1535-1957
Guide to the Microfilm Edition
Abstract
This collection consists of the papers of the Lee family, primarily the correspondence, writings, and business records of Henry Lee (1782-1867) and Henry Lee, Jr. (1817-1898).
Biographical Sketch
Henry Lee (1782-1867) was a prosperous India merchant and free-trade economist and publicist. His wife was Mary Jackson Lee (1783-1860). Henry Lee, Jr. (1817-1898), the son of Henry Lee and Mary Jackson Lee, was a banker, theatrical entrepreneur, and political reformer who served as military aide-de-camp to Massachusetts Civil War Governor John Albion Andrew.
Collection Description
This collection consists of the personal papers of the Lee family, primarily the correspondence, writings, and business records of Henry Lee (1782-1867) and his son Henry Lee, Jr. (1817-1898). Other members of the Lee family and the related Jackson family represented in the collection are: Mary Jackson Lee (1783-1860), Jonathan Jackson (1743-1810), Patrick Tracy Jackson (1780-1847), Francis Lowell Lee (1823-1886), Joseph Lee (1744-1831), Joseph Lee, Jr. (1770-1845), Thomas Lee (1741-1830), Thomas Lee, Jr. (1779-1867), and Henry Lee Shattuck (1879-1971).
Among the many subjects covered in the correspondence and writings are: free trade, the War of 1812, banking and currency, cotton manufacture, theater, the Civil War, civil service reform, the United States Census of 1790, the Free Trade Convention of 1831, and the Massachusetts militia. Prominent correspondents include: John A. Andrew, Albert Gallatin, Edwin L. Godkin, Robert Y. Hayne, George Frisbie Hoar, Frances Anne Kemble, Abbott Lawrence, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Robert Gould Shaw.
The bound volumes in the collection include business records, primarily account books, ledgers, and letterbooks of various family firms containing information on the Indian, European, South American, West Indian, and China trades. Among the other volumes are personal journals and scrapbooks.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Mrs. Frederick C. Shattuck, 1919.
Other Formats
Digital facsimiles of the log of the ship Logan are available on China, America and the Pacific, a digital publication of Adam Matthew Digital, Inc. This digital resource is available at subscribing libraries; speak to your local librarian to determine if your library has access. The MHS makes this resource available onsite; see a reference librarian for more information.
Digital facsimiles of the log of the brig Henrico are available on Life at Sea, a digital publication of Adam Matthew Digital, Inc. This digital resource is available at subscribing libraries; speak to your local librarian to determine if your library has access. The MHS makes this resource available onsite; see a reference librarian for more information.
Detailed Description of the Collection
I. Loose manuscripts, 1535-1957
For a list of all correspondents in this series, as well as the names of select individuals and subjects of historical significance in the collection, see the index.
A. Correspondence, 1535-1934
Arranged chronologically.
This bulk of this subseries consists of the correspondence of Henry Lee, Mary Jackson Lee, and Henry Lee, Jr. Some of the well-known Lee correspondents are Albert Gallatin, John C. Calhoun, Robert Y. Hayne, Abbott Lawrence, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., John A. Andrew, E.L. Godkin, George Frisbie Hoar, Frances Anne (Fanny) Kemble, and Henry Cabot Lodge.
Undated
Correspondence from Lizzie Cabot and Lizzie H. Howland. Subjects include poems, religious proverbs, accounts of the holdings of Henry Lee, and the genealogy of the Caleb Davis and Jones families.
Undated
Correspondence from Henry Lee, Jr., Fanny Kemble, John A. Lowell, Emily Russell, George C. Shattuck, and Henry Lee. Also included is a letter from Fanny Searle to Ann Bromfield concerning Madame de Stael. Subjects include the wardrobe of Fanny Kemble; the recantation of Benjamin Towne, a Philadelphia publisher who printed for the British for a time during the Revolutionary War; and the genealogies of the Shattuck and Winthrop families.
1535-1672
Includes deeds, wills, and other legal documents pertaining to Edmund Lee, Thomas Hungerford, Eliza and John Griffing, and John Lee. Also includes a drawing of the Lee family coat of arms.
