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Heard family. Heard family business records, 1754-1898 (inclusive) [microform].

Title: Heard family business records, 1754-1898 (inclusive) [microform].

Business records and personal papers of several generations of the Heard family. The oldest group of papers, 1770-1834, is that of John Heard, who made his wealth from the manufacture and sale of rum, the outfitting of privateers, and trade with the West Indies. The largest and most important group of papers in the collection is that of Augustine Heard and his various partnerships. His papers cover, first, his travels as supercargo for Boston and Salem merchants who were trading in the Far East, then his activities as partner in the great shipping firm of Russell and Company. In 1836 he left Russell and Company. By 1840 he had become the head of his own firm, Augustine Heard and Company, founded with Joseph Coolidge. Included in the collection are records and papers of Thomas Hunt and Company of Hong Kong, 1863-1869, which counted Augustine Heard and Company among its customers.

ArchivalResource: 261 linear ft. (800 v., 272 boxes, 103 cases)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269586100 View

Records of merchants engaged in foreign trade, 1772-1920 (inclusive).

Title: Records of merchants engaged in foreign trade, 1772-1920 (inclusive).

Records, chiefly account books and letter books, of the following merchants: Jacob and William Wildes of Arundel, Me., 1772-1815; Thomas and William Davis of Plymouth, Mass., 1782-1805; Richard S. Smith of Philadelphia, Pa., 1792-1811; a Hanseatic merchant of Bergen, Norway, 1795; Elias Smith of Montreal, Canada, 1799-1800; George A. Cushing of Havana, Cuba and Boston, Mass., 1799-1802; A.P. Gibson and Company of New York City, 1816-1818; Arthur Hall of Bath, Me., 1821-1829; John Fox of Portland, Me. and the brig Fountain, 1823-1825; George W. Claflin, location unspecified, 1835; W.W. Woodbury of Portland, Me., 1847-1853; John McCracken of New York City, 1852-1881; E. Perkins and Son of Kennebunkport, Me., 1854-1872; Gideon Nye, Jr. of Macao and Canton, China, 1858-1898; William J. Blydenburgh of New York City and Shanghai, China, 1864-1876; Charles W. Dabney and Sons of Fayal (Azores), 1864-1898; and Hudson Bay Company, Martens Falls Post, Canada, 1865-1920. Also included is a photostat copy of the letter book of Houqua of Canton, China, 1841-1843; microfilm of despatches from the United States consul in Manila, Philippines to Washington, 1864; and a report on imports of cotton goods at the port of New York, 1909-1910.

ArchivalResource: ca. 6 linear ft. (31 v., 13 boxes, 1 envelope)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17267033 View

Loring, Charles G. (Charles Greely), 1794-1867. Papers, 1768-1866

Title: Charles G. Loring papers, 1768-1866

Papers of Boston lawyer and state senator Charles Greely Loring primarily relating to the American Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes (5.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01452/catalog View

Forbes family. Forbes family papers, 1732-1931.

Title: Forbes family papers, 1732-1931.

Correspondence and other papers of the Forbes family of Milton, Mass. Mostly papers of Robert Bennet Forbes (1804-89), Francis Blackwell Forbes (1839-1908), and James Murray Forbes (1845-1937). Includes correspondence with the merchant firms T.H. Perkins & Sons, Baring Bros., Russell & Co., Hong merchant Houqua, R.C. Winthrop, Nathaniel Bowditch and other Bowditch family members, B.F. Butler, George Bancroft, Theodore Lyman, Alfred Richardson, and many others. Subjects include the China trade; the ships Macedonian and Jamestown and their voyages to relieve the Irish famine; the ships Niantic, Coquette, Canton Packet, and Alert; sea-faring life; oriental botany; Massachusetts Humane Society; bimetallism; the Opium War; descriptions of Canton, China; and the history of Shanghai. (Cont) Also contains scrapbooks and the following diaries: 1839, John Cunningham; 1857-58, James M. Forbes; 1859-61, Mary Hathaway Forbes Russell; 1860, voyage to Greenland in the schooner Nautilus, unknown author; 1870-71, James M. Forbes, voyage to China; 1871, Alice B. Forbes; 1874-75, James M. Forbes (in French); 1883, Paul R. Forbes, trip to Germany and Spain; 1884-1930, James M. Forbes (intermittent entries).

