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Ayer, James, 1815-1891. Pemberton collection, 1645-1948; bulk: 1798-1888.

Title: Pemberton collection, 1645-1948; bulk: 1798-1888.

Papers, including family letters, of the Ayer, Channing, Eustis, Farwell, Spaulding, and Whittemore families, collected through their connections from inter-marriages. Ayer family papers include medical notes and letters between brothers James and Joseph C. Ayer while medical students and later physicians; medical accounts (1842-43) of James kept at Monument Beach and Sandwich, Mass.; and James's diary from 1880-87. Also, a few amateur writings of James B. Ayer and two scrapbooks (189-93; 1918-23). Channing family papers contain Ruth G. Channing's account books and trigonometry notebook. (Cont'd) Among the Eustis family members represented is Frederic A. Eustis whose papers include an account book (1846-54) for a boarding school at Milton, Mass. which he ran; a Greek Bible with his tipped in notes (1836); records and accounts (1863-71) of his Eustis family plantation in South Carolina, including lists of slaves and, after the Civil War, freedmen as laborers with tasks and wages; and his 1857 pocket diary. Other Eustis papers include Mary Channings Eustis's recipe book, commonplace-books, and volumes of home medical remedies; Emily A. Eustis Jeffries's commonplace-books; and her husband's, John A. Jeffries, biology notebook (1875-76). (Cont'd) Deeds and other legal papers in this collection include those of Bezaleel and Daniel Spaulding, in particular to lands in Hillsborough County, N.H. and of Nathaniel W. Farwell for lands in Lewiston, Me. Other misc. items include Whittemore family genealogical notes; an account book (1827-28) of the Suffolk Bank of Boston; Elizabeth P. Peabody's notebook on astronomy and astrology; Civil War letters from James A. Darling of the Army of the Potomac; and Micah P. Shaw's account book (1841-57).

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes, 1 v., and 1 oversize box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39244567 View

Ayer, James Bourne, 1882-1963. Papers, 1788-1960.

Title: Papers, 1788-1960.

Contains correspondence with colleagues and Harvard Medical School administrators and meeting minutes about subjects including teaching appointments, curriculum planning, and research describing Ayer's teaching and administrative activities at Harvard Medical School. Correspondence with colleagues and patients document his clinical activities, and the limits of treating patients with neurological disorders. Writings document his research on human cerebrospinal fluid. The collection also contains journals, financial ledgers, medical notes, and correspondence about his father, James Bourne Ayer, 1849-1910, AB, Harvard College, and MD, 1873, Harvard Medical School, who specialized in nervous disorders, and his grandfather, James Ayer, 1815-1891, who was also a physician in Boston, Mass., and the Ayer family.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 cubic ft. in 3 records cartons, 1 document boxes, 1 half legal document box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84865597 View