1675-1699
Includes deeds and legal documents of John Lee and Joseph Lee.
1703-1770
Includes deeds, wills, and other legal documents of Joseph Lee, Henry Lee, Thomas Lee, Woodis Lee, and Samuel Scarlett. Also contains a catalog of the books of Judge Samuel Sewall.
1735-1749
Includes deeds, wills, and other legal documents of Joseph Lee, Israel Rumblemash alias Pomhammon, Joseph White, John Cabot, and Thomas Lee.
1750-1769
Correspondents include William Bollan, Joseph Lee, and Henry and Thomas Bromfield. Subjects include parliamentary laws pertaining to the sugar and molasses trade and reinsurance. Also includes deeds, wills, and other legal documents of Timothy Orne, Edmund Quincy, Joseph Cabot, and Elizabeth Cabot, as well as a list of deacons for the Church of Christ, Concord, Mass., ca. 1670-1790.
1771-1778
Correspondence from Andrew Newell and Henry Crouch. Subjects include the bombardment of Boston, March 1776, the "enforced pilgrimage" of Governor Thomas Hutchinson, and the shipping trade of Joseph Lee & Co. Deeds, wills, and other legal documents of Joseph Lee, Elizabeth Cabot, and George Gardner, as well as royal documents approving a Superior Court for the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 17 Feb. 1773.
1782-1783
Correspondence from John A. Lowell and Benjamin Lincoln. Subjects include the choice of Jonathan Jackson as a delegate to Congress, 1782, and American imports and exports. Various legal documents and business accounts of George Cabot, Joseph Lee, and William Colman.
Jan.-May 1784
Correspondence from Charles Jarvis and Jonathan Jackson. Subjects include commercial and political relations between Great Britain and the United States.
June-Aug. 1784
Correspondence from Jonathan Jackson. Subjects include commercial and political matters in Great Britain. Also includes a bank certificate of Thomas Lee.
1785-1786
Correspondence from Jonathan Jackson, Elias Smith, Rufus King, and Thomas Russell. Subjects include French and Spanish commerce with the United States, Thomas Jefferson's negotiations with France on the tobacco trade, and the weakness of the Articles of Confederation on commercial and financial matters.
Jan.-June 1787
Includes bills, invoices, and receipts of Joseph Lee & Co., Lee & Cabot, and Jackson & Higginson, as well as delivery orders for the brig Betsy.
July-Aug. 1787
Includes bills, invoices, cargo lists, and receipts of Lee & Cabot and Jackson & Higginson.
Sep.-Dec. 1787
Correspondents include Robert and Richard Mercer, John Burke, and Jonathan Sewall. Subjects include the voyage and transactions of the Betsy and the schooner Volant. The letter of Sewall, a banished British loyalist, 21 Sep. 1787, discusses John Adams and life in Nova Scotia.
1788
Correspondents include John Burke and John A. Lowell. Subjects include the wreck of the Betsy off Jamaica. Cargo lists, an account of losses and a list of salvaged and sold goods of the Betsy, and the will of Patrick Tracy.
1789
Correspondents include Richard Clarke, Andrew Cabot, John A. Lowell, and Mary Jackson. Subjects include the estate of Elizabeth Cabot and the apparent recovery from illness of King George and his resumption of power.
1790-1791
Correspondence from Jonathan Jackson and Tobias Lear. Subjects include the taking of the census in the district of Massachusetts under the direction of Marshal Jonathan Jackson.
1792-1799
Correspondence from John A. Lowell, Mary Jackson, and John Quincy Adams. Subjects covered in the Adams letter to John Gardner, 25 Apr. 1796, are life and politics in Great Britain and the political prospects of the Federalist party in America.
1800-1802
Correspondence from Jonathan Jackson, Elizabeth C. Lowell, Mary Jackson, and Patrick Tracy Jackson. Will and inventory of the property of Joseph Lee.
1803-1804
Correspondence from Henry Lee, Elizabeth C. Lowell, Mary Jackson, and Jonathan Jackson. Subjects include the heart ailment of Henry Lee and the social life of Boston.
