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Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891,. Portraits of members of the Ponkapoag Dinner Club [graphic].

Title: Portraits of members of the Ponkapoag Dinner Club [graphic]. [ca. 1855]

A photographic album with individual portraits of the Ponkapoag Dinner Club members - a gentleman's club which met during the summer in Ponkapoag, Massachusetts at the home of Henry Austin Whitney. During the rest of the year, they met once a month at the homes of other club members. Portraits include Dr. Samuel Cabot; N. [illegible]; P[atrick] T[racy] Jackson; T . H. Jackson; Henry Lee, Jr.; Geo. N. Minot; Wm. Minot, Jr, ; Chas. Henry Parker; Dr. Samuel Parkman; Gardiner Howland Shaw; R. Sullivan, Jr.; and Charles A. Welch. Most, if not all, of the individuals graduated from Harvard College in the mid-1830s. The sitters appear to be in their later 30s or early 40s.

ArchivalResource: 1 photograph album (12 salted paper prints mounted individually on wove paper) ; oval image 12 x 10 cm., on sheet 25 x 20 cm.

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Parkman family papers, 1793-1896

Title: Parkman family papers, 1793-1896

Correspondence, poems, journals, and other compositions by members of the Parkman family of Boston, Massachusetts. Contains correspondence of the various members of the Parkman family, primarily of Mary Eliot Dwight Parkman. Correspondents include: Elizabeth Dwight Cabot, Edmund Dwight, Mary Harrison Eliot Dwight, Anna Cabot Lowell, Anna Cabot Lowell Dwight Mills, Catherine Eliot Norton, Henry Parkman, Mary B. Parkman, Samuel Parkman, Margarett Searle, Edward Turner Boyd Twisleton, Ellen Dwight Twisleton, and Ellen Twisleton Parkman Vaughan. Letters discuss family, social engagements, and the events of daily life. Elizabeth Dwight Cabot's letters describe London and its tourist sites, society, social customs, and fashions. Edward Twisleton letters discuss Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, whom he and his wife became friendly with in London, and his one meeting with Charlotte Brontë. There are commonplace books, essays, and journals of Mary Eliot Dwight Parkman, as well as compositions by Ellen Dwight Twisleton. Additionally, there are many unidentified poems. Francis Parkman material consists of four letters to Mary Eliot Dwight Parkman.

ArchivalResource: 25 boxes (8.5 linear ft.)

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