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Crowninshield, Frederic, 1845-1918. Artist file.

Title: Artist file.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/190639327 View

Shattuck, Elizabeth Perkins Lee, 1846-1931. Elizabeth Perkins Lee Shattuck diary and sketchbook, 1868-1870.

Title: Elizabeth Perkins Lee Shattuck diary and sketchbook, 1868-1870.

Travel diary and sketchbook attributed to Elizabeth Perkins Lee (later Shattuck), daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Perkins (Cabot) Lee. The diary was kept from 1 Jan.-16 May 1869 while Lee was traveling in Italy, France, and England. Entries describe her daily activities, visits, and sights seen, including a carnival in Rome, Feb. 1869. Among the individuals mentioned in the diary are members of the Longfellow family, including Thomas Gold Appleton, Ernest Longfellow, and Hattie Longfellow; Lee's uncle Francis L. Lee; her cousins Edward Perkins, Mary Perkins, and Charles Callahan Perkins; her future husband Frederick Cheever Shattuck; George Bemis; Frederic Crowninshield; and members of the Warren, Paine, Forbes, Curtis, Sewall, and many other families. A few entries discuss freedmen in America and the West Indies; American grievances against the British after the Civil War; and the Fifteenth Amendment. Includes a list of correspondence. The diary is dedicated "For my dear Freddy, Easter Sunday, April 16th 1876." The sketchbook, dated 1868-1870, contains pencil drawings and watercolor paintings of sites in England; Switzerland; Italy; Bar Harbor, Me.; and Naushon Island, Mass., as well as sketches of people and a few memoranda. Most of the pages are identified and dated.

ArchivalResource: 2 vols. in a narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/752197854 View

Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Contracts (with associated materials) of the Houghton Mifflin Company publishing house of Boston, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (48 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00239/catalog 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

Records from the Mary Floyd Tallmadge Chapter of the Connecticut D.A.R

Title: Records from the Mary Floyd Tallmadge Chapter of the Connecticut D.A.R

Records relating to the Chapter's commission of a memorial window for the Litchfield Historical Society. Included are: letters, 1905-1907 between Frederic Crowninshield, the artist who executed the commission, and members of the Window Committee (including Elizabeth C. Barney Buel, Chairman of the Committee and Regent of Chapter), two letters, 1905, from Russell Sturgis, architect, to Buel, one letter from Buel to Rev. Stoors O. Seymour, President of the Litchfield Historical Society and his reply to her,

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https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw927303638-c90b-479c-86e1-a99c561a80bc View

Smith, Dudley, D.,. Virginia miscellany [manuscript] ca. 1840-1939.

Title: Virginia miscellany [manuscript] ca. 1840-1939.

Material left in library books including correspondence, notes, greeting cards, and newspaper clippings. Among the correspondents are Dudley D. Smith, writing from China during the Taiping rebellion, Helen Adams Keller, William Elisha Peters, William Gordon McCabe, William Mercer Thornton, Algernon Coleman, John Codman Ropes, John Banister Tabb, and Frederic Crowninshield.

ArchivalResource: 100 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647966327 View