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Putnam, William Lowell, Mrs., 1892-1935. Papers, 1887-1935 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1887-1935 (inclusive).

Correspondence, speeches, articles, letters to the editor, reports, bulletins, notes, radio broadcasts, and clippings thoroughly document Putnam's work in maternal and infant health care and conservative politics. Included are pamphlets, programs, flyers, and other printed material of the many organizations in which she was active, the largest section concerning her work for milk inspection and purity laws. The collection also contains some of Putnam's published and unpublished political writings, and correspondence with publishers and readers about her poetry and prose. There is almost no family correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 15.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122592762 View

Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

Lawrence, William, 1850-1941. Papers related to his biography of Roger Wolcott, 1901-1902.

Title: Papers related to his biography of Roger Wolcott, 1901-1902.

Papers related to Lawrence's biography, "Roger Wolcott," Governor of Mass. (1902). Included are Lawrence's notes and drafts, and letters written to him in response to information-gathering questions about Wolcott, and comments about the work in progress. Correspondents include William D. Sohier, Edith P. Wolcott (Roger's widow), Francis C. Lowell (1855-1911), Henry C. Lodge, John D. Long, and Curtis Guild.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23201159 View

Beardsworth, Ada Bantz, 1877-1965. Ada Bantz Beardsworth papers [manuscript], 1874-1953 (bulk 1897-1924).

Title: Ada Bantz Beardsworth papers [manuscript], 1874-1953 (bulk 1897-1924).

The collection consists primarily of Bantz and Beardsworth family papers, including letters, diaries, ledgers, and photographs. They reflect the life of Ada Bantz,a strongminded, artistically talented, and independently oriented Virginia woman and her husband, the musician Tom Beardsworth. Topics include Ada B. Beardworth's search for employment, family troubles, health, social life, travels,long engagement and evenutal marriage and struggle with social conventions. Of interest is correspondence with her gay godson and cousin William Baker Powell, an advertising salesman, author of home decorating articles, and friend of Gene Tunney, Noel Coward and Cole Porter. Topics also include Tom Beardsworth's positions at the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind, Mary Baldwin Seminary, the Virginia Female Institute, Camp Terra Alta, the Stonewall Band Brigade and the Staunton Military Academy and tours and performances in numerous Virginia cities including Charlottesville. Other topics include current events,particularly the election of 1896, Spanish American war, World Wars I and II, and the depression; fashion trends; life in Winchester and Staunton, Va.; student life at Amherst; employment with Sherwin-Williams, advertising as a career, women owned businesses. There are also mentions of Allen Caperton Braxton, Barnett McFee Clinedinst, Lady Duff Gordon, Leonard Hanna, Jr., Cole Porter, John Powell, Maggie Teyte, Gene Tunney,and Woodrow Wilson. There are brief references to birth control and abortion, the bicycling fad, ping pong, a flood in Winchester in 1902, the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1901, the inaugurations of William McKinley and Warren G. Harding, Woodrow Wilson as president, Walter Damrosch's orchestra, the Pan American Exposition, the Jamestown Expostion, the New York Worlds Fair, voyage to Europe on the RMS Mauretania, the stock market crash, Cole Porter musicals and nostalgia for the "good old days of slavery." Of interest are letters from William Glass and Sidney Moss, University of Virginia students, 1892-1895, 1912-1913, regarding student life and misbehavior, the Glee Club and the Rotunda fire and aftermath. Correspondents include: Richard E. Byrd, Henry LaT Cavenaugh, John Warwick Daniel, George Dewey, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Frank R. Gillis, William Wood Glass, Jr., Curtis Guild, James Hay, Louis E. McComas, Perry L. Miles, Alexander M. Patch, Fitz-John Porter, William Baker Powell, and Charles "Broadway" Rouss. Several of these letters are routine replies to requests for patronage.

ArchivalResource: circa 9000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648004500 View

Guild family. Papers, 1871-1946.

Title: Papers, 1871-1946.

