1819-1954
Guide to the Collection
Restrictions on Access
The Stone-Jackson family papers are stored offsite and must be requested at least two business days in advance via Portal1791. Researchers needing more than six items from offsite storage should provide additional advance notice. If you have questions about requesting materials from offsite storage, please contact the reference desk at 617-646-0532 or reference@masshist.org.
Abstract
This collection consists primarily of correspondence between Pauline F. (Stone) Jackson and her husband Arthur L. Jackson, their respective families, their children (Pauline R. J. Harris and Elizabeth G. J. Edson), and friends. The collection also contains earlier Stone and Fay family correspondence.
Biographical Sketches
Stone family
William Eben Stone (1845-1921), the son of Ebenezer (b. 1797) and Elizabeth Holbrook Hawes Stone (1809-1860), graduated from Brown University in 1866 and received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1868. He served as the treasurer of the Champion Iron Co. of Michigan in Boston from 1882-1903 and had homes in Cambridge, Mass. and Fisher's Island, N.Y.
Stone married Katharine Maria Fay (1849-1928), the daughter of Charles Fay, in 1871. They had four children: Pauline Fay Stone Jackson (1874-1961), Reginald Stone (1877-1892), Amy Fay Stone (b. 1884), and Margaret Gerrad Stone Wright (b. 1886).
Jackson family
Arthur Loring Jackson (1874-1924) was one of four children of prominent textile manufacturer Patrick Tracy Jackson (1844-1918) and Eleanor Baker Bray Jackson (b. 1847). Following his marriage on 10 Dec. 1902 to Pauline Fay Stone, he and his new wife moved to Bolivia, where he pursued a career in the buying of rubber for the Chicago-Bolivian Rubber Co. and the Andes Trading Co. until their return to the United States in 1909.
They had two daughters: Elizabeth (Elsie) Gray Jackson Edson (b. 1913) and Pauline Rosamond (Posie) Jackson Harris (1910-1986).
Elsie married George Edson; Posie married J. Dexter Harris.
Collection Description
The Stone-Jackson family papers consist primarily of the correspondence of Pauline F. (Stone) Jackson and her husband Arthur L. Jackson. They corresponded with each other, their respective families, their children (Pauline R. J. Harris and Elizabeth G. J. Edson), and friends.
Letters of Arthur to his parents (Patrick T. and Eleanor B. G. Jackson) from 1898, and of Pauline to her family (William E., Katherine M. F., and Amy F. Stone, and Margaret G. S. Wright) from 1902 to 1909, describe Bolivia and Arthur's work for the Chicago-Bolivian Rubber Co. and the Andes Trading Co.
The collection also contains earlier Stone and Fay family correspondence, including letters to Dr. Ebenezer Stone and a series of letters from Charles Fay to his daughter Katherine M. (Fay) Stone (1880s).
Acquisition Information
The Stone-Jackson family papers were donated by Greg Harris, 1990.
Restrictions on Access
The Stone-Jackson family papers are stored offsite and must be requested at least two business days in advance via Portal1791. Researchers needing more than six items from offsite storage should provide additional advance notice. If you have questions about requesting materials from offsite storage, please contact the reference desk at 617-646-0532 or reference@masshist.org.
Detailed Description of the Collection
I. Stone family correspondence, 1819-1947
This series contains primarily family correspondence between Pauline Fay Stone, who married Arthur Loring Jackson in 1902, and various members of her family. The letters, written both before and after her marriage, center on the relationship between her and her mother Katharine Fay Stone, but also include letters between her and her father William E. Stone and correspondence with his sisters Amy Fay Stone and Margaret Gerrad Stone (who later married Austin T. Wright). This series of correspondence spans from 1881-1947.
Because Pauline and Arthur Jackson were living in Bolivia from 1903-1909, many of the letters to her family include descriptions of life there. Several of Pauline's letters from Bolivia also include typescript copies. Letters from Pauline's parents were written from several locations, among them Cambridge and Boston, Mass., Paris, and Fisher's Island, N.Y.
This series also contains some earlier Stone and Fay correspondence (Carton 1) dating from 1819-1888, including letters to Dr. Ebenezer Stone; and letters to Katherine Maria Fay (later Stone) from her father Charles Fay.
1819-Aug. 1902
Sep. 1902-1904
1905-May 1908
June 1908-1947
II. Jackson family correspondence, 1898-1954
This series is broken up into two smaller sections. The first is the correspondence from Arthur Loring Jackson home to his family, primarily from Bolivia, and dates from 1898-1904.
It also includes letters between Arthur and Pauline Jackson dating from 1898-1923. There is an extensive series of courtship letters dating from 1898 until their marriage in 1902. Some of these letters contain hits and allusions to pre-marital sexual encounters between the two.
The Jackson family correspondence later contains letters from the Jackson children, Elsie and Rosamond (Posie) Jackson, to their mother Pauline. These letters, most of which are from Elsie, date from 1929-1954. A few other miscellaneous items in this section include two small booklets containing lists of callers of Pauline, 1893-1895; her personal account book, noting in particular food purchases, for 1905; and a notebook of hers for 1906; photographs; and a few printed items.
The second section of this correspondence (Carton 7) contains letters to Pauline Jackson from various friends, 1898-1909.
1898-1902
1903-1943
1944-1954, and miscellaneous papers
Pauline Stone Jackson correspondence with friends, 1898-1909
Preferred Citation
Stone-Jackson family papers, Massachusetts Historical Society
Access Terms
This collection is indexed under the following headings in ABIGAIL, the online catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related persons, organizations, or subjects should search the catalog using these headings.