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Dana family. Dana family papers, 1654-1950 bulk 1770-1931.

Title: Dana family papers, 1654-1950 bulk 1770-1931.

Personal and official documents of Francis Dana, Massachusetts revolutionary leader, minister to Russia and chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court; Richard Henry Dana, noted poet and essayist; Richard Henry Dana, Jr., author and United States attorney for Massachusetts during the Civil War; Richard Henry Dana III, civil service reformer; and other family members. Other family members represented in the collection are Richard Dana, Edmund Trowbridge, Edmund Dana, Washington Allston, Edmund Trowbridge Dana, Edmund Trowbridge Dana, Jr., Elizabeth Ellery Dana, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sarah Ann Dana, Ruth Charlotte Dana, Elizabeth Ellery Dana II, Frances Longfellow Dana, Helen Sherwood Ford Mumford Dana, and Sophia Willard Dana Ripley (discussing Brook Farm). Prominent correspondents include: John Adams, Elbridge Gerry, William Cullen Bryant, Charles Francis Adams, Charles Sumner, William M. Evarts, Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Francis Adams II and Charles J. Bonaparte.

ArchivalResource: 87 boxes, 286 bound v. and 2 oversize containers.

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Trowbridge, Edmund, 1709-1793. Letters to William Bollan, 1760-1778.

Title: Letters to William Bollan, 1760-1778.

A small collection of letters written by Massachusetts jurist Edmund Trowbridge to William Bollan while Bollan was in London, England acting as a colonial agent for Massachusetts and later for the Council, 1760-78. Subjects include news about Willam Bollan's daughter Fanny who was staying with the Trowbridges, colonial politics in Massachusetts, the monetary crisis in the colony, common law, English and colonial jurisdiction, procedural matters regarding Indian deeds and the Plymouth Company, and the Stamp Act. Also includes one letter from Bollan to Trowbridge and a letter from Trowbridge to Joseph Laughton concerning Bollan.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/141245351 View

Pickering, John, 1777-1846. Papers, 1803-1811.

Title: Papers, 1803-1811.

Account book, legal notes, and vocabulary of French legal terms kept by John Pickering, philologist and lawyer at Salem (Mass.) and later Boston. Account book lists dates, plaintiffs' and defendants' names (often with occupations), amounts paid or due, method of payment, and resolutions of the cases; also includes fee schedule and index of plaintiffs' names. Legal notes refer mostly to cases tried in the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court and the legal opinions of Judge Edmund Trowbridge.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38513637 View