Famille

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Archivo heraldico-genealogico. Précédé de Familias Nobres do Algarve et suivi de Indice heraldico ou desripçao completa armas de todas as familias. En 1 volume.

71383aafLisboa, Typographia universal, 1872, 1900, in-4to, 186 p. + L + 686 p. + CCXXX, quelques annotations à la plume dans les dernières pages, reliure en demi-cuir, tranches rouges, pièce de titre au dos.

Harteveld Rare Books Ltd. · Fribourg, Suisse450,00 CHF≈ 430,05 €

royal familyBiblio.com

Archeology <Japanese Version>

19882092902141206598Forbidden City Publishing Company 1988. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Forbidden City Publishing Company paperback

Potato Head Bookshop · Singapour100,00 $US≈ 84,61 €

Multiple ContributorsMareMagnum

Architectural Digest Magazine, January 2005 30 Deans of American Design

182 pages. Features: Honor Roll of visionary architects and interior designers; The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland update England's storied Alnwick Castle; A 1960s hillside home in Bel-Air is reconfigured - foot for 007; Splendor in Manhattan - a dramatic setting for antiques and art high above New York's Ritz-Carleton; An informal family retreat in the Hamptons; View home in San Francisco; Carving a modern home from old on an island near Sicily; New York penthouse by Mojo; Couple's new home in Washington by Robert S. Brown and Todd Davis; Special Motoring Section - automobiles are changing with the times, ahead of the curve at Renault, celebrating 40 years of the Porsche 911, Daryl Hannah's El Camino runs on biodiesel - an ethanol-thinned vegetable oil. Light wear. Unmarked. A nice copy. Magazine

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Kretschmer, Hans:Biblio.com

Archiv für Sippenforschung und alle verwandten Gebiete mit Praktischer Forschungshilfe. Hefte 2 4 5 bis 25 27 bis 60.

1961246187C.A. Starke Verlag Limburg/Lahn 1961. Softcover 1961-1975. Hefte 2 4 5 bis 25 27 bis 60. 27. Jahrgang bis 41. Jahrgang ohne Heft 1 3 und 26. Das sind 57 Hefte. Zustand: keine Beschädigungen keine Eintragungen Rücken Ecken Kanten gut. C.A. Starke Verlag, Limburg/Lahn, paperback

Buchantiquariat Clerc Fremin · Allemagne199,00 €

[Spanish-American War]. [McCook Family]Biblio.com

Archive Containing Original Photographs Letters and Documents Pertaining to the Military and Post-Military Careers of Major General Alexander McDowell McCook and His Son-in-Law Brigadier General Chauncey Brooke Baker

19025176Various locations in Cuba 1902. Very good. Seventeen loose folio scrapbook leaves each with mounted correspondence or other documents; one vernacular photograph album; two scrapbooks; and a small number of loose documents and newspaper clippings as detailed below. An informative archive comprised of material from two generations of the McCook family of Ohio specifically two different military officers -- Major General Alexander McDowell McCook and his son-in-law Brigadier General Chauncey Brooke Baker 1860-1936. Baker was married to McCook's eldest daughter Lucianna "Lucy" McCook Baker who seems to have compiled the various components of the present archive which mostly documents the career of her husband Chauncey Baker. The collection includes seventeen loose folio scrapbook leaves each with mounted correspondence or other documents one photograph album two scrapbooks and a small number of loose documents and newspaper clippings. Union Army General Alexander McDowell McCook one of the "Fighting McCooks" continued his army career after the war in the regular Army. He commanded Fort Leavenworth Kansas from 1886-1890 the Department of Arizona from 1890-1893 and the Department of Colorado from 1893-1895. He was joined in each location by his daughter and son-in-law. Chauncey Brooke Baker married Lucy McCook while at Leavenworth and later served as McCook's aide-de-camp and acting engineering officer at Los Angeles and Denver Headquarters Department of Arizona and Colorado. Later promotions and the start of the Spanish-American War led Baker to Cuba in a quartermaster role. It seems his wife accompanied him there and began acquiring the images now housed in the photograph album offered here. Lucy Baker died in 1923 placing the scrapbooks completion date before that time. The material is detailed as follows: 1 Seventeen loose scrapbook leaves containing twenty-five pieces of correspondence typed documents and printed documents primarily associated with the later business dealings of Alexander M. McCook while he was stationed in Utah Colorado Kansas. This material dates mostly between 1882 and 1898. Letters are from a variety of correspondents and reflect McCook's post-war military career at frontier installations his involvement in the railroads investments and other personal matters. One of the more informative documents details the history of McCook's military service from his entry to West Point in 1847 through his appointment to the Department of Arizona in 1894. The collection also includes a handful of loose documents and letters as well as an envelope of newspaper clippings documenting McCook's later affairs. One notable item is a four-page offprint of a memorial of McCook written by Col. Horace N. Fisher and first published in the Boston Transcript on Sunday June 13 1903. General McCook had just passed away the previous day at Lucy's house in Dayton Ohio. 2 Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting Cuba Under Spanish Occupation and the United States Military Government's Occupation. Various locations in Cuba: ca. 1898-1902. 24 leaves illustrated with 303 silver gelatin photographs from 3.25 x 2.25 to 7.5 x 9 inches. Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter calf and black cloth boards. Spine perished most leaves separated from spine but held to each other by cloth gutter in a few groupings. Leaves worn silvering to some images. Inscribed on front free endpaper "Lucy McCook. Fort Leavenworth Kansas Nov 21st 1888." Lucy likely dated the album in 1888 then never used it as all of the images in the album emanate from Cuba. The photographs depict a mixture of rural and urban scenes featuring native Cubans as well as Americans Cuban and American military personnel landmarks military installations ships recreation building interiors with some images depicting the remnants of war. Notable are three large format photographs at the end of the album: a photograph of armed soldiers and a religious figure exiting a fortress-like structure with handwritten caption below "On the way to the Garote Castillo del Principe - during the Spanish occupation;" a photograph showing a large group of men assembled at tables and chairs in a gallery-style room with a handwritten caption reading "Opening of the Cuban Constitutional Convention - Havana - Nov. 5th 1900 General Leonard Wood Military Governor reading address in full uniform Temporary President on his left;" and a photograph of Havana's large cathedral with a crowd gathered captioned "Governor General Weyler entering Cathedral Havana Spanish Occupation." Captions were likely added by Lucy McCook whose husband was serving at the time as quartermaster chief quartermaster and depot quartermaster in the U.S. Army's Division and Department of Cuba. This album is the most historically-important and useful item in the present archive. 3 Scrapbook of Newspaper Clippings and an Original Drawing of an American Military Officer in Indian Territory. N.p.: early 1900s. 11 leaves illustrated with newspaper clippings and one drawing. Quarto. Contemporary brown cloth elaborately tooled in black title in gilt on front cover and spine. Moderate wear rubbing and dust-soiling. Inscribed on front free endpaper "Lucy McCook Baker / Los Angeles - California / April 1892." An interesting collection of mostly newspaper clippings associated with Native American rituals related to the Moqui Indians the Army and articles on General McCook or Lieutenant Chauncey Baker. The album also includes an original pen drawing titled in manuscript "Tent of The Macauley in Camp at Guthrie I.T. 20th June 1889." The drawing features a military figure standing in a road holding a small shovel in the air in front of a sign pointing one way to Oklahoma and the other way to Ft. Leavenworth. The drawing is signed at bottom "Glück." 4 Scrapbook of Ephemeral Items Relating to the Military Careers of Alexander McDowell McCook and Chauncey Baker Plus Later Items Related to Another Member of the McCook Family. N.p.: early 1900s. 9 leaves illustrated with telegrams pamphlets invitations and other ephemeral items. Quarto. Contemporary aqua cloth with gilt titles on front cover string tied. The items primarily concern McCook's and Baker's military service including an "In Memoriam" for Alexander McDowell McCook as well as some items relating to the later military career of Alexander McCook Craigshead. A diverse collection of materials relating to the careers of two notable military men serving in the American West and in Cuba during the Spanish-American War with a wonderful vernacular photograph album documenting the latter and the whole likely retained and organized by the daughter and wife respectively of the men involved. unknown

McBride Rare Books · États-Unis2 250,00 $US≈ 1 903,73 €

CARRINGTON, EDWARD SR AND FAMILYBiblio.com

ARCHIVE LOT OF 59 DIARIES 1867 THROUGH 1913 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARIES OF PATRIARCH EDWARD CARRINGTON SR. AND OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS IN COLEBROOK CONNECTICUT

1867000060Colebrook Connecticut CT 1867. On offer is a superb archive of 59 original manuscript multi-generational family of diaries spanning the civil war era through the early 20th century. The Carrington Family Diaries 1867 - 1913. All 59 diaries from members of the Carrington Family of Colebrook Connecticut. The patriarch Edward Sr. wife Sarah Ann Terry Carrington sons Edward C. Jr. died in the Civil War and Edwin T. and daughters Sarah and Kate. Edward Sr. died in 1878 and Sarah Ann Terry Carrington died in 1881. Both are buried in the Colebrook Center Cemetery in Colebrook Connecticut. Sarah Ann Terry Carrington mother was the daughter of Eliphalet Terry of New York. The group breaks down as follows: Sarah Terry matriarch wife of Edwin: 11 diaries: 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877. typical diary entries; Edward Carrington Snr father of Edwin: 8 diaries: 1857 1867 1868 1869 1870 1872 1873 1874. sporadic point form entries for the most part business like records of day to day business and some personal content.; Edward Carrington Jnr: 4 diaries: 1855 1855 1857 1860. typical diary entries of an obviously young man.; Katherine Carrington a daughter: 2 diaries: 1868 1872. typical diary entries. Edwin Carrington patriarch after Edward Snr: 34 diaries: 1875 1876 1878 1879 1880 1881 1883 1884 1885 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1903 1904 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913. like the father sporadic at tmes point form entries for the most part business like records of day to day business interspersed with personal content. ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND: Lieut. Edward Carrington son was killed in the Civil War in St. Marks Florida in the Natural Bridge Conflict on March 6 1865 but the family did not get the news until March 22 1865. In 1871 the son Edwin was married to Charlotte nicknamed Lottie born April 9. 1847 and the couple moved to Scio NY. Edwin then moved to Bay City Michigan it appears in 1875. His wife and son Winny born in 1873 did not move with him to Michigan but rather stayed in Scio NY. Edwin traveled extensively on business by train and then in the later years by automobile and visited his family about every two months coupled with his business trips. Edwin was Secretary and Treasurer of the Bay City Building Company Rifle Room Company and Ausable Lumber Company in Michigan. Edwin and Lottie's son Winny died at the age of two years and eights months on 2/15/1876 and father did not make it home in time. A daughter Sarah was born in 1876; a son Eddy was born in 1877 and a daughter Gracie in 1882. Some of the earlier years have diaries from more than one member of the family. Edwin's diaries of 1875 - 1913 are both diaries as well as his business day planners. All have notations at the back of expenses and costs. As a hobby he enjoyed duck hunting. In 1901 Edwin and Lottie became grandparents by Sarah. The diaries mention both the deaths of Lincoln and McKinley. Several diaries have newspaper articles tucked at the back. One is an article about Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. There are two articles about how the Edward Carrington Sr. family made their "fortune" in 1874. THIS IS A SENSATIONAL AND UNIQUE MULTI GENERATIONAL FAMILY HISTORY THAT WOULD BE THE PRIDE AND CENTERPIECE OF ANY SERIOUS DIARY COLLECTOR. Good. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Manuscript. unknown

Katz Fine Manuscripts Inc. · Canada8 855,99 $US≈ 7 493,05 €

Culler FamilyBiblio.com

ARCHIVE LOT OF SEVEN 7 HANDWRITTEN LETTERS AND EPHEMERA OF EARLY PIONEER LIFE IN THE WEST

18700MV207Ohio Iowa 1870. CULLER FAMILY - 7 letters on life in Ohio and Iowa in the 1870s. As with many family letters they usually cover a great deal of ground and this grouping is particularly rich detailing life in pioneer times. Each with stamped cover. Overall VG. Autograph. Manuscript. Very Good. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Paperback

Katz Fine Manuscripts Inc. · Canada649,99 $US≈ 549,96 €

(Bradford Family)Biblio.com

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 Pére 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

Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC · États-Unis1 750,00 $US≈ 1 480,68 €

(Massachusetts - Welch family letters)Biblio.com

Archive of 47 letters from the family of John N Welch of Boston and Billerica Massachusetts dating from 1814 to 1847.

