1763-1927
Guide to the Collection
Restrictions on Access
The original autographs in this collection have been removed to Special Collections. The collection is available on microfilm (P-466) for use by researchers.
Abstract
This collection consists of 391 autograph letters and signatures kept by Agnes C. Storer of Newport, R.I., including autographs of scientists, numismatists, and literary and political figures.
Biographical Sketch
Agnes Caroline Storer (1874-1943) was the daughter of Dr. Horatio Robinson Storer (1830-1922).
Collection Description
This collection consists of 391 autograph letters and signatures kept by Agnes C. Storer of Newport, R.I., including autographs of scientists, numismatists, and literary and political figures. Some of the autograph letters were received by her father Dr. Horatio R. Storer. Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams, Louis Agassiz, Alexander Graham Bell, Grover Cleveland, Edward Everett, Francis Parkman, and Josiah Quincy, among others.
Most items are individually described in the MHS manuscript catalog.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged alphabetically.
Restrictions on Access
The original autographs in this collection have been removed to Special Collections. The collection is available on microfilm (P-466) for use by researchers.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Brooks Adams (1848-1927)
Charles Francis Adams (1835-1915)
Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (1822-1907)
Jean Louis Rudolphe Agassiz (1807-1873)
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Rasmus Bjorn Anderson (1846-1936)
E[lisha] Benj[amin] Andrews (1844-1917)
Samuel Appleton (1766-1853)
Samuel Turell Armstrong (1784-1850)
Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904)
Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887)
George Bancroft (1800-1891)
Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832-1918)
Evelyn Baring, First Earl of Cromer (1841-1917)
Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891)
Clara Barton (1821-1912)
Thomas Francis Bayard (1828-1898)
Catharine Esther Beecher (1800-1878)
Clifford Whittingham Beers (1876-1943)
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
Bjonstjern Bjornson
James Gillespie Blaine (1830-1893)
[Raphael Anatole Emile] Blanchard (1857-1919)
[Ferdinand] Bocher (1832-1902)
A. Boeckhardt
Charles Joseph Bonaparte (1851-1921)
George Sewall Boutwell (1818-1905)
Alden Bradford (1765-1843)
Victor David Brenner (1871-1924)
James Carson Brevoort (1818-1887)
[Sir David] Brewster (1781-1868)
H. Breymann
George Nixon Briggs (1796-1861)
John Bright (1884-1948)
William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
James Bryce, Viscount Bryce (1838-1922)
James Buchanan (1791-1868)
Aaron Burr (1765-1836)
Thaddeus Burr
John Burroughs (1837-1921)
Lord Bury
Benjamin Franklin Butler (1818-1893)
Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947)
Nahum Capen (1804-1886)
Jane Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
James Coolidge Carter (1827-1905)
Charles Carwel of Carwelton (1737-1832)
Count Cavour
[Robert] Chambers (1802-1871)
[William] Chambers (1800-1883)
William Eaton Chandler
Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873)
Francis James Child (1825-1896)
James Hodges Choate (1832-1917)
Rufus Choate (1799-1859)
Randolph S. Churchill
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Anna Huidekoper Clarke (1814-1897)
James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888)
Richard Henry Clarke (1827-1911)
Henry Clay (1777-1852)
[Stephen] Grover Cleveland (1837-1908)
DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828)
[Arthur Hugh] Clough (1819-1861)
Daniel Florence Cohalan (b. 1867)
Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (1831-1920)
Hiram Corson (1828-1911)