ArchivalResource: 59 boxes and 2 oversize containers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18337908 View

Ticknor, Benajah, 1788-1858. Benajah Ticknor papers, 1818-1852 (inclusive).

Title: Benajah Ticknor papers, 1818-1852 (inclusive).

Journals, letterbook, medical notes, and essays of Benajah Ticknor, doctor and surgeon with the U.S. Navy. Of primary importance are the journals which describe journeys made by Ticknor with the Navy to South America, the Far East, and Europe.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702205872 View

Louis M. Goldsborough papers, 1821-1873.

Title: Louis M. Goldsborough papers, 1821-1873.

Collection consists of general incoming correspondence, 1821-1873, and official reports and letters received while Goldsborough commanded the USS Congress during the Civil War, and while commanding the European Squadron, 1866-1867.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 1 linear foot (4 boxes).Copies: 2 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122517515 View

Ralph Waldo Emerson letters from various correspondents, ca. 1814-1882.

Title: Ralph Waldo Emerson letters from various correspondents, ca. 1814-1882.

Letters from colleagues and friends to American Transcendentalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (12 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00123/catalog View

Goldsborough, Louis Malesherbes, 1805-1877. Papers, 1821-1873

Title: Louis M. Goldsborough papers 1821-1873

Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough (1805-1877), U.S. naval officer, was Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy. Collection consists of general incoming correspondence, 1821-1873, and official reports and letters received while Goldsborough commanded the USS Congress during the Civil War, and while commanding the European Squadron, 1866-1867. Also, correspondence concerning the American ships Congress, Frolic, Kearsarge, Canandaigua, Augusta, Colorado, Shamrock, Swatara, and Ticonderoga; and personal and family correspondence of his wife, Elizabeth Gamble Wirt, 1830-1873.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot (4 boxes); 2 microfilm reels

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1169 View

Russell & Co., Guangzhou, China, Records, 1812-1894, (bulk 1819-1840)

Title: Russell & Co., Guangzhou, China, Records 1812-1894 (bulk 1819-1840)

Trading house founded in 1819 by Samuel Russell in Guangzhou (Canton), China. Correspondence, financial and legal records, and miscellany relating to the company and its founder, Samuel Russell (1789-circa 1862), and members of his family.

ArchivalResource: 3,900 items; 12 containers plus 4 oversize; 5 linear feet; 10 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010075 View

Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889. Letterbook, 1847.

Title: Letterbook, 1847.

The letterbook of Robert Bennet Forbes contains copies of letters not published in his The voyage of the Jamestown on her errand of mercy (Boston, 1847). The letters date from April 1847 and illuminate the efforts of Forbes and other Bostonians to relieve victims of the Irish famine.

ArchivalResource: 22 leaves, in folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8625024 View

Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889. Letters and notes : concerning navigation, 1849, 1882, [ca. 1883]

Title: Letters and notes : concerning navigation, 1849, 1882, [ca. 1883]

ArchivalResource: 3 items ; 30 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612837233 View

Young, David. Account book kept by [David Young], 1830-1844.

Title: Account book kept by [David Young], 1830-1844.

Unidentified daybook, possibly kept by David Young, a housewright, from 10 Apr. 1830 - 15 Dec. 1844. The entries note daily charges for supplies and labor for carpentry work and house construction, including the homes of Robert Bennet Forbes and John Murray Forbes in Milton, Mass. The accounts were kept in Augusta, Me. (Apr. 1830-June 1832); Malden, Mass. (June 1832-Jan. 1833); Pittston, Me. (Jan.-June 1833; Mar.-Oct. 1835); Milton (June 1833-Dec. 1834; May 1841-Nov. 1841); Gardiner, Mass. (May 1835-May 1841); Boston (Nov. 1841-Aug. 1844); and Dorchester (Aug.-Dec. 1844).

ArchivalResource: 1 extra tall v. in a case.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33086070 View

Sturgis, J. H. (John Hubbard), 1834-1888. Papers, 1853-1909.

Title: Papers, 1853-1909.