3100346 letters 100 pages some splits and tears along folds some toning and damp staining else in good clean and legible condition. The letters offer a view of one 19th century Massachusetts family and their lives in the state. The Welch's must have been a family of some prominence and privilege at least for a time. John N Welch ran the customs house in Boston and two letters show him being relieved of his position in 1814 and 1829. His sons went to sea and plied the waters of the world with varying degrees of success. Sample quotes: "Lynn July 28th 1816 James Johnson to Lydia H. Welch Boston My dear Sister … My ride here was not very pleasant; it was very dusty & we were obliged to keep the windows shut which produced very disagreeable sensations in your friend. I never spoke a word till we were within half mile of Lynn. No one interrupted the silence; except a gentleman whose frequent sighs proclaimed him over head & ears in love to look at him was enough to make one sentimental why he sighed so deep sometimes he actually made us start & when he found we observed him he made such horrid grimaces that if there had been any one in stage that I had been the least acquainted with I fear I should not have been able to conceal my laughter. I wish you had been with me to witness his agitation which I believe he affected for oddity's sake why he would have made"even thick lipp'd musing Melancholy to gather up her face into a smile before she was aware" I was obliged to interrupt their cogitations by asking for a glass of water. The lovesick swain turned his dove like eyes on me & looked as if he had rather I had been in the Red Sea than broken the silence my request was complied with in defiance of his looks& he condescended to ask if I felt better. I dared not answer in the negative for I really believe he would have advised the stage man to leave me he was quite handsome but appeared like one of Lord Byron's characters"With pleasure drugg'd he almost longed for woe And even for change of scene would seek the shades below" … Do you think if one of my "mortal supporters" should fail me or I should say it did which is the same thing that a certain Gentleman whose name I would not mention on any account but who appears to exert himself to relieve suffering humanity & to lighten the afflictions of his kindred as much as possible by contributing books &c to amuse them & as I am a kind of a cousin I think I have a claim would extend his charity to me if there is a chance that he would pray let me know he is a good fellow …James Johnson" "New York Nov. 15th 1824 James Johnson to Mr. & Mrs. John N. Welch Dear Friends The Stage called for me on Saturday morning at half past seven o'clock and I was backed a bout Town for nearly an hour … but I was tied as fast from the fear of being left as the Horses in the harness - we however at length collected our passengers and proceeded on our journey – we arrived in Providence at 2 o'clock – and at 4 took passage in the Steam Boat for N. York – we had a very pleasant time down the sound and arrived here at half past six o'clock on Sunday evening. Capt Mackey engaged my passage on Board the Packet ship Canada Cap Rogers and I expect to embark on board tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock for Liverpool … I was in hope to have recd a line from your advising me of news from Boston and I still hope that pleasure by tomorrows mail which will arrive before we sail – you must write me in the course of a week or two the Packet ships sail every week from here to Liverpool and a letter bag is always to be found at the reading room in Boston or left at our store Mr. Sewall will forward any letters to my address – I again hope to have this pleasure soon after I arrive in Liverpool …" I took lodgings at Bunkers in Broadway where I found several acquaintance among whom was our old friend Marsh – it is seven years since I saw him till now but I do not see that time has made any alteration in him. …""Boston March 8th 1825 James Johnson to John N. Welch Dear friends … I am about migrating – that is in 3 or 4 days – and I am quite busy in the morning my letters must go to Liverpool… All the public places of amusement I have been to is to see Matthews in his trip to America and an Oratorio – indeed there are no public amusements here – we have been cultivating the fine arts – Painting – but not in the school of West or Sir Joshua Reynolds or Sir Thomas Lawrence but painting on Rugs which we have sipped in great abundance – and if the cols do desert too soon I have no doubt will be much admired. I have visited very pleasantly in several families some of them you know or have heard of Saml Goddard & James Grovener are from Boston and Mr Truman and American artist all have American wives are no bad sample of our fair country women … James Johnson""Gloucester April 15th 1825 Susan to Lydia Welch Boston My much beloved friend … The late calamity by fire in the City has given a powerful impulse to my feelings and induce me to inquire of you for information. I was about to start off for Boston but Mary did not like I should leave her with the school… The Sabbath after I left B. I received letters Mary wishing me to come immediately to Gloucester and take the school vacated by the marriage of Miss M. E. Hayes who has gone to the Michigan Territory. Accordingly the Thursday following I came down and on making some enquiries found the prospect very flattering. Uncle D. thought the encouragement sufficient to commence and the next week sister M and myself jointly took upon ourselves the care of a school consisting at present of 30 scholars we have received application for a number more. Some are young ladies considerably advanced in their studies others who require the first rudiments of education they are generally interesting. We have no reason to doubt but our patronage will be sufficient to continue here through this summer. We board with Aunt Dale our school room is in the next building which makes it very pleasant and convenient. Mary is writing to uncle James telling him of our new situation I hope it will meet his approbation which I appreciate very highly… Now I must say something about the fire which has caused us much anxiety when we first heard of it we were led to fear that Uncle James' store was among the number destroyed still we hoped it might not be till a letter from Capt. G. Whittemore convinced us the truth of it. He says he knew that his friends would feel anxious and that we might not be more alarmed than necessary by exaggerated stories which are always in circulation at such times he could tell us that all his goods were saved and conveyed to the houses of his friends and that his loss would be trivial in comparison with that of his neighbors. … Though the deprivation of property is trifling in comparison with that of friends still when I consider how much he has and now is toiling not only for his own happiness but that of his friends also I feel grieved that his prosperity should in the least be impeded…"'Gloucester June 41825 Susan to Lydia Welch Boston Dear good Aunt Do not call us "lazy girls" If you were here and knew how much we had to accomplish … Our school is large and requires all our time we are confined in the room eight hours every day excepting the Sabbath and when not have either work to fit or writing to do for our scholars which prevents us devoting so much time as we wish to our own exercise or the society of our friends. I was indeed much disappointed that none of us did not write a line by Mr. Pearce but we were not apprised of his intention of leaving us more than ten minutes before his departure we were very much surprised for we had no idea but he would pass the Sabbath with us… What do you think as become of Aunt S. the last time we heard from her she was as usual on the wing to Fryburg where she expected to be at the hundredth anniversary of Lovell's fight; in what course she next directed her flight we have not heard. Last week the Steam boat came in here we anxiously watched expecting that she was on board we anxiously watched expecting that she was on board but was disappointed. Sister M and myself accepted an invitation to take a sail in her went out as far as the Island we enjoyed it much it was quite a novelty being the first steam boat I ever saw. …" "Manchester England June 10 1825 James Johnson to Lydia Welch incomplete letter … we took up our quarters at the Hotel Montmorency Rue St Marc – I had not been many days in Paris before I forgot the narrow dirty streets in the enchantments of the promenades the beauty of the public gardens and the number and magnificence of the Public Buildings… I can not but think that the French feel humbled since the allies occupied Paris – the soldiers look disconsolate and that enthusiasm has fled which animated them under Buonaparte – you meet in every direction memorials of his deeds Triumphal Arches Columns Public Fountains and Palaces were with him every day things – many of great extent which he began remain unfinished and probably will till time shall moulder them or another revolution takes place as it it is not likely that the Burbons will finish what Buonaparte began – we remained in Paris about 3 Weeks and then retraced our steps as business required our presence in Manchester… Friend Welch what is now the topic of conversation with you the presidential election is over and I assure you I am quite satisfied with the result. I am confident we have lost nothing in the opinion of Europe by the choice we have made – for my self I should have been mortified if Jackson had been successful to me he was the most objectionable candidate of all …" "New York July 21 1825 Lydia Welch to her husband John Boston My dear husband … Mr. Marsh said he wou'd write you a few lines… yesterday he came up in a carriage and took us down to see the City Hall and Museum which I was much delighted with – you wou'd be astonished to see the immence growth of this since you were here it is wonderful. Marsh shew me where the last dwelling house was – when he first settled here it seemed as if I cou'd hardly credit him in fact it is becoming over grown. I expect this week to go to the steping mill – I don't expect to derive much pleasure from that view … It seems that Boston heat has exceeded N. Y. heat thus far Marsh says that's the way always with Bostonians they will try to exceed the New Yorkers in everything …""Cap-Sing-Moon China April 4th 1826 Benjamin Welch to his parents Boston Dear Parents According to promise I made when I left Home to write every chance that offer'd I have to acknowledge the receipt of the letters sent by the Champion. I have seen to Nickels. He is as hearty as a Buck likes the Sea he says and as I was told by Henry Sturgis has proved himself the smartest boy in the Ship. He is taller than he was when I left America & withal thinner. I sincerely think that he will do better in the profession he has chosen than that of a Counter Jumper! hold your tongue John. I mean no insinuations. As for myself I am pretty nearly in the same state of health that I was when I left Home which I suppose you will say was a very consumptive state at least I used to think so sometime after dinner. Capt. Edes and I argue very well and from what I inadvertently heard he gives me a very good name to those who visit on board. Mr. Sever & I also argue much better than we did. He finds I am not to be fooled. & begins to think as best to let me alone; at any rate there is more cordiality than formerly. Dear Mother the wish expressed in your letter that I would keep in with the officers of the Brig Mr. Tra. and I were like dog & cat together. He was such a drunken contemptible puppy that I did not hesitate to show my opinion of him upon every occasion as also B. Tufts; in fact he had not one friend in the Brig. I really believe if I had gone home with him I should done my best to flog him before he left the wharf. Yea! even before I had eaten any of those good pies & puddings etc. of yours. - Dear Mother you need feel no anxiety on my account with regard to that detested practice of drinking. I have forsworn it long ago in total. My abhorrence of its effects is as strong as ever the feelings of self respect which I entertain the good opinion of my friends and relations which I esteem more than any thing else the regard which I feel for that of the world in general are strong inducements to a strict forbearance from all spirituous liquors. I am hot enough without the use of stimulatives. I am glad to hear that John is getting on so fast as a ladies man. He is well calculated for it and as his Brother Ben is so far from Home and altogether out of the sphere of action with regard to love affairs he will have fair play & plenty of it. I am certain I should supersede him if I was at Home so I think he had better Chop-Chop as the Chinaman says or else I shall make my appearance as I have a peculiar faculty that way. He will have to keep a bright look out ahead for fear of being run down; however 'self praise goes a little ways' so I think it best to stop here. As for his letter I shall keep that a secret he has reposed his confidence in me & I never will betray him till I receive his permission. I shall only say that I do not wish him a better choice than the one he has made; she is just the one I should wish for myself if I was about to enter into a matrimonial noose. I am getting confounded sleepy so I must perforce close this epistle. Remember me kindly to all friends to Aunt Johnson's folks to Cousin Rebecca & Husband to Aunt & Uncle Welch to all my cousins to Frank Welch give a cousin & a Brother Tar's affectionate remembrance to the Howes give an adopted brother's love & to William if at home to Uncle Hovey & partner to E. Jenkins to the Susans & also to Dumpty Diddleday you know who I mean and to her Sisters Mary & Sarah & all the good folks in Harmony Square give my kindest remembrance & regard tell the Pierces their Brothers are still at the Islands and will not be here these 3 years – they are well according to the last accounts – for yourselves Dear Parents accept my best wishes for your health & happiness & believe me when I subscribe myselfYour affectionate Son B.R. Welch" Boston Jany. 2nd 1832 Benjamin Welch to his father Billerica Massachusetts Dear Father I sail tomorrow for Smyrna in the good Brig Mermaid belonging to your old Friend Robert Edes & my old master & have just time to write you a few lines – Augusta goes with me as Capt Edes has politely offer'd to let her accompany – there is everything to make her comfortable & I anticipate a great deal of pleasure …" "Smyrna May 3d 1834 Augusta Welch to her father-in-law John Welch Billerica My dear Father As Ben is full of business he has commissioned me to write and I consider it a pleasant duty I am going to fulfill it forthwith. He expects to sail either to-night or in the morning for Hivoli a small port about a day's sail from here to be gone three or four weeks taking in oil for a part of the Mermaid's cargo & then to return here for the rest myself the most valuable part the specie. We had 58 days out and I was not sea sick at all I think I am getting to be quite a sailor. Yesterday we had a fine donkey ride about 16 miles to a hot-spring which is quite a curiosity here & considered quite medicinal – But such roads never were seen – Some part of the way it is scarcely wide enough for the animal to walk ion & up hill & down precipices the olive groves & between mountains enough to shake the breath of life out of you – However it was a ludicrous scrape & I enjoyed it mightily – We shall not get away under six weeks & it will be quite August before we get home … Gus" "Havanna Cuba Decr 23d 1834 Henry Welch to his father Boston Dear Father I arrd here about a week or little over ago in good health… we shall leave here in about 3 weeks for Matanzas & New York I expect … who will write me in N Yk if I arrive there for we are going to war with France & I may be captured before I arrive. We have all been busy here talking about the Message & we have whipped France nicely two or three times over …""Hallowell Maine February 25th 1836 Henry Blanchard to John Welch Billerica My Dear Sir … Mr. Welch were you ever down this way If not I advise you to – never come. The whole country here seems to be characterized by its very rugged un-broken surface – the severity of its climate - & the miserly & selfish disposition of its inhabitants. You may judge if I enjoy myself much here. I of course make some exceptions to my description of the people – I speak of them in general - & certainly they are misers & speculators for the most part whose whole object of worship is money. Society with some few exceptions in this town is very bad. There is here a good deal of wealth & of course there will be pretensions to refinement & good manners. But through it all there shows prominently an extreme degree of coarseness & vulgarity. The men are by far the better part of the society than the women' for if they are unlettered & rather rough in their exterior they have generally much shrewdness & some knowledge of the world. They show their shrewdness best perhaps in a bargain; & in your dealings with them you would be rather likely to come off second best. A bad place this for parsons – a strictly honest man here would not probably be long in starving to death. The Capitol of the state is close by me & the Legislature is now in session. I have been to look at the members once – They are as a whole I think rather a more decent looking mess than I have been in the habit of seeing in the Massachusetts Legislature. Of course its political complexion is Jackson – though its most eminent members are Whigs. Among these we see old Mr. Holmes – the greatest man probably the state has ever produced. Augusta – the capitol – is one of the most thrifty towns in appearance I have ever seen. It is I think remarkable for its well built dwelling houses. You will not see a house in the whole village that seems at all the abode of poverty. On the contrary the inhabitants seemed to have vied with each other in erecting elegant edifices. It is very easy to find however that the elegance is mostly outside – very little inside. …""Boston May 30 1837 John Welch to his father Billerica Dear Father … The business community are in a bad state and a great many people are out of business owing to this state of things five of the clerks in our store have been discharged & more are to follow perhaps myself for one. … Henry is nearly loaded for St. Petersburg & I presume will sail tomorrow or next day. Benj. Is daily expected at Darien Georgia – his wife gas got a daughter …" Charlestown Dec. 21 1838 John Welch to his father Billerica Dear Father I have intended to have been up to Billerica to have seen you before I leave for New Orleans. I am going to that place to establish myself in business if possible as I find it impossible to remain here & lay up any money. I have been so much pressed with business for some time that I hardly know which way to turn. I should have been up to see you last month but I have been bothered with Edward Stetson who is a very wild boy …" "New York July 17th 1840 George E. Welch to his father Billerica Dear Father I am aware that you may think strange that I should write to you after so long a silence the reason for that silence is not because I had forgotten you but merely because I thought it would afford you more pain than pleasure to read a doleful account of my miseries misfortunes and mishaps. Father my course through life has been an eventful one and I doubt much if there are many of my age who have seen more trouble more sickness or more cruel unrelenting persecution since I have been going to sea I have had eight attacks of fever of all the different kinds and those attacks of the most malignant nature I have had also seven attacks of cramp the last of which deprived me of my intellect for some time after it had passed away I have been laying on my back with bleeding of the lungs and cough in fact for seven years I have not been to sea without being laid on my beam ends and what is worse midst the burning horrors of those fevers I have heard the cry of persecution midst the racking agonies of the cramp I have heard the most cruel taunts coming from the mouths of my nearest and dearest kin and while laying almost at death door I have awakened to the sheriff setting by my side impatiently waiting for my recovery and then do you think it tended to my recovery to hear that man affirm that he was acting as the agent of my brother and then when the glow of health had scarce begun to tinge my cheek to be dragged to prison and from the windows of a felons dungeon to look upon the very house where I had in common with my brothers received my mother's parting blessing. And father did it become those whose duty it was as Christians relative and as men look passively on and see the wreck of your once noble and high spirited boy if I had done wrong was that the way to reform My is it not strange that mid this wilderness of wo the intoxicating cup has never been raised to my lips and dissipation and pleasure have not been the god of my idolatry… I am now recovering from a severe attack of the Yellow fever it was intimated to me that my life was but short and the chaplain on his own responsibility wrote to Gardner to inform of my situation subsequently when letters were written by Y N Reynolds and Albert Cutler and as yet no answer has been returned since I arrived in the city fever sores have broken out on my body and made a perfect scab of me so much so as so as to make me an object of disgust to myself and of pity to those around while at the Hospital my vessel loaded and sailed without leaving me any order for my wages and for the present I must go without them by the kindness of Albert Cutter Y N Reynolds Esq and the Charterers I have had the means of paying my board that is now expended and God only knows where I shall lay my poor aching head. I can not apply to them when I see no means of repaying them but my cup of misery has long been full and I must put my trust in that God whose inscrutable ways … George E. Allen"

