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Appleton, William, 1786-1862. Dwight-Warren family papers, 1832-1876.

Title: Dwight-Warren family papers, 1832-1876.

Vol. containing tipped-in Dwight and Warren family letters, in particular between Thomas Dwight and his wife Mary Collins (Warren) Dwight. Also included are: a letter announcing the birth of their son James in Paris (1852); letters between Mary and her father, John Collins Warren, and other members of the Warren family; and condolence letters on Thomas Dwight's death in 1876. Correspondents include William Appleton and John B. Fitzpatrick, bishop of Boston.

ArchivalResource: 1 vol.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32109193 View

William Appleton letters, 1834, 1854, n.d

Title: William Appleton letters 1834, 1854, n.d

American merchant, banker, U.S. Congressman; 1851-1855, 1861. Contains three letters.

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/6709 View

Mary Richards letters to her brother Giles Richards, 1836

Title: Mary Richards letters to her brother Giles Richards 1836

These two letters of 1836 were written by Mary Richards, aunt of Amos Adams Lawrence, for whom Lawrence, Kansas and Lawrence College (Appleton, Wisconsin) are named. Richards' letters are to her brother Giles Richards, a prominent Ohio pioneer in textile manufacturing. She writes of the Richards family of Roxbury, Massachusetts, describing their mother's declining health and death, their brother George's residency in Paris, activities of their brother-in-law Amos Lawrence and nephew Amos, and kindnesses received from William Appleton, Boston shipping merchant and future father-in-law of their nephew Amos.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (25x38cm)

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/7713310626 View

William Appleton and Company. William Appleton and Company papers.

Title: William Appleton and Company papers.

Typescript compilation of information regarding 22 vessels owned by the Boston, Mass., merchant firm William Appleton and Company, comprised of William Appleton and Samuel Hooper. Notes annotated by F. Gordon Dexter. Information includes builder, launching, tonnage, dimensions, and, in some cases, details of voyages and cargoes, for the ships Admittance, Barnstable, Charlotte, Coromando, Courser, Cygnet, Delphi, Eben Preble, Edith Rose, Egeria, Hamlet, Horsburgh, Joshua Bates, Living Age, Loo Choo, Magenta, Mary Ellen, Milton, Nabob, Orion, and Oxnard, and the bark Tasso.

ArchivalResource: 1 fldr.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49032171 View

Lawrence, Amos Adams, 1814-1886. Amos Adams Lawrence diaries and account books, 1816-1886.

Title: Amos Adams Lawrence diaries and account books, 1816-1886.

Diaries kept by merchant, businessman, and philanthropist Amos Adams Lawrence, 1814-1886, during his studies at Harvard University (Class of 1835); on trips to Europe, the Southern states and other parts of the U.S.; and while living in Boston and the vicinity. Also includes Lawrence's personal account books, 1827-86, with records of household accounts and charitable expenses; a list of his Massachusetts rental properties, with names of towns and residents; and a book of receipts and expenditures for recruiting the 2nd Regiment of the Mass. Cavalry under Col. Charles R. Lowell during the Civil War, 1862-63. Also includes diaries, 1843-64, and account books of household expenses and wages for domestic help, 1842-53, kept by Lawrence's wife, Sarah E. Appleton Lawrence; and diaries kept by Sarah's mother, Mary Anne Cutler Appleton, during a voyage with her husband, William Appleton, to Italy and France, 1816-17, along with a line-a-day diary kept in 1836.

ArchivalResource: 5 pamphlet boxes and 15 vols. in cases.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20858322 View

Peabody, Marian Lawrence. 1875-1974. Letters and family papers, 1783-1957

Title: Marian Lawrence Peabody letters and family papers, 1783-1957

Autograph collection and family papers of American painter and diarist Marian Lawrence Peabody.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes, 1v. (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01389/catalog View

Minerva (Ship : 1800-1816). Log/journal, 1816 May 28-Sept. 17.

Title: Log/journal, 1816 May 28-Sept. 17.

