This collection consists of papers belonging to Waldo Flint and his wife, Catharine Dean Flint. In Box 1 there are: seven Waldo Flint diaries, 1872-1878, recording weather, daily household expenses and monthly cash accounts; five household account books, 1853-1879, kept by Mr. and Mrs. Flint; one personal cash account book, 1875-1879; two bank books, 1867-1879; one calling list for Mrs. Flint, 1857-1866; documents relating to the estates of Waldo's father, Austin Flint, and Catharine's father and mother, Aaron and Phyla Dean, 1847-1857; one booklet re: inventories of estates of which Flint was executor, 1871-1875; one inventory book of Flint's real and personal property, 1870-1879; a bank book and a checkbook of the Waldo Flint estate, 1879, kept by Stephen Salisbury III; one appraisal of furniture in house done for Stephen Salisbury III; and a record of sale of household furnishings. In Box 2 there are: notes showing the relationship between the Flint, Salisbury, Dean, and Hubbard families; personal correspondence between Waldo and Catharine Flint, 1843-1866; correspondence relating to Flint's pamphlet, "Some Strictures on an Act to Provide a National Currency," 1863; correspondence on banking; personal and family correspondence, 1829-1879; papers regarding the Sullivan Railroad Company; papers regarding estates of which Waldo Flint was executor; wills and guardianship papers; deeds for property in Leicester and Boston, 1828-1845; and bills concerning a house in Boston. In Box 3 there are letters to the Flints from Stephen Salisbury II and Stephen Salisbury III, 1836-1878. These letters concern personal and family matters. In Box 4 there are eight diaries of Mrs. Flint, 1858-1868, concerning personal, family, and social matters; a memorandum on household wares; three household notebooks recording work done by servants, 1860-1867; two volumes of copies of letters from Stephen Salisbury III to his family, 1858-1862; and one diary, 1850, of Waldo Flint's sister, Laura Flint Clapp (1796- ), interleaved in the Unitarian Congregational Register (Boston, 1850). Mrs. Clapp referred to her daily activities, visits from friends and relatives, and the running of her boarding house in Leicester, Mass. In Box 5 there are letters to Catharine Flint from relatives and friends, 1818-1865. In Box 6 there are letters between Catharine Flint and her sister, Rebekah Scott Dean Salisbury, 1826-1843. These last two boxes of letters, like most of the correspondence, concern personal, family, and social matters and originate from Boston, Mass., Charlestown, N.H., Leicester, Mass., and Worcester, Mass.
