Famille

Manuscript Archive of the family of Mrs. Lola Gaylord McCulloch wife of Henry Ashby McCulloch son of General Henry Eustace McCulloch Texas Ranger and Confederate General as well as her daughter Lolita McCulloch Sutherland and grandson Ashby McCulloch Sutherland of San Antonio Texas Monterrey Mexico and New York New York 1836 -1944

0301781433 letters 4409 pages 647 retained mailing envelopes dated 1845 to 1944.The collection consists of five cartons of material. The collection includes letters of five generations of the McCulloch family written over the course of one hundred years starting with Major Alexander McCulloch 1779-1886 to his 3rd great grandson Ashby McCulloch Sutherland 1921-1998 with the bulk of the letters covering the families of Henry Ashby McCulloch his wife Lola Gaylord their daughter Lolita McCulloch and her husband William Alexander Sutherland and Lolita and William's son Ashby McCulloch Sutherland. The collection also includes 3 diaries 3 address books 2 notebooks 1 expense account book plus 942 photographs and approximately 1400 pieces of printed and manuscript ephemeral items with the bulk being from 1900s-1940s. History of the McCulloch - Sutherland Families of San Antonio TexasMajor Alexander McCulloch and wife Francis Le Noir 1779-1866Major Alexander McCulloch was born in Virginia and raised in North Carolina. He was a graduate of Yale and an aide-de-camp to General James Coffee under General Andrew Jackson in the Creek Indian War and the War of 1812 from 1812-1815 in Alabama Georgia and New Orleans. He died in Dyer County Tennessee in August 1846.The McCulloch family had been wealthy politically influential and socially prominent in North Carolina before the American Revolution but Alexander McCulloch had wasted much of his inheritance and was unable even to educate his sons. Two of his older sons briefly attended a school in Tennessee taught by their neighbor Sam Houston. After several moves the family settled at Dyersburg where one of their closest neighbors was David Crockett who became a great influence on Alexander's sons Henry Eustace McCulloch and his older brother Ben McCulloch who both would later become Confederate brigadier generals during the American Civil War.Major Alexander McCulloch married Francis F. Le Noir who was born 11 April 1779 in Virginia. She was the daughter of a planter and slaveholder. Her only brother John Peterson Le Noir died in New Orleans of a wound received in a skirmish the night of 21 December 1814 while serving in the U.S. Army in the War of 1812. She came to Texas after 1846 and lived at the home of her son Captain John S. McCulloch in Ellis County until her death on 10 May 1866. She and her husband had 12 children together.One son of Alexander and Francis was Alexander McCulloch who served in the army of Texas in 1836-37 and was an officer in the U.S. Army in the Mexican War. Another son was Benjamin McCulloch who participated in the Battle of San Jacinto as a private served in the Mexican War as a captain and was killed in the Battle of Pea Ridge Arkansas 7 March 1862 while serving as a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army. A third son was John S. McCulloch a captain in the Confederate Army who Francis went to Texas to live with. A fourth son and the line of McCullochs that this archive offered here descended from was General Henry Eustace McCulloch. This archive contains one letter written by Major Alexander McCulloch to his wife dated 1845.General Henry Eustace McCulloch 1816-1895 and wife Jane Isabella Ashby 1822-1896General Henry Eustace McCulloch was an early pioneer Texas Ranger and Confederate officer. He was born in Rutherford County Tennessee on December 6 1816. Although he played an important role in military affairs in early Texas he received fewer accolades than his more famous cohorts John S. Rip Ford John C. Jack Hays and his older brother Benjamin McCulloch. In the 1830s Ben and Henry McCulloch carried on several economic enterprises. They traveled the Mississippi River on log rafts to various markets and by the end of the decade they had moved to Gonzales to survey and locate lands. In 1839 in the political struggles at Gonzales Henry McCulloch shot and killed Reuben Ross after the latter intoxicated and obnoxious drew his pistols. The angular-featured gentle-looking McCulloch joined the Texas Rangers in the heyday of their role as citizen soldiers against Native Americans and Mexican troops. In the battle of Plum Creek in 1840 against the Comanches he scouted fought with distinction and was wounded. In addition he served as a lieutenant in Hays's rangers in their military operations against the Comanches and Mexican nationals. In 1842 in the attack on San Antonio and retreat by Mexican troops McCulloch scouted infiltrated enemy lines seeking information and participated in the battle of Salado Creek.For the next two decades he mixed his military career with other ventures. In 1843 he was elected sheriff of Gonzales and began a merchandising career there. The following year he moved his business to Seguin. During the Mexican War and afterward he served as a captain of a volunteer company guarding the Indian frontier. He became especially adept at organizing regular ranger patrols in intervals from different camps to cover a designated area. In the early 1850s McCulloch served in the state legislature both houses from Guadalupe County and at the end of the decade he accepted an appointment as United States marshal for the Eastern District of Texas. He served as a high-ranking Confederate officer during the Civil War. As Texas left the Union he assumed command of the posts on the northwestern frontier from Camp Colorado to the Red River and used Texas secessionist troops to accept the surrender of federal forces. Given the rank of colonel by the Confederate Congress McCulloch organized the First Regiment Texas Mounted Riflemen in 1861. This body of troops slowed down penetration of the western frontier by Native Americans through a system of patrols and small-scale engagements. After promotion to brigadier general McCulloch commanded the Northern Sub-District of Texas from 1863 to the end of the war. In this role he faced the threats of Indian raids and the movement of Union forces. He also had to deal with the activities of draft dodgers deserters and bushwhackers. At one time he tried unsuccessfully to arrest William Quantrill for robbery and murder. With the war ended McCulloch went home to Seguin with an armed escort for protection against deserters who swore to take his life.After the Civil War he remained in the limelight. In 1874 he assisted the newly elected governor Richard Coke in removing Edmund J. Davis from the executive offices. Early in 1876 as a reward for his years of service McCulloch was appointed superintendent of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum later the Texas School for the Deaf. Here his lax and inept administration brought about a legislative investigation that made him resign his position in 1879.Henry married to Jane Isabella Ashby on 20 August 1840. She was born 17 September 1822 at Shelby Co Kentucky. She was the daughter of John Miller Ashby and Mary Harris Garnett of Kentucky who had been early settlers in the DeWitt Colony which was centered on Gonzales Texas. The couple had a number of children most of who remained in Texas.General Henry Eustace McCulloch died on March 12 1895 at Seguin Texas and was buried in San Geronimo Cemetery. He received a full Masonic funeral having been an active freemason after the War in the Guadalupe County Lodge. His wife died the following year on 18 July 1896 at Seguin Guadalupe Co. Texas. There are 4 letters in this collection related to Henry Eustace McCulloch. Two letters are written by Henry Eustace McCulloch to his son in November 1882 and February 1895 with 2 letters written to him.Henry Ashby McCulloch 1866-1913 and wife Lola Beatrice Gaylord 1871-1944One of General McCulloch's sons his namesake was Henry Ashby McCulloch who was born 23 July 1866 at Rangers Horn Geronimo Guadalupe Co. Texas. He married on 18 April 1893 and died 22 January 1913 at Buenos Aires Argentina. The present collection is mainly concentrated on Henry his wife Lola Beatrice Gaylord their daughter Lolita "Lola" Beatrice McCulloch as well as Lolita's second husband William Alexander Sutherland and Lolita's son from her first marriage Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland who was adopted by Sutherland and took his stepfather's name.Henry A. McCulloch left college in 1884 on account of a shortage of funds and thus did not graduate. From November 1884 to May 1887 he was a surveyor for state lands for Texas and the railways of the western part of the state being headquartered at El Paso. He did some work at this time in the State of Chihuahua Mexico for Davis Brothers of El Paso in 1885. For the last half of 1887 he was transit man and division engineer in charge of estimates for Mexican International Railway for Sabinas to Torreon and on preliminary survey from Torreon to Durango.At the beginning of 1889 he was in the panhandle of Texas with William Walter Phelps Co. surveying 5000000 acre land grant in charge of two parties. He went to Mexico in 1890 for the purpose of working for the Wells-Fargo Company who he had been working with previously as a messenger at Eagle Pass Texas being responsible for communications between El Paso and Eagle Pass. In July of 1891 he was appointed "acting" route agent for Wells Fargo at Irapuato Guanajuato and later appointed as the route agent. In 1892 he was transferred to Monterrey and put in charge of all of Northern Mexico.During 1892 he married Lola Beatrice Gaylord. And in 1895 he was appointed general route agent with headquarters in the City of Mexico and put in charge of all outside transportation business. While living in Mexico his daughter Lola Beatrice McCulloch was born in Mexico City on 16 August 1896. In 1898 he entered the service of American Surety Company as inspector and served in that capacity and as acting general manager until mid-July 1899 when he resigned because of differences between him and the company. He was immediately given a position as the general superintendent of San Marcos and Tecolutla Railway SM&T RR placed in charge of construction and operation. He stayed in this position a short time again having differences of opinions with his superiors and resigned to take a job in November 1900 with the Mexicana Railway as commercial agent staying only a brief time before taking a job again with the SM&T RR. SM&T RR was bought out by Mexican Eastern Railway. The SM&T was then leased to a corporation called Interoceanic Railway which was owned by stockholders of the Mexican Eastern Railway. McCulloch then became the General Train Master of the Interoceanic and the General Agent of the Mexican Eastern.By 1904 he was appointed division superintendent of the Interoceanic Railway and later the same year appointed terminal superintendent for the company. Staying in Mexico he moved over to the Pan American Railroad where he was appointed the assistant general manager and became general superintendent of that company's railways in Mexico. In 1907 he was appointed general manager of Southern Railways of Peru and Dependencies under W. L. Morkill where he remained for several years before taking a position with a group of Argentine railroads. McCulloch died in Buenos Aires in 1913. There are a 338 letters and telegrams written both to and from Henry concerning his work in Central and South America with the various railroad companies he was employed by. A number of these telegrams are multiple pages written in code then translated and sent back and forth at great expense in an attempt to keep prying eyes from what the companies were doing in the way of railroads in South America.Henry A. McCulloch's wife Lola Beatrice Gaylord was born in October 1871 at Anderson Texas. She outlived her husband by nearly thirty years dying on 12 June 1944 at San Antonio Texas. She was buried at San Antonio's City Cemetery #1. She was the daughter of Edward Gaylord d. 1873 and Cornelia Bernice Milton 1849-1924. She is shown in the 1920 Census as living with her daughter Lolita and Lolita's first husband John Dewees Howard as well as her mother Cornelia Gaylord. Besides her grandson Ashby McCulloch Sutherland and her nephew William Leigh Morrow she was survived by two nieces Mrs. Sara Capers of San Antonio daughter of Eleanor Stribling Capers and Mrs. D. R. Dance of West Point New York. This archive includes 564 letters written to and from Lola Gaylord McCulloch.Lolita "Lola" McCulloch 1896-1929 and William Alexander Sutherland 1895-1929Lolita "Lola" McCulloch was born on 16 August 1896 at Mexico City Mexico. After the death of her father in 1913 the family moved back to San Antonio Texas. She was first married to John Dewees Howard 1895-1982 on 4 October 1916 at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in San Antonio Texas. Howard was the son of M. L. Howard. Her cousins Eleanor and Beatrice Stribling led the bridal party. One of the matrons was the young Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower herself recently married to the future president in July of 1916. However Lolita's marriage ended in divorce. Howard a salesman remarried and shows up in the 1930 Census as being married. He registered for the WWII draft but it is not clear if he served.The first marriage of Lolita produced a son Ashby McCulloch Howard. After her divorce Lolita received custody of the child and then married a second time to William Alexander Sutherland on 2 June 1926. Sutherland legally adopted the boy and the boy was given his surname and was Sutherland's heir when he died unexpectedly in 1929. Lolita's second husband William Alexander Sutherland was born in 1895. He was the manager of the Monterrey Mexico branch of the Bank of Montreal and the couple's son Ashby spent his early years living at San Antonio Texas under the care of his grandmother Lola Gaylord McCulloch.Lolita "Lola" McCulloch died on 25 March 1929 at her mother's home. She was 32 years old. She was survived by her husband William who would die in a car accident several months later her son mother an Aunt Mrs. Ben Stribling Celeste Gaylord 1874-1939 and cousins Eleanor Stribling; 1903-1985 and Mrs. D. R. Dance Beatrice Stribling 1902-1974 and William Leigh Morrow all of San Antonio. Celeste Gaylord married first Frank Morrow and second to Benjamin A. Stribling 1863-1950.Lolita's husband William Alexander Sutherland died 23 November 1929 in a car accident at Monterrey Mexico. He had remained in Mexico after the death of his wife several months earlier. His body was taken back to San Antonio where he was buried. He was survived by a sister Mrs. Russell Cruikshank of Newcastle Canada and a brother Gordon Sutherland of Monckton Canada. There are a number of letters in the archive between Gordon Sutherland and Mrs. Lola Gaylord McCulloch concerning the estate of Gordon's brother William Alexander. William Alexander Sutherland adopted Ashby Henry Howard as his son which is evidenced by documents in the archive. Ashby became the legitimate heir of Sutherland and took his surname. This archive includes 82 letters to and from Lolita McCulloch Howard Sutherland and 10 letters to and from William Alexander Sutherland.Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland 1921-1998Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland was born on 16 March 1921 at San Antonio Texas. His father was John Dewees Howard 1895-1982 the first husband of Lolita "Lola" McCulloch. After the divorce and Lolita's marriage to William Alexander Sutherland Ashby was adopted by Sutherland as his son and given his surname. Since his parents were living in Mexico when his father was working for the Bank of Montreal's Mexico City branch Ashby stayed in San Antonio and lived with his grandmother Lola Gaylord McCulloch. He continued to live with his grandmother after the premature death of both of his parents in 1929.Ashby graduated college in 1942 as the valedictorian from the University of the South Sewanee Tennessee and from Harvard Law School class of 1949. After wartime service in Europe as a U.S. Army officer he practiced at Sullivan & Cromwell before joining the International Nickel Co. New York INCO Ltd in 1954. He was an assistant to the general solicitor of the INCO Ltd. at the time of his marriage on 13 April 1956 to Marion Adair Ramsey.Marion Adair Ramsey was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Howard Ramsey of Goliad Texas. She attended Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans and graduated from University of Texas where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. For three years before her marriage to Sutherland she was associated with the Museum of Modern Art in New York.The couple was married on 13 April 1956 at the Central Presbyterian Church in New York. After their marriage they made their home for some time in New York City. Ashby was with INCO until 1983 in New York Paris and Toronto serving in a variety of legal and management positions before retiring as a senior vice president and executive director.After Ashby retired he and his family moved back to San Antonio but spent parts of his later years in Venice and San Miguel de Allende. Ashby was a member of the Knickerbocker Club and the Harvard Club of New York City. Ashby was married from 1956 to 1972 to Marion and although they divorced in 1972 they remained close friends. Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland died on 5 February 1998 after suffering for about a year with Leukemia and was buried on 9 February at City Cemetery in San Antonio. Together the couple had at least two children Howard Ramsey Sutherland of London and Ramsey Sutherland Farber of Buffalo. This archive includes 226 letters to and from Ashby McCulloch Sutherland mostly written during the time he was in undergraduate school law school or in military service.Description of CollectionCorrespondence of Alexander McCulloch his son Henry Eustace McCulloch and grandson Henry Ashby McCulloch343 letters 743 pages 8 envelopes dated 1845-1913 as follows:Alexander McCulloch Sr. 1 letter 2 pp. folding letter-sheet dated Huntsville 1845 written to his wife Francis.Henry Eustace McCulloch 4 letters 10 pp. no envelopes dated 1859-1896. Of these 4 letters two were written by him to his son the other two are incoming letters. The letters to his son are dated Seguin Texas 1882 and Rockport 1896 just before he died. One of the letters addressed to him was written by his son S. L. McCulloch and dated Martindale Texas 1883 with the other incoming letter dated 6 May 1859 written by his nephew Rush McCulloch of Wilfred Texas.Henry Ashby McCulloch approximately 338 letters 731 pp. 7 envelopes dated 1876-1913. Of these letters 174 are outgoing and 164 incoming. A number of these letters are telegrams or cablegrams some long some fairly short. They include coded cablegrams with transcriptions. These letters are almost all business related and deal with McCulloch's work in Central and South America with various railroads from 1876 up to the year that he died. About half of the letters are from 1912.Correspondence of Lola Gaylord McCulloch wife of Henry Ashby McCulloch564 letters 2066 pages 309 envelopes dated 1879-1944 bulk 1920s-1940s as follows:Outgoing - 162 letters 534 pages 42 envelopes as follows:Lola G. McCulloch to her daughter Lolita 17 letters 86 pp. 6 envelopes dated 1908-1928. Some of these letters were written by Lola to her daughter Lolita when Lolita was in Montreal Canada or Corpus Christi Texas.Lola G. McCulloch to her grandson Ashby McCulloch Sutherland 27 letters 87 pp. 23 envelopes dated mostly San Antonio Texas 1921-1943 with most letters being from 1939-1943 when he was away at college in Sewanee Tennessee at the University of the South and then later at Soldier's Field Boston Massachusetts when he was in military service.Lola G. McCulloch to her sister Celeste Gaylord 4 letters 35 pp. 2 envelopes dated 1907-1913 written by McCulloch to her sister while McCulloch was either onboard a ship or in Mexico or Peru.Lola G. McCulloch to Hilyer-Deutsch-Jarrett & Co. 8 letters 18 pp. 1 envelope dated 1924-1930. Hilyer et al was a lumber company in San Antonio who McCulloch had business with concerning financial instruments between the parties. McCulloch writes from her home in San Antonio as well as from Mexico.Lola G. McCulloch to several insurance companies 13 letters 17 pp. dated 1930. Copies of letters written to several Canadian insurance companies by McCulloch concerning policies of her late son-in-law William Alexander Sutherland for her grandson Ashby McC. Sutherland.Lola G. McCulloch to Gordon Sutherland 8 letters 11 pp. 1 envelope dated 1930-1932. Copies of letters of McCulloch concerning the estate of her late son-in-law William Alexander Sutherland. Gordon Sutherland is William's brother whose estate was divided between Gordon his sister and William's son Ashby McC Sutherland.Lola G. McCulloch outgoing letters to miscellaneous correspondents 85 letters 280 pp. 9 envelopes dated 1886-1941. Mostly copies of letters sent to various individuals or companies.Incoming - 402 letters 1532 pages 267 envelopes as follows:61 letters 301 pp. 43 envelopes of family letters mother cousins nieces and nephews to Lola G. McCulloch dated 1879-1944 mostly 1920s-1940s.27 letters 43 pp. 17 envelopes of the Bank of Montreal the Union National Bank and the San Antonio Loan & Trust Co. to Lola G. McCulloch dated 1929-1940 dealing with McCulloch's finances as well as her grandson Ashby McC Sutherland who inherited half of the estate of his father William Alexander Sutherland.6 letters 22 pp. 4 envelopes of T. A. Corry of Los Gatos California to Lola G. McCulloch dated 1936-1940. Corry appears to have been a friend of McCulloch possibly a relative also on the LeNoir branch of the family. Corry appears to have been friends with the McCulloch family through his work on Peruvian Railroads.19 letters 198 pp. 18 envelopes of Dorothy Cruikshank of Newcastle New Brunswick Canada dated 1929-1940 to Lola G. McCulloch. Cruikshank was the sister of William Alexander Sutherland McCulloch's late son-in-law.11 letters 37 pp. 9 envelopes of Ariana Graves Dennison wife of James Edward Dennison. Originally born in Texas she moved to Mexico City Mexico where she writes to Lola G. McCulloch dated 1929-1943. Ariana appears to have been a friend of McCulloch. James Edward Dennison was the treasurer of the American Book & Printing Company of Mexico City.13 letters 72 pp. 10 envelopes of Charlotte St. John Elliot of Sewanee Tennessee to Lola G. McCulloch dated 1939-1943. Charlotte St. John Elliot 1870-1958 was born 24 June 1870 at Savannah Georgia to Robert W.B. and Caroline Elliott of South Carolina. Her father was a clergyman at San Antonio on the 1880 Census and this may be how Elliott came to know Lola Gaylord McCulloch. Elliott lived at Sewanee Tennessee with her lifelong companion Marie Truslow a sculptor. Charlotte was described as a "tall dignified and benevolent woman" and Truslow as "stumpy bucktoothed and vivacious." They were said to wear "long dresses black or dazzling white and heavy amber beads and pearls pendant over very ample bosoms." Elliott was friends with the southern writers Walker Percy and his cousin William Alexander Percy and her name shows up in a book about Percy Walker page 285 "The House of Percy: Honor Melancholy and Imagination in a Southern Family" by Bertram Wyatt-Brown New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press 1994 Marie Jermaine Truslow 1871-1958 Elliott's partner was a resident of Sewanee from 1924 until she died at the age of 86 in 1958. Her death came 11 days after the death of her partner Elliott on 17 February 1958. She was listed as a friend of many years to Charlotte Elliott with whom she shared a home at Sewanee.Truslow was born in Brooklyn New York 6 August 1871 the daughter of James Linklater Truslow and his wife the former Amelia Louise Adams both later of Summit New Jersey. Truslow became a sculptor of note and had studied in Florence Italy and Dresden Germany. She and Charlotte had been classmates at St. Catherine's School in Brooklyn before both went abroad to study. At the beginning of WWI they were both back in New York City and met again and together opened the Home Studio for young ladies interested in studying music and art. Elliot was a dramatic soprano and once was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Chorus. Elliott is found advertising in the New York Tribune 3 Nov 1918 and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle 23 Feb 1919 as a singing instructor. In 1924 the two women closed their school and moved to Sewanee where they purchased a home and were active in the cultural affairs of the community for many years. Elliott was the granddaughter of Bishop Elliot a principal founder of the University of the South at Sewanee the university where Ashby McCulloch Sutherland attended. After the death of the two women they were buried next to each other at the University Cemetery. The 1940 Census taken for Sewanee lists Truslow as "head" of the household and Charlotte's relationship to her as "friend." An earlier census in 1930 listed Charlotte as "partner" to the head of house which was Truslow.16 letters 19 pp. 6 envelopes dated 1924-1934 of Hilyer-Deutsch-Jarrett & Co. Hilyer et al was a lumber company in San Antonio who McCulloch had business with concerning financial instruments between the parties.14 letters 17 pp. dated 1913- 1930 mostly 1930 of several insurance companies concerning mainly the estate/policy of William Alexander Sutherland McCulloch's late son-in-law and the inheritance of her grandson Ashby McC Sutherland.17 letters 87 pp. 12 envelopes dated 1929-1944 of Alice Caruthers Reed of Charlotte and Durham North Carolina to Lola G. McCulloch. Alice appears to be a friend of McCulloch. She was born in Mexico the daughter of a physician. Her father lived at San Antonio as did Alice before she married George L. Reed an accountant with a chemical company and moved to Virginia and then later to North Carolina.18 letters 34 pp. 10 envelopes dated 1930-1934 of Gordon Sutherland to Lola G. McCulloch. Sutherland is the brother of McCulloch's late son-in-law William Alexander Sutherland. The letters mostly concern the estate of Sutherland and the inheritance of McCulloch's grandson Ashby McC Sutherland.16 letters 66 pp. 11 envelopes dated 1929-1943 of "Suzie" of Mexico City Mexico to Lola G. McCulloch. Suzie lives in Mexico City. She appears to be a friend of the McCulloch family.184 letters 636 pp. 127 envelopes dated 1884-1943 incoming letters from various individuals to Lola G. McCulloch. The letters consist of correspondence from many friends and associates business or otherwise.Correspondence of Lolita McCulloch Howard Sutherland daughter of Lola Gaylord McCulloch and Henry Ashby McCulloch82 letters 388 pp. 60 envelopes dated 1906-1928 as follows:Outgoing - 52 letters 221 pp. 31 envelopes as follows:22 letters 115 pp. 15 envelopes dated 1906-1918 the bulk from 1914-1915. Letters written by Lolita to her parents from Mexico Washington D.C. New York NY and elsewhere.26 letters 98 pp. 14 envelopes dated 1924-1928. Letters written by Lolita to her son Ashby McCulloch Sutherland when she was living in Mexico or visiting Canada and her son was living with Lolita's mother Lola Gaylord McCulloch in San Antonio Texas. Lolita's husband William Alexander Sutherland was working for a branch of the Bank of Montreal located in Mexico City Mexico.4 letters 8 pp. 2 envelopes dated 1909-1910. Letters written by Lolita to others.Incoming - 30 letters 167 pp. 29 envelopes as follows:30 incoming letters 167 pp. written by various individuals to Lolita McCulloch Howard Sutherland dated 1913-1924. The bulk of the letters were written to Lolita in 1915 when she was living at San Antonio Texas. The letters are written by friends cousins and male romantic interests.Correspondence of William Alexander Sutherland husband of Lolita McCulloch Howard Sutherland father of Ashby McCulloch Sutherland10 letters 39 pp. 2 envelopes dated 1928-1929. Of these 11 letters there are 3 outgoing by Sutherland dated 1928-1929 and 7 incoming to him dated 1928-1929. One of the outgoing letters is to his son Ashby the other 2 are business related. The 7 incoming letters appear to be both family and business.Correspondence of Ashby McCulloch Sutherland son of Lolita McCulloch and William Alexander Sutherland226 letters 689 pp. 227 envelopes dated 1928-1944 as follows:Outgoing - 177 letters 520 pp. 152 envelopes as follows:165 letters 496 pp. 144 envelopes dated 1930-1944 written by Sutherland to his grandmother Lola G. McCulloch who became his legal guardian after the death of his parents in 1929 when he was 8 years old. Most of the letters were written by Sutherland when he was away at college at Sewanee Tennessee attending the University of the South 1938-1942 or when he was at Harvard Law 1942-1943 at Cambridge Massachusetts or in military service 1943-1944 at Soldier's Field Boston West Springfield Massachusetts or at Camp Lee Virginia and Camp Ellis Illinois.12 letters 24 pp. 8 envelopes dated 1928-1929 written by Sutherland to his parents William Alexander Sutherland and Lolita McCulloch Sutherland. These letters were written by Sutherland when he was a child living at his grandmother's in San Antonio Texas and his parent were living in Mexico or visiting Canada.5 letters 10 pp. 2 envelopes dated 1938-1941 written to friends or family.Incoming - 89 letters 169 pp. 75 envelopes as follows:89 letters 169 pp. 75 envelopes dated 1932-1944 some undated. All of these 89 letters are written to Ashby when he was either away at college or in military service or when he was on break at home in San Antonio. These letters were written classmates friends in military service college administrators as well as family aunts cousins etc. and women who were perhaps romantic interests before he finally married in the 1950s.Correspondence of Celeste Gaylord Morrow Stribling39 letters 173 pp. 26 envelopes dated 1908-1937 as follows:26 letters 120 pp. 17 envelopes dated 1908-1937 written by Stribling to her sister Lola G. McCulloch.13 letters 53 pp. 9 envelopes dated 1913-1937 written by Stribling to her mother and family members.Correspondence of John Dewees Howard 1st husband of Lolita McCulloch Sutherland3 letters 8 pp. 3 envelopes dated 1917-1930. Two of these letters are written to Howard; the other one is written by him to his wife Lolita McCulloch Howard later Lolita McCulloch Sutherland after she divorced Howard and remarried Sutherland.Miscellaneous Letters of the McCulloch and Sutherland families166 letters 363 pp. 12 envelopes dated 1867-1943. These letters are written to and from various individuals some correspondents are relatives of the McCulloch and Sutherland families others not. Some are apparent copies but not signed thus not knowing who wrote them. A number are from the 19th Century and deal with the Milton family relatives of Lola Gaylord McCulloch's mother Cornelia Bernice Milton Gaylord.Address Books Diaries Expense Accounts Memorandum and Notebooks:3 address books 33 42 29 pp. one measures 3 Â¼" x 5 Â¼" bound in black leather dated 1909 anothermeasures 2 Â¾" x 5" flip top binding bound in calf not dated c. 1910 and the third states it belonged to "Lola B. Gaylord McCulloch San Antonio TX" and measures 4" x 6 Â¼" bound in stiff black cloth.1 diary 117 pp. measures 4 Â¾" x 6" bound in crumbling leatherette dated 1926 five year diary only one year used diary mostly written in the first half of year. Diary appears to be kept by a female with a boyfriend or fiancÃ© named "Bill."1 diary of Ashby McCulloch Sutherland measures 5 Â½" x 7" bound in puffy cheap leather dated 1 July to 2 Sep. 1935. Diary is a five year diary but our diarist only kept a couple of months in 1935.1 diary 5 pp measures 4" x 6 Â½" bound in cloth dated 1-11 Jan. 1921 possibly written by John Dewees Howard or a relative of Lolita McCulloch as it mentions Lolita and she would have been married to Howard in Jan 1921.1 expense account book 53 pp. measures 4" x 6 Â½" bound in red flexible leather dated 1910-1911 documents monthly expenses servants wages foodstuffs washing governess shoe repairs school expenses etc. Presumably the accounts of Lola Beatrice Gaylord McCulloch or her husband H. A. McCulloch.1 notebook 12 pp. measures 4" x 6 Â¾" bound in paper used by someone to keep music lesson notes not dated.1 notebook 2 pp measures 4 Â¼" x 6 Â¾" bound in flexible cloth front wrapper states "H.A. McCulloch Register Silver" and contains two page lists of the "silver" owned by McCulloch silverware pots cups plates etc and the values.Photographs:Approximately 942 photographs various sizes from small snapshots measuring 2" x 3" to large portraits at 10" x 12" some photos from Mexico Texas California many of family members some of industry or businesses some are labeled many not some dated many not all are black and white good condition dated circa 1890-1940s but undated photos could be older. Counted within this photograph total are 20 cabinet card photos 14 cdv's 2 tin types 1 negative and two small photograph albums.Ephemera:Approximately 1400 pieces of printed and manuscript ephemera dated 1836-1944 with bulk being from 1910s -1940s as followsPostcards: 129 postcards used mostly incoming postcards to Mrs. H. A. McCulloch from her grandson Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland with several to her daughter Lolita son-in-law John Dewees Howard and to Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland from others dated c.1910-1943.47 real photo postcards some used some not of the used cards they are dated c. 1909-1939 unused cards possibly dated earlier.Telegrams: 49 telegrams dated c1900-1940 mostly written to H.A. McCulloch or his grandson Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland most written to H.A. McCulloch in 1911 some were written to Sutherland when he was in college at the University of the South.Manuscript & Printed Ephemera:5 Certificates: National Honor Society Secondary Schools San Antonio Texas 1935; Junior High School Diploma San Antonio Texas 1937; Diploma Senior High School San Antonio Texas 1938; Membership Phi Gamma Mu Tennessee Beta Chapter University of the South 1941; Diploma from University of the South. 1942.47 legal documents including: wills estate papers property deeds insurance policies contracts etc. of the McCulloch family dated circa 1836-1942 with most being from 1908-1942 with 9 of the documents being in Spanish and dated 1895-1929.102 manuscript pp. various miscellaneous notes jottings recipes verse etc.103 calling cards business cards or invitations.80 manuscript documents related to schooling such as exams tests essays report cards circulars appearing to be of Henry Ashby McCulloch and his grandson Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland dated circa 1880s-1940s.22 medical receipts from doctors for service on Mrs. John D. Howard Lolita McCulloch Sutherland; Ashby Howard Sutherland; William A. Sutherland; Mrs. H.A. McCulloch.84 pieces of manuscript receipts and accounts dated 1830s-1930s for McCulloch and allied families.51 printed pieces of ephemera such as circulars advertisements brochures etc.123 pieces of banking ephemera such as bank statements cancelled checks bank receipts etc. mostly of Mrs. H.A. Lola Gaylord McCulloch and her son Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland.61 general receipts for clothing hotels food books Quaritch funeral taxes etc. a number of them on letterhead dated 1909-194175 newspaper/magazine clippings some concern McCulloch/Sutherland family such as the auto accident in Mexico that killed Alexander Sutherland.35 typed pages various items verse translations of coded telegrams family history etc.204 greeting cards mostly written to Mrs. H. A. McCulloch and her grandson Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland dated circa 1924-1944.168 used envelopes likely separated from letters within this collection.Miscellaneous Ephemera: 2 pairs of Masonic white gloves; 1 Masonic apron; 1 used worn black leather wallet inscribed "E.H. Gaylord." books

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WALLET BINDING / BUSINESS / SPINOLA FAMILYABAA

Di Giulio Cesare e Luco Spinoli 1619.

