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Guild family. Papers, 1871-1946.

Title: Papers, 1871-1946.

The Guild family papers contain three diaries; a catalogue of books (1884), probably of Curtis Guild Sr.; an address book (1943); a checkbook (1945-46) of the New England Trust Co.; and miscellaneous newspaper clippings, Harvard University club memorabilia, and a few manuscript song lyrics and letters of Guild family members. The diaries include: one dated 1871-72, probably by Sarah C.C. Guild, describing daily events in Boston and a trip to Europe on the steamer Tripoli, June to Nov. 1871; and two by Sarah L. Guild. The first is dated Jan. through July 1896, and describes daily events and social life in Boston; activities of family members Curtis Sr., Sarah C.C., Curtis Jr., and Courtenay Guild; a trip to Europe in May-July 1896; and the Cuban Revolution. The second (1898-1900) describes social events; a trip to Poland Springs, Maine; the death of her mother in Sept. 1898; and Cuba and the Spanish-American War. (Cont.) Also, a one-volume "Souvenir of Oliver Wendell Holmes," compiled by Curtis Guild in 1895, containing poetry and letters written to Guild by Holmes, broadsides, engravings, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings on Holmes's life and death.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20268818 View

Guild, Curtis, 1860-1915. Scrapbooks, 1849-1915.

Title: Scrapbooks, 1849-1915.

Scrapbooks of Curtis Guild Jr. mostly contain newspaper clippings, programs, and pamphlets concerning his professional and public career as a partner and editor of the family-owned Commercial Bulletin, as Lieutenant Colonel and Inspector-General during the Spanish-American War, as Republican Party leader, as Lieutenant Governor and Governor of Massachusetts, as special Ambassador to Mexico's Centennial celebration, and as Ambassador to Russia from 1911-13. Scrapbooks also include some correspondence to and about family members, his father Curtis Guild, his mother Sarah Cobb Guild, his brother Courtenay, and his sister Sarah Louise. Correspondence relates to his work in army camps in the South, his duties under the command of Fitzhugh Lee in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, and his foreign service in Mexico and Russia. (Cont) Scrapbooks also include travel descriptions of the U.S. and Europe, descriptions of happenings in Boston, and a run of editorials by Courtenay Guild; poetry and an account book of Curtis Guild Sr., with a memorial scrapbook to commemorate his life.

ArchivalResource: 8 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18145270 View

Guild, Courtenay, 1863-1946. Papers, 1885-1913.

Title: Papers, 1885-1913.

Papers of Courtenay Guild include 2 scrapbooks; an undated subscription book for the Commercial Bulletin, a family-owned financial newspaper; and an 1886 travel diary of his trip through Denmark, England, Hungary, Norway, and Sweden, with a month spent in Russia as well. Includes descriptions of Russian people, history, rulers, and cultural institutions. A letter (1913) from Curtis Guild denounces the Massachusetts Republicans for succumbing to pressure exerted by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. and shoe manufacturing trusts. Scrapbooks, 1865-1914 and 1891-1919, contain clippings, programs, and correspondence relative to family matters and to his work as Boston City Collector. Also material related to Guild's activities as a Harvard alumnus, rowing enthusiast, amateur actor, choral society member (Apollo Club and Handel and Haydn Society), temperance activist, and member of the Unitarian Club. Includes family photographs.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box and 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18115929 View