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Saltonstall family. Saltonstall family papers, 1524-1969.

Title: Saltonstall family papers, 1524-1969.

Large multi-generational collection of papers of the Saltonstall family of Haverhill and Salem, Mass., 1524-1969, includes correspondence, legal and business papers, genealogical information, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, letterbooks, deeds, pamphlets, speeches, printed material, diaries, and other papers largely of and collected by Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845) and Leverett Saltonstall (1825-1895). The collection includes family correspondence to and from Dr. Nathaniel Saltonstall (1746-1815) of Salem, a 1766 graduate of Harvard College and physician; William Gurdon Saltonstall (1831-1899), acting master of the Commodore Hull, a ship involved in the North Atlantic blocking squadron during the Civil War; Richard M. Saltonstall (1849-1929) an 1880 graduate of Harvard College, businessman and investor; U.S. House of Representative, Salem, Mass. Mayor, Mass. Senator and Representative, and Harvard College 1802 graduate, Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845); Collector of Customs, lawyer, and 1844 graduate of Harvard College Leverett Saltonstall (1825-1895); U.S. Senator, Mass. Gov., Mass. State Senator, Democrat, and 1914 Harvard Graduate, Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979); William G. Saltonstall (1905-1989), principal of Phillips Exeter Academy and a sailor in the United States Navy during World War II; and Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall (1894-1919), a volunteer in a French Army unit during World War I and European and California traveler. Other family members heavily represented in the collection include Gurdon Saltonstall, Endicott Peabody Saltonstall, Anne E. Saltonstall, William Lawrence Saltonstall. Also includes extensive genealogy and estate papers for many Saltonstall family members. Many Saltonstall men were on the Harvard College Board of Overseers. Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845) collected much of the earlier material and manuscripts of Sir Richard Saltonstall (1610-1694) and Royal Gov. of Connecticut Gurdon Saltonstall (1666-1724). Additional correspondents include Mary Elizabeth Sanders Saltonstall, Richard Saltonstall, Francis G. Saltonstall, Lewis Cass, William Minot, John Gorham, Peter Chardon Brooks, William Prescott, Charles Pelham Curtis, Lemuel Shaw, Caleb Cushing, Rufus Choate, Nathaniel Bowditch, Joseph Story, Josiah Quincy, Levi Lincoln, Edward Everett, Daniel Webster, Robert Charles Winthrop, Daniel Putnam King, Henry H. Edes, Theodore Roosevelt, and members of the Lee, Brooks, Cabot, Orne, Middlecott, Varnun, and Merrill families.

ArchivalResource: 53 boxes, 27 v., 3 folder, and 7 oversize containers. Partially processed.

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Prescott, William, 1762-1844. Letter to his brother, Oliver Prescott, 1782 October 19.

Title: Letter to his brother, Oliver Prescott, 1782 October 19.

October 19, 1782 letter from William Prescott to his brother, Oliver Prescott chiefly regarding discipline they recently received from the officers of the College for disorderly behavior. Prescott refers to it as "our conduct ... which the candid might consider as a Delirium of Youth."

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Topical pamphlet collection, <1741>-<1996>.

Title: Topical pamphlet collection, <1741>-<1996>.

A long-established, artificial, still-growing collection consisting largely of printed pamphlets, with articles, reprints, some ephemera, typescripts, photocopied manuscript material, and one set of slides (to accompany a typescript item) also included. Some of the items within were bound during the 19th century, some are loose. Covering a broad range of topics relating to American (and particularly New England) history, life, and thought, the Topical Pamphlet Collection provides background and context for the more specifically Concord-related materials in the Concord Free Public Library Special Collections. The collection--not to be confused with the Concord Pamphlet Collection--includes <883> items, dating from <1741> to <1996>. Series I (Historical Topics) includes <352> items dating between <1741> and <1996>, Series II (Individuals, As Author or Subject) <300> items between <1761> and <1963>, Series III (Massachusetts Towns--History, Anniversaries, Description, etc.) <127> items between <1748> and <1991>, and Series IV (Pamphlet Materials on Multiple Topics, Organized by Form) <104> items between <1752> and <1940>. Some of the bound volumes include the occasional out-of-scope pamphlet. Moreover, there is some topical overlap of material in different subseries.

ArchivalResource: <883 > items<47 > containers

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Prescott, Frederick W. Notes on the Prescott family, 1840-1850

Title: Notes on the Prescott family, 1840-1850

Autobiographical and genealogical notes, most written by Judge William Prescott in 1840, and transcribed by Frederick W. Prescott, 1850. Notes discuss the history of the Prescott family of Massachusetts and lists births, deaths (and causes), and marriages with dates, and occupations, among other things. Also included are Prescott family coat of arms.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

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Prescott, William, 1762-1844. Letter, 1831 March 17, Boston, to Daniel Webster, Washington.

Title: Letter, 1831 March 17, Boston, to Daniel Webster, Washington.

Asks advice about claims on captured cargo made by the Danes in accordance with the Treaty. Speaks of current political topics.

ArchivalResource: 5 p. on 2 fold. leaves. 25 cm.

