Papers, 1843-1906.

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Papers, 1843-1906.

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Collection, integrated with the papers of her husband, Samuel Eliot, includes diaries for 1856, "Emily's doings", and 1877, "Red letter days of the summer of 1877", as well as letters received, 1843-1905 from acquaintances such as Fanny Alexander, Lydia Maria Child, Annie Adams Fields, Julia Ward Howe, Sarah Orne Jewett and Louise Chandler Moulton, among others. The collection generally describes the genteel social and intellectual activity carried by the well-bred woman of Victorian Boston. A percentage of letters, received from clergymen and educators (including Booker T. Washington) reveal Mrs. Eliot's philanthropic interests. Also included in the collection is a genealogy of the Otis family professionally compiled for Mrs. Eliot.

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Boston Athenaeum

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Eliot, Emily Marshall Otis, 1832-1906

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Emily M. O. Eliot and Emily M. E. Morison were grandmother and mother of Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, the Harvard University naval historian. Member of an old and prominent Boston family, Eliot was the wife of Samuel Eliot, president of Trinity College and later a lecturer at Harvard and superintendent of the Boston public schools. Morison was the wife of John Holmes Morison, a lawyer and a graduate of Harvard. From the description of Diaries, 1859-1922 (inclusive). (Harvard Univers...

Otis family.

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