1775-1914
Guide to the Collection
Abstract
This collection consists of autograph letters by famous individuals, including presidents, American and British statesmen, reformers, and literary figures, primarily written to U.S. Senator George F. Hoar.
Collection Description
This collection consists of autograph letters by famous individuals, including presidents, American and British statesmen, reformers, and literary figures, primarily written to U.S. Senator George F. Hoar. Among the correspondents are Charles F. Adams (1835-1915), Edward Everett Hale, John Hay, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Theodore Roosevelt. The collection also contains autograph letters to others, including letters by John Adams, as well as correspondence of Daniel Webster and material about Webster collected by Hoar.
Most items are individually described in the MHS manuscript catalog.
Processing Note
The George Frisbie Hoar autograph collection was removed from the George Frisbie Hoar papers. See the guide to that collection for more information.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Mrs. Reginald Foster of Needham, Mass.; Dr. C. Grant LaFarge of Brookline, Mass.; and Mr. W. E. R. LaFarge of New York, N.Y., 1962.
Detailed Description of the Collection
I. Autographs, 1775-1914
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Except where noted, letters were written to George F. Hoar. The series also includes some replies from Hoar.
Adams, Charles E. (1859-1933)
Adams, Charles Francis (1807-1886)
Adams, Charles Francis (1835-1915)
Adams, Herbert Baxter (1850-1901)
Adams, John (1735-1826)
Adee, Alvey A. (1842-1924)
Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888)
Aldrich, Charles F.
Aldrich, Nelson W. (1841-1915)
Ames, Ellis (1809-1886)
Anthony, Henry B. (1815-1884)
Anthony, Susan B. (1820-1906)
Appleton, Thomas Gold (1812-1884)
Arthur, Chester Alan (1829-1886)
Ashton, Joseph Hubley (1836-1907)
Atkinson, Edward (1827-1905)
Baldwin, Simeon Eben (1840-1927)
Baldwin, W. H.
Bancroft, George (1800-1891)
Barton, Clara (1821-1912)
Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922)
Billings, John Shaw (1838-1913)
Billings, Sherrard
Blackwell, Henry Brown (1825-1909)
Blaine, James Gillespie (1830-1893)
Boutwell, George S. (1818-1905)
Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893)
Brown, H. L.
Bruce, Blanche Kelso (1841-1898)
Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925)
Bryce, James (1838-1922)
Bullock, Alexander H. (1816-1882)
Burlingame, Anson (1820-1870)
Burt, Frank H. (b. 1861)
Cable, George Washington (1844-1925)
Campbell, John (1779-1861)
Candler, John W.
Carnegie, Andrew (1835-1919)
Chamberlain, Mellen (1821-1900)
Chandler, Zachariah (1813-1879)
Chase, Salmon P. (1808-1873)
Chenoweth, B. L.
Claflin, William (1818-1905)
Clark, Abigail
Clark, Jonas G. (1815-1900)
Clarke, James Freeman (1810-1888)
Cleveland, Grover (1837-1908)
Courtenay, William Ashmead (1831-1908)
Crane, Winthrop Murray (1853-1920)
Curtis, George William (1824-1892)
Cushing, Caleb (1800-1879)
Dalhousie, John William Ramsey (1847-1887)
Dana, Richard Henry (1815-1882)
Dana, Richard Henry (1851-1931)
Davis, Charles H. (1845-1921)
Dawes, Henry L. (1816-1903)
Deane, Charles (1813-1889)
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch (1842-1920)
Douglass, Frederick (1817?-1895)
Douglass, Frederick, Jr.
Eads, James Buchanan (1820-1887)
Edmunds, George F. (1828-1919)
Eliot, Charles William (1834-1926)
Emerson, Edward Waldo (1844-1930)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Eustis, Ornaïs
Evarts, William Maxwell (1818-1901)
Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert (1810-1894)
Field, George H.
Fiske, John (1842-1901)
Foraker, Joseph Benson (1846-1917)
Forbes, Edith Emerson
Forbes, John Murray (1813-1898)
Forbes, W. Cameron (1870-1959)
Francis, Henry R.
Fremont and American People's Convention Committee
French, Daniel Chester (1850-1931)
Frye, William Pierce (1831-1911)
Gardner, William Amory
Garfield, James A. (1831-1881)
Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph (1832-1918)
Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879)
Garrison William Lloyd (1838-1909)
Gilder, Joseph Benson (1858-1936)
Gilman, Daniel Coit (1831-1908)
Gladwin, Irving C.
Glass, Carter (1858-1946)
Gray, H., Jr.
