds; Mary Rice; Arthur G. Robbins; Mr. Rodman; Mary Rodman; Mark Safford; Franklin Benjamin Sanborn; Josephine L. Sanborn; Dr. T. Sewall; Alice Smith; Robert Smith; Samuel S. Southard; Samuel Stearns; Charles Sumner; Smith Thompson; Charles Q. Tirrell; George Tolman; Barbara Tower; editor of the Vermont Record; Mary Walker; Daniel Webster; Lucy C. Wentworth; President of Western College, Hopkinsville, Ky.; Harriet Lincoln Wheeler; William Willder Wheildon; Polly F. Whittemore; Ebenezer Woodward; John Ellis Wool; Nathaniel Wyeth.

Concord Free Public Library Letter File, Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Mass.

Multiple sources of acquisition; most not established. (Known sources of acquisition for particular items are noted in the item listing.),MCo-SC

Finding Aid in library and online at the Selected Finding Aids page of the William Munroe Special Collections website, Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Mass.