The Guild family papers contain three diaries; a catalogue of books (1884), probably of Curtis Guild Sr.; an address book (1943); a checkbook (1945-46) of the New England Trust Co.; and miscellaneous newspaper clippings, Harvard University club memorabilia, and a few manuscript song lyrics and letters of Guild family members. The diaries include: one dated 1871-72, probably by Sarah C.C. Guild, describing daily events in Boston and a trip to Europe on the steamer Tripoli, June to Nov. 1871; and two by Sarah L. Guild. The first is dated Jan. through July 1896, and describes daily events and social life in Boston; activities of family members Curtis Sr., Sarah C.C., Curtis Jr., and Courtenay Guild; a trip to Europe in May-July 1896; and the Cuban Revolution. The second (1898-1900) describes social events; a trip to Poland Springs, Maine; the death of her mother in Sept. 1898; and Cuba and the Spanish-American War. (Cont.) Also, a one-volume "Souvenir of Oliver Wendell Holmes," compiled by Curtis Guild in 1895, containing poetry and letters written to Guild by Holmes, broadsides, engravings, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings on Holmes's life and death.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20268818 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Autograph letters and documents of American political and military leaders collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes (14 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01499/catalog View

Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe additional papers

Title: Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe additional papers

Primarily professional correspondence of biographer and editor M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

ArchivalResource: 35 boxes (9 linear feet)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00489/catalog View

Immigration Restriction League (U.S.) records, 1893-1921

Title: Immigration Restriction League (U.S.) records

Records of the Immigration Restriction League (U.S.), especially those of Prescott F. (Farnsworth) Hall, one of the founders and executive secretary from 1896-1921.

ArchivalResource: 12.4 linear feet (24 boxes and 17 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00163/catalog View

Guild, Courtenay, 1863-1946. Papers, 1885-1913.

Title: Papers, 1885-1913.

Papers of Courtenay Guild include 2 scrapbooks; an undated subscription book for the Commercial Bulletin, a family-owned financial newspaper; and an 1886 travel diary of his trip through Denmark, England, Hungary, Norway, and Sweden, with a month spent in Russia as well. Includes descriptions of Russian people, history, rulers, and cultural institutions. A letter (1913) from Curtis Guild denounces the Massachusetts Republicans for succumbing to pressure exerted by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. and shoe manufacturing trusts. Scrapbooks, 1865-1914 and 1891-1919, contain clippings, programs, and correspondence relative to family matters and to his work as Boston City Collector. Also material related to Guild's activities as a Harvard alumnus, rowing enthusiast, amateur actor, choral society member (Apollo Club and Handel and Haydn Society), temperance activist, and member of the Unitarian Club. Includes family photographs.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box and 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18115929 View

Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Title: Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Correspondence and other papers of the American writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

ArchivalResource: 19 boxes (7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00327/catalog View

Wendell family papers

Title: Wendell family papers

Correspondence, business papers, and compositions by members of the Wendell family, a prominent merchant family from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

ArchivalResource: 46 linear feet (93 boxes and 1 folder)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01421/catalog View

Putnam, Elizabeth Lowell, 1862-1935. Papers, 1887-1935

Title: Papers of Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, 1887-1935

Correspondence, speeches, programs, etc., of Elizabeth Lowell Putnam, political activist, philanthropist, and pioneer in prenatal care.

ArchivalResource: 35 file boxes, 3 folio folders, 13 folio+ folders, 8 oversize folders, 1 supersize folder, part of reel of microfilm (M-101)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00070/catalog View

Harvard University. Autograph File, G. 1641-2009.

Title: Autograph File, G

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: 5 linear feet (10 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01430/catalog View

Curtis Guild Memorial Committee. Papers, ca. 1915.

Title: Papers, ca. 1915.

Papers, collected by Charles Knowles Bolton, relating to the proposed memorial to the governor of Massachusetts, interest in which was threatened by public concern over the European War.

ArchivalResource: 11 items, in folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14967914 View

[Programs and invitations from state functions], 1873-1971.

Title: [Programs and invitations from state functions], 1873-1971.

This collection comprises invitations, programs, notes, greeting cards, and tickets, as well as menus and seating plans. Most of the materials were issued by Massachusetts governors for various state functions, including state dinners, teas, receptions, and inaugurations, and span a hundred-year period. In addition to numerous Massachusetts governors, the following individuals appear in the collection: Admiral Dewey, M. Le Marechal Foch, Generalissimo Armando Diaz, Herbert C. Hoover, Mayor John F. Collins, Senator James W. Hennigan, Senator Edward Brooke, Secretary of Commonwealth Kevin H. White, Attorney General Edward McCormack, Jr., Lyndon B. Johnson, Edward Kennedy, Spiro Agnew, and Richard Nixon.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/143629978 View

Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Title: Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Papers of American author, journalist, editor, and social reformer Oswald Garrison Villard. Includes materials that are unsorted and uncataloged.

