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Forbes, Paul Revere, 1860-1940. Papers, 1837-1953, bulk: 1929-1937.

Title: Papers, 1837-1953, bulk: 1929-1937.

Letters of Paul R. Forbes to his cousin Ethel Forbes concern the acquisition of genealogical papers relating to the Forbes family. There is also some correspondence about stock investments and the financial status of various Forbes family members. Also included is correspondence relating to the estate of Charles S. Forbes and an 1893 letter from John Murray Forbes to Secretary of the Treasury Charles S. Hamlin about the depressed U.S. ship-building industry.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box.

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Forbes family. Forbes family papers, 1732-1931.

Title: Forbes family papers, 1732-1931.

Correspondence and other papers of the Forbes family of Milton, Mass. Mostly papers of Robert Bennet Forbes (1804-89), Francis Blackwell Forbes (1839-1908), and James Murray Forbes (1845-1937). Includes correspondence with the merchant firms T.H. Perkins & Sons, Baring Bros., Russell & Co., Hong merchant Houqua, R.C. Winthrop, Nathaniel Bowditch and other Bowditch family members, B.F. Butler, George Bancroft, Theodore Lyman, Alfred Richardson, and many others. Subjects include the China trade; the ships Macedonian and Jamestown and their voyages to relieve the Irish famine; the ships Niantic, Coquette, Canton Packet, and Alert; sea-faring life; oriental botany; Massachusetts Humane Society; bimetallism; the Opium War; descriptions of Canton, China; and the history of Shanghai. (Cont) Also contains scrapbooks and the following diaries: 1839, John Cunningham; 1857-58, James M. Forbes; 1859-61, Mary Hathaway Forbes Russell; 1860, voyage to Greenland in the schooner Nautilus, unknown author; 1870-71, James M. Forbes, voyage to China; 1871, Alice B. Forbes; 1874-75, James M. Forbes (in French); 1883, Paul R. Forbes, trip to Germany and Spain; 1884-1930, James M. Forbes (intermittent entries).

ArchivalResource: 59 boxes and 2 oversize containers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18337908 View