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Archive of Correspondence and Ephemera of Maud Bauer Miller of Newark Ohio and Oakland California her children and their spouses 1881-1980

30571Collection of 123 letters 437 manuscript and typed pages 95 retained mailing envelopes dated 1881-1980 the bulk dating from 1920-1949; also includes over 100 pieces of related ephemera pertaining to the family including photographs postcards telegrams family genealogy vital records greeting cards etc. Maud Bauer Miller 1863-1942 and FamilyMaud M. Bauer was born on 15 September 1863 in Alfred Center New York. She was the daughter of Thomas Dodson Bauer and his wife Hannah S. Sherman. Bauer and his wife were professors at Alfred University at the time of their daughter Maud's birth. Maud's mother Hannah was born 9 December 1828 and married Maud's father on 25 December 1860 in New Albany Indiana. Hannah died 17 June 1910 in Somerville Massachusetts. She had been a teacher and knew seven languages. Hannah was the daughter of Samuel Sherman and Malinda Stanton; Samuel Sherman was the son of Peleg Sherman and Hannah Willett; Hannah Willett was the daughter of Samuel Willett 1751-1843 and Elizabeth Andreas; Samuel Willett served in the American Revolution as a private in Capt. Jone's Company Col. Taylor's Regiment. Documents in this collection show Maud and others in the Miller family sought induction into the Daughters of the American Revolution or other lineage societies.Maud M. Bauer moved with her parents to Newark Ohio where she attended the Old Central High School from which she graduated in 1879. She taught her first school at Loyd's on the Jacksontown Pike and later was a teacher at the Perryton School Ohio here she met her future husband Lebbeus D. Miller they were married on 23 March 1882 at the Pilgrim Congregational Church Newark Ohio by the Rev. E.J. Jones. Maud worked as a stenographer at a utility company. She was also active in the Women's Christian Temperance Union and took her oath from temperance reformer and women's suffragist Francis Willard 1839-1898 the national president of the WCTU and its founder.Lebbeus Dunn Miller was born 11 May 1858 in Perryton Ohio. He was the youngest son of Joseph Miller and Elizabeth Custer 1812-1888. His grandfather was supposed to have been one Robert Miller of Pennsylvania who served in the War of 1812. The Oakland artist-poet Joaquin Miller also claimed to have a grandfather named Robert Miller from Pennsylvania who served in the War of 1812. Maud's family believed they may have been related to Joaquin Miller but it has not been proven. A pamphlet in the collection about Joaquin Miller's estate "The Heights" in Oakland has manuscript annotations and notes by Maud Bauer Miller detailing the estates history and Joaquin Miller's life. The pamphlet was given to Maud by Juanita Miller Joaquin Miller's daughter. Lebbeus Miller Maud's husband was the great-great grandson of Sarah Ball Custer the sister of President George Washington's wife Martha Ball Washington. There is only one letter in this collection by Lebbeus Miller. The collection mainly revolves around Maud Bauer Miller and her children and their correspondence with each other.Maud and Lebbeus Miller had at least nine children: Walter Miller 1883- died young; Frank Stanton Miller 1884-1935; Amie Glen Miller 1886-1958 who married a Mr. Phillips; Sherman Miller died in infancy; Floyd Rudolph Miller 1889-1940 there are a couple of photos of him in the collection; Lorena Eleanor Miller 1893-1960 resided at St. Louisville Ohio she married a Mr. Tiebout; Carl Frederick Miller 1896-1967 resided at Frazeysburg Ohio and married a woman named Agnes and they had a daughter Kathleen. There are a number of letters in this collection by Carl Frederick Miller and his wife Agnes as well as letters of Lorena Miller and Frank Stanton Miller.Another of Lebbeus and Maud's daughters was Cecelia Esther Miller 1899-1978 she was born in Perry Township Licking Co. Ohio. She attended Perry Township High School graduating in 1916 and moved to Oakland California with her mother in 1921 where she met and married Jesse "Jack" Howard Cole. Cole was born 9 March 1900 in Buncombe Co. North Carolina and married Cecelia in Oakland on 8 November 1926. Jack Cole died on 5 January 1961 in Oakland. He served in WWI enlisting in 1916 and was discharged in 1919 as a corporal with the 115th Machine Gun Battalion. He saw action in WWI with the AEF in occupation Ypres Salient Belgium Veormeze Le-Mont Kemmel engagement; Bellicourt-Nauroy; Premont-Vasch Andigny Engagement; Selfe River; and remained in Germany for occupation purposes. There are a number of letters in this collection by and to Cecelia Miller and her husband Jack Cole.Maud and Lebbeus' youngest daughter was Evelyn Elizabeth Miller. She was born 2 February 1905 in Perry Township Licking Co. Ohio and died in 1974. She also moved to Oakland California with her mother Maud and sister Cecelia. Evelyn graduated from the Oakland Technical High School in June 1923 and went to work for Western Power Company in Oakland California as a stenographer and later was promoted secretary to the Division Electric Superintendent. She was married at the age of 22 in Oakland on 31 November 1927 to Justin Francis Greene. He was born 30 Oct 1900 Johnson Co. Texas and died 10 August 1961 in San Francisco. He was the son of Arthur Percival Greene born Texas and Laura Richardson born Oklahoma of Johnson Co. Texas. Greene later moved to Oakland California. Greene was a veteran of WWI and WWII. He enlisted in U.S. Navy for WWI 1918-1921 and Marine Crops in WWII 1942-1946 and wound up in the Quartermaster's Department in San Diego California. After the war he worked for the accounting department of P.G. & E. Pacific Gas & Electric he had previously worked for Western Power Company which is where he met his wife Evelyn Miller. Great Western Power merged with P.G. & E. There are a good many letters in this collection by and to Evelyn Miller and her husband Justin Greene.Maud Bauer Miller had a brother Ralph Sherman Bauer 1867-1941. He was the proprietor of "The R.S. Bauer Company: Stationers Engravers & Printers" of Lynn Massachusetts. He later became mayor of Lynn. He married Fannie Miller daughter of John Miller shipbuilder of Chicago Illinois. They had one son Paul Sherman Bauer who married Kathrine Williams daughter of Judge Guy R. Williams of Havana Illinois. Paul Sherman Bauer attended Phillips Andover then Harvard Engineering School. There are letters in this collection by Ralph Sherman Bauer 5 and his son Paul S. Bauer 1.Maud also had a sister Hulda Sherman Bauer 1870- who married a Mr.Emmel/Emmal of Glenwood New Jersey and a second sister Marie Sherman Bauer 1873-1948 who married Francis A. Neff Jr. of Salem Massachusetts. There is one letter in this collection by Hulda Sherman Bauer.Lebbeus Miller died 24 September 1913 and after some time Maud moved to Oakland California in 1921 where she died 11 June 1942.Description and Inventory of Collection: Correspondence: The letters in this collection are written by and to various members of Maud Bauer Miller's family including Maud Bauer Miller her husband Lebbeus Miller and their children and children's spouses as well as her grandchildren including: Evelyn Miller and Justin Greene her husband; Cecelia Miller and her husband Jesse Jack Cole; Carl Miller and his wife Agnes Lorena Miller as well as Maud Bauer Miller's brother Rudolph Ralph Sherman Bauer and her sister Hulda Bauer. Other relatives are Paul S. Bauer Fred Emma Sherman and Maud's grandchildren Dorothy and Frances Miller.The bulk of the letters were written by Cecelia Miller Cole 23 and Carl Miller and his wife Agnes 30 and Evelyne Miller Greene and her husband Justin 17 the bulk of these letters were written to Maud Bauer Miller 56. The collection includes letters by Evelyn Miller Greene and her husband Justin 49 as well as Cecelia Miller Cole and her husband 7. There are also letters written by Maud Bauer Miller 8 Ralph Sherman Bauer 5 Frank Miller 3 Dorothy and Frances Miller 2 Paul S. Bauer 1 and other relatives friends business associates; as well as other letters received by Ralph S. Bauer Hannah Sherman Bauer Lebbeus Miller Esther Miller Lorena Miller etc.An inventory of the letters and the years they were written follows: 7 letters 33 manuscript pp. dated from 1881-1918 of these 7 early letters 5 were written by Maud Bauer Miller to her brother Ralph S. Bauer 2 her husband Lebbeus Miller 2 and her mother Hannah Sherman Bauer 1.There are 36 letters 134 manuscript and typed pages dated 1920-1929 9 of which are typed. There are 39 letters 119 manuscript and typed pages dated 1931-1939 18 letters are typed. The 75 letters in these two groups contain letters between the Miller family members and represent a good bulk of the collection. The letters written in the 1930s provide a look at conditions in the Great Depression with people out of work work hard to find and the struggles of people to survive even when employed.The collection includes 19 letters 82 manuscript and typed pages dated 1941-1949 2 letters are typed. These letters from the 1940s contain letters by Justin Greene husband of Evelyn Miller Maud's daughter when he was in military service during World War II. There is also much correspondence during this period between Maud's daughters' families the Greene and Cole families who were living in Newark Ohio Cole family and Oakland California Greene family and includes descriptions of travel vacation etc. and correspondence between the family members spouses etc.The 1960s are represented by 13 letters 39 manuscript and typed pages dated 1960-1967 and finally there are 9 letters 30 manuscript pages dated from 1974-1980 with all of which are hand written. The 1960s features correspondence between the family of Carl and Agnes Miller and Evelyne and Justin Greene.Ephemera:15 miscellaneous pieces of ephemera includes receipts typed and manuscript verse military papers pamphlets including: "White's Biography Brochures: Ralph Sherman Bauer" 1927 and "About 'The Heights' at Oakland California" by Juanita Miller given by Juanita Miller to Maud Bauer Miller 1921 it is annotated with manuscript notes by Maud to her children concerning Joaquin Miller the western artist and poet with whom they may have been related to however given the vagaries of Joaquin Miller's life and genealogy it is unclear.58 typed pp. of genealogical notes on the Miller/Bauer/Sherman families some copies of others.17 newspaper clippings mostly dealing with family such as death notices news etc.19 various vital records births deaths marriages etc. for Miller/Bauer/Sherman families various dates.2 telegrams dated 1949 4 black and white photographs 3 dated 1921-1922 one not dated various sizes 3 photos labeled other not 2 photos of Floyd R. Miller 1 of Evelyn Anna and their mother in San Francisco California.3 postcards dated 1936 to Mr. and Mrs. Justin Greene from Agnes other.4 invitations/cards date c1892-192658 greeting cards to and from Bauer/Sherman/Miller families mostly not dated.13 used envelopes likely could be matched to letters in collection.Examples of Correspondence:"Perryton Ohio Sept 29th 1884Dear RudolphI rec'd your postal in due time and hasten to reply to it. You must excuse my silence I have hardly found time to sleep this summer. On the 19th of this month we had a hard earthquake shock it shook our house badly knocking down pictures it was accompanied by a loud rumbling report. On last Saturday the 27th inst. we were visited by a terrific cyclone it lasted not over five minutes that is the worst of it; but during that time it did a great deal of damage. I had noticed in the afternoon that a storm was gathering and about half past five I went to the other end of town on an errand thinking that I could return before the rain. I did not stay much over a minute at the house and when I came out I noticed a strange cloud in the north west it had grown very dark the sky seemed almost black save this one cloud which was of a luminous gray color. It was cone shaped like this drawing of a cyclone shape and was moving at a fearful rate not more than 15 feet above the ground that is its lower edge it came rolling and tumbling sweeping everything before it. I ran for dear life to get home for I thought that we were all to be killed and I wanted to be with Leb and Baby but I could not outrun the storm it was on me before I knew it. The street was thickly lined with shade trees all the way until within a short distance from our house; when I reached this cleared space I could hear the trees crashing behind me; and a gust from another direction was blowing against me. My breath gave out before I reached home and I had to turn in at Mr. Beabout's next door. I got inside the gate just as Mr. Berry's house across the street went crashing down. Our barn and Mrs. Bland's stable are flat on the ground. Mr. Berry's house is demolished a dozen or more barns sheep houses houses &c. are ruined right in town; the Disciple Church is pronounced unsafe in an apple orchard back of us but 2 or 3 trees are left. Our old shop had a large portion of its roof rafters and all taken. Some of the weatherboarding is blown off of our house. But I don't think of that I am glad that none of us were killed…We send love to all. Write soon Maud""Perryton Ohio Sept 2 1900Dear MammaI received your very welcome letter as I would have rec'd one from the dead. I have written to all of the folks in rotation and have heard from not one letter until receiving your postal. How is Hulda's health this summer I did hope that I would be able to come "East." This summer but that ever-ready question of finance bobbed up and stopped me. I hope that I will be able to come home before I get so old that I can't travel. We are straining every nerve to get a good stock of goods in our store; we have 5 times as much as when you were here. Frank goes to Newark tomorrow to work in the glass-house if he likes it he will stay about 3 mos. and then go to school. We could not spare Floyd for this reason and then I do not think that you ought to keep house. You would have to have some one to prepare and make you eat your meals at the proper time; you cannot stand the same system of recuperation that you did twenty years ago. Floyd is only a child and has a healthy boy's appetite I doubt if you could cook enough in one day to last him a day.We do not intend to stay here all our lives when we have a good chance to sell out we will do so. Now Mamma don't live by yourself. I expect that you have as nearly a perfect home with the girls as you will ever have on earth. "Such polite well-bred children no smoking no drinking no hard or sordid work." No tired out cross worked down women. I know of few such homes. I am always glad to have you with me why not come here To be sure there is nothing inviting in my surroundings but I would give you filial respect. I wish that you would send me one of your dictionaries the next time Rudo sends me anything. Do you think that Frank could find employment with his uncle He is a careful & trusty clerk; his whole trend is to become a businessman he does not care for the professions. I think that Floyd will make a professional man he is just about lazy enough…We have a large filtered cistern just adjoining the back porch and a double floored porch over it 12 x 14 ft. I have had a great quantity of water all summer enough for every purpose & for Mrs. McCann's use to as long as she lived there. The old Dr. died the last of July and she broke up housekeeping right away. She is going to New York about the first of Oct. to spend the winter with her daughter Addie a Bellevue nurse. Dr. Cullison has been on a 'tear' nearly all summer. He uses opium & drinks hard with it and every so often he goes 'stark staring mad.' Drunk I call it for that is what it is.Mr. Blount's son Scott who left his wife & ran off with $200 of his firm's money has married again down in Tenn. His wife got a divorce…We all send love & kisses to you all…Lovingly Maud""170 St. Botolph St. Boston Mass.My dear Sister & BrotherI received your welcomed letter at the hospital sometime ago and was so glad to hear from you personally although I hear indirectly thru Mamma about you & Jack and I am glad to hear that you are both well and seem to be so happy.I am out of the hospital but unable to go to work at present but I will have to do something as soon as I can get hold of a line which is very hard right now and get to work or go on the street as I am only getting $5 a week from the Welfare and I can't eat and pay room rent on that so you see how I am situated so that's the reason.I expect you will think I have one hell of a nerve but dear sister I am going to ask you to advance the money and pay this quarterly ins premium again for me which I shall absolutely refund you in six or eight weeks unless something drastic happens to me and unless this is paid at once I will hose it altogether which I do not want to unless absolutely have to. I know there is not much left of it but there is enough to bury me with should any thing happen and at