Correspondence, journals, receipts, account books, drawings, photographs, deeds, product samples, stocks, and ephemera reveal Sturgis' professional, personal and family life. Series I. includes correspondence (1864-1888) primarily related to design projects such as Boit's villa, "The Rocks," Perkins' house, "Pinebank," and Codman's estate, "The Grange." Letters from Charles Brigham (1866-1870) reveal the challenges involved in conducting a transatlantic business partnership and letters from Stamford Pottery provide a narrative of the difficulties in shipping terra cotta tiles for the Museum of Fine Arts across the Atlantic without breakage. Other materials in series include: legal papers concerning Sturgis versus Jonathan Preston for land misassessed on Dartmouth Street and Huntington Avenue, drawings of design for James K. Colling's house, leases, invoices for importations of furniture, decoration, riding equipment and the papers from settlement of Brigham, Sturgis firm with remaining client and project lists. Series II. (1866-1873) primarily invoices, bills and accounting information of business and of travel expenses. Series III. (1853-1866) contains very descriptive travel narratives of experiences in Egypt, Palestine, Geneva, Milan, Dresden, the Alps, Neuchatel, and on the Nile, some with sketches. Series IV. (1852-1888) includes letters from and to Sturgis from family, primarily Sturgis children and his father, Russell Sturgis. Series V., Papers of Frances Anne Codman Sturgis (Sturgis' wife) include a diary from 1876 and letters received from John, Russell Sturgis, and children (1858-1887). Remainder of series includes clippings of Sturgis' death, condolence letters from friends and family, genealogical material of Ogden family and photographs of San Diego Exposition, San Gabriel Mission and Lake Louise.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes ; 32 x 28 x13 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41433877 View

Ticknor, Benajah, 1788-1858. Papers, 1818-1852

Title: Benajah Ticknor papers 1818-1852

Graduated from Berkshire Medical Institute ca. 1810; joined U.S. Navy ca. 1816; first tour of duty in 1818; retired from the Navy in 1852 from post of chief Surgeon of the Boston Navy Yard. Journals, letter book, medical notes, correspondence, and essays of Benajah Ticknor, doctor and surgeon with the U.S. Navy. Of primary importance are the journals which describe journeys made by Ticknor with the Navy to South America, the Far East, and Europe.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear feet and 3 microfilm rolls

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-8986?rgn=main;view=text View

Suter, John, 1781-1852. Papers, 1804-1848.

Title: Papers, 1804-1848.

Papers of shipmaster John Suter concerning the northwest coast fur trade with Canton, China, and the sandalwood trade with Hawaii. Includes papers for ships Alert, Pearl, Atahualpa, Mentor, and brig Cleopatra's Barge; a log of a voyage in the schooner Tamaahmaah (1815) with memoranda of the islands and shoals in the Pacific Ocean, and furs collected by the ship Mentor, 1817-18; a log of a voyage in the Mentor (1821), and the Alert (1821-22); personal diary/account book kept at Oahu, 1821; account book kept at Canton, with memoranda of teas shipped by the brig Brutus and ship Volunteer, 1818; and accounts of the ship Mentor, 1817-18. (Cont.) Also, an 1821 letter from King Tamoree (Kaumualii) and Queen Charlotte Tapoolee (Deborah Kapule) of Kauai; papers related to various shipping ventures with William H. Boardman and Bryant & Sturgis, 1828-48; and an 1848 letter from R.B. Forbes concerning charting the Pacific Ocean.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19873178 View

Papers, 1833-1894.

Title: Papers, 1833-1894.

Family correspondence, 1838-1888, includes letters from Delano and Astor family members; letters from Delano's brothers, Warren, Frederic, and Edward concern financial affairs and mutual shipping ventures; many of the letters from Warren's family were written during their residence in Hong Kong in the 1860s. General correspondence, 1839-1890, consists of letters received and two letter books kept by Delano concerning rental properties in New York City, investments, the New York stock market, shipping ventures in the 1840s, and construction of the Laura Franklin Hospital in New York City. Correspondents include Philip Kissam, Robert Bennet Forbes, John Murray Forbes, Francis S. Hathaway, and many European friends. Other items include diaries, financial papers mainly relating to shipping in the 1840s, trade circulars, rent rolls, estimates and specifications, legal papers, household accounts of Laura A. Delano, monthly accounts, and a record of rainfall at the family home. Also, records of the Mt. Savage Iron Company, Mt. Savage, Md., 1858-1863, including letters from employees to John Graham describing company operations with some description of Civil War activities in the area, receipted bills, and cancelled checks.