Log/journal, kept by Magee, relating to a voyage from Boston to London (1816 May 21-June 20), portside in London (1816 June 20-July 31), and London to Georges Bank (1816 July 31-Sept. 17).

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71013626 View

Richards, Mary, b. 1798. [Mary Richards letters to her brother Giles Richards]

Title: [Mary Richards letters to her brother Giles Richards] 1836.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder ; 25 x 38 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191201204 View

Jewell, Harvey, 1820-1881. Letters received, 1852-1877.

Title: Letters received, 1852-1877.

Letters received by Harvey Jewell, lawyer and politician, from Louis Agassiz, William Appleton, Rufus Choate, Edward Everett, George Frisbie Hoar, William Sprague, Charles Sumner and Robert Charles Winthrop discuss local legal issues and Whig politics.

ArchivalResource: 14 items, in folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11854760 View

Fabyan, Robert, d. 1513. The newe cronycles of Englande and of Fraunce : Volume 2 : manuscript, [ca. 1510].

Title: The newe cronycles of Englande and of Fraunce : Volume 2 : manuscript, [ca. 1510].

Second volume of the chronicles, possibly used by Richard Pynson as the printer's copy for his edition of 1516.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (470 leaves) ; 33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612890210 View

Braird, Oliver, b. ca. 1775. Letters, 1795-1841.

Title: Letters, 1795-1841.

Eight letters from John Braird and his wife, Catherine, in Philadelphia concerning voyages, business, the 1812 embargo, and family matters; two letters from Oliver Braird, Jr., in Boston, Mass., concerning business and family matters; three letters from John Noble in Boston and New York concerning business, his voyages, and port life in Boston and Havana, Cuba; two letters from George W. Balch regarding textile and lace sales, and the 1812 embargo; letter (1795) from John Hutchison, London, England, offering to bring things back for Oliver Braird; letter (1805) from William Brewster, Philadelphia, offering thanks for assistance to family; and letter (1813) from William Appleton, Gottenberg, Sweden, with news of family and business.

ArchivalResource: 18 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70961259 View

Appleton, William, 1786-1862. Letters, 1832-1834.

Title: Letters, 1832-1834.

Papers of Appleton as president of the Bank of the United States at Boston, Massachusetts, consisting of a circular, October 25, 1832, signed by Levi Woodbury, requesting banks for lists of pensioners with amounts; a letter, August 13, 1833, by Nicholas Biddle, concerning a new resolution; and a letter, November 28, 1834, by Amos Kendall conerning the pension of William Perry.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787225 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

Samuel Hooper Papers, 1829-1874, (bulk 1846-1874)

Title: Samuel Hooper Papers 1829-1874 (bulk 1846-1874)

Merchant and U.S. representative. Correspondence, financial statements, lists, ledger sheets, and receipts relating to Hooper's investments and his import business in Boston, Mass., and his service in the Massachusetts legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives.

ArchivalResource: 244 items; 1 container; 0.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007124 View

Appleton, William, 1786-1862. Letter, 1859.

Title: Letter, 1859.

Invitation to the Public Meeting at Faneuil Hall, Boston, to express National Sentiments between the Northern and Southern parts of the Union. There is one more signature that is difficult to make out.

ArchivalResource: 1 item1 (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84698245 View

William Appleton and Company. Records, 1840-1889 (inclusive).

Title: Records, 1840-1889 (inclusive).