16192607n.p. 1619. Early 17th-century account ledger of Giulio Cesare and Luco Spinola two brothers of the Genoese patrician family recording debts and credits over a period beginning in 1619 and ending in 1631. Information about individual debts is registered at the top of each page with ample blank space underneath for successive transactions relating to the debt. Other pages are filled with tables recording transactions in a given period of time pertaining to different debtors and creditors. Although the book was evidently begun in 1619 some of the entries record transactions dating back to 1599. The entries are written in a single neat hand which only occasionally turns into a hasty scrawl. Six loose leaves inserted into the pages contain records of transactions from 1599 to 1630. The brothers were evidently responsible for the finances of their mother Lamilla whose name appears frequently as well as their sisters. One of them Luiggia born Livia was in a convent while the other Benedetta had her dowry managed by her brother until her marriage to her cousin Paris Salvago. Reflecting the Spinola familys twin spheres of influence in Genoa and Naples both places appear in the transactions with somewhat more mentions of Naplesprobably an indication of the focus of Giulio Cesare and Lucos business interests and a plausible explanation for why their accounting ledger should be bound in such a splendid Spanish-Neapolitan binding. Folio manuscript 25 x 35 cm consisting of 119 numbered leaves and 70 blank leaves; 6 loose folded leaves. Contemporary black morocco wallet binding most likely Neapolitan or Spanish elaborately and densely tooled with original morocco reinforcements with decorative red stitching on lower edge i.e. spine; some minor worming and abrasion. Vellum title shows minor soiling and so do extremities of scattered leaves but generally in an excellent state of preservation. hardcover books

Martayan Lan, Inc. · États-Unis6 500,00 $US≈ 5 499,65 €

Talbot Family Earls of Shrewsbury; Chatillon Charles deABAA

Fifteen Drawings by Charles de Chatillon circ. 1800 Illustrating the Family History of the Talbots Earls of Shrewsbury 1071-1541

1800LD4931c. 1800. Hardcover. Very Good. Half brown cloth and morocco gilt-stamped lettering on spine; oblong Folio; with 15 signed pencil drawings on paper about 315x485 mm each mounted on heavy cardstock with caption handwritten in French in ink in lower margin of mount. Circa 1800 with hand-lettered title-page indicating that this collection was mounted and bound in 1930. Cloth blistered; drawing paper a bit toned with some faint foxing here and there. These extraordinary historical scenes by Chatillon trace the births deaths marriages and battles of the Earls of Shrewsbury from the First Earl John Talbot 1390-1453 an important English military commander during the Hundred Years War to Francis Talbot 1623-1667 the 11th Earl who met his more scandalous end in a duel with the Second Duke of Buckingham. John Talbot distinguished himself for his bravery in battle and is believed to have fought alongside Henry IV in the famous Battle of Shrewsbury 1403 in which King Henry IV defeated a rebel army led by Henry "Hotspur" Percy from Northumberland. The battle serves as the climax for William Shakespeare's "Henry IV Part One" and John Talbot appears with speaking lines in "Henry VI Part One." The Countess of Auvergne remarks of him "Is this the scourge of France / Is this the Talbot so much feared abroad / That with his name the mothers still their babes" The Battle of Shrewsbury is also the first in which English archers fought each other on English soil and archers are featured in the battle scenes illustrated here -- alongside armored horses waving flags the stern expressions of the valiant and the agonized faces of the wounded. The scope and intricacy of these drawings is difficult to capture with language -- no detail is left unrecorded from the coat of arms on a shield to the embroidery on a wedding dress the vaulted arches of a church the sinews of dog the teeth of horse gnashing its bit. A must-see please inquire for images or a complete list of captions. hardcover books

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Clark Family LettersABAA

Clark Family Archive - Raymond G. Clark engineer and Mrs. Phyllis Hart Clark citizen extraordinaire president of the Glastonbury Women's Club and their son Philip Hart Clark life-long bachelor glee club singer regional planner of Glastonbury Connecticut and Fairfax Virginia including WWII letters of Army Nurse Esther B. Hart Air Force pilot Lt. Donald R. Clark and Infantryman Harold Clark 1898-1990

030029No Binding. Very Good. Large archival collection consisting of: 2273 letters 5636 pages plus 16 diaries and 9 banker's boxes approximately 11 linear feet of ephemeral materials all dated 1898-1990 the bulk from 1920s-1960s. The correspondence centers on Phyllis Hart Clark and her family. There are 623 letters written by Phyllis mostly retained copies and 647 incoming letters. Her husband Raymond G. Clark writes and receives 201 letters. As a couple Phyllis and Raymond receive 450 letters and their son Philip writes and receives 293 letters. The ephemera includes several thousand pieces including folders of typed and manuscript notes brochures circulars handouts pamphlets postcards telegrams etc. all dated 1930s to 1980s for further description see below. unknown books

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Fagg and Szarvas Family PapersABAA

Manuscript Archive of the interrelated Fagg and Szarvas Families including: Correspondence of Kenneth Stanley Fagg commercial and advertising artist while a student at University of Wisconsin and later in New York as an art student and while working as an illustrator and his student fiancÃ© and later wife school teacher Marion Rebuschatis of Washington D.C. and related correspondence of the family of Theodore "Theodore of the Ritz" Szarvas maÃ®tre d' hotel of the Ritz Carleton whose daughter Janet married the noted IBM Computer Engineer Peter Fagg son of Kenneth and Marion Fagg. The Archive includes diaries photographs manuscript and printed paper ephemera all dated 1896-1983.

30907Large Archive includes 2191 letters comprising 6737 manuscript and typed pages plus over 1000 pieces of paper and printed ephemera. Of the 2191 letters 1626 letters 4793 pages dated 1920-1983 are from the family of Kenneth S. Fagg and Marion Rebuschatis and their children with the remaining 565 letters 1944 pages dated 1896-1960 that of the family of Theodore Szarvas and his wife Vivian Florence Fraser and their children. Description of the Fagg family section of archive:1626 letters comprising 4793 manuscript and typed pages broken down as follows:1920s: 1920: 1 letter 7 pages; 1921: 169 letters 444 pages; 1922: 154 letters 508 pages;1923: 62 letters 186 pages;1924: 153 letters 465 pages;1925: 117 letters 387 pages;1926: 135 letters 370 pages;1927: 78 letters 201 pages;1928: 8 letters 17 pages. This part of the collection is mainly correspondence between Kenneth S. Fagg and Marion Rebuschatis both before and after they were married while they were both attending college at the University of Wisconsin and when Kenneth was attending art school in New York City and beginning his career as an artist and illustrator.1930s-1980s: 155 letters 448 pages. This section of the archive includes 52 letters written by Marion Fagg in 1938 to her Aunt Emma Noud her mother's sister. At this time the Faggs were living at Sunnyside Gardens L.I and Aunt Emma at Washington D.C. The correspondence seems to have been started with a hospital stay for a broken hip by Aunt Emma. Also included in this section of the correspondence collection are 43 letters written to Donald Fagg the son of Kenneth and Marion Fagg. Donald's brother Peter Fagg the noted IBM computer engineer wrote 24 of these letters between 1950-1952 with Donald's father writing 37 letters to him between 1947-1952 and his mother Marion 3 letters and his sister-in-law Janet Szarvas Fagg 1 letter also writing to him. Additionally there are other letters to Donald Fagg from Harvard University Boston University Ohio Wesleyan University the New York Psychiatric Institute and the Selective Service System. Donald Fagg committed suicide in 1957 and these letters written to him were apparently retained by the family after his death. In this section are also 4 letters written by Donald Fagg written to his two Aunts Margaret and Emma when he was a child. Peter Fagg also writes a letter to his parents and receives a letter from the Chappaqua Historical Society concerning the possible donation of paintings. There are also letters written to Ken and Marion from friends or family dating from the1960s-1970s.Undated Letters: 594 letters 1760 pages. Most of these undated letters do not have their mailing envelopes attached to them. There are over 500 envelopes in this collection that are not with their letters undoubtedly a good many of these letters belong to these envelopes. Kenneth S. Fagg never wrote the date on his letters until later in life thus most of these undated letters approximately 512 are written by Kenneth S. Fagg in the 1920s. The envelopes in this collection are important for helping to date the correspondence. Of course the type of stationary and the contents of the letters also help to date the letters. About 18 undated letters are written by Marion the rest of them by other correspondents.Summary: The bulk of the correspondence in this archive is mainly between Kenneth and Marion. The couple writes to each other and with occasional letters by family friends or fellow students and or business associates. Of the letters in the archive 1169 letters were written by Kenneth S. Fagg Marion wrote 262. The remaining letters were written by family friends or others. As might be expected the correspondence was heavy during the years the couple was courting engaged and the year they married. After they married in 1927 most correspondence was written by Kenneth while he was travelling or working out of town while Marion was still in either Washington D.C. or away at university occasionally there are letters between the parents and their children. Of the letters written by Kenneth S. Fagg a number of them 38 are illustrated with drawings sketches portraits cartoons of considerable interest and demonstrate Fagg's skill and talents as a graphic artist and designer etc. The letters give some interesting insight into the life of an artist and illustrator in New York City in the 1920s attending many art exhibitions at galleries theatrical performances plays or concerts while he was an art student.Description of Szarvas section of Archive:The second section of this archival collection is comprised of the correspondence of the Szarvas family Theodore "Theodore of the Ritz" Szarvas his wife Vivian Florence Fraser and their four children Theodore Jr. James H. Robert and Janet. Janet Szarvas married Peter Fagg the son of Kenneth and Marion Fagg mentioned above. It is from Janet and Peter Fagg's family that the two sections of the archive are connected and descended. This section of the archive consists of 565 letters 1944 pages dated 1896-1960.Theodore Szarvas Sr.: 69 letters 269 pages dated 1907-1952 written mainly to his wife with most being on the letterhead of the various hotels at which he was employed including: the Ritz Hotel Piccadilly London England 1909-1912 1914; Grand Hotel Royal Nagyszalloda Budapest Hungary 1913; Ritz-Carlton Hotel New York NY 1916-1917 1923 1927. 1931 Ritz-Carlton Hotel Atlantic City New Jersey 1927; The Midnight Sun Swedegran Restaurants Inc. New York NY 1938; Hotel Pierre New York New York undated. The letters are interesting as they show the movements and progress of Theodore as he builds his career and establishes himself in upper echelons of haute cuisine and fine dining. He worked at the Ritz in London and other places then went to Budapest returned to London then on to New York City where he worked at the Ritz-Carlton and where his name became synonymous with fine dining. He writes love letters and poetry to his wife discusses his work at various hotel restaurants he describes the political situation in London at the beginning of WWI when he was forced to leave his position at the Ritz due to his Hungarian nationality. During the early years of their marriage 1911-1913 when they lived in London Vivian took trips back to New York while her husband Theodore remained abroad.Vivian Florence Fraser Szarvas: 72 letters 329 pages dated 1907-1957 includes correspondence from Vivian to Theodore Szarvas before they were married 32 letters dated 1907-1909 letters during their marriage when they lived in London and she visited America twice and after they moved to America permanently. The letters show the progress of their secret courtship while they lived in New York City and later when Theodore moved to London to work at the Ritz. A couple of the later letters are to her children or a friend however the bulk of the letters are written to her husband Theodore. Sixteen of these letters are undated.Millie Hartman: mother of Vivian Florence Fraser Szarvas 69 letters 367 pages dated 1901-1920 this part of the collection consists of letters written by Mrs. Hartman to her daughter Vivian when she took two extended trips without her daughter accompanying her. One trip was to Hot Springs Virginia in 1901 and another a trip to Europe France Germany Switzerland in 1902. Vivian appears to have stayed home with family. Vivian was then a child of 11 to 12 years old. Other letters 1910-1914 are written to Vivian by her mother when Vivian left home to join and marry Theodore Szarvas in London still others written to Vivian by Millie when Vivian was in Budapest with her husband 1913 and still other letters are written Vivian when she returned to America from London. Millie signs the letters often simply with "Mother" or sometimes "Grandma & Mother." The letters to Vivian written when she went to London show her mother's displeasure at her daughter's decision to go away and marry Theodore a much older man.James and Florence Szarvas: 63 letters 190 pages dated 1927-1954 writing to his parents and siblings Florence is James Szarvas' wife while traveling abroad 1927 and 1931 as a child and later while serving in the military in WWII 1943-1945 while at Camp Upton NY Quincy MA Fort Eustis VA with Battery A 5th Battalion and later at the Antiaircraft Artillery Training Center Camp Stewart Georgia and still later at Camp Gordon Georgia and further correspondence after the war when he returned to civilian life.Janet Szarvas Fagg: 124 letters 349 pages dated 1927-1960 of which most are written in the first half of the 1950s to her mother Vivian Szarvas signing her name and her husband Peter's name. Peter's correspondence to his parents and siblings is located within the Fagg section of this archive. Janet studied art at the National Academy of Design in New York City winning a couple of awards while a student. She illustrates a couple of her letters.Robert Szarvas: 13 letters 37 pages dated 1949-1954 written to his parents and siblings while serving with the 601st A.C. & W. Sqd. of the Air Force at Rothwesten Germany and stateside at Moses Lake Washington.Theodore Szarvas Jr.: 56 letters 183 pages dated 1918-1953 written while studying at M.I.T 1928-1929 while serving in WWII 1943-1945 and after the war. Thirty-six of these letters are written while young Theodore is serving in the U.S. Army with the 99th Repair Squadron 59th ADG in Guam Pearl Harbor HI Oklahoma and Texas. His letters are mainly addressed to his parents and siblings.Other letters in this collection are written to Theodore 18 letters 27 pages and to his wife Vivian 81 letters 193 pages written by friends family or business associates. There are also 6 "certificates" or letters of recommendation for Theodore which document his rise in the restaurant world. Diaries6 diaries 532 pages dated 1916-1922 as follows:Diary of Marion Rebuschatis 120 pages dated 1916 pocket diary 2 entries per page bound in leather written in ink legible hand minor wear kept while in her junior year of high school in Washington D.C.Diary of Cora Noud Rebuschatis 187 pages dated 1916 pocket diary bound in limp leather worn written closely in ink but legible two days per page with a memorandum section at bottom of page a couple of pages of cash accounts kept in rear. Cora is the sister of Marion Rebuschatis.Unidentified diary likely one of the Rebuschatis sisters likely Cora Noud Rebuschatis 124 pages dated 1917 pocket diary bound in leather worn.Unidentified diary likely one of the Rebuschatis sisters not Marion 21 pages dated 1918 kept while at Camp Merritt.Unidentified diary likely one of the Rebuschatis sisters not Marion 92 pages dated 1918-1919 stiff limp wrappers written in ink legible hand. This diary was kept while stationed at Camp Merritt during World War One. There is much description of camp life and of the soldiers arriving at Camp Merritt from the battlefront.Diary of Emma Noud 81 pages dated 1922 stiff limp wrappers written in ink legible hand kept while on a tour of Europe during which she visited Scotland England Germany Switzerland Italy France amongst other places and writes informative entries on the cities she visits. Emma Noud is either the sister or aunt of Marion Rebuschatis. Over 1000 Pieces of Miscellaneous Paper Ephemera for the Fagg and Szarvas Families as follows:524 Envelopes separated from the undated letters in collection; 120 Miscellaneous Printed and Ms Paper scraps notes etc; 35 Greeting Cards; 210 Post Cards used; 41 Newspaper & Magazine clippings; 54 Family Related Paper Ephemera - U of Wisconsin related material medical bills utility bills old check stubs report cards Will of Theodore Szarvas cemetery plot papers Red Cross ID cards Foster Parent papers Unemployment Insurance papers Immigration Inspection Card for Theodore Szarvas etc.; 46 Cards wedding invitations sympathy cards calling and business cards; 12 Theater Programs; 7 Art Exhibit Catalogues; 33 Photographs; 4 Hand Drawn Illustrations by Kenneth S. Fagg. Biography of Kenneth Stanley Fagg and Marion RebuschatisKenneth Stanley Fagg was born May 29 1901 at Chicago Illinois and died 7 January 1980. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin and afterwards studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and Art Students League in New York City and became a prolific advertising and magazine illustrator book artist painter and art director.Fagg was the son of Peter Albert Fagg 1874-1968 and Eva Maude Ross 1869-1941 and the nephew of the Rev. John Gerardus Fagg 1860-1917 a missionary to China and a long time minister at Middle Collegiate Church in New York City. Kenneth's parents Peter and Eva married in Chicago on 20 Dec 1895. In 1910 Ken's father was a clerk at a bank his mother a homemaker. Peter Fagg was originally born in Wisconsin of Dutch immigrant parents his wife in Canada of Scottish immigrants. By the time the 1920 Census was taken Peter had moved his family to Los Angeles where he worked as a banker. However Kenneth moved back to Wisconsin for college.Fagg was artist and editor-in-chief during high school for the New Trier Echoes a school publication. He was for a time a member of the National Guard's K Company 11th Infantry as well as a Cadet Lieut. at the Naval Training Corps in Evanston Illinois.In 1919 Kenneth began his four years at the University of Wisconsin where he quickly established himself with the school magazine turning out dozens if not hundreds of illustrations for the Wisconsin Octopus magazine and Daily Cardinal newspaper and The Commerce Magazine there. His college graduation year book picture of 1924 stated he lived at Alhambra California. He had a very active college career at the University of Wisconsin where besides being on the varsity ski jumping team he was also a member of Delta Upsilon and served on the staff of the three different college publications as assistant art editor and as art editor for the Badger the Octopus and the Commerce Magazine. He also was involved with the Arts and Crafts Club the Display Publicity Chairman the Edwin Booth club and other activities. His senior thesis was on the novels of Honore de Balzac. It was also at college that he met his future wife Marion Rebuschatis.Marion Rebuschatis was the daughter of Wilhelm Rebuschatis 1868- and Cora Ada Noud 1868-1918 of Washington D.C. Her father was a German Russian immigrant who found work first as a printer then as a proof reader for the Government Printing Office in D.C. Her mother was the daughter of a liquor dealer and Irish immigrant James Gray Noud and his Canadian wife Ermina Beatie. Marion took a tour of Europe in 1922 as evidenced by her passport application which shows her planning to visit England Belgium France Holland Switzerland Germany Austria and Italy. Several letters from this collection are from the time that Ken & Marion corresponded when she was in Europe. Marion eventually found work as a school teacher.Marion was married to Kenneth Stanley Fagg on June 29 1927 at Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Fagg returned to New York City where they lived at Queens then West Point then later at Chappaqua. Marion appears to have graduated Central High School in Washington D.C. in 1917 then went to the University of Wisconsin where she graduated in 1923. Kenneth studied art at the AIC and Art Students League in NYC and thereafter worked steadily as a freelancer for advertising books and magazines.During the 1930s he was a resident of Los Angeles and an art director for Fox Films. By the 1940s he had settled in Chappaqua New York where he remained for the rest of his life. His illustrations appeared in Holiday Life Saturday Evening Post and many other national magazines. He was co-creator of the world's largest geophysical relief globe hand-painted for the U.S. exhibition at the Brussels World's Fair in 1958. Fagg and wife had twin sons Donald Fagg 1928-1957 who committed suicide in 1957 at age 29 and Peter Fagg III 1928-2009 who died at Poughkeepsie as well as 3 grandchildren. Kenneth S. Fagg died in Mt. Kisco NY on Jan. 11 1980. His wife died previously in August of 1978. One researcher of Fagg states that the family kept virtually all his original artwork and thus his work did not reach the auction houses for many years.Kenneth's son Donald Fagg's library was donated to Ohio Wesleyan Library as the "Fagg Collection." His parents donated the books after their son's death. Donald graduated from Ohio Wesleyan Union in 1949 where he was chief justice of the Campus Court and active in all three student publications and a member of Omicron Delta Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa honorary fraternities. After graduating from OWU Donald Fagg was a graduate student at Harvard University. He did field work for two years in Borneo Indonesia and helped direct the Harvard Salzburg Summer Seminary two summers. He was on the faculty of Rutgers University when he died.Kenneth and Marion's son Peter was a fairly well-known in his field as well. Peter Fagg was born on September 26 1928 in Queens New York. He was a twin brother to Donald Fagg who was his closest friend. Peter was raised in Sunnyside Queens and Chappaqua New York and attended Horace Greeley High School. Mr. Fagg continued his education at Middlebury College M.I.T. Georgetown University and Syracuse University and earned two Master's Degrees in Engineering and Astronomy. He was also a veteran of the United States Army. Mr. Fagg married Janet M. Szarvas 1926-2010 the daughter of Theodore "Theodore of the Ritz" Szarvas and Vivian his wife. Together Peter and Janet had three children Christopher Vivian and Dawn. Peter Fagg worked his entire adult life for IBM. For a number of years Mr. Fagg was the Executive Director of Research in Fishkill New York and he also managed sites in Germany England and Japan. He was integrally involved with the development of the IBM 360/370 the first supercomputer in existence. He also had a fascination with biology and chemistry which culminated in a paper he wrote on the storage of human memory which he believes is stored in the brain's DNA not in the synapses as is commonly thought. The name of the published paper is DNA as the Long Term Memory Storage Cell in the Human Brain.The Fagg family Kenneth Marion Donald Peter and Peter's wife Janet Szarvas is all buried at Washington D.C.'s Oak Hill Cemetery. Theodore "Theodore of the Ritz" Szarvas and Vivian Florence FraserTheodore Szarvas was born about 1874 in Budapest Hungary. He worked as the maitre d' or head waiter-manager at a number of the best hotel restaurants in the world including New York's Ritz-Carlton where he earned the sobriquet "Theodore of the Ritz" and which according to legend was synonymous with fine food.Correspondence in this archive shows that Theodore worked at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City from 1903 to 1906 and after that at the Hotel Astor in New York City in 1907 before moving to London England to work at the Ritz Hotel. A letter in the archive written by E. A. Pritchard of the Ritz Hotel states that Theodor Szarvas had been in the employ of the Ritz Hotel in London as head waiter in the restaurant from May 1st 1908 to October 25th 1912 then again from October 1st 1913 until October 17th 1914. The time between his two stays at the Ritz Hotel was spent at a fine hotel in Budapest which lured him away at 10000 Kr a year.Theodore's time at the Ritz Hotel in London was after Cesar Ritz retired and during the period that the famed French chef Auguste Escoffier was manager. Escoffier managed the hotel and oversaw the restaurant. Escoffier and Cesar Ritz had worked together running Richard D'Oyly Carte's Savoy Hotel the most famous in London at the time. Ritz and Escoffier left the Savoy to open the Paris Ritz and later the Ritz Carlton Hotel in London which soon drew high society away from the Savoy Hotel.After the outbreak of World War One and with England's declaration of war against the Austrian-Hungarian Empire Szarvas being Hungarian was reluctantly let go by the Ritz due to the pressure of public opinion. Pritchard's letter is apologetic and a letter of recommendation for Szarvas to be used by Szarvas in America which helped him find employment at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in New York City. The Ritz-Carlton had opened previously in 1911. An earlier letter in the collection 12 May 1908 written by Oscar Tschiersky manager of the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City tells us that Theodore had previously worked at the Waldorf from October 15th 1903 to October 24th 1906. Letters in the archive show Theodore working at a hotel in Budapest in 1913. It would appear that after he married Vivian Florence Fraser in 1910 the couple stayed in England for three years then moved to America with Theodore working briefly in Budapest then London again before losing that position when WWI broke out forcing them to move to America permanently.Theodore Szarvas married his wife Vivian Florence Fraser 1890-1968 about the year 1910. At the time he was 35 years old his wife just 19 or 20. The couple had been secretly dating from at least October 1907 correspondence in this collection shows that Vivian at age 17 was secretly writing to Theodore a man almost twice her age. Letters in the collection demonstrate that she had a crush on him since she was 13 years old.Vivian at first kept her correspondence to Theodore secret from her mother Millie Hartman and stepfather Otto Hartman. Vivian first met Theodore when she was thirteen and her crush on him began the day he visited her house to visit her stepfather with whom Theodore worked. The correspondence chronicles Vivian's obsession with Theodore a rather strange courtship until she finally married him.Vivian corresponded secretly with Theodore from October 1907 until December 1909. She relates the utter horror that she feels betraying and being untruthful to her mother by sneaking around to see Theodore. Otto Hartman Vivian's stepfather appears to have been a co-worker with Theodore at the Astor Hotel and was very upset when he found out about the affair of his co-worker with his stepdaughter. Vivian's mother was also upset about the relationship and forbade her daughter to have any contact with Theodore but Vivian did not listen and kept up the relationship. However later on as it became apparent the two would marry her mother stated that she would leave her husband if he attempted to interfere with her daughter's relationship.Theodore left for London in the spring of 1908 letters in the collection from Vivian who was in New York document the long distance relationship of the couple. There was much confusion on Vivian's part as she was in love with Theodore but all of her family parents grandparents aunts were against the relationship because of the dramatic age difference. Vivian was forbidden to have contact with him and the family felt safe once Theodore left for London however Vivian continued corresponding and the secret affair which finally came to an end in December of 1909 when Vivian's mother found out. At this time Vivian wrote to Theodore to send her money for passage to London before she is put out of the house by her mother.Otto Hartman and his wife Millie Vivian's mother are enumerated in Manhattan on the 1900 Census and listed as being married for only three years. Vivian while given the name of Hartman was ten years old at this time. She later in life used her father's name Fraser. Her father was born in Germany Vivian in Illinois her elder sister Hope in Michigan and her oldest sister Gertrude in New York. The 1900 Census shows Vivian's mother as being born in Connecticut however other records state Canada. Otto Hartman in 1900 was listed as a German immigrant.Millie Hartman appears in the U.S. Census for 1910 at her 1800 Clinton Avenue address in the Bronx a place where she apparently lived for the rest of her life and where Vivian and Theodore lived briefly after they came back to America from England. Otto Hartman is no longer in the household; either having died or perhaps the marriage may have ended in divorce or separation. The correspondence showed that there was considerable friction in the marriage.Vivian and Theodore appear on the 1911 Census of England at 66A Hackford Road Lambeth London England. The couple's first child Theodore was born in England in 1910 however various records seem to indicate an earlier birth date perhaps as a way to disguise the fact that Vivian may have been pregnant when she married. The couple's second child James H. Szarvas was born 13 February 1915 and a third child Janet Szarvas was born much later in 1926. Both James and Janet were born in New York City. Later in life the Szarvas couple acted as foster parents for an Italian boy.While living in England Vivian and her son Theodore made two trips 1911 and 1912 to America to visit her mother before finally moving to America permanently about 1913. By 1915 the Szarvas family appears on the New York State Census living at the 1800 Clinton Avenue address in the Bronx. They are living with Vivian's mother Millie Hartman who was listed as being born in Canada. Also with the family is an Austrian waiter likely an employee of Theodore who is the head waiter at this time at the Ritz.In 1920 the Szarvas family was enumerated at New Castle Westchester County New York where Theodore was listed as a manager at a hotel. In 1921 we find Szarvas as the Maitre d' of the S.S. Flotilla a restaurant with a nautical theme in New York City at the corner of 56th Street and 6th Avenue a stone's throw from Broadway. The restaurant was hailed as a "most diverting development in the art of dining well."When the 1925 New York State Census was taken the family was still on King Street at New Castle. At this time they had a Japanese butler living with them. Theodore was listed simply as a "manager." Theodore became a citizen at White Plains NY in 1925 and in 1929 the family was living in Chappaqua New York which became the family home. Earlier in a 1925 newspaper article Theodore listed as the head waiter at the Ritz-Carlton was reported to be suing William H. Kiernan a broker as the result of tips totaling $11000 being lost in Wall Street investments having gone south.A book Recipes for Cooking Forty Fathom Fish: Prepared by Theodore Szarvas Maitre D'hÃ´tel and Louis Diat Chef de Cuisine of the Ritz-Carlton New York City was published by Bay State Fishing Company in 1927. About this time society columnists were writing that Theodore was considered one of the best dressed men in the "parade of Park Avenue." His friend E. Phillips Oppenheim modeled his "suave maÃ®tre d'hÃ´tel" character after him. He was a collector of books and paintings and a boyhood friend of Ferenc Molnar during his student days in Budapest. Another writer wrote "Theodor is a slender glossy-haired little man with the most beautiful clothes and manners imaginable. He prefers a pear-gray cutaway with a dark Ascot by day and an Oxford dinner jacket after dark and he knows who is who in New York's various social and financial upper brackets as well as a city editor or a bank teller". He acquired a not inconsiderable fortune in the 1920s and has a fine Westchester home with an important collection of English paintings. He later was at the Pierre. He was known as Theodore of the Ritz because of his long service as lord of the Ritz-Carlton dining rooms. It was said that he was "of a fast-vanishing school which believes that service can be a high art." His name was synonymous with "fine food" He put forth some of the most heroic adventures in cuisine in his day." Theodore worked 1936 after leaving the Ritz at the Stork Club in New York City owned by Sherman Billingsley. He was also at the Hotel Pierre where he acted as director of the restaurant.In 1930 Theodore's son also named Theodore was listed as a student at MIT. In 1935 he was living with his parents in Chappaqua but by the 1940 Census the younger Theodore was listed as living on 34th Street in NYC. He was listed as working as a salesman in advertising.Millie Hartman Vivian's mother is found living with Theodore and Vivian in 1940 with their children Janet Robert James and James' wife Florence. In 1940 their son Theodore Jr. was living in Manhattan on Park Avenue married and working in sales with an advertising firm.Theodore's son James Hurry Szarvas was born 13 February 1915 and died 19 February 1972. On 22 October 1943 he entered military service as a private and was released on 8 April 1946. Correspondence in the collection appears to show that James might have remained in the military serving in the Air Force as late as 1951. He had three years college and worked as a salesman. He was already married to Florence marrying her sometime before 4 June 1940 as they were listed as husband and wife on a ship manifest on a trip they took to Bermuda. They were living in Chappaqua Westchester Co. New York. She was listed as being born on 26 Nov 1914 at New York City. They were still living at Chappaqua in 1950 when they took another trip a flight to Bermuda. His brother Ted and Bob were also in the Air Force.Theodore's daughter Janet Szarvas married Peter Fagg the son of Kenneth and Marion Fagg. They were married for fifty-seven years. Peter worked his entire adult life for IBM. For a number of years he was the Executive Director of Research in Fishkill New York and he also managed sites in Germany England and Japan. He was integrally involved with the development of the IBM 360/370 the world's first supercomputer doing a phenomenal job of managing the interdivisional international development of the dozens of new input-output devices without line authority over any of those teams. The 360 was the first family of computers designed to cover the complete range of applications from small to large both commercial and scientific. Peter Fagg headed the development of the 7010/7040 under executive Bob O. Evans the computer pioneer who helped lead the groundbreaking development of compatible computers that changed the industry. 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Nichols Plumb Norris Family CorrespondenceABAA

Archive of Family and Business Correspondence of the Plumb-Nichols-Norris Families of Denver and Fort Morgan Colorado 1856-1960

