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Crosby, John Player, d. 1953. Papers, 1911-1948.

Title: Papers, 1911-1948.

Personal papers of John P. Crosby of New York City and Boston, Mass. Mostly correspondence with his brother-in-law Allan Forbes regarding the distribution of the estate of Sheldon L. Crosby and other financial and family matters. Includes some letters from other Forbes and Crosby relatives, and from his friend Clarence V.S. Mitchell, among others.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26750271 View

Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records, 1832-1944.

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records

Records of Houghton Mifflin Company and its predecessors, containing papers relating to both the printing and publishing branches of the business.

ArchivalResource: 64 linear feet (165 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00009/catalog View

Crosby, Sheldon Leavitt, 1879-1936. Papers, 1914-1939.

Title: Papers, 1914-1939.

Papers of diplomat Sheldon L. Crosby, especially concerning his posts at the embassies in London (1917-19), Istanbul (1924-30), and Madrid (1930-32). Papers include Crosby's correspondence, in particular while in Turkey, concerning Turkish politics and diplomatic affairs and Crosby's activities there. Correspondents include Robert W. Bliss, Joseph C. Grew, Mark L. Bristol, Allen W. Dulles (one letter, 1925), and Crosby's brother-in-law Allan Forbes concerning financial matters. Also, papers of Crosby's estate (1936-39) administered by Forbes.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes and 1 oversize container.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26713365 View

Forbes, James Murray, 1845-1937. James Murray Forbes papers, 1868-1957.

Title: James Murray Forbes papers, 1868-1957.

Personal papers of James M. Forbes, an agent for the China trade firm Russell and Company in China and Boston in the 1860s, and later an officer for several railroad and financial companies; resident of Boston and Milton, Mass., and Dark Harbor, Me. Papers include correspondence; financial papers; estate papers; genealogical notes on the Forbes, Bowditch, Bennet, Murray, Smith and related families; writings, including memoirs and diaries; diary (1917) of Edith Forbes Perkins; and Keechong Club records (1879-88). Other persons represented in the papers include Alice B., Mary B., Dorothy M., and Allan Forbes.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17900522 View

William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Title: William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Correspondence (chiefly letters received), articles, poems, speeches, book reviews, diaries and journals, miscellaneous notebooks, scrapbooks, clippings, and other printed material. Correspondence concerns Thayer's writings, particularly in the area of Italian history, and his connections with Harvard as editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine and later as an overseer. Also included are some miscellaneous papers of William Warland Clapp, a Boston journalist; and some papers of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, chiefly from a European trip made by Higginson in 1872.

ArchivalResource: 48 linear feet (96 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00563/catalog View

Crosby family. Crosby family papers, 1870-1929.

Title: Crosby family papers, 1870-1929.

Mostly correspondence of the Crosby family of New York City and New Jersey, particularly of Mary Leavitt Crosby, Henry A. Crosby, Sr., and their children John P., Sheldon L., Beatrice W.C. de Menocal, Josephine M.A.C. Forbes, and Henry A. Crosby, Jr. Includes letters from other Leavitt and Sheldon family members. Correspondence (1894-97) includes descriptions of family life and children's activities in Dresden, Germany and reflects serious marital discord between Henry A. and Mary L. Crosby. Letters (1913-29) written by Sheldon L. describe his duties at diplomatic posts in London, Rome, Rio de Janeiro, Istanbul, and other places. Letters from Allan Forbes (from 1919) concern family finances. The collection also contains a few letters (1913) written by Beatrice from China where she lived for a few years with her husband; and (1924) by Mary when she was staying in Paris. There are brief letters by Theodore Roosevelt (1918) and Charles L. Slattery (1922) to Mary L. Crosby.

ArchivalResource: 4 cartons (stored offsite)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26904489 View

Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Contracts (with associated materials) of the Houghton Mifflin Company publishing house of Boston, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (48 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00239/catalog View

Forbes, Allan, 1874-1955. Forbes Whaling Pictures.

Title: Forbes Whaling Pictures.

A typed inventory of an art collection (453 pages). Given to MIT in 1940, this art collection was gathered by Allan Forbes, Sr., while he was president of the State Street Trust Company. It consists of over 2,000 prints and paintings from several countries depicting whales, whaling, and whaling vessels, ranging from sixteenth-century Dutch engravings to nineteenth-century Japanese woodcuts. Cataloged by general subject and country of origin.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.5 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647250154 View

Forbes, Robert Bennet, 1916-1944. Robert Bennet Forbes papers, 1923-1944.

