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Memoir, 1950.

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Bound, typescript memoir of childhood life in the late 1800s on Moss Hill in the Roxbury/Jamaica Plain section of Boston. Includes descriptions of Jamaica Plain; relationships with family, friends, and servants; and commentary on daily life, schooling, customs, holiday ceremonies, and current events. Visitors to the household included Abbott Thayer, Ernest W. Longfellow, Paul Bourget, Adelaide C. Chase, Oliver W. Holmes, and Truman H. Bartlett. Mary O. Bowditch was the daughter of Alfred Bowditch, and the grand-daughter of Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch. Her sisters were Margaret (Bowditch) Hallowell and Rosamond (Bowditch) Loring.

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Loring, Rosamond B. (Rosamond Bowditch), 1889-1950

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Rosamond Bowditch Loring (May 2, 1889 – September 17, 1950) was an author, bookbinder, and creator, collector and historian of decorated papers. She was active in publishing circles as well as craft organizations. Her collection of historic and modern papers, now housed at Harvard University, is still used by librarians, book publishers, collectors, and researchers...

Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921

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Painter; Dublin, New Hampshire. From the description of Abbott Handerson Thayer papers, 1861-1936 [microform]. 1962. (Defense Special Weapons Agency). WorldCat record id: 79732064 American painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Dublin, N.H., to Mr. Clark, [no year] Jun. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270571900 Artist Abbott Handerson Thayer was born in Boston and raised in rural New Hampshire, where he became an avid outdoorsman a...

Bowditch, Alfred, 1855-1918.

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Bowditch, Mary Orne, 1883-

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Bowditch, Jonathan Ingersoll, 1806-1889

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Bourget, Paul, 1852-1935

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Critic and author. From the description of Soir d'été : manuscript poem, 1891. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451155 ...

Chase, Adelaide Cole, 1869-1944

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Hallowell, Margaret Bowditch, 1881-

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Bowditch family.

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Longfellow, Ernest Wadsworth, 1845-1921

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Ernest Longfellow was a noted landscape painter and son of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Harriet Longfellow, his wife, was a painter also. They resided in New York City and in Magnolia, Mass. From the description of Ernest Wadsworth and Harriet S. Wadsworth Longfellow sketchbooks 1867-1903. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122455496 ...

Bartlett, Truman Howe, 1835-1923

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Bartlett was an American author who wrote books and articles about artists and art movements. From the description of Collection on Auguste Rodin, 1886-1913. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612367704 Truman Howe Bartlett (1835-1923) was a sculptor in Boston, Mass. From the description of Truman Howe Bartlett scrapbook, circa 1880-1911. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646402695 ...

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935

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Holmes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the prominent writer and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and abolitionist Amelia Lee Jackson. Dr. Holmes was a leading figure in Boston intellectual and literary circles. Mrs. Holmes was connected to the leading families; Henry James Sr., Ralph Waldo Emerson and other transcendentalists were family friends. Known as "Wendell" in his youth, Holmes, Henry James Jr. and William James became lifelong friends. Holmes accordingly grew up in an atmospher...

Bowditch, Mary Louisa Rice, d. 1914.

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