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Papers of Elizabeth Glendower Evans, 1859-1944 (inclusive), 1882-1944 (bulk)

Title: Papers of Elizabeth Glendower Evans, 1859-1944 (inclusive), 1882-1944 (bulk)

Diaries, correspondence, writings, speeches, notes, photographs, clippings, etc., of social reformer Elizabeth Glendower Evans.

ArchivalResource: 4.17 linear feet (10 file boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00026/catalog View

Boott, Francis, 1792-1863. Putnam-Jackson-Lowell family papers, 1769-1922.

Title: Putnam-Jackson-Lowell family papers, 1769-1922.

Papers of the interrelated Putnam, Jackson, and Lowell families, including letters to Judge Samuel Putnam and letters between him and his son Samuel R. Putnam while the latter was working as a merchant in India and Europe. A large portion of the collection is devoted to the family of Dr. James Jackson, including materials related to his medical profession, in particular his work with cholera; correspondence with his son James Jr. while the latter was studying medicine in Europe, with his daughter Elizabeth C. Jackson (later Putnam), and among other Jackson siblings. (Cont'd) Papers of Elizabeth C. Putnam (b.1836) contain a lengthy correspondence with her mother, Elizabeth C.J. Putnam, and with Anna Cabot Lowell (1808-94), who also corresponded with Putnam's mother and grandfather. Putnam's papers also contain letters, speeches, and notes of cases pertaining to her work with various Mass. state primary and reform schools and other state charity boards. Her social welfare work specifically concerned the placement and visiting of indigent children as wards of the State. (Cont'd) One box of Putnam family genealogical materials is also included. Among the correspondents are Walter E. Fernald, Charles C. Emerson, Dr. James Jackson Putnam, Francis Boott, and Roger Wolcott.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes and 1 oversize box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24185442 View

Barrows family papers, 1861-1931.

Title: Barrows family papers, 1861-1931.

Letters and manuscripts of the Barrows family of New York.

ArchivalResource: 53 boxes (26 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00494/catalog View

Tufts, Gardiner, d. 1892. Letterbooks, 1864-1892, bulk: 1867-1891.

Title: Letterbooks, 1864-1892, bulk: 1867-1891.

Nine letterpress books containing retained copies of business and personal letters from Gardiner Tufts from 1867-91. Tufts served as a state agent for Mass. in Washington, D.C. and at home from 1867-79, working on behalf of soldiers to acquire pensions and other claims. Letters from Washington, particularly to editors of newspapers to which he contributed, describe Congressional action and other political news during Reconstruction. Letters from 1869-79 describe his work as a visiting agent for the Mass. Board of State Charities, in particular regarding the placement of juvenile offenders and wards of the state. (Cont'd) Letters from 1880-84 pertain to the administration as superintendent of the Mass. State Primary School in Monson and, from 1885-91, as the first superintendent of the Mass. Reformatory in Concord. Among the topics discussed are staffing, including recommendations, attendance at conferences, state legislation and organization in the area of social welfare, and prison reform. Among the other items are his newspaper articles and correspondence regarding the Lynn (Mass.) Choral Union and the history of choirs in Lynn, his home town. Among his recipients are Elizabeth C. Putnam, Genevieve Mills, George J. Newhall, and James L. Hill. The collection also includes his commission as an additional paymaster (1864) and a resolution of the reformatory upon his death (1892).

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes and 1 oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26376318 View

Putnam, Charles P. (Charles Pickering), 1844-1914. Papers, 1785-1915.

Title: Papers, 1785-1915.

Physician, of Boston, Mass. Putnam's correspondence with his family during his study of medicine in Europe (1869-70) and other letters from his family and associates, notably Oliver Wendell Holmes (1881). Putnam family papers include family correspondence of Dr. Charles Gideon Putnam and his wife, Elizabeth Cabot Jackson Putnam, papers (1804-34) of her father, Dr. James Jackson, some (1804-06) relating to the Massachusetts Medical Society, and letters from Tracy Jackson Putnam to his mother describing activities while serving in the ambulance service during World War I. The collection includes Washburn family correspondence (1866-1879) and letters of William T. Washburn. Of interest is a vivid eyewitness account of the Battle of Ball's Bluff (1861), Leesburg, Virginia contained in a letter from Caspar Crowninshield to his mother.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16827138 View

Dewson, Molly, 1874-1962. Papers, 1893-1962

Title: Papers of Molly Dewson, 1893-1962

Correspondence, writings, speeches, etc., of Mary "Molly" Williams Dewson, suffragist, reformer, and head of the Women's Division of the Democratic Party.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear feet ((1 carton) plus 1 oversize volume)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00184/catalog View

Papers of Professor Henry William Wilder Foote and Family, 1714-1959

Title: Papers of Professor Henry William Wilder Foote and Family, 1714-1959

Papers of Daniel Appleton White (1776-1861); wives; children including of daughter Mary Wilder Foote (1810-1857) and son William Orne White (1821-1911), William's wife, Margaret Harding White, and their children. Papers of Caleb Foote (1803-1894), his children including sons, Arthur William Foote (1853-1937) and Henry Wilder Foote (1838-1889), Henry's wife, Frances Ann Eliot Foote (1838-1896), and children. Papers of Henry Wilder Foote II (1875-1964), son of Henry Wilder Foote, of his wife Eleanor Tyson Cope Foote (b. 1879), and son Arthur Foote (II). Miscellaneous papers of ancestral families of Henry Wilder Foote II and William Orne White, including the Deadmans, the Eliots, the Flaggs, the Footes, the Haynes, the Lymans, the Ornes, the Wests, the Whites, and the Wilders.

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http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00575/catalog 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

Dewson, Molly, 1874-1962. Papers, 1893-1962

Title: Papers of Molly Dewson, 1893-1962

Correspondence, writings, speeches, etc., of Mary "Molly" Williams Dewson, suffragist, reformer, and head of the Women's Division of the Democratic Party.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear feet ((1 carton) plus 1 oversize volume)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00184/catalog View