A typescript of a diary recording two voyages (18 Apr.-24 May and 30 July-21 Aug. 1720) from Boston to the Muscongus and St. George Rivers in Maine. Thomas Fayerweather participated in negotiations with the Wabanaki concerning land deeded to the Lincolnshire Company by Chief Madockawando. Various notes in the typescript include dates of Fayerweather's marriage and the births and deaths of his children.

Thomas Fayerweather (1724-1804) papers include business correspondence, business papers, and a memory book. Business correspondence, 1744-1787, includes information from various merchants, suppliers, and agents on shipments, orders, payments, and collection notices. Correspondents include Edward Shippen, David van Horne, Samuel Thomas Smith, and Theophilus Boswell. A few typescripts of letters are filed with the originals. Business papers, 1743-1778, document Fayerweather's business in New York, Maryland, Philadelphia, and Boston and include bills of lading, accounts, receipts, notes, bills of exchange, invoices, and ship accounts. A memory book, 1786-1799, includes notes on land and buildings owned in Massachusetts and Maine. There are gaps in the correspondence and business papers, between 1769-1778 and 1769-1778, respectively, possibly due to Fayerweather residing in Oxford during the Revolution.

This series contains papers primarily relating to George Thomas Fayerweather's service as captain of the 4th Regiment, Mass Volunteer Heavy Artillery, during the Civil War. The series is organized into the following groups of papers: an undated company roll; miscellaneous forms, 1864-1865; correspondence, 1864-1868 and 1877; ordnance forms, 1864-1865; muster rolls, 1864-1865; quartermaster forms, 1864-1865; discharge papers, 1862-1876; and commissions, 1864 and 1875.

The undated company roll lists members of a company alphabetically by rank and is signed by A. W. Tobie, First Sergeant, 22nd H. A. Miscellaneous papers include inventories of effects, telegrams, passes, pay requests, and orders of the day. Correspondence includes official communications between Fayerweather and various army offices, including the Ordnance Office and the Quartermaster General's Office. Ordnance forms document the munitions issued to and used by the 4th Regiment, Mass Volunteer Heavy Artillery, under Fayerweather and include invoices, receipts, abstracts of materials expended, and quarterly ordnance reports.

Muster rolls document the membership of the 4th Regiment, Mass Volunteer Heavy Artillery. Muster-in rolls, muster rolls, quarterly returns, quarterly returns of deceased soldiers, and muster-out rolls each contain portions of the following information for individual soldiers: name, birthplace, occupation, date and place of enlistment, person who enlisted them, period of service, eye and hair color, complexion, height, muster-in date, payroll, and date, place, and cause of death. Quartermaster forms include inventories of clothes, caps, and basic equipage issued to soldiers. Some forms record what equipment was issued to individual soldiers and other forms are quarterly summaries of equipment issued to the company. Discharge papers include five for George T. Fayerweather, dated 1862, 1863, 1864, and 1876, and one for Zebulon Ash dated 1865. Fayerweather's commissions are for the 4th Regiment, Mass. Volunteer Heavy Artillery, August 1864, and the 3rd Brigade, Mass. Volunteer Militia, August 1875.

This series includes correspondence, lecture notes, a paper entitled "Waste Not Want Not," brochures, news clippings, a disbound scrapbook, and a disbound sketchbook. The bulk of the correspondence is comprised of letters from Eleanor Appleton Fayerweather to her family during two trips to Europe: to England, Scotland, and Germany from June to August 1928; and to Germany, Italy and France, June to August 1930. Correspondence also includes letters from the Museum of Fine Arts, Vose Galleries, Fogg Art Museum, and John Alan Waldo regarding Fayerweather family portraits and genealogy.

Manuscript and typescript lecture notes are from art history surveys at Harvard University and New York University. An undated and unsigned paper entitled "Waste Not Want Not," probably written by Eleanor, traces the history of textiles and quilts in New England. Brochures from the Rhode Island School of Design, the New Haven Colony Historical Society, the Brown University Theatre, and various news clippings reflect Eleanor's interest in art and costume history. A disbound scrapbook includes clippings, 1919-1933, relating to Eleanor's involvement with Girl Scouts, Massachusetts Normal Art School, the Kappa Phi and Sigma Phi Sororities, thespian activities, and Girls Club. An undated disbound sketchbook contains anatomical sketches. Brochures, itineraries, and notes document a trip to central Asia, Oct. 1969.

A diary by an unidentified author for the month of November 1853, recording daily activities, chores, and social engagements.

This series includes three pieces of family correspondence dated 1831, 1858, and 1861. Of particular interest is a letter, dated 27 Oct. 1861, to Brown from a former lodger at the Westboro Hotel who left an unsettled bill prior to joining the Navy. The letter was written from the USS Cumberland while blockading the James River. Boston Light Infantry records include company orders, May 1853-Oct. 1855, a small volume containing the constitution and by-laws annotated with a list of members, 1853, and Brown's membership certificate for 1851. The series also includes an autograph book, 1863-1865.

Correspondence, 1857-1864, includes letters from Brenton B. Cook, Susan Sprague, William Sprague, Grace and Sarah Hubbard, and cousin James Peck, 6th Mass. Volunteer Infantry Regiment, "Company K." The series also includes a small volume containing a catalog of library books with diary entries dated Nov. 1857-June 1858, as well as a diary/memory book for 1859.

This series contains an autograph book, 1864-1868.