Charles Pelham Curtis diary, 1873-1885.

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Charles Pelham Curtis diary, 1873-1885.

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Diary of Boston lawyer Charles Pelham Curtis, 1 Jan. 1873- 11 Mar. 1885, contains brief entries describing his social life in Boston and Swampscott, Mass. Entries include accounts of the Great Fire of Boston, 1872; weather; births, deaths, and marriages of friends, family, and acquaintances; time spent with family, such as his wife Caroline Gardner Cary Curtis, his daughter Margaret Curtis, his son Charles Pelham Curtis, his sister Katherine Scolley Curtis Greenough, her husband W.W. Greenough, and their daughter Edith Greenough; social visits with friends such as the Abbott and Lowell families; and various social events, such as plays, operas, and concerts attended. Also includes description of a ocean voyage to Europe with his family, September 1875- May 1877, including time spent in England, Italy, and particularly Paris, France.

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Curtis, Charles Pelham, 1824-1906.

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Abbott family.

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Curtis family.

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Lowell family.

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Greenough, William W. (William Whitwell), -1899

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Merchant, politician. Trustee of the Boston Public Library, 1856-1899. From the description of Letters received, 1850-1892. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 14707184 Written while Greenough (A. B. 1837) was a student at Harvard. From the description of Rudiments of a grammar of the Anglo-Saxon tongue ; A Moeso-Gothic grammar : manuscript, 1834. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612827421 Merchant and public official of Boston, Mass.; born ...

Curtis, Charles Pelham, 1860-1948.

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Curtis, Margaret Ann

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Resident of San Francisco, California. From the description of Letter, 1867. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122480492 ...

Wendell, Edith Greenough, 1859-1938

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Greenough, Katherine Scolley Curtis, b. 1821.

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Curtis, Caroline Gardner Cary, 1827-1917.

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