ArchivalResource: 12.4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155522430 View

Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Title: Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Letters to American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

ArchivalResource: 36 linear feet (73 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00355/catalog View

Letters from various correspondents, 1819-1889..

Title: Letters from various correspondents, 1819-1889..

Letters to Bostonjournalist and author William Warland Clapp.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01280/catalog View

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1865-1891

Title: Correspondence, 1865-1891

This record unit consists of outgoing correspondence from the Office of the Secretary during the tenures of Joseph, Henry, 1846-1878; Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1878-1887; and Samuel Pierpoint Langley, 1887-1906.

ArchivalResource: 46.06 cu. ft. (62 document boxes) (68 3x5 boxes) (243 microfilm reels)

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_216647 View

Palmer-Loper Family Papers, 1667-1994, (bulk 1790-1930)

Title: Palmer-Loper Family Papers 1667-1994 (bulk 1790-1930)

Seafaring and merchant families. Correspondence, logbooks and journals, ships' papers, financial and business records, and printed matter documenting the voyages and business activities of Nathaniel Brown Palmer, Alexander Smith Palmer, Richard Fanning Loper, and other members of these maritime families of Stonington, Connecticut.

ArchivalResource: 10,000 items; 34 containers plus 3 oversize; 13.6 linear feet; 11 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003068 View

Records of merchants engaged in foreign trade, 1772-1920 (inclusive) [microform].

Title: Records of merchants engaged in foreign trade, 1772-1920 (inclusive) [microform].

Records, chiefly account books and letter books, of the following merchants: Jacob and William Wildes of Arundel, Me., 1772-1815; Thomas and William Davis of Plymouth, Mass., 1782-1805; Richard S. Smith of Philadelphia, Pa., 1792-1811; a Hanseatic merchant of Bergen, Norway, 1795; Elias Smith of Montreal, Canada, 1799-1800; George A. Cushing of Havana, Cuba and Boston, Mass., 1799-1802; A.P. Gibson and Company of New York City, 1816-1818; Arthur Hall of Bath, Me., 1821-1829; John Fox of Portland, Me. and the brig Fountain, 1823-1825; George W. Claflin, location unspecified, 1835; W.W. Woodbury of Portland, Me., 1847-1853; John McCracken of New York City, 1852-1881; E. Perkins and Son of Kennebunkport, Me., 1854-1872; Gideon Nye, Jr. of Macao and Canton, China, 1858-1898; William J. Blydenburgh of New York City and Shanghai, China, 1864-1876; Charles W. Dabney and Sons of Fayal (Azores), 1864-1898; and Hudson Bay Company, Martens Falls Post, Canada, 1865-1920. Also included is a photostat copy of the letter book of Houqua of Canton, China, 1841-1843; microfilm of despatches from the United States consul in Manila, Philippines to Washington, 1864; and a report on imports of cotton goods at the port of New York, 1909-1910.

ArchivalResource: ca. 6 linear ft. (31 v., 13 boxes, 1 envelope)Copies: 2 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269599506 View

Forbes, Thomas Tunno, 1802-1829. Thomas Tunno Forbes letterbook, 1825-1828; bulk: 1825.

Title: Thomas Tunno Forbes letterbook, 1825-1828; bulk: 1825.

Letterbook of Boston, Mass. merchant Thomas Tunno Forbes, 1825, kept while he was working in Manila, Philippines for J. and T. H. Perkins and Company. The letterbook contains retained copies of outgoing correspondence pertaining to the company's China trade business to Perkins and Company in Canton, China, and Thomas Handasyd Perkins, John Perkins Cushing, and Captain Robert Bennett Forbes, among others. Also includes a personal letter written by Thomas to his sister Emma Perkins Forbes, Jan. 1828, and a manuscript index to the letterbook.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60696113 View

Du Pont, Samuel Francis, 1803-1865. Papers, 1812-1865.

Title: Papers, 1812-1865.

