Wheelwright family papers, 1779-1975; bulk: 1816-1951.

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Wheelwright family papers, 1779-1975; bulk: 1816-1951.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46458194

Wheelwright family papers primarily include correspondence between Boston architect Edmund March Wheelwright and his mother Hannah Giddings, father George William, wife Elizabeth (Bessie) Brooks Wheelwright, and others, 1866-1912 (including a few references to his architectural career); papers of Elizabeth Wheelwright, 1912-49, including condolence letters following the death of her son John Brooks in 1940, letters received from her grandson during World War II, a scrapbook compiled in 1923-42, and a commonplace book compiled ca. 1878; drafts and publications of writings by Edmund March Wheelwright on architecture, the Harvard Lampoon, and John F. Andrew; and architectural sketches by John Brooks Wheelwright, ca. 1930s. Also includes related Brooks family papers such as correspondence between Edward Brooks, his father Peter Chardon, and mother Ann Gorham, and courtship letters sent to his wife Elizabeth Boott Brooks, 1816-36; letters sent by Francis B. Brooks to his family while traveling in Cuba, 1851-52; travel diaries kept by Louise Winsor Brooks in Europe, 1853-54; and Wheelwright, March, Brooks, and Giddings family genealogical information compiled primarily by Edmund March Wheelwright and daughter Louise Wheelwright Damon, 1779-1975.

7 boxes (3 narrow), 4 v. in cases, and 4 oversize boxes.

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Damon, Louise Wheelwright, b. 1889.

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Wheelwright, Hannah Giddings.

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Brooks, Louise Winsor, 1874-

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March, Edmund, 1704?-1791

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Brooks, Edward, 1793-1878.

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Wheelwright family.

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Brooks family.

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Wheelwright, John, 1897-1940

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John Wheelwright was a New England poet. Born in Boston to an old and aristocratic family, he studied architecture at Harvard University and later the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but never finished a degree. After expulsion from Harvard, he became a member of the lost generation, and embraced socialism. He published three books of verse, each complex and cautiously admired by his peers, each owing much to his Boston Brahmin heritage. He was struck and killed by a drunk driver before h...

Wheelwright, Edmund March, 1854-1912

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Wheelwright, George William.

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Giddings family.

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Brooks, Francis, 1824-1891.

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March family.

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Brooks, Peter Chardon, 1767-1849

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Brooks, Elizabeth C.

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Brooks, Ann Gorham.

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