Horace Mann family papers (MS.1U.M1)
Brown University Archives
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Providence, RI 02912
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Inventory
Series 1. Manuscript and Letters by Mann, 1832-1856
| Container | Description | Date | ||
| Box 1, Folder 1 | Intemperance 2.0 pages Contents Note: Short essay about wealth and the good of mankind. Genre: manuscript Mann, Horace |
undated | ||
| Box 1, Folder 1 | Mann, Horace to Capen, Nahum 2.0 pages Contents Note: In doubt what to do about "Newton & the False Witness." Asks about opinions of Willard, Sumner, Fowle, Rantoul. Genre: letter Capen, Nahum Mann, Horace |
undated | ||
| Box 1, Folder 1 | Mann, Horace to Capen, Nahum 3.0 pages Contents Note: Has written to Mr. Fowle about the Journal; cannot see anyone wanting Field; would like to see Waterhouse's arithmetic; seeking a man to keep an academy in Cumberland, Maryland. Genre: letter Capen, Nahum Mann, Horace |
undated | ||
| Box 1, Folder 1 | Mann, Horace to Capen, Nahum 1.0 page Contents Note: Mentions passage in Mr. Motley's report on application of colleges for a grant. Genre: letter Capen, Nahum Mann, Horace |
undated | ||
| Box 1, Folder 1 | Mann, Horace to Capen, Nahum 3.0 pages Contents Note: Asks him to forward some expected letters to him at Taunton. Genre: letter Capen, Nahum Mann, Horace |
undated | ||
| Box 1, Folder 2 | Mann, Horace to Lincoln, Solomon
Dedham, MA 1.0 page Contents Note: Introducing Enos Foord of Dedham. Genre: letter Lincoln, Solomon Mann, Horace |
1832 July 5 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 2 | Mann, Horace to Capen, Nahum
Worcester, MA 1.0 page Contents Note: At convention in Worcester; glad Mr. Coombe is in New York. Genre: letter Capen, Nahum Mann, Horace |
1838 September 27 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 2 | Mann, Horace to Waterston, R. C. 2.0 pages Contents Note: Needs help with Journal; willing to publish the whole of Waterston's lecture. Genre: letter Mann, Horace Waterston, R. C. |
1839 June 15 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 2 | Mann, Horace to Dr. Woods
Boston, MA 1.0 page Contents Note: Will send Common School Journal which Woods should have received. Genre: letter Mann, Horace Woods, Dr. |
1841 January 15 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 2 | Mann, Horace to Capen, Nahum
Wrentham, MA 2.0 pages Contents Note: Asks him to send Journal proofs and letters with school reports. Genre: letter Capen, Nahum Mann, Horace |
1841 April 29 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 2 | Mann, Horace to Fowle & Capen
Wrentham, MA 3.0 pages Contents Note: About mortgages on Capen's estate. Genre: letter Fowle & Capen Mann, Horace |
1844 August 15 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 3 | Mann, Horace to Willson, E. B.
Boston, MA 2.0 pages Contents Note: Declining a request; will visit, if possible. Genre: letter Mann, Horace Willson, E. B. |
1846 January 27 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 3 | Mann, Horace to Willson, E. B.
Wrentham, MA 4.0 pages Contents Note: Plans for an institute in Grafton, Massachusetts; suggests lecturers; all the lectures must be open to the public. Genre: letter Mann, Horace Willson, E. B. |
1846 August 17 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 3 | Mann, Horace to Willson, E. B.
Wrentham, MA 1.0 page Contents Note: End of September best time for institute. Genre: letter Mann, Horace Willson, E. B. |
1846 September 03 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 3 | Mann, Horace to Willson, E. B.
Wrentham, MA 3.0 pages Contents Note: Has attended dedication of new normal school at Westfield; names those he has invited to lecture at teachers' institute. Genre: letter Mann, Horace Willson, E. B. |
1846 September 05 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 3 | Mann, Horace to Willson, E. B.
Wrentham, MA 3.0 pages Contents Note: Consoling Willson in his despair over the failure to attract sufficient numbers to the forthcoming teachers' institute, and explaining his own philosophy. Genre: letter Mann, Horace Willson, E. B. |
