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Homans, Abigail Adams, 1879-1974. Letters : to Anne Ford, 1966-1969.

Title: Letters : to Anne Ford, 1966-1969.

Letters from Abigail Adams Homans, great-grandaughter of John Quincy Adams, to Anne Ford, publicity director for Houghton Mifflin, publisher of Homans' Education by uncles (1966). The letters, which mostly comment on the books which Miss Ford has sent, are full of Homans' trenchant wit and reveal her reading interests. Collection also contains photographs of Homans with her pet pug dog. Includes letters, 1967-1970, to Ford from Molly Berkeley, author of Winking at the brim (Boston, 1967).

ArchivalResource: ca. 30 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39344976 View

Papers of John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan, 1909-2006

Title: Papers of John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan, 1909-2006

These papers of Fogg Art Museum directors John Coolidge and AgnesMongan document their administration of the museum and related professional activities. Mostof Coolidge's papers were created during his administration, from 1948 to 1968; most ofMongan's papers are from her tenure as acting director and then director (1968 to 1971). Thepapers consist primarily of correspondence, including Coolidge's correspondence with artdealers, and also include photographs, memoranda, reports, meeting minutes, blueprints, printedmaterial, letters of recommendation, page proofs, financial documents, sketches and grantproposals.

ArchivalResource: 152 file boxes + oversize materials

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/art00017/catalog View

Adams, Henry, 1838-1918. Homans collection, 1816-1918; bulk: 1869-1911.

Title: Homans collection, 1816-1918; bulk: 1869-1911.

Letters written by Henry Adams to his nephew George C. Adams, 1869; wife Marian Hooper Adams, 1883-85; friend Anne Palmer Fells, 1896-1913; niece Abigail Adams Homans, 1895-1911; and advisor, Theodore F. Dwight, 1878-93. Includes an undated commonplace-book kept by Henry; and printed material such as book reviews and newspaper clippings, 1913-1918. Collection also includes letters written by John Quincy Adams; contemporary copies of deeds for land in Norfolk County, Mass.; and contemporary copies of wills of John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams, 1816-45.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46939732 View

Correspondence with Henry Adams, 1861-1920.

Title: Correspondence with Henry Adams, 1861-1920.

Correspondence of the American historian Brooks Adams to Americannovelist Henry Adams, as well as materials concerning the Adams' family.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00969/catalog View

Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe additional papers

Title: Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe additional papers

Primarily professional correspondence of biographer and editor M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

ArchivalResource: 35 boxes (9 linear feet)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00489/catalog View

Abigail Adams Homans photograph collection, ca. 1860-1966.

Title: Abigail Adams Homans photograph collection, ca. 1860-1966.

Photographs collected by Abigail Adams Homans, many relating to her book, "Education By Uncles." Most of the photographs are portraits of various Adams family relatives, including Abigail Brooks Adams, Brooks Adams, Charles Francis Adams I, Frances Crowninshield Adams, Henry Adams, and John Quincy Adams II, as well as photographs of herself and her husband, Robert Homans, as children and young adults. There are also views of Quincy, Mass., including John Adams' birthplace, taken ca. 1870-1880, and color snapshot photographs of a gathering at the Glades Club in Scituate, Mass. in 1966 to celebrate the publication of her book. Photographers include James Notman and John Adams Whipple of Boston, Mass., James A. Jenney, and Mrs. Richard Stokes, among many others. Includes cartes de visite and cabinet cards.

ArchivalResource: 72 photographs in 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60399478 View

Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence, 1881-1981 (inclusive), 1940-1979 (bulk).

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence, 1881-1981(inclusive), 1940-1979 (bulk).

Editorial correspondence of Houghton Mifflin Company, publishing house ofBoston, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 174 boxes (44 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00119/catalog View

Adams-Homans family photographs, 1891-ca. 1901

Title: Adams-Homans family photographs, 1891-ca. 1901.

This collection consists of seven volumes of photographs, encompassing the years 1891-1901, taken and collected by Abigail Adams Homans and her mother, Frances Crowninshield Adams. Most of the photographs depict members of the Adams family, the Adams family home and grounds in Quincy, Mass., and family activities at the Glades Club in Scituate, Mass.

ArchivalResource: 682 photographs in 7 volumes (cased).

http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fap022 View