Brook Farm records, 1842-1901.

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Brook Farm records, 1842-1901.

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Records of Brook Farm, the Utopian agricultural community founded by New England Transcendentalist George Ripley in 1841 at West Roxbury, Mass., and from 1845, records under its new form of Fourierist organization, the Brook Farm Phalanx. Includes: 1. Constitution and Minutes of the Brook Farm Association (Feb. 1842-Aug. 1847), 2. Ledger (Nov. 1844-Oct. 1846) containing the daily profit/loss statements and a list of members, 3. Daybook (Jan. 1845-Aug. 1847) recording daily purchases and sales, and a list of members, 4. Record of those Brook Farmers who served as dinner waiters (May 1845-April 1846), and 5. a similar record of those working in the printing plant (April-Oct. 1846). (Cont'd) Also included are letters (1843-47) from Brook Farm member Marianne Dwight (later Orvis) to her friend Anna Q.T. Parsons (with a few in return) and to Dwight's brother Frank, describing the daily life at the farm; and a few other misc. secondary items, including relevant newspaper clippings (1878-1901).

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Parsons, Anna Q.T. (Quincy Thaxter) -1906

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Anna was the daughter of Anna Quincy Thaxter (1791-1879) and Nehemiah Parsons (1773-1848), a former mariner and merchant on Boston's Long Wharf. Anna was a clairvoyant, whose specialty was reading a person's character, often just from a letter. She was also a women's rights activist who regularly visited Brook Farm, the utopian commune in Roxbury, where some artists and many of Boston's intellectuals lived in the 1840s. Anna and her mother and several sisters were early hikers in the White Mount...

Orvis, Marianne Dwight, 1816-1901

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Brook Farm Phalanx, West Roxbury, Mass.

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Ripley, George, 1802-1880

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American editor and critic. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Thomas Carlyle, 1835 June 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270655148 From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : "Office of the N.Y. Tribune," to the Reverend Dr. [William Buell] Sprague, 1858 Dec. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872170 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to the Rev. H.D. Mayo, 1862 Sept. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record i...

Brook Farm Association (West Roxbury, Mass.)

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Dwight, Frank.

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Buttrick, Joshua.

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