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Cary family. Papers II, 1778-1933, bulk: 1811-1900.

Title: Papers II, 1778-1933, bulk: 1811-1900.

Correspondence of the Thomas Greaves Cary family, including Thomas Greaves Cary Sr. and his wife Mary Perkins Cary; his siblings William Ferdinand, Henry, and Margaret Graves Cary; his father-in law, Thomas Handasyd Perkins; and his children Thomas Greaves Jr., Richard, Mary Louisa Cary Felton, Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, and Caroline Gardner Cary Curtis. Frequent reference is made in the letters to T.G. Cary's sons-in-law Louis Agassiz, Charles Pelham Curtis, and Cornelius Conway Felton. The predominant subjects of the letters are family matters, state and national politics, and Boston society, in which the Carys were prominent. T.G. Cary Sr. served several terms as Massachusetts state senator and wrote extensively on political issues of the 1850s. He and his wife and daughter traveled to Italy in 1857, generating a good deal of correspondence. (Cont'd) Many folders are prefaced by letters from Emma Forbes Cary to her niece, explaining the contents of the correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16312855 View

Cary family. Papers III, 1769-1919, bulk: 1769-1870.

Title: Papers III, 1769-1919, bulk: 1769-1870.

Correspondence of Cary family members, including Samuel Cary (1742-1812), his wife Sarah Gray Cary, his children Samuel (1773-1810), Henry, Lucius, Ann Montague, and Thomas Greaves Cary Sr.; also his grandchildren Thomas Greaves Cary Jr., Emma Forbes Cary, and Caroline Gardner Cary Curtis. Included is a series of letters from Mercy Otis Warren to Sarah Gray Cary. Most of the correspondence concerns family matters. The younger Samuel Cary discusses the Cary plantation in his letters from Grenada. Also included are copied records of births, marriages, and burials of Graves family members from 1571 to 1650; a few letters from Louis Agassiz to Thomas G. Cary Jr.; Emma Cary's recollections of her 1857 trip to Italy and her memories of the actor Edwin Booth; and letters describing the death of Richard Cary at the Battle of Cedar Mountain, 1862. (Cont'd) Also diaries of Caroline Curtis, 1849-1917; a letter from Thomas Handasyd Perkins giving advice to his son on how to conduct himself during a voyage to China in 1813; and a scrapbook genealogy of the Cary family.

ArchivalResource: 13 boxes and 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16313435 View

Cary, Thomas Greaves, 1824-1888. Papers, 1834-1884, bulk: 1884.

Title: Papers, 1834-1884, bulk: 1884.

Thirty notebooks containing sketches written by Thomas Greaves Cary, Jr., of events in the early history of California, including the gold rush, vigilance committees, and the war with Mexico. Cary was a participant in some of these events, and apparently wrote his sketches in 1883 and 1884. Descriptions of similar sketches by Cary in the Boston Public Library and the Harvard University Library can be found in the National Union Catalog of pre-1956 imprints. Also included is an account book, 1834-38, and letterbook, 1833-53, Cabarras Gold Mining Co. treasurer Thomas Greaves Cary, Sr. Account book and letterbook relate to the gold rush in North Carolina.

ArchivalResource: 32 vols.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16310629 View

Cary, Thomas Greaves, 1824-1888. Journal, 1865-1866.

Title: Journal, 1865-1866.

A journal kept by Thomas Greaves Cary, Jr. of a trip to Uruguay in 1865-6 to collect fish, insect, and small animal specimens for "the Museum," presumably Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cary wrote that he traveled to Montevideo, Uruguay, in order to gather information for the use of Professor Louis Agassiz, his brother-in-law, who was then on an expedition to Brazil, in case the Professor decided to visit the River Plate (Rio de la Plata).

ArchivalResource: 1 small case.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16310541 View