1675-1910
Guide to the Microfilm Edition
Microfilm Note
Although most of the Edward Everett papers are included in this microfilm edition, the papers of Everett's daughters Anne Gorham Everett and Charlotte Everett Wise (Vol. 1-19) have not been microfilmed. Use the call number Ms. N-1201 to request these items.
Abstract
This collection consists of the correspondence, letterbooks, speeches, and other papers of educator, statesman, and orator Edward Everett (1794-1865).
Biographical Timeline
11 Apr. 1794 |
Born in Dorchester. |
1804 |
Attends Webster School; first meets Daniel Webster. |
1805-1807 |
Attends Boston Latin School. |
1807 |
Attends Phillips Exeter Academy; delivers Valedictory Latin Oration;
enters Harvard College. |
1811 |
Receives Harvard A.B. with highest honors. |
1814 |
Receives Harvard A.M. in divinity studies; installed as pastor, Brattle
Street Church (Unitarian), Boston. |
1815 |
Appointed professor of Greek literature at Harvard. |
1815-1819 |
Travel and study in Europe. |
1817 |
Receives Göttingen Ph.D. (first doctorate awarded an American). |
1819-1823 |
Edits North American Review. |
1819-1825 |
Professor of Greek literature at Harvard. |
1822 |
Marries Charlotte Gray Brooks. |
1825-1835 |
United States representative from Middlesex District. |
1836-1839 |
Governor of Massachusetts. |
1836-1868 |
Publication of Orations and Speeches on Various
Occasions in 4 volumes and numerous later editions. |
1840-1841 |
Rest and travel. |
1841-1845 |
United States minister to Court of St. James's. |
1846-1849 |
President of Harvard University. |
1850 |
Drafts letter to Hülsemann for Secretary of State Daniel
Webster. |
1852-1853 |
Secretary of state. |
1853-1854 |
United States senator from Massachusetts. |
1854 |
Resigns from Senate after failure to vote on Kansas-Nebraska
Act. |
1856-1860 |
Career as orator; composes famous lecture on George Washington; works to
save Mount Vernon as national shrine; publication of The
Mount Vernon Papers. |
1860 |
Constitutional Union Party nominee for vice president. |
19 Nov. 1863 |
Oration at Gettysburg. |
1864 |
Presidential elector for Massachusetts. |
15 Jan. 1865 |
Dies in Boston. |
Sources
Brown, Cynthia Stokes. Discovery of the German University: Four Students at Göttingen, 1815-1822. Ph.D. dissertation, The Johns Hopkins University, 1964.
Christian, William Kenneth. The Mind of Edward Everett. Ph.D. dissertation, Michigan State College, 1952.
Clark, Harry H. "Literary Criticism in the North American Review, 1815-1835." Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Transactions, XXXII (1940).
Cohen, B. B. "Edward Everett and Hawthorne's Removal from the Salem Court House." American Literature, XXVII (1955), 245-249.
Edward Everett at Gettysburg. A Massachusetts Historical Society Picture Book. Foreword by Frank Freidel. Boston, 1963.
Frothingham, Paul Revere. Edward Everett, Orator and Statesman. Boston, 1925.
Gill, George J. Edward Everett, Minister to the Court of St. James, 1841-1845. Ph.D. dissertation, Fordham University, 1959.
Gill, George J. "Edward Everett and the Northeastern Boundary Controversy." New England Quarterly, XLII (1969), 201-213.
Goodman, F. J. "Pericles at Gettysburg." Midwest Quarterly, VI (1965), 317-336.
Keys, John W. Factors in the Training and Early Education of Edward Everett Accounting for His Ability as a Public Speaker. M.A. thesis, State University of Iowa, 1939.
Long, Orie William. Literary Pioneers: Early American Explorers of European Culture. Cambridge, 1935.
Phelps, Reginald H. "The Idea of the Modern University--Göttingen and America." Germanic Review, XXIX (1954), 175-190.
Read, Allen Walker. "Edward Everett's Attitude towards American English." New England Quarterly, XII (1939), 112-129.
Reid, Ronald F. "A Critical Study of the Oratory of Edward Everett." Speech Monographs, XXII (1955), 164-165.
Reid, Ronald F. "Edward Everett: Rhetorician of Nationalism." Quarterly Journal of Speech, XLII (1956), 273-282.
Reid, Ronald F. "Edward Everett's 'The Character of Washington.'" Southern Speech Journal, XXII (1957), 144-156.
