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Emma Newman papers

Description: The papers include 16 volumes of Newman's diaries with entries from 1856 to 1897. There are 12 volumes of general notes, many from classes she attended at Andover Seminary and from reading she did in homeopathic medicine and mental healing. There are also 98 sermons, some complete and other in outline, accompanied by an index; 18 manuscripts, including an article on boarding-house life; and several miscellaneous notes and copies of manuscripts. There is one letter written by Emma Newman and 14 letters addressed to her. There are assorted other items including some fragmentary biographical material and ephemera.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1845-1921
Call number: mssNewman
Creator: Newman, Emma (1838-1922)(Opens in new tab)

Biographical items, correspondence, ephemera, and miscellaneous

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The papers include 16 volumes of Newman's diaries with entries from 1856 to 1897. There are 12 volumes of general notes, many from classes she attended at Andover Seminary and from reading she did in homeopathic medicine and mental healing. There are also 98 sermons, some complete and other in outline, accompanied by an index; 18 manuscripts, including an article on boarding-house life; and several miscellaneous notes and copies of manuscripts. There is one letter written by Emma Newman and 14 letters addressed to her. There are assorted other items including some fragmentary biographical material and ephemera.

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Houghton family papers

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A small group of Houghton family correspondence. Included are: two letters that Thomas Houghton wrote home from Andover, Mass. (1789, Apr. 21 and 1791, July 24); a letter to Houghton from his daughter Elizabeth (1790, Apr. 4, London); a document appointing Thomas Houghton, Jr. administrator of his father's estate (1797, July 12); citizenship certificate issued to John Harding, a papermaker, native of Great Marlow (Buckinghamshire) who had arrived to Andover from England in 1802 (1808, Apr. 28); three letters (1816-1829) addressed to Mary Agnes Houghton, including a letter of appreciation from the Salem East India Marine Society for her donation of "a medal of the Duke of York;" and a letter addressed to Abraham Marland regarding the estate of Thomas Houghton, Jr.

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Samuel Francis Smith papers

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A collection of family correspondence which includes letters from Samuel Francis Smith to his mother Sarah Bryant Smith and other family members, discussing his life at Andover Seminary and Waterville, Maine. There are also letters between Smith and his wife, Mary White Smith, including their love letters from 1834; letters from Mary White Smith to her family describing her trip to Europe from 1875 to 1876; and Samuel F. Smith's reminiscences about his trip to India in 1877. The collection also includes an acrostic poem and a reproduction of a photograph of Samuel F. Smith.

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