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Records of the President of Radcliffe College

Title: Records of the President of Radcliffe College

Contains incoming and outgoing correspondence, speeches, annual reports, commencement addresses, and other papers.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (1 carton).

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00392/catalog View

Elizabeth Gaskell Norton and Sara Norton papers, 1867-1948 (inclusive), 1880-1946 (bulk).

Title: Elizabeth Gaskell Norton and Sara Norton papers, 1867-1948 (inclusive),1880-1946 (bulk).

Letters and other documents of Elizabeth and Sarah Norton, the daughters of Harvard professor Charles Eliot Norton.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes and 3 volumes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01318/catalog View

Samuel Gray Ward and Anna Hazard Barker Ward papers, 1823-1934 (inclusive) 1837-1900 (bulk).

Title: Samuel Gray Ward and Anna Hazard Barker Ward papers, 1823-1934 (inclusive) 1837-1900 (bulk).

Papers of Samual Baker Ward and his wife Anna Hazard Barker Ward, friends of Ralph Waldo Emerson and associates of the Transcendentalists.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes (2.3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00309/catalog View

John Chipman Gray correspondence

Title: John Chipman Gray correspondence

Correspondence of Harvard professor and lawyer John Chipman Gray. Consists chiefly of letters written to Gray and his wife, Anna Lyman Mason Gray, many of which are RSVPs to social engagements from notable Boston and Harvard figures. Other topics include John Gray's legal writings and lectures and Anna Gray's poetry. Includes two autograph letters of Daniel Webster (addressed to others), and several letters of condolence from acquaintances such as Abbott Lawrence Lowell on the occasion of John Gray's death. The collection also includes letters to other members of the Gray family and some Gray family ephemera, such as stock certificates. Items concerning Japan include a letter from Isabella Stewart Gardner describing her impressions of Japanese culture and society, a letter from Fanny MacVeagh, wife of the American ambassador to Japan, describing the landscape and culture, and a collection of letters from John Gray's former student Kentaro Kanako, a Japanese noble and diplomat, whose letters describe the politics, government, and society of Japan and express great nostalgia for Boston society. He also discusses newly published political science works and his translations of many such works. Kanako visited the United States several times and wrote to the Grays from both Japan and the United States.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear feet (2 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01090/catalog View

Papers of Elizabeth Glendower Evans, 1859-1944 (inclusive), 1882-1944 (bulk)

Title: Papers of Elizabeth Glendower Evans, 1859-1944 (inclusive), 1882-1944 (bulk)

Diaries, correspondence, writings, speeches, notes, photographs, clippings, etc., of social reformer Elizabeth Glendower Evans.

ArchivalResource: 4.17 linear feet (10 file boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00026/catalog View

Radcliffe College Archives biography files, 1855-2007

Title: Radcliffe College Archives biography files, 1855-2007

Biographical files of Radcliffe College administrators, officers, notable alumnae and other associates of the college.

ArchivalResource: 4.4 linear ft.; (4 cartons, 1 file box)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch01113/catalog View

Phillips Brooks papers

Title: Phillips Brooks papers

Primarily correspondence of Episcopal clergyman Phillips Brooks with hisfamily and others, as well as diaries, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, andphotographs.

ArchivalResource: 29 boxes (14.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01311/catalog View

Brooks, Peter Chardon, 1831-1920. Papers, 1776-1942.

Title: Papers, 1776-1942.

Papers of P.C. Brooks 3d of Medford, Mass., contain genealogical materials on the Brooks family; papers concerning Brooks family properties in Medford and Boston, including estate inventories; notes and papers written by Gorham and P.C. Brooks I; correspondence and receipts pertaining to the purchase of paintings, including a series of letters by J. Foxcroft Cole; and inventories of books, silver, and objets d'art. Among the correspondents are Shepherd Brooks; Charles F. Adams; Saltonstall family members; artists B.C. Porter, Sarah Whitman, J.S. Sargent, Anders Zorn, W.M. Hunt, and Cyrus Dallin. Includes a series of papers (1912) concerning Brooks's purchase of Dallin's Indian sculpture for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Collection contains photographs and exhibition catalogues as well.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16181408 View

Radcliffe College. Office of the Dean. Records of the Office of the Dean, 1894-1977 (inclusive),

Title: Records of the Office of the Dean, 1894-1977 (inclusive),

Included are office files of the following deans: Agnes Irwin (Dean 1894-1909); Mary Coes (Dean 1910-1913); Christina Hopkinson Baker (Acting Dean 1922-1923); Bernice Brown Cronkhite (Dean 1923-1934); Kathleen Overmeyer Elliott (Dean of Instruction 1959-1963, Dean of the College 1963-1971, Dean of Students 1971-1973). Contains correspondence concerning admissions, scholarships, student academic affairs and counselling. Materials reflect the changing functions of the office before and after the Harvard/Radcliffe merger in 1971. Also includes speeches of Irwin and Baker. Elliott's files as Vice-President, 1973-1976, are also included.

ArchivalResource: 10.4 linear ft. (25 file boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006487 View

Whitman, Sarah. Papers, 1904-1984 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1904-1984 (inclusive).

Biographical materials compiled by Betty S. Smith, tributes, obituaries, and other clippings about Whitman and color slides of her work.

ArchivalResource: 3 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232008717 View

Whitman, Sarah. Article, n.d.

Title: Article, n.d.

Ts. article by Ethel M. Desborough about Whitman.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232007784 View

Curtis family. Papers, 1797-1991 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1797-1991 (inclusive).

Collection consists of correspondence of Curtis family and friends. There is information about the courtship of the parents, family life, travel in U.S. and abroad, golf and other sports, and the lives and careers of the sons and daughters. Upper-class Boston social life is well documented in the correspondence of the five daughters. Letters and clippings provide information about the civic activism of Frances Greely Curtis, and Harriot and Isabella's support for Afro-American education. Margaret's career as a social worker in the American Red Cross and other organizations is documented in her correspondence and professional papers.

ArchivalResource: 12.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122471414 View

Saturday Morning Club (Boston, Mass.). Records, 1871-1983 (inclusive).

Title: Records, 1871-1983 (inclusive).

Collection contains constitutions and bylaws; minutes; financial records; annual reports; correspondence; papers by members; lecture notes; Club histories; lists of officers, members, lecturers, and their topics; announcements of meetings, parties and plays; autograph books; photos; and other records. Included are records of the executive committee and other committees, secretaries, and treasurers.

ArchivalResource: 5.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006838 View

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.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00486/catalog View

Walter Hines Page letters from various correspondents, American period

Title: Walter Hines Page letters from various correspondents, American period

Letters from various correspondents to American editor and diplomat Walter Hines Page concerning his editorial work and his interest in education in the South.

ArchivalResource: 24 boxes (8 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01471/catalog View

Henry Oscar Houghton additional papers, 1839-1895

Title: Henry Oscar Houghton additional papers

Journal, account books, and letters of the American publisher Henry Oscar Houghton.

ArchivalResource: 5 v. (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00518/catalog View

Governing Board Records, 1878-1999

Title: Governing Board Records, 1878-1999

Minutes, correspondence, and other records concerning the founding of Radcliffe College, and of the governing boards of Radcliffe College.

ArchivalResource: 40.4 linear feet

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00581/catalog View