Papers, 1759-1955 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1759-1955 (inclusive).

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This collection consists mainly of diaries and of correspondence between family members beginning with Margaret Lewis Gay's diary (ca. 1759), entitled "What are the Duties of Wives to their Husbands." The papers of her grandchildren present a view of life in Gardiner, Maine, and Boston, Mass., during the first half of the 19th century and include Laura Gay Davis's letters home from Portugal. The letters of Julia Caroline Deaborn Wingate, a daughter of Margaret Gay and General Henry Dearborn, represent the second generation of the family. The rest of the Gay family correspondence and Olive Gay Worcester's diaries, 1829-1880, provide a picture of domestic, medical, and economic concerns during this period. The Worcester papers consist of letters from Henry Worcester to his brother, Joseph and his wife, and of Olive Gay Worcester's correspondence with her family. The Swanton papers, spanning roughly the years 1850-1925, include the family letters and diary of Mary Olivia Worcester Swanton, the Harvard diary of her son, John Reed Swanton, Class of 1896, and the letters between John and his wife Alice Barnard. John Swanton's letters and Alice Swanton's journals record some of the professional and personal satisfactions and hardships of their life on America's frontiers in the 1900s and 1910s. Also included are the letters Alice wrote daily to John when she did not accompany him on his field trips, a photocopy of John Swanton's autobiography, and genealogies. The papers of Mary Augusta Byram include her diary, family letters, and poems.

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Swanton family.

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The Swanton family represented here begins with Margaret Lewis, who married William Gay and settled in Maine, and whose second husband was General Henry Dearborn, minister to Portugal during the Monroe administration. It includes the four Gay grandchildren, one of whom, Olive Gay, married Henry A. Worcester, a Swedenborgian minister in New Hampshire and the brother of lexicographer Joseph Emerson Worcester. The Worcester children include Mary Olivia Worcester, who married Walter Scott Swanton an...

Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958

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Gay family.

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Wooster family.

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Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 2006

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The early 19th century was a time of student unrest at Harvard. Perhaps in reaction to the disturbances and protest of previous classes, Faculty Records vol. IX tell that President Kirkland announced early on in the Class of 1822's college years that no students were to have any meeting for the purpose of eating or drinking in college. Although the Class of 1822 is a serene one as compared with its generation, many of the students of the Class of 1822 received public admonishments as a result of...

Worcester, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1784-1865

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Lexicographer. From the description of Letter : Cambridge, Mass., to Wm. A. Whitehead, New York, 1838 Oct. 1. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28996371 American lexicographer, engaged in a "War of Dictionaries" with Noah Webster. From the description of Joseph Emerson Worcester letters [manuscript], 1821, 1861. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647999587 ...

Worcester, Henry A. (Henry Aiken), 1802-1841

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Byron family.

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