Cummings family papers, 1826-1961.

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Cummings family papers, 1826-1961.

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Correspondence, sermons, diaries, clippings, scrapbooks, genealogical information and other papers of the Cummings family of Roxbury, Mass. and related Clarke and Davis families, 1829-1961. Includes sermons and writings of Unitarian minister Edward Cummings including material related to his work on the Theodore Parker Memorial, the World Peace Foundation, and the Russian Famine Relief Committee; sermons by Pitt Clarke; and papers of engineer Philip W. Davis, poet e.e. cummings, and family members Rebecca H.C. Cummings, John J. Clarke, Elizabeth F.C. Qualey, and J. Estlin Carpenter.

65 boxes, 11 v. and 1 oversize box. UNPROCESSED.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Clarke, John Jones, 1803-1887.

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Clarke, Pitt, 1763-1835

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Russian Famine Fund

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Qualey, Elizabeth Frances Cummings, b. 1901.

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Cummings family.

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Clarke family.

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Davis family.

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Cummings, Rebecca Haswell Clarke, b. 1859.

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Carpenter, J. Estlin (Joseph Estlin), 1844-1927

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Unitarian divine. From the description of Autograph letters signed (49) : [n.p.], to W.A. Knight, 1872 Feb. 18-1903 Mar. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270134460 ...

Davis, Philip Whitney, ca. 1872-1939.

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Edward Estlin Cummings

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Cummings, E.E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962

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E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. While at Harvard, he delivered a daring commencement address on modernist artistic innovations, thus announcing the direction his own work would take. In 1917, after working briefly for a mail-order publishing company, the only regular employment in his career, Cummings volunteered to serve in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance group in France. Here he and a friend were imprisoned (on false grounds) for three months in a Frenc...