Forbes family papers, 1732-1931.

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Forbes family papers, 1732-1931.

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Correspondence and other papers of the Forbes family of Milton, Mass. Mostly papers of Robert Bennet Forbes (1804-89), Francis Blackwell Forbes (1839-1908), and James Murray Forbes (1845-1937). Includes correspondence with the merchant firms T.H. Perkins & Sons, Baring Bros., Russell & Co., Hong merchant Houqua, R.C. Winthrop, Nathaniel Bowditch and other Bowditch family members, B.F. Butler, George Bancroft, Theodore Lyman, Alfred Richardson, and many others. Subjects include the China trade; the ships Macedonian and Jamestown and their voyages to relieve the Irish famine; the ships Niantic, Coquette, Canton Packet, and Alert; sea-faring life; oriental botany; Massachusetts Humane Society; bimetallism; the Opium War; descriptions of Canton, China; and the history of Shanghai. (Cont) Also contains scrapbooks and the following diaries: 1839, John Cunningham; 1857-58, James M. Forbes; 1859-61, Mary Hathaway Forbes Russell; 1860, voyage to Greenland in the schooner Nautilus, unknown author; 1870-71, James M. Forbes, voyage to China; 1871, Alice B. Forbes; 1874-75, James M. Forbes (in French); 1883, Paul R. Forbes, trip to Germany and Spain; 1884-1930, James M. Forbes (intermittent entries).

59 boxes and 2 oversize containers.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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