George Bruce Cortelyou (1862-1940)
Thomas Corwin (1794-1865)
Charles Cramer (naturalist)
Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909)
Caleb Cushing (1800-1879)
Thomas Cushing (1725-1788)
Theodore Ledyard Cuyler (1822-1909)
Jefferson Davis (1808-1889)
John Davis (1787-1854)
John William Dawson (1820-1899)
Aubrey Thomas deVere (1814-1902)
Alphonse de Witte (b. 1857)
John Adams Dix (1798-1879)
Austin Dobson
Elijah Winchester Donald (1848-1904)
Edward Dowden (1843-1913)
Henry Drummond
Timothy Dwight (1828-1916)
Charles William Eliot (1834-1926)
George Edward Ellis (1814-1894)
George Barrell Emerson (1797-1881)
William Endicott
[ ] Ernst
Adolph Ernst (1832-1899)
William Eustis (1753-1825)
Sir John Evans (1823-1908)
William Maxwell Evarts (1818-1901)
Edward Everett (1794-1865)
Michael Faraday
Charles Feinhold
Cornelius Conway Felton (1807-1862)
Samuel Fessenden (1784-1869)
William Pitt Fessenden (1806-1869)
Millard Fillmore (1800-1874)
John Huston Finley (1863-1940)
[Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von] Fischer (1782-1854)
Hamilton Fish (1808-1893)
Sydney George Fisher (1856-1927)
[John Fiske] (1842-1901)
John Murray Forbes (1771-1831)
Rev. Abiel Foster (1735-1806)
[Jessie Benton] Fremont (1824-1902)
Daniel Chester French (1850-1931)
William Frye (1831-1911)
Alvan Fuller (1878-1958)
Melville Weston Fuller (1833-1910)
Richard Garnett (1835-1906)
Henry George (1862-1916)
Elbridge Thomas Gerry (1837-1927)
Daniel Cott Gilman (1831-1908)
Taylor Gilman (1753-1828)
Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928)
Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824-1896)
L. A. Grant
Frederic Thomas Greenhalge (1842-1896)
Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie (1894-1920)
Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane (1856-1928)
Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909)
Eugene Hale (1836-1918)
John Parker Hale (1806-1873)
[Walter Blackburn] Harte (1867-1898)
[Moses] Harvey (1820-1905)
John Hay (1838-1905)
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893)
[Hermann] Hellriegel (1831-1895)
Charles George Herbermann (1840-1916)
[John Frederick William] Herschel (1792-1871)
[George] D. Hersey
A. Heurst
Karl Wilhelm Hiersemann (1854-1928)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)
Thomas Hill (1818-1891)
Richmond Pearson Hobson (1870-1937)
John Edwards Holbrook (1794-1871)
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)
W. Holmes
Eben Norton Horsford (1818-1893)
[Harriet Goodhue] Hosmer (1830-1908)
Samuel Gridley Howe (1801-1876)
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
Thomas Hughes (1822-1896)
Alex Humboldt
David Humphreys (1752-1818)
Theodore W. Hunt (1844-1930)
Archer Milton Huntington (1870-1955)
James Otis Huntington (1854-1935)
William DeWitt Hyde (1858-1917)
Samuel Delucenna Ingham (1779-1860)
John Kells Ingram (1823-1907)
William Irvine
William James (1842-1910)
William Jardine, Seventh Baronet (1800-1874)
John Jay (1880-1941)
Jean Jusserand (b. 1932)
George F. Kobs
Donis Kosswith
Henry Labouchere
Arthur Lamas (b. 1874)
Daniel Scott Lamont (1851-1905)
Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
Adams Laurans (1724-1792)
Sir Wilfred Laurier (1841-1919)
[Ivan Pavlovich] Lazarewitch [or Lazarevich] (1829-1902)
W. E. H. Lecky
[Adolph] Lieben
Samuel Livermore (1732-1803)
Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924)
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851-1940)
[William Loehr?] (b. 1889)
John Davis Long (1838-1915)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Benson John Lossing (1813-1891)
Seth Low (1850-1916)
Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943)
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
[ ] Lullisan (1740-1795)
Sir Charles Lyell, First Baronet (1797-1875)
William Gibbs McAdoo (1863-1941)