1805-1808
Correspondence from Mary Jackson, Ambrose Clarke, and Thomas Handasyd Perkins. Subjects include Boston social matters and Federalist politics. Perkins's letter to Woodbury Storer, 26 Apr. 1808, discusses the Massachusetts Senatorial vote and Federalist legislative strength.
1809
Correspondence from Richard Cranch, John Adams, Henry Lee, and John Bromfield. Subjects include the Quincy family genealogy, as well as British-American political difficulties, Napoleon's defeat in Europe, and their effects on international trade. Also discussed are the China and India trades.
1810
Correspondence from John Bromfield and Thomas Lee. Subjects include the death of Jonathan Jackson, cotton, silk, and the China trade.
1811
Correspondence from John Bromfield, Thomas Lee, E.A. Newton, and Henry Higginson. Subjects include the India trade and the Latin American trade. Also includes business accounts and agreements of Joseph Lee, Jr., Henry Lee, and Henry Higginson.
Jan.-May 1812
Correspondence from James Lloyd, Henry Lee, Samuel Yorke, and James Schott. Subjects include the commercial policies of Albert Gallatin and the American government, the prospect of war with England, business reverses, and the India trade.
June-Sep. 1812
Correspondence from Henry Lee. Subjects include life and trade in Calcutta and the care of the first Lee child. Lee wrote from the brig Reaper, upon which he served as supercargo.
Oct.-Dec. 1812
Correspondence from Henry Lee and James Lloyd. Subjects include the care of Mary Cabot Lee and the prospects for trade in the event of British-American hostilities. Invoices for items on the Reaper.
1812-1816
Journal of Mary Jackson Lee during the five-year residence of Henry Lee in Calcutta. Subjects include Lee family matters, Boston social life, religious reflections of Mary Jackson Lee, the appointment of Edward Everett as minister of the Brattle Street Church, and the politics of war and peace with Britain as seen in Boston.
Jan.-Mar. 1813
Correspondence from Henry Lee to Mary Jackson Lee. Subjects include the war policy of James Madison, Tsar Alexander, Napoleon and turmoil in Europe, the opium trade, and life in Calcutta.
Apr.-July 1813
Correspondence from Henry Lee to Mary Jackson Lee. Subjects include Lee business plans, Napoleon's campaign in Russia, Lee's despair over Madison's continued prosecution of the War of 1812, and activities of the English Missionary Society in India.
Aug.-Dec. 1813
Correspondence from Henry Lee to Mary Jackson Lee. Subjects include Madison's policies in regard to trade and the war in Europe. Accounts of goods from the brig Reaper.
1814
Correspondence from Henry Lee, Patrick Tracy Jackson, and Christopher Gore. Subjects include America's foreign trade, the Russian War, and the proposed taxation of cotton and other goods manufactured in New England.
1815-1816
Correspondence from Mary Jackson Lee to Henry Lee. Subjects include Lee business and Lowell family matters.
1817-1818
Correspondence from Henry Lee, Henry Higginson, and Richard Clarke Cabot. Subjects include Lee family matters, the China trade, and the India trade.
Jan.-June 1819
Correspondence from William C. Gowen; William Rollins; Grant, Pillans & Co.; Reed, Bell & De Yongh; and Palmer, Wilson & Co. Subjects include the sale of India piece goods in Leghorn, Havre, and Hamburg.
July-Aug. 1819
Correspondence from Steiglitz & Co.; Reed, Bell & De Yongh; Solomon Towne; and Mary Jackson Lee. Subjects include the market for East India goods in St. Petersburg, Palermo, Amsterdam, and Leghorn, as well as Lee family matters.
Sep.-Dec. 1819
Correspondence from Grant, Pillans & Co.; Reed, Bell & De Yongh; Palmer, Wilson & Co.; Steiglitz & Co.; and Mary Jackson Lee. Subjects include the East India trade in Leghorn, Havana, St. Petersburg, and Smyrna, as well as Lee family matters.
