Chauncey Wright Papers
Mss.B.W933
Chauncey Wright Papers | 1850-1875 | 0.5 lin. feet | Box 1 | |
Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907.
letter to Chauncey Wright | n.d. | 3 ALsS | ||
Andrew, John F..
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1875 July 26 | ALS | ||
Has seen the Psycho and finds Wright's theory of it convincing. | ||||
Boies, William.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1850 June 5 | ALS | ||
Bowen, Francis, 1811-1890.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1860-1864 | 4 ALsS | ||
Mathematics and bees' construction of the honeycomb: "I don't believe it is conscious of anything -- certainly not the necessity of husbanding its resources. It works blindly -- unconsciously -- like a machine which is at every moment guided and kept in motion by some power and intelligence foreign to itself." Thanks Wright for review in North American Review of Bowen's book; Metaphysics: Wright inclines to Mill, Bowen to the Scots. Probability and epistemology, causation and causality. Theory of probabilities. | ||||
Cary, George S..
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1853 January 30, 1854 November 26 | 2 ALsS | ||
Abstracting Orson Pratt's arguments against materialism. | ||||
Chase, Reginald Heber, 1832-1885.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1861-1864 | 4 ALsS | ||
Country's going to L; why? "Look at the photographic group of Uncle Abe & his Cabinet 'in council' -- and that will tell you why. A gorilla in the executive chair; Seward and Cameron looking like two pickpockets on trial..." Complains of the "bigoted malignity of the Lincoln despotism" and having been drafted. Does not wish to pay his way out or skedaddle: "My natural candor forbids me to give even the abolition tyranny such a very false impression of my motives & intentions." Will purchase a substitute. Supports Lincoln, "sincerely regretting certain of his peculiarities, & hoping that I may be spared to see the time when the interest of the nation will permit the election of a gentleman to the highest executive office." Sub rosa: has been considered to replace Taney on the court. | ||||
Cheever, David W..
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1853 February 1 | ALS, calling card | ||
Tutor Chase. | ||||
Comfort, George F..
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1868 October 26 | ALS | ||
Re: formation of an American Philological Society and reaction of American linguists. | ||||
Curtis, George William, 1824-1892.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1868 October 25 | ALS | ||
Dodge, Lydia C..
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1864 October 31 | ALS | ||
Inquiring into Wright's terms for delivering lecture to a natural history society in Hingham. | ||||
Eden, John.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1852 August 10 | ALS | ||
Inquiring how the knee gets on. | ||||
Eliot, Charles William.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1875 July 6 | ALS | ||
Cancelling Physics 1 due to low enrollment. | ||||
Fisher, George H..
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1850-1858 | 6 ALsS | ||
Letter of Oct. 1850 includes rough sketch of "Wright wasting the midnight oil," studying. | ||||
Garrison, Wendell Phillips.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1868 November 4; 1874 October 28 | 2 ALsS | ||
Re: reviews for The Nation. | ||||
Godkin, Edwin Lawrence.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1874 May 31 | ALS | ||
Defends his stance on women's suffrage, the natural difference between the sexes (and against John Stuart Mill). | ||||
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824-1896.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1866 February 25-March 14 | 4 ALsS | ||
Re; controversy over lack of consultation on a paper, Dudley Observatory matter. Includes one letter from Wright to Gould (1866 March 2). | ||||
Gray, Asa, 1810-1888.
letter to Chauncey Wright | n.d. | ANS | ||
Requesting return of a book. | ||||
Grinnell, Charles E..
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1873 December 13 | ALS | ||
Meeting of the sub-sub-committee on psychology. | ||||
Gurney, Ephraim Whitman.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1857 August 1, 5 | 2 ALsS | ||
Thoughts on his beach holiday. | ||||
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1857 September 24, November 13 | 2 ALsS | ||
Requesting a review of Blodgett's climatology. | ||||
Harvard Club.
