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Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture. Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture records, 1792-1963.

Title: Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture records, 1792-1963.

Records of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, including correspondence, financial records, membership and trustee records, committee reports, petitions for premiums, records of awards, 150th anniversary materials, records of charitable contributions, Middlesex Agricultural Society papers (1819-73), and Middlesex Society of Husbandmen and Manufacturers papers (1819-50). The MSPA, incorporated 1792, introduced new breeds of stock, sponsored research in animal diseases and pest eradication; supported 4-H Club activities, Arnold Arboretum and Harvard University, the Botanic Garden (Cambridge, Mass.), and other horticultural stations; worked with other Mass. agricultural societies; ran the Brighton Cattle Show (1816-35) and participated in many other exhibitions and fairs. (cont) They offered prizes to farmers for farms, machinery, products, animals, inventions, experiments, domestic manufactures, orchards, salt-marsh reclamation, and horticultural produce. Among the many correspondents are Francis H. Appleton, Peter C. Brooks, Edward Everett, Benjamin Guild, Levi Lincoln, Thomas Motley Jr., Elias Phinney, William Prescott, James R. Reynolds, and George S. West.

ArchivalResource: 32 boxes, 6 narrow boxes and 3 oversize boxes.

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William Prescott letters received, 1810-1866

Title: William Prescott letters received 1810-1866

Letters from physicians of New England and others relating to the practice of medicine, natural history, and related topics. Also concerns proceedings of various New Hampshire town meetings for elections of U.S. senators and representatives. About 80 pieces

ArchivalResource: .21 linear foot (1 volume)

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Lee, Henry, 1756-1818. Papers, 1768-1816.

Title: Papers, 1768-1816.

These papers, consisting of 76 items, are mainly of correspondence, much of which pertains to material for Lee's MEMOIRS OF THE WAR IN THE SOUTHERN DEPARTMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Some of the letters comment on trade, taxation, as well as family matters. Included are various letters written by Lee, 1813-1816, while he was in the West Indies attempting to regain his health.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (172 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122539141 View

Prescott, William, 1788-1875. William Prescott letters received, 1810-1866.

Title: William Prescott letters received, 1810-1866.

Letters from physicians of New England and others relating to the practice of medicine, natural history, and related topics.

ArchivalResource: .21 linear foot (1 volume)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/695434865 View

Frazee, John, 1790-1852. Letters received, 1834-1838.

Title: Letters received, 1834-1838.

From prominent Bostonians, regarding busts of themselves and others; they write to arrange for sittings, and to compliment Frazee on finished work. Some of the pieces are in the Boston Athenaeum collection. Includes extracts from Frazee's autobiography on the busts of John Marshall and Daniel Webster. The existence of the originals of these letters cannot be verified.

ArchivalResource: 21 items, in box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14549526 View