1820
Correspondence from Henry Lee and Mary Jackson Lee. Subjects include East India trade, the Lee and Lowell family, and church matters. Short history of trade between the United States and Bengal, 1783-1820, prepared by Henry Lee for a committee studying duty rates.
1821
Correspondence from Mary Jackson Lee, James Jackson, and Henry Lee. Subjects include the Lee children, Boston social life, and the sale of indigo.
1822-1825
Correspondence from Henry Lee and Joseph Willard. Subjects include Lee family and legal matters. Insurance policy agreements of Thomas Lee.
1826-1827
Correspondence from Henry Lee and Joseph Willard. Subjects include the sale of Lee farm property and Henry Lee's "Boston Report," an exposition for fee trade and an attack on the protectionist "American System." A fragment of a letter from Benjamin Waterhouse to John Quincy Adams, 9 May 1827, discusses the Jonathan Sewall letter of 1787 (Box 1, Folder 15).
1828-1829
Correspondence from George McDuffie, William Huskisson, Henry Lee, William C. Preston, and Mary Jackson Lee. Subjects include the "Boston Report," a young Thomas Tunno Forbes as agent for Perkins & Sons in China, and Boston social life.
1830
Correspondence from Henry Lee, Mary Jackson Lee, George McDuffie, and Clement C. Biddle. Subjects include Lee family matters and Boston social life. Biddle letter to McDuffie, 10 June 1830, is a lengthy discussion of government disbursements and political economy. Inventory of the property of Thomas Lee.
1831
Correspondence from Henry Lee, Robert Y. Hayne, Condy Raguet, Clement C. Biddle, Theodore Sedgwick, and Albert Gallatin. Subjects include the Free Trade Convention of 1831, the publication of a free trade journal, and the memorial to Congress on the tariff presented by Gallatin with statistical data supplied by Lee.
1832
Correspondence from Robert Y. Hayne, Theodore Sedgwick, Henry Lee, Jr., Mary Jackson Lee, D.G. Ingraham, William P. Preble, and Abbott Lawrence. Subjects include the continuing tariff debate, indemnity for ships destroyed in the bombardment of Antwerp, 1830, and Henry Lee, Jr., at Harvard.
1833
Correspondence from Clement C. Biddle, John C. Calhoun, Mary Jackson Lee, and Mary C. Higginson. Subjects include the anti-tariff movement, the circulation of the anti-tariff Examiner, and Henry Lee, Jr., at Harvard. Harvard term bills and other documents.
1834
Correspondence from Mary Jackson Lee, J.W. Tudor Gardiner, and Susan C. Jackson. Subjects include Lee and Jackson family matters and Henry Lee, Jr., at Harvard. Will of Thomas Lee and Harvard documents.
1835
Correspondence from Mary Jackson Lee, William C. Russel, Patrick Tracy Jackson, George Bemis, and F. Octavius Prince. Subjects include difficulties of Henry Lee, Jr., at Harvard, methods of instruction at Harvard, and Lee family matters.
1836
Correspondence from George Bemis, Henry Lee, William C. Aylwin, Mary Jackson Lee, and William N. Habersham. Subjects include Henry Lee, Jr., at Harvard, the principles of business partnership, the Amoskeag Co., and Lee and Lowell family matters.
Jan.- July 1837
Correspondence from William N. Habersham, Henderson Inches, Jr., Henry Lee, Jr., S.J. Gardner, and S.G. Dana. Subjects include Henry Lee, Jr., in the Lee countinghouse, the Habershams and the social life of Savannah, and the worsening of American economic conditions. Invoices for books purchased by Henry Lee, Jr., and notes on Calhoun's "currency notions."
Aug.-Dec. 1837
Correspondence from Henry Lee, Jr., Waldo Higginson, William Minot, Jr., William N. Habersham, and James B. Higginson. Subjects include a road survey in rural Georgia, Boston social life, and the state of the silk piece markets.
1838
Correspondence from Henry Lee and Henry Lee, Jr. Subjects include the coffee trade, the Independent Company of Cadets, and Henry Lee, Jr.'s voyage to Rio de Janeiro as supercargo. Will of Henry Lee, Jr.
