Papers, 1827-1976.

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Papers, 1827-1976.

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Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, genealogies, drawings, albums, account books, obituaries, wills, essays, contracts, patents, poems, photographs, and other papers of John Rowland Morewood, his wife, Sarah (Huyler) Morewood, their children: William Barlow, Alfred, and Anne Morewood, John's parents and sister in England: George and Ellen Barrow Morewood and Ann (Morewood) McConnel, William Barrow Morewood's wife, Maria (Melville) Morewood and their children, and other members of the Morewood, Melville, and Lathers families. Subjects include John Morewood's involvement with the China tea trade; the family lock and security door business in New York, N.Y.; Broadhall, the family home in Pittsfield; William B. Morewood's student days at an English boarding school; Arrowhead, the Pittsfield residence of Herman Melville, uncle of Maria Morewood; and daily social life in Berkshire County, Mass. Other family members represented include Allan and Sophia Thurston Melville (parents of Maria Morewood) and Anne Morewood's husband, Richard Lathers, Jr.

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Berkshire County Historical Society

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Morewood family.

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Residents of Pittsfield, Mass., and Elizabeth, N.J.; emigrated to the U.S. from England during the mid-19th century. From the description of Papers, 1827-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70938051 ...

Lathers, Richard.

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Melville, Elizabeth Shaw, 1822-1906

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Lathers, Anne Morewood

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Morewood, Alfred

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Melville, Allan, 1823-1872

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McConnel, Ann Morewood

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Lathers family.

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Morewood, William Barlow

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Arrowhead (Pittsfield, Mass.)

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Morewood, John Rowland, 1821-1903

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Morewood, George B.

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Broadhall (Pittsfield, Mass.)

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Melville family.

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Morewood, Ellen Barrow

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Morewood, Sarah Huyler, 1823-1863

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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

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Herman Melville (b. Aug. 1, 1819, NY, NY–d. Sept. 28, 1891, NY, NY) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846) and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style; the vocabulary is rich and or...

Morewood, Maria Melville, 1849-1935

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