The Samuel Francis Du Pont Papers include correspondence with more than 1,500 individuals. There is a good deal of official and semi-official correspondence describing naval practices and policies as well as Du Pont's career. Of particular interest are letters from British diplomats and naval officers during the 1840s and 50s describing the operations of the British Navy. Letters received from William B. Reed, American minister to China, document the negotiations leading up to the Treaty of Tientsin which opened up China to western trade. Letters from American missionaries Samuel Wells and William and Edward Syle describe the missionary movement in China and efforts to eradicate the opium trade. The files also contain correspondence reflecting Du Pont's role in the Naval Efficiency Board and the reform movement which sought to modernize the navy as it moved into the age of steam.

ArchivalResource: 50 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122503472 View

Heard family. Business records, 1754-1898

Title: Heard family business records, 1754-1898 (inclusive)

Business records and personal papers of several generations of the Heard family. The oldest group of papers, 1770-1834, is that of John Heard, who made his wealth from the manufacture and sale of rum, the outfitting of privateers, and trade with the West Indies. The largest and most important group of papers in the collection is that of Augustine Heard and his various partnerships. His papers cover, first, his travels as supercargo for Boston and Salem merchants who were trading in the Far East, then his activities as partner in the great shipping firm of Russell and Company. In 1836 he left Russell and Company. By 1840 he had become the head of his own firm, Augustine Heard and Company, founded with Joseph Coolidge.

ArchivalResource: 261 linear ft. (800 v., 272 boxes, 103 cases)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990006027750203941/catalog View

Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889. Letter, 1846.

Title: Letter, 1846.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84697849 View

John A. Dahlgren Collection, 1823-1945

Title: John A. Dahlgren Collection 1823-1945

Papers of the U.S. naval officer, established ordnance system. Collection includes correspondence (1836-1905); 13 diaries (1834-1870); notebooks, memoranda, articles, and other papers relating to Dahlgren's naval career, including his pioneer work in naval ordnance, and the development of the Dahlgren gun. Includes a diary of his wife, Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren, and a Civil War journal of an unidentified person. Correspondence includes that of Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren, Percival Drayton, Andrew H. Foote, R.B. Forbes, R.P. Parrott, Henry Augustus Wise, and others.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 linear ft.

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/d/dahlgren_ja.htm View

Autograph File, F, 1447-1994.

Title: Autograph File, F, 1447-1994.

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: 7 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01429/catalog View

Ticknor, Benajah, 1788-1858. Papers, 1818-1852

Title: Benajah Ticknor papers 1818-1852

Journals, letterbook, medical notes, and essays of Benajah Ticknor, doctor and surgeon with the U.S. Navy. Of primary importance are the journals which describe journeys made by Ticknor with the Navy to South America, the Far East, and Europe.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear feet (3 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0495 View

Appleton, Nathan, 1843-1906. Letters received, ca. 1870-1883.

Title: Letters received, ca. 1870-1883.

Letters received illustrate Appleton's interests in the Panama Canal, the unification of weights, measurements and coinage, the Grand Army of the Republic, the protection of animals, and other local, national and international projects. Correspondents include Édouard Frignet-Despréaux, Alexander H. Bullock, James Thomas, Annie Fields, Parke Godwin, J.E. Hilgard, Abram S. Hewitt, John F.W. Ware, Eben Tourjée, Samuel A. Green, Henry F. French, Hugh O'Brien, Juan Manuel Macías, Alexander Hamilton Rice, Leone Levi, William Wallace Crapo, Henry L. Dawes, William Claffin, Edward Everett Hale, Henry Bergh, George T. Angell, Frederick A.P. Barnard, John W. Forney, Rufus S. Frost, Thomas Wallace Knox, William Barton Rogers, Francis Parkman, Alexander Graham Bell, R.B. Forbes, Edmonia Lewis, James Jackson Jarves, Halsey Cooley Ives, William Maxwell Evarts, Charles William Eliot, Henry Cabot Lodge, William Warren, Frederick O. Prince, F.W. Putnam, Robert C. Winthrop, and others.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 100 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39878773 View

Revere, Paul Joseph, 1832-1863. Papers, 1849-1902.

Title: Papers, 1849-1902.

