Additional papers, 1784-1924 (inclusive).

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Additional papers, 1784-1924 (inclusive).

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This collection consists of diaries, commonplace books, and correspondence among members of the Gay, Worcester, Swanton, and Byram families. The Worcester papers include the diaries, and recipe book of Olive (Gay) Worcester, and her correspondence with Worcester relatives; included are the Civil War letters from her son, Henry Parker Worcester to family. The Gay family is represented by the correspondence of Dorcas Parker Gay and Rufus Gay with their sister, Olive (Gay) Worcester. The Swanton papers include a diary, notes, and correspondence of Walter Scott Swanton, the commonplace books and correspondence of his wife Mary Olivia (Worcester) Swanton, and the letters, Harvard diary, and an English theme of their son, John Reed Swanton (Harvard 1896). The Byram papers include poems, ca. 1784, and the letters received by Mary Augusta Byram from her Byram, Gay, and Worcester relatives. The papers illustrate the daily life and illnesses of family members in Gardiner and Bath, Maine, and the activities of members of the Swedenborgian New Jerusalem Church.

1.4 linear ft. (1 carton, 1 file box)

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Harvard University

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General Church of the New Jerusalem

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Wooster family.

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Worcester, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1784-1865

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Lexicographer. From the description of Letter : Cambridge, Mass., to Wm. A. Whitehead, New York, 1838 Oct. 1. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28996371 American lexicographer, engaged in a "War of Dictionaries" with Noah Webster. From the description of Joseph Emerson Worcester letters [manuscript], 1821, 1861. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647999587 ...

Gay family.

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Swanton family.

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The Swanton family represented here begins with Margaret Lewis, who married William Gay and settled in Maine, and whose second husband was General Henry Dearborn, minister to Portugal during the Monroe administration. It includes the four Gay grandchildren, one of whom, Olive Gay, married Henry A. Worcester, a Swedenborgian minister in New Hampshire and the brother of lexicographer Joseph Emerson Worcester. The Worcester children include Mary Olivia Worcester, who married Walter Scott Swanton an...

Byron family.

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