Diaries, 1843-1864.

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Diaries, 1843-1864.

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Diaries of Frederic Cunningham, a Boston merchant and member of the Harvard class of 1845. After college Cunningham worked in the counting room of his father, then toured Europe for a year. After his return he established a trading firm with his cousin, Charles William Dabney, under the name Dabney and Cunningham. His diaries contain notes on business; descriptions of student life at Harvard; comments on fellow students, including Dabney, Edward Dexter, Francis Parkman, and George S. Emerson; a description of Emerson's suicide in 1848; comments on the 1850 trial of Prof. John White Webster for the murder of Dr. George Parkman; descriptions of his trip to Europe in 1847-48 and to the Azores in 1845; an account of his courtship and marriage to Sarah Parker; and comments on the battles and personalities of the Civil War. (Con't) Also included are a small amount of copied correspondence and a scrapbook containing letters of condolence to Sarah Cunningham after Frederic's death.

28 v. in 5 boxes.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Harvard University

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Cunningham, Charles, 1785 or 1786-1805

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Dabney, Charles William, 1823-1870.

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Dabney and Cunningham (Boston, Mass.)

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Cunningham, Sarah Parker.

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Webster, John White, 1793-1850

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Cunningham, Frederic, 1826-1864.

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Dexter, Edward, ca.1823-1901.

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Emerson, George S., 1825-1848.

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Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893

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Noted American historian from Massachusetts who traveled the Oregon Trail and published extensively on early America. From the description of Letter, November 27, 1865. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 233593490 Francis Parkman, historian, was born in Boston and educated at Harvard, his father's alma mater. Samuel Parkman was a Unitarian pastor who founded The Parkman Professorship of Pulpit Eloquence and Pastoral Care in The Cambridge Theological ...

Parkman, George, 1790-1849

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Boston physician and murder victim. From the description of Letters received, ca. 1826-1847. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 14445201 ...