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Lamb, Horatio A. (Horatio Appleton), 1850-1926. Ledger and cash book : estate of Dorothea Lynde Dix, 1887 July 19-1926 Feb. 23.

Title: Ledger and cash book : estate of Dorothea Lynde Dix, 1887 July 19-1926 Feb. 23.

A record of income and disbursements, from the death of Dorothea Lynde Dix to the death of her financial advisor and executor Horatio Appleton Lamb.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. ; 35 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/601901479 View

Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887. Letters received, 1865 Feb. 7-1887 March 4.

Title: Letters received, 1865 Feb. 7-1887 March 4.

Letters are principally from members of the Lamb and Eliot families, including Horatio A. Lamb, who handled Dix's financial affairs, Lamb's mother, Hannah Eliot Lamb, his uncle, Rev. William G. Eliot (Unitarian minister and reformer and founder of Washington University in St. Louis), and Eliot's sons, Rev. Thomas Lamb Eliot and Christopher R. Eliot. Letters concern Dix's finances and charities, Lamb and Eliot family matters (including information on artist Rose Lamb), and politics. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in a single letter (1865 Feb. 7) states that because he is busy lecturing he is unable to check on conditions [at Camp Meigs?] in Readville. With a folder containing manuscript poems (one by D.L. Dix) and a folder with inventories of Dix's possessions (some at the home of Mrs. Walter Baker in Dorchester).

ArchivalResource: Approx. 50 items, in box ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/591589420 View

Lamb family. Papers, 1814-1973, 1860-1920.

Title: Papers, 1814-1973, 1860-1920.

Papers include: Correspondence, report cards, travel journal, account book, poem, passports, receipts, circulars, estate papers, genealogies, wills, telegrams and newspaper clippings. The bulk of materials comprise letters from William Greenleaf Eliot to his sister, Hannah Eliot Lamb while William served in the Western Sanitary Commission. These letters document the Western Sanitary Commission's attempt to prevent sickness, such as typhus and pneumonia and its attempt to provide social and moral welfare for the soldiers, along with documenting hospital overcrowding, slavery, hospital ships and plantation schools in South Carolina. The letters also reflect Hannah's participation in the war through her continual shipments to William of packages of socks, bandages and supplies. Other correspondents in this series include: Thomas Lamb, Ezra Stiles Gannett, Benjamin Silliman, Dorothea Lynde Dix, and Noah Webster. A second series of correspondence (bulk, 1910-1914) between Horatio and his nephew, Eliot Tuckerman, primarily relates to the legal battle over the Joseph W. Revere and Rosanna D. Lamb Revere estate. Other correspondents in this series include: Owen Wister, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Knowles Paine and Walter Raymond Spalding. A third correspondence series includes letters from William G. Eliot and Hannah Eliot to Dorothea Lynde Dix (1875-1887). An inventory of Dorothea Lynde Dix's possessions upon her death including contents of drawers and closets, and listing of pamphlets and reports is included. The collection also contains genealogical material, original and reproduced, of the Duncan and Lamb families (1792-1973). Items include: correspondence, list of family members, coat of arms, photographs, genealogical charts, and articles on the families.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes ; 42 x 32 x 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41434073 View