Jan. 1839
Correspondence from George Bemis, Mary Jackson Lee, Henry Lee, Anna Dwight, Mary Higginson, Charles H. Parker, and Charles C. Paine. Subjects include Boston social life and the coffee trade.
Feb. 1839
Correspondence from Francis H. Jackson, Susan C. Jackson, Patrick Tracy Jackson, Jr., and Henry Lee. Subjects include Boston social life (assemblies at Papanti's), Lee family business, and the coffee trade.
Mar.-Apr. 1839
Correspondence from William Minot, Jr., Henry Lee, Mary Jackson Lee, Henry Lee, Jr., and William S. Bullard. Subjects include life in Smyrna, Boston social life, Henry Lee, Jr., in New Orleans, and Bullard & Lee business concerns. Bullard & Lee agreement, 3 Apr. 1839.
May-Dec. 1839
Correspondence from Henry Lee, Henry Lee, Jr., Mary Jackson Lee, Waldo Higginson, William Minot, Jr., and William N. Habersham. Subjects include particulars of the Bullard & Lee connection, Henry Lee, Jr., in St. Louis and Cincinnati, Boston social life, and William Minot's thoughts on Rome and travel as education. Appointment of Henry Lee, Jr., to the Massachusetts militia.
Jan.-Apr. 1840
Correspondence from William M. Gouge, William N. Habersham, Henry J. Bigelow, Henry Lee, William S. Bullard, Edward Austin, Clement C. Biddle, and Edward Everett. Subjects include American banking and currency, the retirement of Henry Lee, Boston social life, and a description of Havana.
May-July 1840
Correspondence from Francis H. Jackson, Henry Lee, Edward A. Tappan, George W. Phillips, and William N. Habersham. Subjects include elections and other matters relating to the Massachusetts militia, the retirement of Henry Lee, and the marriage of W.N. Habersham.
Aug.-Dec. 1840
Correspondence from Edward A. Tappan, George W. Phillips, William N. Habersham, William M. Gouge, Mary Jackson Lee, and Francis H. Jackson. Subjects include the Massachusetts militia, the acclamation of the majority of Emperor Don Pedro II of Brazil, William Henry Harrison, and the politics of banking and currency. Commission of Henry Lee, Jr., as lieutenant in the Massachusetts militia.
1841
Correspondence from Mary Jackson Lee, Clement C. Biddle, Henry Lee, Jr., Francis Cunningham, and John T. Heard. Subjects include Lee family finances, John Tyler, and the politics of free trade and currency. Abstract of a journal of the schooner Ariel.
Jan.-Apr. 1842
Correspondence from Henry Lee, Gardiner Howland Shaw, Henry Lee, Jr., Mary Jackson Lee, Hannah L. Jackson, William Minot, Jr., William S. Bullard, and Francis Lowell Lee. Subjects include a European trip of Henry Lee, Jr., 1842-1843, his description of New York, his ocean voyage (on which he met Washington Irving), Bullard & Lee business, Lee family matters, and Boston social life. Typewritten notes on Francis Lowell Lee and other correspondents. European itinerary of Henry Lee, Jr., 1842-1843.
May 1842
Correspondence from Henry Lee, Jr., Mary Jackson Lee, Hannah L. Jackson, William S. Bullard, Patrick Tracy Jackson, Jr., and Charles H. Parker. Subjects include Henry Lee, Jr., in England, his travels with Washington Irving, Bullard & Lee business, Lee family matters, and Boston social life. Typewritten notes on Bostonians referred to in family correspondence.
June 1842
Correspondence from Henry Lee, Henry Lee, Jr., Francis L. Lee, Mary C. Higginson, Harriet J. Lee, and Richard Sullivan, Jr. Subjects include Henry Lee, Jr.'s impressions of Scotland, the "Oxford Cap War" at Harvard as described by Francis L. Lee, and Lee family matters. Typewritten notes on family correspondence.
July 1842
Correspondence from William S. Bullard, Gardiner Howland Shaw, Mary Jackson Lee, Francis L. Lee, Hannah L. Jackson, Richard Sullivan, Jr., and Charles H. Parker. Subjects include Bullard & Lee business, Lee family matters, Harvard, and Boston social life. Typewritten notes on family correspondence.
