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Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887. Letters received, 1865 Feb. 7-1887 March 4.

Title: Letters received, 1865 Feb. 7-1887 March 4.

Letters are principally from members of the Lamb and Eliot families, including Horatio A. Lamb, who handled Dix's financial affairs, Lamb's mother, Hannah Eliot Lamb, his uncle, Rev. William G. Eliot (Unitarian minister and reformer and founder of Washington University in St. Louis), and Eliot's sons, Rev. Thomas Lamb Eliot and Christopher R. Eliot. Letters concern Dix's finances and charities, Lamb and Eliot family matters (including information on artist Rose Lamb), and politics. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in a single letter (1865 Feb. 7) states that because he is busy lecturing he is unable to check on conditions [at Camp Meigs?] in Readville. With a folder containing manuscript poems (one by D.L. Dix) and a folder with inventories of Dix's possessions (some at the home of Mrs. Walter Baker in Dorchester).

ArchivalResource: Approx. 50 items, in box ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/591589420 View

Lamb, Rose. Correspondence, 1878-1893.

Title: Correspondence, 1878-1893.

Ten letters (1878-1879) to Rose and Horace Lamb from artist William Morris Hunt, written from Niagara Falls and Isles of Shoals (Me. and N.H.), relating to Celia and Levi Thaxter and others, the weather, flowers, and painting; seven letters (1888-1893) from Celia Thaxter at Isles of Shoals and Portsmouth, N.H., to Rose Lamb in Boston, writing about her poem Petition and cyanotypes being sent; and two poems about Celia Thaxter written by Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Fields (newspaper clipping).

ArchivalResource: 19 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70976520 View

Rose Lamb papers

Title: Rose Lamb papers

The papers of Boston area portrait painter and drawing instructor Rose Lamb date from circa 1870 to 1961, with the bulk of the material dating from circa 1870 to 1900, and measure 0.8 linear feet. The collection contains a diploma; letters from artists, writers, historians, and others, including nine letters from former teacher and friend William Morris Hunt; photographs of unidentified people and artwork by Lamb; and original artwork, including a sketchbook from circa 1870, charcoal drawings, two watercolors, and two oil paintings. Artwork depicts landscapes, children, and other figure studies. Correspondence within the the collection includes 19 letters from artists, such as Albert Sterner, Ross Turner, Howard Pyle, and Charles H. Woodbury; writers Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Margaret Deland, and Alfred Noyes; and historians John Fiske and Albert Bushnell Hart. Also found are nine letters from former teacher and friend William Morris Hunt. Eight of his letters describe in detail his work on the painting of murals in the Capitol building in Albany, New York, and one letter discusses his painting of portraits in North Easton, Massachusetts. Also among the correspondence are four letters to Aimée Lamb, Rose's niece.

ArchivalResource: 0.8 linear feet

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