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discussions, occupy the hour. The only topics excluded ... are those which touch the realm of politics or the domain of religion. In our literary symposia controversy has no place. With all our freedom and variety of opinion, my colleagues will bear me witness, our discussions have never degenerated into personality or rancor. Catholics and Protestants, Democrats and Republicans, we have met upon the common ground of literary and social good fellowship.
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On January 6, 1874, the three friends and 27 other founding members met to sign the Constitution of the Literary Society of Washington. The meeting was held "at my mother's house, 723 Twenty-first Street, in our back parlor," wrote Esmeralda Boyle afterwards. Sixteen of the 30 original members were
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has convened monthly for discourse and the reading of essays written by members. The Society consists of approximately 40 Members, plus Honorary Associates and Emeritus Members. Unlike many similar social organizations, the Literary Society has included women members since its founding. The Society
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on April 1, 1937, Marilyn Lukens Beall wrote that, "Both President Garfield and President Theodore Roosevelt were enthusiastic members of the L.S. of W. and insisted upon the meetings being held at the White House. History repeated itself last year, when our present First Lady was introduced to the
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in 1908. "Not only were its members drawn from different sections of the country, but they represented the varied life of the capital city. Within the charm of the drawing-room, officials of the Government, legislators, writers, artists, scientists and private men and women met together, dropping,
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Amherst (Merrill Gates), Gallaudet (Edward M. Gallaudet), George Washington (Benaiah Whitman, Cloyd Heck Marvin, James Clarke Welling, William A. Collier, and William Mather Lewis), Goucher (David Allan Robertson and Sandy Unger), Haverford (Felix Morley), Johns Hopkins (Daniel Coit Gilman),
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In our evening exercises there has prevailed a varied range and compass of topics, fitted to bring out earnest thought and many-sided comments. Essays, criticism, poems, short stories, reviews of noted books, characterizations of great writers, social studies, descriptive sketches and brief
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President Lincoln's closest assistants were his two secretaries John Nicolay (left) and John Hay. Nicolay was one of the founders of the Literary Society in 1874 and a member for 25 years. Hay was a member later while he was Secretary of State in the McKinley and Roosevelt
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According to a printed history of the Society, members have included three Presidents of the United States, justices of the Supreme Court, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, two Secretaries of the
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One member wrote that during the Ulysses S. Grant Administration, the Literary Society "promised a pleasant contrast to the rather dusty, arid and scarcely spiritual atmosphere of official life, whether at the White House or in the local atmosphere."
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by deaf individuals, while Bell advocated lip reading, speech therapy, and greater integration of deaf and hard-of-hearing people into hearing society. Their long-running debate continues to resonate in the deaf community today. See
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An essay by Susan Kepner, "ANNA (AND MARGARET) AND THE KING OF SIAM," states that "Margaret Landon spoke of this at length in 'Anna and I,' a speech delivered to the Literary Society of Washington, D. C." The essay was published in
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at the Smithsonian Institution, where he led a team that seriously documented the culture of Native Americans for the first time. Among Powell's fellow Society members and associates at the Bureau were
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by Thomas Spaulding. Selected members are listed in the Library of Congress catalogue record for the Society's archives. A member list for 1882 is also included on pages 54–55 of
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was formed in 1874 by a group of friends and associates who wished to meet regularly for "literary and artistic improvement and entertainment". For more than 140 years, this
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U.S. President James Garfield was also President of the Literary Society at the time his assassination in 1881. The Society members published a book of essays in his memory.
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Ainsworth Rand Spofford, 1825-1908; A Memorial Meeting at the Library of Congress on Thursday, November 12, 1908, at Four O'clock, the Librarian of Congress Presiding
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Members of the Literary Society of Washington (and the years they were members) included the following individuals. Directories of past members are included in
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club, and in her usual cordial, thoughtful way, entertained the members at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue." Mrs. Roosevelt later became a member from 1937 to 1942.
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Seven of the founders of the Cosmos Club in 1878 who were members of the Literary Society at the time were I. Edwards Clarke, Robert M. Fletcher,
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Many of the Society's members were among the first generation of anthropologists and ethnographers in the U.S. during the 1880s and 1890s.
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The Society remains active. Current members are drawn from public service, publishing, academia, and the arts. Most are published authors.