present that is all I have left to do this job should I pass out.I have borrowed on it now all that it is possible for me to borrow but as I say it will leave me enough for a half decent burial in case anything should happen. Hoping you will attend to his at once for me and I will surely repay you thanking you both and hoping this will find you both in best of health love & best wishes to you both your loving brother Frank""R.S. Bauer Company Lynn Massachusetts Stationers Engravers Printers August 17 1923 Dear Sister:I was very glad indeed to hear from you under date of August 10th and to know that your family were getting along so splendidly. The thing now for you to do is to show a little mercy to yourself. The children have all now received from you everything that a Mother could give and many things more than a Mother generally gives and it seems to me that what little time is allotted to you should be taken in as much comfort as possible. Both you and I are growing old this earth and with that in sight I think it is the duty of both of us to let up on ourselves and serve the rest of our time as easily as possible.You know I am not much of a letter writer. I don't believe Fannie ever got six letters from me in the thirty years we have been married but that should not make any difference between us.I do not know anything about the Neff family except that I suppose they are alive and well as they never visit us. The only time I ever see them is when I go over to Salem and force myself into their presence.Huldah is not very well although she keeps happy and busy with her grandchildren. We expect her to spend Sunday after next with us at the little farm we own in Amesbury where we spend the summer time. It is a twenty-one-acre place on the border of a Lake. We have six acres in garden and raise almost everything the household needs up there including a little 'hell.'It seems to me that Warren Harding died in order to tie the American people closer together and bring out the universal spirit of reverence for men who have served the Nation which spirit was rapidly disappearing in all directions. You probably know that all progress the World has ever made has been the result of some shock. It seems that people no matter how civilized or well educated or Christianized they may be respond always nobly to the 'gospel of the shock' and are not so early in responding to any other gospel.Calvin Coolidge has visited us at our summer home with his wife and two children and I have a personal acquaintance with him. He will make a great President. There is no doubt about it as he has all the qualities of World Leadership without any of the personal magnetism or 'bull' that men in public life general possess. His heart and head are 100% all right and his capacity is marvelous. With best wishes to you and the children from all of us Rudo""Frazeysburg Ohio Nov 4th 1923Dear Mothers & SlatsYou want to call in the neighbors doctors & friends as your son has a pen in his hand…I have been busy this summer and fall lots of work. I have been away from home most of the summer started in the first of April and came home to stay two wks ago and have been gone five days of that time. I had to cut the gang that I have been working all summer back to fifteen men was working between 34 & 40. The oil business sure is on the bum here. I wish you would have them to strike dry holes out there as the Cal. oil can be sent to the eastern refineries for less money than the oil here. We have lots of work but are doing just what we can with the men we have…Mother you were asking about the house & Keylor's. Kelyor's moved out the first of Oct. and I haven't any renter now. I have the house up for sale and I think mother that the way things are and the location that if you can get $600.00 out of your home you had better let it go and I will say if the house belonged to me that if I could get $500 I would sell because the house will have to be painted in the Spring & I am afraid it will have to be roofed. If you will leave it to me to make the deal and use my own judgement I may be able to sell. I told you what I would take if it were mine. If you think this not enough let me know. Houses are renting in Perrytown for $3.50 & $4.00 per month so you will have an idea what things are like over there. I don't know whether Agnes told you that I lowered the rent in Apr. for Kelyor I cut it back to $6.00 and that was about a $1.50 more than any other house was renting for and this is not hearsay but personal inquiry. Please consider these things and let me know where I stand…How is the K.K.K. in Cal It is getting to be pretty strong around here. They held a big conclave at Zanesville last night I went down to get me some new harness and saw the parade… I will close with lots of love…Carl Agnes & Kathleen…""Kansas City Mo. June 6 1927Dear Mama & Evelyn:I never have heard from you since you went to Russian River therefore I am wondering how your trip panned out.I didn't write you the day I should because I did some very special work for two attorneys from Washington D.C. three & a half days last week & as it was rush work I was kept on the jump. They have a big case to try in Federal Court today & for two or three days so my work is thru. However in those 3 ½ days I made $25.00 but had to rent a typewriter to take home to do the work on so I got it for a month & it was $4.00 but yet that was pretty good pay I'll say and they were so pleased & appreciative of my work.I do hope I get steady work soon but the weather is so bad – it is raining today again and these Missourians are sure afraid to start anything in the rain. Also the flood has caused a great depression in work. However we will persevere I guess and we will get settled someday…Let us hear from you soon just a note…We both are fine. Jack's Colonel had to take an 18-day sick leave due to the accident he had three weeks ago so Jack is left alone with all the medical units to care for so I fear he is going to be very busy. Lots of love to you both Cecelia & Jack…""9 Sunnyside St. Jamaica Plain Oct 23 1931Dear GrandmaWe received your letter and was glad to hear from you. We are glad to hear that you have been able to take a vacation. Yes I am working in the same place and Frances is working for the Fire Underwriters. She works in the office. We are sorry that our father has had such bad luck but it seems that every time he goes to the Hospital that his women always leave him because he doesn't have any money to give them. If he had been living a good Christian life he wouldn't have all this trouble now. Naturally we should be loyal to our Mother for all the care she gave us when my father was so mean to her. She brought us up to be what we are now and we should really be a credit to her. We are sorry to hear that Uncle Floyd is having a hard time with his business. It is terrible here in Boston. So many are out of work. Most of us are just lucky enough to keep our jobs. I hope that things will be easier for everybody soon. We are having such changeable weather lately. So many people have got colds. Well we hope you are in the best of health and wish the others the same with love and regards to the rest your granddaughters Dorothy & Frances.""Frazeysburg – O 4/10 1932Dear Mother & All…I have been very busy for the past three weeks and have quite a bit of work a head of me. How is business out there Things are getting worse here every day. I am still holding my job but don't know for how long. I have orders to cut off four of my men the 15th of April. The oil business in Ohio is shot for a long while cannot compete with the Western fields. I hope that Evelyn & Justin can still keep their positions. Tiebout has been working most of the time since the first of the year. So we have not seen or heard much of them. We have had sickness most of the winter. I started the ball rolling when I had the flu. I lost 4 days work the first time I have been off for six years of course I was paid but I hate to have my record broken…Our company has been taking over some production that the Lenard Oil & Gas Co has had connected and has made a lot of extra work for me. I just finished a new gathering system & built a pumping station over back of Staddens Bridge. I am just starting a new gathering system u at Perryton my old home town on brother Joseph Chaney farm. So you see with having to entertain Joseph & look after my work I will be very busy. I hope that Floyd & Anna can come out of this slump with flying colors. Tell them just to take it easy and just make a living and be satisfied there isn't any use of them trying to build up a big fortune just for their kids to fight over. If they can't make anything they needn't to worry for they have lots of company. I have the same size pay check coming in every 2 wks and haven't saved anything for 2 yrs but greens are coming on now so I guess we will have something to eat.…With lots of love from the whole family to Mother Slats & Justin Your scribbling son & all Carl Agnes Kathleen & Pee Wee""March 10 1933My dear folks all:I received your nice letter the other day and one hasn't much to write about or think of now except the national situation but somehow and someway I am sure that none of us will go hungry. Don't you worry about us back here and we are not going to worry about you folks but just rust in things coming back within a short time. Rome wasn't built in a day and the President has to have time to put into effect a new deal and a new policy. Now don't laugh for it is really a serious situation. But let's give him a chance to do right and perhaps if they make him a King or Mussolini or something he can do something and the Lord above knows that our Congress will never get us anywhere so give the President free reins and his chance to do something. I am for you Franklin if you make a go of it and will even vote for your reelection if you bring this country out of it but I fear he cannot stand the strain and will not be with us that many years longer.Poor Jack is dumbfounded being a Southerner by birth and just having recently returned from the South where his folks sort of rechristened him a Democrat and made him believe that Roosevelt was our Savior etc. all this after I had Jack made a pretty good Republican for the past six years all my work wasted in vain after his Mother and Sisters etc. told him Roosevelt was great. He doesn't know what to think and of course cannot get to me to talk personally but just has to write his ideas etc. after the banks closed but he is trying to cheer me up and yet deep down in his heart he says that what I told him last summer would happen if Hoover was not re-elected if just about all coming true right the first ten days of the Democratic administration. However Jacks says he is a good sport and if Roosevelt saves the country and brings us out of this without suffering too much and makes things better I must become a Democrat but if Roosevelt fails and has to call on Republicans etc. to help him out of this crisis then Jack is never to speak to another Democrat ha!Anyways folks here is what all of us connected with our organization have figured out. If you are paid 20% cash and rest checks do not spend on cent of the cash but hide it some safe place and pass every payroll check immediately on to the grocer baker candlestick maker etc. Don't hold a check a minute. Now Evelyn and Justin I am not sure whether our mortgage read that you had to pay gold tender or not but be most certain that you get a separate receipt for every cent you pay on your mortgage and hold on to those receipts. Don't let any ifs or ands get into the receipt either. Either they take your checks or they don't and get your receipt to these checks. If you get paid in small denomination checks buy so you may get back a little silver and then use another check for the next purchase etc. until you get every check out of your hands. Even buy your next winter coats underwear shoes new tires and everything possible that you can get them to take the checks that is payroll checks for and get yourself all fixed up. Buy all the groceries possible with such checks and store them away. Things in cans and that will keep. The theory is if worse comes to worse have some things on hand to eat and have those checks in some other fellows' hand and then your employer is responsible for the payroll checks or Roosevelt is or anyone but you.Do the same way with the new money they issue and don't hold on to it but buy with it for all you can and pay on your mortgage with it if they will take it pay your insurance taxes etc. but do not hoard it for when the new money is finally called in unless a precedent is set it will be discounted and the ones holding it will get about 35 c on the dollar for all they have in their possession. However some new laws or other may off set these prophesies but pay for everything with those checks and save every cent of currency you get quarters halves etc. And don't keep from buying things you need because next year things will be so high you will not be able to buy them so fix up the car the house lay in grocers and get yourselves underwear coats suits dresses etc. to do for another year if you can possible do so with this new money you might be paid with.However it usually takes all we make to live on as a rule but at that we are passing it on and will not be caught with it on hand. Mother has a hobby about holding onto checks and that is why I warned you about returning my little Kansas City checks immediately and not hold on to them for I was afraid this would be coming. I had no idea that Mother was holding onto any other checks or would have warned her also. We weren't the only ones; millions and millions are in the same boat and if only we all eat that is the main thing.Now don't worry about us back here because we aren't going to worry about you. We know we all are pulling together and don't' knock the President for heaven's sake. That will ruin the country if we do and don't help him during this crisis now that it is on.Do you all notice that Herbert Hoover is remaining in the East Wonder who is insisting that he remain there There is much hopes here that he is being asked by Wall Street or other financiers to remain near until this passes over and that is why he did not go on to California with Mrs. Hoover. He may have to save us yet.All love to each of you and the best of luck Your devoted children Cecelia & Jack…""December 9 1933 321 West 29th Street New York City N.Y.Dear Maud:Isn't it about time I answered your letter of November sixteenth I think so – we were glad to hear from you and to receive your tin-type. There is not the faintest doubt that 'Tommie' was your Father is there You look just like the photo that his final widow sent us you also look well and very alert don't' look seventy.I am glad that you can get a 'kick' out of prohibition and attending conventions yes I remember your snatching the man's whiskey bottle and how gentlemanly he offered you a drink.I am glad that you are able to help the ministers even if it was only six cents rather a low price for a poem and music too. I do believe in helping others; even ministers they are the poorest paid swindlers there are and lots of them are self-hypnotized and believe their own patter. I am glad that you are feeling better in your ribs and should now if you could only use Christian Science you would know that you were not hurt and were in error when you thought you were. Sounds 'dippy' but there are lots of lunatics at large…Will finally returned John's capital but the hard times set in before he was able to make any interest for them and I guess now we are going to arrive in H--- poor we will not be camels…Will walks the streets and avenues continuously looking for a job but so far all that he has accomplished is leaving his name and address at various shops and factories this certainly is 'The Land of the Spree and the Home of the Knaves.' One has to be a bootlegger kidnapper or some other kind of crook to make money these times; and we are too old to learn crook ways…Rude writes he is having his troubles trying to get any work out of the negroes and he says the English bosses are about as lazy as the coons. He seems to find the climate all right so far but the place is called 'the white man's grave yard.'Glad that Frank still has a little work Victor is still looking for a job our kind of work seems to be like 'the dodo' – extinct. Rude's address is Tarkwa Gold Coast Colony West Africa. Elsie just arrived there when he sent his last letter she said she had a wonderful trip ever since she left Peru enjoyed every minute of it. She had three days in London and flew over the city for a half hour to see it all at once…It is mean of you to remind me that Christmas is nearly here. Christmas without money is fake. You know that Hannah always said 'it was a Catholic celebration gotten up by the priests to get the harvest money away from the people that Christ was born in July.' You can't prove it by me I wasn't present at the Virgin's lying-in. Give our love to all of your family and don't forget yourself….yours Hulda"