Reid, Ronald F. "Newspaper Responses to the Gettysburg Addresses." Quarterly Journal of Speech, LIII (1967), 50-60.
Simpson, Lewis P. "Not Men, But Books." Boston Public Library Quarterly, IV (1952), 167-184.
Soulis, G. "American Travellers in Greece Before 1821." Athene, No. 1-2 (1949), 14-15, 46.
Stearns, Foster. "Edward Everett." In The American Secretaries of State and their Diplomacy, ed. Samuel Flagg Bemis, VI. New York, 1928.
Streeter, Robert. Critical Thought in the North American Review, 1815-1865. Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University, 1943.
Streeter, Robert. "Hawthorne's Misfit Politician and Edward Everett." American Literature, XVI (1944), 26-28.
Stripp, Fred. "The Other Gettysburg Address." Civil War History, I (1955), 161-173.
Collection Description
The Edward Everett papers consist of the correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, speeches, and other papers of Edward Everett (1794-1865). Among the correspondence are letters collected by Everett of early American statesmen George Washington, James Madison, John Adams, and many others, as well as letters and other material relating to Everett's studies in Europe and his careers as a Harvard professor, Massachusetts senator and governor, and orator. Included are diaries kept by Everett while studying and traveling in Europe, 1815-1819, and almost daily in Cambridge, Mass., Washington, D.C., and other homes, 1825-1865, as well as manuscript drafts of his speeches and articles, sermons, newspaper clippings, and printed works. The collection also contains the diaries and other papers of two of his daughters, Anne Gorham Everett (1823-1843) and Charlotte Everett Wise (1825-1879).
Other family members represented in the collection are: Everett's wife Charlotte Gray Brooks Everett, his brother Alexander Hill Everett, his father-in-law Peter Chardon Brooks, his brother-in-law Charles Francis Adams, and his son-in-law Henry A. Wise. Other individuals represented include: Daniel Webster, Robert C. Winthrop, John Quincy Adams, and many others.
Arrangement
The bulk of the Edward Everett papers was given to the Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) in 1930, and their arrangement was largely maintained for the present edition. However, a few additional items have been incorporated into the collection: Everett items received after 1930, microfilmed following Vol. 279; a few typewritten copies of Everett materials from other MHS collections, inserted chronologically into his general correspondence, including some documents on Everett at Gettysburg in 1863 on Reel 18; and a substantial number of Edward Everett's diaries and letterbooks, which had been microfilmed previously.
The first 38 volumes of this collection have been disbound and rehoused in document boxes.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Grenville Norcross, 1914; Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, 1920, 1930s; and Mrs. John Downes, 1924.
Microfilm Note
Although most of the Edward Everett papers are included in this microfilm edition, the papers of Everett's daughters Anne Gorham Everett and Charlotte Everett Wise (Vol. 1-19) have not been microfilmed. Use the call number Ms. N-1201 to request these items.
Other Formats
Extracts of Everett's diary have been transcribed as "Selections from Edward Everett's diary, 1825-1865, selected and annotated by Irving H. Bartlett." This transcription is located in the MHS printed collection (call number: E340.E8 .B3 2000).
Detailed Description of the Collection
I. Correspondence (disbound), 1675-1865
This series primarily consists of letters to Everett from a variety of American and European correspondents, but also contains letters from him and a few other papers. Among the correspondents represented in this series are Daniel Webster, Robert C. Winthrop, Peter Chardon Brooks, Charlotte Gray Brooks Everett, Charlotte Everett Wise, Abbott Lawrence, Alexander Hill Everett, James Madison, Joseph Story, S. Austin Allibone, Henry Clay, Lord Aberdeen, Rufus Choate, Petty Vaughan, Count Wallenstein, Henry A. S. Dearborn, Caleb Cushing, Harrison G. Otis, and many others. The series also contains some correspondence between Daniel Webster and his son Fletcher Webster.
