Fowler and Wells families papers, 1807-19681836-1901
Collection Number: 97
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Fowler and Wells families papers, 1807-1968 1836-1901
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
97
Abstract:
Correspondence, articles, lectures, photos, printed matter, and other papers relating
to the practice of phrenology by various members of the Fowler and Wells families,
including Orson and Lorenzo N. Fowler, Samuel Roberts Wells, and Charlotte Fowler
Wells. Includes material relating to "The Phrenological Journal" and "The Practical
Phrenologist," periodicals with which the family was associated. Also includes a small
number of Civil War letters. Also, originals and transcribed copies of the wills of
Charlotte Fowler Howe and Charlotte Fowler Wells, and other letters.
Creator:
Fowler family.
Howe, Harlan L.
Quanitities:
.9 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Correspondence, articles, lectures, photos, printed matter, and other papers relating
to the practice of phrenology by various members of the Fowler and Wells families,
including Orson and Lorenzo N. Fowler, Samuel Roberts Wells, and Charlotte Fowler
Wells. Includes material relating to "The Phrenological Journal" and "The Practical
Phrenologist," periodicals with which the family was associated. Also includes a
small number of Civil War letters. Also, originals and transcribed copies of the
wills of Charlotte Fowler Howe and Charlotte Fowler Wells, and other letters.Correspondents
include Susan B. Anthony, F.A.P. Barnard, Albert Barnes, Antoinette Brown, James Freeman
Clarke, William H. Channing, John W. Edmonds, Frederick W. Evans, O.B. Frothingham,
Frances Dana Gage, Sylvester Graham, Sarah Grimké, Bronson Howard, Horace Mann, Eliphalet
Nott, George Ripley, Benjamin Silliman, George Francis Train, Moses Coit Tyler, Benjamin
F. Wade, and Elizur Wright.
Howe-Fowler Family letters, bound volume of transcribed letters by Harlan L. Howe.
Also The Dr. Parker Birthday Book, selected and arranged by Amelia M. Flower and give
by her to Abitha Howe, with birthdays of Howes and Fowler family members noted. Includes
handwritten family chart by Harlan L. Howe and notes on additional individual noted
in the book.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Fowler and Wells families papers, #97. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
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Names:
Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887.
Fowler, L. N. (Lorenzo Niles), 1811-1896.
Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875.
Wells, Charlotte Fowler, 1814-1901.
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906.
Barnard, Frederick A. P. (Frederick Augustus Porter), 1809-1889.
Barnes, Albert, 1798-1870.
Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown, 1825-1921.
Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888.
Channing, W. H. (William Henry), 1810-1884.
Edmonds, John W. (John Worth), 1799-1874.
Evans, F. W. (Frederick William), 1808-1893.
Frothingham, Octavius Brooks, 1822-1895.
Gage, Frances Dana, 1808-1884.
Graham, Sylvester, 1794-1851.
Grimké, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873.
Howard, Bronson, 1842-1908.
Mann, Horace, 1796-1859.
Nott, Eliphalet, 1773-1866.
Ripley, George, 1802-1880.
Silliman, Benjamin, 1816-1885.
Train, George Francis, 1829-1904.
Tyler, Moses Coit, 1835-1900.
Wade, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1800-1878.
Wells family.
Places:
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Subjects:
Phrenology.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Correspondence and Family Papers
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Arranged in chronological order and then by physical location.
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Box 2 |
Synopsis of Phrenology and the Phrenological Developments Together with the Character
and Talents of Paul S. Howe, Esq., as given by Charlotte Fowler
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1846-DateTo | |||
Howe, Paul S.
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Fowler, Charlotte
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Box 2 |
Synopsis of Phrenology and the Phrenological Developments Together with the Character
and Talents of Philip C. Howard, as given by Lorenzo Fowler
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1846-06-08 | |||
Howard, Philip C.
