Papers, 1788-1966, bulk: 1817-1874.

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Papers, 1788-1966, bulk: 1817-1874.

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Papers of financier and merchant Francis Cabot Lowell II (1803-1874). Treasurer of the Amoskeag (Manchester, N.H.) and Merrimac Manufacturing Companies (Lowell, Mass.) and actuary of the Mass. General Hospital Life Insurance Co. (Boston). The papers span the years 1788-1966 and consist of manuscripts, diaries, journals, notebooks and account books. Included is considerable material on Lowell family finances, the Glendon Iron Co., and the Phoenix Glass Works. Family members represented in the correspondence include: Anna C., George G., Edward J., John III, John IV, John A., Mary G., and Georgina Lowell. (cont) Other correspondents and persons discussed in the collection include: Robert W. Barnwell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Everett, Samuel P. Gardner, Horace Gray, Francis Lowell Hills, Charles W. Upham, Josiah Quincy, Daniel Webster and Robert C. Winthop. The collection also contains diaries of Lowell's wife, Mary Gardner, his daughter Georgina, and his maid, Lorenza Stevens Berbineau. There are John H. Ladd and Ladd family papers, diaries of William Ladd Ropes, and letters of William Ladd.

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Lowell, Francis C. (Francis Cabot), 1803-1874

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Amoskeag manufacturing company

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Berbineau, Lorenza Stevens.

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Quincy, Josiah, 1802-1882

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Lowell, Anna Cabot, 1808-1894.

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Hills, Francis Lowell.

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Ropes, William Ladd, 1825-1912.

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Lowell, Edward J. (Edward Jackson), 1845-1894

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Glendon Iron Company.

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Lowell, John, 1769-1840

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Lowell, Mary Gardner.

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