Much of the early correspondence was apparently collected by Everett as examples of the letters of men important in early American history. Notable correspondents include George Washington, Aaron Burr, John Adams, Caesar Rodney, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Nathan Hale, Albert Gallatin, Noah Webster, John C. Calhoun, Martin Van Buren, Washington Irving, Louis Agassiz, Charles Francis Adams, John Marshall, Andrew Jackson, Henry W. Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph W. Emerson, Harriet Martineau, Dolley Madison, William H. Harrison, Josiah Quincy, John Tyler, P. T. Barnum, Charles Lyell, Benjamin Disraeli, James K. Polk, James Buchanan, John Harvard, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Hallam, Lord Ashburton, Prince Albert, Jenny Lind, Charles Sumner, William M. Thackeray, Franklin Pierce, Jefferson Davis, Thomas Carlyle, William Seward, John A. Andrew, George B. McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and many others.
Other papers in this series include certificates of some of Everett's elections and appointments (Reel 2, 18), a draft of his statement on the question of slavery in Texas (Reel 9), papers related to the Mount Vernon Association (Reel 16-17), Everett's address on the death of Washington Irving (Reel 17), a document by Winfield Scott on the danger of secession (Reel 17), materials relating to the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg (Reel 18), and resolutions passed by various organizations after Everett's death in 1865 (Reel 19).
The correspondence in this series was originally bound into volumes (Vol. 1-38), but the volumes have been disbound and the documents rehoused in boxes.
II. Everett family volumes, 1834-1847
This series consists of the diaries, letterbooks, and other volumes of two of Everett's daughters, Anne Gorham Everett and Charlotte Everett Wise.
Note: The volumes in this series have not been microfilmed. Use the call number Ms. N-1201 to request these items.
A. Diaries, 1834-1847
This subseries contains the diaries of Anne Gorham Everett and Charlotte Everett Wise. The diaries of Anne Gorham Everett describe her daily life in Boston and Cambridge, Mass., and later London, England; school and church attendance; time spent with family members; the sickness and death of her sister Grace Webster Everett; sightseeing in England; travels in Europe in 1840; social engagements, including a meeting with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1842; and her battle against rheumatic attacks and influenza that led to her death a few weeks after the last entry.
The diary of Charlotte Everett Wise describes her daily life in Cambridge, Mass.; the election of her father Edward Everett as president of Harvard in 1846; time spent with family and friends, including Mary Ward; social events such as lectures, balls, bowling, and trips to Newport, R.I.; church attendance; "home visits" with her mother; and other events.
B. Composition book, 1837
This subseries consists of a composition book of Charlotte Everett Wise.
C. Letterbooks, 1837-1841
This subseries consists of the letterbooks of Anne Gorham Everett.
III. Correspondence (bound), 1840-1853
This series primarily consists of letters from Everett, but also contains some letters to him.
A. Letters of introduction, 1840-1845
This subseries contains letters of introduction written to Everett by various correspondents. Each volume has two indexes, one of the writers of the letters, the other of the people introduced. Correspondents include Mrs. John Quincy Adams, Peter Chardon Brooks, John C. Calhoun, Lewis Cass, Rufus Choate, Henry Clay, Caleb Cushing, C. A. Davis, W. W. Ellsworth, N. L. Frothingham, Abbott Lawrence, William H. Seward, Jared Sparks, John Tyler, Daniel Webster, Robert C. Winthrop, Nathan Hale, William R. King, Martin Van Buren, and others.
B. Diplomatic correspondence, 1841-1845
This subseries contains letters to and from Everett, as well as related documents. Correspondents include Lord Aberdeen, George Canning, and others. Among the subjects discussed are: ship cases, including the Lintin case in China, the Hermosa case in the Bahamas, the Caroline case, and the Creole case; the slave trade; the China trade; duties on rice; the Northeastern Boundary dispute; and other matters. Some of the letters in this subseries were written by Everett's assistant A. Stevenson. Other papers include the affidavit of Warren Delano, American Vice Consul in China, on the Lintin affair; and a letter from Lord Aberdeen granting permission for qualified U.S. citizens to examine official British records of the colonial period. Vol. 42 and Vol. 43 include indexes at the back.
C. Letters from London, 1841-1845
This subseries contains letters from Everett to a wide variety of British and American correspondents, as well as copies of official dispatches. Correspondents include Lord Aberdeen, Daniel Webster, John Tyler, Peter Chardon Brooks, James Hagarty, Lewis Cass, George Bancroft, A. P. Upshur, Baring Brothers, Nathan Hale, William H. Prescott, Abbott Lawrence, Joshua Bates, Caleb Cushing, Robert C. Winthrop, C. A. Davis, E. E. Hale, H. Wilding, Lord Canning, John C. Calhoun, J. G. Palfrey, W. R. King, F. R. Rives, A. Davy, Sir Robert Peel, James Buchanan, George Ticknor, family members, and others. All of the volumes include at least one index. Vol. 52 contains two indexes to all of the volumes in this subseries: an index of correspondents and a chronological list of letters.
