Papers, 1840-1887 : bulk: 1855-1887.

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Papers, 1840-1887 : bulk: 1855-1887.

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The Lamson family papers contain genealogical information on the Lamson and Swift families; letters from Edwin Lamson to his wife, Mary S. Lamson, during Apr. 1861 at the start of the Civil War; letters from Mary Lamson to her father, Edwin, during a trip to Europe; Edwin Lamson's journals of the family's trips to the Southern States (1855) and throughout Europe (1868-1870); and Mary S. Lamson's journal of her trip to the Great Lakes (1868). Also, papers of Helen and Gardner Swift Lamson, children of Edwin and Mary Swift Lamson; letters from Laura Dewey Bridgman, the first blind-deaf woman to be educated, to Mary Swift Lamson, her teacher of three years and author of a book on Bridgman (1857-1887); 3 volumes of pressed ocean flora, one with a poem by John G. Whittier (1850), probably in his hand; and 2 volumes of quotations and verses. Includes family photographs.

4 boxes.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6951143

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Bridgman, Laura Dewey, 1829-1889

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Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (b. December 21, 1829, Hanover, New Hampshire-d. May 24, 1889, Boston, Massachusetts), known as the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, fifty years before the more famous Helen Keller. Bridgman was left deaf-blind at the age of two after contracting scarlet fever. She was educated at the Perkins Institution for the Blind where, under the direction of Samuel Gridley Howe, she learned to read and communicate using Brail...

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892

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John Greenleaf Whittier was a wildly popular New England poet. A deeply committed and active abolitionist, he wrote many of his poems with a political agenda, although distinguished by an open-minded tolerance so often lacking in his fellow abolitionists. Although his works are somewhat marred by overtly political and overly sentimental works, the core of his output stands as fine, lyrical American verse. From the description of John Greenleaf Whittier letters, 1858 and 1876. (Pennsy...

Lamson, Helen.

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Lamson family.

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Lamson, Gardner Swift, 1855-1940

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Swift family.

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Lamson, Mary Swift, 1822-1909

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Lamson, Edwin, 1811-1876.

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