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Autograph File, T, 1580-1975.

Title: Autograph File, T, 1580-1975.

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01443/catalog View

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Letter : Camden, New Jersey, to Charles Eldridge, 1884 May 18.

Title: Letter : Camden, New Jersey, to Charles Eldridge, 1884 May 18.

Thank you letter for a picture of Father Taylor that Eldridge sent him. Whitman also mentions he has written a "reminiscence" of Fr. Taylor.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 14 x 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49916457 View

Boston Port and Seamen's Aid Society. Boston Port and Seamen's Aid Society records, 1829-1977.

Title: Boston Port and Seamen's Aid Society records, 1829-1977.

Records of the Boston Port and Seamen's Aid Society, 1829-1977, a charitable society that operated Seamen's Bethel, a church for sailors, and Mariner's House, a sailor's boardinghouse. Boston Port and Seamen's Aid Society records, 1832-1977, include annual reports, minutes, committee records, accounts, and rent records. Annual reports include those for the Boston Port and Seamen's Aid Society as well as its two predecessors, the Boston Port Society and the Seamen's Aid Society. Seamen's Bethel records, 1829-1879, include church records, minutes, membership records, and vital records including marriage, birth and death records. Some marriage records provide personal and demographic information on sailors in Boston, including country of origin and race. Mariner's House records, 1852-1973, include registration records, a baggage check, cashbooks, comparative cash statements, a credit ledger, a floor plan and miscellaneous volumes. Personal and demographic information on sailors in Boston can be found in registration records, the baggage check, most cashbooks, and the credit ledger.

ArchivalResource: 16 cartons (stored offsite), 3 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48664227 View

Greenwood, Ethan Allen, 1779-1856. Papers, 1801-1839.

Title: Papers, 1801-1839.

Twenty octavo volumes, 1801-1810, contain daily diary entries recording Greenwood's activities. The 21st octavo volume is a compilation of extracts from Greenwood's diaries, 1801-1825, that was prepared by Mrs. John Bartholomew in the early part of the twentieth century. Apparently the original diaries for 1811-1825 were then destroyed. The volume of extracts includes a checklist of Greenwood's portraits. The diaries contain frequent entries on travel around New England as he visited with friends and relatives (1801 entries provide information on his late uncle, Robert Dunlap). Other entries describe teaching and keeping store in Westminster, student life at Dartmouth College and West Point, painting in New York City with Edward Savage, business activities with Strong and Dodd, active social life in Boston, and most predominantly his art work. Greenwood commented often on politics (he was an ardent Federalist), the War of 1812, society, visits with prominent political figures, e.g., John Quincy Adams, meetings with notable artists of the period, and Greenwood's immersion in his work on the New England Museum, which he purchased and went to great lengths to re-organize in Boston and Providence, Rhode Island. The two folio volumes are account books for the New England Museum and the Gallery of Fine Arts. The accounts for the Gallery of Fine Arts, 1818-1825, show only records of the receipt of admission fees. The New England Museum accounts, 1818-1824, are more substantial and list receipts and expenditures, including museum purchases. The collection also includes a folder of manuscripts containing a variety of material, including an admission ticket for the New England Museum, receipts, one business letter, and a hand-lettered sign. Also included in the folder is a lengthy letter, c. 1835, from Greenwood to attorney Robert Gould Shaw (1776-1853) and the Rev. Edward Thompson Taylor (1793-1871) concerning the future of the New England Museum and a proposed school for sailors in the event of Greenwood's death. The letter contains a guide and abstract of the museum. The folder includes rough notes and copies of letters of Mrs. John Bartholomew concerning Greenwood, c. 1930s.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (17 items).2 v. ; folio.21 v. ; octavo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/207140515 View

Edward Thompson Taylor [photograph], [ca. 1854-1865].

Title: Edward Thompson Taylor [photograph], [ca. 1854-1865].

Hand-colored sixth-plate ambrotype in leather case of missionary and Methodist minister Edward Thompson Taylor of Boston, Mass. The photograph was taken ca. 1854-1865 by an unidentified photographer.

ArchivalResource: 1 photograph : ambrotype, b&w, hand-colored ; visible oval image 6 1/2 x 5 cm (sixth-plate), in case 9 1/2 x 8 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61204024 View

Scandlin, William George, 1828-1871. Papers, 1849-1936.

Title: Papers, 1849-1936.

This collection contains the diaries of Rev. William George Scandlin for the period 5 November 1849 to 19 July 1862. Coverage in the later years is sporadic and there are gaps throughout the time span. Most of the diaries include newspaper clippings, and tipped in and loose correspondence. The collection also contains miscellaneous correspondence, papers, newspaper clippings, drawings, and a photograph pertaining to the life and death of Scandlin. These papers include certificates of preaching; letters to and from the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches; papers and newspaper clippings pertaining to his participation in the Civil War; a newspaper clipping concerning his ordination in 1855; biographies of Scandlin, including a reminiscence by his wife; resolves and letters of condolence written to his wife and children; a photograph; and miscellaneous articles and drawings mostly relating to the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.4 v. ; octavo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/207169375 View