James Russell Lowell additional papers, 1736-1951
About this Collection
- Creator
- Lowell, James Russell , 1819-1891
- Type
- government publicationDiaries-United States-19th century.Family papers.Genealogies.Photographs.Poems.
- Collection Title
- James Russell Lowell additional papers, 1736-1951
- Language
- English
- Origin
- Massachusetts
- Description
- 6 boxes (3 linear ft.)
- Repository
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
Content Notes
Primarily professional and social letters written to Lowell during his diplomatic career. In addition to professional matters, the letters concern poetry and the works of other poets, as well as social news. Also includes family correspondence with Mabel Lowell Burnett, Maria White Lowell, and Charles Lowell. There are also poems, compositions, genealogies of the Cutts, Lowell, and Russell families, photographs, a diary for 1882 and printed materials.
- Materials in English, Spanish, French, and Italian.
Biographical Notes
Lowell was an author, poet, editor, teacher, and diplomat. He edited the Atlantic Monthly (1857-1861), and with Charles Eliot Norton, the North American Review (1864- ); was professor of French and Spanish Languages and Literatures at Harvard (1855-1886) succeeding Longfellow; and U.S. minister to Spain (1877-1880), and to England (1880-1885).