30897Archive consisting of 940 letters 2359 pages of correspondence both manuscript and typescript approximately 76 items of related family ephemera in good clean legible condition. Extensivecollection of correspondence pertaining to these three inter-married families who emigrated west from New York State to the mid-west and then on to Colorado in the 1860s. Lafayette W. Nichols was a pioneer in the lumber and building supply industry in Denver. He ran a business dealing in lumber and mill work in the 1870s which helped build the city. He later was an investor in real estate and mining. Much of his correspondence concerns his investments and the "Silver Question" which was of concern to Coloradans in the 1890s. He married Mary Plumb their daughter Josephine married William A. Norris. Norris was formerly a lawyer from Kansas who ran into trouble there. Norris later became a cattle broker. He was president of the Cornucopia Cattle Company of Fort Morgan Colorado brokering and selling dairy cattle primarily Holstein and Guernsey cattle but also short horns. He traveled extensively throughout Colorado and surrounding states in the course of his business as far east as Wisconsin and as far west as Oregon buying and selling cattle often by the train car-load. His letters are written primarily on the letterheads of hotels from towns and cities small medium and large in Colorado. His letters form a collection in themselves on the hotels of Colorado in the early 20th century. Norris also was president of The Better Roads Association. Based in Fort Morgan dedicated to improving roads in the state; its motto was: "Everybody for Better Roads Better Roads for Everybody." He was also market manager of the Morgan County Dairymen's Association also based in Fort Morgan. Norris seems to have been a troubled man. He worked very hard was constantly on the road but he seems to have perennially struggled economically. Norris and his wife appear to have lived apart much of the time Josephine remained in Denver and Norris was often either in Fort Morgan or traveling. His letters to his wife sometimes several a day describe his travels business and efforts to improve their economic situation. Nichols & Norris Families Lafayette W. Nichols 1828-1925 was born 3 September 1928 at Randolph Cattaraugus New York; died 18 May 1925 at Denver Colorado; he was the son of Daniel Franklin Nichols 1800-1883 and Lydia Bishop 1793-1859. He was living at Dutch Creek Iowa by 1856 and is enumerated there on the 1860 Census where he is listed as a farmer and enumerated only four families from his future wife's family Mary Plumb and her father F. M. Plumb. He married Mary Plumb on 17 October 1860 at Dutch Creek Iowa. Lafayette W. Nichols was considered one of Colorado's lumber pioneers he moved to Colorado in the 1860s. Mr. Nichols entered the Denver lumber business in 1872 he ran a dealership in sash doors blinds lumber lath and shingles located at the corner of Larimer and 20th Streets Denver Colorado however by 1880 Nichols was listed as a retired lumber merchant and his wife Mary was keeping house. His address was then 12 Nichols Block Denver. In 1900 he was still residing at Denver and listed with no occupation. When the 1910 Census was taken Lafayette was listed in the gold and silver mining business as an employer. In 1920 he was listed without an occupation again. He died in 1925. Mary Plumb was born 15 July 1836 Trumbull Co. Ohiodaughter of Francis Merrill Plumb 1806-1899 and his wife Laura Mary Hyde 1810-1854. She is found in 1850 living with her parents and siblings at Kinsman Trumbull Co. Ohio. When her parents moved to Dutch Creek Iowa she moved along with them as per the 1860 Census where she worked as a teacher. She met and married her husband in 1860 at Dutch Creek. By 1880 she was living with her husband Lafayette and their daughter Josephine in Denver where she lived for the rest of her life. Mary died on 28 December 1931. In 1910 Mary was listed as a practitioner of Christian Science on her own account. At one point she practiced clay modeling and one of her pieces was put into marble and exhibited at the World's Fair in Chicago. She and her husband had one child a daughter Josephine M. Nichols. Josephine M. Nichols was born in June 1868 at Washington Iowa and died in 1950 in Denver Colorado. She is found enumerated in 1880 at Denver where she was living with her parents. Josephine was listed as a teacher at a university in Denver in 1910. She married William A. Norris in 1911. In 1917 Josephine is found as the President of The College of Speech Arts at Denver. In 1920 although married she lived at home with her parents and was still listed as a teacher. Despite their marital and economic problems Josephine and her husband never divorced. By 1930 she was listed with no occupation presumably caring for her mother who lived with Josephine and her husband. By 1940 after the death of her mother in 1931 she appears to have taken a job again as a teacher at a private school. Josephine lived in Denver until her death in 1950. William A. Norris 1862-1954 was the 8th of 15 children born to Andrew Jackson Norris 1825-1893 and Euphany Lewis 1830-1911 of Concord Kentucky. Norris is found living at Concord in 1870 and 1880. On 5 April 1889 Norris was admitted to practice law and is found in Salina Kansas as an attorney where he was elected to the office of County Attorney. In 1897 Norris was accused with at least six counts of accepting money for conducting his official acts. The story made the front page of The Salina Daily Union on 2 September 1898. Norris declared his innocence and hired an attorney and a famous detective Sylvia Marshal to secure evidence of his innocence. He denied all the accusations. The case was investigated and went to the Kansas State Supreme Court. Norris was found guilty and disbarred in 1899 and removed from the office of County Attorney. Norris' guilt was due to a practice of many years by country attorneys of accepting a fee of $250 for cases dismissed while apparently illegal all those years it was never prosecuted but when he was prosecuted and was found guilty Norris was the County Attorney. While not given a jail sentence he was disbarred and lost his job as County Attorney. In 1908 an attempt was made by attorneys to have him reinstated as per The Lindsborg News- RecordLindsborg KS 4 Dec 1908 but it was not successful Norris left Kansas for Colorado where he met and married Josephine M. Nichols on 19 September 1911. The couple made their home in Denver. He lived with his wife at Denver for the rest of his life where he appears to have been an attorney at one point. Later in 1930 Norris was listed as a salesman of livestock and in 1940 was listed as a literary writer. He died at Denver in 1954 outliving his wife by four years.References:Ancestry.com compiled genealogies of the Plumb & Norris families as viewed on 8 Jan 2021.Newspapers.com as viewed on 9 Jan 2021. Used for stories of Norris legal troubles as per editions quoted in text above.The Times Streator IL 22 Sept 1911 Page 1 â€“ announcement of the marriage of Josephine M. Nichols and William Norris. Francis Merrill Plumb 1806-1899 Francis Merrill Plumb was born 18 September 1806 at Litchfield Herkimer Co New York. He was the son of Theron Aaron Plumb 1785-1864 and Harriet Merrill Merry 1785-1835. Francis was the eldest of at least 13 children born to his parents as follows: Francis 1806-1899; Martha 1808 -; Theron Calvin 1810-1838; Samuel 1812-1882; Mary 1813-1836; Jacob 1815-1861; Col. Ralph Oberlin 1816-1903; Calvin C. 1816-1840; Hiram Abiff 1820-1869; Edward B. 1822-1869; Harriet 1823 -: Julius Ashtabula 1827 -; & Elizabeth 1828 -. Francis's father Theron was the son of Ebenezer Plumb Jr 1739-1821 and his wife Mary Skeel 1739-1833 who were married about 1767 at Richmond Berkshire Co Massachusetts. Francis' father is died in 1864 at Clay Washington Co. Iowa at the age of 80. Francis's mother Harriet was the daughter of Samuel Merry Sr. 1750-1827 and his wife Hannah Merrill 1747-1814 who were married about 1769 in Hartford Connecticut. Francis Plumb married Laura M. Hyde on 19 October 1830 at Hormon Trumbull Co. Ohio. She was born 9 February 1810. She and her husband Francis had at least 15 children as follows:Hyde Plumb 1831-1855; Ezra Nelson Plumb 1833-1911; Faucett/Fawcett Plumb 1834-1919; Mary Plumb 1836 -1931; Sarah Plumb 1838-1921; Isabelle Plumb 1839-1859; Rosa Hyde Plumb 1841-1924; Dahlia Plumb 1842-1850; John Brough Plumb 1844-1921 he worked a job as a typesetter on the "Central City Register"; Robert Porter Plumb 1846-1921; Laura Mary Plumb 1848-1926; Jennie Laura Plumb 1851-1932; and Annie Plumb 1852 -. In the 1850 Census Francis is found with his wife and ten of his children living at Kinsman Trumbull Co. Ohio listed as a farmer. The 1855 Iowa State Census finds Plumb enumerated at Pleasant Ridge Lee Co. Iowa and in 1860 his first wife having died in 1854 Francis was now found enumerated at Dutch Creek Washington Co Iowa living with several of his children. The 1865 Illinois State Census shows Plumb then residing at Kendall Kendall Co Illinois. When the 1870 Census was taken Plumb was now found enumerated at Central City Gilpin Co. Colorado Territory and was again listed as a farmer with his son Nelson living with him and listed in the mining business. Francis moved to Central City and soon after founded a quartz grinding mill followed by a timber mill. By 1872 he relocated to Streator Illinois a town said to be virtually founded by his brother Ralph Oberlin Plumb 1816-1903. Francis's brother Ralph Oberlin Plumb was a Representative from Illinois. He was born in Busti Chautauqua County New Yok on 29 March 1816. He attended the common schools. He engaged in mercantile pursuits and moved to Ohio. He became a member of the Ohio State House of Representatives in 1855. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced practice in Oberlin Lorain County Ohio. During the Civil War Ralph served in the Union Army as captain and quartermaster of Volunteers 1861-1865. He was brevetted lieutenant colonel. After the war he moved to Illinois in 1866 and settled in Streator where he engaged in the mining of coal and the building of railroads. He became the mayor of Streator Illinois 1882-1885 and then was elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth U.S. Congresses March 4 1885-March 3 1889. He engaged in banking until his death in Streator on 8 April 1903. Francis M. Plumb lived a peripatetic life. we find he may have also lived or travelled to: Kinsman Ohio March 1852; Pontiac Illinois Feb. 1867; Kenosha Wisconsin Feb. 1867; Kinsman Ohio March 1867; Orangeville Ohio March 1867; Dover Plains Dutchess Co. New York May 1867; Patterson Putnam Co. New York June 1867; Denver Colorado Territory Oct. 1869; Central City Colorado Territory Nov. 1869 Jan. 1870 March 1870 Oct. 1870 Nov. 1870; Denver Colorado Territory Dec. 1870; "Plumbville on the Divide El Paso Co. Colorado Territory Jan. 1871; Denver Colorado Territory Feb. 1871; "At the Mill on the / Divide in Col. T.Y. / Sixty Miles from anywhere" March 1871; Kiowa Colorado Territory May 1871; Streator La Salle Co. Illinois Feb. 1872; Streator Illinois Sept. 1876 Jan. 1877. March 1877; and finally Joliet Illinois March 1884 where he appears to have lived until his death. After the death of his first wife Laura on 9 November 1854 he remained a widower until he was married a second time on 15 June 1881 to Hattie Elizabeth McIntire. She was born 19 March 1830 at Fredonia Chautauqua Co New York. She had previously been married to Jones H. Whitney in 1848 and had two children with him. Mr. Whitney died shortly after the Civil War and Hattie a widow went to live in Joliet where she met and married Plumb. Francis M. Plumb died 25 January 1899 at age 92 at his then home in Joliet Will Co. Illinois and was buried at Kinsman Presbyterian Cemetery Kinsman Trumbull Co. Ohio. Francis' sister Mary Plumb Sutliff 1813-1836 was said to have been the first wife of Levi Sutliff 1806-1864 who was a major force in the local Underground Railroad movement died at Trumbull Co. Ohio. The Sutliffs were a pioneer family in Trumbull County coming from Connecticut. They settled in Vernon Ohio and succeeding generations were influential civic leaders through 1955. Brothers Levi active in the Underground Railroad in Trumbull County and Milton 1808-1880 Ohio Supreme Court Judge and Senator supported the Abolition movement and the Underground Railroad financially and politically. They both attended the organizational meeting of the National Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia in 1833. Levi's daughter Phebe T. Sutliff a scholar and the first woman president of Rockford Illinois College was instrumental in the formation of many civic organizations in Warren. She was also a candidate for Congress in 1924.Sample Quotes:Bear Creek Colorado Dec. 13th 1863 Julia to Mary Plumb "My Ever Dear Mary Your kind and most welcome letter came to hand Friday last. It found us still living on Bear Creekâ€¦ I have been to see your brother once since you left he was well and if I am any judge of housekeeping he is getting along nicely â€¦ Porter is gone to the River. So the boys tell me. I have not been to Denver since I went with youâ€¦ Mrs. Mowry has had no parties since the people say Mr. Mowry is drinking very hard. I presume you have heard of Mr. Dunn's death he killed himself drinking and I am afraid Mr. Mowry will go much the same way. â€¦ recd a letter from Mr R last week he was at Kearney on the fifth of this month said he had quite a hard trip of itâ€¦ Wallace Milliag has returned from the new mines he says Griffith is doing well there. Wallace done well & is going back in March. Mary let us go to the new mines. What do you say â€¦ I have not seen any of the Denver boys since you left expect to go to Denver this week then perhaps I may see some of themâ€¦" London England June 7th 1875 Ralph Plumb to L. W. Nichols Denver Colorado "You are doubtless aware of the departure of the health seekers from Omaha about the 1st inst as I am informed by cable and you can sympathise with me in the deep interest felt for the undertakingâ€¦ I make the distance from Omaha to Colorado Springs via Denver by wagon road to be about 700 miles and if Geraldine should endure the journey and improve it will take them some 40 days or say 35 days to Denver. I shall expect to have a cable from some point on the Union Pacific besides letters by every steamerâ€¦ My year of banishment has not been entirely lost even if the business which called me here shall prove a failure for I have had an excellent opportunity for observing the English people high and low rich and poor learned and ignorant and to trace in their present condition the effects of their religious and political institutions. â€¦ I do not thus judge from any present appearance of opposition to monarchy in Great Britain. On the contrary there is a remarkable unanimity of feeling in favor of Queen Victoria and no one advocates a change. But let another come to the throne who is in any sense a king and not as the present Queen is a mere cypher and then an elements now existing here which would develop and crystalize into shapes that nothing could resist. The masses of England are now fearfully ignorant but the school master is abroad they are copying our system of schools and are making slow but sure progress towards free schools and universal education. Another influence is also quietly at work which in due time will powerfully aid in overthrowing monarchy in England and that is the disestablishment of the church â€¦ Disestablish the church make education universal and extend the suffrage to all who are of age and the next thing will be the overthrow of Monarchy. But the English move slow they are tied to old forms and will not adopt new ideas with the rapidity of Americans in fact if a change re to come only because an enlightened public opinion demanded it great would be the delay. Here as elsewhere great forces are silently at work which cannot be resisted and these though but dimly seen at present are sure to assert their power. England has attained her present commanding position by employing her laborers profitably and very largely in the manufacture of steel and iron for which articles the United States has been her very best customer. It is now demonstrated by actual working that both iron and steel can be made at less cost in the United States than here even with cheap labor and cheap capital in Englands favor so that in the immediate future not only will the United States cease to be Englands customer but will become her most formidable competitor for the markets of the world not only for their articles but for many others. Now remember there are here 32000000 and where these are deprived of profitable employment either force or a concession of natural rights must be employed to keep the laboring portion quiet. Force cannot be successfully used and concession must be adoptedâ€¦" Streator Il Oct. 25 1885 Ralph Plumb to L. W. Nichols Denver Colorado "The Rocky Mt News having an article on the much mooted silver question came duly to hand and is already in my scrapbook to which a lot of literature on that subject has found its way. Up to this writing I cannot see that the coinage of silver should be changed in any way except to make it free as is gold coinage. Coining less than all that is mined and not wanted for the arts tends strongly to depress the market price in fact it is difficult to see why it would not go to par if coinage was not restricted. No doubt the objector would say that you would make money too plenty. Doubtless it would seem so to the holder of bonds and securities for it would open the power of his holdings but for the great debtor masses such decrease in the power of money would work no harm but on the contrary good and as between these two classes patriotic justice demands that the latter should be served. I take no stock in the idea that silver is not wanted by the people because of its cumbersomness; a silver certificate is no more cumbersome than is a gold certificate and it will pay as many debts and buy as much property as either gold or silver itself. True it may be necessary for the government to provide storage but what of that What is government for if not for the purpose of serving the people who are or at least ought to be the masters of the government. It is well to inquire who it is that demands the denomination of silver or the stoppage of coining it even. The whole discussion has been introduced and engineered by the monied class and no one else â€“ True I must often with the average citizen who has heard so often that silver is driving gold from the country that he half believes it and is of course alarmed lest something terrible is about to happen but even such an easily made to see that gold never leaves the country as long as the balance of trade is in our favor as it now is -is likely to be and has been for years. No unless a light from some pinnacle higher than any Wall Street house comes to correct me I cannot aid in disturbing silver â€“ let "the dollar of the daddies" roll from every mint without let or hindrance. It is good for our people the people are the government and the United States is able to do what ever is for the peoples goodâ€¦" House of Representatives Washington D.C. January 17 1887 Ralph Plumb to L. W. Nichols Esq. Denver Colorado "Dear Sir I notice in the newspapers that ex-Senator Hill contemplates establishing Smelting works in Aurora Illinois. Now if he has such a thing in mind it would be a great mistake to adopt Aurora as a location when Streator is so much better that out of pure regard for Senator Hill's interests I desire to call his attention to Streator as possessing superior advantages to any location for such a purpose in the State of Illinois. Smelting requires fuel and the cheaper the fuel the greater the profit. Vermillion coal is unequalled for smelting purposes. It produces bot gas and coke to a degree that no other Illinois coal equals. The railroad facilities of Streator are more than double those of Aurora but I need not enlarge for you know these facts as well as I. It may not be true that Senator Hill contemplates such a move but I would ask you to interview him and tell him what you know about Streator. I have written him to-day so that you need not inform him that you see him at my request. It would be a "ten strike" for Streator to have such an acquisition as the proposed smelting works. â€¦" "Streator Illinois Oct. 16th 1892 Ralph Plumb to L. W. Nichols Denver Colorado "Returning from Iowa Dakota and Minnesota yesterday I found yours enclosing check for three hundred fifty seven $357 dollars which is endorsed on your note and pays interest until July 1892. In my absence RG Ingersoll delivered his lecture on Voltaire at the Opera House. While regretting we did not hear him we are glad a full house greeted the great agnostic and were well paid for their interest. You ask about Bald Mountain. Lillie is still trying to get the tunnel far enough ahead to reach the gold bearing grand channel but has not found it and may never do so but with a dogged perseverance which we call faith we are persisting and have hope. The tunnel is now considerably over a mile long. I had heard of J D McCords great loss. I know how heavy a blow the death of his wife must be to him. We have all of the excitement we need for the present. The worlds fair dedication and a McKinley meeting will take up the present weekâ€¦" Baltimore August 10th 1893 Robert Culver Real Estate and Loans to L. W. Nichols Denver "â€¦ I have kept close watch of the reports from Colorado and see what terrible times you have been having there. If Congress does nothing to relieve the situation I will inevitably have a good deal of Colorado property back on my hands. The pressure is just beginning to tell on us here in Baltimore. But the last day or two "since the Presidents message to Congress". I have taken new courage. I believe the bulk of the party will leave him and that Congress will pass some kind of a free silver law. Then we shall se whether Cleveland will veto it or not. They are bound to have very exciting times in Washington for the nest month or two and I am thankful that Colorado has two such able men in the Senate." Baltimore August 16 1893 Robert Culver Real Estate and Loans to L. W. Nichols Denver "â€¦ I will let you have the money you asked for just as soon as it can be got out of the Boulder Bank and I will write to Dr. Bond today. I suppose he has the hardest kind of a time to keep his Bank open at all. But I presume in a very few days it will be in better shape. We are beginning to feel the pressure of the tight money market here. Not a dollar can be borrowed from the banks here now with any kind of security. We have been building a good deal this summer and have used all our spare money. I think money will get plentier very soon now as people begin to see that we are not going to the single gold standard. I am encouraged at the outlook in Congress and think all will be wellâ€¦" Baltimore December 15 1893 Robert Culver Real Estate and Loans to L. W. Nichols Denver "â€¦ Times here are just beginning to get hard to keep soul and body together. It is a very queer state of things. Money is plenty and commands a very low rate of interest and all kinds of produce is very low in price but the poor can get no work to do to earn anything. No new enterprises are being started and Factories are constantly reducing wages and discharging their hands. All enterprise has been crushed out. I don't think we have seen the worst here yet. Colorado I believe is going to recover sooner from the crash than this Eastern country. We shall not have real good times again in my opinion until we get free coinage of silver again which I believe will be within five years. I see there are four new States likely to be admitted into the Union. Then with a western silver President we will be in shape to accomplish it. Our business here don't suffer from hard times as much as I anticipatedâ€¦" Streator Illinois Dec. 29th 1893 Ralph Plumb to L. W. Nichols Denver Colorado "Dear Sir â€¦ I return herewith the letter of your Balt correspondent. I hope he may prove prophet as to free coinage. There are indications of financial trouble throughout those European countries that have adopted the gold standard and are trying to rob silver of its money quality and it begins to appear to thinkers in Europe that the almost universal depression is traceable to the crucifixion of the white metal. Should this sentiment obtain and become a conviction it is probable that the back track will be taken and the great mischief be undone but as the battle now stands there is no hope for help from the other side of the Atlantic nor from those of our own financiers whose opinions are imported from Europe free of duty. As to our own country at this writing the gold bugs are on top. They have the democracy with them through ignorance and enough republicans through greed to control the situation. The US could dictate free coinage to the whole world if determined to do so and it is in the power of a compact party of voters enough to hold the balance of power to win the fight but it must act with both wisdom and firmness. Many of the free coiners are demagogs pure and simple â€“ none such are capable of leading on to victory. It requires a revolution among the voters â€“ a throwing off of party allegiance â€“ a devotion to the public good such as is borne of wide spread adversity â€“ The required condition is now supplied and if leaders come to the front sufficiently devoid of political itch for personal preferment the work of reinstating silver can be accomplished. But we can't "go it alone" with the balance of trade against us and nothing short of protection will insure us against the adverse balance. "Protection and Free Coinage" is an issue on which victory can be secured." Streator Illinois January 17 1894 Ralph Plumb to Mary P. Nichols Denver "Dear Niece The newspapers said a Ben Hur organization had been formed in Crawfordsville Ind at which place Lew Wallace resides. At Rose's suggestion I called Gen Wallaces attention to your statue of Ben and suggested that the "Tribe of Ben Hur" purchase it if it was for sale. Enclosed I send you the General's reply. If you can forward a photo to Frank Snyder of Crawfordsville it may lead to business. I will write to Mr. Snyder telling him that a photo may possible be hadâ€¦" Accompanied by Wallace's letter to Plumb dated January 15 1894. Baltimore April 15th 1896 Robert Culver Real Estate and Loans to L. W. Nichols Denver "â€¦ We have not sold any stock since we sent the 2nd Draft but hope to be able to do so soon. The times continue very dull and money hard to get â€¦ I am greatly interested in the movement in the political world these days. The gold men are making frantick efforts these days. The N.Y. World today argues that if a free coinage law was passed it would so contract the currency that all kinds of property would go down so tremendously in price as to ruin everybody except the extremely rich. It makes the bold statement that it would reduce prices one half. Perhaps it thinks none of the fools are dead I cut from the news Washington letter of last evening and inclose. It shows how true it is that the silver craze is dead. You know it has been saying in every issue that the silver craze was fast dying out was in fact dead and buried. If the politicians will let the people vote on it squarely I have no fear of the result. The danger is in the silver men dividing their forces. The gold men will vote as a unitâ€¦" Baltimore May 20 1896 Robert Culver Real Estate and Loans to L. W. Nichols Denver "Some days ago Jack sent you by Express all of those Thunder Bute shares you left when you were here $50000 I see by the papers that people are moving out of West Creek and presume the mines there did not turn out as well as we or they hoped they would. If it is thought advisable not to expend any more money there on the Thunder Bute property the money on hand might be expended some where else so that those buying the stock might not loose perhaps after all. I shall be anxious to see how that district turns out â€¦ I have been interested in the political outlook lately. I think the cause of silver has never grown faster than it has for the last few weeks especially in East of Colorado. If the Chicago Convention would nominate a good Silver man preferably N. M. Telller it would sweep the Country like a cyclone in my opinion. Even the gold men in Maryland would have a hard time to carry the state." Baltimore July 16th 1896 Robert Culver Real Estate and Loans to L. W. Nichols Denver "â€¦ right in the face of the frantic efforts of all the great news papers of this city to sweep back the tide. Of course I was greatly disappointed that Teller did not get the nomination at Chicago but Bryan was my second choice. I believe there is a good chance to carry even Maryland for Bryan and Silver. I have made it a point to talk with our contractors for a long time on the silver question â€¦ and now I believe every one will vote for Bryan & Sewall will be elected. But the gold men are rattled and will do every thing possible and there must be no let up on the part of silver men until the election is won. Our office has got to be quite a free silver headquarters as I was one of the first silver men here â€¦" Baltimore Sept. 22 1896 Robert Culver Real Estate and Loans to L. W. Nichols Denver "â€¦ I found a strong silver sentiment in both Cattaraugus and Chatauqua counties. Still a large part of the farmers are so dumb as to stick to the Republican party and advocate the gold standard. Uncle Alvah however is not one of that kind and all of our neighborhood in Cold Spring are for silver. â€¦ But New York State will undoubtedly go for McKinley I think. Money is being used in the most disgraceful manner and also intimidation of employers in favor of McKinley. Bryan is however a host within himself I have heard him twice once at Jamestown N.Y. and over here in both places he created the greatest enthusiasm. It is very hard to tell what will be the outcome in this State but it is liable to go for Bryan. At the B &ORR Shops in the City the Gold Bugs have organized a financial school and the ones who are the quickest to learn the gold catechism are to retain their places and those not answering to the satisfaction of the teachers are to be discharged. But thanks to the Australian Ballot when they are in the Booths they are free men. I am not all satisfied with the populists in this campaign. They mixing things up uselessly and may be the cause of loosing the election to McKinley. One of our Baltimore papers yesterday claimed that Colorado was likely to be carried for McKinley of course I knew better. How is the mining business Is there anything being done with the Thunder Bute property. Those to whom the Stock was sold are enquiring of me and I don't know what to tell them. â€¦" Baltimore Nov. 27th 1896 Robert Culver Real Estate and Loans to L. W. Nichols Denver "â€¦ not knowing exactly what to be thankful for. To say that I was disappointed in the outcome of the election is putting it very mildly although I realized the great power of the money and the Trusts and Corporations but I did not fully realize the dense ignorance of the Farmers of Iowa for instance and even of the farmers of the middle and eastern states. There is no excuse for them. They had no business to be controlled by the power of money. The Laborer in the eastern cities are wholly dependent upon their employers and then they are densely ignorant and don't know their interest. The Negroes voted almost to a man for McKinley simply because he is a republican. I don't know how it will terminate but I think in a revolution before many years. I think that a peaceful solution of the money question is now out of the question unless the American people are content to be ruled by a monied aristocracy and become industrial slaves. A foreign war might change the situation. Of course things may have a different outlook in 1900 but at present the future for America to me looks gloomy. â€¦ About the most disreputable performances during the last campaign has been the part the ministers and churches have played. With a few honorable exceptions. It has been very disgusting to me and exasperating beyond measure. I was thankful that Colorado came to the scratch in such fine shape and I am proud of herâ€¦ When we do have cold weather there will be great suffering by the poor. The Coal Trust raised the price of coal one dollar per ton over the price they sold it for last year in all these eastern cities although they pay their laborers less than one year ago. They rob the people of one dollar or more on every ton of coal they use and give back a small proportion of it to secure their votes so as to enable them to continue robbery indefinitely." Baltimore Oct. 10th 1898 Robert Culver Real Estate and Loans to L. W. Nichols Denver "â€¦ About "politics" I fully agree you that we are helpless and can only lie still and see them work out their Devilish schemes. It seems almost impossible to make the average Maryland voter realize and understand the effect of the single gold standard and the contraction of our money. They will not use their brains and are growing more ignorant and poorer every day Maryland is really controlled by voters who cannot read or write. They hold the balance of power and expectand are paid for their votes one way and another but largely with cash. It don't take but a little money to buy a Darkeys sic vote. I am disgusted with the politics of Maryland and I am persuaded it is little better elsewhere. Not quite as much ignorance perhaps but rascality and corruption everywhere. The present administration I think is the most corrupt in the history of the Nation. There is jobbery everywhere. The welfare of the common people is not considered at all. I get discouraged and think sometimes that the Government can never be wrested from the Boodlers the Trusts & Money Sharks. Money seems to be all powerful in the Elections and they have it and use itâ€¦Have thought some of going to Cuba or Porto Rico but I think now things will be too unsettled â€¦" Collection Inventory: The collection can be divided into three sections:I. Nichols- Plumb Family Lettersa. Letters by Lafayette W. Nichols 1850's-1860's7 letters 21 pagesb. Letters to Lafayette W. Nichols from various correspondents 1855-191365 letters 168 pagesc. Letters from Ralph Plumb Streator Illinois to Lafayette W. Nichols Denver 1875-1900 16 letters 29 pagesd. Letters from Robert Culver Baltimore to Lafayette W. Nichols Denver 1893-189819 letters 28 pagese. Letters to Mary Plumb Nichols wife of L.W. Nichols 1856-192330 letters 113 pagesf. Plumb-Nichols-Norris miscellaneous correspondence 1860's-190524 letters 71 pagesII. Letters to Josephine Nichols Norrisa. 1870's 4 letters 10 pagesb. 1902 2 letters 9 pagesc. 1903 primarily from her mother Mary P. Nichols 54 letters 192 pagesd. 1904 3 letters 8 pagese. 1906 2 letters 2 pagesf. 1909 hereafter letters are primarily from her fiancÃ© and later husband William A. Norris 62 letters 200 pagesg. 1910 137 letters 363 pagesh. 191 87 letters 199 pagesi. 1912 2 letters 9 pagesj. 1913 43 letters 100 pagesk. 1914 52 letters 98 pagesl. 1915 97 letters 239 pagesm. 1916 76 letters 142 pagesn. 1917 36 letters 57 pageso. 1918 51 letters 113 pagesp. 1919 23 letters 65 pagesq. 1920 8 letters 24 pagesr. Undated letters to Josephine N. Nichols from W. A. Norris 23 letters 53 pagess. Later letters to Josephine N. Norris 1920s-1930s 6 letters 18 pagest. Later letters to William A. Norris 1920s-1940s 12 letters 28 pagesIII. Plumb-Nichols-Norris Ephemera 1856-1960Approximately 76 items including: bills receipts invoices circulars promotional items viewbooks family photographs autograph book small account book deeds promissory notes botanical specimen book school ephemera et cetera. books

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Babb a Conant Family CorrespondenceABAA

Correspondence of Wellesley College graduate Persis Loring Conant of Portland Maine and her fiancÃ© later husband Law Professor Hugh Webster Babb of Boston University along with letters of their parents siblings children Wellesley College friends and associates including art collector Edward Perry â€œNedâ€ Warren author of â€œA Defence of Uranian Loveâ€ 1884-1964

