HAMILTON FAMILY

The branch of the Hamiltons represented in this collection is the family of Montgomery Hamilton and Gertrude (Pond) Hamilton and their five children, Edith, Alice, Margaret, Norah, and Arthur. For their relationship to other Hamiltons, see the inventory for the Hamilton family papers, MC 278 . For biographical information about Alice and Edith, see Notable American Women, the Modern Period (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980); see also Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters, by Barbara Sicherman (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984).

From the guide to the Papers of the Hamilton Family, 1879-1947, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)