Bound volumes include two journals, 1841-1861; one ledger, 1841-1859; six invoice books, 1841-1865; nine letter books, 1841-1876; and checkbooks. The unbound papers are principally letters and accounts current from agents in various parts of the world: Augustine Heard & Company and Russell & Company, Canton; Wolcott, Bates & Company, Shanghai; Russell, Sturgis & Company and Peele, Hubble & Company, Manila; Martin Murray & Company, Bombay; and Baring Brothers, Liverpool and London. Cary & Company were their agents in New York, J.C. Burnham & Company represented them throughout the South, and Henry Mellus was agent for the company in California. The California trade runs back to the period before the Mexican War. The Company was represented by less well-known houses in Matanzas, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, and Antwerp. The firm was owner or part owner of many of the ships which it employed, and the accounts and letters of the captains of these ships form an appreciable portion of the papers. Also included in the collection are records of companies in which the firm had financial interests: Benzinger Coal and Iron Company, St. Mary's, Pa., 1847-1881; Boston Oil Company, 1876-1877; Boston Sugar Refinery, 1837-1843; and Erie Basin Dock Company, South Brooklyn, N.Y., 1864-1880. Sixteen volumes of diaries and letter books, 1813-1861, of William Appleton and other members of the Appleton-Lawrence family have been added to the collection.

ArchivalResource: ca. 31 linear ft. (143 v., 101 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269590761 View

Hooper, Samuel, 1808-1875. Papers, 1829-1874.

Title: Papers, 1829-1874.

Correspondence, lists of securities, financial statements, ledger sheets, and receipts relating to Hooper's investments and his import business in Boston, Mass., and his service in the Massachusetts legislature (1851-1853, 1858) and the U.S. House of Representatives (1861-1874). Correspondents include his father, John Hooper, his brother, Robert William Hooper, and his business associates, William Appleton, S.T. Dana, and Lemuel Shaw.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34576576 View

Appleton family. Appleton family papers, 1539-1941, bulk: 1795-1916.

Title: Appleton family papers, 1539-1941, bulk: 1795-1916.

Papers of Nathan Appleton, merchant, manufacturer, banker and congressman; his sons, Thomas G. and Nathan Jr. ; and other family members. The collection includes loose papers, journals, letterbooks, scrapbooks, and 3 oversize folders of legal documents and genealogical materials. Other family members represented in the collection are Nathaniel, Samuel, Moses, Eben, William, William S., and William S. Appleton Jr. Nathan Appleton's papers concern trade with England, the textile industry and national politics. They contain information on the War of 1812, his position in favor of slavery, antebellum tariff legislation in Congress and Whig Party politics. Major correspondents include Nicholas Biddle, Abbott Lawrence, William C. Rives, Charles Sumner and Daniel Webster. The papers of artist and poet Thomas G. Appleton contain descriptions of his early days at Round Hill School, his travels in Europe, and Boston social life. The papers of Nathan Appleton Jr. concern his service in the 5th Battery of the Mass. Light Artillery during the Civil War, his business dealings and his promotion of American imperialism and the plans of Ferdinand de Lesseps for a Panama Canal. Also included is the diary of Isaac F. Coffin written in Chile in 1820-25 describing the political upheaval and revolution.

ArchivalResource: 20 boxes, 93 vols., and 3 oversize folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8300852 View

Amory, William, 1804-1888. Thomas J. Coolidge autograph collection, 1852-1887.

Title: Thomas J. Coolidge autograph collection, 1852-1887.

Small collection of autograph letters written to Thomas J. Coolidge (1831-1920), William Amory, and William Appleton, presumably collected by Thomas J. Coolidge (1893-1959). Correspondents include James F. Clarke, Edward Everett, Oliver W. Holmes, Henry W. Longfellow, and Edward E. Hale.

ArchivalResource: 1 box and 1 box of photocopies.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35300380 View

Carney, Osgood, 1809-1835. Journal and letterbook, 1831-1834.

Title: Journal and letterbook, 1831-1834.

Journal and letterbook of Osgood Carney, Boston merchant and commission agent on voyages to Cuba, Brazil, and Russia for various firms and individuals. The journal is written only from Jan. 1-16, 1831, and details Carney's daily activities and discusses foreign affairs, particularly the revolutions in Europe at the time. The volume also contains copies of letters from 1831 to 1834, to merchants such as William Appleton, Robert G. Shaw, Frederic Tudor, John D. Bates, and James Read & Co. It also includes copies of cargo lists and receipts, and a "List of Vessels at Havre" for Jan. 22, 1834. Ships mentioned in letters include the brig Statesman, the Henry Clay, and the Nera.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16219816 View