Aug. 1842
Correspondence from Hannah L. Jackson, Mary Jackson Lee, Henry Lee, William S. Bullard, Mary E. Dwight, Richard Sullivan, Jr., William Minot, Jr., and Henry Lee, Jr. Subjects include Lee family matters, Bullard & Lee business, Boston social and political life (Everett's speeches and Dickens's impressions of America), Tyler, Congress and the tariff, Henry Lee, Jr., in Europe and his visit with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at Marienberg, and a water-cure on the Rhine. Typewritten notes on family correspondence.
Sep. 1842
Correspondence from Henry Lee, Jr., Samuel Andrews, Patrick Tracy Jackson, Jr., Mary Jackson Lee, Henry J. Bigelow, Samuel Parkman, Harriet J. Lee, and Francis Boyd. Subjects include Lee family matters, Boston social life, the Massachusetts militia, Henry Lee, Jr., in Europe and his thoughts on Dickens's view of America, Daniel Webster, and the tariff. Typewritten notes on family correspondence.
Oct. 1842
Correspondence from Mary Jackson Lee, Charles H. Parker, Patrick Tracy Jackson, Jr., and Francis L. Lee. Subjects include the Massachusetts militia, Francis L. Lee at Harvard, Lee family matters, and Boston social life. Typewritten notes on family correspondence.
Nov. 1842
Correspondence from Francis L. Lee, William S. Bullard, Henry Lee, Henry Lee, Jr., Charles A. Welch, Harriet J. Lee, and Thomas Lamb. Subjects include Lee family matters, Francis L. Lee at Harvard, Henry Lee, Jr., in Paris, Bullard & Lee business, Boston social life, Thanksgiving, and the New England convention of the committee relating to United States navigation. Typewritten notes on family correspondence.
Dec. 1842
Correspondence from Francis L. Lee, Mary Jackson Lee, John C. Lee, Patrick Tracy Jackson, Jr., Joseph Lee, and Henry Lee, Jr. Subjects include Boston social life (the preaching of Edward Everett Hale), Henry Lee, Jr., in Europe. Letter from Joseph Lee, 30 Dec. 1842, reprimands Henry Lee, Jr., for reckless behavior in Europe. Statement of Bullard & Lee interest account with Fletcher, Alexander & Co. List of high points in Europe (best hotels, purchases, etc.) of Henry Lee, Jr. Typewritten notes on family correspondence.
1-20 Jan. 1843
Correspondence from William S. Bullard, Richard Sullivan, Jr., Mary Jackson Lee, Harriet J. Lee, Patrick Tracy Jackson, Jr., Clement C. Biddle, and Charles H. Parker. Subjects include Lee family matters, Boston social life, Bullard & Lee business and the state of commercial markets, state debt, and Massachusetts under the rule of Marcus Morton and the Democratic party. Typewritten notes on correspondence.
20-30 Jan. 1843
Correspondence from Francis L. Lee, Thomas W. Ward, and Mary Jackson Lee. Subjects include Lee family matters, Boston social life, the American currency, and Democratic control of Massachusetts. Typewritten notes on correspondence.
Feb. 1843
Correspondence from Mary Jackson Lee, Hannah L. Jackson, Francis L. Lee, Gardner Howland Shaw, and William S. Bullard. Subjects include Lee family matters, Boston social life, and Bullard & Lee commercial matters.
Mar. 1843
Correspondence from Henry Lee, Jr., Francis H. Jackson, Patrick Tracy Jackson, Jr., Hannah L. Jackson, Henry Lee, Mary Jackson Lee, and Francis L. Lee. Subjects include Henry Lee, Jr., in Paris, Lee business concerns, and Lee and Jackson family matters (the marriage of Patrick Tracy Jackson, Jr.). Typewritten notes on family correspondence.
Apr. 1843
Correspondence from William S. Bullard, Henry Lee, Jr., Henry Lee, Nathan Hale, Clement C. Biddle, and Mary Jackson Lee. Subjects include Henry Lee, Jr., in Genoa, free trade and finance, the cotton market, and Henry Lee's "Letters to the Cotton Manufacturers of Massachusetts."
