(1819-1892) Attended Harvard (Harvard Medical School, late 1930s) BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION American National Biography Online HARVARD COLLECTIONS General Overview HOLLIS Catalog Author Search: Thomas William Parsons HOLLIS Catalog Subject Search: Thomas William Parsons Rare Materials Finding Aid: Thomas William Parsons Papers, 1836-1942 Contains correspondence, manuscripts of poems, translations of Dante’s Divine Comedy, and related writings. Thomas William Parsons Death Mask The First Ten Cantos of the Inferno of Dante Alighieri (1864) Autograph transcription of the translation of T. W. Parsons, printed by W.D. Ticknor (1843); in the hand of "J. L.," dated Oct. 1864.