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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. 1855–1918. Robinson's maternal grandfather James Monroe 1799–1870 a member of the House of Representatives was a nephew of U.S. President James Monroe 1758–1831.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 – 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 letter…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 income…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 – 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 London…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 continent…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 know…Best luck yours R. Emmet""Sheppard Jones & SeippAttorneys & CounsellorsNew YorkApril 26th 1935Re – Emmet - GeneralTrust for Mrs. Emmet – 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 ¾% 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 Bank…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 steeplechase….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 Thursday…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 – 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 Sunday…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 – in the Bahamas!.""Aug 24 Tuesday…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 conclusion…""Aug 25 Wednes…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 shortage…""Aug 26 Thurs…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 shoulders…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 episode…""Aug 31 Tues…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 – Stanley for the most part – 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 taxed…""Sept 1 Wed…I get the Ms. Of our lecture courses to Ms. King of Todd and Walter Kilham & I enjoy a particularly pleasant luncheon at '270'…What a gay place 270 is at lunch time! Seemed full; even the cocktail lounge…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 – and may go back to do so…""Sept 11 Sat…And in the meantime it should be noted that Adolph Hitler has made a speech…a rather pitiful affair probably from Berchtesgaden over the radio justifying everything in Italy and on the Russian front. He is lost…and he knows it…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 protection…"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 – 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 War…" 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 ¾" 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.

Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC · États-Unis2 500,00 $US≈ 2 115,25 €

[California – Texas – Illinois – Family Archives] Beauman, Kittie Woodruff; Regan, Edwin J; Beauman, Carrie; et alBiblio.com

Archive of Correspondence of the Beauman Family and Friends Concerning Their Daily Lives and Family Affairs in Early 20th-Century Texas Illinois and Northern California