1846 June 23 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 3 | Mann, Horace to Willson, E. B.
West Newton, MA 2.0 pages Contents Note: Busy writing report for legislature, he cannot accept invitation; may possibly attend one of latest meetings of Lyceum; would like to know general feeling left in Willson's community in regard to institute. Genre: letter Mann, Horace Willson, E. B. |
1846 December 19 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 4 | Mann, Horace to Capen, Nahum
West Newton, MA 2.0 pages Contents Note: Concerning a plan of Capen's with regard to a house and property. Genre: letter Capen, Nahum Mann, Horace |
1847 February 11 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 4 | Mann, Horace to Capen, Nahum
West Newton, MA 2.0 pages Contents Note: Mentions letters of Danforth and Rowens; Munroe's certificate without sentence on Smith's veracity; will forego Dr. Sharp's certificate. Genre: letter Capen, Nahum Mann, Horace |
1847 April 23 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 4 | Mann, Horace to Capen, Nahum
West Newton, MA 1.0 page Contents Note: Thanks editors of Excelsior for wanting to print his article. Genre: letter Capen, Nahum Mann, Horace |
1847 August 09 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 5 | Mann, Horace to Capen, Nahum
Washington, D.C. 3.0 pages Contents Note: Reports on chances of Capen to secure an appointment; Macon prefers a Virginian; Mr. Washington of William & Mary College is Capen's competitor. Genre: letter Capen, Nahum Mann, Horace |
1850 March 18 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 5 | Mann, Horace to Capen, Nahum
Washington, D.C. 3.0 pages Contents Note: Gives an account of the various offices he has held. Genre: letter Capen, Nahum Mann, Horace |
1850 June 03 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 5 | Mann, Horace to Capen, Nahum
Washington, D.C. 3.0 pages Contents Note: Writes his opinion of James A. Long; corrects some statements about his own education before college and the activities of others. Genre: letter Capen, Nahum Mann, Horace |
1850 June 13 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 5 | Mann, Horace to Sir
West Newton, MA 1.0 page Contents Note: Sends Meehan's letter, with which he is surprised. Genre: letter Mann, Horace Sir |
1852 October 08 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 5 | Mann, Horace to Williams, [Asa Messer]
Yellow Springs, OH 3.0 pages Contents Note: Discussing climate in Yellow Springs with concern for Williams' health. Genre: letter Mann, Horace Williams, [Asa Messer] |
1856 December 16 |
Series 2. Family Correspondence
| Container | Description | Date | ||
| Box 1, Folder 6 | Letters from Horace Mann to Miss Charlotte Messer Contents Note: Fifteen letters, written by Mann from Dedham, Massachusetts, to Charlotte Messer, daughter of Asa Messer, prior to their marriage on September 29, 1830. |
1829 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 9 | Mann, Horace to Mann, Charlotte Messer 2.0 pages Genre: letter Mann, Charlotte Messer Mann, Horace |
1831 March 24 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 12 | Letters from Horace Mann to Mary W. Messer Contents Note: Ten letters, August 9, 1832-December 10, 1836, after death of Charlotte Mann; refers [Oct. 16 and Oct. 19, 1836] to death of Asa Messer. Letter of August 17, 1832 mutilated. |
1832-1836 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 13 | Letters from Horace Mann to Asa Messer Contents Note: Three letters, August 1-October 6, 1832, on death of Charlotte Mann. Note by Mary Messer to her parents added to letter of August 1. |
1832 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 14 | Mann, Horace to Williams, Sydney
Boston, MA 4.0 pages Contents Note: Congratulating him on birth of daughter. Genre: letter Mann, Horace Williams, Sydney |
1835 May 8 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 15 | Letters from Charlotte Messer to Horace Mann Contents Note: Four letters written to Mann by Messer from Providence in the year before their marriage. |
1829 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 16 | Letters from Charlotte Messer Mann to Horace Mann Contents Note: Thirteen letters written by Charlotte Messer Mann from Providence to Horace Mann, both before and after their marriage on September 30, 1830. |
1830 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 17 | Letters from Charlotte Messer Mann to Horace Mann Contents Note: Seventeen letters written by Charlotte Messer Mann to Mann following their marriage in 1830. |
1831 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 18 | Letters from Charlotte Messer Mann to Horace Mann Contents Note: Eight letters. |
1832 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 19 | Letters from Mary Tyler Peabody Mann to Mary W. Messer Contents Note: Twelve letters, August 15, 1847-May 8, 1852, including one letter addressed to Mrs. D. Messer [May 8, 1852]; references [May 28, 1849] to Drayton case involving abducting slaves; [February 21, 1850] to Mann's stand against Clay on extension of slave territory; [January 30, 1851] to Miss Dix's work with insane hospitals and penitentiaries; [January 18, 1852] to Kossuth's visit. One undated letter requests financial aid for Dwight Currier to study at Bridgewater Normal School. |
1847-1852 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 20 | Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, List of legal papers and correspondence Contents Note: Pasted on inside of a box cover. |
undated | ||
| Box 1, Folder 21 | Cobly, Jonathan H. to Horace Mann
Dedham, MA 2.0 pages Contents Note: Mann was elected member of Dedham Institution of Savings. Genre: letter Cobly, Jonathan H. Horace Mann |
1831 April 21 | ||
| Box 1, Folder 22 | Letters from Louise Hall Tharpe to "Amey" Contents Note: Three letters regarding the acquisition of the Mann papers for Brown University. |
1950-1952 |
Series 3. Letters from James Stuart Holmes to Horace Mann, 1819-1853
Box 1, Folder 23
Contains twenty-two letters from Holmes to Mann beginning in February of 1819, with the last letter in August of 1853. The two graduated from Brown University in 1819. Most letters are personal and contain news of family and mutual friends from Brown. The letters are not originals but photostats and typescripts of the originals.
