Bigelow, Andrew, 1795-1877. Papers, 1806-1889.
Title:
Papers, 1806-1889.
This collection consists of five boxes of correspondence, 1806-1889, and sixty-eight volumes of diaries, notebooks, and accounts, 1816-1876. The correspondence is especially complete for the period after 1833, when Bigelow returned to New England after holding a ministerial post in Washington, D.C. The chief correspondents were his brother, John Prescott Bigelow (1797-1872), later mayor of Boston and Mass. Secretary of State; his brother-in-law, Abbott Lawrence (1792-1855), wealthy Boston merchant and U.S. Congressman; his brother-in-law, Henry Stevens ( - ), a merchant in New York; his brother, Francis R. Bigelow ( -1886); Jonathan Porter; and John Gansed ( - ), E.B. Hale ( - ), and William George Scandlin (1828-1871), concerning ministerial matters, especially charitable work in Boston. The letters of John Prescott Bigelow, Francis R. Bigelow, and Abbott Lawrence often contain political commentaries on such subjects as abolitionism, the administration of President Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), nullification, anti-Catholic upheavals in Boston, and state and local politics. There is also correspondence in the 1830s relating to the American Colonization Society, of which Andrew Bigelow was a member; several letters in Italian from Peter Campanello ( - ) in Sicily concerning his collection of minerals; and many letters from ministerial colleagues concerning the poor in Boston and the type of aid to be provided, especially during the 1840s. There are also letters from Bigelow's two sons during their school years, letters of his wife, Amelia Bigelow, and courtship letters of Henry Stevens in New York to Elizabeth Prescott Bigleow ( -1859), 1830s to 1840s, in Medford, Mass. The folders include correspondence of Abbott Lawrence's son, Colonel Timothy Bigelow Lawrence (1826-1869), U.S. Consul-General in Italy, concerning his duties there, 1868-1869. The diaries, 1816-1876, are an account of Andrew Bigelow's daily professional and personal activities, as well as his travels to Europe and the Near East. There are also miscellaneous notebooks, cash accounts, and briefly interleaved diary/almanacs.
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5 boxes.68 v. ; octavo.
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