Papers, 1724-1959.

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Papers, 1724-1959.

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Papers of several members of the Langdon family, among them Capt. Woodbury Langdon (1802-1842), including correspondence with his wife Frances Cutter Langdon; papers of her second husband Francis Bassett; papers of Dr. Francis E. Langdon (1842-1890), his brother Woodbury (1836-1921), his future wife Helen Bell Haven, and of their children Francis E. (b.1872), a lawyer in Portsmouth, N.H., and Helen H. Langdon. The papers consist primarily of family correspondence; some business correspondence of various people; some financial and legal papers; and genealogical materials. (Cont'd) Also, a few letters of William Eustis; letters from Lawrence L. Stone to Helen H. Langdon while he was serving in World War I; a few notebooks of studies, births, and hospital admittances of Francis E. Langdon (b.1872) while he was studying and serving temporarily (prior to his law career) as a doctor in Boston; a recipe book, a commonplace-book, and account book (1894-96) of Helen H. Langdon; and a commonplace-book of Sophia H. Langdon. Additional correspondents include Thomas R. Pynchon.

15 boxes and 1 oversize box, unprocessed material.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7001777

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Langdon, Francis Eustis, 1872-

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Langdon, Francis Eustis, 1842-1890.

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Langdon, Helen Haven, 1870-

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Langdon, Woodbury, 1836-1921.

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Pynchon, Thomas Ruggles, 1823-1904

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Langdon, Sophia H.

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Bassett, Francis, 1786-1875

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Langdon, Helen Bell Haven, 1846-1874.

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Langdon, Woodbury, 1802-1842.

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Langdon family.

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Langdon, Frances Cross Cutter, ca.1805-1893.

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Stone, Lawrence

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Eustis, William, 1753-1825

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Revolutionary War veteran, politician, and secretary of war. From the description of Letter, 1818 Oct. 20. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49215753 William Eustis was born in Cambridge, Mass., and graduated from Harvard College in 1772. He served as a surgeon during the American Revolutionary War and in the Massachusetts General Court (1788-1794). Eustis was a U.S. Representative for Massachusetts (1801-1804, 1820-1823), Secretary of War (1809-1813), Am...