Balch family papers, 1815-1936.

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Balch family papers, 1815-1936.

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The Balch Family Papers consist primarily of correspondence, legal documents, photographs, and genealogical notes by or relating to the Balch Family of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The papers include a brief correspondence between E.A. Balch and Oliver Wendell Holmes.

1 box (.33 cu.ft.).

UNH Durham, Dimond Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7263167

UNH Durham, Dimond Library

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

Balch, Elizabeth Arabella, 1843-1890.

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Balch family.

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The Balch family first came to America in 1623 and resided in northern Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The best known member of the Balch family was the author, Elizabeth Arabella Balch (1843-1890), daughter of Wesley P. (1794-1856) and Elizabeth (1815-1892). E.A. Balch wrote GLIMPSES OF OLD ENGLISH HOMES (1890), and has two other works attributed to her : MUSTARD LEAVES, OR A GLIMPSE OF LONDON SOCIETY (1885) and AN AUTHOR'S LOVE (1889). From the description of Balch family papers, ...