May 1843
Correspondence from William M. Gouge, Richard Sullivan, Jr., Henry Lee, Jr., Francis L. Lee, Mary Jackson Lee, Hannah L. Jackson, and Harriet J. Lee. Subjects include Henry Lee articles on economic matters and a proposed autobiography, Henry Lee, Jr., at Naples and Pompeii, Lee family matters, and Boston social life. Typewritten notes on family correspondence.
June 1843
Correspondence from Mary Jackson Lee, Francis L. Lee, and Harriet J. Lee. Subjects include Lee family matters, Boston social life, and the visit of President John Tyler to Boston. Typewritten notes on family correspondence.
July 1843
Correspondence from Francis L. Lee, William S. Bullard, Henry Lee, Jr., William M. Gouge, Harriet J. Lee, Mary Jackson Lee, and Henry Lee. Subjects include Class Day at Harvard, the cotton and coffee trades, Henry Lee, Jr., in Italy, banking and government finances, Lee family matters, and Boston social life. Typewritten notes on family correspondence.
Aug. 1843
Correspondence from Francis L. Lee, Henry Lee, Henry Lee, Jr., George Bemis, Hannah L. Jackson, S.B. Russell, and Mary Jackson Lee. Subjects include Lee family matters, Boston social life, Lee business concerns, railroad stock, and Henry Lee's opinion of John Tyler.
Sep. 1843
Correspondence from William M. Gouge, Mary Jackson Lee, William Minot, Jr., Patrick Tracy Jackson, Jr., S.B. Russell, Harriet J. Lee, and Henry Lee. Subjects include Henry Lee financial articles, Lee family matters, Boston social life (Mrs. Fanny Appleton Longfellow), Lee business concerns, a manufacturing boom, railroad activity, national politics, and Francis L. Lee in Canada. Typewritten notes on family correspondence.
Oct.-Dec. 1843
Correspondence from Hannah L. Jackson, Harriet J. Lee, Mary Jackson Lee, Francis L. Lee, William S. Bullard, Patrick Tracy Jackson, Jr., Francis H. Jackson, William M. Gouge, Langdon Cheves, and Charles H. Parker. Subjects include Lee family matters, Boston social life, Bullard & Lee business, Henry Lee publications on banking and the tariff, the return from Europe of Henry Lee, Jr., and the Swedenborgian Church.
Jan.-July 1844
Correspondence from William M. Gouge, Clement C. Biddle, Nathan Hale, William S. Bullard, Stephen H. Bullard, Mary Jackson Lee, Richard Sullivan, Jr., J. Elliot Cabot, and William Minot, Jr. Subjects include the inclusion of Stephen Bullard as a partner in Bullard & Lee, the cotton and silk trades, the tariff and currency, Lee family matters, and the illness of Lizzie Cabot. Articles of copartnership of William S. Bullard, Henry Lee, Jr., and Stephen H. Bullard.
Aug.-Dec. 1844
Correspondence from Francis L. Lee, Mary Jackson Lee, William N. Habersham, Francis H. Jackson, Mary E. Dwight, William S. Bullard, Henry A.S. Dearborn, and Henry Lee, Jr. Subjects include Francis L. Lee as supercargo to Rio de Janeiro, Lee and Cabot family matters, William S. Bullard in Calcutta, and the Lee genealogy.
Jan.-Sep. 1845
Correspondence from William S. Bullard, Henry Lee, Jr., Henry Lee, Francis L. Lee, and Thomas Thornely. Subjects include Francis L. Lee in Calcutta; William S. Bullard in Alexandria, Rome, and London; the Lee family arms; and the distribution of Henry Lee's economic writings to Robert Peel, William E. Gladstone, and other British political figures. Henry Lee to Gladstone, 29 Apr. 1845.
