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Cabot, Samuel. Letter to Horace Howard Furness, 1903.

Title: Letter to Horace Howard Furness, 1903.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (6 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155882822 View

Peabody, Edwin N.,. Lee family photographs, 1861-ca. 1950.

Title: Lee family photographs, 1861-ca. 1950.

Photographs relating to the Lee family of Massachusetts. Portraits include a carte de visite of Dr. James Caleb Jackson, taken by John Adams Whipple in 1861; a photograph of George C. Lee and other men, entitled "The old guard...," taken in 1891; photographic reproductions fo portrait paintings of Samuel Cabot (1784-1863) and Henry Lee (1817-1898), taken ca. 1950; and a photo of an unidentified woman, probably a member of the Lee family. There is also one stereoview of the Cabot family house on Essex Street in Salem, Mass., taken by Edwin N. Peabody of Salem, Mass., as well as another view of an unidentified house. Most of the photographers are unidentified.

ArchivalResource: 7 photographs in 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61200437 View

Cabot family. Papers, 1786-1945 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1786-1945 (inclusive).

Collection contains correspondence, diaries, travel journals, and records, 1786-1840, of Thomas Handasyd Perkins concerning the slave, tea, and spice trades. His daughter, Eliza Perkins, married Samuel Cabot and her reminiscences of 19th century Boston are in the collection. The largest body of papers, 1840-1902, those of James Elliot Cabot and his wife Elisabeth Dwight describe life in 19th century Boston and discuss the Civil War. Correspondents include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Charles Eliot Norton, Frederick Law Olmsted and Theodore Parker. Also included in the collection are early 20th century childcare diaries of Cabot mothers.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006939 View

Vertical file collection on estate management, 1736-1937 (inclusive).

Title: Vertical file collection on estate management, 1736-1937 (inclusive).

Consists of unbound manuscripts of less than a volume in size including material on the following individuals, families, and trusts: James Allen, Boston, Mass., 1736-1755; John Gleason, Worcester, Mass., 1788-1822; Thomas G. Appleton, Boston, 1907-1937; Washington Building Trust, Boston, 1825-1935; Samuel Cabot, Boston, 1844-1854; and the Brandenburg family, Boston, on household expenses, 1933.

ArchivalResource: Less than 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269600731 View

Records of Boston merchants engaged in foreign trade, 1739-1887 (inclusive).

Title: Records of Boston merchants engaged in foreign trade, 1739-1887 (inclusive).

Records, chiefly account books and letter books of the following merchants of Boston, Mass.: Thomas Cushing, Jr., 1739-1742; John Rowe, 1759-1762; Henry Lloyd, 1765-1767; Joseph Barrell, 1770-1803; Cornelius Fellows, 1775-1791; Codman and Smith, 1780-1783; John Welsh, Jr., 1781-1786; William and Joseph Hurd, 1782-1827; John Codman, 1783-1785; Samuel Hewes, 1795-1834; Brazer and Davis, 1796-1810; Samuel and Joseph Cabot, 1814-1821; Samuel Sanford, 1818-1825; Nichols and Pierce, 1819-1873; William H. Bordman, 1824-1829; Henry Bancroft, 1824-1846; Osborn Howes, 1828-1834; Henry Lee, Jr., 1837-1843, 1839-1859; A. and G.A. Kendall and Company, 1841-1843; William H. Goodwin, 1842-1866; Horace H. Soule, 1844-1878; Larkin and Stackpole, 1852-1879; William Perkins and Company, 1860-1887; and Simes and Farley, 1878-1883. There are also four unidentified account books from Boston, 1756-1826.

ArchivalResource: ca. 45 linear ft. (38 v., 14 boxes, 1 bundle)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269599480 View

Wheelwright, Sarah Cabot, 1835-1917. Reminiscences, 1904.

Title: Reminiscences, 1904.

Typescript reminiscences of Sarah Cabot Wheelwright, Boston socialite and philanthropist. Addressed to her daughter Mary, the 95-page memoir describes Sarah Wheelwright's childhood in Boston, Nahant, and Brookline, Mass.; social life in Washington, D.C. in the 1880s; and memorable events such as meetings with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Amos Bronson Alcott, with Charles Sumner, and with President Grover Cleveland. Wheelwright writes of her role in founding a nursing school at the Boston Hospital for Women and her organization of a women's club in Brookline called the Emery Bag. Throughout are comments on the Cabot family, particularly her brother, Dr. Samuel Cabot, and her parents, Samuel and Elizabeth Perkins Cabot, and Andrew Cunningham Wheelwright.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17394833 View

Follen, Charles, 1796-1840. Papers I, 1801-1840.

Title: Papers I, 1801-1840.

Miscellaneous letters and papers relating to the Rev. Charles Follen, Unitarian minister and Harvard professor of German literature. Correspondents include Stephen Robbins, Eli Robbins, and Hannah Simonds Robbins of Lexington, Mass.; Samuel Cabot; author Daniel P. Thompson; and the Superior of the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, Mass.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15876324 View

Follen, Charles, 1796-1840. Papers II, 1815-1860.

Title: Papers II, 1815-1860.

Miscellaneous letters, chiefly to members of the family of the Rev. Charles Follen, Unitarian minister and Harvard professor of German literature. Correspondents include Harriet Beecher Stowe, Eliza L. Cabot Follen, Charles Follen Jr., Samuel Cabot, and the Marquis de Lafayette. A copy of a letter from John Adams to Congregational minister Jedidiah Morse is included.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15876280 View

Cabot, Edward Clarke, 1818-1901,. Plan of land belonging to T.H. Perkins Esq. Brookline [graphic] / from actual survey by E.C. Cabot, C.A.

Title: Plan of land belonging to T.H. Perkins Esq. Brookline [graphic] / from actual survey by E.C. Cabot, C.A. 1849.

An 1849 survey drawing of "Brookline Farms," the Thomas Handasyd Perkins' estate at 514 Warren Street in Brookline, Mass. Drawing shows the mansion, barn, and extensive garden lots, including greenhouses, belonging to T.H. Perkins. The land and buildings belonging to his son-in-law, Samuel Cabot, at 450 Warren Street, Brookline, and the house and stables of William Howard Gardiner are also represented. Survey identifies the location of such structures as the Billard House, Summer House(s), Ice House, Wash House, Garden House, Hot Beds, Pump, etc. Drawing depicts areas of marshland, wooded regions, ponds, gravel pits, cultivated grounds, and roads. Graphite notations outside of detailed area may indicate neighboring lots and/or street names, e.g. "White," "Spooner," "Leveams?," "Child," and "Heath."

ArchivalResource: 1 landscape architectural drawing on wove paper : green, red, beige, and gray wash, graphite, pen and ink ; 50 x 163 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62331671 View