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Vol. 10, No. 2 (1996), pp. 1-32, Published by: Northern Illinois University Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Article Stable URL:
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A file on Bell's involvement in the Literary Society is located in Box 10 of the Alexander Graham Bell Papers, Library of Congress.
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entertained the Society at the White House in 1936 and later became a member. In an article on "this grand old organization" in the
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Founders of the Cosmos Club of Washington, 1878: a Collection of Biographical Sketches and Likenesses of the Sixty Founders
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Founders of the Cosmos Club of Washington, 1878: a collection of biographical sketches and likenesses of the sixty founders
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Over the last 140 years, members of the Literary Society have published hundreds of books, from Olive Risley Seward's
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Many members of the Literary Society were later involved in forming prominent Washington institutions including the
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President James A. Garfield "took a leading role in the exclusive 'Literary Society of Washington,'" reported the
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Chief Justice Harlan Stone and Associate Justices David J. Brewer, Stephen J. Field, and George Sutherland.
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discussed forming a group to hold regular social and literary gatherings meetings with two of her friends,
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for the time being, all titles of distinction and becoming simply companions under the Egis of Learning."
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A Tribute of Respect from the Literary Society of Washington, to its Late President, James Abram Garfield
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A tribute of respect from the Literary Society of Washington, to its late President, James Abram Garfield
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A Tribute of Respect from the Literary Society of Washington, to its late President, James Abram Garfield
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A tribute of respect from the Literary Society of Washington, to its late President, James Abram Garfield
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A Tribute of Respect from the Literary Society of Washington, to its late President, James Abram Garfield
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Eleanor Roosevelt was a member for five years and entertained the Literary Society at the White House.
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Library of Congress, Photographic portraits relating to the Literary Society of Washington, D.C.
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U.S. Presidents who were members were James Garfield, Rutherford B. Hayes and Theodore Roosevelt.
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was a member of the Society from 1889 to 1922, overlapping for 33 years with his longtime rival,
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War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier
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Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Archibald MacLeish, Herbert Putnam, and James Billington.
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has no formal building or address, but meets in member homes or other locations.
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The collection of the Literary Society consists of 2,100 items in 17 containers.
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The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
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Brief memoirs of Colonel Garrick Mallery, U.S.A., who died October 24, 1894
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Literary Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) Records, 1873-1987.
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Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies,
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Architects of Power: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and the American Century
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the papers of William Dall in the Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Constitution of the Literary Society (Revised to May 31, 1993)
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On the Society's 25th Anniversary in 1899, a longtime member,
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Constitution of the Literary Society, Revised to May 31, 1993
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Library of Congress, Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers,
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Literary Society Of Washington (Washington, D.C.) (1882).
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Literary Society Of Washington (Washington, D.C.) (1882).
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Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
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Literary and artistic improvement and entertainment
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Index

Washington Literary Society and Debating Union

literary society
Alice Fletcher
Smithsonian Institution
Olive Risley Seward
Esmeralda Boyle
Sara Carr Upton
William H. Seward
Brig. Gen. Benjamin Alvord
Elliott Coues
Theodore Gill
John George Nicolay
National Geographic Society
Cosmos Club
City Museum of Washington, D.C.

Alexander Graham Bell
Edward M. Gallaudet
Gallaudet University
sign language
History of deaf education in the United States
John Wesley Powell
Bureau of Ethnology
William Henry Holmes
Garrick Mallery
Alice Cunningham Fletcher
Matilda Coxe Stevenson
Frank Hamilton Cushing
Ainsworth Rand Spofford

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