Ruth R. Wheeler papers, 1843-1972 (bulk 1921-1972).

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Ruth R. Wheeler papers, 1843-1972 (bulk 1921-1972).

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Papers 1843-1972, bulk 1921-1972. Series Personal Papers, 1843-1971, includes correspondence & Robinson, Coolidge, Bigelow, Parks, & Wheeler family papers. Series North Bridge Neighbors & Concord, Climate for Freedom, [early 1960s]-1968, includes notes & working papers for N.B.N. & quotations, appendixes, agreement, & proof for C., C.f.F. Series Research, Lectures, & Working Papers Relating to Various Historical Topics (Primarily Concord-Related), [1920s]-1972, includes mixed materials (notes, clippings, etc.). (Cont.) on houses & people in Concord, typescript & ms. drafts of Wheeler House Files, ms. notes on families & houses in Concord & surrounding towns, lectures, notes on various historical topics, typescripts, mixed files (correspondence, notes, typescripts, clippings, etc.) on special topics, incl. Concord, Sydney, Australia & geology of Walden Pond. Series Allen French Papers, 1921-1943, includes correspondence, material for French's Social Circle memoir of Adams Tolman, material related to proposed gas station on site of Thoreau's bean field, expansion of. (Cont.) Hapgood Wright Town Forest, library censorship, French's involvement with Thoreau Society. Series Thoreau/Thoreau Society, 1945-1969, includes correspondence & Save Walden Committee material. Series Materials by Form, 1898-[early 1970s], includes photostats & photocopy of early documents (deeds, etc.), photocopied clippings (articles by Ruth Wheeler & others on Concord, reviews of A. French's The First Year of the American Revolution, Thoreau & Thoreau Society articles), & hand-drawn or hand-annotated maps of Concord & vicinity.

6.9 linear ft. : maps.

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Thoreau Society

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Wheeler family.

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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

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Henry David Thoreau (b. July 12, 1817, Concord, Massachusetts-d. May 6, 1862, Concord, Massachusetts), American author, lecturer, naturalist, student of Native American artifacts and life, transcendentalist, land surveyor, and life-long resident of Concord, Massachusetts. He was an active opponent of slavery and a social critic. He graduated from Harvard College in 1837....

Wheeler, Ruth Winifred Robinson, 1890-1973

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Ruth Robinson is a historian and author of Concord, Mass. From the description of Photograph album, from the papers of Ruth R. Wheeler, containing views by an unidentified photographer, mainly of Concord, Mass., taken along or from the Sudbury and Concord Rivers, ca. 1900-ca. 1903. (Concord Public Library). WorldCat record id: 47688451 Artist and illustrator N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945) was an admirer of Henry D. Thoreau (1817-1862). Inspired by Thoreau's life and wor...

Robinson family.

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French, Allen, 1870-1946

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Allen French (1870-1946), Concord (Mass.) author, historian, and antiquarian, was Chairman of the Concord Free Public Library Committee and President of the Concord Antiquarian Society in 1933-1934. Library expansion / renovation at that time drew his attention to the question of transferring the Adams Tolman Collection of Native American artifacts, deposited in the Library in 1921 by Mrs. Adams Tolman, to the Concord Antiquarian Society. (Tolman, 1862-1920, had been an antiquarian,...