Matches in Harvard for { ?s ?p Collection is mainly letters by Ripley. Letters to childhood friends Abba Allyn (married Convers Francis) and Mary Moody Emerson reveal her intellectual interests and philosophical outlook. Letters from the 1840s to her son-in-law George F. Simmons contain news of family, friends, and the Waltham parish; reports on her reading and scientific pursuits; and comments on public affairs. Later letters to her daughter Sophy discuss family news and friends, the ravages of the Civil War, and her own failing health and faculties. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and other notable writers, ministers, and reformers are mentioned in the letters as neighbors or acquaintances with whom she exchanged ideas. There are also letters to her brothers, other children, Frederic Henry Hedge, et al.. }
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- catalog abstract "Collection is mainly letters by Ripley. Letters to childhood friends Abba Allyn (married Convers Francis) and Mary Moody Emerson reveal her intellectual interests and philosophical outlook. Letters from the 1840s to her son-in-law George F. Simmons contain news of family, friends, and the Waltham parish; reports on her reading and scientific pursuits; and comments on public affairs. Later letters to her daughter Sophy discuss family news and friends, the ravages of the Civil War, and her own failing health and faculties. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and other notable writers, ministers, and reformers are mentioned in the letters as neighbors or acquaintances with whom she exchanged ideas. There are also letters to her brothers, other children, Frederic Henry Hedge, et al.".
- catalog description "Collection is mainly letters by Ripley. Letters to childhood friends Abba Allyn (married Convers Francis) and Mary Moody Emerson reveal her intellectual interests and philosophical outlook. Letters from the 1840s to her son-in-law George F. Simmons contain news of family, friends, and the Waltham parish; reports on her reading and scientific pursuits; and comments on public affairs. Later letters to her daughter Sophy discuss family news and friends, the ravages of the Civil War, and her own failing health and faculties. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and other notable writers, ministers, and reformers are mentioned in the letters as neighbors or acquaintances with whom she exchanged ideas. There are also letters to her brothers, other children, Frederic Henry Hedge, et al.".