James Pike Papers, 1793-1842 (with text)
Includes Some Records That Have Undergone
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Education History Project
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Item_Number-
54
Record_type-
Collection
RLIN_ID-
NXSV933-A.
Main_entry-
Pike,
James, 1777-1842.
Title-
Papers,
1793-1842.
KLARS_source-
Phys_descrip-
0.2
linear ft.
Strategy_hints-
Bio/hist_note-
Educator,
author.
James
Pike was a New England school teacher and compiler of textbooks. He wrote The Columbian Orthographer (1806)
and The Little Reader (1814).
Summry_descrip-
Correspondence
(1805-1809); diaries (1793-1811); legal papers (1809-1842); school and teaching
records (1798-1807); and an undated draft of a constitution for a 'School for
Young Ladies.' Correspondents include
Mr. Bliss of publishing house Hastings, Etherbridge & Bliss, Nathan
Kinsman, John Pike, and Nicholas Pike.
Series-
Papers.
Folder_title-
Set_title-
Begin_date-
17930000
Source_B_date-
End_date-
18420000_
Source_E_date-
Form/genre-
Commonplace
books.
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Education-
Work_history-
Assoc_subjects-
Book
industries and trade -- New England.
Commonplace-books.
Education
-- Women.
Educators
-- Diaries.
Educators
-- New England.
English
language -- Orthography and spelling.
Latin
language -- Study and teaching.
Publishers
and publishing -- New England.
Assoc_people-
Kinsman,
Nathan, 1777-1829.
Pike,
John.
Pike,
Nicholas, 1743-1819.
Assoc_organiz-
Hastings,
Etherbridge & Bliss.
Assoc_evnt/prj-
Assoc_places-
Publications-
Pike,
James, 1777-1842.The Columbian orthographer.
Pike,
James, 1777-1842.The little reader.
References_to-
Location-
George
Arents Research Library for Special Collections at Syracuse University,
Manuscript
Collections,
Bird
Library,
Room
600,
Syracuse,
N.Y. 13244-2010.
Provenance-
Purchase,
1969.
Restrictions-
Pref_citation-
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OCRd_text-
{7:54:570:I:174,207:2139,2709}MSS
58 PIKE, JAMES, 1777-1842 PAPERS, 1793-1842 1/2 box (.2 lin.ft.) Biography
James Pike, the son of John and Martha Trevett Pike, was born in Somersworth,
New Hampshire, in March 1777. Without doubt he received at least a common
school education since he began teaching himself in December 1798. His first
school was at Wakefield, Massachusetts and it was followed by terms at Newbury
"Newtown," Salisbury, and Charlestown, Massachusetts, in his home
town of Somersworth, New Hampshire and in the Maine towns of Buxton, Berwick
and Portland. While teaching in
Portland he saw through the press and used in his own classroom his spelling
book, The Columbian Orthographer, which Daniel Johnson published in 1806. The
work was sufficiently meritorious so that a number of editions followed. Pike
was in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1808-1809, preparing copy and reading
proof on a dictionary to be issued by the Charlestown firm of Etheridge &
Bliss. If the work was published under Pike's name, no copy seems to have
survived. He is known to have issued one further school text, The Little
Reader, for which the certificate of copyright 1814, is in the collection. By
October of 1812, Pike's eyesight had failed him after many years of eye
trouble. Apparently he was not married when his blindness occurred, and it is
inferred from material in the collection that he was cared for by his family
and that he remained single until his death in 1842 at Somersworth. Description The James Pike papers have been
given a simple arrangement which has placed similar materials together in a
single alphabetical sequence. Commonplaces consist of eleven items, ten of them
in notebook form, in which Pike or members of his family recorded information
from books, newspapers, or other sources to which they wished to refer
subsequently. Among the commonplaces is an index to a "History of the
World" compiled by Pike. The correspondence consists of the following
letters, arranged chronologically: Nicholas Pike to James Pike, February 25,
1805 The Printers (i.e., John M'Kown?)
to [James Pike, 1806] A Friend to the
Ladies to an unidentified publication, [1806?], draft James Pike to John Pike, September 6, 1806, June 20, 1809 Nathan
Kinsman to James Pike, September 2, 1807 [James Pike] to Mr. Bliss, June 27,
1808 Diaries in the collection cover
the period 1793-1811 with gaps, and for the most part consist of single or
two-line entries largely recording the weather. A number of entries, however,
are more full and describe arrivals, departures and other events, as well as
documenting the frequent eye trouble from which Pike suffered. Some vital
records of the Pike family and of Somersworth neighbors are also to be found in
the diaries, which are chronologically arranged.
{7:54:571:I:150,42:2076,1851}Pike
- Inv. - 2 Description (continued) Legal papers include a series of
depositions, a certificate of copyright, a deed, and two receipts,
chronologically arranged. Miscellaneous writings include five items on a number
of topics of a miscellaneous nature which may have been written by Pike. Of
interest among these is a draft of a constitution for a "School for Young
Ladies." School materials include two aids compiled or copied by Pike for
use in the instruction of Latin, and a record of the names of his pupils,
1798-1807. Purchase, March 1969 Shelf List Box l PAPERS Commonplaces, n.d. Correspondence, 1805-1809 Diaries 1793-1794,
1796 1799-1801, 1803, 1806 1807-1811 Legal papers, 1809-1842 Miscellaneous
writings, n.d. School materials Latin teaching aids, n.d. Record of pupils,
1798-1807 gba 8/69
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