1935List2835California Texas Illinois and others 1935. 369 pieces: fourteen empty envelopes 108 pieces of unsorted ephemera and 247 letters. Of the letters twenty-one are undated; three date from 1851â€“1909; nineteen from 1910â€“11; thirty-five from 1912; thirteen from 1913â€“17; forty-two from 1921; thirteen from 1922â€“24; sixty-eight from 1934; and thirty-three from 1935. Overall very good to near fine. The Beaumans were a family from southern Texas who relocated to East St. Louis Illinois some time before 1908 and some of whom would later live in California. Captain Loui Beauman 1868â€“1921 was a military engineer Mason and member of the Society of American Military Engineers. He and his wife Kittie Woodruff 1867â€“1959 had three children survive to adulthood: Carrie Beauman 1893â€“1982 Second Lieutenant Loui Beauman 1894â€“1918â€”a Marine killed at 23 in a seaplane accidentâ€”and Julia Frances â€œGallyâ€ Beauman 1908â€“1974. Offered here is a large correspondence archive belonging to the Beaumans; mainly addressed to Gally 119 letters the younger Loui seventy letters and Kitty fifty-two letters; and written by a wide variety of friends and family including Kitty fifty-one letters Carrie eighteen letters Katharyn Owen of San Antonio sixteen letters and Gallyâ€™s future husband Edwin J. Regan of Weaverville California twenty-three letters. Regan 1906â€“1996 was at the time running for District Attorney of Trinity County and would go on to hold that position before resigning in 1948 in favor of a State Senatorship followed by a judgeship on the Third Appellate Court of Appeal. Most of the early letters in the group are addressed to the younger Loui Beauman and their concerns include his friendsâ€™ jobs constructing railroads hiding their controversial â€œraggingâ€ dancing from chaperones and which fraternity Beauman should join at the University of California. The fraternity issue is particularly contentious within the family; the elder Beauman tells his son that â€œI will not be pleased to hear that you have joined any of the fraternitiesâ€ September 20 1912. The younger Beauman settled on Zeta Psi. After the passing of both father and son most of the letters are addressed to Kitty and Gally Beauman. Edwin Regan writes to Gally about his campaign for District Attorney which made him â€œworried and discouraged and down on the worldâ€ August 3 1934; Regan felt that â€œability means nothing to the voters the sole issue is whether or not I am a â€˜city guyâ€™ or notâ€ July 30 1934. Another common topic is the familyâ€™s concern for Carrie Beauman whose marriage to Arthur Levefre Jr. was becoming increasingly abusive. The couple lived in Houston far from the remaining family who were now in Berkeley and Weaverville. Though the family very rarely commented on politicsâ€”even including the Great Depression which was in full swing during the writing of nearly half of these lettersâ€”there is one event that enthused Carrie Beauman too much for her not to mention. This was the suppression by the KKK of alleged brewing race riots in Houston: â€œWe came near a bad race riot last week. All the militia residents Light Guards ex-soldiers were called out. There were over 5000 armed white men on the main streets negro sections. Arthur slept with his clothes on 4 loaded guns. We all piled in one room. Believe me the Ku Klux Klan is doing efficient work. Thatâ€™s twice in the last 10 days that theyâ€™ve â€˜operated onâ€™ the beasts. Iâ€™m tickled to death to know that there are a few fearless just honorable men left to meet sic out justice to these criminals. By the time this happens half a dozen times some of this crime wave will subside. If the paid officers of the law wont meet the emergency â€“ then itâ€™s time for the upright citizens to take a hand. I am tickled to death over this!â€ May 1 1921 Overall an intimate look at the lives and affairs of an ordinary American family in the early twentieth century. unknown

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[Country Music] Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty, Hank Snow, June Carter Cash, The Carter Family, Minnie PBiblio.com

Archive of photographs of country music acts circa 1970s

146874N.p.: N.p. 1970. Archive of 288 vernacular color photographs of country music acts from the 1970s housed in a contemporary photo album with the subject of nearly every photograph identified by manuscript ink captions. Occasional additional notations give a date range between 1972-1980 for the photographs with most being dated 1977-1979. The photographs primarily consist of performers on stage indicating the photographer was near the stage with a strong sense of composition and timing. Photographs of performers casually posing for the camera indicate the photographer likely had backstage access for some of the performances. Based on additional information in some of the handwritten captions the photographs were primarily taken at concerts or events in the Western New York region - Chautauqua Dunkirk Little Valley and Lakewood - all within an hour of each other as well as the nearby Erie County NY Fair and Expo and Pittsfield PA. Other locations include the New York State Fair and Pittsburgh PA. Included are images of country music legends Johnny Cash Dolly Parton Loretta Lynn Conway Twitty Hank Snow June Carter Cash The Carter Family Minnie Pearl Tanya Tucker Tammy Wynette and Wanda Jackson. Also included are photographs of singers who while lesser known today were among the biggest stars of the era including Bobby Goldsboro Crystal Gayle Donna Fargo Freddy Fender Jeannie C. Riley Buddy Alan Charlie Walker Peggy Sue Bill Anderson Kenny Price LeRoy Van Dyke Lynn Anderson Jay Lee Webb Jean Shepard and Kitty Wells. Finally the album contains images of smaller and possibly even regional acts some of which appear unknown to us presenting a broad survey of a transitional era in country music as rock soul and pop began to fuse with the more traditional country sound that had begun declining in popularity toward the end of the previous decade. For more details please inquire. Photographs variously sized primarily 3.5 x 5 inches but up to 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Generally Near Fine. Housed in an about Very Good generic photo album with starting and loss to the spine fraying and rubbing. Several internal pages loose or with dried glue leading to occasional slipping of the photographs. N.p. unknown

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Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Sly and the Family Stone, Santana, Jim Morrison, Tina Turner,Biblio.com

Archive of 16 photographs featuring rock performers circa 1960s-1970s

141846N.p.: N.p. 1970. Archive of 16 photographs seven double weight and ten single weight of rock performers circa the late 1960s and early 1970s. Struck by photographer Jim Marshall circa 1990s most with his stamp and manuscript identification number on the verso. Artists represented include Bob Dylan The Rolling Stones The Who Bob Dylan Joni Mitchell Sly and the Family Stone Santana Jim Morrison Tina Turner The Allman Brothers Band including standalone shots of Duane Allman and others. The Santana photos are especially notable as the band already a live sensation is performing at Woodstock just ahead of the release their first album. As a photographer for both record labels and magazines such as "Rolling Stone" Jim Marshall was one of the most prolific and influential chronicles of rock music during the 1960s and 1970s. Among his most iconic photographs are images of Jimi Hendrix setting his guitar on fire at Monterey Pop Johnny Cash performing at San Quentin and The Beatles backstage at their final live concert at Candlestick Park. In 2014 he was posthumously awarded a Lifetime Achievement Grammy the only photographer to be so honored. Photographs variously 5 x 7 inches and 8 x 10 inches. Fine overall. For details please inquire. N.p. unknown

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The Fantastic Waller Family [The Fabulous Waller Family] [The Waller Family] [The Wallers] (artist)Biblio.com

Archive of material relating to the Richmond Virginia-based musical group The Fantastic Waller Family

156953N.p.: N.p. 1980. Archive of professional and vernacular photographs flyers newspapers letters and various ephemera relating to the Richmond-based African American musical group The Fantastic Waller Family circa late 1970s-1980s. Formed in Richmond Virginia in the mid-1970s the show and dance band consisted of three brothers Harry Bruce and Chris two sisters Karen and Sandra and a five-piece horn backing band. The ensemble performed variously as The Waller Family The Fantastic Waller Family The Fabulous Waller Family and The Wallers playing a blend of R&B soul disco funk and pop. The group toured extensively throughout the east coast and southern US between the late 1970s and 1990s but was still active as recently as the early 2000s. The archive contains over 75 unique photographs of the band performing and recording a mix of promotional shots and professional and vernacular shots. The photographs also include two copies of a contact sheet 10 images six strips of negatives 14 images and two photographs of the band's 1981 performance on the WNVT television show The Connection. The archive also features a number of promotional materials including a poster for a performance at the Rochester People's Club of New York material advertising the the Kozy Kat Club and Alpha Audio recording studios of Richmond Virginia magazines and newspaper clippings concerning the band over 25 flyers five "club" calendars and a press release about the band. Of particular note are ten letters variously dated between January 1982 and July 1984 commending the band on their performances with many written following performances at historically Black colleges and universities in the US. Photographs negatives and contact sheets: 4 x 5 inches to 13 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall. Several photographs housed in a Near Fine blue binder measuring 9.5 x 11.75 inches. Flyers newspapers letters and other ephemera: Very Good plus to Near Fine overall. Poster: 11 x 17 inches folded horizontally. Very Good with a six inch horizontal closed tear just below center. Total archive is approximately one linear foot of material. N.p. unknown

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Miller Family CorrespondenceABAA

Archive of Correspondence and Ephemera of Maud Bauer Miller of Newark Ohio and Oakland California her children and their spouses 1881-1980