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Fowler, Lorenzo
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Letters
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1848-1859 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Papers
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1849-1892 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Manuscript report by Mrs. Wells of spiritualist meetings held in New York City during
1850 with comments on the participation of Horace Greeley and other notables
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1850 | ||
New York City
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Mrs. Wells
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Box 2 |
The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology with One Hundred Engravings
and a Chart of the Character of Paul Howe, as given by Nelson Sizer
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1851-10-24 | |||
Howe, Paul
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Sizer, Nelson
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Letters
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1860-1965 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Letters
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1866 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Letters
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1867 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Letters
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1868-1869 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Letters
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1870-1872 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Letters
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1873-1879 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Letters
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1881-1887, 1901 | ||
Box 2 |
The Practice of the Water Cure
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1891-08 | |||
Creator: Wilson, James
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Creator: Manby Gully, James
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New York
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Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Ulrich is Domestic
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1899-01 | ||
Creator: Human Nature IX #1
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Box 2 |
Poe: "The Mental Temperament" for Phrenologists
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1968-05 | |||
Creator: Stern, Madeline B.
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Creator: American Literature Vol. XL, No. 2
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Box 4 |
Index and handwritten genealogy
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1993 | |||
Creator: Howe, Harlan L.
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Box 4 |
Fowler and Wells family letters (c. 113 - primarily from Charlotte Fowler Wells to
Paul Howe) and envelopes
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Date Unknown | |||
Fowler Wells, Charlotte
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Howe, Paul
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Box 4 |
Copies of obituaries of Charlotte Fowler Wells and Lydia Folger Fowler
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Date Unknown | |||
Fowler Wells, Charlotte
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Folger Fowler, Lydia
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Undated and Miscellaneous
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Undated | ||
Anthony, Susan B.
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Box 2 |
Phrenological Dictionary
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Undated | |||
Creator: Fowler, Lorenzo
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Creator: Fowler, Jessie A.
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London
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Box 2 |
Professor Lorenzo Fowler - A biographical Sketch also includes Facts About Mesmerism
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Undated | |||
Creator: Fowler, Lorenzo
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Fowler, Lorenzo
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Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Papers
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Undated | ||
Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Papers
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Undated | ||
Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Miscellaneous
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Undated | ||
Box 4 |
Typescript transcripts
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Undated | |||
Box 4 |
Letter from Horace Greeley to Dr. Almira L. Fowler
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Undated | |||
Creator: Greeley, Horace
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Greeley, Horace
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Fowler, Almira L.
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Box 4 |
Typescript transcript copies of phrenological descriptions
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Undated | |||
Box 4 |
Copy of will of Charlotte Fowler Howe
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Undated | |||
Creator: Fowler Howe, Charlotee
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Box 4 |
Howe-Fowler family letters
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Undated | |||
Howe
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Fowler
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Box 4 |
Bound volume of transcribed letters
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Undated | |||
Box 5 |
Phrenological studies
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Undated | |||
Box 5 |
Clippings
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Undated | |||
Photographs
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Arranged by physical location.
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
11 Photographs
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Undated | ||
Box 1 | Folder 11 |
6 Engravings and 2 Photographs of Engravings
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Undated | ||
Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Group photograph including Mrs. Wells, as indicated on reverse
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Undated | ||
Mrs. Wells
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
5 photographs (plus 1 duplicate)
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Undated | ||
Box 2 | Folder 4 |
5 photographs (3 of S.R. Wells)
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Undated | ||
Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Group photograph including Mrs. Wells, as indicated on reverse
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Undated | ||
Mrs. Wells
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Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Photographs
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Undated | ||
Fowler, Lorenzo
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Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Photographs
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Undated | ||
Fowler, Lorenzo
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Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Photographs
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Undated | ||
Fowler, Lorenzo and Amelia
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Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Photographs (3)
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Undated | ||
Fowler, Amelia
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Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Photographs
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Undated | ||
Fowler, Jessie
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Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Photographs
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Undated | ||
Fowler, Mrs. Lorenzo
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Sizer, Nelson
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Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Photographs
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Undated | ||
Wells, Charlotte F.
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Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Photographs
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Undated | ||
Wells, S.R.
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Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Photographs
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Undated | ||
Wells, S.R.
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Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Photographs
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Undated | ||
Wells, Charlotte F.
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Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Photographs
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Undated | ||
Wells, Charlotte F.
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Box 3 | Folder 16 |
Photographs
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Undated | ||
Fowler, Edward
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Box 3 | Folder 17 |
Photograph, group
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Undated | ||
England.
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Fowler
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Box 3 | Folder 18 |
Photograph, 5 persons (Office group)
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Undated | ||
Fowler, Lorenzo
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Box 5 |
Photographs
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Undated |