Gray, Jane
Green, Mason Arnold
Greene, Roger Sherman (1881-1947)
Grey, Edward (1862-1933)
Groton School
Guild, Curtis (1860-1915)
Hale, Charles (1831-1882)
Hale, Edward Everett (1822-1909)
Hale, John P. (1806-1873)
Hampton, Wade (1818-1902)
Harlan, John Marshall (1833-1911)
Harrison, Benjamin (1833-1901)
Hart, Albert Bushnell (1854-1943)
Hay, John (1838-1905)
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard (1822-1893)
Henry, William Wirt (1831-1900)
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (1823-1911)
Higley, Edwin H.
Himes, Walter
Hoar, E.
Hoar, E. R. (1816-1895)
Hoar, George Frisbie (1826-1904)
Hoar, Mary
Hoar, Rockwood (1855-1906)
Hoar, Ruth A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1841-1935)
Hooker, Isabella Beecher (1822-1907)
Hooper, Francis N.
Hopkins, Erastus (1867-1937)
Hopkins, William Swinton Bennett
Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910)
Hudson, Henry Norman (1814-1886)
Hughes, Thomas (1822-1896)
Hunnewell, James Frothingham (1823-1910)
Ingalls, John James (1833-1900)
Jameson, J. Franklin (1859-1937)
Johnston, Henry Phelps (1842-1923)
Julian, George Washington (1817-1899)
Keller, Helen (1880-1968)
Kettell, Samuel (1800-1855)
Knox, Philander C. (1853-1921)
Lee, Henry (1817-1898)
Leupp, Francis Ellington (1849-1918)
Levy, David
Lincoln, Winston
Liliuokalani (Queen of Hawaii) (1838-1917)
Lodge, Henry Cabot (1850-1924)
Logan, John Alexander (1826-1886)
Long, John Davis (1838-1915)
Longfellow, Alice M. (1850-1928)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)
Lowell, Cornelia Prince
Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)
Lowell, Josephine Shaw (1843-1905)
Lubbock, Sir John (1834-1913)
McKinley, William (1843-1901)
Mackleflin, John L.
Mahone, William (1826-1895)
Mann, Horace (1796-1859)
Martyn, W. Carlos (1841-1917)
Miles, Nelson Appleton (1839-1925)
Miller, Joaquin (1837-1913)
Mitchell, Walter (1826-1908)
Moore, George Henry (1823-1892)
Mori, Arinori (1847-1889)
Morley, John (1838-1923)
Morrill, Justin S. (1810-1898)
Norton, Charles Eliot (1827-1908)
Olney, Richard (1835-1917)
Paine, Henry W. (1810-1893)
Palfrey, John Gorham (1796-1881)
Parkman, Francis (1823-1893)
Partridge, Jennie A.
Pauncefote, Sir Julian (1828-1902)
Payne, John M.
Peabody, Andrew P. (1811-1893)
Peabody, S. Endicott
Peckman, George R.
Pierce, Edward Lillie (1829-1897)
Platt, Orville Hitchcock (1827-1905)
Rawnsley, H. D. (1851-1920)
Reed, Milton (1848-1932)
Rhodes, James Ford (1848-1927)
Rice, Edward A.
Rich, Thomas S.
Richards, Henry H.
Richardson, George F.
Roberts, Ellis H. (1827-1918)
Rogers, J. H. (1845-1911)
Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)
Rothschild, M. D.
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907)
Schurz, Carl (1829-1906)
Sears, Barnas (1802-1880)
Sherman, John (1823-1900)
Sherman, William T. (1820-1891)
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815-1902)
Stearns, George L. (1809-1867)
Stone, Lucy (1818-1893)
Storey, Moorfield (1845-1929)
Storrs, Richard S. (1821-1900)
Sumner, Charles (1811-1874)
Thatcher, Thomas Anthony (1815-1886)
Thompson, Charles Oliver (1836-1885)
Van Buren, John (1810-1866)
Wheeler, William A. (1819-1887)
Whipple, Edwin Percy (1819-1886)
White, Henry (1850-1927)
Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)
Wilson, Henry (1812-1875)
Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)
Winsor, Justin (1831-1897)
Winthrop, Robert C. (1809-1894)
Wise, Henry A. (1806-1876)
Withington, Lothrop (1856-1915)
Woods, Arthur H.
Wordon, John Lorimer (1818-1897)
Wornum, Ralph Nicholson (1812-1877)
II. Webster collection, 1804-1899
Included are letters to and from Daniel Webster, as well as George F. Hoar's notes about the collection.
Letters by Daniel Webster, 1813-1852
Arranged chronologically.
Letters to Daniel Webster, 1804-1889
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Preferred Citation
George Frisbie Hoar 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.