Found 2 collections related to Ricketson, Daniel, 1813-1898

Daniel Ricketson was a Quaker of Bristol County, Massachusetts. His papers contain a mathematical text book, a logbook, and an account book. The mathematical textbook includes problems in arithmetic, navigation and trigonometry and was compiled by Ricketson in 1760. He kept the logbook on a voyage in the sloop "Polly" from July 10-September 27, 1766. His account book contains accounts with customers for merchandise, tailoring, labor on sloops and other services, with entries dating from January 22-November 26, 1771. This account book also contains a pedigree of the Ricketson family of Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, in the hand of a kinsman, Daniel Ricketson (1813-1898) less

This is a synthetic collection covering the years 1821 to 1912 (bulk 1837-1882) with some undated material. The collection is particularly strong on poetry, including over twenty poems in manuscript, most from Emerson's earlier period. The correspondence covers a wide range of correspondents, including Amos Bronson Alcott, H.G.O. Blake, Thomas Carlyle, Horace Greeley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophie Peabody Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau. The collection also contains Whitman's notes about relations between Emerson and himself. less