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Gardner family. Gardner family papers, 1655-1959; bulk: 1820-1890.

Title: Gardner family papers, 1655-1959; bulk: 1820-1890.

Papers of the Gardner family of Salem and Brookline, Mass. include early deeds of Salem and wills of Ebenezer, George, John (1681-1722), Samuel, and Thomas Gardner. Later wills, estate inventories, and accounts (1817-31) of the estates of John (1731-1805) and Elizabeth Pickering Gardner are contained in a notebook compiled by their son Samuel P. Gardner. Also included are commonplace books of Rebecca R.L. Gardner; commonplace books and diary (1859) of Eliza P. Gardner; a diary of John L. Gardner (1804-1884) of an 1823 trip to Europe; and account books of George A. Gardner from 1851-57 and 1862-63. (Cont) Correspondence includes letters from John L. Gardner (1837-98) to his nephew George P. Gardner instructing him on stock and business dealings and on the disposition of art work that he and his wife Isabella Stewart Gardner collected while in Europe and Asia. Other letters to George P. from his father George A. Gardner concern financial dealings, his travels in Europe, and time spent on Rogue's Island, Maine. Additional correspondents include Augustus P. and John L. Gardner (b.1867).

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes and 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18265335 View

Gardner family. Gardner family papers, 1772-1915.

Title: Gardner family papers, 1772-1915.

Papers of the Gardner Family of Wenham and Boston, Mass., 1772-1915. Includes deeds and family correspondence of merchants and ship owners John, Samuel P., John L. Sr. and Jr., George, George A., Joseph P., and George P. Gardner, and of Rebecca R. (Lowell), and Catherine E. (Peabody) Gardner, among others. Also included are a few letters written by Isabella Stewart Gardner and many other letters that make references to her. Timothy Pickering is a frequent, early correspondent. Collection includes some papers (1805-13) of Boston attorney Francis Blanchard. Among correspondence are letters written home from Europe by various Gardner family members at different times. Bound vols. include two chronological memoranda books of John L. and John L., Jr., 1846-99, noting sales of ship cargoes, mostly pepper, coffee, tea, saltpeter, and sugar; a scrapbook of John L., Jr., 1846, mostly containing engravings; and a letterbook (1864-86) with copies of letters among John L, Sr., John L., Jr., Joseph P., George A., and later George P. Gardner.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes, 1 narrow box, 1 oversize box, and 4 v. in cases. Partially processed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52700883 View

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874

Title: Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Letters to Charles Sumner, lawyer, Republican senator from Massachusetts, and anti-slavery campaigner; with a smaller number of letters from Sumner to others.

ArchivalResource: 33 cartons (43.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00232/catalog View

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. William Wordsworth manuscript material : 14 items, 1804-1846

Title: William Wordsworth manuscript material : 14 items, 1804-1846

· To John Gardner, medical writer and practitioner : 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Mar 1832 : (MISC 0178) : from Rydal Mount : begins, "Mr. Quillinan has staid longer here than he intended, or your would have seen the Bearer of this, my Nephew, earlier." · To Abraham Hayward, essayist and translator : 1 autograph letter signed : 14 May 1833 : (MISC 0179) : from Rydal Mount : begins, "I have to thank you for your valuable present the translation of Faust ..." · To Walter Farquhar Hook, dean of Chichester : 1 autograph letter signed : "Tuesday morning" [1838] : (MISC 0174) : from 41 Upper Grosvenor Street : begins, "Last night I found your card, and truly sorry I am that I cannot return your obliging call ..." · To Dr. Howe, Ambleside : 1 autograph note third person : [no date] : (MISC 0156) : from Rydal Mount : saying he "will be glad to see Dr. & Mrs. Howe." · To Jane Anderson Merryweather, née Loy, poet, the "Authoress of the Hermit of Eskdaleside" : 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Sep 1833 : (MISC 3971) : from Rydal Mount : begins, "The present with which you have honored me was recd. a few days ago ..." Tipped into the Pforzheimer grangerized copy of Hazlitt's Spirit of the Age. Shelved with bound manuscript volumes under "Hazlitt." · To Basil Montagu, author and legal reformer : 1 autograph letter signed : 27 Dec 1812 : (MISC 0058) : from Ambleside : with news of the death of young Thomas Wordsworth : begins, "I have not been able to reply to your affectionate note I have been so anxious with respect to little Tom's health ..." · To Edward Moxon, publisher and poet : 1 autograph letter signed : [no date] : (MISC 0176) : [no place] : thanking him for a gift to his daughter and writing of his publications; includes, "I shall now proceed to correct the Excursion and the Poems regularly, and trust that the work will advance at a good pace..." · To Samuel Rogers, poet : 1 autograph letter signed : [3 Apr 1842] : (MISC 0175) : [no place] : begins, "I see no reason for changing my mind about sending the Reviews ..." · To Robert Southey, poet : 1 autograph letter signed : [late Dec 1821] : (B'ANA 0708) : [no place] : relating to Southey's quarrels with Lord Byron, including verses poking fun at Byron's Cain; begins, "The only part of the charge you are any way upon to notice is that of slander, as this is given with his name, we think it ought to be met." · To Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, writer, judge and politician : 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Apr 1843 : (MISC 0180) : from Rydal Mount : begins, "Thanks for your little Vol. : which I have looked over with much pleasure ..." · To John Thelwall, political reformer and lecturer : 1 autograph letter signed : [mid-Jan 1804] : (MISC 0173) : [from Grasmere] : regarding the attacks made on Wordsworth by the periodicals of the day; begins, "I received your letter a few minutes ago, and as it will be utterly impossible for me, from the nature of my present engagements, to answer it minutely as you seem to wish, I cannot refuse myself, at least, the satisfaction of being as expeditious as may be." · To unidentified recipients : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter (fragment) signed : [?Sep 1826] : (MISC 0177) : begins, "I have no news from this Quarter, but that our trees are of foliage this year unusually luxuriant; so much so that many of the Dwellings of this neighbourhood seem packed in green leaves like precious trinkets in cotton ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed, addressed to "My dear Sir" : 18 Nov 1845 : (MISC 0181) : from Rydal Mount : begins, "I enclose a page which I will thank you to have bound up with the Vol. to be presented to Lady [?] ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed, addressed to "Sir" : 8 Jan 1846 : (MISC 0927) : from Rydal Mount : "You are quite at liberty to make such use of my Essay upon Epitaphs ..." Tipped into the Pforzheimer copy of the first edition of Coleridge's journal, The Friend. Shelved as *Pforz A-LU 03.

ArchivalResource: 14 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/693718157 View

Gannett, Lewis, 1891-1966. Papers, 1681-1966 (bulk 1900-1960)

Title: Lewis Gannett papers, 1681-1966 (inclusive) 1900-1960 (bulk).

Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, journals, notebooks, legal and business papers, memorabilia, photos, and other papers, together with Gannett family papers. Includes correspondence of Gannett's grandfather and father, Unitarian clergymen Ezra Stiles Gannett of Boston and William Channing Gannett; 91 letters, 1796-1817, from Gannett's great-grandfather Caleb Gannett to John Mico Gannett, and journals of his grandmother Anna Tilden Gannett.

ArchivalResource: 51 boxes (25.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00670/catalog View