Hammond, Israel. Harvard, Mass., single-sheet manuscripts, 1821-1939.
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Harvard, Mass., single-sheet manuscripts, 1821-1939.
Correspondence, songs, hymns, broadsides, circulars, maps, and other papers, of Shakers at Harvard, Mass. Also includes history of the Square House (1846 Sept.), related by Abel Jewetts, Jonathan Clark, Jr., and others at Harvard, collected and written by Roxalana L. Grosvenor, regarding the residence where Mother Ann Lee and other early Shakers stayed while visiting at Harvard; letter (1848 Jan. 14) from Harvard eldresses written to Joseph Brackett, Alfred, with news from Harvard and urging him to give up bad habits such as coffee and tea; letter (1849 June 4) from Moses Tenney to Merrill Bailey, Alfred, pertaining to a trip home to Maine, the change in leadership at Harvard, health of Shirley, Mass., Shakers, and attempts to convert residents of New Bedford, Mass.; letters (1849 and 1850) from the Harvard Ministry to the Alfred Ministry, relating to Fayette Mace's wish to join the Harvard community, the death of David Crouch at Shirley, and visitors Lemuel Tomkins, Oliver Prentice, and others from Watervliet, N.Y., and other communities; and letters (1851) describing a boat trip taken by Harvard Shakers from New Gloucester (Sabbathday Lake), Me., to Boston, Mass. Also includes letter (1862 Dec. 22) from Elijah Myrick to Elder Otis Sawyer, New Gloucester, regarding shingles for old buildings and the deaths of Daniel Willard, Shirley, and Mary Grosvenor, Harvard; paper (1939 July 22) given by Clara Endicott Sears and the Unitarian church in Harvard on the history of Harvard Shakers; letter (1864 Nov.-1865) from William Leonard to Joshua Bussell, Alfred, relating to slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation, and Pres. Abraham Lincoln; and letter (1834 Oct. 8) from Parmer R. Bathrick, Shirley to Isaac Brackett, Alfred, discussing the poor quality of broomcorn and the health of Eldress Olive Hatch.
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