Papers, 1834-1909.

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Papers, 1834-1909.

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This collection of approximately 550 letters was written by members of two New England families mostly in the nineteenth century. The exception is Frederick Haven Pratt, the most prolific correspondent, who wrote most of his 160 letters between 1904 and 1910. The letters reveal correspondents who found it easy to express their feelings of concern and affection for each other. They were also concerned with the well-being of their fellow man and for many of the Hilliard/Pratt family this translated into service to the Episcopal church as ministers, church officers, Sunday school teachers, and choir members. Domestic and family matters figure prominently in the correspondence of Catherine Burnham in Morristown to her sister Sarah Pratt in Worcester. Their mother Catherine Dexter Haven Hilliard lived her final years with Catherine Burnham and writes from the perspective of one who has "walked 86 years along the wonderful 19th c. from its early infancy to near its culmination." Frederick Haven Pratt wrote often to his parents from college and from his trips abroad. His mother died in 1897 so it was to his father that he wrote for advice about his career, and to share his enthusiasm for art and photography. He wrote wonderfully descriptive letters about his fellow boarders in Gottingen where he studied in the summer of 1899. He wrote of German customs, tramped through the Harz Mountains, and declared "oh it is a glorious thing to feel at home in the world."

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Pratt, Abby Curtis Read, 1818-1896.

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Shapleigh, Alfred Lindsay, 1869-1905.

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Hilliard, Alice A. Johnstone.

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Pratt, Frederick Haven, 1873-1958

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Pratt (MD, Harvard, 1906), was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School, Wellesley College, the University of Buffalo, Clark University and Boston University. From the description of Papers, 1899-1940s. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 231054151 ...

Pratt, Edith McCord Coleman, 1880-1960.

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Clark, Elisabeth Hilliard Pratt, 1882-1963.

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Hilliard-Pratt family.

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The Hilliard and the Pratt families were both pioneers of New England. The first Hilliard arrived in 1635 and settled in New Hampshire. The Pratt family traces its ancestry back to Thomas Pratt, who, though taking the oath of fidelity in Watertown, Mass., in 1652, could possibly have been there as early as 1647. The impetus for this collection was the marriage of Sarah McKean Hilliard (1840-1897) and Frederick Sumner Pratt (1845-1924). The collection begins a generation ...

Pratt family.

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Pratt, Serena Chase, 1815-1848.

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Hilliard, Francis, 1806-1878

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Hilliard family.

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Shapleigh, Katharine Chase Pratt, 1875-1942.

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Burnham, Frederick Gordon, 1831-1918.

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Hilliard, Samuel Haven, 1838-1918.

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Burnham, Catherine Lydia, 1836-

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Pratt, Francis Sumner, 1845-1924.

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Pratt, Margery Willard Davis, 1887-1964.

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Pratt, Emma Amanda, 1848-1923

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Pratt, Sumner, 1809-1887

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Pratt was a machinery and manufacturers' agent, dealing in new and second-hand woolen and cotton machinery and machine tools. From the description of Invoice, 1860 Aug. 1 : Worcester, Mass. [to] E.O. Benson. (American Textile History Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 49919675 ...

Hilliard, Elizabeth Craigie Haven, 1833-1879.

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Hilliard, Francis William, 1832-1910.

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Pratt, Robert Gage, 1877-1962.

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Clark, William Irving, 1879-1958.

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Pratt, Sarah McKean Hilliard, 1840-1897.

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Hilliard, Catherine Dexter Haven, 1802-1888.

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Hilliard, Maria Nash Johnston, 1836-1907.

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