ArchivalResource: 37 linear feet (169 boxes and 9 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00082/catalog View

Francis Bowler Keene Papers, 1856-1975, (bulk 1877-1924)

Title: Francis Bowler Keene Papers 1856-1975 (bulk 1877-1924)

Diplomat, poet, and author. Diaries, correspondence, subject and writings files, and scrapbooks relating to Keene's career in the consular service and to his writings.

ArchivalResource: 6,000 items; 11 containers plus 1 oversize; 4.4 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010203 View

Guild, Curtis, 1860-1915. [Letter, 1907].

Title: [Letter, 1907].

ArchivalResource: 1 letter.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12963350 View

Henry Cabot Lodge Correspondence, 1877-1924

Title: Henry Cabot Lodge Correspondence 1877-1924

Papers of the U.S. Senator, editor, author. Outgoing letters to William H. Coolidge, Edward A. Filene, Curtis Guild, Jr., R.U. Johnson, Harry B. Kirtland, William S. Kyle, J.S. Henley Luce, Stephen Luce, George H. Moses, W.T. Sedgwick, A.R. Turner, Frank E. Woodward, and others.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear ft.

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/l/lodge_hc.htm View

John Chipman Gray correspondence

Title: John Chipman Gray correspondence

Correspondence of Harvard professor and lawyer John Chipman Gray. Consists chiefly of letters written to Gray and his wife, Anna Lyman Mason Gray, many of which are RSVPs to social engagements from notable Boston and Harvard figures. Other topics include John Gray's legal writings and lectures and Anna Gray's poetry. Includes two autograph letters of Daniel Webster (addressed to others), and several letters of condolence from acquaintances such as Abbott Lawrence Lowell on the occasion of John Gray's death. The collection also includes letters to other members of the Gray family and some Gray family ephemera, such as stock certificates. Items concerning Japan include a letter from Isabella Stewart Gardner describing her impressions of Japanese culture and society, a letter from Fanny MacVeagh, wife of the American ambassador to Japan, describing the landscape and culture, and a collection of letters from John Gray's former student Kentaro Kanako, a Japanese noble and diplomat, whose letters describe the politics, government, and society of Japan and express great nostalgia for Boston society. He also discusses newly published political science works and his translations of many such works. Kanako visited the United States several times and wrote to the Grays from both Japan and the United States.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear feet (2 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01090/catalog View

Robert Grant papers

Title: Robert Grant papers

Papers of Robert Grant (Harvard AB 1873), an American novelist and lawyer.

ArchivalResource: 18 boxes and 7 volumes (7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00080/catalog View

Oliver Lyman Spaulding papers, 1861-1921

Title: Oliver Lyman Spaulding papers 1861-1921

Soldier from St. Johns, Michigan who served in Co. A, Twenty-third Michigan Infantry during the Civil War, later Regent of University of Michigan, teacher, lawyer, Republican member of Congress from Michigan, and U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Correspondence, letterpress books; scrapbooks; genealogy, speeches, memoirs, and miscellaneous items; also scattered papers of his wife's family (Mary Cecilia Swegles Spaulding).

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft., 1 oversize folder, and 1 oversize volume

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-86458?rgn=main;view=text View

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. TLS, 1908 January 25 : Washington [D.C.], the White House, to Massachusetts Governor Curtis Guild, Boston.

Title: TLS, 1908 January 25 : Washington [D.C.], the White House, to Massachusetts Governor Curtis Guild, Boston.

Roosevelt writes concerning the U.S.S. Chesapeake flag which is coming up for auction in England, "In my judgment it would be unwise and undignified ... for this government to go into an auction ... It seems to me we should put ourselves in a position not only humiliating but ridiculous if we exposed ourselvesto having it said that the flag which we could not defend by arms in battle we nevertheless gleefully got possesion of again by money."

ArchivalResource: 2 p. ; 22.4 x 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20864006 View

Guild, Curtis, 1860-1915. Autograph collection, 1642-1928.

