Lucy Lowell diaries, 1845-1923 ; bulk: 1880-1888.

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Lucy Lowell diaries, 1845-1923 ; bulk: 1880-1888.

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Diaries of Lucy Lowell, 1845-1923, describe her daily social and domestic activities as a young single woman living in Chestnut Hill and Boston, Mass. in 1880-88; and two summer voyages to Europe, 1888 and 1890. Diary entries include accounts of weather; history, painting, and music lessons; church sermons heard; time spent with immediate family members, such as her parents John and Lucy Lowell, her brothers John and James Lowell, and her sister Susan Lowell; visits with extended Lowell and Emerson family members; visits with friends, such as her closest friend Edith Fiske; short trips on the train to Buffalo, New York and New York City; and social events such as concerts and plays. Travel diaries include accounts of sea voyages from Boston to England; impressions of various European towns and cities visited; and accounts of concerts and plays attended, along with programs and promotional photographs she collected. Also includes a memory book from May 1923, created for Lucy Lowell's retirement as president of The Alliance of Unitarian Women from 1917-23, with entries from all of her associates of the Executive Board; and a diary written by Lucy Lowell's mother Lucy Buckminster Emerson Lowell in 1845, describing her daily life as a young single woman in Boston, including time spent friends such as the Peabody family.

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Lowell, Lucy Buckminster Emerson, b. 1827.

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Lowell, Susan Cabot, b. 1864.

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Fiske family.

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Lowell, Lucy Buckminster Emerson, b. 1927.

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Lowell, Lucy, b. 1860.

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Lowell, John, 1824-1897

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Lowell graduated from Harvard College (1843) and the Law School (1846). From 1856 to 1860 he edited the Monthly Law Reporter in which he criticized the Dred Scott decision. In 1865, President Lincoln appointed him United States district judge for Massachusetts and in 1878 he became circuit court judge for the first circuit focusing on common law and patents. From the description of The judicial opinions of John Lowell, 1878-1882. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 7844...

Fiske, Edith Annie.

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Lowell, John, 1856-1922

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John Lowell (1856-1922) was the son of Judge John Lowell (1824-1897) and Lucy Buckminster Emerson (1840-1905). He married Mary Emlen Hale and they had one child. From the description of John Lowell travel diary : manuscript, 1872. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 760468598 ...

Lowell, James Arnold

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Alliance of Unitarian Women

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Emerson family.

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Lowell family.

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Peabody family.

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