30571Collection of 123 letters 437 manuscript and typed pages 95 retained mailing envelopes dated 1881-1980 the bulk dating from 1920-1949; also includes over 100 pieces of related ephemera pertaining to the family including photographs postcards telegrams family genealogy vital records greeting cards etc. Maud Bauer Miller 1863-1942 and FamilyMaud M. Bauer was born on 15 September 1863 in Alfred Center New York. She was the daughter of Thomas Dodson Bauer and his wife Hannah S. Sherman. Bauer and his wife were professors at Alfred University at the time of their daughter Maud's birth. Maud's mother Hannah was born 9 December 1828 and married Maud's father on 25 December 1860 in New Albany Indiana. Hannah died 17 June 1910 in Somerville Massachusetts. She had been a teacher and knew seven languages. Hannah was the daughter of Samuel Sherman and Malinda Stanton; Samuel Sherman was the son of Peleg Sherman and Hannah Willett; Hannah Willett was the daughter of Samuel Willett 1751-1843 and Elizabeth Andreas; Samuel Willett served in the American Revolution as a private in Capt. Jone's Company Col. Taylor's Regiment. Documents in this collection show Maud and others in the Miller family sought induction into the Daughters of the American Revolution or other lineage societies.Maud M. Bauer moved with her parents to Newark Ohio where she attended the Old Central High School from which she graduated in 1879. She taught her first school at Loyd's on the Jacksontown Pike and later was a teacher at the Perryton School Ohio here she met her future husband Lebbeus D. Miller they were married on 23 March 1882 at the Pilgrim Congregational Church Newark Ohio by the Rev. E.J. Jones. Maud worked as a stenographer at a utility company. She was also active in the Women's Christian Temperance Union and took her oath from temperance reformer and women's suffragist Francis Willard 1839-1898 the national president of the WCTU and its founder.Lebbeus Dunn Miller was born 11 May 1858 in Perryton Ohio. He was the youngest son of Joseph Miller and Elizabeth Custer 1812-1888. His grandfather was supposed to have been one Robert Miller of Pennsylvania who served in the War of 1812. The Oakland artist-poet Joaquin Miller also claimed to have a grandfather named Robert Miller from Pennsylvania who served in the War of 1812. Maud's family believed they may have been related to Joaquin Miller but it has not been proven. A pamphlet in the collection about Joaquin Miller's estate "The Heights" in Oakland has manuscript annotations and notes by Maud Bauer Miller detailing the estates history and Joaquin Miller's life. The pamphlet was given to Maud by Juanita Miller Joaquin Miller's daughter. Lebbeus Miller Maud's husband was the great-great grandson of Sarah Ball Custer the sister of President George Washington's wife Martha Ball Washington. There is only one letter in this collection by Lebbeus Miller. The collection mainly revolves around Maud Bauer Miller and her children and their correspondence with each other.Maud and Lebbeus Miller had at least nine children: Walter Miller 1883- died young; Frank Stanton Miller 1884-1935; Amie Glen Miller 1886-1958 who married a Mr. Phillips; Sherman Miller died in infancy; Floyd Rudolph Miller 1889-1940 there are a couple of photos of him in the collection; Lorena Eleanor Miller 1893-1960 resided at St. Louisville Ohio she married a Mr. Tiebout; Carl Frederick Miller 1896-1967 resided at Frazeysburg Ohio and married a woman named Agnes and they had a daughter Kathleen. There are a number of letters in this collection by Carl Frederick Miller and his wife Agnes as well as letters of Lorena Miller and Frank Stanton Miller.Another of Lebbeus and Maud's daughters was Cecelia Esther Miller 1899-1978 she was born in Perry Township Licking Co. Ohio. She attended Perry Township High School graduating in 1916 and moved to Oakland California with her mother in 1921 where she met and married Jesse "Jack" Howard Cole. Cole was born 9 March 1900 in Buncombe Co. North Carolina and married Cecelia in Oakland on 8 November 1926. Jack Cole died on 5 January 1961 in Oakland. He served in WWI enlisting in 1916 and was discharged in 1919 as a corporal with the 115th Machine Gun Battalion. He saw action in WWI with the AEF in occupation Ypres Salient Belgium Veormeze Le-Mont Kemmel engagement; Bellicourt-Nauroy; Premont-Vasch Andigny Engagement; Selfe River; and remained in Germany for occupation purposes. There are a number of letters in this collection by and to Cecelia Miller and her husband Jack Cole.Maud and Lebbeus' youngest daughter was Evelyn Elizabeth Miller. She was born 2 February 1905 in Perry Township Licking Co. Ohio and died in 1974. She also moved to Oakland California with her mother Maud and sister Cecelia. Evelyn graduated from the Oakland Technical High School in June 1923 and went to work for Western Power Company in Oakland California as a stenographer and later was promoted secretary to the Division Electric Superintendent. She was married at the age of 22 in Oakland on 31 November 1927 to Justin Francis Greene. He was born 30 Oct 1900 Johnson Co. Texas and died 10 August 1961 in San Francisco. He was the son of Arthur Percival Greene born Texas and Laura Richardson born Oklahoma of Johnson Co. Texas. Greene later moved to Oakland California. Greene was a veteran of WWI and WWII. He enlisted in U.S. Navy for WWI 1918-1921 and Marine Crops in WWII 1942-1946 and wound up in the Quartermaster's Department in San Diego California. After the war he worked for the accounting department of P.G. & E. Pacific Gas & Electric he had previously worked for Western Power Company which is where he met his wife Evelyn Miller. Great Western Power merged with P.G. & E. There are a good many letters in this collection by and to Evelyn Miller and her husband Justin Greene.Maud Bauer Miller had a brother Ralph Sherman Bauer 1867-1941. He was the proprietor of "The R.S. Bauer Company: Stationers Engravers & Printers" of Lynn Massachusetts. He later became mayor of Lynn. He married Fannie Miller daughter of John Miller shipbuilder of Chicago Illinois. They had one son Paul Sherman Bauer who married Kathrine Williams daughter of Judge Guy R. Williams of Havana Illinois. Paul Sherman Bauer attended Phillips Andover then Harvard Engineering School. There are letters in this collection by Ralph Sherman Bauer 5 and his son Paul S. Bauer 1.Maud also had a sister Hulda Sherman Bauer 1870- who married a Mr.Emmel/Emmal of Glenwood New Jersey and a second sister Marie Sherman Bauer 1873-1948 who married Francis A. Neff Jr. of Salem Massachusetts. There is one letter in this collection by Hulda Sherman Bauer.Lebbeus Miller died 24 September 1913 and after some time Maud moved to Oakland California in 1921 where she died 11 June 1942.Description and Inventory of Collection: Correspondence: The letters in this collection are written by and to various members of Maud Bauer Miller's family including Maud Bauer Miller her husband Lebbeus Miller and their children and children's spouses as well as her grandchildren including: Evelyn Miller and Justin Greene her husband; Cecelia Miller and her husband Jesse Jack Cole; Carl Miller and his wife Agnes Lorena Miller as well as Maud Bauer Miller's brother Rudolph Ralph Sherman Bauer and her sister Hulda Bauer. Other relatives are Paul S. Bauer Fred Emma Sherman and Maud's grandchildren Dorothy and Frances Miller.The bulk of the letters were written by Cecelia Miller Cole 23 and Carl Miller and his wife Agnes 30 and Evelyne Miller Greene and her husband Justin 17 the bulk of these letters were written to Maud Bauer Miller 56. The collection includes letters by Evelyn Miller Greene and her husband Justin 49 as well as Cecelia Miller Cole and her husband 7. There are also letters written by Maud Bauer Miller 8 Ralph Sherman Bauer 5 Frank Miller 3 Dorothy and Frances Miller 2 Paul S. Bauer 1 and other relatives friends business associates; as well as other letters received by Ralph S. Bauer Hannah Sherman Bauer Lebbeus Miller Esther Miller Lorena Miller etc.An inventory of the letters and the years they were written follows: 7 letters 33 manuscript pp. dated from 1881-1918 of these 7 early letters 5 were written by Maud Bauer Miller to her brother Ralph S. Bauer 2 her husband Lebbeus Miller 2 and her mother Hannah Sherman Bauer 1.There are 36 letters 134 manuscript and typed pages dated 1920-1929 9 of which are typed. There are 39 letters 119 manuscript and typed pages dated 1931-1939 18 letters are typed. The 75 letters in these two groups contain letters between the Miller family members and represent a good bulk of the collection. The letters written in the 1930s provide a look at conditions in the Great Depression with people out of work work hard to find and the struggles of people to survive even when employed.The collection includes 19 letters 82 manuscript and typed pages dated 1941-1949 2 letters are typed. These letters from the 1940s contain letters by Justin Greene husband of Evelyn Miller Maud's daughter when he was in military service during World War II. There is also much correspondence during this period between Maud's daughters' families the Greene and Cole families who were living in Newark Ohio Cole family and Oakland California Greene family and includes descriptions of travel vacation etc. and correspondence between the family members spouses etc.The 1960s are represented by 13 letters 39 manuscript and typed pages dated 1960-1967 and finally there are 9 letters 30 manuscript pages dated from 1974-1980 with all of which are hand written. The 1960s features correspondence between the family of Carl and Agnes Miller and Evelyne and Justin Greene.Ephemera:15 miscellaneous pieces of ephemera includes receipts typed and manuscript verse military papers pamphlets including: "White's Biography Brochures: Ralph Sherman Bauer" 1927 and "About 'The Heights' at Oakland California" by Juanita Miller given by Juanita Miller to Maud Bauer Miller 1921 it is annotated with manuscript notes by Maud to her children concerning Joaquin Miller the western artist and poet with whom they may have been related to however given the vagaries of Joaquin Miller's life and genealogy it is unclear.58 typed pp. of genealogical notes on the Miller/Bauer/Sherman families some copies of others.17 newspaper clippings mostly dealing with family such as death notices news etc.19 various vital records births deaths marriages etc. for Miller/Bauer/Sherman families various dates.2 telegrams dated 1949 4 black and white photographs 3 dated 1921-1922 one not dated various sizes 3 photos labeled other not 2 photos of Floyd R. Miller 1 of Evelyn Anna and their mother in San Francisco California.3 postcards dated 1936 to Mr. and Mrs. Justin Greene from Agnes other.4 invitations/cards date c1892-192658 greeting cards to and from Bauer/Sherman/Miller families mostly not dated.13 used envelopes likely could be matched to letters in collection.Examples of Correspondence:"Perryton Ohio Sept 29th 1884Dear RudolphI rec'd your postal in due time and hasten to reply to it. You must excuse my silence I have hardly found time to sleep this summer. On the 19th of this month we had a hard earthquake shock it shook our house badly knocking down pictures it was accompanied by a loud rumbling report. On last Saturday the 27th inst. we were visited by a terrific cyclone it lasted not over five minutes that is the worst of it; but during that time it did a great deal of damage. I had noticed in the afternoon that a storm was gathering and about half past five I went to the other end of town on an errand thinking that I could return before the rain. I did not stay much over a minute at the house and when I came out I noticed a strange cloud in the north west it had grown very dark the sky seemed almost black save this one cloud which was of a luminous gray color. It was cone shaped like this drawing of a cyclone shape and was moving at a fearful rate not more than 15 feet above the ground that is its lower edge it came rolling and tumbling sweeping everything before it. I ran for dear life to get home for I thought that we were all to be killed and I wanted to be with Leb and Baby but I could not outrun the storm it was on me before I knew it. The street was thickly lined with shade trees all the way until within a short distance from our house; when I reached this cleared space I could hear the trees crashing behind me; and a gust from another direction was blowing against me. My breath gave out before I reached home and I had to turn in at Mr. Beabout's next door. I got inside the gate just as Mr. Berry's house across the street went crashing down. Our barn and Mrs. Bland's stable are flat on the ground. Mr. Berry's house is demolished a dozen or more barns sheep houses houses &c. are ruined right in town; the Disciple Church is pronounced unsafe in an apple orchard back of us but 2 or 3 trees are left. Our old shop had a large portion of its roof rafters and all taken. Some of the weatherboarding is blown off of our house. But I don't think of that I am glad that none of us were killedâ€¦We send love to all. Write soon Maud""Perryton Ohio Sept 2 1900Dear MammaI received your very welcome letter as I would have rec'd one from the dead. I have written to all of the folks in rotation and have heard from not one letter until receiving your postal. How is Hulda's health this summer I did hope that I would be able to come "East." This summer but that ever-ready question of finance bobbed up and stopped me. I hope that I will be able to come home before I get so old that I can't travel. We are straining every nerve to get a good stock of goods in our store; we have 5 times as much as when you were here. Frank goes to Newark tomorrow to work in the glass-house if he likes it he will stay about 3 mos. and then go to school. We could not spare Floyd for this reason and then I do not think that you ought to keep house. You would have to have some one to prepare and make you eat your meals at the proper time; you cannot stand the same system of recuperation that you did twenty years ago. Floyd is only a child and has a healthy boy's appetite I doubt if you could cook enough in one day to last him a day.We do not intend to stay here all our lives when we have a good chance to sell out we will do so. Now Mamma don't live by yourself. I expect that you have as nearly a perfect home with the girls as you will ever have on earth. "Such polite well-bred children no smoking no drinking no hard or sordid work." No tired out cross worked down women. I know of few such homes. I am always glad to have you with me why not come here To be sure there is nothing inviting in my surroundings but I would give you filial respect. I wish that you would send me one of your dictionaries the next time Rudo sends me anything. Do you think that Frank could find employment with his uncle He is a careful & trusty clerk; his whole trend is to become a businessman he does not care for the professions. I think that Floyd will make a professional man he is just about lazy enoughâ€¦We have a large filtered cistern just adjoining the back porch and a double floored porch over it 12 x 14 ft. I have had a great quantity of water all summer enough for every purpose & for Mrs. McCann's use to as long as she lived there. The old Dr. died the last of July and she broke up housekeeping right away. She is going to New York about the first of Oct. to spend the winter with her daughter Addie a Bellevue nurse. Dr. Cullison has been on a 'tear' nearly all summer. He uses opium & drinks hard with it and every so often he goes 'stark staring mad.' Drunk I call it for that is what it is.Mr. Blount's son Scott who left his wife & ran off with $200 of his firm's money has married again down in Tenn. His wife got a divorceâ€¦We all send love & kisses to you allâ€¦Lovingly Maud""170 St. Botolph St. Boston Mass.My dear Sister & BrotherI received your welcomed letter at the hospital sometime ago and was so glad to hear from you personally although I hear indirectly thru Mamma about you & Jack and I am glad to hear that you are both well and seem to be so happy.I am out of the hospital but unable to go to work at present but I will have to do something as soon as I can get hold of a line which is very hard right now and get to work or go on the street as I am only getting $5 a week from the Welfare and I can't eat and pay room rent on that so you see how I am situated so that's the reason.I expect you will think I have one hell of a nerve but dear sister I am going to ask you to advance the money and pay this quarterly ins premium again for me which I shall absolutely refund you in six or eight weeks unless something drastic happens to me and unless this is paid at once I will hose it altogether which I do not want to unless absolutely have to. I know there is not much left of it but there is enough to bury me with should any thing happen and at present that is all I have left to do this job should I pass out.I have borrowed on it now all that it is possible for me to borrow but as I say it will leave me enough for a half decent burial in case anything should happen. Hoping you will attend to his at once for me and I will surely repay you thanking you both and hoping this will find you both in best of health love & best wishes to you both your loving brother Frank""R.S. Bauer Company Lynn Massachusetts Stationers Engravers Printers August 17 1923 Dear Sister:I was very glad indeed to hear from you under date of August 10th and to know that your family were getting along so splendidly. The thing now for you to do is to show a little mercy to yourself. The children have all now received from you everything that a Mother could give and many things more than a Mother generally gives and it seems to me that what little time is allotted to you should be taken in as much comfort as possible. Both you and I are growing old