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Prescott, William, 1762-1844. Letters, 1839 March 9 and [n.d.], Boston, to George Ticknor, Boston.

Title: Letters, 1839 March 9 and [n.d.], Boston, to George Ticknor, Boston.

Returns Clarkson's book; mentions the Wilberforces. Thanks him for Curtis's pamphlet mentioning the Latimer case.

ArchivalResource: 2 items. 21-26 cm.

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Prescott, William, 1762-1844. Letter, 1834 August 4, Nahant, Mass., to Nathan Dane.

Title: Letter, 1834 August 4, Nahant, Mass., to Nathan Dane.

Encloses correspondence from Calvin Goddard suggesting that surviving members of the Hartford Convention contribute toward expenses of publishing its history incurred by Theodore Dwight; includes notes by Dane pointing out other possible solutions that he mentioned in his reply.

ArchivalResource: 3 p. ; 25 x 20 cm.

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Autograph File, P, 1554-2005.

Title: Autograph File, P, 1554-2005.

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (5 linear ft.)

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Gardiner, William Howard, 1797-1882. Papers, 1708-1893, bulk: 1816-1882.

Title: Papers, 1708-1893, bulk: 1816-1882.

Correspondence, diaries, legal notes, and misc. papers of Boston lawyer William H. Gardiner. Correspondents include the historian William H. Prescott, John G. Palfrey, Augustus Thorndike, George Ticknor, and Theophilus Parsons on literary, historical, legal, and social activities in Boston; also, Gardiner's father-in-law Thomas H. Perkins and brother-in-law Thomas G. Cary on family matters. Two 1838 letters from William E. Channing to Ezra S. Gannett on slavery are included; other correspondents include Daniel Webster, Charles Sumner (1856), and George B. McClellan (1863). An 1865 letter (among others) from John M. Glidden describes Savannah, Ga., near the end of the Civil War. Gardiner's diary from 1816-19 describes his social activities and legal studies in the office of Judge William Prescott. An 1859-60 journal recounts his tour of Europe. Legal papers include extensive notes on the controversy between Edward Brooks and John A. Lowell. (Cont) Also included are account books for the years 1822-23 and 1827-31.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes.

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Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859. Papers, 1655-1959; bulk: 1775-1859

Title: William Hickling Prescott papers, 1655-1959; bulk: 1775-1859.

Papers of author and historian William Hickling Prescott, 1655-1959, pertain to his writings about the rise and fall of the Spanish Empire. Papers includes correspondence; diaries entitled "Literary Memorandum"; drafts and proofs of his books Phillip II, Charles V, Ferdinand and Isabella, Conquest of Peru, Conquest of Mexico, and Memoir of Abbott Lawrence; research notes; Spanish manuscripts; diplomas; commissions; and newspaper clippings. Correspondence pertains to Prescott's research and publications, and his lifelong problems with his eyes. Correspondents include Sir Charles and Lady Mary Horner Lyell, Don Angel and Frances (Fanny) Erskine Inglis Calderon de la Barca, Thomas Aspinwall, George Bancroft, George Cabot, Nathan Dane, Edward Everett, Pasual de Gayangos, William Moody, Theophilus Parsons, Oliver Peabody, Catherine Green Hickling Prescott, William Prescott (1726-1795), William Prescott (1762-1844), David Sears, Jared Sparks, Obadiah Rich, Israel Thorndike, and George Ticknor, among many others. Also includes correspondence between Prescott and his parents William and Catherine Prescott, and a diary kept by Prescott during a voyage to visit his maternal grandfather in the Azores, and to treat the "rheumatism" of his eye in Europe, 1815-1817. Also includes Prescott family correspondence; business and legal papers of William Prescott (1762-1844); a diary kept by William Prescott (1762-1844), 1824-1845, deeds for family property in Groton and Pepperell, Mass., and Maine; a commonplace-book of Susan Amory Prescott, ca. 1842; diaries kept by Catherine Greene Hickling Prescott, 1786-89, while on a trip to the Azores and England; a travel diary kept by William Greene, 1778; a paybook kept by Col. William Prescott (1726-1795), 1775-1804; and an orderly book of the 7th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment commanded by his grandfather, Col. William Prescott (1726-1795), during the Siege of Boston and the New York campaign in 1776.

ArchivalResource: 25 boxes, 1 oversize box, and 10 vols.

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Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859. William Hickling Prescott letters, 1783-1874

Title: William Hickling Prescott letters, 1783-1874

Letters written by historian William Hickling Prescott to various recipients, 1783-1874, regarding daily activities and news, his literary works including Phillip the Second and Charles the Fifth, book subscriptions, publication and copyright problems with his publishers, opinions on books and authors, and a trip to London, England. Also included is a pamphlet containing Prescott memorials, an engraving of William Hickling Prescott, and letters related to, but not written by, Prescott. Correspondents include George Ticknor, Joseph Story, Clements Markham, Charles Sumner, Charles Folsom, Mary Matilda Howard, and Thomas Aspinwall, among others. Also included are letters of William Hickling Prescott's father, Judge William Prescott written mostly to his first cousin Dr. Oliver Prescott, Jr. regarding business transactions, news about family and friends, and happenings at court.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box.

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