Circular letters | 1855-1857 | 5 Pr. Ls | ||
Proposal to form a club of Harvard graduates; three notices of meetings; and notice that the club has decided to shutter and sell its rooms on Tremont for lack of support. | ||||
Harvard College (1780- ).
Invitations to Chauncey Wright | 1857 July 1; 1866 June 22 | 2 Pr. Ls | ||
Invitation to dine with the class of 1852 (1857); ticket of admission to Class of 1857 exercises in the church, and invitation to class dar, 1866. | ||||
Harvard College (1780- ).
Letter of appointment to Chauncey Wright | 1870 March 15 | LS | ||
Signed by Charles W. Eliot, appointing Wright as Lecturer on Psychology. | ||||
Harvard College (1780- ). Students.
Petition to Chauncey Wright | 1874 October 27 | DS | ||
Petition to teach a course on the elements of mechanics. | ||||
Hopkins, Erastus.
letter to George Andrew | 1861 October 11 | ALS | ||
Letter of introduction for George F. Wright and family. | ||||
Invitations to Chauncey Wright | n.d. | 5 ALsS | ||
Miscellaneous invitations to dine, etc. | ||||
Ireland, Catherine Innes.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1864-1869 | 7 ALsS | ||
Thanks for the enjoyable article. Sympathizes in his whooping cough. Thoughts on Mill and his perspective on women: "I may deny his logical conclusions, from my very weakness you know; and why should I make myself a logician in order to convince myself of what I do not care to believe? But I am not sure that I dissent from Mr. Mill's conclusions yet, except the suffrage, and I may have to unmake my mind on that point" (1869 July 28). Includes one letters signed C. E. Ireland. | ||||
Johnson, William Woolsey.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1873 December 31; n.d. | 2 ALsS | ||
Seeking a position in mathematics. Seeks to discover meaning of "mean distance." | ||||
Lesley, [unidentified].
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1861 January 23; 1863 May 6 | 2 ALsS | ||
Lesley, J. P. (J. Peter), 1819-1903.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1860 October 1 | ALS | ||
Lesley, Joseph.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1861 January 9; n.d. | 2 ALsS | ||
Letter of introduction for poor young man (not named). | ||||
Lesley, Mary.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1864 September 25; 1868 February 9 | 2 ALsS | ||
Includes carte de visite of Mary Lesley by Whipple, ca.1862. | ||||
Lesley, Susan I. (Susan Inches), 1823-1904.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1862-1872 | 14 ALsS | ||
Travel in France. Readings; Ruskin. Mary Walker's death; Peter overflows with students at the Scientific Institute. Recovering from four days of extreme pain. She and Mr. Lesley are "just as sick as dogs of Spiritual Manifestations." | ||||
Logan, W. E..
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1856 December 20 | ALS | ||
Seeking to establish telegraph connection between Montreal and Boston. | ||||
Lyman, James F..
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1856 January 25 | ALS | ||
Massachusetts Historical Society.
letter to Chauncey Wright (acknowledgment of gift) | 1872 April 12 | Pr. LS | ||
Acknowledging gift of Wright's Darwinism: Being an Examination of Mr. St. George Mivart's Genesis of Species. | ||||
Nautical Almanac.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1852 July 27; 1866 June 28 | ALsS | ||
Appointment as a "computer in the preparation of the Natuical Almanac"; arranging to prepare the Ephemeris of the moon. Letter from J. H. C. Coffin . | ||||
Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1872-1882 | 4 ALsS | ||
Glad Wright was able to dine with Darwin: "He is a man whose personal qualities, only to be known by acquaintance with him in his own home, complete and satisfy the highest conception of him that one may have formed from his books. He is one of the most satisfactory of men" (1872 September 5). Divide between his inner and outer man is greater than ever before. Has seen only one interesting person lately, Carlyle. Understands Darwin is not well, having worked too hard on his new book and too much with the microscope (1972 October 23). Obliged for the letters from Darwin, which he will make available to (1882 September 8). | ||||
Oliver, James Edward, 1829-189.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1855 October 12; 1859 May 1; n.d. | 3 ALsS | ||
Re: Wright's Individuality theory. | ||||
Oliver, U. K..
letter to Chauncey Wright | n.d. | ALS | ||
Re.: measuring height of the piazza by length of shadow. | ||||
Palfrey, John C..