D. Secretary of state correspondence, 1852-1853
This subseries contains drafts and copies of official correspondence from Secretary of State Everett to various correspondents, including J. F. Crampton, the British Chargé in Washington; J. R. Ingersoll, American Minister in London; the Comte de Sartiges, French Minister; Calderon de la Barca, Spanish Minister; William C. Rives; Alexander de Bodisco, Russian Minister; D. M. Barringer in Madrid; President Fillmore; and a variety of American and foreign officials.
Copies of the correspondence in Vol. 53.
E. Letterbooks, 1825-1865
This subseries contains copies of letters from Everett to a wide variety of correspondents, including Daniel Webster, Jared Sparks, Robert C. Winthrop, Sidney Brooks, Henry Holland, Samuel A. Eliot, Alexander Hill Everett, Robert Bonner, Hiram Powers, Charles Francis Adams, Peter Chardon Brooks, Joshua Bates, T. W. Harris, E. E. Hale, S. Austin Allibone, William H. Seward, Joseph E. Sprague, Nathan Hale, Caleb Cushing, John C. Warren, William Everett, Lord Aberdeen, C. A. Davis, Baring Bros. & Co., John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Simon Greenleaf, Millard Fillmore, George J. Abbot, Louis Agassiz, James Buchanan, J. C. Heywood, Charles Folsom, Thomas Aspinwall, P. P. F. Degrand, W. P. Farrand, John Binns, Charlotte Gray Brooks Everett, Lewis Cass, J. L. Sibley, Fletcher Webster, Martin Van Buren, John Marshall, Jacob Graberg, J. B. Sartori, Charlotte Everett Wise, James Madison, Zachary Taylor, and many others.
Most of the volumes in this subseries have indexes at the back to the correspondents in that volume. Note: The first letterbook, Vol. 55, has been missing from the collection for many years and has not been microfilmed.
IV. Personal journals, 1814-1865
This series contains the personal journals of Edward Everett, including a few letters and other documents.
A. Travel journals, 1814-1819
Two of Everett's sermons, dated 21 May 1814 and 28 May 1814; two letters to his brother Alexander Hill Everett, dated 16 May 1814 and 26 May 1814; a manuscript account of his visit to Washington in Nov. 1814 and a typewritten copy of this manuscript.
Journal of Everett's trip to England, including accounts of his visits to various places in England and of his month-long stay in Holland before going to Göttingen. Also a typewritten copy of the manuscript journal.
The first 68 pages of the manuscript cover the events of the title; the last 8 are notes on scholarly matters. Also a typewritten copy of the first 68 manuscript pages.
Also a typewritten copy of the manuscript.
Also a typewritten copy of the manuscript.
Everett's journal of his visit to the Harz Mountains. Also a typewritten copy of the manuscript.
Also a typewritten copy of the manuscript.
Consists of lists of books purchased, lecture notes, notes on trips, and similar documents.
Everett's journal of his trip from Paris to England and his subsequent travels in England.
Continuation of Vol. 131 and containing Everett's journal of his travels in England, Wales, and Scotland.
Continuation of Everett's journal of his travels in Europe: travels in England and Scotland, 21-30 July 1818, and travels in France, Switzerland, and northern Italy, especially Milan, Verona, and Venice, 3 Sep.-17 Oct. 1818.
Everett's journal of his travels in Italy, especially Rome, Florence, and Naples, during the period 18 Oct. 1818 to early 1819.
Everett's journal of his travels from Italy through Greece to Constantinople; most of the volume devoted to Everett's extensive travels in Greece.
Includes the period 1-20 Mar. 1819 and appears to be the first part of Vol. 135.
Copies of letters to G. B. Niccolini in Florence; Dr. Koster in Göttingen; Professor di Rossi in Parma; Professor Dessen at Göttingen; Ignatius, Metropolitan of the Greek Church at Pisa; and Professor Boeckh in Berlin.
Apparently a revision of Vol. 135 and 136.
B. Diaries, 1825-1865
A few journal entries but mostly notes and anecdotes about famous personages taken down by Everett.
