Ward-Perkins Family Papers ca. 1788-1954

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Ward-Perkins Family Papers ca. 1788-1954

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Primarily correspondence relating to the Ward and Perkins families of Boston, New York and elsewhere. Other families who figure prominently in the papers are the Barkers, the Howards, and the Bruens. Many letters from noteworthy individuals outside of the family circles, such as James Russell Lowell, Amy Lowell, George Bancroft, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry and William James, George Santayana, and Theodore Roosevelt.

5.6 linear feet; (15 boxes and 2 oversize boxes).

eng,

University of California, Santa Barbara. Davidson Library. Department of Special Collections.

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