Papers, 1882-1961; bulk: 1890-1961.

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Papers, 1882-1961; bulk: 1890-1961.

Papers of Mary B. Forbes of Milton, Mass., an ardent anti-suffragist, conservative Republican, anti-pacifist, anti-socialist, amateur poet, and admirer of Abraham Lincoln. Collection includes correspondence; account books; scrapbooks (including materials on politics, pacifism, World War I, woman suffrage, Forbes's poetry, socialism, and other subjects); papers concerning her anti-suffrage work, including correspondence of Clara Vezin of the New Jersey Association opposed to Woman Suffrage; poetry of Forbes and others; papers concerning Abraham Lincoln and a replica of his birthplace that Forbes had built in Milton; and financial papers (checkbooks, bank statements, bills and receipts). Correspondents include, but are not limited to, Forbes's parents James M. and Alice B. Forbes, siblings Dorothy M. and Allan Forbes, Theodore Roosevelt, F. Lauriston Bullard, Buckminster Fuller, Vivian T. Pomeroy, and Walter G. Page.

28 boxes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7169227

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Page, Walter Gilman (American artist, 1862-1934)

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Vezin, Clara.

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Bullard, F. Lauriston (Frederic Lauriston), 1866-1952

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Forbes, Allan, 1874-1955

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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