V. Miscellany, 1683-1910
This series consists of a wide variety of material, including drafts of speeches and sermons, manuscripts of writings appearing in The Mount Vernon Papers, printed copies of speeches, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, etc., as well as a small amount of additional papers acquired after 1930.
Everett's accounts and vouchers as minister to England. Also a list of books and maps.
List of names and addresses, possibly of people who called on Everett in England.
Manuscript of the start of Everett's autobiography up to his first visit to London in 1815.
Manuscripts of most of the 53 Mount Vernon papers that Everett gave as lectures to help preserve Mount Vernon as a national shrine.
Presented to Everett for his work helping to preserve Mount Vernon. Consists of a testimonial and a list of names.
Reprints of the 53 Mount Vernon papers.
Account book listing mostly groceries. Not in Everett's hand and not identified.
Petition from the Pennsylvania Institute to Everett to lecture there.
Draft of Everett's lecture, delivered in Boston.
Revised draft of Everett's lecture, together with a list of places where the lecture was given.
Manuscript copy, with 82 pages of documents relating to the report.
Account book recording donations for East Tennesseans.
Letters from William H. Prescott to Everett.
Letters to Everett, the first 5 from Zachary Macaulay and the rest from Thomas B. Macaulay.
Manuscript copy.
Manuscript copy.
List of 4,362 books on a wide variety of subjects. This may be a catalog of part of Everett's library but is not identified as such.
Continuation of Vol. 210; lists books from number 4,363 to 7,079.
Notebook containing a 5-page article on discipline, 3 pages of Agenda, a printed copy of a letter from Everett to George Bancroft dated 25 Oct. 1864, and an unidentified poem.
The original was published in 1787.
Letter from Everett to Gales and Seaton, editors of the National Intelligencer.
Includes miscellaneous items in back of volume.
In German script.
Commonplace book containing the autograph of George Canning and presented to Everett.
Small notebook with notes on a variety of subjects.
Alphabetical list of books, possibly of Everett's library.
List of 247 people to whom Everett sent copies of his published Orations and Speeches. Also an additional list of 38 people to whom the third volume of his Orations and Speeches, published in 1859, was sent.
Unidentified account book detailing ordinary living expenses. Random notes on a variety of subjects at the end of the book.
Contains some of the diplomatic papers of Alexander Hill Everett, often long statements in Spanish accompanied by an English translation.
A manuscript copy of Madison's notes on the Constitutional Convention entitled "Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a member." This copy seems almost identical to that published by Gaillard Hunt in his edition of Madison's writings.
Described in a note written by Everett in 1842 as "Mr. Madison's Report on Debates in the Congress of the Old Confederation with Correspondence from 1780-1787, supposed to be contained in the Congressional edition of his writings." Copy of one letter from Madison to "Mr. Niles" dated 8 Jan. 1822. Also a copy of a report on the debates in 1776 on the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation preserved by Thomas Jefferson and furnished by him to James Madison.
Contains copies of letters written by James Madison, plus short essays on "Sovereignty," "Majority Government," "Nullification," and other topics. Among the correspondence are letters from Madison to Joseph C. Cabell, W. C. Rives, Martin Van Buren, Andrew Stevenson, N. P. Trist, Judge Roane, George McDuffie, Edward Livingston, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Dr. Thomas Cooper, and Charles Francis Adams.
Mostly papers dating from the 1850s: a 47-page typescript of the life of Everett sent to his grandson in 1910; items relating to the Hülsemann letter, including Daniel Webster's original proposal to Everett on the subject; items dealing with the problem of international copyright; drafts of Everett's speeches, including the one nominating Daniel Webster for president in 1851; and a copy of Leverrier's memoir on periodical comets with a translation of the same.
Mostly papers relating to Everett's speech at the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg in Nov. 1863. Included are biographical sketches of Everett, items relating to arrangements, copies of reviews of the speech, and personal correspondence on the subject. Also material on Daniel Webster, including items relating to the Webster Memorial Fund and sketches of Webster written by Everett, and drafts for articles and speeches on Civil War subjects and miscellaneous family papers.
Printed and manuscript speeches by Everett when a representative in Congress in the late 1820s and early 1830s and also from the Civil War period. From the first period are speeches on the Second Bank of the United States, imports, relations with Brazil, and other matters, as well as papers relating to the case of Commonwealth v. S. Russell. From the second period are drafts for articles on George Washington, including one for Appletons' Cyclopaedia; the manuscript for a lecture on international law; and drafts for speeches on various Civil War subjects.