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1874 February 28 | Postcard | ||
Pearson, Chauncey Wright.
Letter from Grandmother | 1906 May 22, 25 | 2 ALsS | ||
His birthday. | ||||
Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1865 September 2 | ALS | ||
Mill's discussion of free will is highly ingenious... "The contradictions in Hamilton are well brought out; but with a malicious intent. Mill wants to root out this philosophy, by adequate arguments or by inadequate ones..." Mathematics of a card trick. Access digital object: | ||||
Photograph | n.d. | Cabinet card | ||
Cabinet card, damaged, by Hardie and Schadee. | ||||
Rigston, John.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1860 August 6; n.d. | 2 ALsS | ||
Letter of introduction for John C. Rivers, with p.s. by Rives. | ||||
Runkle, John Daniel.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1862 August 9; n.d. | 2 ALsS | ||
Sedgwick, Sara.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1872 October 6 | ALS | ||
Visit of Mrs. William James and Mrs. Anderson, the latter a "champion of her sex & so hot & comic in the exposition of her views, that the weary & time worn topic of women's rights and women's wrongs was often brought up for discussion. She made me thing that after all Colleges might be good places for some women by & by for she was quite too indifferent to our tyrant's cow to spend her time in [illeg.], and she had a large intelligence that was worthy of the best cultivation." | ||||
Sheldon, D. S..
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1858 August 25 | ALS | ||
Letter of introduction for Clemens Hirschl. | ||||
Sprague, Joseph W..
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1854-1860 | 4 ALsS | ||
Storer, Horatio R..
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1865 November 24 | ALS | ||
Regarding articles on medical topics published by the Academy, including one of surgical removal of the uterus. | ||||
Thayer, James Bradley.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1850 February 13; 1850 August 14; 1871 April 8; n.d. | 3 ALsS | ||
Fanny Kemble playing Shakespeare. Access digital object: | ||||
Theyer, William Sydney.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1851-1858 | 6 ALsS | ||
Underwood, Francis Henry.
letter to Chauncey Wright | n.d. (February 17) | ALS | ||
Apologies for late payment. | ||||
Van Vleck, J. M..
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1855 December 10 | ALS | ||
Promises to repay his debt. Wishes he could still be studying mathematics with Wright, Runkle, and Oliver. | ||||
Ware, D. E..
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1862 August 6 | ALS | ||
Meditating a short vacation inland. | ||||
Ware, William R. (William Robe.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1864 June 15; n.d. | 2 ALsS | ||
Re: Wright's Individuality theory. | ||||
Wilder, D. P..
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1852-1853 | 4 ALsS | ||
Regarding a problem in Davis' plane trigonometry. Situated as he was last year, teaching the same branches, but without the higher classes (1852 September 27). Misunderstandings in Baltimore over Thanksgiving, "that day so fatal in New England to turkeys, chickens, mince-pies, plum-puddings, et cetera" (1852 November 29). Seeking solution to mathematical problem from Davies (1853 February 27). | ||||
Wright, Asher, 1803-1875.
letter to Chauncey Wright | 1852 November 19 | ALS | ||
Wright, Chauncey.
Was the Act of Brutus in Killing Caesar Justifiable? | n.d. | AMs | ||
School essay(?) | ||||
Wright, Chauncey.
Whether the Government of this Country Ought to Interfere in the Politics of Europe, to Aid or Countenance those Who are Struggling There for Liberty? | n.d. | AMs | ||
School essay(?) | ||||
Wright, Chauncey.
Positivist Hymn (after Watts) | n.d. | AMs | ||
School essay(?) | ||||
T., J. B..
letter to Chauncey Wright | n.d. (August 24) | ALS | ||
Urging a visit to Northampton. |