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Viaux family. Viaux family papers, 1870-1958.

Title: Viaux family papers, 1870-1958.

Papers kept by several members of the Viaux family relating to their organizational affiliations. The largest section of the collection contains Frederic H. Viaux's records kept as secretary of the Association for the Relief of Suffering in France, a Boston organization founded to assist the French, occupied during the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-71. The records pertain primarily to a fair held in Boston in the spring of 1871 to raise money for relief and contain committee minutes, correspondence, records of tables and entertainment for the fair, the treasurer's report, and clippings. Other records kept by either Frederic or his wife Florence include membership records of the Boston Authors Club (1908-13) and correspondence of the Boston branch of the American Folk-Lore Society (1891-1924). The collection also includes a few organizational records presumably kept by Frederic B. Viaux, including poems written by the New England Poetry Club (1945-57).

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes and 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31870654 View

Viaux, Frederic Henry, 1848-1940. Student notes and papers, 1862-1870.

Title: Student notes and papers, 1862-1870.

Contains notebooks and themes from Viaux's years as an undergraduate at Harvard College, in subjects including Latin, Greek, German, mathematics, physics and philosophy. Also contains examinations taken by Viaux before entering Harvard.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77072898 View

Harvard University. General information about Harvard curriculum in 1869-1870.

Title: General information about Harvard curriculum in 1869-1870.

Contains a directory to accompany tabular view (showing the hours of recitations and lectures), indicating what classes were taught by whom, and where they were held; and permission forms for Frederic Henry Viaux to make up exercises signed by J. Lovering, Regent, and E. W. Gurney, Dean.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/236231584 View