Title: Autograph collection, 1642-1928.

Autograph collection of Curtis Guild, Governor of Massachusetts and Ambassador to Russia. The collection consists of autographs, letters, and signed documents of British, French, and U.S. military and political leaders, presidents, royalty, ministers, literary figures, opera singers, actors, etc. Includes letters of Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, and General Anthony Wayne concerning the progress of the Revolutionary War and the provisioning and recruitment of the Continental Army; a love letter from Benedict Arnold to his wife; a letter from Ulysses S. Grant expressing his disappointment with the 1878 silver bill; and letters from William H. Taft and Woodrow Wilson relative to relations with Russia and Guild's ambassadorship. Also a manuscript page from Theodore Roosevelt's "Winning the West"; diaries of Samuel C. Cobb's ocean voyages to Königsberg (Kaliningrad, U.S.S.R., 1845) and to Rio de Janeiro (1846-47); and portraits of Czar Nicolas II and his family.

ArchivalResource: 1 box and 1 oversize container.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18126187 View

William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Title: William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Correspondence (chiefly letters received), articles, poems, speeches, book reviews, diaries and journals, miscellaneous notebooks, scrapbooks, clippings, and other printed material. Correspondence concerns Thayer's writings, particularly in the area of Italian history, and his connections with Harvard as editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine and later as an overseer. Also included are some miscellaneous papers of William Warland Clapp, a Boston journalist; and some papers of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, chiefly from a European trip made by Higginson in 1872.

ArchivalResource: 48 linear feet (96 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00563/catalog View

Meyer, George von Lengerke, 1858-1918. George von Lengerke Mayer papers, 1808-1918.

Title: George von Lengerke Mayer papers, 1808-1918.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes, 1 pamphlet box, and 80 bound v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8291604 View

William Woodville Rockhill papers

Title: William Woodville Rockhill papers

Papers of American scholar-diplomat William Woodville Rockhill.

ArchivalResource: 18 linear feet (35 boxes, 6 card file boxes, and 8 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00411/catalog 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

Spaulding, Mr. (Oliver Lyman), 1833-1922. Oliver Lyman Spaulding papers, 1861-1921.

Title: Oliver Lyman Spaulding papers, 1861-1921.

Correspondence concerning his Civil War service, Congress, the Republican Party, his work with the U.S. Treasury Department, and his Masonic activities; also diary detailing his Civil War service, two letter books; four scrapbooks; genealogy, speeches, memoirs, and miscellaneous items; also scattered papers of his wife's family (Mary Cecilia Swegles Spaulding), including a brief diary, 1870, of Edwin Cyrus Swegles as a cadet at West Point; reminiscences, ca. 1903, of Mrs. Spaulding on the early history. Of St. Johns, Michigan; and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft., ca. 35 items [outsize], and 1 v. [outsize].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34420583 View

Guild, Curtis, 1860-1915. Scrapbooks, 1849-1915.

Title: Scrapbooks, 1849-1915.

Scrapbooks of Curtis Guild Jr. mostly contain newspaper clippings, programs, and pamphlets concerning his professional and public career as a partner and editor of the family-owned Commercial Bulletin, as Lieutenant Colonel and Inspector-General during the Spanish-American War, as Republican Party leader, as Lieutenant Governor and Governor of Massachusetts, as special Ambassador to Mexico's Centennial celebration, and as Ambassador to Russia from 1911-13. Scrapbooks also include some correspondence to and about family members, his father Curtis Guild, his mother Sarah Cobb Guild, his brother Courtenay, and his sister Sarah Louise. Correspondence relates to his work in army camps in the South, his duties under the command of Fitzhugh Lee in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, and his foreign service in Mexico and Russia. (Cont) Scrapbooks also include travel descriptions of the U.S. and Europe, descriptions of happenings in Boston, and a run of editorials by Courtenay Guild; poetry and an account book of Curtis Guild Sr., with a memorial scrapbook to commemorate his life.

ArchivalResource: 8 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18145270 View

Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888. Additional correspondence, 1787-1886

Title: James Freeman Clarke additional correspondence, 1787-1886

Letters written to the Unitarian clergyman and author James Freeman Clarke and his family.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00934/catalog View