Title: Robert Bennet Forbes papers, 1923-1944.

Papers of Robert Bennet Forbes (called Ben) of Westwood and Boston, Mass. include letters written to his father Allan, mother Josephine, sister Phyllis, and brothers Allan, James Murray, and Henry Ashton Crosby Forbes while he was a child at home, ca. 1923-24, and at Aiken Preparatory School in Aiken, South Carolina, 1925-30, and a teenager at Milton Academy in Milton, Mass., 1930-33. Letters pertain to his studies, polo lessons and matches, involvement in clubs and organizations, family matters, health, and time spent with friends; and include sketches and drawings. Also includes letters written to Ben's parents and wife Elizabeth McKean Forbes while a student at Harvard College, 1935-39, and while serving as a North Atlantic Mine Sweeper in the United States Navy in World War II, 1942-44; and military and biographical information about Ben gathered by his father Allan after his death in 1944.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60696185 View

Forbes, Dorothy Murray, 1881-1944. Dorothy Murray Forbes papers, 1896-1945; bulk: 1915-1945.

Title: Dorothy Murray Forbes papers, 1896-1945; bulk: 1915-1945.

Papers of philanthropist Dorothy Murray Forbes, 1915-45, include correspondence from friends and family, a copy of her will, and clippings pertaining to an airplane flight with the "flying parson" in 1919. Correspondence includes letters to and from her brother Allan Forbes and her sister Elizabeth Forbes Lyman pertaining to the distribution of their father James Murray Forbes' estate and later Dorothy's estate. Also includes letters from friends and family thanking her for flowers and gifts she sent, a pocket music notebook she kept in 1896, and genealogical materials pertaining to the Forbes, Bowditch, and Ingersoll families.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60378470 View

Heywood, George, 1826-1897. Collection of materials issued by or relating to the Town Clerk, Concord, Mass., <1876>-<1961>

Title: Collection of materials issued by or relating to the Town Clerk, Concord, Mass., <1876>-<1961>

ArchivalResource: <4> items ; 28 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27474998 View

Forbes, Mary Bowditch, 1878-1961. Papers, 1882-1961; bulk: 1890-1961.

Title: Papers, 1882-1961; bulk: 1890-1961.

Papers of Mary B. Forbes of Milton, Mass., an ardent anti-suffragist, conservative Republican, anti-pacifist, anti-socialist, amateur poet, and admirer of Abraham Lincoln. Collection includes correspondence; account books; scrapbooks (including materials on politics, pacifism, World War I, woman suffrage, Forbes's poetry, socialism, and other subjects); papers concerning her anti-suffrage work, including correspondence of Clara Vezin of the New Jersey Association opposed to Woman Suffrage; poetry of Forbes and others; papers concerning Abraham Lincoln and a replica of his birthplace that Forbes had built in Milton; and financial papers (checkbooks, bank statements, bills and receipts). Correspondents include, but are not limited to, Forbes's parents James M. and Alice B. Forbes, siblings Dorothy M. and Allan Forbes, Theodore Roosevelt, F. Lauriston Bullard, Buckminster Fuller, Vivian T. Pomeroy, and Walter G. Page.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26750456 View

Forbes, Henry Ashton Crosby, 1925-. Papers, 1930-1967.

Title: Papers, 1930-1967.

Family correspondence, mainly 1943-45, with letters from family members to H.A. Crosby Forbes while he is serving in the U.S. Navy, and letters written by him to family and friends describing his activities in the Navy. Correspondents include his mother Josephine, father Allan, brother James, sister Phyllis Leland, and others. Scattered earlier and later items are mostly family letters.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26750211 View

Donald McKay Memorial Committee. Papers, 1923-1932.

Title: Papers, 1923-1932.

The Donald McKay Memorial Committee Papers consist mainly of letters received by the secretary, Charles Knowles Bolton, 1923-1932. These letters document efforts to raise funds for construction of a monument to "America's greatest shipbuilder." Letters to Bolton include those from Franklin D. Roosevelt, Guy Lowell, and Allan Forbes. Besides correspondence, the collection includes financial records (1925-1931), membership lists, circulars, & newspaper clippings from Boston papers reporting on Committee activities. In 1933, a cenotaph commemorating McKay (designed by Wm. T. Aldrich) was erected on castle Island in South Boston.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8529973 View

Newton Free Library. Seal of the City of Newton, 1959.

Title: Seal of the City of Newton, 1959.

Collection consists of fact sheets and a book excerpt from "Town and State Seals of Massachusetts".

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/318125552 View