Manuscript drafts of various writings by Everett, including a copy of his Harvard Phi Beta Kappa poem of 1812; notes on the Second Bank of the United States; copies of a speech delivered before leaving for England in 1840; a copy of his lecture on Benjamin Franklin; speeches given at various times in Massachusetts; a copy of an ode, "L'Amerique," by Lucien Bonaparte; and other miscellaneous papers and newspaper clippings.
Copies of speeches and articles by Everett on a wide variety of subjects: papers on the Northeastern Boundary controversy, including a copy of a long letter from Albert Gallatin to Henry Clay dated 12 Dec. 1827; a manuscript on the history of the steam engine; a draft of an article on George Washington; drafts of articles entitled "The Formation of a State," "The History of the Romans," and "On Improvement in the Social System in America"; drafts of articles on the negotiations for peace in 1763, the history of the English language, the discovery of America by the Northmen, and British-American relations, all dated 1839; and other miscellaneous speeches and papers.
Various numbers of a series entitled "Leisure Hours" written by Everett in the late 1850s and early 1860s; drafts of articles entitled "National Insults"; and drafts of articles, notes, letters to editors, etc., on a variety of Civil War subjects.
Manuscripts of 16 of Everett's sermons, including one delivered before the Asylum for Indigent Boys.
Manuscripts of 34 of Everett's sermons.
Printed material and manuscripts. Printed material includes a set of The Mount Vernon Papers, some pages of "Leisure Hours," and articles and speeches on Civil War subjects. Manuscript material consists of two drafts of articles on George Washington.
Printed and manuscript copies of Everett's speeches, articles on a wide variety of subjects, and other miscellaneous documents. Included are articles on Lord Ashburton, "The Presidency," and "The Lexington Monument"; an address delivered at Everett's installation as Greek professor at Harvard in 1815; various political speeches; addresses at the dedications of schools, the Franklin Statue, etc.; and a partial bibliography of Everett's works.
Manuscripts of 29 of Everett's sermons.
Various documents relating to Everett's life as Greek professor at Harvard and associated matters. Included are a letter from Everett to President Kirkland from Göttingen in 1817; a sermon dated 1821; Everett's plan of Greek instruction; notes on his classroom lectures; two unidentified printed Greek texts; and a memorandum on rhubarb.
Miscellaneous manuscript drafts of various speeches and lectures by Everett, together with some printed copies. Included are notes on the Hebrew language; a translation of Lessing's Emilia Galotti; manuscripts on the French Revolution; lectures on the history of architecture; various political speeches; addresses to charitable organization; and a list of invitations received by Everett from May 1863.
Manuscript sermons of early New England clergymen and other miscellaneous documents. Included among the authors of the sermons are Cotton Mather, J. S. Buckminster, Samuel Langdon, President Davis, Dr. Osgood, Samuel Mather, Jonathan Edwards, Dr. Tappan, and Samuel Willard.
Includes an appendix on the Septuagint version of the Old Testament.
Newspaper clippings on a variety of subjects relating to Everett, including articles from British newspapers, accounts of Everett's inauguration as president of Harvard in 1846, a short printed biographical sketch of Everett, and articles on judicial impartiality written by Everett for the Boston Courier in 1839.
Newspaper clippings on a variety of subjects related to Everett, mostly for the period 1830-1865, including accounts of his speeches, letters to editors, and similar material.
Primarily printed documents, most in Italian. About half grouped under the title "Proceedings of the Congress at Florence"; the other half mostly diarios, presumably accounts of the same Congress.
Printed copies of treaties and other important documents relating to U.S. foreign affairs, including copies of the treaties of 1783, 1794, and 1814; proclamations of Pres. James Monroe and Pres. John Quincy Adams; and conventions between the U.S. and other nations, mostly in the 1820s.
Printed copies of treaties, conventions, and presidential proclamations relating to various Latin American countries, various German states, Hawaii, China, and others.
Printed documents on a variety of subjects, including documents accompanying an address of Governor Andrew delivered in 1862; speeches given at a banquet for Rear Admiral Lessoffsky held in Boston in 1864 and at the inauguration of the Dudley Observatory in Albany, N.Y., in 1856; measures for the relief of the Scotch and the Irish (Boston, 1847); correspondence about the King of Denmark's comet and the record of proceedings at the awarding of a medal to Maria Mitchell, 1849; John E. Todd's sermon on Everett, 1865; a memoir of Nathan Appleton, 1861; and catalogs of naval officers at Newport, R.I., 1862-1863, and of the Eagleswood Military Academy in Perth Amboy, N.J., 1862-1863.