this earth and with that in sight I think it is the duty of both of us to let up on ourselves and serve the rest of our time as easily as possible.You know I am not much of a letter writer. I don't believe Fannie ever got six letters from me in the thirty years we have been married but that should not make any difference between us.I do not know anything about the Neff family except that I suppose they are alive and well as they never visit us. The only time I ever see them is when I go over to Salem and force myself into their presence.Huldah is not very well although she keeps happy and busy with her grandchildren. We expect her to spend Sunday after next with us at the little farm we own in Amesbury where we spend the summer time. It is a twenty-one-acre place on the border of a Lake. We have six acres in garden and raise almost everything the household needs up there including a little 'hell.'It seems to me that Warren Harding died in order to tie the American people closer together and bring out the universal spirit of reverence for men who have served the Nation which spirit was rapidly disappearing in all directions. You probably know that all progress the World has ever made has been the result of some shock. It seems that people no matter how civilized or well educated or Christianized they may be respond always nobly to the 'gospel of the shock' and are not so early in responding to any other gospel.Calvin Coolidge has visited us at our summer home with his wife and two children and I have a personal acquaintance with him. He will make a great President. There is no doubt about it as he has all the qualities of World Leadership without any of the personal magnetism or 'bull' that men in public life general possess. His heart and head are 100% all right and his capacity is marvelous. With best wishes to you and the children from all of us Rudo""Frazeysburg Ohio Nov 4th 1923Dear Mothers & SlatsYou want to call in the neighbors doctors & friends as your son has a pen in his handâ€¦I have been busy this summer and fall lots of work. I have been away from home most of the summer started in the first of April and came home to stay two wks ago and have been gone five days of that time. I had to cut the gang that I have been working all summer back to fifteen men was working between 34 & 40. The oil business sure is on the bum here. I wish you would have them to strike dry holes out there as the Cal. oil can be sent to the eastern refineries for less money than the oil here. We have lots of work but are doing just what we can with the men we haveâ€¦Mother you were asking about the house & Keylor's. Kelyor's moved out the first of Oct. and I haven't any renter now. I have the house up for sale and I think mother that the way things are and the location that if you can get $600.00 out of your home you had better let it go and I will say if the house belonged to me that if I could get $500 I would sell because the house will have to be painted in the Spring & I am afraid it will have to be roofed. If you will leave it to me to make the deal and use my own judgement I may be able to sell. I told you what I would take if it were mine. If you think this not enough let me know. Houses are renting in Perrytown for $3.50 & $4.00 per month so you will have an idea what things are like over there. I don't know whether Agnes told you that I lowered the rent in Apr. for Kelyor I cut it back to $6.00 and that was about a $1.50 more than any other house was renting for and this is not hearsay but personal inquiry. Please consider these things and let me know where I standâ€¦How is the K.K.K. in Cal It is getting to be pretty strong around here. They held a big conclave at Zanesville last night I went down to get me some new harness and saw the paradeâ€¦ I will close with lots of loveâ€¦Carl Agnes & Kathleenâ€¦""Kansas City Mo. June 6 1927Dear Mama & Evelyn:I never have heard from you since you went to Russian River therefore I am wondering how your trip panned out.I didn't write you the day I should because I did some very special work for two attorneys from Washington D.C. three & a half days last week & as it was rush work I was kept on the jump. They have a big case to try in Federal Court today & for two or three days so my work is thru. However in those 3 Â½ days I made $25.00 but had to rent a typewriter to take home to do the work on so I got it for a month & it was $4.00 but yet that was pretty good pay I'll say and they were so pleased & appreciative of my work.I do hope I get steady work soon but the weather is so bad â€“ it is raining today again and these Missourians are sure afraid to start anything in the rain. Also the flood has caused a great depression in work. However we will persevere I guess and we will get settled somedayâ€¦Let us hear from you soon just a noteâ€¦We both are fine. Jack's Colonel had to take an 18-day sick leave due to the accident he had three weeks ago so Jack is left alone with all the medical units to care for so I fear he is going to be very busy. Lots of love to you both Cecelia & Jackâ€¦""9 Sunnyside St. Jamaica Plain Oct 23 1931Dear GrandmaWe received your letter and was glad to hear from you. We are glad to hear that you have been able to take a vacation. Yes I am working in the same place and Frances is working for the Fire Underwriters. She works in the office. We are sorry that our father has had such bad luck but it seems that every time he goes to the Hospital that his women always leave him because he doesn't have any money to give them. If he had been living a good Christian life he wouldn't have all this trouble now. Naturally we should be loyal to our Mother for all the care she gave us when my father was so mean to her. She brought us up to be what we are now and we should really be a credit to her. We are sorry to hear that Uncle Floyd is having a hard time with his business. It is terrible here in Boston. So many are out of work. Most of us are just lucky enough to keep our jobs. I hope that things will be easier for everybody soon. We are having such changeable weather lately. So many people have got colds. Well we hope you are in the best of health and wish the others the same with love and regards to the rest your granddaughters Dorothy & Frances.""Frazeysburg â€“ O 4/10 1932Dear Mother & Allâ€¦I have been very busy for the past three weeks and have quite a bit of work a head of me. How is business out there Things are getting worse here every day. I am still holding my job but don't know for how long. I have orders to cut off four of my men the 15th of April. The oil business in Ohio is shot for a long while cannot compete with the Western fields. I hope that Evelyn & Justin can still keep their positions. Tiebout has been working most of the time since the first of the year. So we have not seen or heard much of them. We have had sickness most of the winter. I started the ball rolling when I had the flu. I lost 4 days work the first time I have been off for six years of course I was paid but I hate to have my record brokenâ€¦Our company has been taking over some production that the Lenard Oil & Gas Co has had connected and has made a lot of extra work for me. I just finished a new gathering system & built a pumping station over back of Staddens Bridge. I am just starting a new gathering system u at Perryton my old home town on brother Joseph Chaney farm. So you see with having to entertain Joseph & look after my work I will be very busy. I hope that Floyd & Anna can come out of this slump with flying colors. Tell them just to take it easy and just make a living and be satisfied there isn't any use of them trying to build up a big fortune just for their kids to fight over. If they can't make anything they needn't to worry for they have lots of company. I have the same size pay check coming in every 2 wks and haven't saved anything for 2 yrs but greens are coming on now so I guess we will have something to eat.â€¦With lots of love from the whole family to Mother Slats & Justin Your scribbling son & all Carl Agnes Kathleen & Pee Wee""March 10 1933My dear folks all:I received your nice letter the other day and one hasn't much to write about or think of now except the national situation but somehow and someway I am sure that none of us will go hungry. Don't you worry about us back here and we are not going to worry about you folks but just rust in things coming back within a short time. Rome wasn't built in a day and the President has to have time to put into effect a new deal and a new policy. Now don't laugh for it is really a serious situation. But let's give him a chance to do right and perhaps if they make him a King or Mussolini or something he can do something and the Lord above knows that our Congress will never get us anywhere so give the President free reins and his chance to do something. I am for you Franklin if you make a go of it and will even vote for your reelection if you bring this country out of it but I fear he cannot stand the strain and will not be with us that many years longer.Poor Jack is dumbfounded being a Southerner by birth and just having recently returned from the South where his folks sort of rechristened him a Democrat and made him believe that Roosevelt was our Savior etc. all this after I had Jack made a pretty good Republican for the past six years all my work wasted in vain after his Mother and Sisters etc. told him Roosevelt was great. He doesn't know what to think and of course cannot get to me to talk personally but just has to write his ideas etc. after the banks closed but he is trying to cheer me up and yet deep down in his heart he says that what I told him last summer would happen if Hoover was not re-elected if just about all coming true right the first ten days of the Democratic administration. However Jacks says he is a good sport and if Roosevelt saves the country and brings us out of this without suffering too much and makes things better I must become a Democrat but if Roosevelt fails and has to call on Republicans etc. to help him out of this crisis then Jack is never to speak to another Democrat ha!Anyways folks here is what all of us connected with our organization have figured out. If you are paid 20% cash and rest checks do not spend on cent of the cash but hide it some safe place and pass every payroll check immediately on to the grocer baker candlestick maker etc. Don't hold a check a minute. Now Evelyn and Justin I am not sure whether our mortgage read that you had to pay gold tender or not but be most certain that you get a separate receipt for every cent you pay on your mortgage and hold on to those receipts. Don't let any ifs or ands get into the receipt either. Either they take your checks or they don't and get your receipt to these checks. If you get paid in small denomination checks buy so you may get back a little silver and then use another check for the next purchase etc. until you get every check out of your hands. Even buy your next winter coats underwear shoes new tires and everything possible that you can get them to take the checks that is payroll checks for and get yourself all fixed up. Buy all the groceries possible with such checks and store them away. Things in cans and that will keep. The theory is if worse comes to worse have some things on hand to eat and have those checks in some other fellows' hand and then your employer is responsible for the payroll checks or Roosevelt is or anyone but you.Do the same way with the new money they issue and don't hold on to it but buy with it for all you can and pay on your mortgage with it if they will take it pay your insurance taxes etc. but do not hoard it for when the new money is finally called in unless a precedent is set it will be discounted and the ones holding it will get about 35 c on the dollar for all they have in their possession. However some new laws or other may off set these prophesies but pay for everything with those checks and save every cent of currency you get quarters halves etc. And don't keep from buying things you need because next year things will be so high you will not be able to buy them so fix up the car the house lay in grocers and get yourselves underwear coats suits dresses etc. to do for another year if you can possible do so with this new money you might be paid with.However it usually takes all we make to live on as a rule but at that we are passing it on and will not be caught with it on hand. Mother has a hobby about holding onto checks and that is why I warned you about returning my little Kansas City checks immediately and not hold on to them for I was afraid this would be coming. I had no idea that Mother was holding onto any other checks or would have warned her also. We weren't the only ones; millions and millions are in the same boat and if only we all eat that is the main thing.Now don't worry about us back here because we aren't going to worry about you. We know we all are pulling together and don't' knock the President for heaven's sake. That will ruin the country if we do and don't help him during this crisis now that it is on.Do you all notice that Herbert Hoover is remaining in the East Wonder who is insisting that he remain there There is much hopes here that he is being asked by Wall Street or other financiers to remain near until this passes over and that is why he did not go on to California with Mrs. Hoover. He may have to save us yet.All love to each of you and the best of luck Your devoted children Cecelia & Jackâ€¦""December 9 1933 321 West 29th Street New York City N.Y.Dear Maud:Isn't it about time I answered your letter of November sixteenth I think so â€“ we were glad to hear from you and to receive your tin-type. There is not the faintest doubt that 'Tommie' was your Father is there You look just like the photo that his final widow sent us you also look well and very alert don't' look seventy.I am glad that you can get a 'kick' out of prohibition and attending conventions yes I remember your snatching the man's whiskey bottle and how gentlemanly he offered you a drink.I am glad that you are able to help the ministers even if it was only six cents rather a low price for a poem and music too. I do believe in helping others; even ministers they are the poorest paid swindlers there are and lots of them are self-hypnotized and believe their own patter. I am glad that you are feeling better in your ribs and should now if you could only use Christian Science you would know that you were not hurt and were in error when you thought you were. Sounds 'dippy' but there are lots of lunatics at largeâ€¦Will finally returned John's capital but the hard times set in before he was able to make any interest for them and I guess now we are going to arrive in H--- poor we will not be camelsâ€¦Will walks the streets and avenues continuously looking for a job but so far all that he has accomplished is leaving his name and address at various shops and factories this certainly is 'The Land of the Spree and the Home of the Knaves.' One has to be a bootlegger kidnapper or some other kind of crook to make money these times; and we are too old to learn crook waysâ€¦Rude writes he is having his troubles trying to get any work out of the negroes and he says the English bosses are about as lazy as the coons. He seems to find the climate all right so far but the place is called 'the white man's grave yard.'Glad that Frank still has a little work Victor is still looking for a job our kind of work seems to be like 'the dodo' â€“ extinct. Rude's address is Tarkwa Gold Coast Colony West Africa. Elsie just arrived there when he sent his last letter she said she had a wonderful trip ever since she left Peru enjoyed every minute of it. She had three days in London and flew over the city for a half hour to see it all at onceâ€¦It is mean of you to remind me that Christmas is nearly here. Christmas without money is fake. You know that Hannah always said 'it was a Catholic celebration gotten up by the priests to get the harvest money away from the people that Christ was born in July.' You can't prove it by me I wasn't present at the Virgin's lying-in. Give our love to all of your family and don't forget yourselfâ€¦.yours Hulda" 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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Tuckerman Family CorrespondenceABAA

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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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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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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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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Davis (Family).Biblio.com

Archive relative to the Davis Family former Governor of Massachusetts.

01-13531898-1936. Collection of documents mostly concerning the career of Norris. K. Davis the grandson of John Davis Governor of Massachusetts 1834-1835 and 1841-1843. Relate to his military experience and later industrial activities in California. Also included is an autobiography and genealogy in typescript by his father. Interesting collection of letterheads. 1898-1936. unknown

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Livre Rare Book

ARDECHE ATTITUDE. Magazine. Vol: 001.

10608Privas, Comité départemental du tourisme de l'Ardèche, s.d. (2005), 1 br., couverture illustrée. in-4 de 45 pp., nombreuses illustrations en couleurs ;

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Are There Two Earls of Mar

1876ZB332353London: Pickering 1876. 17 pp. original paper wrappers somewhat soiled with the signature of Mary Erskine Carmichael on front cover some underlining passim library markiings still a good working copy. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. London: Pickering unknown

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