Papers, 1778-1939.

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Papers, 1778-1939.

32 boxes, 59 notebooks, 5 folders, and oversize.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8213770

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Quincy family.

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Hoyt, Mary E.

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Gould family.

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Quincy, Josiah, 1802-1882

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Mayor of Boston and older son of Josiah Quincy, president of Harvard. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Andrew Preston Peabody, 1865 Mar. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 709622062 Mayor of Boston. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to the Rev. John Pierpont, 1848 Sept. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616007 ...

Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824-1896

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American astronomer. Graduated Harvard, 1844; University of Göttingen (Germany), 1848. He returned to the United States with the hope of establishing an era for astronomy. In 1849 he founded and became the first editor of the "Astronomical Journal." In 1855, he became director of the Dudley Observatory. A public controversy arose when he disagreed with the Scientific Council and Trustees of the Observatory as to management of the facility. He was terminated as director in 1859. From ...

Gould, Mary Apthorp Quincy, 1834-1883

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Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935

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Gould, Alice Bache, 1868-1953

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Alice Bache Gould, scion of a distinguished New England family, Bryn Mawr graduate, and university teacher in the field of mathematics, became a pioneer scholar of the history of early exploration in the Caribbean, and particularly of Chistopher Columbuss voyages. She pursued this work in many libraries and archives, and spent much of the last forty years of her life in Spain. The collection consists of correspondence between Alice Bache Gould and Samuel Vaughn, her trustee in Boston. The letter...