Family papers, 1771-1921.

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Family papers, 1771-1921.

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Diaries (1843-95) of Pierce; letters (1853-87) to Pierce's wife, Susan (Farnsworth) Pierce, from her brother, George Farnsworth, describing his voyage to Australia via Rio de Janeiro, and commenting on slavery, prison conditions, and legal system in Brazil, and gold mining and living conditions in Victoria, Australia. Correspondence, notes and class outlines (1890-1921) of Mary Elizabeth Pierce, Boston elementary school teacher to handicapped children, relating to her mechanical drawing and clay modeling classes. Correspondents include Katherine Lee Bates and Joesphine Preston Peabody.

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Pierce, Susan Farnsworth.

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Peabody, Josephine Preston, 1874-1922

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Peabody was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. After the death of her father in 1882, the family moved to Dorchester, Mass. She attended Latin School in Boston, and was a special student at Radcliffe College, 1894-1896. She published fourteen volumes of poems and verse plays, and lectured on poetry and literature at Wellesley College, 1901-1903. A pacifist and feminist, she joined the Fabian Society in 1909, and wrote a prose play, Portrait of Mrs. W. (Mary Wollstonecraft). She died in Cambridge, Mass. For ...

Pierce, Henry, 1822-1896.

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Bates, Katharine Lee, 1859-1929

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American educator and poet, author of "America the Beautiful." From the description of Typed letter signed : Wellesley, Mass., to Edward Wagenknecht, 1928 Nov. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270867999 American educator and author. From the description of America the beautiful : autograph manuscript signed : [n.p.], n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270672042 American author and poet. From the description of Letters, 1901-1918. (Unknown)...

Farnsworth, George P.

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Detroit, Michigan, businessman. From the description of George Elon Farnsworth papers, 1939-1951. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423331 ...

Pierce, Mary Elizabeth.

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