Printed material on the lives of Everett and Daniel Webster, with other documents: a notice of Everett's death; Richard H. Dana, Jr.'s eulogy of Everett; Everett's speech nominating Webster for president in 1852; ceremonies at the dedication of a statue of Webster in 1852; Webster's address at the laying of a cornerstone for the Capitol in Washington in 1851; a biographical sketch of Webster from the American Quarterly Review, 1831; and a book of poems (Boston, 1821) by William B. Walter.
Printed sermons and speeches on a variety of subjects, including two sermons by Edward Everett Hale, one on the future of Southern civilization, 1862, and one on Everett, 1865; a sermon by A. P. Putnam on Everett, 1865; reports of the Boston Public Library Trustees, 1861, and the Boston School Committee, 1860; speeches at the dedication of the Everett Grammar School, 1860; a history of Christ Church, Boston, 1824, and the Old South Church, 1876; a speech by Col. William Gilpin on the Pacific Railroad problem, 1849; and records of the ceremonies at the 50th anniversary of the founding of South Carolina College, 1855, and the inauguration of Washington University in St. Louis, 1857.
Printed articles on a variety of subjects, including relations between the U.S. and the Cherokees, 1829; a review in the Southern Quarterly Review of Everett's Orations and Speeches, 1851; a memoir of Peter Chardon Brooks [by Everett], 1855; copies of Leverrier's article in French on the planet Neptune, 1848; copies of the Boston Courier account of a union meeting held at Faneuil Hall on 8 Dec. 1859; notes on the Boston school system; and newspaper clippings, including an 1823 report on the Monroe Doctrine.
Printed documents, most of them treaties and conventions with foreign powers during the period 1850-1854; also Indian treaties and an address delivered by Governor Andrew on 11 Nov. 1863.
Copies of Boston and New York newspapers during the 1850s and 1860s and other miscellaneous documents, including a memorial dinner menu, seating plans of the House of Representatives in the 1820s and 1830s, a handbill for a British parade in 1844, a memorandum by Everett on shorthand, and a map of the world.
Numbers of the Cherokee Phoenix for 1830-1832 and copies of Boston and New York newspapers for 1852-1859.
Includes a copy of Richard H. Dana, Jr.'s "Life and Services of Edward Everett," printed in 1865; a copy of the Cherokee alphabet; various printed handbills and Senate bills; other eulogies of Everett; and a copy of Everett's 1812 poem entitled "American Poets."
Numbers of the Mount Vernon Journal, some of them duplicates, and other items dealing with Everett's efforts to preserve Mount Vernon as a national shrine.
Scrapbook of cards received by Everett on his first trip to England and the continent.
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, most of them referring to Everett.
Scrapbook entitled "Souvenirs" containing pictures of European scenes and some pressed flowers.
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings on various subjects, with an index.
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, relating mostly to Everett, with an index.
Album of prints on a variety of European subjects.
Album of calling cards, all apparently received by Everett while minister in London.
Printed works by Everett
Material acquired by the MHS after the receipt of the main Everett collection: a copy of a letter from Mrs. Kate Bowyer to Everett, 3 June 1861; correspondence between Everett and Miss Lettie Burwell, 1858-1861, including letters both to and from Everett; letters relating to the purchase of the Everett-Burwell correspondence; Everett's sermon before the Roxbury Charitable Society, 9 Sep. 1820; Everett's "Charity Lecture," 3 Dec. 1820; Everett's eulogy of Dr. William Bentley, 1 Jan. 1819; Everett's notebook with copies of letters, 1822; and Everett's sermon entitled "The Support of Religion by the State," 5 Apr. 1824.
VI. Oversize material
This series consists of oversize items removed from the rest of the collection. Items in Box OS 1-5 may be found on the microfilm in their original locations above. Items in Box OS 6 have not been microfilmed.
Includes a translation of the Gettysburg Address into German (supplement to the Bremen Courier, May 1864). Note: These items have not been microfilmed.
Preferred Citation
Edward Everett papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.
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Materials Removed from the Collection
Photographs from this collection have been removed to the MHS Photo Archives (oversize).