30844Large archive of 1507 letters 6631 manuscript pp. dated 31 October 1884 to 19 May 1964; plus over 300 pieces of ephemera related to the Babb and Conant families.Note: A complete inventory of the collection and biographical sketches of its main correspondents can be emailed upon request.Persis Loring Conant 1887-1964 and Hugh Webster Babb 1887-1971Persis Loring Conant was born on 29 May 1887. She was the daughter of merchant Frederick "Pardi" Odell Conant 1857-1928 and his wife Eva "Mardi" Merrill 1852-1936of Portland Maine. Persis' father prepared for college in the public schools of Portland and under private instructors and entered Bowdoin College where he received the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1880 and Master of Arts in 1883. A distant cousin of the Conant family was James Bryant Conant 1893-1978 an American chemist a transformative President of Harvard University and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany.Earlier in 1874 Frederick went to California by way of Panama stopping in Kingston Jamaica and various Mexican and Central American ports and returning overland from San Francisco. In 1879 he went to Cuba visited the important cities and returned home by way of Key West Cedar Keys Jacksonville Florida Savannah Georgia Charleston South Carolina and Washington D.C.In 1880 Frederick entered his father's store as a clerk and engaged in business in his native city; and became a partner in 1882. He became president of the wholesale portion their grocery firm of Conant Patrick & Company as well as the president of the Conant Corporation the Atlantic Shore Railroad York Utilities Company vice president of the Fidelity Trust Company and a director of the Bath & Brunswick Light & Power Company. Mr. Conant had been a member of the Portland Common Council and Board of Aldermen and was also a director of the Maine General Hospital and a trustee of the Portland Public Library and the North Yarmouth Me. Academy; he also served as a member of the Board of Overseers of Bowdoin College from 1909 to 1928.Persis' paternal grandparents were merchant Richard Odell Conant 1828-1894 and Emma Loring 1829-1904 of Portland Maine her maternal grandparents were Capt. Reuben Merrill 1818-1875 and Hannah Elizabeth Blanchard 1822-1876 of Yarmouth Maine.Persis was one of at least four children the others were: Elizabeth "Bess" Merrill Conant 1886-1973; Richard Odell Conant 1888-1950 a graduate of Bowdoin College 1912; and Reginald Odell Conant 1889-1965 who married Marion Drew. Persis and her elder sister Elizbeth attended Wellesley College. Elizabeth attended from 1905-1909 graduating with a B.A. and was the president 1915-1917 of the Western Maine Wellesley Club. Persis attended Wellesley from 1906-1910 and graduated with a B.A. A roommate of Persis at Wellesley and a correspondent in this collection was Eva Marguerite Miller of Scranton Pennsylvania. Miller attended Wellesley from 1906 to 1910 graduating with a B.A. She was a member of the Scranton College Club.Before Persis married she vacationed at Cumberland Maine in the summer when not at school. Her family lived in Portland. Persis married Hugh W. Babb on 19 June 1915 in Bridgeport Connecticut. Persis' correspondence with Babb begins in the summer of 1912. Hugh Webster Babb was born on 3 March 1887 in Yarmouth Maine the son of Howard Seldon Babb 1849-1909 and his wife Margaret Loring 1852-1932 of Westbrook Cumberland County Maine. A second son Paul died as an infant. Hugh's father was a farmer and also worked at a paper mill and later insurance agent. Hugh's mother was born in Yarmouth Maine. She and her elder sister were both employed in the paper mill of S.D. Warren father of the famed art collector James P. Warren.Babb attended Westbrook Maine public schools until his last two years of high school when he transferred to Highgate School in England. It was the support of Edward Perry Warren that allowed Babb to study and live in England. While in England he appears to have been baptized at the Parish of St. Thomas Oxford in 1906. While in England Babb's father died. His mother had been living in England with Babb. After earning a B.A. degree at Oxford in 1911 he spent two years at Cambridge and later took law degrees from Cambridge and Harvard 1916. He joined the firm of Brandeis Dunbar and Nutter for two years. This firm was founded by Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis and his partner Samuel D. Warren in 1879. Brandeis left the firm then known as Brandeis Dunbar & Nutter to take his seat on the United States Supreme Court in 1916 just before Babb joined the firm or perhaps the reason the firm took on Babb due to Brandeis' departure. On his 1917 WWI registration card he was listed as an attorney living at Boston and working for Dunbar Nutter & McClennen. Paving the way for equality and diversity in the industry the firm welcomes its first three women attorneys to practice law in 1918. After a couple of years with Brandeis Dunbar and Nutter Babb became a partner in Perrin Babb and Heavens. In 1920 Babb joined the faculty of Boston University he taught law at Boston University for 37. He became the chairman of the law department of its College of Business Administration. He left the university in 1958 and taught for five years at the University of Maine law school.Fluent in Russian Babb translated both "The Law of the Soviet State" Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky and "Soviet Legal Philosophy" V.I. Lenin & others. He also authored five commercial law textbooks.Persis died on 19 April 1964. Prof. Hugh W. Babb died on 1 January 1971 at Portland Maine. He was 83 years old and was buried with his wife at the Riverside Cemetery Yarmouth Cumberland County Maine. Persis and her husband had four sons: Richard "Dicko" Conant Babb 1918-1943 attended Harvard University where he had plans to become a writer. He was active in track and cross country. On the outbreak of World War Two he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. He died in flying accident in England while serving as a flight sergeant pilot. One of Dicko's letters mention that he was waiting in England to be transferred to the U.S. Air Force. While in England Dicko met a British woman by the name of Priscilla Barrett. They became close. After Richard's death and after the war Pricilla wrote to Richard's mother. These letters are included in the collection.Prof. Warren Babb 1916-1987 of the School of Music University of Seattle Washington; he was involved in the founding of the International Webern Society of which he served as treasurer in its early years. The society promoted the study of Anton Webern 1883-1945. The International Webern Society was founded in 1962. The purpose of the organization was to encourage study and performance of the music of Anton Webern an Austrian composer and conductor. Along with his mentor Arnold Schoenberg and his colleague Alban Berg Webern was in the core of those in the circle of the Second Viennese School including Ernst Krenek and Theodor W. Adorno. Webern's music was among the most radical of its milieu both in its concision and in its rigorous and resolute apprehension of twelve-tone technique. He is likely named for Edward Perry Warren a family friend see below.Hugh W. Babb Jr. 1919-1988 of Cumberland Maine. He attended the College of Business Administration at Boston University where he was active in crew and tennis. He graduated in 1941 in Business Management. He married Janet Bornhofft and raised a family in Cumberland.Prof. Howard Babb 1924-1978. He was Professor of English of the University of California at Irvine chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature and charter member of the UCI faculty. One of the generation whose education was interrupted by the second World War Howard attended Bard College and Cornell University in the V-12 Program before going on active service as a naval officer. He took his B.A. at Kenyon College in 1948 and earned his M.A. 1949 and Ph.D. 1955 at Harvard University. Before coming to UCI he taught at Kenyon and The Ohio State University where he progressed from assistant instructor to associate professor and vice-chair of the English department. He published articles on such different figures as Christopher Marlowe Ben Jonson F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sherwood Anderson. However his main concern was with the novel and especially with style in the novel a topic he also published on.One of the collection's notable correspondents is:Edward Perry Warren 1860-1928 known as Ned Warren was an American art collector and the author of works proposing an idealized view of homosexual relationships. He wrote 9 letters in this collection 5 to Hugh W. Babb and 4 to Babb's mother. The letters to Mrs. Babb concern an illness Hugh was suffering from when he was attending Oxford Warren was caring for him. The letters Warren wrote to Hugh concern the state of the Classics at Oxford and proposals to change them being mandatory. Warren is now best known as the former owner of the "Warren Cup" in the British Museum. Warren was born in Waltham Massachusetts one of five children born into a wealthy Boston Massachusetts family. He was the son of Samuel Denis Warren 1817-1888 who founded the Cumberland Paper Mills in Maine and Susan Cornelia Clarke 1825-1901 the daughter of Dorus Clarke. He had four siblings: Samuel Dennis Warren II 1852-1910 lawyer and businessman; Henry Clarke Warren 1854-1899 scholar of Sanskrit and Pali; Cornelia Lyman Warren 1857-1921 philanthropist; Fredrick Fiske Warren 1862-1938 political radical and utopist. Warren graduated Harvard with a B.A. in 1883. At Oxford he met archeologist John Marshall 1860â€“1928 with whom he formed a close and long-lasting relationship though Marshall married in 1907 much to Warren's dismay. Beginning in 1888 Warren made England his primary home. He and Marshall lived together at Lewes House a large residence in Lewes East Sussex where they became the center of a circle of like-minded men interested in art and antiquities who ate together in a dining room overlooked by Lucas Cranach's Adam and Eveâ€”a gift of Harold W. Parsons â€“ now in the Courtauld Institute of Art. One account said that "Warren's attempts to produce a supposedly Greek and virile way of living into his Sussex home" produced "a comic mixture of apparently monastic severity no tea or soft chairs allowed and lavish living. Warren spent much of his time in Continental Europe collecting art works many of which he donated to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston assembling for that institution the "largest collection of erotic Greek vase paintings "in the U.S. He has been described as having "a taste for pornography" and was a "pioneer" in collecting it. His published works include A Defence of Uranian Love in three volumes which proposes a type of same-sex relationship similar to that prevalent in Classical Greece in which an older man would act as guide and lover to a younger man. Warren's oldest brother Samuel D. Warren had left law to work managing the family's paper mills. He managed the family trust established in May 1889 with the legal assistance of Louis D. Brandeis to benefit his father's widow and five children. Edward Warren challenged the family trust in 1906 claiming that Brandeis had structured it to benefit his law partner Samuel to the detriment of the other family members. The dispute ended with Samuel's suicide in 1910. The Warren Trust case became a point of contention during the 1916 Senate hearings on the confirmation of Brandeis to the Supreme Court and it remains important for its explication of legal ethics and professional responsibility. In a printed piece of ephemera published at the death of Margaret Loring Babb Hugh W. Babb's mother she is shown working at the Warren Paper Mill with her sister. It's probable that Hugh's father also worked there as well census records state he worked in a paper mill. This same piece of ephemera states that Hugh W. Babb was able to attend school in England due to the benefit of Edward Perry Warren.Warren's family business was the S.D. Warren Paper Mill Cumberland Paper Mills a paper mill on the Presumpscot River in Westbrook Maine. It is now owned by SAPPI Limited a South African paper concern. It is one of Westbrook's major employers. A paper mill was established on this site in the 1730s when it was a rural and fairly unpopulated area. In 1854 that small paper mill in the soon-to-be established town of Westbrook was purchased for $28000 by Samuel Dennis Warren known as S.D. Warren. The mill was named Grant Warren and Company. In that year the mill was only running two paper machines and had a production output of about 3000 pounds of paper per day. Nine years later in 1863 an additional machine was added to the mill and the production increased to 11000 pounds per day. In 1854 paper was made by beating down rags and using the pulp from the rags. In 1867 after the mill changed its name to S.D. Warren Paper Mill Company Warren decided to add wood fibers with rags fibers for paper. It was the first mill in the United States to do so. The mill became the largest in the world. By 1880 the mill produced 35000 pounds of paper per day. Warren died in 1888 and was succeeded by his son also Samuel Dennis Warren who managed the business until his death in 1910. The mill continued to grow through the 20th century employing close to 3000 Westbrook residents. The majority of the correspondence in this collection is either written by or to Persis Loring Conant Babb her husband Hugh Webster Babb Persis' parents Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Odell Conant Persis' sister Elizabeth "Bess" Conant as well as Persis and Hugh's children Howard Hugh Jr. Richard & Warren and Hugh W. Babb's parents Mr. and Mrs. Howard S. Babb. There are also letters by friends of Persis including her college roommate Eva M. Miller a friend Ethelynde Sylvester Smith the well-known singer other friends and relatives. There are many letters during the time when Persis and her sister and girlfriends were all attending Wellesley College and soon after graduating. There are letters of Hugh W. Babb when he was in college And letters by Robert Hale another suitor of Persis when he was in college. There are also letters of Hugh and Persis' son Richard written when he was serving in the Canadian Air Force during World War Two.Sample Quotations:"Sunday Oct 1 '05My dear Persis'Sadie' Sally we are going to call her is in here writing on our one table so I am sitting on my couch.Hattie went off to call with her mother on some one in Cambridge right after chapel this morning so I have been aloneâ€¦I went to chapel this morning or rather the regular Sunday Service with two girls at our table. One is from Somerville Mass. another 120 miles west of Chicago. The choir composed of about 30 girls marched in the first thing singing sort of Episcopal like just like choir boys and marched out after it. A Mr. hall preached the sermon 'God is Love.' Today is Flower Sunday. Always the 1st Sun isâ€¦The chapel was jammed all the college girls and some Dana hall and parents. I saw Jennie Milliken when I was coming out of church. She is in Dana Hall.Last night was Christian Association reception and of course we all went. Mabel Waldron took me. Hattie Louise & myself went up to Stone for our girls. I met Mabel's roommate Clara Williams the leader of the Glee Clubâ€¦â€¦Then I was introduced to Gertrude Owen and I think she is about the most beautiful girl I ever saw. I noticed it at once and afterwards Hattie said she was considered the prettiest girl in college. She is in the choir walks with Miss Williamsâ€¦After we had been introduced to about a thousand people I was introduced to Pres. Hazard and she asked if I was any relation of Miss Conant at Walnut Hill School. I said I supposed we were descended from the same ancestor and then she said she was much loved here. I also met three people in the Christian Ass. Or something secretary & pres. Or somebody like that who were standing in line with her. Then we had punch and then Pres. Hazard addressed everybody from the stairs in the hall then the man who preached today most of the girls though he made them feel homesick. Then the Pres. Of Christian Ass. & Pres of student government and then the girls sang and gave the Wellesley cheer and cheered the Pres. And all those who spoke. It sounded great. They did it all together so well. The singing of 'Where oh where are the grand old seniors' etc. in a slow sort of way made me feel sort of weepy in fact all the singing but I didn't. Hat wept a few tears after she got home and her mother was here too. Then we came homeâ€¦Well I must say good nightâ€¦Love to all of youâ€¦Bess""2 Oct 1905 629 Washington St. SundayMy dearest SchwesterI thought I would write you today and tell you my doings the past week or what I didn't tell in my last letter.Thursday Friday and Sat. morning there was cheering in College Hall after chapel. We all hustled up to the third floor as fast as we could go and waited our turn to cheer. Thurs. it was the Senior Officers Fri the Junior Officers and Sat. Sophomore Officers which had been elected the afternoon before. Gladys Doton is Vice Pres of the Junior Class. Isn't that fine Each class gives its own cheer and then says what they are cheering for 3 times as 'Senior Class Officers' or the girl's name.Friday afternoon Miss Hill gave all the Freshmen a talk in the barn on the gymnastics and sports. It was great fun to hear her talk. There are so many things I want to do and you can only do one.Yesterday was a pretty busy day. I went to chapel at 8:30 A.M. and then hustled up to College Hall and up on the 3rd floor and cheered. At nine o'clock I had a recitation in Math on the 3rd floor. Then my class work was done for the morning. I came home with Hattie made my bed and fixed up my things and then plugged German out of Sarah's book. Lunch was at 12:30 then I hustled back with Alice Gager who had a class at 1:30 and I bought a German book or rather 3 two for myself and one for Hattie. It was the last time the place was to be open from 1 â€“ 1:30 so we could buy books. I had to climb to the 4th floor to go to the German Office. I went over to Katherine's room & asked them to supper. Then I went out under the trees facing the lake and sat on a bench and studied my German some more till 2:15 and then I went back and went to my German class up one flight. Then Hattie & I went down to the bookstore just below the German room and I bought a little blue note bookâ€¦â€¦Mae Lowdon and myself went back up to College Hall to an 'At Home" to meet Miss Dudley who was something to do with the College Settlement Work in Boston. It was from 4 to 6 but we didn't get there till 4:30 probablyâ€¦Just as the bell rang for dinner Katherine and Fuzzy came and we hustled over to dinner. They had been to a tea and so couldn't get here any sooner. They and Hattie sat at my table. One of the girls there Julia Pease also had an upper-class girl so it was quite jolly. Betsy Eskay had her Senior to supper also a Miss Frickel who seemed very nice. I met her after supper. She did not sit at my table.We sat over there in the parlors for a while and talked and then I had to come home and get dressed. At eight we went down to the Wellesley Inn. Some of the girls live there and they had asked all the Freshmen from A to M to a dance from 8 to 9:30. We had a great time. The Inn dinning room and waiting room are finished off very prettily. The tables were cleared away and we dance in thereâ€¦I met the girl Amy Brown who Mrs. Smith wanted me to meet this summerâ€¦I had a dance with Miss Finlay a girl at my table and she took me up and introduced me to her. She seems real niceâ€¦You know one of the girls here in the house is from Louisville Kentucky. Do you remember the name of that girl on the steamer who was from Louisville the real pretty girl who wore her hair parted and rolled at the sides and looked so very pretty I wanted to tell Aph her name and see if she knew her. Aph is the dearest thing. She isn't at all pretty but so nice and warm hearted. She said the people at first seemed dreadful to her we are so cold and abrupt in our manners I suppose to her but now she liked them. This morning at breakfast she was the last one to finish and we waited for her and she said in time she would make us all true Southerners. Sunday morning breakfast and noons other days we can sit any where we like that is we fill up the tables as we come in. A dear friend of Aph's Martha Cecil from Louisville also is a perfect dear. She is very pretty and attractive and has lots of life. I think I'd fall in love with her if I was a boy. I have met her but I don't know her well at all yet. Aph has an awfully dear room at least she has everything to fix it up0. Probably she is richâ€¦With much love Bessie""629 Washington Street Wellesley Mass. Dec 10 1905Dearest sisterGuess it is time for me to be answering my own sister's letter don't you I was just reading over yours and your account of the A.D.S. dance. In it you call him Bobby of course Mr. Hale. Is that what you call him It sounded funny someway. You also said Dr. Bolton had gone. Guess I will go to Dr. Race now as long as I know him and I would like him to have the trade.Mardi said you were having a red voile dress made. I am glad of it. You will need all the dresses you can get up here next year. Dresses to wear over to dinner medium dresses like my violet muslin and pongee are what you need the most. You will have your white silk and your graduating dresses for best and that white dotted muslin and your others for second best. Another thing if you buy any white waists get pretty thin ones embroidered or with lace insertion and have white slips to wear underneath. A pretty white waist and skirt looks dressed up and if you have a slip you can wear thin ones and be warm enough and also cover up your under flannels. We might embroider a waist for ourselves next summer. Slips are much worn by the girls red green pink blue yellow and every color. I like white ones as well as any for myselfâ€¦I thought of trying for Tree Day Dancing when I heard they needed more girls but I asked my gym teacher about it and she said that and corrective gym were too much. It wasn't wise to do both so I shall not try for it. I like Miss Louis ever so much. The things we have to do are good for us. I shall show them to you when I get home. They are hard work all right. I am so tired when I come out from the class I can hardly walk home. It tires your muscles at least if you do it right it does. I guess I do it right for my muscles are surely tired enough.Last night we all went to the Vaudeville Performance at the barn. It was great fun and well done by the girls. Nina and Fuzzy were in one of the numbers. Nina was the animal trainer had a fierce black mustache white jacket and white baggy trousers with black shiny gaiters and she carried a black whip like the circus ring masters. There were three elephants and two monkeys. Fuzzy was one of the monkeys. She had on a red jacket and pants and little cap and the other girl had on green just like the suits the monkeys have on that the hand organ men carry around. They hopped around and danced together and then climbed up on stools and sat during the rest of the performanceâ€¦Lyman Abbott spoke at church this morning but I didn't go. I decided to stay homeâ€¦I must closeâ€¦With heaps of love to you all Bess""6 Nov 1906Dear TeddyYour long looked for letter came this morning. I knew you were with Mrs. Curtis so supposed that was why you did not write.You asked about foot-ball. There haven't been but 3 games I think and something has happened every time so I couldn't go but I did want to go when Malden cameâ€¦Last Thursday at 4 P.M. was the first 'Rossini Club' program. It was splendid. Miss Hawes sang beautifully.â€¦Last night Dad and I went to hear Ossip Gabrilowitsch the greatest Russian pianist at City Hall. I never heard anything like it not even Paderewski. I never dreamt that such music could be brought from a piano. He was a whole orchestra in himself. Such different shades of color nimbleness of fingers and marvelous technique! A musical friend of ours who has heard all the greatest pianists including Rubenstein says none of them can equal Gabrilowitsch. He is to be in Boston on Sat Nov 17th. Do go if possibly can. You will always be glad you had heard him for he has a great reputation already and can't possibly be over 25 yrs. Old. He played 'Theme and Variations' one of his own compositions for the first time in America. It is wonderful and certainly ranked well up with the Bach Chopin etc. that he performed. When I say that the audience recalled him five times for an encore and got it and at the end of 1 Â¾ hours of playing they recalled him twice and insisted on an encore at the end of the program you may know that calm Portland went fairly crazy over him for they generally cannot get on their hats and out of the door quickly enough after a concert. Do go and hear him. Then the French Saint-Saens the greatest living composer is to be in Boston soon alsoâ€¦Mama sends her loveâ€¦Yours lovingly Ethelynde""14 Dec 1906 Thursday nightDearest TeddyI was awfully glad to hear that you are int eh Mandolin Club. Congratulations!Last Friday I took my last German lesson until after the holidays. I simply could not keep up on it with all my extra work. I've been doing quite a little Christmas shopping for you see I won't have those last few days before Xmas in which to shopâ€¦This afternoon I went to the Rossini Club. It was the best program yet. Mrs. Whitchouse was the only one I didn't care for. The quality of her voice was different on about every note she sang and she slid around from one note to another terribly instead of hitting them fairly and squarely.Tuesday noon we entertained Gypsy Smith the evangelist his wife and daughter Zillah 22 yrs. Old at lunch. They are all charming to know. His daughter is as handsome as a picture looks very much like a gypsy. She has black hair and eyes beautiful teeth and does her hair in a coronation braid. Her mother is very English but lovely and I never met such a lovable man as Mr. Smith. They are all very highly culture. To say that of him would seem impossible when I tell you that he didn't know one letter from another until he was 17 yrs. Old and is now but 46. They have one son married and another in Cambridge University England. Never heard anybody like him in the pulpit. The hall is packed jam full every night and Sunday night there were 2700 people there the biggest crowd that ever came inside the doorsâ€¦Lovingly Ethelynde""Psi Upsilon Brunswick May 9 1907Dear PersisThe spring fever possesses every one up here. Tennis baseball track work and long walks into the country consume the time and even my athletic ability is great enough for the last. The country here abouts is wild and heavily wooded with great old pine trees and though the flat plains extend for many miles on all sides the scenery is to me fascinating.The air now begins to be fragrant with spring odors and when the wind blows from off the sea down through the plains and the pine trees it has a wonderful quality stimulating and at the same time restful. So you can hardly wonder that our daily walks mean much and that disinclination to study affects us all alike.Lately too I have been trying to learn to play tennis but I do not know enough about the game to enjoy it as yet.Last night we celebrated in a wild sort of a way the victory over Colby. We found some old fireworks and ransacked the neighborhood for fences and wood piles. Being fairly successful we soon had a good fire going in front of the chapel. As the clapper had fallen out of the bell Paul Blanchard one of our seniors and Rodney Ross in my delegation went hand over hand up the bell rope a hundred feet got through the trap door at the top and finally put it in again. After the returning victors were escorted from the train to the campus excitement subsided. Saturday we play Maine and we will & hope beat themâ€¦I feel sorry that you cannot come here for the Psi Upsilon house party and the Ivy Day celebration. Ivy Day is the great day of the year here & certainly hope that in you Sophomore year you will attain to such perfect independence that you can come.How did your friend enjoy her visit to Portland I wish that you could have stayed longer and that my new sailing machine had been in use. Had such been the case I believe that even the delights of study here would not have kept me away from my native town. But still study here is a necessity even it if is what old Horace calls a 'dirus necessitas' â€¦ Sincerely yours Robert Hale""Monday March 9 1908Oxburgh RectoryStoke FerryNorfolk My dear Mrs. BabbAfter all I did get as far as London on the day when I wrote to you and it turned out that nothing had been lost by my delay such as it was. On Sunday morning I hauled a specialist out of bed and arranged with him to come to Stoke Ferry with me in the afternoon. We got here about even. There was a consultation with the local doctor and all was so clear that the London doctor left at ten P.M. I am staying merely because Hugh will be ready by Thursday or so to come with me to Lewes and it is not worth while to go there and back in the meantime.Mr. Coombe in my opinion should have written you and should not have wired. He would not if he had known my address but would have left the question of wiring to me. He could have got my address from Lewes.I mention this not for the sake of criticizing him but that you may clearly understand all sides of the case.Hugh had been worrying himself about his examinations had been working too hard and had been sleepless in spite of some sleeping doses. The doctor at Oxford advised him to go away. He did not like to write to Lewes wherein he was wrong and he came here without getting much good. He had fainted at Oxford; and when he got to the Stoke Ferry Station to go up for his examinations he fainted again and struck his head. He had to be brought back to Mr. Coombes was put to bed wandering in mind. His fall was on Wednesday. I got the news Saturday morning and am writing on Monday. He is to all appearance perfectly well. He is dressed and has been downstairs to play on the piano and remarked 'Fancy my being thought ill.' The appearance will not be deceitful for the London doctor assured me that in such cases recovery is speedy and complete. It wasn't indeed necessary for me to come or to bring a physician. But I couldn't divine from Mr. Coombe's letters which were not supplemented by a letter form the doctor what was the matter. I had to provide against the unknown. The only result of my doings is that Hugh is got out of bed at once and given as much to eat as he wants. The only result at Oxford is that he misses honour mods which loss as I have written to you. Does not preclude his final success. My idea that he would come home with out returning to Oxford for the summer term is subject to revision. It may be better in every way for him to go back to Oxford. We will see how he gets on at Lewes during the vacation which begins almost on the day when he reaches Lewes. He is allowed to ride and to lay games â€“ indeed 'that would be the best thing for him.' He may read but is not to take up hard reading at once. He shows no sign whatever of depression. It is all over.If you have a clever son he will lead you a dance and you must pay the piper. Yours faithfully E.P. Warren""27 Feb 1917Royal Societies ClubSt. James's Street S.W.My dear HughYou have been good not to remind me â€“ too good: it would have been better to remind me. I did not put the pipes down on my list the list of things to do which I keep to as not to trust to memory but so I have fallen into the mistake of trusting to the list. I remembered this morning but had not your letter. You may have said something about shapes. I bought those which seemed to suit your size or age but not with the biggest bowls such as my brother used to like. I had to hunt for bowls for him. Either I know nothing of wood or else it is 'topping' & the price also. There is no amber: I conjectured pocket use. So these things are to go though books may not. There seems to be an article in the Round Table on Education I will get it & tear it out for you. The notion I believe is: for the pass schools English history & literature one other language ancient or modern science or mathematics and civics =political philosophy. I do not understand that Oxford is to change its name. I am here & Marshall is to be here for the Deepdene sale three or four good statues which I have seen and vases which I have not seen. I wanted to buy a statue fairly complete for Boston when my brother & I were in Rome. It was cheap; but the museum wasn't buying and we couldn't. At present the museum is not buying; and the second statue which I could recommend turns up. I shall try to waken the body; and may succeed; but here is the case in general. Lane saw the futility of a certain policy. I was to come home; and he and I were to start another policy; but he died. I enquired what the post Lane policy was to be and found that it was to be the old futile policy. The great thing my dear is to be respectable and not believe in anything but business and of course women. They should say what is to be done & we should do it.Yours E.P. WarrenJuly 17 1917I have examined the Deepden statues since I wrote and find that there is not one which I wish the Museum to try to buy.""1663 Fourth StreetSan Diego CaliforniaJuly 21 1910Dear Old PersisHome two days and not a letter off to you. If I were not so busy visiting with mother I should accuse myself of being very neglectful of you but you will understand Persis dear and forgive me won't youâ€¦By the way speaking of college did you hear that Pres. Hazard has resigned I wonder who will be president of Wellesley. I certainly hope Dean Pendleton will not. Isn't it too bad for Pres. Hazard â€“ ill health was the cause. I think myself that it will be many a day before they get a woman for the head of the college that will come up to our President.California is wonderfully cool â€“ ideally so but dreadfully dusty and dirty. The trees are all gray with the sand and the hills are sore and brown â€“ anything but an attractive place now. I am afraid that I have lived too long in the east to ever be very contended with San Diego. It is so stupid and dead here that I almost go to sleep on a street corner when I walk down to do a little shopping. I expect to sit home on the porch and do a little reading and little sewing. Mother says it is the greatest relief of her life not to have to get us ready to start back to college againâ€¦I hear Marie Biddle is getting a divorce. Is that true and what is the difficultyHave your books etc. arrived some yet I want mine so badly for without my Cambridge I really feel lost. You have gotten far ahead of me in readingâ€¦I have so many books to readâ€¦Write me soonâ€¦As always Bernice""23 July 19101663 Fourth StreetSan Diego California My dear dear PersisThe postman has just come with your adorable pictures. I love them so and shall always be so glad that I have themâ€¦I just received a letter from Katherine with on from Miss Fisher. She said they had been making many new plans for the Geology Department among which was converting the Fifth floor Library into a geology laboratory and work room and the old gym into a geology lecture room. You see already they are beginning to change the old place and I dare say that in a year's time we shall find the place much altered. Miss Fisher has been ill with the heat and the work which she has had to do and so has given up all plans for her summer work at College and has gone to the mountains. So she really must be a very delicate little woman â€“ hardly able to stand I should think the strenuous work of a Wellesley professorship.There is absolutely nothing to write you of here â€“ San Diego is deader than it ever was and I hate the place more every day. Please write me soon. Give my love to your family but keep most of it for yourselfâ€¦Lovingly Bernice""Ansbach EES DepotAPO 231C/O U.S. Army9.8.47Dear Mrs. BabbI was delighted to get your letter this morning and was very interested to hear all the news. I too have been very lax about writing to you I enjoy it so much too but Ansbach seems to have had a dulling effect on both my physical and mental processesâ€¦I am very sorry to hear that you have to move again. I know what an ordeal it is Mother has done it so many times and now she tells me she has sold the farm & is going to live in 'Oakthorpe' a house we have near Newbury. In sheer desperation she sold hundreds of my books. They are so heavy to pack and carry. I know when I get back there is going to be much weeping & wailing on my behalf when I suddenly want something I haven't needed for years â€“ that has just been sold. Luckily since I've been over here I have almost lost the terrible habit I had of hoarding. So many things of value have been stolen & it is so difficult to be constantly packing up what most people would consider rubbish that I just do not worry any more.I hope there will only be a few more letters and then I will be with you. I'm getting to be an old lady and have been out here long enough. I want more to think about. I realize the average girl of my age is busy with husband and children and I'm not stupid in that I carry a torch for Richard I've tried with other people but I'm just not interested. I think Richard had everything I wanted when I look back and remember those completely happy evenings when all he and I had for entertainment was a long walk over the hills or a still longer bicycle ride to the movies I wonder why I've never met anyone since that could be happy with so little. Over here it is not considered having a good time unless one gets drunk or has hectic entertainment all the time. So down here I've had a lonely but quite pleasant time all on my own. My boss wanted me to renew my contract and offered me a very tempting raise in grade & pay but I turned it down and am definitely going home in September. Ansbach is beautiful rolling hills and miles of pine forests all the boys on the depot are staying over for one thing â€“ frÃ¤ulein. The place is full of them. Florence an American girl & myself are the only two allied women here and perhaps you can get a rough idea of the situation when I tell you that neither of us have had a date for three months. Luckily I am used to the country and am becoming an ardent photographer with terrible results but Florence hails from New York and is beginning to get a violent inferiority complex. She amuses me greatly. She's really funny gazes at herself in the evenings sends for new revolutionary make-ups and all to no avail. She can't understand what she lacks that the frÃ¤uleins have but from what I can make out the fundamental reason is that there are a great many obstacles to overcome before marrying a frÃ¤ulein â€“ dozens of papers to fill in etc. and I suppose the boys feel that what is difficult to obtain will be more worthwhile. I think I am right don't youâ€¦The sun is shining and I feel very happy. I am working with nice people & the Germans are very fond of me. I shall be sorry to leave them. My love and best wishes to you Pricilla." books

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Hawley Family ArchiveABAA

Manuscript Account Books of a Quaker Shoemaker and Manufacturer of Leather Goods

1859755Chester County Pennsylvania 1859. Two volumes. Folio.Â 330 x 210 mm. 13 x 8 inches.Â 438 pp. Account written in ink in very legible hand.Â Leather backed marbled paper boards leather tips; spines and edges a bit worn paper stock with some discoloration and minor spotting; Joseph Hawley's name and dates written on the endpapers numerous times in both volumes.Â With faults very good copies. I:Â Account books recording the business activity of what appears to be a very successful and profitable shoe maker and leather good manufacture. Â Extremely well organized indexed and legible these accounts are arranged by date and customer name and offer an insight into the leather needs of customers over a given year.Â For instance Moses Jefferies had eleven transactions in the year 1793 for new shoes mended shoes and new soles for himself his wife and children.Â Under the account for William Hawley a relative not doubt twenty-six transactions are recorded. Â Opposite each page listing a customer account is a "Contra" page which lists cash received and expenditures for materials. The first volume begins in 1793 and ends in 1796.Â The second volume begins in 1799 and continues through 1805.Â Many of the transactions include the names of family members who the shoes are for and provides a genealogical record of many families in the Chester County area.Â For a transaction for Samuel Lightfoot in 1801 the entry reads "To make a pair of shoes for Black Isaac cost 0/5/0. Â II:Â Joel Hawley 1804-1883.Â Manuscript Account Books of a Quaker Shoemaker and Manufacturer of Leather Goods for Horses and Arithmetic Work Book.Â Chester County Pennsylvania 1829-1846. Folio.Â 320 x 200 mm. 12 Â½ x 7 Â¾ inches.Â 125 pp.Â Accounts written in ink in legible hand.Â Original marbled paper wrappers; showing wear at spine and edges paper stock brown in places;Â with faults a very good copy. Joel Hawley was the oldest son of Joseph who continued in the shoe manufacture business but as the ledger shows expanded into saddle making and the production of bridles straps harnesses halters and leather collars for horses.Â Organized in a similar way to his father's account book Joel's contains less informationÂ and lists only the customer name a few words of description and the price. Â He also records his expenses for coffee candles spices sugar butter etc.Â Â It is interesting to compare prices from the first years of Joseph Hawley's business with prices thirty years later as recorded in Joel Hawley's account book. The second half the ledger about 20 pages is arithmetic workbook which focuses on simple principles of geometry multiplication calculating compound interest figuring discounts and annuities.Â It also contains some doddles scribbles the names of his brothers Simon and Benjamin and samples of calligraphic script. Hawley Family Archive.Â Chester County Pennsylvania.Â 1788 -1859. III.Â Â Benjamin and Simon Hawley.Â Union Society for the Detection of Horse Thieves.Â Constitution and Minute Book.Â 1817-1859. Unpublished folio manuscript.Â 330 x 210 mm. 13 x 8 inches.Â 175 pp.Â Written in a variety of hands in ink very legible.Â Bound in leather backed marble paper boards; paper and spine a bit rubbed but sound and attractive; first two leaves are sprung from sewing some inserted notes laid in;Â some light foxing otherwise very good. Manuscript constitution and minute book of the Union Society for the Detection of Horse Thieves and Other Stolen Property which spanned 42 years.Â The Union Society like scores of other similar groups in the Northeast created a service for the protection and recovery of private property stolen from farms and warehouses.Â It was organized by the leading horse traders and merchants of various counties in the greater Philadelphia/Wilmington area and its constitution and by-laws outlined its goals and the responsibility of its membership.Â Members of the Union Society were from Philadelphia Bethlehem Harrisburg Lancaster Peach Bottom Elkton Wilmington and New Castle and it covered all the major travel routes in these areas. Benjamin Hawley a founder of the society and his brother Simon both owners of horse-trading company were instrumental in the establishment and management of the Society.Â Simon was recording secretary for many years and it is the reason that the journal of the Society was part of the Hawley Family Archive. Some of the articles of the constitution included the responsibilities of membership the payment of dues mandatory attendance at meeting or the levy of a fine what do to if a member witnesses or is informed of a theft of a horse or property over the value of $ 30.00 and a list of rewards for the finding stolen property and the levy of 6 percent of the value of returned property from the owner.Â All members needed to brand their horses with the letter "U" on the neck of the animal to help in its identification if stolen. The minute book records the details of each meeting which mostly deal with attendance list of absent members fines for absenteeism appeals new members treasure reports and the election of officers.Â Â One of the more interesting narratives that is contained in the minutes of annual meetings was the discussion of the various routes that were to be covered if an alert made from one of its members about a stolen horse or property.Â The Union Society established 11 routes from Philadelphia and surrounding counties and to Wilmington local members were assigned to cover the route if a theft was discovered.Â For instance in West Chester Joseph Gordon was responsible for routes in and out of the town.Â In Wilmington Jonathan P. Evans was the route rider and in New Castle it was Daniel Davis.Â If a member were to cover a route looking for property and he was to be paid $ 1.00 a day for his time reimbursed for expenses and entitled for a reward. The minutes record the theft of a horse in August of 1835 from Ezekiel Evans of Lancaster one of the founding members of the Society.Â It was determined that the thief took the southern route out of Lancaster and 15 members were notified and took to road to Baltimore.Â A reward was posted for $ 50.00 by the Society and $ 25.00 by Evans.Â John Collins of Columbia traced the thief to a hotel in Meadstowne where he found the horse and secured capture of the thief.Â He was identified as John Gallagher "a notorious felon and horse thief." On September 5th 1859 the minutes record a motion to dissolve the Society.Â It was seconded and passed by a vote of 23 to 11.Â The assets of the Union Society were distributed and each member received $ 1.45. Â A small collection of papers from Hawley family are in the Chester County Historical Society.Â They pertain mostly to Joel Hawley who in addition to running his mercantile business in Lionville Uwchlan Township was elected Associate Judge of the Chester County Courts and was Director of the Bank of Chester County.Â His sons Joseph Williamson Hawley and Samuel Hawley were both fought in the Civil War and the archive at the Historical Society focuses mostly on the years 1861-1864.Â Â http://www.chestercohistorical.org/hawley-family-papers. unknown books

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SAMURAI FAMILY CRESTSABAA

Book of Samurai Family Crests.