Samuel Sidney McClure (b. 1857)
Thomas McKean
Richard Cockburn McLaurin (1870-1920)
Seumus MacManus (1869-1960)
Wayne MacVeagh (1833-1917)
James Madison (1751-1836)
Horace Mann (1796-1859)
Jules Marcou (1824-1898)
Luther Rawson Marsh (1813-1902)
Jeremiah Mason (1768-1848)
Giuseppe Mazzini
Thomas Meade (geologist)
George Von Lengerke Meyer (1858-1918)
Wilfred Meynell (1852-1948)
James Monroe (1758-1831)
Luigi Monti (1830-1914)
John Morley (1840-1923)
Marcus Morton (1784-1864)
Achille Murat (1801-1847)
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, First Baronet (1792-1871)
Sir James Augustus Henry Murray (1837-1915)
John George Nicolay (1832-1901)
Eliphalet Nott (1773-1866)
Seaghan O'Boylan
Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847)
Richard Olney (1835-1917)
[T. L. O'Shaughnessy]
John Gorham Palfrey (1796-1881)
Palmerston (1784-1865)
Francis Parkman (1823-1893)
Richard Parnell (1810-1882)
James Parton (1822-1891)
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804-1894)
Narh[ ] Peabody (1748-1823)
Robert Peel
James Mills Peirce (1834-1906)
Ion Perdicaris (b. ca. 1840)
Andrew James Peters (1872-1938)
John Pierpont (1785-1866)
Josiah Quincy (1772-1864)
Alexander Ramsay (b. 1822)
Abraham Redwood (1709-1788)
Walter Reed (1851-1902)
Agnes Repplier (1855-1950)
James G. Riaure
W[illiam] C[abell] Rives (1792-1868)
Rene Francois Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Romain Rolland (1866-1944)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
John Codman Ropes (1836-1899)
William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919)
Josiah Royce (1855-1916)
Richard Rush (1780-1859)
John Ruskin
[S. Sauveur]
Minot Judson Savage (1841-1918)
Jacob Gould Schurman (1854-1942)
Carl Schurz (1829-1906)
William Henry Seward (1801-1862)
Gerrit Smith (1797-1874)
Gerrit Smith (1823-1910)
Hamilton Smith (1840-1900)
Samuel Francis Smith (1808-1895)
Jared Sparks (1789-1866)
[Edward Henry Stanley], Fifteenth Earl of Derby (1826-1893)
John Austin Stevens (1827-1910)
Dugald Stewart (1800-1858)
[Thomas] Grainger Stewart (1837-1900)
Bellamy Storer (1847-1922)
Francis Humphreys Storer (1832-1914)
[Woodbury] Storer
Edward Clark Streeter (b. 1874)
James Sullivan (1744-1808)
Charles Sumner (1811-1874)
William Howard Taft (1857-1930)
Frank William Taussig (1859-1930)
Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)
E. F. Teschemacker
William Thompson (of Belfast) (1805-1852)
[William Marcus?] Thompson (1857-1907)
Sir Edward Thornton (1817-1906)
Algar Labouchere Thorold (1866-1936)
George Ticknor (1791-1871)
Samuel Jones Tildon (1814-1886)
Joseph Meridith Toner (1825-1896)
Henry Warren Torrey (1814-1893)
Judah Touro (1775-1854)
Jonathan Trumbull (1740-1809)
Sir Charles Tupper, First Baronet (1821-1915)
Job Roberts Tyson (1803-1858)
William Cawthorne Unwin (1838-1933)
Martin Van Buren (1782-1862)
Queen Victoria
Francis Amasa Walker (1840-1897)
James Walker (1794-1874)
John Wanamaker (1838-1922)
[Wilfred Philip] Ward (1856-1916)
Hamilton Ware
Oliver Warner (1818-1885)
C[laude] C[arlos] Washburn (1883-1926)
Emory Washburn (1800-1877)
Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915)
Margaret J. Murray Washington (1865-1925)
Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
John Wingate Weeks (1860-1926)
Joshua Wentworth (1742-1809)
Charles West (1816-1898)
George Peabody Wetmore (1846-1921)
Ariel W. White
John [Greenleaf] Whittier (1807-1892)
John Wilson (1785-1854)
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
Justin Winsor (1831-1897)
William Winter (1836-1917)
John Wodehouse, First Earl of Kimberley (1826-1902)
S[ ]. Wolten (1738-1816)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
William Yarrell (1784-1856)
Abraham Yates (1724-1796)
Preferred Citation
Agnes Caroline Storer 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.