Peabody family papers, 1790-1880.

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Peabody family papers, 1790-1880.

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Correspondence, genealogical notebooks, and other papers of the Peabody family. Included are letters from Nathaniel Cranch Peabody to his sister Mary Peabody Mann, copies of letters written by their brother Wellington Peabody, and letters of Mary Palmer and Elizabeth Hunt Palmer to Mary Smith Cranch. The collection contains genealogical notebooks on the Palmer, Peabody, and Hibbard families. Also included are a report on the "phrenological character of Nathaniel C. Peabody," manuscript chapters of a story about the Palmer family during the American Revolution, and a damaged oversize commission to a deputy customs commissioner during the reign of George III.

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6905386

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Palmer, Elizabeth (Elizabeth P.)

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Mann, Mary Tyler Peabody, 1806-1887

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Educator. From the description of Papers of Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, 1863-1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451614 Mary Tyler Peabody Mann was an active social reformer, educator, and author. Along with her sisters, Elizabeth Peabody and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, she created and maintained vital connections within the Transcendentalist movement. Mary and her husband, educator Horace Mann, were active abolitionists. The sisters's practical application of optimism and hum...

Hibbard family.

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Palmer, Mary, 1746-1791.

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Cranch, Mary Smith, 1741-1811

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Palmer family.

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Peabody, Wellington, 1816-1837.

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Peabody family.

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Peabody, Nathaniel Cranch, b. 1811.

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