1820305224Edo 1820. 200 woodblock illustrations of crests some light soiling to margins. 208 pp. small oblong 8vo 110 x 155 mm. blue paper wrappers worn stitched. 200 woodblock illustrations of crests some light soiling to margins. 208 pp. small oblong 8vo 110 x 155 mm. Japanese woodcut book on the crests and symbols of the Samurai families. WITH: A series of 99 small manuscript information cards on for ceremonial use for Samurai families denoting their crests and banners pen ink and colors. First half of 19th century each card 70 x 55 mm some affected by worm tracks. unknown books

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Hyde FamilyABAA

Manuscript Travel Diaries of Dr. Frederick E. Hyde 1887-1932 widower of Babbitt Soap heiress Ida J. Babbitt Hayes; with Diaries of his daughter Elizabeth â€œLizzieâ€ Alvina Hyde 1911-1912

30590Collection of 28 diaries comprising approximately 5362 manuscript pages of entries 389 manuscript pp. of memorandum notes cash accounts etc. dated 1887-1932; with 5 miscellaneous account memorandum and address books totaling 184 manuscript pp. plus 14 photographs as follows:Diaries:26 diaries approximately 5154 manuscript pp. of diary entries plus 365 manuscript pp. of memorandum notes cash accounts etc. written by Dr. Frederick E. Hyde dated 1887 1896 -1897 1900 1903-1904 1907-1909 1911-1912 1914-1919 1921-1925 1927-1929 and 1932; one day entry per page format; cheap limp leather bindings volumes measure 3" x 5 Â¾" each; 12 diaries lacking spines the spines of 3 diaries are badly chipped 1 diary's front cover loose a number of the bindings are worn with chipping to covers spines otherwise interiors are good; text written mainly in ink first four volumes in pencil in a legible hand.2 diaries 208 manuscript pp. plus 24 pp. of memorandum notes cash accounts etc. written by Elizabeth "Lizzie" Alvina Hyde dated 1911 and 1912. The 1911 diary bound in stiff red cloth the 1912 diary is bound in limp red leather; both volumes measure 2 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches; in a 3 to 4 days entries per page format with most days entries completed; entries written in both ink and pencil in a crowded but legible hand; although the volumes are not identified cross-referencing with her father's diaries from the same years show that these two diaries were written by Lizzie Hyde.Miscellaneous Account Memorandum and Address Books:1 account book for expenses for "Westover Repairs" 46 manuscript pp. dated 5 February 1909 to 5 June 1923 measures 3 Â½" x 6" bound in limp leather good. Appears to have been written by Dr. Hyde and to be expenses for maintenance of a country home named "Westover" in Lawrence Long Island.1 miscellaneous memorandum book 27 manuscript pp.; measures 3" x 5 Â¼" bound in cloth binding written by Dr. Hyde and includes lists of books that he either read or wanted to read or add to his library plus notes on the presidential elections of 1884 and 1889 and other political notes statistics etc.1 address book 16 pp. measures 3 Â½" x 4 Â¼" leather includes names and addresses one to three or so entries per page not dated no signature likely kept Dr. Hyde.1 address book 63 manuscript pp. measures 3 Â½" x 5 Â¾" not dated bound in limp leather binding chipped includes names and addresses likely written by Dr. Hyde. This volume appears to be older than the one above.1 address book letters and telegrams notes 32 manuscript pp. measures 3 Â¼" x 4 Â½" bound in limp leather includes names and dates of letters and telegrams sent likely kept by Dr. Hyde.Photographs:10 carte-de visite photographs of Hyde family members including: 1 of Dr. Frederick E. Hyde taken in Paris France c.1870s; 1 of Elizabeth Alvina Hyde as a young woman dated 1890 taken by a Utica New York photographer W.C. North; 1 of Ida Josephine Babbitt as a young woman before she was married taken in a NYC studio; and the daughters of Ralph and Mary Hyde: 1 of Florence Emily Hyde; 1 of Alice Mary Hyde; 1 of Isabel Campbell Hyde; 1 of Ethel Hyde; 1 of Loina Brooks Hyde; as well as 2 unlabeled. 1 cabinet card black and white photograph of Ralph Underhill Hyde dated August 1896. 1 black and white matted portrait of Dr. Frederick E. Hyde dated c. 1897. 1 tintype photograph of Ida Josephine Babbitt as a young woman not dated.1 black and white photograph measures 3" x 5 Â½" of a group of men and women labeled: "At Mr. and Mrs. Warner M. Leed's residence Santa Barbara Cal. June 20 1919 Mr. Herbert M. Hyde at left."Description of Diaries:The 26 diaries kept by Dr. Hyde record the events of his many trips around the world. The wealthy widower of Babbitt Soap heiress Ida J. Babbitt Hayes Dr. Hyde traveled extensively after the death of his wife and was often accompanied by his second wife Katherine and/or his children and other family members. Hyde enjoyed first class travel on notable ships took many voyages to Europe and many other destinations stayed at the finest hotels; took a few train trips to the West Coast with nice accommodations on the Overland Limited; took a train trip to the 1915 San Francisco Panama Exposition plus regular trips to Pocono Manor Inn in Pennsylvania; York Cliffs in Maine; Ridgefield Connecticut and Atlantic City New Jersey. He also visited Canada and New Hampshire's White Mountains. The diaries were kept while traveling as follows:1887 â€“ Steamer Germanic for England Italy etc.; 96 pp. 22 pp.1896 â€“ France and Middle East; ship passage from France through Port Said via Gulf of Suez Bombay India etc. diary is for month of December only 31 pp.1897 - India Italy France and England â€“ trip to India November 1896 to 13 August 1897 included Dr. Hyde Elizabeth Josephine Mabel a maid and a courier; 200 pp. 21pp.1900 - Egypt â€“ Nile River trip Pyramids Cairo Luxor and Europe: Turkey Greece Italy Austria France England etc. included Dr. Hyde Isabel C. Hyde Ida Josephine Hyde; 149 pp. 11 pp.1903 â€“ England - 25 July to 24 Oct included Elizabeth Mabel Talbot Dr. Hyde to England down the Wye Paris â€“ Tours Chateaux; 102 pp. 30 pp.1904 - France â€“ automobile tour in Chateau Countryâ€“ 22 April to 16 July party includes Wm. Lord Sexton Mrs. Sexton Dr. Hyde's daughter Dr. Hyde; White Star Line "Canopia"to Azores Gibraltar Marseilles & Genoa; White Star Line "Cedric" Liverpool to NYC; 99 pp. 21 pp.1907 - Ship France to Paris France Palermo â€“ Sicily and Europeâ€“ Dr. and Mrs. Hyde to Italy Sicily Capri Sorrento Amalfi Ravello La Cava Naples etc. left 20 April on the Str Republic and arrived home 5 September on the Str. Romanic went to Camden Maine in September; 164 pp. 33 pp.1908 - Steamer Majestic Paris Tours Verona train trip Geneva London; Dr. and Mrs. Hyde sailed from NYC 29 April Str. Majestic for Cherbourg arriving 6 May; arrive Paris following day; visit Paris Tours Cortina Verona Bellagio Zermatt Geneva London leave England on 22 Oct on the Str. Cedric Liverpool to New York arrive 30 October; 240 pp. 27 pp.1909 â€“ Lawrence L.I. New York; Pocono Manor Inn Pennsylvania; and Ridgefield Connecticut; 118 pp. 3 pp.1911 - Trip Islesboro Isle au Hart sailing trip Ridgefield Connecticut; 220 pp. 2 pp.1912 - Steamer Lapland New York to Antwerp Montreux Lucerne comments on Titanic disasterâ€“ left New York 18 May arrived home in New York 29 September; visited Paris Montreux RossiniÃ¨re Oberhofen Lake Thun Lucerne Interlaken; 268 pp. 27 pp.1914 - Trip to Bermuda plus Pocono Manor Inn Pennsylvania; York Cliffs Maine; Walpole New Hampshire; 188 pp. 15 pp.1915 - Train Overland Limited to San Fran Panama Expo stays Fairmont Hotel muscles sore walking on the hills to Sausalito Presidio San Francisco â€“ "numerous guns & mortars" trip to Santa Barbara; other trips to Washington D.C.; Greenwich New York; Magnolia Massachusetts; Walpole New Hampshire; Buffalo New York; the Dr. traveled mainly with his wife in 1915; 207 pp. 12 pp.1916 - Pocono Manor Inn Pennsylvania and York Cliffs Maine trip to U.S. Military Reservation â€“ the Dr. traveled with his wife also went to New York City Philadelphia White Mountains etc.; 134 pp. 5 pp.1917 - Pocono Manor Inn and Atlantic City train trip to California â€“ Pasadena Riverside votes "no" on Women's Suffrage Nov 6 election; 239 pp. 4 pp.1918 â€“ Pasadena Del Norte Santa Barbara Los Angeles San Francisco CA; York Cliffs Maine; Pocono Manor Pennsylvania; 231 pp 12 pp.1919 â€“ Atlantic City New Jersey; Pocono Manor Pennsylvania; and York Cliffs Maine; 211 pp. 1921 â€“ SS Olympicto Paris Toursâ€“ the Dr. traveled with his wife; left New York on White Star S.S. Olympic 15 Oct; arrived Cherbourg 22 Oct visited Paris and Tours still in Paris when year ended; 188 pp. 26 pp.1922 â€“ SS OlympicParis to NY Cannes Ridgefield Connecticut â€“ diary begins in Paris visits Cannes before going home to New York in April; makes trip to York Cliffs Maine and later in year as well; 322 pp. 29 pp.1923 â€“ Quebec Canada; Wash. D.C.; Burlington Vermont; Pocono Manor Inn; 184 pp. 11 pp.1924 â€“ To London and elsewhere in England; 259 pp. 20 pp.1925â€“ SS France to Paris stays Villa Serbelloni Lake Como Switzerland; Atlantic City351 pp. 25 pp.1927â€“ Atlantic City New Jersey; and various U.S. locales; 325 pp. 2 pp.1928 â€“ To Europe U.S.; 298 pp. 4 pp.1929 â€“ Home New York; 257 pp. 3 pp.1932 â€“ Appears to be home; 54 pp. The two diaries kept by Elizabeth Alvina Hyde are crammed with entries on many events family gatherings club work and some U.S. travel. She leases a place on Park Avenue in New York City. Of particular interest are entries from April 1912 which comment on the Titanic disaster. The rear of the 1912 diary has ten pages of interesting entries in the memorandum section pertaining to parish work helping young girls make flowers and cross-stiches for sale etc."April 16 1912. White Star new boat Titanic was sunk after striking iceberg off Newfoundland early morning of 15th April 1000 lives lost. Survivors coming here on Carpathia."April 19 1912. Carpathia in last night with less than 800 survivors. Senate Investigation Committee begins probe into cause of accident. Sinking of Titanic greatest disaster of modern timesâ€¦" Babbitt and Hyde Families Benjamin Talbot Babbitt 1809-1889 was a self-made American businessman and inventor who amassed a fortune in the soap industry manufacturing Babbitt's Best Soap. He was born in 1809 in Westmoreland Oneida Co. New York the son of blacksmith Nathaniel Babbitt 1769-1855 and Betsey Holman 1768-. In 1851 he became the first to manufacture and market soap in individual bars which he packaged attractively and added a claim of quality. He took the ordinary and proved it could be turned into a marketable product. Babbitt invented most of the machinery he used in his production plants. He owned extensive ironworks and machine shops in Whitesboro New York. He held more than 100 patents. Babbitt became known as a genius of advertising. He rivaled his friend P. T. Barnum in originality and success becoming a household name throughout the U.S. His soap was one of the first nationally advertised products. The soap was sold from brightly painted street cars with musicians which helped lead to the iconic phrase: "get on the bandwagon." Babbitt was the first manufacturer to offer tours of his factories and one of the first to give away free samples.Babbitt died October 20 1889 and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery Bronx New York. He was survived by his wife Rebecca McDuffie Babbitt 1820 - 1894 and his two daughters Ida Babbitt Hyde 1845-1896 and Lillia Babbitt Hyde 1856â€“1939 to whom he left one half of his $5000000 estate as well as the controlling interest in his company. Lillia Babbitt Hyde established The Lillia Babbitt Hyde Foundation in 1924 and served as its president until her death in 1939. The bulk of her estate was left to the Foundation raising the value of its assets as of June 1941 to approximately $3200000. Lillia Babbitt Hyde married Clarence Melville Hyde 1846-1908 the brother of Dr. Frederick E. Hyde who married Lillia's sister Ida Josephine Babbitt Hyde.Ida Josephine Babbitt Hyde married Dr. Frederick E. Hyde on 27 March 1869. The Hyde brothers were the sons of Edwin Hyde of Groton Connecticut and Elizabeth Alvina Mead. The Hyde family was the direct descendant of Sgt. James Hyde Jr. 1753-1809 of Norwich Connecticut who served with the 4th Regt. Connecticut Line in the American Revolution and was at Germantown Valley Forge Monmouth Stony Point and Yorktown. Dr. Hyde was born in New York City on 25 February 1844.Together Ida and her husband Frederick had at least four children: Elizabeth Alvina Hyde 1870-; Benjamin Talbot Babbitt Hyde 1872-1933 who married Edith Moore daughter of James Moore of New York City in 1910; Frederick Hyde Jr. 1874-; and Ida Josephine Hyde 1877- who married William Lord Sexton; and Mabel Hyde 1882-. The Hyde's educated their sons at St. Paul's Military School on Long Island. When the Hyde's were first married the couple set up home in Ida Babbitt's parent's house on 36th Street in Manhattan in a fashionable neighborhood and Hyde at the insistence of Mrs. Babbitt had a medical practice for only the "best families" in New York City. The Hyde family also kept a country place "Quaker Ridge Farm" in North Greenwich Connecticut. By 1900 the Hyde's moved uptown to West 69th Street where they kept a large house with nine servants housekeeper cook maid parlor maid chamber maid waitress laundress lady's maid and a general servant.In 1889 Benjamin Babbitt died leaving a great inheritance that was split between his wife and two daughters. However his daughter Ida died six months later and her share of his estate in the millions went to her husband and two sons. After the death of his wife Ida Dr. Frederick E. Hyde retired from practicing medicine and spent a good deal of time traveling and pursuing his hobbies and philanthropic pursuits. There is a fjord in Greenland named Frederick E. Hyde Fjord. The fjord is located on a peninsula known as Peary Land. Frederick E. Hyde Fjord divides Peary Land into North Peary Land and South Peary Land. Robert E. Peary had been the first to reach the North Pole and the northernmost part of Greenland is called Peary Land. In a book written by Robert Peary entitled Nearest the Pole: A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S. S. Roosevelt 1905 -1906 on page 329 we learn that Peary's Expedition of 1898-1902 was made under the auspices of and with funds furnished by the Peary Arctic Club of New York City of which Frederick E. Hyde was a member and supporter. The book includes a chapter on the Peary Arctic Club. Frederick E. Hyde was one of the founding members and was elected as its first vice president. Dr. Frederick Erastus Hyde and his sons Benjamin Talbot Babbitt Hyde and Frederick Erastus Hyde Jr. were members of several scientific institutions. Dr. Hyde was member and benefactor of the Linnaean Society the American Museum of Natural History and the American Association for the Advancement of Science among others. Frederick Jr. and his brother Benjamin were also members of some of the same organizations as their father. They also financed explorations in the American Southwest between 1893 and 1907. Dr. Hyde's sons founded the Hyde Exploring Expedition which helped to fund the work of Richard Wetherill 1858â€“1910 from about 1893 to 1903. Wetherill was a member of a prominent Colorado ranching family and was an amateur explorer in the discovery research and excavation of sites associated with the Ancient Pueblo People. Wetherill is credited with the discovery of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde and was responsible for initially selecting the term Anasazi Navajo for ancient enemies as the name for these ancient people. He also discovered Kiet Seel ruin now included along with Betatakin ruin in Navajo National Monument in northeastern Arizona. "Slightly smaller than Cliff Palace Kiet Seel possesses qualities that in the eyes of some lend it greater charm and interest." Wetherill became fascinated by the ruins and artifacts and made a career as an explorer guide excavator and trading post operator.Predating this collection of diaries Dr. Hyde and his sons went on a world tour in 1892 and spent 70 days on horseback in Palestine and the Saini. Dr. Hyde died at the age of 92 on 16 September 1936 at his summer home in East Hampton L.I. Sample Quotes from the Diaries:"December 9 1896 â€¦Arrival Port Said about 8 p.m. anchored in canal. Cable to CMH 25 wordsâ€¦Most of passengers went ashore. We remained onboard. Coaled 800 tons in 4 hrs 9 to 1 night. Coal carried in baskets on shoulders of natives up planks 18-inch-wide 2 lines natives each side of boat.""January 13 1897Leave 3:16 for Calcuttaâ€¦Effect of Hindu worship as exhibited at Benares is disgusting & depressing.""January 14 1897Arrived at Howrah Station Calcutta 6:45 a.m. on timeâ€¦atmosphere of hotel depressing. Small pox at Howrah Cholera at Columbo. Drove at 4 Â½ p.m. Could not get livery carriage. A vice regal council being held. So took gharry skeletons of horses with strings of white beads around their necks." Howrah Junction also known as Howrah Station is the largest railway complex in India and it is a railway station which serves Kolkata and Howrah India"January 27 1900Left Abou Simbel at 8 a.m. warm day. Smooth water not a ripple. Am. Derr after tea dusty walk to temple through dirty village of mud huts. Temple not especially interesting.While visiting temple the Str. went across the river tied up at a sand flat. We were taken in yawl to east side of sand flat. The men were carried ashore & walked across flat to St. The ladies were rowed around in the boat. This shifting of the boat many considered entirely unnecessary. Derr temple not worth the annoyance. Tied up for the night at Magharah about 9:30 p.m." The Temple of Derr or el-Derr is a speos or rock-cut Egyptian temple in Lower Nubia. It was built during the 19th Dynasty by Pharaoh Ramesses II"February 13 1900Assonan. 8 a.m. clear cool west side of Cataract Hotel.Left hotel 9:45 a.m. rode donkey to Barrage. John Arid & Co. contractors Fitzmaurice engineer. Mr. Mikelitis took us over the work 5600 men now employed 4000 of whom Italian stonecutters 34 sluice gates. The cubic meter the basis of labor payments. Boxes holding just 1 cm take out all the stone. 2 coffer dams over the cataract build permanent damn between. Left 12:28 to return Cataract Hotel 1:10" The Assiut Barrage is a dam on the Nile River in the city of Assiut in Upper Egypt 250 miles to the south of Cairo. It was completed in 1903"March 23 1900Constantinople. Clear cool. 9:45 called at Am Legation & obtained formal permit to see the Salamlik procession from windows in ___ opposite the private mosque of the Sultan. Soldiers gathered for an hour before the Sultan appeared in a bret drawn by 2 white horses. Opp the Sultan sat the Minister of War. Entered the mosque at 12:30 & came out at 12:50. Appears to be about 60 yrs of age. Prince in a carriage about 6 years 2 male companions walking. Ladies in harem in 4 coupes eunuchs walking. Regimental music excellent. 2 crack regts browns & grays cavalry. Back to hotel for lunch 2 p.mâ€¦" Abdul Hamid II 1842-1918 was the 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the last Sultan to exert effective control over the fracturing state"January 12 1909Signed lease today for "Westover' Lawrence L.I. NY period of five years from May 1 1909.""January 23 191210:21 train in Lawrence to Flatbush Ave Subway to 42d St taxi to 42d & 5th Ave & Penn Station 12 noon train to Broad St. Phila met Talbot in train met Charles Schedell at Broad St talked about repairs & insurance to warehouse 9th & Jefferson Sts. Met D.E. Dallam at his office 514 Walnut St. talked about sale or lease of warehouse. Left Phila 4:00 p.m. in Penn Station NY 6 p.m. took 6;17 p.m. L.I. train arr. Lawrence 6:57 p.m""November 8 1912Lovely autumn day. Maurice Fitzgibbons left Egan's Stables 205 East 38th St at 11:30 a.m. with Mabel's horses Peter Pan and Lady Woodstock. Came via 34th St Ferry L.I. City & Jamaica arrived at Westover Lawrence at 3:30 p.m.""San Francisco TripMarch 24 1915Left Lawrence on 11:51 a.m. train for Penn Station NY arrived 12:41 checked ulster in pared room. Katherine & I then had lunch in Penn Restaurant. Afternoon rechecked trunk to San Francisco & took suit case in taxi to do some shoppingâ€¦after further shopping arrived at Penn Station at 4:30 p.m. Elizabeth and Mabel arrived soon went aboard Overland Limited train leaving at 5:04 for Chicago. Katharine seeing us off. Dropped letter off for K at Harrisburg at 9:31 p.m. E & M had drawing room A in car 6 I h ad section 12 next to it.""NY to San FranciscoMarch 25 1915Passed Pittsburg 3:30 a.m. Eastern Time 2:30 Central Time. Changed here. Looking out my window as trains was leaving Pittsburg we were apparently passing through a brilliantly lighted subway. Archeo and Architectural lines with electric lights about two feet apart.Arrived in Chicago 2 p.m on time. As we were to leave here on the Chicago & Northwestern R.R. at 7:00 we had five hours so took rooms at Blackstone Hotel with baths refreshed ourselves with tubs & I with a shave & at 5:20 had a most satisfactory dinner. Left Chicago at 7 p.m. in car "Colorado" E & M in drawing room A & I in Section 8 same car. Mailed letter to K written on train also sent K night letter at 3 p.m. also mailed office key about 5 p.m.""NY to San FranciscoMarch 26 1915Arrived Omaha 7:30 a.m. mailed letter to K dressed & went out at the station to stretch my legs & get some fresh air. Weather cold. Station active engines moving about. Smoky atmosphere from much bituminous coal. Left Omaha at 8:00 a.m. light snowfall during the day. Patches of snow over the country apparently recent.Cold weather today temp. on floor of car platform at 11:40 a.m. 28Ëš F in the car 67Ëš F 4 p.m. on platform 30ËšF. Some snow drifted in on the platforms of the train.Arrived North Platte at 2:40 p.m. Central Time 1:40 Mountain Time at 12:21 p.m. passed Kearney where in 1866 I crossed the Platte River in a box wagon drawn by four mules or horses each pair controlled by a man up to his shoulders in the water.""NY to San FranciscoMarch 27 1915Due to a delay of 52 minutes at Green River waiting for the mail train that followed us from Chicago we were 52 minutes late arriving at Ogden due at 10:40 A.M. The Overland Limited takes a mail car from the mail train to secure the right of way over other trains if there is a congestion of trains anywhere.At Ogden Mountain Time changes to Pacific Time so put my watch back an hour. Sent train letter & telegram to K from here.15 minutes stop here & while the car wheels were being tested with a hammer it was found that one of the wheels of our car "Colorado" was broken. We were transferred to other cars there being few passengers & plenty of room. E & M to the "Deartrail" DRD & I to the Jathneil Sec 3.""NY to San FranciscoYesterday the country was covered with snow no great depth today only the mountains down to a certain line. Passing the Humboldt Mts. In the afternoon winding through the passes of the foot hills of the Sierras.At daylight to my surprise I looked out upon trees in foliage bright green grass lilies in bloom out of doors.Yesterday snow after leaving Ogden we crossed Salt Lake in on an embankment of rocks part of the way & over a wooden pile bridge another part of the way. Distance of 53 miles altogether. The lake was perfectly calm the train running slowly.We arrived at Oakland & San F on time were soon at the Fairmont Hotel Rooms 448 & 450. Night letters to Kâ€¦""San FranciscoMarch 29 1915We all went to the Panama Exposition this a.m. Cables Sacramento St transfer to Polk entering East end of grounds raining. Entrance fee 50c Must be exact amount to drop in the box at gate.The Joy Zone began at East Gate walked long distance to Fillmore St gate. Left the girls returned to hotel as an earlier walk to Union Ferry down the hills was very tiresome to muscles unused to the hills. E & M took moving platform seats and rode around rest of grounds.After lunch called in Mr. Edwin Parish of Niagara Fire Ins. Co. 334 Pine St Introduction from Mr. Harold Herrick referred us for Real Estate Agent to M.V.W. McAdam Co. 58 Sutter St.""San FranciscoMarch 30 1915Rain all day. Was called up by McAdam Co. their Mr. Fuller arranged to see them later. E & M went to fair all this p.m. I went to fair this a.m. rode about the streets for 25 minutes circumnavigating the place. Wrote J.T. Johnston of St. Barbara to see houses next Monday. This address from Mr. Parish immediately after lunch Mrs. Babcock of San Rafael called on Elizabeth very pleasant. Offered her motor car for use at San R invited us to tea afterward.Had arranged to go to San Rafael today but too rainy. Rain very welcome to this neighborhood & Sacramento Valley as weather had been dry for some weeks.""San Francisco & San RafaelMarch 31 1915Took 1:55 p.m. boat at Sausalito Ferry foot Market St. half town to Sausalito electric train to San Rafael arr. 2:55 p.m were met by Mrs. Babcock car & maid Mary McNally.Visited three houses Mrs. Martin's the Schonmein & Mrs. Nel's first & last were desirable places but as the valley much semi tropical foliage & masses of flowers but houses not on sufficient elevations.1st hour might have been taken if had been on elevation with view below but from all places had to look up for view.Took tea with Mr. & Mrs. Babcock at 4:30 to 5 They were very cordial. Have beautiful home. Garden with masses of flowers lilies blooming outdoors since last October.""San F to Sta BarbaraApril 3 1915Left San F on 7:45 a.m. train of Southern Pacific RR 3d & Townsend Sts. lovely morning. E & M took breakfast at the Fairmont Hotel. I took my breakfast on the train came via San Joe 47 miles. In 1867 this stretch of RR was the only RR in the state. The train follows valley floors & some elevations till we reach Sta Margarita where the rise is quite high & we pass through 6 tunnels. IN the gaps between tunnels we look down abruptly into deep valleys all green grass covered & with a wagons road winding up & down the steep sides of the valley. The original only means of the North & South communications previous to the RR & probably the road that I went over in a stage coach from Los Angeles to San Joe in 1867. From San Louis Obispo we run to the ocean side & follow close to the brink for several miles looking down on the waves rolling up the beaches. Arr Sta B 7:40 p.m. another bus took usâ€¦""Santa BarbaraApril 5 1915â€¦Afternoon we took trolley to the old mission of Sta Barbara. Saw it in 1867 & in 1901. About 6 yrs ago old rotted floor & wainscoting were removed tile floor & painting make it look very clean but has lost the look of age.""Nov 6 1917Election Day for Mayor of Greater New Yorkâ€¦Voted 'No' on Suffrage for Women 'Yes' on debt limitations for county town village." books

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Archive of Correspondence Journals Ledgers Photographs and Ephemera of the family of attorney Eliot Tuckerman Esq. of Evarts Choate & Beaman a leading New York City law firm 1848-1954

