Letters received, 1865 Feb. 7-1887 March 4.

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Letters received, 1865 Feb. 7-1887 March 4.

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Letters are principally from members of the Lamb and Eliot families, including Horatio A. Lamb, who handled Dix's financial affairs, Lamb's mother, Hannah Eliot Lamb, his uncle, Rev. William G. Eliot (Unitarian minister and reformer and founder of Washington University in St. Louis), and Eliot's sons, Rev. Thomas Lamb Eliot and Christopher R. Eliot. Letters concern Dix's finances and charities, Lamb and Eliot family matters (including information on artist Rose Lamb), and politics. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in a single letter (1865 Feb. 7) states that because he is busy lecturing he is unable to check on conditions [at Camp Meigs?] in Readville. With a folder containing manuscript poems (one by D.L. Dix) and a folder with inventories of Dix's possessions (some at the home of Mrs. Walter Baker in Dorchester).

Approx. 50 items, in box ; 26 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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