Officer with the 20th Regiment, Mass. Volunteer Infantry, and Assistant Inspector General under Gen. Edwin V. Sumner. Chiefly letters from Revere to his wife, Lucretia, relating to the Battle of Ball's Bluff (1861), where he was taken prisoner; his life as a hostage in Richmond, Va.; Confederate privateers held in New York; military activities at Yorktown and during the Seven Days' Battles (1862); the Battle of Antietam (1862); and marches on the way to the Battle of Gettysburg (1863). Other correspondents include Charles F. Adams Jr., Robert B. Forbes, John M. Forbes, and Theodore Lyman.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16743969 View

Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887. Papers, 1798-1893 (bulk 1827-1887)

Title: Dorothea Lynde Dix papers, 1798-1893 (inclusive), 1827-1887 (bulk).

Correspondence and manuscripts of American educator, social reformer, and humanitarian, Dorothea Dix.

ArchivalResource: 29 boxes (9.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00078/catalog View

Ticknor, Benajah, 1788-1858. Benajah Ticknor papers, 1818-1852.

Title: Benajah Ticknor papers, 1818-1852.

Journals, letterbook, medical notes, correspondence, and essays of Benajah Ticknor, doctor and surgeon with the U.S. Navy. Of primary importance are the journals which describe journeys made by Ticknor with the Navy to South America, the Far East, and Europe.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85778254 View

Houqua, 1769-1843. Letterbook, 1840-1843.

Title: Letterbook, 1840-1843.

Letterbook of Canton (China) merchant Houqua, containing English copies of letters to merchants in Boston (Mass.), New York City, London (England), and Bombay (India), including: John P. Cushing, John M. Forbes, Robert B. Forbes, John C. Green, Joseph Coolidge, and Abiel A. Low. The letters concern business matters.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19419443 View

Letters sent to Caroline Augusta Kennard concerning Dorothea Lynde Dix, 1876-1888.

Title: Letters sent to Caroline Augusta Kennard concerning Dorothea Lynde Dix, 1876-1888.

Letters to Caroline Kennard concerning American humanitarian crusader, DorotheaLynde Dix.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00092/catalog View

Forbes family. Forbes family business records, 1753-1968 (inclusive).

Title: Forbes family business records, 1753-1968 (inclusive).

The Forbes family business records contain an enormous amount of material pertaining to the one of the most important families of Boston merchants engaged in the China trade during the nineteenth century. The collection consists mainly of account books, letter books, and loose correspondence relating to the China trade beginning with brothers Thomas Tunno, Robert Bennet, and John Murray Forbes and later with Paul Siemen Forbes and Francis Blackwell Forbes. The correspondence and account books document commercial trade activities of Forbes family members as partners in the firm Russell & Co. Business partners and correspondents include Augustine Heard, Houqua, John Perkins Cushing, Thomas Handasyd Perkins, Abraham Ellerman, Augustine Heard, Perkins and Company, Baring Brothers & Co., J. & T.H. Perkins & Sons, Bryant & Sturgis, Purdon and Wiggin, and Walker and Wren . Also included is correspondence of John M. Forbes while serving as United States consul at Hamburg and Copenhagen, and United States agent at Buenos Aires. Forbes family members were closely connected to Shewan-Tomes Company, Perkins Company, and the Shanghai Navigation Company. Later materials relate to the private banking investment firm J.M. Forbes & Co. consisting of financial records, estate and trust accounts, and the records of companies that J.M. Forbes & Co. held significant shares of. The material related to J.M. Forbes & Co. documents the extensive administration and redistribution of wealth made by Forbes family members during the China trade and the establishment of trusts in order to ensure continued prosperity. Also included is material relating to W. Cameron Forbes consisting of correspondence, financial and legal papers, and material relating to his appointment as governor-general of the Philippines, interests in Forbes-Perkins Company, and commissioner of the Massachusetts Street Railway Commission. The collection includes original and copied documents and claims of the ship Macedonian pertaining to two separate seizures in 1819 and 1820 by the Chilean Navy. Correspondence and other documents relate to efforts for recompense of stolen monies and goods.

ArchivalResource: 56.5 linear ft. (107 v., 44 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269592453 View

Forbes, John Murray, 1813-1898. Quitclaim deed, 1849.