30775293 letters 573 pp 76 retained mailing envelopes dated 4 May 1848 to 27 December 1954; bulk of letters date from 1910s to 1950s; with 3 manuscript journals 1904; 1909-1911; and 1943 a newspaper clipping scrapbook an estate ledger and a pedigree register; plus 44 photographs and approximately 130 pieces of related printed and manuscript ephemera. Interesting collection of letters many from the turbulent economic times of the 1930s.The Family of Eliot Tuckerman Esq. 1872-1959 Eliot Tuckerman was born in New York City on March 12 1872 the son of Gustavus Tuckerman Jr. 1824-1897 and Emily Goddard Lamb 1829-1894 eldest daughter of Thomas Lamb 1796-1887 and Hannah Dawes Eliot 1809-1879. Gustavus Tuckerman Jr. was a Boston Massachusetts merchant who was involved in the China India trade during the mid-19th century. Tuckerman was born on May 15 1824 at his grandfather's house in Edgbaston England the second son of Gustavus Sr. and Jane Francis Tuckerman. As a boy he was tutored by A. Bronson Alcott and Mr. George Ripley and attended the Boston Latin School. Upon completing his early education Tuckerman was expected to attend Harvard College following his brother John Francis Tuckerman Class of 1837. Instead he joined the Boston merchant shipping firm of Curtis & Greenough. In 1847 he was sent to Palermo Sicily to represent the firm in purchasing and shipping cargoes of goods to America including fruit wine linseed licorice cream of tartar and other provisions. Two years later he made a second journey to Sicily to represent the firm. Upon his return to Boston in 1849 he was made partner in Curtis & Greenough. He continued as a partner in Curtis & Greenough and also established business relations for Tuckerman Townsend & Co. in Sicily. Tuckerman Townsend & Co. was a partnership with Thomas Davis Townsend also an employee of Curtis & Greenough. Located at 48 Central Wharf in Boston Tuckerman Townsend & Co. was heavily involved in the import trade with the Mediterranean China and India especially the ports of Palermo in Sicily Singapore and Penang in Malaysia and Calcutta India. Tuckerman acted as the local roving agent for the firm from 1853 to 1859. He purchased goods and coordinated shipments back to Boston. In 1859 Tuckerman Townsend & Co. took heavy financial losses and Tuckerman decided to dissolve the firm rather than continue with business on credit. He moved his family from Boston to New York City and took a job as the treasurer of the Hazard Powder Company a gunpowder company that thrived during the Civil War. Tuckerman died on 11 February 1897 at his West 54th Street home in New York City. Gustavus Jr. & his wife had at least four other children besides Eliot: Jane Frances Tuckerman 1852-1947; Hannah Elliot Tuckerman 1855-1860; Emily Lamb Tuckerman 1858-1943; and Margaret Eliot Tuckerman 1860-1948. Eliot Tuckerman's aunt was Jane Francis Tuckerman 1818-1856. She was good friends with Margaret Fuller 1810-1850 and the two women were known correspondents. Fuller was an American journalist editor critic and women's rights advocate and associated with the American transcendentalist movement. She wrote many letters to Fuller and was one of Fuller's private pupils and later her assistant on the Dial the chief publication for the Transcendentalists. Jane married John Gallison King 1819-1888 a Boston lawyer from a Salem family however the marriage did not work out. King was part of the circle of friends with Emerson Elizabeth Hoar Cary Sturgis etc. Jane was said to be good friends with Elizabeth Hoar 1811-1878 a classmate of Henry David Thoreau. Hoar was to wed Charles Emerson brother of Ralph Waldo Emerson but Charles died before they married. Emerson treated her as a sister. There are a couple of letters in this collection written to and by this Jane Francis Tuckerman as they are dated too early for Eliot Tuckerman's sister of the same name. Eliot Tuckerman received his A.B. cum laude from Harvard College in 1894 and his LL. B cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1897. He was accepted into the bar in 1898 and by 1899 Tuckerman was working with the firm of Evarts Choate & Beaman in New York City. In 1895 Joseph H. Choate Jr. and Eliot Tuckerman founded the Stockbridge Golf Club making it one of the first 100 golf clubs in the U.S. In 1918 Tuckerman was elected as a New York Republican Assemblyman for the Tenth District. There are a couple of pieces of ephemera in this collection for the Republican Assembly Tenth District. Tuckerman married Mary Ludlow Powell Fowler 1879-1955 in New York City in April 1915. She was the daughter of lawyer author and Surrogate of New York Robert L. Fowler 1849-1936 of New York City and his wife Julia Groesbeck 1854-1919. Mary had various interests. She was the president of the International Garden Club and a former vice president of the Humane Society of New York. She was the first person to win the annual award of New York City's Park Association for the restoration of the Bartow Mansion in the Bronx and her aid in securing its conversion to a public museum. Mrs. Tuckerman was also active with the Bide-A-Wee home for animals in New York and a World War II president of Bundles for Britain. She also took an active interest in the Colony Club of New York and the Daughters of Holland Dames and the National Society of the Colonial Dames. She was related to the Groesbecks of Cincinnati. Her mother's father was U.S. Senator of Ohio William Slocum Groesbeck 1815-1897 and her aunt was Olivia Augusta Groesbeck Hooker wife of Union Civil War Major General Joseph Hooker. Eliot Tuckerman and his wife had one daughter Emily Lamb Tuckerman 1917-2000. Emily married Henry Freeman Allen and had at least three children. By 1947 Tuckerman had succeeded Clifford A. Hand's New York law firm and Hand's firm had become Jones Bleeker & Tuckerman. He retired about three years before his death. He had for many years lived at 1209 Park Avenue in New York City before moving to Boston in 1952. Tuckerman was an expert on Constitutional Law and in 1927 he sought to have the 18th Amendment dry law declared illegal. There is an essay on Constitutional Law of his in this collection. Tuckerman was also a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and of the University Century Harvard Down Town and New York Yacht Clubs fleet captain of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club and a governor of the Squadron A Club. He was a trustee of the Morristown School a member of the Pilgrims the Society of the Cincinnati and other societies. Eliot Tuckerman died on 29 October 1959 at the age of 87 in Boston and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridge Massachusetts. Eliot Tuckerman was the cousin of poet T.S. Eliot 1888-1965. His mother and T.S. Eliot's grandfather were first cousins. There are two letters and one card in this collection which were written to his sister Jane Frances Tuckerman 1852-1947. T.S. Eliot calls her his "cousin" as he does their sister Emily. The two letters are typed and signed by Eliot. One of the letters he signs it "Tom St. Eliot" the other "T.S. Eliot." The card is written to both Jane and her sister Emily and is addressed to the Misses Tuckerman. It is a printed card with his "T.S. Eliot" signature.Some of the Correspondents in the collection are:Emily Tuckerman 1858-1943. Eliot Tuckerman's sister born 22 May 1858 in Boston Massachusetts. When she was three years old she was brought to New York by her parents. Emily went to Mrs. Griffith's School in New York and was a member of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr's little dancing class. She often visited her most intimate friend Jane Minot Sedgewick in Stockbridge Massachusetts in winter as well as summer. She was fond of housekeeping and the greatest help in our home took diplomas in "invalid cooking" and "first aid to the Injured." She travelled in England and Alaska with her friend Ann Mugar Leight. She was the Vice President of Mrs. Parson's Children's School Farm for 21 years. After the death of her parents she traveled extensively with her sister Jane. She met with a motor accident on the Isle of Wight and was sent to Egypt by advice of Sir Victor Moreley of London. After the marriage of their brother Eliot Jane F. and Emily L. made their home together.Jane Frances Tuckerman 1852-1947. Eliot and Emily Tuckerman's sister Jane Francis Tuckerman was one of the founders of the Friendly Aid Society and the New York County chapter of the Red Cross. She lived at 1201 Park Avenue. A close friend of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt parents of President Theodore Roosevelt she gave her services for many years as secretary of the Orthopedic Hospital of which Mr. Roosevelt was then president. She was a member of the National Society of Colonial Dames and had been secretary for twenty-five years of the Causeries du Lundi.Thomas Stearns Eliot OM 1888-1965 "one of the twentieth century's major poets" was also an essayist publisher playwright and literary and social critic. His grandfather William Greenleaf Eliot 1811-1887 was first cousin to Emily Goddard Lamb Tuckerman the mother of Eliot Tuckerman and his sisters Emily and Jane.Robert Bowman Dodson 1849-1938 Robert B. Dodson was one of the trustees of the James A. Garland Estate along with Eliot Tuckerman and Maj. Robert Emmet. Dodson was a banker and broker. He married Mary Wells. Dodson was born in Geneva Illinois in 1849 the son of Christian B. Dodson and his wife Harriet Warren. Dodson became associated with John J. Cisco & Co then National City Bank and later a partner in Fahnestock & Company. Harris Charles Fahnestock 1835-1914 was an American investment banker. He was a successful investment banker and was financial advisor to President Abraham Lincoln. He co-founded First Nation Bank of New York a predecessor to Citigroup. In 1881 Harris' son William formed his own investment bank at Two Wall Street Fahnestock & Co. which expanded through the decades and eventually led to the creation of Oppenheimer & Co. in 1950. Dodson was also a trustee of the Bankers' Safe Deposit Co. of 4 Wall Street NYC. Dodson died at his country home at West Islip Long Island on 21 August 1938 at the age of 89.Major Robert Emmet DSO 1871-1955 was born in Charlottesville Virginia on 23 October 1871. He was the son of Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet 1826-1919 a distinguished physician and medical writer and the great grandson of the Honorable Thomas Addis Emmet who served as Attorney General of New York State and was an Irish patriot and rebel who came to the United States in 1804 after the failed 1798 United Irishmen Rebellion. The Honorable Emmet's brother Robert Emmet was hanged in 1803 for his part in the rebellion. Major Emmet was educated at Harvard University and graduated in 1892. Be began the study of medicine and graduated the College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University New York in 1896. In May 1898 he became a Sergeant of Squadron A N.G.S.N.Y. and was mustered into active service of the United States as a trooper of New York Volunteers and was ordered to Puerto Rico. He received the D.S.O. Distinguished Service Order -WWI Great Britain and was a Major of the Warwickshire Yeomanry British Expeditionary Force 1914-1918. Emmet was married on 25 November 1896 to Louise Garland daughter of James A. Garland and Anna Louise Tuller of New York. After the death of his wife's father Emmet became one of the trustees of the James A. Garland Estate along with Robert B. Dodson and Eliot Tuckerman. Louise Garland Emmet's father James A. Garland 1840-1902 was a prominent New Yorker the Vice-President of the First National Bank of New York and a junior partner in the organizing and building of the Northern Pacific Railroad. He came into the orbit of Jay Cooke when Cooke's son was one of his students and was known as an "excellent broker." Garland was a client of Duveen Brothers and a serious collector of tapestries oriental jades and especially Chinese porcelain. The James A. Garland collection of Chinese porcelain was one of the largest and comprehensive in the United States and one of the finest in the world. It comprised over a thousand Kangxi 1662-1722 period blue and white and colored porcelains amongst other items. The collection was on loan to the Metropolitan Museum until his death in 1902 when it was sold to the Duveen brothers for $500000 who then sold it to J.P. Morgan within hours of who allowed most of the collection to remain at the Metropolitan Museum.Emmet and his wife had at least three children: Thomas Addis Emmet 1900-1934 who married Evelyn Violet Elizabeth suo jure Baroness Emmet of Amberley 1899-1980 a British Conservative Party politician; Capt. James Albert Garland Emmet; and Aileen "Muffie" Emmet.William Gardner Choate 1830-1920 was a United States federal judge. Choate was nominated by President Rutherford B. Hayes to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York serving on the court for only three years resigning on June 1 1881. He resumed his private practice in New York City from 1881 to 1920. He founded the Choate School later Choate Rosemary Hall in 1896 and from 1902 to 1903 he served as president of the New York City Bar Association.Joseph Hodges Choate 1832-1917 brother of William Gardner Choate. was an American lawyer and diplomat. He was associated with many of the most famous litigations in American legal history including the Kansas prohibition cases the Chinese exclusion cases the Isaac H. Maynard election returns case the Income Tax Suit and the Samuel J. Tilden Jane Stanford and Alexander Turney Stewart will cases. In the public sphere he was influential in the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Corinne Roosevelt Robinson 1861-1933 an American poet writer and lecturer. She was the younger sister of former President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt and an aunt of future First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt. She married Douglas Robinson Jr. 1855â€“1918. Robinson's maternal grandfather James Monroe 1799â€“1870 a member of the House of Representatives was a nephew of U.S. President James Monroe 1758â€“1831.Sample Quotes:"May 7 1925D.S. Garland Esq. PresidentNew York Law Review Corporation280 Broadway New YorkDear SirThe Constitution as originally made was simply intended to guarantee to the individual citizen a government which would protect his life his liberty and his right to pursue happiness.That original Constitution which contained few controversial matters was not intended to be flexible and its amendment was not meant to be easy.Since the intrusion into the Constitution of the various Amendments which have been ever increasingly controversial in nature there are every increasing numbers of people who are discontented in one way or another with the Constitution as amended.This discontent leads to increasing demands for further amendments.The Supreme Court which as Mr. Dooley says 'follows the Election returns' now says that it is only necessary to have the votes of two-thirds of a quorum in each house to propose Amendments to the organic law. That is not what the Constitution itself says but it is 'an interpretation' in the direction of flexibility which the amendments to the Constitution have made more popular.In my opinion the acquiescence by the Court in the Congressional interpretation of the Amendment clause of the Constitution is more dangerous for the country than the passage of a law by Congress over the decision of the Court would be.Another Congress can reverse the policy of its predecessor but the Constitution once changed stays.Where it will end we cannot tell but each controversial amendment hastens the end.Yours very truly Eliot TuckermanET/M.""T.S. EliotB -11 Eliot HouseCambridge11 April 1933My dear Cousin JaneI shall certainly hope to see you and Cousin Emily in New York; but unfortunately I am not going to be there all that week â€“ it is two separate visits. I shall be there from the 20th to the 22nd; and again on the 27th; and I hope to spend several days in New York in May without any speaking engagements. But I shall try to come on the first occasion; and will telephone.With many thanksCordially your cousinTom St. Eliot""Henry D. TudorCounsellor at Law35 Congress StreetBoston Mass.January 23 1934Dear Mr. DodsonWe have been searching for the portrait of James A. Garland by Ooliss. Hope Garland Ingersoll his granddaughter is supposed to have this portrait but we have not been able to locate it.I wonder if you have any recollection in the handling of the estate of James A. Garland Sr. what became of this portrait. It was supposed to go to Bert Garland and hung in his house at Hamilton Mass. I do not know that the estate ever had anything to do with it but on the chance that it did I am writing to know if you have any recollection about it.Sincerely yoursHenry D. Tudor""Baden-Baden May 8th '34Dear EliotI apologize for not acknowledging receipt of your cable of April 3rd as I was reasonably sure Mrs. Emmet would not do so but I some how forgot it till I got your letterâ€¦I wrote him Dodson some time back asking what you & he thought about distributing the final dissolution payment of the 1st Security Co. in the next quarterly distribution as I do not see how we can do otherwise in view of our paying income tax on it as income. Apparently the liquidating dividend received last year of the Passaic water Co. is in the same a similar category & should be distributed as incomeâ€¦I hope everything goes well with you & Dodson. I wish they would treat the gangsters with the same merciful ruthlessness they use in similar miscreants here & I Italy. They tell me on all sides there is no need of locking your front door now in Germany & many of the people in the north do not do so. Visitors tell me they never lock their hotel doors now in Germany & never lose anything. The streets too are perfectly safe at any hour of the night. I wonder which is freedom â€“ here or the terror in the New York where a mutual friend of ours trembles every time her front doorbell rings after 9 P.M.I wish Roosevelt would make the States attack crime ruthlessly. I believe a marked subsidence of crime would bring a return of confidence & a business revival. It sounds fanciful but I believe it is NOT. Yours R. Emmet""Sept 27 '34Dear EliotI have just arrived here Paris for a week on our way to Londonâ€¦I am greatly disappointed not to have seen you when over here but delighted to hear you enjoyed it all so well. I think few people realize the romance of Scotland. Motoring there is far more fascinating I think than anywhere on the continentâ€¦We are just from Montreux in Lk. Geneva via Basle. My wife ran into Germany to see the Dr. for the day but was too shy to spend any longer there than necessary. Charming people though these southern Germans are. The air there was charged with anxiety I thought and with espionage & spying with severest reprisals for disloyalty I have been told. Every one was so guarded in speech & so anxious lest they be overhead & misrepresented at least the few I got to knowâ€¦Best luck yours R. Emmet""Sheppard Jones & SeippAttorneys & CounsellorsNew YorkApril 26th 1935Re â€“ Emmet - GeneralTrust for Mrs. Emmet â€“ Garland Estate;Possible sale of First National Bank StockMy dear 'Rob' and 'Tuck':After our telephone conversations of this morning there came in the following brief note from 'Bob' Emmet dated the 17th:'Dear Jack: My wife insists I maligned her by writing you she had threated to sue the trustees if they sold any of the Bank Stock so I thought you better know though she is as determined as every to hold on to the stock if she can influence matters.'It seems to me that this demonstrates conclusively what I have told you both namely that 'Bob' had no animus against either of you in writing what I quoted in my letter to you of April 24th.Faithfully yours John S. SheppardJSS:DRobert B. Dobson Esq.960 Park Avenue New York CityEliot Tuckerman Esq.49 Wall Street New York City""Robert DodsonRobert EmmetEliot TuckermanTrustees for Louise G. EmmetUnder the will of James A. Garland2 Wall StreetNew YorkSeptember 19 1935First National Bank2 Wall StreetNew YorkGentlemen:Will you kindly purchase without haste for our account as Trustees as above stated the following mentioned bonds and stocks:$30000 New York City 4% bonds due 1980.$20000 Commonwealth Edison 3 Â¾% bonds due 1965.$5000 San Diego Consolidated Gas & Electric First 4% bonds due 1965.$9000 American Gas & Electric 5% bonds due 2028.$8000 North American Co. 5% bonds due 1961.And50 shares American Tobacco Co. B StockPlease charge the same to our account with advice to us at the above address.Yours trulyRobert B. Dodson TrusteeEliot Tuckerman Trustee""Oct 3rd '35Baden-BadenDear EliotMany thanks for yours of Sept 24th giving the prices at which the new purchases were made through the First National Bankâ€¦We expect to be here or in Freiburg Germany till Oct 18th then after a short stay in Paris off to England for a couple of months Nov & Dec with the family. Great fluttering in the dive cots for several more are going to school this term having only the youngest at home in Tanney's family & two in each of the other two.The thought that they may be training & fattening up to kill & be killed in a quite unnecessary war seems an incredibly revolting thought when one realizes that all wars are begun for Loot Gain or Revenge. I am barbarian enough to have really enjoyed my war experience but am thoroughly ashamed of the remains of Fallen Nature still uneradicated in me that permitted me to enjoy what I know was opposed to Christian principles. I have always enjoyed a gamble of a game of wits & chance & believe that must be the foundation of the situation. I certainly had no hard feeling or hatred for the enemy at any time any more than during a game of polo or steeplechaseâ€¦.Yours R. Emmet""January 11 1937Dear DodsonI attended the annual meeting of the stockholders of the bank this morning and at the request of Mr. Fraser and Mr. Welldon called the meeting to order and nominated them to act as chairman and secretary of the meeting.Mr. Fraser took up the enclosed statement item by item and explained the differences as compared with the previous year's report. The number of stockholders has increased from 4708 to 5102. The government has ruled that the bank may make announcement of the dividend to be paid four times each year instead of twice as has been done for the past year. This will be done.The decrease of deposits was mainly due to the government requiring increased reserves in the banks. Many banks carry balances with the First National which reduced their deposits. Also some of the corporate balances were smaller than formerly. Of the Government Bonds owned by the Bank 40% are due in 5 years or less and 51% are callable in 10 years. The profits are less this year as many of the bonds held by the bank were refunded in 1936 which resulted in profits in 1936 not recurring in 1937. Also the income was reduced by the fact that the refunding bonds carried coupons at a lower rate of interest.There were 282 shares present in person at the meeting and 72205 shares among them ours represented by proxies.There were gains in miscellaneous income from the fact that commissions were received in some of the Estates held in the trust department and the rents of the building now 74% rented increased.That's about all I learned from Mr. Fraser.After the meeting I stopped to speak with Searles the first assistant cahier. I mentioned to him that I had noticed that Mrs. Loew's Estate held no bank stock. He suggested that perhaps she had put that in trust for her children during her life. Maybe so.I have put the various receipts int eh file and have nothing further in the way of business to report.I hope Mrs. Dodson and you are well and happy. I stopped in to see Jack Morgan for a minute and he said it was a good time to be philosophical and I try to be but for me it is not easy.With best wishesYours SincerelyEliot TuckermanRobert B. Dodson Esq.ET: JB""The VestrySt. Stephen's ChurchGloucester Road S.W.712 January 1939Dear Cousin JennyThank you very much for your kind and welcome letter. I am sorry that I unintentionally deceived you concerning my whereabouts; it was simply that I could not find your address and enclosed the card and envelope to Henry to forward to you. Nevertheless I shall hope to see you and Cousin Emily at some time during this year if no war intervenes to prevent. I had hoped to come in the autumn but both politics and some uncompleted work prevented me.With best wishes for 1939Affectionately your cousinT.S. Eliot"Examples from the 1943 Journal:"August 10 Thursdayâ€¦45 subtracted from 1943 brings us back to 1898 and the glorious days of San Juan Hill and the first Roosevelt now rather eclipsed; but perhaps history will refocus attention on his name. And here we have a lot of Spanish War vets convening in Boston with their wives in attendance. 45 years and caps and badges & wives don't add by and large any great dignity to the human body; rather humps & bumps and thick legs and horrid obesity all over in the most unexpected spots - and I dare say not infrequently to the brain; - which is indicated by the very fact of their foregathering and dressing up. In the last few days they have been passing resolutions; memorializing Congress and FDR in a number of ways on a number of subjects one of which which caught the reporters' eye was a stern recommendation to the federal authorities whoever might be the proper one to forbid any and all Orientals â€“ Japs & Chinese from entering the U.S.A.: where upon the Civil Liberties League whooped & hollered and asked how this behavior fitted in with Mr. Wilkie's plan for one world." "Aug 22 Sundayâ€¦We were very much intrigued to find that Nancy Oakes had been at their school in New York when she married Count de Marigny clandestinely and admitted it one afternoon after an examination on banking. Consternation! and inability to get Lady Oakes on the telephone before the Count came and claimed her & carried her off. A great to do but nothing much to do about it. Both Miss C. & Mlle. T foresaw unhappiness sizing up the Count as a scallywag who didn't care anything about Nancy but had an eye o her money. He had been divorced from his first wife Farnesworth and all the available records were dark. And now look what she is facing! Her husband accused of murdering & trying to burn the body of her father â€“ in the Bahamas!.""Aug 24 Tuesdayâ€¦There are lots of WAVES at the Victoria lining up to go somewhere and I am much impressed with their style their carriage & their dress. Also recalling Bly's remarks about the uniform color of their stockings. I wonder if the U.S. Gov. issues them or commands them to use only one color of lip stick. I had a good opportunity to come to this conclusionâ€¦""Aug 25 Wednesâ€¦I was struck by the eventual usefulness of Copley Square. At last a valid solution of that much vexed triangle has been found; it has become a vegetable garden for the Copley Plaza Hotel surrounded by a low white picket fence covered with vines; a well-worn path around it. The garden itself is very professional set up in north-south rows of everything good to eat and thriving under the skill of a professional farmer; who picks your beans as you sit in the merry-go-round & has 'em cooked when you've finished your cocktail. The garden does not occupy the entire grassy terrain but leaves the corners free -and as might be expected they are dedicated by the completely unimaginative Mr. Long of the Park Dept. east to the exceedingly ugly raised garden a design in horrible stubby plants; a large V and north-south on Dartmouth St. of all things groups of spindly rabble trees! Doubtless it's Mr. Long's fond secret hope to do something about the tree shortageâ€¦""Aug 26 Thursâ€¦A nice quiet day with little happening. I call on Ralph Gray in the early morning. He seems pretty perky and wants me to take on the job he is yielding of custodian with Howard Church of the B.A.C. funds. There being little or no funds that seems no arduous job for me and I gladly take it off Ralph's shouldersâ€¦Bly lunches with Mrs. Ellery Sedgewick at Emily Webbs who remarks on my North Haven Church and is joined by Tom Metcalfe from the adjacent Museum of Modern Arson as he likes to call it in memory of the Beacon Street episodeâ€¦""Aug 31 Tuesâ€¦I have taken Ralph's place as trustee of the B.A.C. educational funds. I could hardly do less though I'm heartily sick of trying to save that club house. And here are Stanley & I â€“ Stanley for the most part â€“ getting up a serious of lectures for next winter in the hope that we may gather in a few dollars - and persuade the tax assessors the Club is an educational institution & should not be taxedâ€¦""Sept 1 Wedâ€¦I get the Ms. Of our lecture courses to Ms. King of Todd and Walter Kilham & I enjoy a particularly pleasant luncheon at '270'â€¦What a gay place 270 is at lunch time! Seemed full; even the cocktail loungeâ€¦M.F. chic & charming winked at me across the room Harriet Allen and her Roger Warner were near by & a perfectly lovely lady with large limpid eyes & vivacious mouth - & 2 friends sex female faced me at a near table Walter a little irritated that his back was to her. But I noticed he managed a number of good squints in her direction. We both would undoubtedly recognize her again â€“ and may go back to do soâ€¦""Sept 11 Satâ€¦And in the meantime it should be noted that Adolph Hitler has made a speechâ€¦a rather pitiful affair probably from Berchtesgaden over the radio justifying everything in Italy and on the Russian front. He is lostâ€¦and he knows itâ€¦probably now at the control of the army who are using him to bolster public moral as much as he can. Meantime they have taken over Rome put the Pope under protective custody which rather pleases me the Pope never to my mind took a strong position and now he is being used for what his prestige & that of the shrines of Rome can give the Nazis as protectionâ€¦"Collection Inventory: Outgoing Correspondence of Eliot Tuckerman:81 retained copies of letters 106 typescript pages mostly unsigned dated 7 May 1925 to 22 December 1950; written by Eliot Tuckerman to others; the bulk of letters date from the 1930s 1 letter from 1925 2 from 1940 and 1 from 1950; 48 of the letters were written by Tuckerman to Maj. Robert Emmet; 12 letters written to Robert B. Dodson; the remaining to various individuals; of these 79 letters 2 are handwritten copies. Tuckerman Emmet and Dodson were trustees of the James A. Garland Estate with Emmet's wife was one of the heirs. Emmet is mostly in Europe with Dodson and Tuckerman in New York City. Most of this correspondence is about the Garland Estate investing for the estate quarterly distributions stocks bonds cash on hand arguments with Mrs. Emmet over the handling of the estate worries about the economy worries over the political scene in Europe Germany etc.Incoming Correspondence of Eliot Tuckerman:78 letters 157 pp. mostly handwritten dated 11 December 1933 to 27 December 1954; written by Major Robert Emmet to Eliot Tuckerman. Emmet's wife Louise G. Emmet was an heir to the James A. Garland Estate of which Tuckerman was one of the Trustees handling the estate for Mrs. Emmet. Emmet and his wife appear to have gone to Europe for an extended stay lasting multiple years to seek treatment of his wife's ailments. Major Emmet and Robert B. Dodson were also Trustees of the Garland Estate. Emmet writes several letters discussing the changes going on in Nazi Germany. Much of the correspondence deals with the Garland Estate.15 letters 16 manuscript pp. dated 20 June 1934 to 19 January 1938; written by Robert B. Dodson to Eliot Tuckerman; Dobson like Tuckerman was one of the Trustees handling the James A. Garland Estate for Mrs. Louise G. Emmet who was the heir and the wife of Major Robert Emmet also a Trustee. Much of the correspondence deals with the handling of the Garland Estate.6 letters 20 pp. mostly handwritten dated 11 March 1919 to 12 March 1927 written to Eliot Tuckerman from family: his mother 1; Aunt Elizabeth 1; Jane and Emily Tuckerman 1; Jane F. Tuckerman 2; Emily Tuckerman 1. 4 letters 14 pp. handwritten dated 16 June 1901 to 10 March 1915; written by various members of the Choate family to Eliot Tuckerman: Mabel Choate of New York City; J. H. Choate Jr. writing from Munich Germany; Anne Hyde Choate of New York; and Wm. G. Choate of Rosemary Farm Wallingford Connecticut. Tuckerman worked for the Evarts Choate & Beaman law firm in New York City for a number of years.4 letters 12 typescript pp. dated 15 and 30 October 1935; written by Herbert J. Bickford to Eliot Tuckerman these are two original letters plus copies of those letters; Bickford was a member of the firm of Evarts Choate Curtin and Leon Allen W. Evarts Joseph H. Choate Jr. John J. Curtin & Maurice Leon of New York City New York. Bickford helped on the Garland Estate.3 letters 4 typed pp. dated 3 February 1919 to 2 August 1918; written by Henry Campbell Black to Eliot Tuckerman; Black was the editor of "The Constitutional Review" a publication that published an article by Tuckerman. There is an essay/article in the ephemera collection which would appear to be a copy of this article that Tuckerman wrote for this publication.3 letters 4 typed pp. dated 24 April 1935 to 20 September 1938 written by John S. Sheppard to Eliot Tuckerman; Sheppard was an attorney with "Sheppard Jones & Seipp" of New York City New York John S. Sheppard Catesby L. Jones & Henry G. Seipp; Sheppard may have been working for the Emmet family on the Garland Estate or for the Emmet family individually from the estate.35 letters 66 pp. mostly handwritten by various individuals to Eliot Tuckerman dated 15 March 1887 to 22 December 1950; of these letters 23 are dated from 1915 to 1917. In 1915 Tuckerman was engaged and married and in 1917 he and his wife had their first and only child. These letters from 1915 and 1917 discuss these two events in Tuckerman's life. The collection includes letters from: Harold Stirling Vanderbilt CBE 1884-1970 American railroad executive a champion yachtsman an innovator and champion player of contract bridge and a member of the Vanderbilt family; Christine Griffen Keen sister of U.S. Senators John Kean and Hamilton Fish Kean and wife of William Emlen Roosevelt 1857-1930 prominent New York City banker and cousin of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt; presumably a Frances Tracy Morgan daughter of Jack Morgan American banker finance executive and philanthropist who inherited the family fortune and took over the business interests including J.P. Morgan & Co. after his father J. P. Morgan died.Incoming Correspondence to Mary Fowler Tuckerman wife of Eliot Tuckerman:12 letters 35 pp. mostly handwritten dated 29 September 1915 to 14 December 1932; written to Mary Fowler from family: her husband Eliot Tuckerman 5; her father Robert L. Fowler 5; Jeanie and Emily Tuckerman 1; and her brother 1.21 letters 66 pp. mostly handwritten dated 8 March 1915 to 7 April 1948 written by various individuals to Mary Fowler Tuckerman wife of Eliot Tuckerman; 7 letters are not dated and are from the same time period; 9 letters are from 1915 and 1917 with the undated letters likely being from this time period as they pertain to Mary's marriage to Tuckerman 1915 and the birth of their daughter 1917. Some of the letter writers are from prominent New York City families: Rachel Lenox Porter Frances de Peyster Sarah D. Gardiner Alice Crary Sutcliffe Margaret E. Zimmerman etc.Incoming Letters to Emily Lamb Tuckerman and her sister Jane F. Tuckerman sisters of Eliot Tuckerman:10 letters 27 pp. handwritten dated 1 January 1854 to 26 June 1943; written to Emily Lamb Tuckerman by various individuals both family and friends including her sister Jane and her cousins. A couple of the letters congratulate Emily upon her engagement. One or two of these earlier letters appear to be for another Emily Tuckerman perhaps an aunt of Emily Lamb Tuckerman. One may have been written by Jane F. Tuckerman 1818-1856 as it was written in 1854 thus the Emily it is addressed to would have to be someone else.9 letters 14 pp. dated 18 October 1872 to 12 January 1939 written to Jane F. Tuckerman; one letter is written Corine Roosevelt Robinson an American poet writer and lecturer and the younger sister of President Theodore Roosevelt and an aunt of future First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt. Another correspondent is the poet T. S. Eliot who writes two letters to Ms. Tuckerman both are typed and signed with envelopes dated 11 April 1933 and 12 January 1939. T.S. Eliot calls Ms. Tuckerman his cousin and mentions her sister "Cousin Emily" as well. T. S. Eliot also signs a Christmas card "T.S. Eliot." The envelope is addressed to "The Misses Tuckerman" in New York City in 1938. Miscellaneous Letters to the Tuckerman Family:12 letters 32 pp. handwritten dated 4 May 1848 to 11 May 1935; miscellaneous letters written amongst members of the Tuckerman family.Journals Estate Ledger Pedigree Register Scrapbook Journal of Eliot Tuckerman octavo 63 manuscript pp. plus blanks bound in limp leather boards worn at edges dated 3 August to 9 September 1904; inside front flyleaf reads "Eliot Tuckerman / Personal Memoranda." First page states: "Tour of Duty with Troop A 1st New York Provisional Cavalry â€“ at Manassas Va. September 1904" followed by: "Pursuant to the provisions of the "Dick Bill" the Army authorities called for troops from the eastern States to take part in maneuvers to be held on the ground where the battles of Bull Run were fought in the Civil Warâ€¦" This journal appears to be about this exercise that Tuckerman was a part of.Journal of Eliot Tuckerman octavo 39 manuscript pp. plus blanks bound in limp leather boards worn at edges dated 1909-1911; written in ink in legible hand. The inside front flyleaf of the journal has inscribed: "Eliot Tuckerman / Journal / Dec 25 1909 / from E.L.T." The volume appears to have been given to Tuckerman for Christmas 1909 from his sister Emily Lamb Tuckerman." The first page is dated "December 25 1909"with the last entry dated "1911 July 26."The volume was only occasionally used by Tuckerman.Journal of an unidentified woman octavo 198 manuscript pp. dated 13 August to 27 September 1943 written in ink in a legible hand; kept in a copybook. This journal was written by a single woman who works in an office in Boston possibly the architectural firm of Kilham & Hopkins formed in 1899 or 1900 by its founding members Walter Harrington Kilham 1868-1948 and James Cleveland Hopkins 1873-1938. The firm later became Kilham Hopkins & Greeley after William Roger Greeley 1881-1966 joined the firm in 1916 and Kilham Hopkins Greeley and Brodie after Walter S. Steve Brodie 1911-1985 joined the firm in 1945. The firm has been recognized for its contributions to early 20th century reform housing including its work at the Atlantic Heights Development in Portsmouth New Hampshire at the Woodbourne Historic District in the Forest Hills section of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston and for the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company in the Salem Point Neighborhood of Salem Massachusetts. A number of the firm's works including Blithewold and Hose House No. 2 have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The journal does have the writing making architectural comments design comments etc. and she may very well be an architect herself. She lives with a woman by the name of Bly. The journal recounts daily activities and life of a woman in the Boston area traveling to Milton New Bedford elsewhere mentions of the war efforts etc. She at one point takes over as custodian of the funds of the Boston Architectural Club from architect Ralph Gray.Estate Ledger Book for "Estate of Emily Lamb Tuckerman / Died July 8 1943" & "Estate of Jane Frances Tuckerman / Died October 18 1947" small quarto 69 manuscript pp. bound in quarter leather cloth edges worn written in ink legible hand; both estates' accounts kept in the same ledger.Register of Pedigree. Approved by The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society 1915. Copyrighted 1895 by William Gordon Ver Planck. "The Pedigree of Jane F. Tuckerman" 33 pp. written in ink legible hand with blanks and with further handwritten material tucked in bound in oblong 4to measures 16" x 10" cloth boards wear to edges. A genealogy of the Tuckerman family compiled by Jane Frances Tuckerman.Scrap Album of 59 newspaper articles clipped from New York City papers and laid into a quarto volume measures 10" x 14" boards detached dusty. The articles appear to be mostly written by or about Eliot Tuckerman and his fight to declare the 18th Amendment Prohibition wrongly enacted. "Wedding Presents" ledger small oblong quarto 40 pp. with blanks written in pencil legible hand bound in boards with leather worn away; not dated but mentions Emily Tuckerman as giving a gift with the Fowler family as being the first listed possibly kept by Eliot Tuckerman's wife Mary Fowler and would date from 1915; occasionally in the "remarks" column it states "For Eliot" which would seem to indicate it was indeed kept by Eliot Tuckerman and his wife Mary Fowler; includes lists of names and gifts given sometimes other remarks such as where the gift was purchased the address of the person who gave the gift usually city etc.Photographs:44 photographs black and white various sizes from 2 Â¾" x 4" to 8" x 10"; includes 3 cabinet cards 2 cyanotypes most of the photos are inscribed and labeled on rear many appear to be of Jane F. Tuckerman some of her sister Emily; 5 of the photos were taken at the Biddle home in Andalusia Bucks County Pennsylvania; others in Maine; not dated circa late 19th and early 20th century.Ephemera:Paper Ephemera: Approximately 130 pieces of both printed and manuscript paper ephemera including manuscript notes essays printed material used envelopes calling cards greeting cards estate papers written genealogy pages post cards telegrams newspaper clippings etc. books

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Weber Murphy Family.ABAA

The Weber Murphy Family Album titled The Weber Murphy Family Photographic Archive on the boxes

122417Stockton: 1992. Two boxes large 4to 12 1/2 x 11 ins. containing 51 reproductions from original daguerreotypes ambrotypes tintypes and other formats mounted and preserved in mylar sleeves. In perfect condition contained in red cloth boxes. Â§ Only edition of these fine reproductions of some of the rarest early material about Stockton and its founding families. This set is one of five sets made for the Cole family and copy #3 of 22 sets in all; Geraldine Cole was a direct descendant of Capt. Weber. The other four sets have been retained by the family. Loosely inserted are descriptive text leaves by Prof. Daniel Kasser and others about the importance of the collection. "It represents a rare nearly unique vision of facets from a family album. To the City of Stockton and the State of California they represent a regional treasure. Unique in and to their time many of these images qualify as national treasures." Kasser. In all a complete set of the material including the 6 supplementary leaves of text errata etc. 1992. Two boxes hardcover books

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Written by Abiel Abbot and sent to family in care of himselfABAA

"LEAP FOR JOY . . . DR. WARREN HAS CLOSED THE OPERATION UPON PHEBE'S UNFORTUNATE SWELLING." Letter describing Dr. John Warren's successful removal of a precancerous tumor from an adolescent girl

1799009635This one-page stampless folded letter measures approximately 12" x 7.5". It is datelined "Boston Feby March 6. 1799." It bears a straight-line "Boston" handstamp circled "7 / MR" Boston postmark and a manuscript "10" rate mark. Small sealing wax tear from when the letter was opened. In nice shape. A transcript will be provided. In this letter Abbot describes Dr. John Warren's surgery to remove a precancerous tumor from his daughter. The letter reads in part: "My dear brother & Sister Betty . . . you will leap for joy when I inform you that this moment Dr. Warren has closed the operation upon Phebe's unfortunate swelling. The time of her suffering was as follows. 9 min'ts in cutting 14 in taking up the blood vessels & 22 in Sponging airing & dressing the wound. Her conduct her fortitude & composure were astonishing & unequaled says the Doctr. It proves to have been a serious tumor wh would certainly have become a cancer. Every thing is well & promising. She Stays here at Cap Weld's 4 or 5 days when the Dr. Supposes she can safely be removed to Andover.". Dr. John Warren was an American patriot and a surgeon in the Continental Army. His brother Joseph was a leader of the Sons of Liberty and is most famous for having recruited Paul Revere and William Dawes to spread the alarm when British troops departed Boston for Concord and Lexington. He was killed during the Battle of Bunker Hill and John was bayoneted by a British soldier when he attempted to retrieve Joseph's remains. After John recovered he served in army hospitals at Concord and Long Island and fought in the Battles of Trenton and Princeton. After the war he became a very successful Boston surgeon and performed the first abdominal operation in the United States. He founded Harvard Medical School in 1782. See "Warren John" in American Medical Biographies online and entries including "John Warren" in Garrison's History of Medicine. Warren performed a similar operation a mastectomy on President John Adams's daughter in 1812 and a letter describing it in the same manner was written by Adams to Dr. Benjamin Rush. While the location of Phebe's precancerous growth is not identified Abbot's elated letter nonetheless describes an early successful tumor removal by Warren and is a firsthand testament to the doctor's skill as well as to Phebe's fortitude while calmly suffering through such a serious and painful 45-minute operation without the benefit of anesthesia. Online genealogical records suggest that Phebe was born in 1799 if so she would have been about 11 years old at the time of the operation. Adams's letter describing Warren's surgery sold in 1984 for the equivalent of $20000 in today's money. Granted Abbot's Revolutionary War service as a Major does not carry the same cachet as Adams's service as President however his letter describes a similar perilous surgery performed by Warren twelve years earlier. Exceptionally scarce. At the time of this listing nothing similar is for sale in the trade and no similar descriptions of Warren's surgeries are held by institutions per OCLC. As previously noted there is one similar letter the Adams letter describing an operation by Warren. books

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Hancock FamilyABAA

ARCHIVE OF CORRESPONDENCE AND PHOTOGRAPHS TO AND FROM MULTIPLE GENERATIONS OF THE HANCOCK FAMILY OF VIRGINIA ALABAMA AND TEXAS

1929WRCAM55851Mainly Virginia Alabama and Texas 1929. Approximately thirty-two letters some with original transmittal envelopes; twenty-three photographs and real photo postcards; and assorted family documents calling cards and greeting cards. Overall very good condition. Housed in a modern gray archival box. A wide-ranging collection of correspondence photographs and documents centered on the Hancock family of Virginia Alabama and Texas in the second half of the 19th century and first quarter of the 20th. The Hancock family members involved in the correspondence or pictured in the photographs in this archive include Benjamin Palmer Hancock Arthur B. Hancock Thomas Benton Hancock Jane A. Hancock Jane C. Hancock Richard J. Hancock Claudia Hancock and Harris Hancock. Richard J. Hancock Sr. was father to Richard J. Jr. Arthur B. and Harris Hancock and uncle to Benjamin Palmer Hancock. Jane C. Hancock was B.P. Hancock's daughter. Thomas Benton Hancock and Jane A. Hancock were married and Claudia Hancock was their daughter. The family though spread out over vast distances seems to have remained relatively in touch with one another. The correspondents also often write from or receive letters from different cities suggesting they moved around a bit or traveled more widely than most families at the time. Benjamin Palmer "B.P." Hancock 1868-1943 lived in Dallas Crockett and Corpus Christi Texas in the late 19th-century and worked for both the Mexican National Railroad and the Texas Mexican Railway. He later returned to Texas working as the Division Traffic Superintendent for the Western Union Telegraph Company in Dallas from 1913 until his retirement in 1938. He also maintained a family estate in Scotia Alabama. In one 1905 letter B.P. Hancock writes home to his wife Martha in Scotia with detailed instructions for her imminent travel to meet him in New York City. He also writes a very loving letter to his daughter Jane C. Hancock in 1913 while she was living in Winslow Arkansas. He praises Jane for "the fine little girl - almost young lady - that you are today." Richard J. Hancock Jr. 1873-1920 writes a long letter to B. Palmer Hancock on April 12 1890. Richard was apparently working for the Galveston Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway as he writes his four-page letter on the company's stationery and mentions hearing about a couple of colleagues "surveying a new extension for San Antonio Pacific road." Richard acknowledges that B.P. and their mother are going to Virginia to visit family and encourages B.P. to "make a good impression on all of the Hancock family." He also offers B.P. a new suit and money to look good in front of the Virginia Hancocks. Richard then reports on a recent trip "down to Rio Grande" where he "had lots of fun." Richard J. Hancock Sr. 1838-1912 writes three letters to his nephew B. Palmer Hancock in 1902 on "Ellerslie" stationery. Ellerslie Plantation later Ellerslie Farm near Charlottesville Virginia came into the Hancock family after Richard married Thomasia Harris whose family owned the estate. Richard J. Hancock served as a Confederate captain under Stonewall Jackson during the Civil War. His letters to Palmer are mostly concerned with family business matters especially Palmer's property in Alabama. At one point Richard consoles B.P. for his mother's ill health apparently from typhoid fever. In his third letter Richard mentions his growing aversion to the life of a farmer at Ellerslie commenting that he would "quit farming and sell out but for my son Arthur." Richard had already largely turned away from farming to breeding thoroughbred racehorses at Ellerslie and became quite famous and successful at the venture winning the 1884 Preakness Stakes with his horse Knight of Ellerslie. His son Arthur Hancock later established a breeding farm in Kentucky named Claiborne Farm and became one of the most legendary horse breeders of the 20th century. Thomas Benton Hancock 1834-1870 lived in Centreville Alabama; a letter to him dated 1859 from a friend at the University of Virginia implores Hancock to spend some time at the school. A slightly earlier autograph note dated 1857 from a professor at Centenary College in Jackson Louisiana grants Thomas Benton leave from the school: "Mr. Thos. B. Hancock has been a student at Centenary College La. and that he has been honorably dismissed at his own request." There is also present here an 1860 letter of recommendation from a different professor at Centenary College praising T.B.'s "scholarship prudence and gentlemanly deportment" and recommending him as a teacher. T.B. Hancock died young at the age of thirty-six in 1870 and is buried in Oakland Mississippi. Three letters from 1882 written to "Mrs. J.A. Hancock" in Corpus Christi Texas are particularly interesting. The recipient was most certainly Jane Alexander Hancock widow of the late Thomas Benton Hancock. The three letters all concern stories submitted by J.A. Hancock to THE YOUTH'S COMPANION a long- running children's literary periodical in Boston. One of these stories titled "Sorrel Top" is bought by the magazine in one of the present letters and Mrs. Hancock is encouraged to send more stories. "Sorrel Top" appeared in the magazine later in the year as "Mrs. Marks' 'Sorrel Top'" in the October 19 1882 issue. All three letters are signed "Perry Mason & Co." the publishers of THE YOUTH'S COMPANION. Perry Mason founded the magazine in 1827 and served as its editor until his death; Erle Stanley Gardner was fond of THE YOUTH'S COMPANION as a young reader and borrowed the editor's name for his protagonist when he began writing a series of stories and books centered on his now-famous attorney/detective. The photographs in the present archive are a combination of cabinet card portraits and real photo postcards. The identified portraits include three of B.P. Hancock one as a younger man in Corpus Christi another inscribed "Your Son BP Hancock Dallas Tex March 1886"; one of Harris Hancock in Overton Virginia from a Charlottesville studio; and a portrait of Mrs. J.A. Hancock inscribed "For BP Hancock age 52 years." The real photo postcards feature a handful of shots from a family picnic and a large home presumably belonging to the Hancock family. The assorted additional material includes J.A. Hancock's copy of a Presbyterian Church pamphlet; a 1902 trust document involving Richard Hancock B. Palmer Hancock Clavelia A. Hancock Helen J. Hancock and Thomasia O. Hancock wife of Richard J. Hancock; and other assorted documents cards and invitations. There is also a handful of material relating to H.L. Carleton of Taylor and Austin Texas. Carleton was a noted pharmacist and president of the Texas Pharmaceutical Association in the early 20th century. The connection to the Hancock family is unknown though Carleton may represent another side to the family of a Hancock decendant. A wide-ranging slice of Hancock family history and an archive with notable research and genealogical potential. unknown books

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The Pryke FamilyABAA

A book filled with folly in foolish sketch and rhyme as a wedding present for a family member

193020204526c1930. Edge wear on cover; Faint coffee splash on blank front end paper. Small ink smudge margin dedication page. Creative - Charming - Skillful - Whimsical In what appears to be the grips of the Great Slump depression a family elects to give one of the daughters the gift of verse and original art as a wedding present. The introduction reads: This book so filled with folly In foolish sketch and rhyme Comes to wish our Collie Joy till the end of time. A pen and ink drawing of a bride and groom standing between two trees adorns the cover. It includes 44 pen and ink drawings some with watercolor and relevant original limericks or often rhyming verse. Each is Initialed by a family member. With one exception the writer of the verse was also the illustrator of the relevant drawing. The book begins with "A dialogue on an Important Subject between members of the Pryke family". It discusses the lack of funds in the family to purchase an appropriate wedding present for one of the daughters "Collie". Titles of the verses include The Lobster Tragedy Household Hints for the Newly-Married. -Saturday's Lunch Bunnies Little Black Sambo Grown-ups Horrors The Sweet Old Lady The Frustration of a Crime 3 pages of text and 3 illustrations Lucy Adventures of My Relatives in 3 parts Riddle-Mee- Ree Bounce Mars An Escape From Dartmoor I Wonder Aunt Fanny The Sea- Serpent the Explanation and A Moral Tale. The last is a rhyme of a young girl who disobeyed her mother and fell from a tree. It concludes with MORAL Now all you little children here Take heed of what I say Always obey your parents dear Or you'll be layed in clay. The limericks include a person from Spain an old lady from China a policeman whose feet a boy from Madrid an old lady of Slough a bold lady from Bristol a young lady of Zenda an old fellow of Louth an old dame in Peru a young man of Forquay a professor at Oxon an old person of Frith a person of London an old lady of Bucks an old man of the Hook and There once was a lady whose face Had slipped by mistake out of place She didn't know where Though she sought it with care So she filled up the gap with French lace A family of equal opportunity insulters leading to some remarkably creative illustrations. A majority of the pages in the book are used. Appears complete as written. Measures 9" x 7 1/4". unknown books

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Hughes Family CorrespondenceABAA

Manuscript Archive of Correspondence of the Hughes Family of Texas Massachusetts and New Hampshire including Lucy Stephenson Hughes and her daughter traveling department store professional Jeanie Hughes and George Forbes Hughes and Gerard Hastings Hughes students at Harvard University and early Aviators in world War One American Expeditionary Force dating - 1900-1966.

