Diaries, 1869-1935.

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Diaries, 1869-1935.

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Diaries are by Mary Isabella James Gozzaldi (1869-70, 1877, 1891-92, 1894, 1894-99, 1925-1935) and Isabella Batchelder James (wife of the botanist Thomas Potts James). Her diaries date from 1876-1879. The earlier Gozzaldi diaries inchude trips to Europe on the Grand Tour as well as daily occurrences at home. Mrs. James was one of the planners of the Philadelphia Centennial Expositiion of 1876. The affairs of Christ Church (Episcopal) in Cambridge often appear in her entries, as do concerts, recitals and other occasions. including the first Boston flower show held on the Common in 1874.

37 v. (in two archival boxes) ; 10-27 cm.

Boston Public Library, Central Library in Copley Square

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Boston Public Library, Central Library in Copley Square

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James family.

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Gozzaldi, Mary Isabella, 1852-

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Born Mary Isabella James in Burlington, N.J., later moved to Cambridge, Mass.; later studied painting and languages in Europe where she met her husband Silvio de Gozzaldi, a captain in the Austrian army; they moved to Switzerland and had three children; later moved to Cambridge, Mass., where they settled permanently; known as Mary Gozzaldi, she was very interested in American history and genealogy and was a founder and vice president of Cambridge Historical Society and an active member of the Ha...

James, Isabella Batchelder, 1819-1901

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Author and abolitionist, Isabella Batchelder James of Philadelphia worked for the Sanitary Commission and visited military hospitals during the Civil War. After the war she werved as president of the Pennsylvania branch of the Freedman Commission of the Protestant Episcopal Church, which sent teachers to the South to open schools for freedmen. From the description of Correspondence, 1867. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007306 ...