Lucy Lowell diaries, 1831-1944.

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Lucy Lowell diaries, 1831-1944.

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Diaries kept by Lucy Lowell, 1888-1944 (with gaps), include brief entries describing her daily social, domestic, and volunteer activities as a single woman living in Boston, Mass; a trip to the Pacific coast, 1918; trips with The Alliance of Unitarian Women (of which she was president, 1917-23) to the U.S. South, Midwest, and Southwest, 1919-20; a trip to Minnesota, 1922-23; summer voyages to Europe, 1925-28, and other travels. Diaries entries include accounts of time spent with family members, including her parents John and Lucy Buckminster Emerson Lowell, sister Susan Cabot Lowell Aspinwall, niece Lucy Aspinwall, nephew George Lowell Aspinwall, and other Lowell, Emerson, and Aspinwall family members; visits with friends, including her closest friend Edith Fiske; work with the Alliance of Unitarian Women; history, art, and music lessons; social events; volunteer work; church sermons heard; observations about politics; and the weather. Travel diaries include descriptions of sights seen, people met, and activities and social events attended. Also includes letters written and received, 1831-1915, by various Lowell family members, including John (1824-1897), Lucy Buckminster Emerson, John (1856-1922), Lucy Lowell, Mary Lathrop, James Arnold, George Emerson, and Susan Cabot Lowell; condolence letters received by Lucy Lowell for the death of her father John Lowell in 1899, and mother Lucy Buckminster Emerson Lowell in 1904; memorabilia from various Lowell family trips to Europe; and clippings of obituaries and printed tributes to John and Lucy Buckminster Emerson Lowell. Letters pertain to family matters, visits with friends and extended family, and activities and events.

2 boxes and 5 pamphlet boxes.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7769116

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Lowell, Lucy, b. 1860.

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Lowell, Mary Lathrop, 1858-1882.

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Alliance of Unitarian Women

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Aspinwall, George, b. 1891.

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Aspinwall, Susan Cabot Lowell, b. 1864.

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Lowell family.

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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, Lucy Buckminster Emerson, b. 1827-1904.

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Fiske, Edith Annie.

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Lowell, James Arnold

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Emerson (Family)

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Lowell, Lucy Buckminster Emerson, b. 1827.

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Aspinwall, Lucy, b. 1894.

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Lowell, George Emerson, 1862-1884.

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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...

Aspinwall family.

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