30367Archive consisting of 374 letters totaling 1888 pages 207 retained mailing envelopes plus over 100 pieces of printed and manuscript ephemera. Of the 374 letters in this collection 270 are incoming correspondence to Lucy Stephenson Hughes wife of Texas rancher William George Hughes an English immigrant to Texas in 1878. Of the letters written to Lucy 82 were written by her daughter Jeanie 63 by her son George and 47 by her son Gerard. George and Gerard were for the most part attending Harvard University at the time they were writing their mother. Lucy wrote 48 of the letters mostly to her children. Other correspondents to Lucy are her aunts in England 8 letters a niece Esther Stout in California 18 letters as well as another family member Sarah F. Hughes 15 letters. There are other correspondents with Lucy who appear to be friends or associates. Biography of the Hughes Family William "Willy" George Hughes rancher was born at Kensington London England on May 29 1859. He attended Marlborough College and immigrated to America; he arrived in New York on September 15 1878 reached San Antonio on the twenty-ninth and immediately entered apprentice training as a shepherd without pay. He soon bought 160 acres of land three miles west of Boerne in Kendall County where on March 22 1879 he began what later became a very successful ranching operation. One of his early achievements was to import the superior Oxfordshire Downs sheep and start developing high-quality breeding stock that brought premium prices. Also through diversification outstanding management skills and hard work he amassed some 7000 acres of ranchland of his own and leased several hundred additional acres of state school land. Hughes quickly recognized the potential of Angora goats in his integrated ranching operation and was among the first ranchers to bring this breed to Kendall County. He purchased his seed stock from William M. Landrum of Laguna Uvalde County who moved to Texas from California in 1883. When President Grover Cleveland persuaded Congress to reduce import tariffs and Australian wool flooded the United States market in 1887 Hughes immediately switched from sheep to Angora goats and mohair production. Another innovative ranching practice he initiated was to buy cheap mustang mares and breed them to his registered Arabian stallion thus producing a durable high-quality riding horse that was popular with the United States Cavalry. During the Spanish-American War he trained and delivered hundreds of horses to cavalry units both in San Antonio and at the Mustang Island staging area near Corpus Christi. Hughes married Lucy C. Stephenson on June 28 1888. Lucy was born August 18 1864 at Alston Nenthead Cumberland England. She died sometime after 1940. She was the daughter of John James Stephenson 1821-1895 and Ann Dover Clark 1827-1905. Her parents immigrated to Kendall County Texas about 1872 where her father had a farm. The family is found in Kendall in the 1880 Census. After her marriage in 1888 Lucy's mother came to live with her and her husband and they are found together in Kendall County in the 1900 Census. Lucy's sister Ella was also living with them. The couple had three children Jane Elizabeth "Jeannie" Hughes 1889-1977 George Forbes Hughes 1892-1971 and Gerard "Jerry" Hastings Hughes 1895-1996. In addition to attending her children and keeping house Lucy encouraged by her husband began a productive dairy business with a herd of registered Jersey cows. The dairy sold up to 400 pounds of butter a month in San Antonio. Hughes founded Hastings Texas and became its first postmaster on April 17 1890. The post office was named for his father William Hastings Hughes. Hughes helped organize the Hastings one-teacher school in the mid-1890s. He wrote numerous articles and scientific papers on raising and marketing Angora goats. He also collaborated with his famous uncle Thomas Hughes author of the classic Tom Brown's School Days and founder of Rugby Tennessee in writing letters about his early Texas ranching experiences that were later published in a book GTT -Gone to Texas 1884. Hughes died in a train accident at Bellville Illinois on November 25 1902 while on his way to show his prized Angoras at a northern livestock exhibition. William "Willy" George Hughes was the son of William Hastings Hughes an established wine importer who invested in failed land deals with his brother Thomas Hughes which forced the young Willy to head out on his own to Texas. William George Hughes' uncle Thomas Hughes was a scholar known for his classic book "Tom Brown's School Days" 1880. Thomas visited America for the first time in 1870 to visit his friend James Russell Lowell. He later founded a Christian-Socialist oriented community at Rugby Tennessee and edited the book "G.T.T. Gone to Texas" published in London by Macmillan & Co. in 1884. The book includes letters written by Thomas' three nephews sons of his brother William: William George Hughes Gerard "Chico" Hughes and Henry "Harry" Hughes. The book is an excellent account of cattle and sheep ranching in Texas and it was intended by Thomas to be used to help prospective English immigrants to Texas. The book is considered one of the best accounts of Texas immigrants and ranch life. William George Hughes' father William Hastings Hughes later in life immigrated to New York. William Hastings Hughes' grandfather was John Hughes an artist and author. His wife Margaret Elizabeth Wilkinson immigrated to Thomas Hughes community at Rugby Tennessee. John Hughes was the only child of the Rev. Thomas Hughes vicar of Uffington Church one of three canons at St. Paul's Cathedral London England. The Rev. Hughes wife was Mary Ann Watts friend of Sir Walter Scott. She wrote a biography of Scott. After the death of her husband Lucy gave up Texas and moved to Massachusetts where she is found in the 1910 Census living at Milton Norfolk County Massachusetts. Lucy's sons George and Gerard attended Milton Academy. After Milton Academy George and Gerard attended Harvard together. The boys lived in the "yard" at 42 Matthews Hall when in the fall of 1916 a notice was posted which stated the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps the Army Air Corps of those days wanted a group of volunteers to enlist for the purpose of learning to fly and becoming Reserve Military Aviators RMAs. George and Jerry decided to apply together. They were among the vanguard of the early fliers. George had previously had some flying experience when he joined the flying club while attending Dartmouth 1911-1912. They applied and were asked to report to Governor's Island NYC for physical examinations in December of 1916. In late February 1917 they were told to travel to Mineola Field Garden City Long Island New York for one last series of tests they arrived in April of 1917 just at the time that America entered World War One. The lack of trained military pilot instructors meant that the Hughes brothers were taught by civilians. The Hughes brothers were among the first of the new American pilots and as such instead of heading to the front and fighting in the war as they had hoped they were initially assigned as pilot instructors. After pilot training and even before his commission as lieutenant George F. Hughes was sent to Dayton Ohio in July of 1917 to be a flight instructor at the new Wilbur Wright Field. There were simply not enough military instructors so George was hurried into becoming an instructor. By October 1917 George was made squadron commander of the 12th Aero Squadron moving it from Dayton Ohio to New York on to Amanty France then to the front. He went from being a flight instructor to being in charge of 10 officers and 150 men and their equipment which formed the 12th Aero Squadron and to make sure everyone and everything arrived in France safely by December 1917. The 12th Aero Squadron was designated an "observation" squadron and were combat ready by May 1918. George flew with the 12th Aero until the middle of July than was put in command of a new outfit the 258th Aero Squadron which he helped to ready. Just as the 258th became combat ready the war ended. George's brother Jerry after flight school was also assigned to a position as flight instructor. His station was at Chanute Field Rantoul Illinois. He arrived at the new air field in September of 1917. In December 1917 Jerry got orders to proceed to Rich Field at Waco Texas. He instructed at Waco until August of 1918 when he was sent to France. Foul weather slowed his training at Issoudun's American flying school. After Issoudun he spent time at the American gunnery school at St. Jean de Monts which he completed in a week. He was assigned to a combat unit but arrived in Toul France just as the war ended. The brothers thought they would be with the 258th Aero Squadron as part of the occupying forces in Germany but George took sick emotional breakdown and the brothers came back to New York with most of the other soldiers being released from service in February of 1919. In 1920 Lucy was found living with her daughter Jeanie in Newburgh Orange County New York. Lucy was listed as not working while Jeanie was a superintendent at a department store. After the war the Hughes brothers bought the Garden City Garage Garden City Long Island New York. Here they ran an airplane and auto mechanic business until 1946. Jerry was active in founding the Garden City Chamber of Commerce and served as its 3rd President. He also helped in a plan to create 6000 parking spaces in the Garden City area for customers of its businesses a project that drew national attention for its scope and planning. Lucy in 1925 is found in the New York State Census to be living at Hempstead Nassau County New York with her daughter Jeanie who was now working in real estate and her son Gerard who had the garage. The two brothers had married: George to Frona Brooks in 1927 and Jerry to Charlotte Christ 1904-1995 in 1928. George and his wife had two children Octavia and Anita. Jerry and his wife had four children Anne Thomas Jean and Marian. In the 1930 Census Lucy and her daughter are living together at Garden City Long Island Nassau County New York. Jeanie is now listed as a "psychologist." The two women are living with Octavia the daughter of George who was divorced living with his daughter Octavia and his sister Jeannie and his mother. Gerard Hughes appears to have outlived everyone in the family dying in 1995 at 101 years old. His sister Jeannie died in 1977 with Lucy dying sometime after 1940. Description of Archive: 1900 - 1903. 3 letters 13 pages 2 envelopes all three of these letter are to Mrs. Lucy Stephenson Hughes at Hastings Texas. One is written by S. F. Hughes Milton MA and two from W. Cameron Forbes Sheridan WY & Boston MA. W. Cameron Forbes is likely to be William Cameron Forbes partner in J. M. Forbes & Co. he writes to Lucy on the company letterhead. An investment banker he later became Governor-General of the Philippines 1908-1913 and Ambassador of the United States to Japan 1930-1932. He was the son of William Hathaway Forbes President of Bell Telephone Company and Edith Emerson daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1912 -1913. 43 letters 245 pages 37 envelopes of these 43 letters most are written in 1913. Of the 43 letters 37 are written to Mrs. Lucy Stephenson Hughes including letters from her children George 12 Gerard 8 and Jennie 6. Other letters to Lucy are written by her Aunts 5 from England Robeston Wathen Narberth. Sarah F. Hughes writes to Lucy 3 times and 3 times to George Forbes Hughes from Orchard Knoll Milton MA. Other letters are written to Lucy from friends or others. There are also 2 letters written by George one each to his sister Jennie and brother Gerard and one letter written by Gerard to his brother George and one letter written by Gerard to his brother George. The letters to Lucy start out addressed to her at Ossipee New Hampshire but apparently George temporarily moved to Everett Washington There is talk in one letter of George not being able to enter Harvard but instead going to Washington State for work. George writes to his family on the letterhead of the "Everett Railway Light and Water Company" where he apparently worked in its office. Some of the letters from 1913 from Gerard H. Hughes are written when he was attending Harvard University and he and his family are trying to convince George to give up Everett and go to Harvard. The letters offer a look at life at the university at this time. Gerard was living at 42 Gray's Hall in the "yard." One letter talks about unannounced guests a student dropped by in the middle of the night to crash at his place: "He had with him a futurist picture done by the illustrious Edward Forbes curator of the Fogg Museum and instructor of art in Harvard - at least that's what grandma told Miss Wakefield. It was news to me. The picture was supposed to represent a nigger in a water-melon patch Oh those witty Forbes! So Clever!. When Walter went he said he didn't like carrying that picture because people might think he did it. They would have grounds all right; 'cause he looks like a wandering artist without a cent." The same letter describes a prank pulled on a new Jewish student: "Speaking of kidding people I must tell you about our top floor. The occupants are: Kimball and Richardson K & R. Co. Sylvester Rothschild commonly known as Uncle Roth or simply Roth also "Unk". Besides these are minor characters: Mr. Zunston Zee Saffron & Schoenfeld. Uncle Roth is always on his high horse and one time bade me not speak to him "in such an authoritative manner." He is a Jew and a Freshman and as green as grass. K & R. Co. have been trying to get his goat all year and they have succeeded pretty well. The other day they were fooling with him and he bust a window pane. Then they saw their chance. They borrowed Zee's typewriter and wrote a letter for "Unk" in which they stated that they were sorry to inform him that because of disorderly conduct he was placed on probation. They signed the letter with "Henry A. Yeomans." Yeomans was the dean of the undergraduates Roth got the letter yesterday and hasn't slept since. He asked the janitor if he had squealed on him and the janitor said he hadn't. Unk then went and saw his faculty adviser. This august personage fell for it too and said that he couldn't tell how serious it might be but that he didn't like the sound of "disorderly conduct." Natural the poor goat is wild. He left the letter lying on his desk and K & R Co. naturally pinched it and burnt it destroying all evidence against themselves. In the meantime these rascals have been sympathizing with him and scaring him to death. They told him that if he cut he would be fired and so he can't get to see the Dean for fear of cutting. Anyhow he is going to try and see the Dean tomorrow and confess all his sins. When he tells Yeomans that he is on "pro" for busting a window pane the old boy will die laughing. I have never seen such a simple fool as Rothschild is." Rothschild later became the Vice-Consul to Gothenburg Sweden. 1914 - 51 letters 280 pages 40 envelopes of these letters 42 are written to Lucy C. Stephenson Hughes Her children Gerard 15 Jennie 10 and George 3 wrote most of them but there are also 7 letters written to Lucy from her niece Esther Stout of California 2 letters from her Aunt in England 1 letter from Sarah F. Hughes and 4 letters written by others including her friends and Henry A. Yeomans the Dean of undergraduates at Harvard University where her sons George and Gerard are studying. Also among these 51 letters is one letter written by Lucy to Dean Yeomans a typed copy of the letter sent by Dean Yeomans to Gerard 5 letters from Lucy to Gerard and 1 letter from George to Gerard. It would appear that Gerard was having a tough Freshman year at Harvard and was risking not being welcomed back for Sophomore year. There is also a letter from George to his Uncle Ainslie expressing his thoughts of quitting his job in Everett Washington and returning East to go to school at Harvard. The letters written by George and Gerard are written from Harvard and discuss chool life etc. 1915-1916 186 letters 894 pages 120 envelopes of these letters 124 are written to Lucy with 100 of these 124 written to her by her children Jennie 60 George 19 and Gerard 21. Others were written to Lucy by her Aunt in England 1 Sarah F. Hughes 4 her niece Esther Stout of California 10 and the rest by friends or associates. There are also four letters to Lucy from her stock broker W. C. Buck of J. M. Forbes & Co. The rest of the letters in this group are 9 letters from Lucy to her "boys" George and Gerard combined with 19 letters from Lucy to her son Gerard and 12 letters from Lucy to her son George and one letter to her daughter Jeanie. There are also 7 letters to Gerard from his sister Jeanie and 6 from Jeanie to her brother George. There are 2 letters from Sarah F. Hughes to George plus 1 letter from Esther Stout to her cousin Jeanie and 1 letter from "Edith" to George. One letter to Lucy is from the Dean's Office at Harvard concerning her son George. One letter is written by Gerard to his brother George. There is also a copy of a letter from Dean B. S. Hurlbut concerning the poor academic record of George at Harvard which lands George on probation with the University as well as other letters concerning life at Harvard. For several years Jeanie worked in the department store field W. T. Grant Company Deisel - English Stauses traveling throughout the Midwest New England and New York. In one letter she talks of a company in Ohio wanting her to move there to be their buyer and in another she writes to her mother about being in New York City and happy to get out: "I am rather glad to be out of New York just at present with so many strikes going on. The men on theFifth Avenue busses were striking when I left & now all of the Third Ave Street lines are striking. Don't worry dear about my becoming intimate with my business associates. There is a barrier which they cannot vault & which they seldom try to overcome." She also seems to have addressed women's clubs on her work: "Before leaving Lima OH today I went to the College Women's Club Luncheon as their only speaker and gave them a short talk on my work. They seemed very much interested. There were only 37 women I believe. I didn't mind talking the least bit." In 1916 it was still quite unusual for women to be in the workplace especially traveling on the road. Jeanie experiences what today would be termed sexual harassment. In one letter 22 Mar 1916 to her brother Gerard she writes: "I am staying at a hotel - you can imagine what it is like - city about thirty to forty thousand salesmen - "drummers" - Moses! How I hate the breed - a victrola that nearly sets my teeth on edge." Later in the same letter she writes: "Oh these drummers! How I hate the breed. My I do wish I could lay some men dead with a glance! There would be a few ready for their coffins in this junk place! One glance is enough to give them my opinion of them and that is all that is really necessary." Jeanie also reveals some tricks of the trade to keep men at bay when on the road: "My little ring is a wonderful asset - it always puts people at ease. Men are such conceited things that if they don't think you are engaged they are sure you are after them." Jeanie feels particularly harassed by Jewish men. In a letter dated April 1916 Jeanie is at Toledo Ohio and Anti-Semitic feelings are aroused: "Back to the Travelers tonight armed with a smile.I am glad that it is to be only two more weeks for although I am getting lots of fun out of it I must say that I shall be glad to be back. I dislike drummers & traveling men and when they begin to think that mine is a traveling profession I hate them worse than ever. Marshall Fields men are usually real men - nice clean cut looking the sort you can talk to about the sale of certain things without putting them into their place every two seconds. But some of those little jews - liars! And vulgar - I feel as though a conversation with them contaminated me. However my work brings me in contact with them abut seldom. The teaching & general efficiency work I enjoy to the fullest. If the Strauses want to pay me $5000.00 I'll see what I can do to elevate them - I wouldn't go for less. I would heaps rather stay with the Deisel people for $1600 any day then go to that place and make thousands for the Strauses anyway. I declare I am getting to hate Jews - they deserve to be persecuted." Overall the content of Jeanie's letters relating to her work on the road for department store companies is quite interesting for the time period. 1918 - 25 letters 112 pages 1 envelopes; of these 25 letters 2 are written to Gerard 1 to Jennie and 23 to their Mother. Of the letters written to Mother 22 are written by her son George and 1 by her son Gerard. These 1918 letters offer much interesting description and observation on the lives and experiences of military aviators during World War One. One letter dated 26 August 1918 George makes the following comments to his brother Gerard: "Paris is a hell of a place take the advice of an older brother and stay away from it. I went there with about $400 and came away poverty stricken in less than a week and didn't have anything to show for it except a pair of shoes that cost me the grand sum of 225 francs. One would have a duck fit back home if a dealer asked $40 for some foot wear but over here it's a case of "c'est la guerre" and one becomes quite immune to little chings like that." Later in the same letter he writes: "I think I'll try and get into bombing in the near future and from there to chasse. I'm beginning to get "fed up" on this observation game. I hear that back in the States they are giving men advance training in the various branches and you cast your lot for better or worse with no chance of transfer from bombing to chasse or vice versa or anything else. If that's so stick at the game of instructing and leave this war business alone. Chasse is too swift a game to go into with out some previous experience on the front and yet I'll be damned if I want to keep on warping these old hay racks for the rest of my days. Of course if one is lucky enough to get into a bunch using a two-seater fighter like the "Bristol" that's all right but ------! All the evidence personal and otherwise that I can get hold of still tends to show that flat skidding turns are the best maneuvers to pull to escape archies and hostile airplane and as a last resort go down in a fast spiral. But the main thing is to keep your eyes peeled in my opinion about 7/10 of all two-seaters shot down were caught napping or the observers' guns jammed; 3/10 may be shot down in a regular fight but I doubt it. A single chasse plane won't go near a two-seater that shows signs of having spotted him - surprise is their winning card and the one they try to play at all times." In a letter of 23 Oct 1918 George writes to his mother about the plane he was flying and the difficulty of it: "I have always had good luck in drawing ships most generally get eh best one in the market; my luck held good that trip and I drew an exceptionally good bus for a Sop. I was the last to take off and strange to say I arrived at the end of our journey about two hours ahead of the next there. It was quite a trip almost up to Calais; its quite a trick to run one of those rotary motors and the gang at the Paris field didn't think I could get away with it as I had never driven anything but a stationary motor; in the rotary type the cylinders are arranged in a circle and the whole think revolves like a big grindstone; naturally when it gets turning over at a clip of 1200 -1350 revolutions a minute there's quite a torque which tends to pull the nose of your ship to one side or the other. I took off down the field lie this â†’ the first think I knew I was in the air like this â†’â†‘ and before I could stop the damn thing I was going back down the field over the hangars "commuca" Â Strange to say I reached my destination without mishap but the next time I tried to fly the fool think - I could keep the motor running long enough to get off the ground." Almost all of the 1918 letters offer this sort of insight into the World War One aviator. 1949 -1966 - 11 letters 32 pages 3 envelopes; 3 letters dated 1949; 7 letters dated 1950 1 letter dated 1966; 3 letters are written by George to his daughter Octavia; 3 letters are written to Octavia from her Aunt Jeanie Hughes; 1 letter written to Octavia from her grandmother Lucy C. Hughes; 1 letter to Octavia from her sister Ann Hughes; 1 letter written to Octavia and Jeanie from a friend; and 1 letter to Jeanie from a friend in England. Undated - 55 letters 308 pages 4 envelopes. Of these 55 letters 41 of them are written to Lucy C. Hughes with 39 of them written to her by her children Jeanie George and Gerard. There is one letter written to Lucy by Sarah F. Hughes and 1 letter to Lucy by her niece Esther Stout of California. There are 7 letters written to George 3 from his sister Jeanie 1 from his brother Gerard 1 from Sarah F. Hughes and 2 others; 5 letters written to Gerard H. Hughes from his sister and mother and 2 letters are written to Octavia Hughes by her father George F. Hughes. Several letters appear to be incomplete. Miscellaneous Ephemeral Items Checking Account register of Lucy Stephenson Hughes 13 pages1903-1906. 3 telegrams Jeanie to her mother circa 1913-1915. 12 postcards/cards 1914-1916. 1 mss page hours worked for Mrs. Hughes 1914. 54 letterhead receipts 1913-1915 mostly 1914. 1 paystub for Octavia Hughes 1949. 58 mss pages no date appears to be notes some in French for perhaps classwork some verse etc. 20 various printed items: invitations notices advertisements school items etc. 1913-1965. 9 envelopes. books

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Van Lennep Family LettersABAA

Archive of Edward James Van Lennep and Family Director and Owner of the Sedgwick Institute Great Barrington Massachusetts son of the Rev. Henry John Van Lennep Smyrna Missionary 1830s-1970s

029990Approximately 310 letters comprising 1172 pages dated 1837-1972 with the bulk 145 letters 582 pages written in the 1890s. The letters are mostly manuscript some are typed most of the letters are without envelopes there are several incomplete letters and 67 undated letters. The letters mainly center on the family of Edward James van Lennep and his wife Alice Norton Shedd 1870s-1890s with the later letters also including their children particularly Cara Hart van Lennep Nesbit. Many of the letters were written on the letterhead of the Sedgwick Institute Great Barrington Massachusetts. Edward van Lennep took over the management of the school from his father the Rev. Henry John van Lennep. The archive also includes 4 Diaries 1880 1898-99 1899 1901 2 Account Books 1863 1914 2 Notebooks 1875-76 1 not dated 1 Commonplace Book not dated 1 Guest Book c1890s.The collection contains approximately 306 pieces of ephemera which includes printed and manuscript ephemera including letterhead business receipts medical receipts legal documents property deeds school documents banking documents telegrams manuscript pages of verse manuscript notes and memoranda postcards greeting cards invitations calling cards receipts accounts newspaper clippings pencil drawings photographs used envelopes as well as printed ephemera such as pamphlets booklets circulars advertisements and a map. Ephemera pieces are dated from 1880s-1960s. Description of Collection: Correspondence: 310 letters 1172 pages dated 1837-1972 as follows:1830s-1880s: 15 letters 65 pp. dated 1837-1888 mostly 1880s related to the Bird and Shedd families particularly Alice N. Shedd who married Edward J. van Lennep. 1890s: 145 letters 582 manuscript pp. this section begins with letters to and from Alice N. Shedd from her mother and others. Then collection also has letters relating to the courtship of Alice by her future husband Edward J. van Lennep and their marriage in 1895. There are letters to and from Alice from her husband mother and other family members as well as letters by Edward to his mother wife and others. Many of the letters are on the letterhead of the Sedgwick Institute Great Barrington Massachusetts. Edward J. van Lennep had taken over management of the school from his father Rev. Henry John van Lennep. 1900s-1910s: 39 letters 96 pp. mostly manuscript some typed most without envelopes. 1920s: 26 letters 116 pp. mostly manuscript some typed most without envelopes letters to mother Alice letters to daughter Clara some written by Alice some by Edward others 1930s-1970s: 18 letters 90 pp. mostly manuscript some typed most without envelopes. Undated Letters: 67 letters 223 pages mostly manuscript without envelopes. Account Books Commonplace Books Diaries Notebooks etc:Account Book inside cover states "Property of William Jackson 1863" 37 manuscript pages measures 4" x 6" bound in limp calf dated 1863. The book appears to list the property of a school globes desks chairs etc. amongst other related things. Notebook of William Van Lennep 67 manuscript pages bound in half black leather pebbled cloth covered boards measures 7 Â¼" x 8 Â½" written in ink in a legible hand dated 1875-1876. This volume appears to be notes for his senior year chemistry class First Session Sept-Dec 1875 and Second Session Jan-April 1876. Diary of M. J. Shedd of Great Barrington Massachusetts 21 manuscript pages bound in black cloth limp boards folding flap type diary measures 3" x 5 Â¾" three days per page format. Of the 21 pages they comprise 40 days of entries dated from April 8th to December 18th 1880. The diary was kept in ink and pencil in a legible hand and is in good condition. The first page of diary is lacking. Guest Book 16 manuscript pages written in ink in various legible hands bound in wrappers measures 6 Â½" x 8" dated 1890-1899. Appears to be a guest book for someone named Eunice it contains the signatures of visitors to Eunice's house and the towns of their residences. Diary of Mrs. Alice Norton Shedd van Lennep 67 manuscript pages entries dated 21 October 1898 to 21 October 1899 bound in paper backed boards measures 5 Â¼" x 7 Â¾" paper on boards mostly torn off text good written in ink in a legible hand. The diary starts at the birth of her daughter Emily Bird van Lennep on 27 March 1898. Mrs. Shedd is the wife of Edward James van Lennep 1856-1934. Diary of Mrs. Alice Norton Shedd van Lennep 42 manuscript pages lacks wrappers measures 6 Â¾" x 8 Â½ " written in pencil in a legible hand dated 25 June to 19 November c1899. While not signed there is much on "Birdie" who presumably is Mrs. Shedd's baby daughter Emily Bird van Lennep. Diary of Mrs. Alice Norton Shedd van Lennep 37 manuscript pages bound in wrappers measures 6 Â½" x 8 Â¼" entries written in ink in a legible hand dated 21 April - 26 July 1901. Account book 7 manuscript pages measures 3 Â½" x 6 Â½" unbound written in ink in a legible hand dated 1914. Possibly belonging to either Mrs. Hiram Shedd or E. J. Van Lennep as two pages of the accounts show board being paid by Shedd to Van Lennep. Commonplace Book 30 manuscript pages lacks binding measures 6 Â½" x 7 Â¾" not signed not dated. Notebook 26 manuscript pages bound in stiff cardboard; flip top notebook style measures 6" x 9" written in pencil legible hand not dated not signed. This notebook appears to have been kept by someone who was either in the navy or working on a ship as a fireman or signalman. 306 Pieces of Ephemera as Follows: 84 pieces of printed and manuscript ephemera includes letterhead receipts medical receipts legal documents property deeds school documents banking documents telegrams etc. mainly belonging to the family of Edward J. van Lennep his wife Alice and their children dated c1890s-1930s. 45 manuscript pages mainly verse but with 10 pages of genealogical notes not dated c1910s-1920s. Some of the verse is copied some appears to be original. Possibly belongs to Clara Hart van Lennep. 41 postcards greeting cards invitations etc. c1910s-1920s. Several addressed to Mrs. Alice S. van Lennep. 33 manuscript receipts accounts etc dated 1880-1927. Mostly for E. J. van Lennep or Alice S. van Lennep. 31 newspaper clippings c1920s some deal with a Henry van Lennep son of Edward J. Lennep who was a famous high school baseball player. 19 pieces of printed ephemera including several pamphlets or booklets such as "A Reference Guide to Salem 1630" 1935 "Philadelphia" 1906 "A Gentle Hart" by J. R. Miller 1896 printed circulars and advertisements "District School Journal of the State of New York" 1843 "Proceedings Forty-Second Continental Congress National Society D.A.R. "1933 map of Great Barrington Mass. 1952 etc. 19 used envelopes dated 1920s-1960s. Most addressed to either Clara Hart van Lennep or to her mother Alice S. van Lennep and father Edward J. van Lennep. Clara may have married a William Nesbit needs to be researched. 19 photographs measuring from 2 Â½" x 4" up to 6" x 8" not dated includes 5 cdv's only two identified 4 black and white photos of Civil War re-enactors c1950s-1960s 2 photo postcards identified on rear plus others some are identified some not. 15 pencil drawings mostly of dogs or horses possibly belonging to Clara Hart van Lennep. History of van Lennep Family of Smyrna Turkey and Great Barrington Massachusetts The Family of the Rev. Henry John van Lennep 1815-1889 Henry John Van Lennep was a noted 19th-century Christian minister missionary writer and educator born in Smyrna in what today is Izmir Turkey in 1815. The first van Lennep in Smyrna was the Rev. Henry John van Lennep's great grandfather the merchant David George van Lennep 1712-1797. David was the chief merchant of the Dutch trading station and Consul of the Dutch Nation in Smyrna. He originally left Holland for Smyrna in 1731 with Philippe de la Fontaine to set up a business. An older brother of de la Fontaine had been in Smyrna as early as 1704 and they joined him. After the de la Fontaines died retired or were bought out the business came to be called Van Lennep & Enslie. After Enslie withdrew from the business it became known as "Jacob van Lennep & Co." when David's son Jacob Van Lennep 1769-1855 the Rev. Henry's grandfather took over the business from his father. Eventually the Van Lennep's business had an extensive network of international contacts exporting silk and angora wool thread from the interior of Turkey and figs citrus and other fruits from the islands in the Aegean Sea. They imported rough cotton linen fine cloth silver and gold cloth coffee sugar indigo herbs pepper porcelain and glass. His company was also the most important commercial bank in Smyrna. Van Lennep's firm was joint owner along with others in a vessel for which David George Van Lennep represented the company as agent and broker. David George van Lennep became one of the assessors in Smyrna for the Directorate of Levant Trade and Navigation in the Mediterranean whose responsibility it was for the fitting out of all vessels which passed through the Straits of Gibraltar to verify and check their patents and bills of lading and maintain contact and correspond with the various consuls in the Levant and North Africa. He was an assessor from at least 1752 until his death in 1797. David George van Lennep was described as the uncrowned king of the Dutch Colony and his house the rendezvous of the high society of Smyrna. David George van Lennep's son Jacob took over the business from his father along with two of his younger brothers. Jacob served as the Consul General for the Netherlands at Smyrna from 1825 till his death in 1855. Jacob's son Richard eventually joined the firm. The Rev. Henry John van Lennep whose archive is offered here was the son of this Richard Van Lennep 1779-1827 and his wife Adele Maria von Heidenstam 1790-1867. Richard was born in Smyrna and became a partner in the firm of his father's Jacob van Lennep & Co. Richard van Lennep withdrew from the firm in 1804 visited the United States about 1808 to enter into new business relations after his trip to the United States he rejoined Jacob van Lennep & Co. Richard was also for a time the consul of Sweden. A revolution in Holland in the mid-1790s along with a naval defeat by the British in 1797 made continental trade difficult for the van Lennep family. These events followed by continental trade restrictions introduced by Napoleon normal overseas trade became almost impossible. It is therefore of interest that Richard having left the family firm made his journey to the United States in 1808 to seek commercial contacts there. As a consequence when he rejoined the family firm upon his return to Smyrna the company's business and trade became almost completely directed to the United States and more especially to Baltimore Philadelphia and Boston while the West Indies also became an area of interest. The only son of Richard van Lennep who did not pursue a career in business was the Rev. Henry John van Lennep. Together with his younger brother Gustave Adolphe he was sent by their parents to be educated in the United States at Mount Pleasant School in Amherst and the Hartford Grammar School no doubt to learn the ways of America to help with the family's international business. Henry John's brother Gustave Adolphe returned to Smyrna in about 1835 while Henry John continued his education at Amherst College. During his college years he decided to become a missionary and after graduation from Amherst in 1837 he spent a year at Andover Theological Seminary. He completed his training under the direction of a theologian and was ordained as a Congregational preacher the 27th of August 1839. Shortly after marrying Emma Bliss Henry John left for Turkey together with his new wife as a missionary for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. This board had been created in 1812 as a variant of the Dutch RÃ©veil Movement and had since 1830 begun spreading the "true" gospel amongst Jews Greeks and Armenians in the Near and Far East. Their missionaries also concentrated on education so that under their direction an extensive network of schools was created in the Levant. Henry John's first posting was in his birthplace Smyrna. Unfortunately his wife Emma died in 1840. After travelling extensively in Turkey and Greece Henry John returned to the United States in 1843 where he married for the second time this time Mary Elisabeth Hawes the daughter of his former tutor. Sadly his second wife also died in Constantinople in September 1844 within a year of their marriage. During the following ten years Henry John did missionary work from Constantinople and taught at a seminary in that town. During visits to Syria and Palestine he gathered material for a subsequent publication Bible Lands Their 28 Modern Customs and Manners Illustrative of Scripture 1875. In 1849 he was again in the United States where he married for the third time Emily Ann Bird 1825-1898. Emily was born in Beirut Lebanon the daughter of Isaac Bird and Ann Parker. Four years after the wedding he was transferred from Constantinople to Tokat a tiny town located along the foothills of the mountains flanking the northwestern part of central Anatolia. There he was to open a missionary post and theological seminary. During his various trips around Tokat he made detailed notes concerning the various archaeological sites he came across which he later published in two volumes as Travels in Little-Known Parts of Asia Minor 1870. He himself made the illustrations for this publication. It was at Tokat that his son Edward J. van Lennep was born in 1856. In November 1858 Henry was visited by the German Orientalist Mordtmann who described Henry John as "one of the very few erudite missionaries in this part of the world who have a solid knowledge of both the country and its languages. He is not only a linguist but also a painter musicologist hunter and botanist in short a universal genius." His rather unconventional behavior caused jealousy amongst his colleagues some of whom tried to have him removed from his post. Fortunately Henry John managed to forestall this attempt. In 1861 the couple left Tokat. After a short stay in the United States they returned to Smyrna to teach there for six years. By then the problems with his eyesight and further disagreement concerning missionary policy made him decide to return to the United States and to settle there permanently about 1867. In the U.S. he taught natural sciences Greek and modern languages at Ingham University in LeRoy New York for three years after which he moved to Great Barrington Massachusetts about the year 1870 where he became director and owner of the Sedgwick School for Boys also known as the Sedgwick Institute. Henry's son Edward worked with him at the Sedgwick School and eventually took it over after his father's death. Besides the two publications already mentioned Henry John also published Oriental Album 1862 and Ten days amongst Greek Bandits 1868. He also executed several drawings for Professor Edward Hitchcock that were included in his Geology of Massachusetts 1841 and Illustrations of Surface Geology 1860. Amherst College has a collection of his artwork several sketch albums and individual pieces and several folders of papers mostly ephemeral items. Henry John van Lennep's son William van Lennep was a well-known surgeon and professor at Hahnemann Hospital at Philadelphia a leader in the homÅ“opathic field of medicine. Edward James van Lennep 1856-1934 and Alice Norton Shedd 1869-1957 Edward James van Lennep 1856-1934 was born at Tokat Asia Minor Turkey on 26 July 1856. He first came to Great Barrington after his father relocated from Turkey about the year 1870 when Edward was only 14 years old. He attended Sedgwick Institute his father's school and was prepared for Princeton University where he graduated with two degrees Bachelors and Masters. He took a job as a professor at his father's Sedgwick Institute. Edward worked at the school teaching languages French Greek Armenian Turkish then took over as managing director and proprietor of the Sedgwick Institute after his father's retirement. Edward spent over fifty years 1877-1934 at the Sedgwick Institute. Besides teaching languages he stressed rowing organized crews for regattas and at one time owned a boat house at Lake Buel where the students did their practicing. Many of those tutored by van Lennep continued the activities at college and made a name for themselves. He also emphasized gymnastics and practiced what he preached. When he was 75 years old he noticed some children endeavoring to stand on their heads. He stopped and gave them a demonstration how to do it. At the same age of 75 he was still able to walk upstairs on his hands. Edward was a member of the First Congregational Church and served at one time as superintendent of the Sunday school. Edward John van Lennep died at Great Barrington on 1 April 1946. Edward married Alice Norton Shedd at West Stockbridge Massachusetts on 18 July 1895. Alice was born in South Egremont Berkshire County Massachusetts on 3 September 1869 and died at Great Barrington on 29 June 1957. She was the daughter of Luke Shedd and Julia Ada Norton. Luke Shedd was at one time a professor/teacher and in retirement was listed as a landlord. Another name that appears in this archive is Urania Shedd Luke Shedd's sister. Edward and Alice had at least four children: Julia Norton van Lennep 1896-1897 who died as an infant Emily Bird van Lennep 1898- Clara Hart van Lennep 1901-1980 and Henry John van Lennep 1902-1989. Henry John van Lennep was named for his grandfather and was a famous baseball player at the high school and college level Brown University. An injury appears to have cut short his career. He became an officer in the Post Office at Great Barrington Massachusetts. Clara Hart van Lennep married in 1937 to one William Bonnell Nisbet 1902-1976. Nisbet was an interior decorator. He was the son of William Browning Nisbet and Edith Bonnell. There are letters in this collection written by Clara as well as artwork. She was stated to be a painter particularly of horses as well as a photographer and an equestrian.Emily Bird van Lennep married in 1922 to Harold K. Allen 1896-2013. Together the couple had at least four children: Harold K. Allen Jr. Peter Allen Charles Ellsworth Allen 1925- who married in 1952 Marilyn Ann Miller and Robert Allen 1927-. books

