Summary

Creator:

Thayer, William Roscoe, 1859-1923

Abstract:

Letters, compositions, and other papers of the American historian William Roscoe Thayer. Also includes miscellaneous papers of the American writer William Warland Clapp and the American abolitionist and writer Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

Extent:

48 linear feet (96 boxes)

Language:

Collection materials are in English.

Call number:

MS Am 1081-1081.3

Background

Scope and content:

Correspondence (chiefly letters received), articles, poems, speeches, book reviews, diaries and journals, miscellaneous notebooks, scrapbooks, clippings, and other printed material. Correspondence concerns Thayer's writings, particularly in the area of Italian history, and his connections with Harvard as editor of theHarvard Graduates' Magazineand later as an overseer. Also included are some miscellaneous papers of William Warland Clapp, a Boston journalist; and some papers of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, chiefly from a European trip made by Higginson in 1872.

Biographical / historical:

Thayer was a biographer and historian. From 1892 to 1915 he was editor of theHarvard Graduates' Magazine.

Acquisition information:

*77M-80. Gift of Mrs. William Roscoe Thayer and Mrs. Southworth Lancaster; received: 1936 and 1947, respectively.

Processing information:

Link to HOLLIS catalog record

Arrangement:

Organized into the following series:

1. I. bMS Am 1081: Letters addressed to William Roscoe Thayer and to others
2. II. bMS Am 1081: Letters by William Roscoe Thayer
3. III. bMS Am 1081: Compositions by William Roscoe Thayer
4. IV. bMS Am 1081: Compositions by others
5. V. bMS Am 1081.1: Bound MSS by William Roscoe Thayer and miscellanea
6. VI. bMS Am 1081.2: Miscellaneous papers of William Warland Clapp
7. ___A. Correspondence
8. ___B. Compositions
9. VII. bMS Am 1081.3: Miscellaneous papers of Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Restrictions:

There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.

Location of this collection:

Houghton Library, Harvard College Library

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Cambridge MA 02138 USA

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.ois:HOU

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