Dall-Healey family papers, 1662-1957.

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Dall-Healey family papers, 1662-1957.

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Dall-Healey family papers consist primarily of personal papers of Unitarian minister Charles Henry Appleton Dall, and genealogical information of the related Dall and Healey families, 1662-1957. Charles H.A. Dall papers consists of diaries, 1833, 1836-38, recollections of journeys between Boston and Baltimore, 1831, 1849, and letters received from his family, including his uncle William Dall. Charles' personal papers document his education in Boston schools from 1824-33, at Harvard College from 1833-37, and at Harvard Divinity School from 1837-40; his decision to join the ministry and views on slavery. Genealogical material includes scrapbooks and notebooks kept by Charles' wife Caroline Wells Healey Dall, as well as loose letters, notes, and documents. The scrapbooks contain original family papers such as deeds, wills, and property and court documents, 1662-1957, some annotated by Caroline; family correspondence; and newspaper clippings. The notebooks record ancestry and marriages, births, and deaths. Collection also includes a diary kept by Caroline Dall's sister Marianne W. Healey, 1849-50, while living with her family near Boston, describing her social life, health, and briefly her sister Caroline; a scrapbook of newspaper clippings compiled by an unknown creator; and a letter from Alexander Graham Bell concerning a subscription banquet for Caroline's son William Healey Dall, 30 Mar. 1915.

2 boxes and 2 volumes in cases.

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