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Bradford FamilyABAA

Archive of material related to Daniel Dunscomb Bradford of New York New York Consul at Paris France and a great-grandson of William Bradford Pennsylvania's first printer 1824-1838

030081Hardcover. Very Good. The archive includes: 16 letters 45 manuscript pages dated 1824-1838 with 11 manuscript pages of documents and papers dated 1827-1836 plus 162 manuscript page genealogy book of the Bradford family dated 1825; and a 76 page manuscript "Friendship Book" of Mary Ann Rodgers Bradford c. 1828-1838. Daniel Dunscomb Bradford 1808-1837 Daniel Dunscomb Bradford was born on 14 May 1808 the son of Jacob Bradford 1771-1816 and Elisa Dunscomb of New York City. He was baptized at Trinity Church New York City. Daniel was the second great grandson of William Bradford 1658-1752 the first printer in Pennsylvania and also the printer of the first book and newspaper in New York City. Daniel's father was first cousin to William Bradford 1755-1795 the second Attorney General of the United States 1794-1795. His grandfather Cornelius Bradford was the brother of the Revolutionary War printer William Bradford 1791-1791 the printer for the first Continental Congress. Daniel was one of five children the other four being: Margaret D. Cornelius died young Cornelius second of this name and David Dickson. At the age of 19 Daniel or "Dunscomb" as he was called commenced studying law and was admitted to the practice of law in 1831. He sailed for Europe after visiting England and proceeded to France where he was appointed the American Vice-Consul at Paris which office he held until his death in Paris on 5 December 1837 at the age of thirty years old. While in Paris as Consul Dunscomb was one of two non-family members present during the burial of General Lafayette in 1834. Bradford was also appointed the secretary of a committee of Americans in Paris who organized an appropriate expression of sorrow by the American people for Lafayette's death. David Dickson Bradford 1806- brother of Daniel Dunscomb married Mary Ann Rogers daughter of Dr. George Rogers of New York City by whom he had at least three children: Margaret Gage George Rogers and Mary Elizabeth. David Dickson Bradford became a seaman and eventually captain of his own vessel. Correspondence: 11 letters 34 pp. of Daniel Dunscomb Bradford written to his brother sea captain David Dickson Bradford and his sister-in-law Mary Ann Bradford dated New York and Paris 29 October 1828 - 6 April 1836. One of the letters is incomplete and two others are torn with loss of text with general browning and wear. These letters mainly concern family matters though bigger issues do intrude. In one letter 2 Jan. 1830 Dunscomb breaks the news of Cornelius Bradford's death in Jerusalem a later letter congratulates Dickson on his forthcoming marriage another discusses the welfare of their mother another writes of the family fortune or rather the lack thereof and their careers and aspirations such as sea-captain employment possibilities for Dickson etc. Dunscomb Bradford enjoyed writing on such subjects as how to behave as a gentleman and how to be happy in love and marriage. Dunscomb Bradford took his brother Cornelius Bradford's place as Consul in Paris on the latter's death in August 1830. Dunscomb too died young on 5 December 1837 and was buried in PÃ©re Lachaise. 5 miscellaneous letters 11 pp. include: 1 letter of Capt. E.M. Donaldson to David Dickson Bradford dated Philadelphia 22 May 1824 discussing travel plans for "Mrs. Hall" and "the children." 1 letter copy of David Dickson Bradford to his brother Dunscomb Bradford dated New York 24 February 1833; 1 letter of David Dickson Bradford to his wife Mary dated 5 March 1834. 2 letters of Robert Dumont to David Dickson Bradford dated New York 3 Sept. 1836 and 16 Jan. 1838 the latter written at the request of Bradford's mother informing Dickson of the death of his brother Dunscomb in Paris. The correspondence generally soiled browned and worn. Some sheets torn at wax seals etc. But it is in generally good legible con hardcover books

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Ashley JA. and Family of Michigan J. A.ABAA

AUTOGRAPH ALBUM CONTAINING MORE THAN 80 SIGNATURES INCLUDING PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS WILLIAM H. SEWARD JOHN A. DIX HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW PRESTON KING CHARLES SUMNER AND OTHERS; ABOUT 40 SIGNATURES OF MEMBERS OF THE 36TH AND 37TH U.S. CONGRESS AND CABINET MEMBERS DATED ABOUT 1861; SOME PROMINENT MEN FROM TEHE MONTANTA TERRITORY; AND ABOUT TWENTY-TWO SIGNATURES FROM THE AREA AROUND EUREKA CALIFORNIA DATED 1908-1909 MANY OF WHICH ARE U.S. ARMY AND NAVY OFFICERS

1900366431900. 5-1/4" x 7-3/4". Approx. 160 pp. Autograph album with red gilt decorated covers worn boards detached but present spine missing. Pages have been removed and the remaining pages are mostly loosened. Signatures are written both directly on the book's pages and also on separate pieces of paper tipped in. Some toning and staining of the occasional page. While the binding is in in fair condition the pages that remain are Good to Very Good. Autographs include in part: "Auburn Nov. 14 1860 Dear Sir I comply very cheerfully with the request contain in your courteous note and remain Respectfully your obednt servant William H. Seward" U.S. Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869 Governor of New York and U.S. Senator from New York. "Washington 11 Feb 1861 Sir I have the pleasure of complying with your request. Respectfully yours John A. Dix". Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. "Yours truly Henry W. Longfellow" Famous poet and author of "Paul Revere's Ride". "Washington Dec. 16 1860/ Mr. T.A. Ashley/ Dear Sir Your letter of Dec. 10 is recd. Respectfully Preston King." Early free soil politician. "Dear Sir Faithfully Yours Charles Sumner" Massachusetts senator and Radical Republican. "Very truly yours Schuyler Colfax member from Indiana" "Washington Feb. 25 1861 to F.A. Ashley Esq. Dear Sir Yours of the 21st received and I hereby comply with your request Respectfully yours & c. Owen Lovejoy/ F.A. Ashley Esq. Detroit Mich." U.S. Representative from Illinois conductor on the Underground Railroad brother of Elijah Lovejoy friend of Abraham Lincoln. "Washington D.C. August 24 1890 J.B.Cheadle Frankfort Indiana/ Represented the 9th Indiana District in the 50th & 51st Congresses. Elected in 1886 by 3416 majority and in 1888 by 4450 majority." "Very truly your friend W.H. Coffron North Baruch Mich. Washington D.C. 11/30/'84" with cartoon face. Michigan physician; graduate treasurer secretary and professor of Georgetown University. "With best wishes J. N. Gillette Governor of California Sept. 9th 1909". "House of Representatives Washington Feb. 21st 1861/ G.A. Ashley Esq. Detroit Mich. Sir Yours of the 19th came to hand this evening. Very respectfully your obedt. Servant Cyrus Aldrich" Minnesota; "Yours truly Jas. Harlan" Early Free Soil politician federal judge U.S. Cabinet Secretary of the Department of the Interior under President Johnson; "Mason W. Tappan Ho. Reps. Washington 2/14/1861 Sir I am making a hand somewhere; and I prefer to make it before I start to run at all" New Hampshire "I'll try it and let you know Sam Gordon Miles City Aug. 17 83" New York native later settled in Montana where he established the Yellowstone Journal. "Albany April 10 1861 Dear Sir If you think my humble name written with my own hand will add anything to the value of your collection it gives me pleasure to make this small contribution. Yours with respect Ira Harris/ To F.A. Ashley Esq." New York senator and friend of Abraham Lincoln. "My Dear Bill Yours Truly J. Guthrie Asst. U.S. Inspector Hulls San Francisco CA Eureka Ca. March 2 1905" H. Winter Davis "James R. Doolittle "Louis Kerrsft Rear Admiral U.S. Navy 2nd March 1905"; "Yours very truly/ Alex. W. Buel"Michigan; B.F. Magee M.C. Michigan; "Truly Yours John T. Shurtleff Sept. 25 1909" H.P. Baldwin'; A.A. Burnham CT; Chas. A. Mack Jr.; Kinsley S. Bingham MI; Frank Higham Detroit M.; R.E. Trowbridge MI; W.K. Sebastian AR; John A. Gilmer NC a member of the Confederate Congress; JesseD. Bright IN owned plantation in KY with slaves and was the only person from a Northern State expelled from the Senate for his Confederate sympathies; J. Morrison Harris MD; Wm. Bigler PA 12th governor of PA ; John Cochrane NY; Zachariah Chandler Michigan leading abolitionist in Congress; M.S. Latham MI; Alex. W. Buell MI; John J. Perry Oxford Maine; Kit Adams; Emerson Etheridge TN; Edgar Cowan U.S.S. PA; Jno Goode PA; Miss T.C. Ashley; Loren C. Caddell; USMP Maj. Samuel Ruggles prominent New Yorker ; W.J. Thorne M; Alfred Ely; Katie Lackey; "Eureka July 23 1908 Hit the bear hard! Charles Ausyl Clarke U.S. Navy with much affection for Mr. Bell"; "Washington City D.C. Feby. 14 1861/ I am Truly Yours J. Markley" Ohio; Milton S. Davis Lieut. U.S.S.; C. Case IN; Harry C. Frankenfield DC 11/30/84; W.B. Holland; Sedley Chaplin supt. Construction Supervising Architects Office Treasury Deptt. Sept. 21 1909: Edward J Morris PA; William Pennington NJ; Neal Delano; Miriam F. Richmond; "A of Michigan" followed by signatures of Frank Johnson Charles B. Wood Gore Porter R.E. Frazer Aaron C. Jewett George Kingsley James A. Brown Dept. of Medicine; "Edwin Z. Pritchett 1st Lieut. 1st Field Artillery June 24 1909"; Walter S. Sturgill; Edgar H. Towar Detroit; 4/30/1861; B. Stanton Ohio; J Stout Oregon; H.H. Munds 1883 Billings MT; Senator from California R.L. Edwards; R.F. Woolfield and WH. Coory Montana; and others. unknown books

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CIRCUS Cooke FamilyABAA

Disbound albums of photographs relating mostly to members of the Cooke family depicting circus performances around the world as well as portraits and other travel photographs

192038961Various places 1920. Two oblong albums or portions of albums with many detached images. In all approx. 300 photographs. Many trimmed and mounted mostly 2x3 inches or smaller. A fascinating archive of photographs relating to the famous family of Cooke's Royal Circus. The Cooke family was one of several notable families during their time of circus performers and owners that spanned several generations. In circus families family members were taught and trained in the necessary skills of various acts in the circus from a young age and then integrated into the family business. Cooke's Royal Circus was started by Thomas Cooke in Scotland around 1780 after which he and his extended family members traveled around Scotland and England doing performances. They were especially noted for their equestrian acts and continued to gain in popularity and grow to around forty participating family members by the 1830s. In 1836 Thomas Cooke's son brought the show to America where they performed in cities including New York Boston and Philadelphia before returning to Britain following a mixed reception. They continued to perform throughout the rest of the 19th century and the 20th century in both travelling shows and various "permanent" locations. Images include animal acts with elephants and horses as well as clowns stunts and other acts. Many images are captioned detailing locations including Great Britain including performances at Wembley Stadium France Italy and India. Although mostly from the 1920s the album includes a loose carte-de-visite of John Henry Cooke autographed by him on verso and dated 1874. unknown books

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Pitts Family PapersABAA

Group of Papers and other materials of Esek Pitts his son Amos Wood Pitts and family of Mendon Worcester County Massachusetts includes papers on Abolition Slavery History and Genealogy 1819-1909

03015613 letters 35 manuscript pp plus various papers 266 manuscript pp. on Abolition and Slavery and History and Genealogy; plus other printed and manuscript paper ephemera and photographs all dated 1819-1909. Esek Pitts 1775-1834 Amos Wood Pitts 1804-1858 and Esek B. Pitts 1837-1888Esek Pitts was born about 1775. He learned the trade of hatter but became a pioneering wool manufacturer in the Mendon area of the Blackstone River Valley in Massachusetts. He was chosen as captain of a military company and was for many years a Justice of the Peace. He also served for many years as a selectman in the town of Mendon Massachusetts and for a couple of terms as a state legislator during the period of Andrew Jackson's presidency.Esek married Abigail Wood on 5 April 1803 at Uxbridge Massachusetts. Together the couple had at least eight children: Maria Pitts Fairbanks1803-; Amos Wood Pitts born 14 February 1804; Louisa Pitts Buffum 1805-; Esek Brown Pitts d. 1837; Fanny Willard Pitts Munyan 1810-; Abigail Pitts Capron 1813-; Job Pitts 1815-1891; and Emeline Pitts Wallis 1819-1857. Esek died 12 September 1834 his wife died shortly thereafter on 7 October 1834.The present collection of papers seems to have descended through the family of Amos Wood Pitts 1804-1858 as several items have his name or his son's name on them. Amos Wood Pitts was born 14 February 1804 at Uxbridge Worcester County Massachusetts and died 16 November 1858. He had a good education in the higher English branches of scholarship and was a school committeeman and town clerk of Mendon at one time. Amos was also a skilled accountant and served in his youth as a sub-manager of a woolen manufacturer presumably his father's company.Amos Wood Pitts married Mary Ann Ballou. She was born about 8 June 1806 and died 12 January 1875. Together Amos and Mary Ann Ballou had at least four children: Esek Brown Pitts 1837-1888; Seth Simmons Pitts 1838-; Joseph Pitts 1842-; and Flora Abigail Pitts 1847-1848.Amos' son Esek Brown Pitts was born 8 Nov 1837 at Mendon Worcester County Massachusetts. He served as a private in Company H 15th Mass Infantry from at least 25 May 1861 to 28 November 1862. He died on 22 May 1888. He made a living in the manufacture of boots and moved to Chicago. The Bible that he kept with him during the Civil War is present in this collection. Esek B. married Lizzie M. Gleason 1854- on 15 June 1874. Esek and Lizzie had at least one daughter Flora May Pitts who was born in 1875 at Northbridge Massachusetts.The archive includes the following letters papers photographs and ephemera:Correspondence:13 letters 35 manuscript pages dated 4 May 1819 to 10 May 1909. There are 2 letters addressed to Esek Pitts and 2 letters written by him the other letters are by later family members. Four of the letters appear to be retained copies a couple of which are possibly incomplete.Manuscript Papers on Abolition:60 manuscript pp. address on Abolition "Whether the proceedings of the Abolitionists are or are not justifiable was stated by us in the affirmative to depend very much upon the question whether slavery was or was not an evil which ought to be abolished."The piece compares the North and South and it mentions Calhoun and the fact that the South is waking up to the fact that the North was winning this argument in their state legislatures. It appears the talk may have been given to a society or organization as the writer addresses "Mr. President." Not dated but John Calhoun is cited and he died in 1850 thus circa 1830s-1850s. The authorship is unclear but is likely one of the Pitts men either Esek or his son Amos.41 manuscript pp. address on Abolition "There is a proposition while I believe may be safely predicated; and that is that the system of American slavery is either right or wrong. And if so it follows of course that it ought to be either sustained or abolished. If the latter then of course the object which the abolitionists have in view is a good one."Not dated circa 1830s-1850s. The author is likely one of the Pitts men either Esek or his son Amos.6 miscellaneous manuscripts on the subject of Abolition and Slavery 20 manuscript pp. includes 3 items: "Letters to the Editor" pieces meant for publication in the local newspaper Woonsocket Patriot plus 2 other pieces titled "Beauties of South Slavery" numbered 1 & 2 with the subtitle "By their fruits ye shall know them." The sixth piece dated 1838 and is perhaps notes for an address written for the Lyceum about Abolition. Five of the six pieces are not dated circa 1830s-1850s. The author is likely either Esek or Amos Pitts.1 volume 14 manuscript pp. plus blanks bound in marbled paper wrappers not dated c.1835-1836.Includes several pieces of verse and prose by E.B. Pitts dated 1835 on first page then 6 pages on Abolition appears to have been written for the newspaper Woonsocket Patriot plus a letter to the editor and miscellaneous notes about Abolition also presumably by Esek B. Pitts.Other Manuscript Papers on History Genealogy and Restorationist Society:1 volume 10 manuscript pp. plus blanks measures 7 Â½" x 12" bound in marbled paper wrappers includes: "Records of the First Restorationist Society Millville Book No.1" dated 23 April 1837 - 17 May 1841. Manuscript meeting minutes for this society of which Amos Wood Pitts and Esek B. Pitts were members. Amos W. Pitts was the clerk for the society.28 manuscript pp. various topics some political some appear to be pieces written and/or rewritten for submission to newspaper Woonsocket Patriot etc not dated circa 1830s-1850s. Author is likely either Esek or Amos Pitts.26 manuscript pp. a historical paper on early American exploration Cabot to the Puritans not dated circa 1830s-1840s authorship is unclear but likely either Esek or Amos Pitts.13 page manuscript on the importance of history worn at edges some tears at folds likely by one of the Pitts men not dated circa 1830s-1840s54 manuscript pages of genealogical and historical notes on the Pitts family not dated circa late 19th Century.Printed and Manuscript Ephemeral Material:1 oversize certificate torn and in pieces for Esek Pitts 1775-1834 his appointment as a Justice of the Peace dated 20 January 1826 partially printed and completed in manuscript.1 U.S. Treasury Department form for $100.00 payable to Esek B. Pitts for his discharge bounty from military service with Company H 15th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers during the Civil War dated 22 April 1872 partially printed and completed in manuscript.Photographs:3 photographs one tintype 5 Â½" x 7 Â½" of a woman one cabinet card 4 Â¼" X 6 Â½" of two small children one cabinet card of young man none are dated or signed two taken by Albee photographer of Athol Mass.Books Pamphlets and Printed Ephemera:1 pocket Bible with signature of Esek B. Pitts 15th Regt. Massachusetts Volunteers presented to Pitts by a member of the 20th Mass Regiment dated 9 March 1862. Esek B. Pitts was the son of Amos Wood Pitts and the grandson of Esek Pitts 1775-1834."Northbridge in the Rebellion. An Address Delivered by George L. Gibbs before Jesse L. Reno Post 167 G.A.R. Memorial Day May 30 1889 at Whitinsville Mass. with an Appendix Containing Statistics Concerning the Town of Northbridge in the Rebellion" Published by Request. Uxbridge Mass L.H. Balcome Steam Printer 1889. Wrappers 40 pages lacks rear wrapper."Anti-Slavery Tracts. No. 9. New Series. The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act: An Appeal to the Legislators of Massachusetts" By L. Maria Child. Boston: Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society 1860. 36 pages."An Address to the People of Massachusetts by the Friends of Temperance and of the Statute of 1838 'For Regulation of the Sale of Spirituous Liquors'" Boston: Printed by Perkins & Marvin 1838. 24 pages.1 volume containing: "Literary Port Folio" No. 1-5 Jan 7-Feb 4 1830 pages 1-34; No. 9-26 March 4 - July 1 1830 pages 65-202 207-208 published in Philadelphia includes 2 plates lacks pages 35-64 203-206 possibly others after 208 dis-bound very worn."Historical Facts and Stray Thoughts from The Old Elder Ballou Meeting House in the town of Cumberland R.I." by Anna M. Whipple 1897. 15 pages 3 plates good."Fourteenth Annual Commencement of the Women's Medical College Chicago Hershey Music Hall April 22 1884" Maria Louis Pitts was a member of the Class of 1884.1 card announcing death of "James G. Herd" of Clark Herd Manufacturing Co. who died on 2 Nov 1913 sons to take over business.1 copy Worcester Daily Spy newspaper dated April 11 1863 worn at edges and folds some tears 4 oversize pages has account of the "Battle of Ball's Bluff."Miscellaneous Ephemera Items:1 folding leather wallet worn name of "Amos Wood Pitts Mendon" inside flap. books

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Haring Erastus and familyABAA

A SERIES OF FISHING TRIPS TO MAINE 1928-1939 as recorded by the Haring family in a photograph album containing about 160 photos heavily captioned beneath or along side the photographs or on adjacent leaves in white ink

193864886Maine 1938. Photograph album 7 3/8 x 11 1/2 inches 44 of 48 leaves employed both sides used for either mounting photographs or describing them or both with short narratives about trips occasionally interspersed; affixed to two leaves are reproduced copies of a 1937 manuscript map executed by Erastus Haring picturing the lake hand-colored blue and identifying physical features and property owners all along its shores. The Erastus Haring family of Suffern New York vacationed at the same time at the same cabin on Sebec Lake about 40 miles northwest of Bangor for twelve summers recording their fishing adventures and other outdoor activities e.g. sailing waterboarding in the album. The majority of the photographs depict the Haring family especially sons Warren and Horace boating and catching salmon trout and bass with many "action" images and more of "stringed" fish; also captured are occasional fishing hiking or sight seeing trips to nearby spots in Maine e.g. Moosehead Lake Rangeley Lake Bar Harbor Mount Katadhin. A number of the photos focus on community life around the lake with outdoor meals neighbors in front of houses fish preparation for meals etc. The detailed captions add a great deal of context to the album; in addition to exhaustive identification of people places and dates there are manuscript full-page poems at least one attributed to Mr. Haring with content related to fishing pithy quotations related to the sport "the fellow who keeps his hook in the water catches the fish" and descriptions of the day's fishing events "with Richard it may be a long time before he catches another as large as this one". Two photographs missing two laid in loose an excellent family pictorial record of summer excursions for land-locked salmon and other species mostly on Sebec Lake northwest of Bangor. Brown faux-crocodile leather binding gilt stamped "Photographs" on upper cover tied. 11157. hardcover books

Bartlebys Books · États-Unis1 250,00 $US≈ 1 057,63 €

Higgins FamilyABAA

Manuscript. Early American Student's Ciphering Book

17933003Cape Cod MA 1793. Folio paper stock ca. 300 x 200 mm. 24 pp. on laid paper MS entries covering every page. In contemporary "home-made" rough canvas wrappers worn some damage with loss of text and inherent soiling to text. At least 8 ff. have been excised at the end and elsewhere. Fair condition but an extraordinary survival. Preserved in a mylar L-sleeve backed with lig-free board. This crude manuscript graphically exhibits the extraordinary lengths to which colonial American students had to go in order to teach themselves. Provincial home-made textbooks such as this one almost never survive; we are unable to explain how -- or why -- this relic survived at all especially considering its lamentable condition. The manuscript was certainly owned by the Higgins family of Cape Cod who had descended from the Mayflower and who fought during the Revolutionary War see below. The present ciphering book solves often complex math and word problems generally in the service of commerce. Currency is almost exclusively in British coinage but there is one reference to the conversion of British pounds into DOLLARS fol. 7v. The present manuscript bears the date "April the 17th year 1793" in a later hand! on the final page: thus the MS features a very early reference to U.S. dollars by an American student NB: on April 2 1792 the U.S. Congress created the United States dollar as the standard unit of currency. Lessons herein include the Numeration Table; Addition of Money; Addition of Troy Weight; Addition of Dry Measure; Subtraction; Multiplication Table; the Golden Rule or Rule of Three and more. PROVENANCE: Higgins family of Eastham / Granville / Orleans MA. Several hands have contributed to the creation of the MS. On the verso of the penultimate leaf are written the first names of several members of the Higgins family including Solomon Anna Elisa etc. These names were written below an exercise concerning the application of the Golden Rule to calculate the division of a bequest in this instance the Higgins family itself. On the recto of the final leaf is the repeated inscription of a member of the Higgins family who has resisted identification. The text on the verso of the final leaf is dated 1793 but this was clearly written by a later hand. On this page are written the names of several debtors to an unidentified individual including "Timothy Doane of Eastman" and "Solomon Higgins of Granville." More provenance research on this MS will no doubt prove rewarding. unknown books

Michael Laird Rare Books LLC · États-Unis1 250,00 $US≈ 1 057,63 €

Edgeworth FamilyABAA

Bound collection of French pamphlets relating to the French Revolution Napoleon etc.

1800244358vp chiefly Paris 1800. 8vo. Half calf and boards rebacked preserving most of original spine. 8vo. Sammelband of pamphlets pertaining to the Directory Council of 500 and Napoleon's rise to power. SIGNED "C. Sneyd Edgeworth / June 1817" on the half-title of the first pamphlet. Charles Sneyd Edgeworth was Maria's half-brother; his mother Elizabeth Sneyd was Mr. Edgeworth's third wife. With a list of pamphlets in Charles's hand on the first blank. An important anti-Napoleon pamphlet "Vrai Sens du Vote National" is INSCRIBED by the author Camille Jordan "par Mr Edgeworth de la part de l'autor" partially trimmed. unknown books

James Cummins Bookseller · États-Unis1 200,00 $US≈ 1 015,32 €

Original watercolour and Manuscript Poem entitle "The Birth-Day Banner or a Tribute to Virtue." produced to celebrate the 21st birthday of Edward Westby Nunn 1821-1881 of Hill Castle and St. Margaret's county Wexford Ireland

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Original watercolour and Manuscript Poem entitle "The Birth-Day Banner or a Tribute to Virtue." produced to celebrate the 21st birthday of Edward Westby Nunn 1821-1881 of Hill Castle and St. Margaret's county Wexford Ireland

Di Giulio Cesare e Luco Spinoli 1619.

Fifteen Drawings by Charles de Chatillon circ. 1800 Illustrating the Family History of the Talbots Earls of Shrewsbury 1071-1541

Archive of Family and Business Correspondence of the Plumb-Nichols-Norris Families of Denver and Fort Morgan Colorado 1856-1960

Manuscript Account Books of a Quaker Shoemaker and Manufacturer of Leather Goods

Book of Samurai Family Crests.

Manuscript Travel Diaries of Dr. Frederick E. Hyde 1887-1932 widower of Babbitt Soap heiress Ida J. Babbitt Hayes; with Diaries of his daughter Elizabeth â€œLizzieâ€ Alvina Hyde 1911-1912

Archive of Correspondence Journals Ledgers Photographs and Ephemera of the family of attorney Eliot Tuckerman Esq. of Evarts Choate & Beaman a leading New York City law firm 1848-1954

The Weber Murphy Family Album titled The Weber Murphy Family Photographic Archive on the boxes

"LEAP FOR JOY . . . DR. WARREN HAS CLOSED THE OPERATION UPON PHEBE'S UNFORTUNATE SWELLING." Letter describing Dr. John Warren's successful removal of a precancerous tumor from an adolescent girl

ARCHIVE OF CORRESPONDENCE AND PHOTOGRAPHS TO AND FROM MULTIPLE GENERATIONS OF THE HANCOCK FAMILY OF VIRGINIA ALABAMA AND TEXAS

A book filled with folly in foolish sketch and rhyme as a wedding present for a family member

Archive of Edward James Van Lennep and Family Director and Owner of the Sedgwick Institute Great Barrington Massachusetts son of the Rev. Henry John Van Lennep Smyrna Missionary 1830s-1970s

Archive of material related to Daniel Dunscomb Bradford of New York New York Consul at Paris France and a great-grandson of William Bradford Pennsylvania's first printer 1824-1838

Disbound albums of photographs relating mostly to members of the Cooke family depicting circus performances around the world as well as portraits and other travel photographs

Group of Papers and other materials of Esek Pitts his son Amos Wood Pitts and family of Mendon Worcester County Massachusetts includes papers on Abolition Slavery History and Genealogy 1819-1909

A SERIES OF FISHING TRIPS TO MAINE 1928-1939 as recorded by the Haring family in a photograph album containing about 160 photos heavily captioned beneath or along side the photographs or on adjacent leaves in white ink

Manuscript. Early American Student's Ciphering Book

Bound collection of French pamphlets relating to the French Revolution Napoleon etc.

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