Oct. 1845-1846
Correspondence from William S. Bullard, Francis L. Lee, Gordon Dexter, Henry Lee, Jr., Henry Lee, Mary Jackson Lee, and Stephen H. Bullard. Subjects include the marriage of Henry Lee, Jr., and Lizzie Cabot, the birth of their first child, Elizabeth Lee, Lee family stock transactions, and Stephen H. Bullard in Calcutta.
1847
Correspondence from Mary Jackson Lee, William H. Robinson, Stephen H. Bullard, and Francis L. Lee. Subjects include Lee family matters, Bullard & Lee business in Calcutta, and Francis L. Lee in Westport, N.Y. Copy of Guizot's discussion of a political representative and his constituents from Journal des Debats with notes by Henry Lee.
1848
Correspondence from Josiah Sturgis, Stephen H. Bullard, Mary Jackson Lee, Henry Lee, Jr., and Amos A. Lawrence. Subjects include the American flag, the Lee genealogy, the engagement of Francis L. Lee, State Street sidewalk alterations, the State Reform School, and Presidential politics. Newspaper clipping on Calhoun speech with notes by Henry Lee. Henry Lee accounts with Lee & Higginson.
1849
Correspondence from Thomas H. Shreve, Stephen H. Bullard, Eliza S. Quincy, and Mary Jackson Lee. Subjects include the movement for the emancipation of enslaved people in Kentucky, Bullard & Lee business, Louis Napoleon and European politics, Lee and Cabot family matters, and the birth of Henry Lee III. Lee & Higginson accounts and Henry Lee's list of expenses for 1849.
1850
Correspondence from Stephen H. Bullard, Henry Lee, Henry Lee, Jr., and William S. Bullard. Subjects include Lee family stocks and property, Bullard & Lee business, European politics, and the death of Sir Robert Peel. Lee & Higginson accounts and the Cabot genealogy.
Jan.-May 1851
Correspondence from Stephen H. Bullard, William S. Bullard, Henry Lee, Samuel Eliot, and George Derby. Subjects include Bullard & Lee business, William S. Bullard in Europe, Lee family finances, the Charity School on Fort Hill, and a proposed music hall for Boston.
June-Oct. 1851
Correspondence from Samuel Eliot, William S. Bullard, James J. Higginson, Samuel Cabot, Stephen H. Bullard, and Clement C. Biddle. Subjects include Samuel Eliot's school, the management of the Boston Theatre, Dixwell's School, Lee and Cabot family matters, William S. Bullard in Europe, Bullard & Lee business, and political economy.
Nov.-Dec. 1851
Correspondence from Stephen H. Bullard, Clement C. Biddle, and Richard C. Lewis. Subjects include Bullard & Lee business, political economy, and Lee family finances. List of stockholders of the Boston Theatre and Henry Lee accounts with Lee & Higginson.
Jan.-Apr. 1852
Correspondence from Henry Lee, William E. Mayhew, Stephen H. Bullard, J.G. Dudley, and William S. Bullard. Subjects include manufacturing in Maryland and the United States, Lee family property, stock transactions, and Bullard & Lee business. Lee & Higginson accounts.
May-Sep. 1852
Correspondence of Henry Lee, Henry Lee, Jr., Harrison Ritchie, Nathaniel I. Bowditch, William S. Bullard, and Hector C. Ames. Subjects include the sale of the Harrison Gray Otis estate and the dissolution of the Bullard-Lee partnership.
Oct.-Dec. 1852
Correspondence from J. Ingersoll Bowditch, Henry Lee, and Mary Jackson Lee. Subjects include the Otis estate, Henry Lee, Jr., in England, Lee family matters, Boston social life, business concerns, and the money market. Lee & Higginson accounts.
Jan.-Mar. 1853
Correspondence from Henry Lee, Mary Jackson Lee, J. Elliot Cabot, J. Ingersoll Bowditch, William S. Bullard, Stephen H. Bullard, and S.B. Russell. Subjects include Henry Lee, Jr., in England, the standing of the United States as a civilization compared to Great Britain and Europe, Franklin Pierce, world finance, the Otis house, the Union Bank building and other real estate matters, Lee and Cabot family matters, and Boston social life. Plan for the Boston Theatre. Lee & Higginson accounts.
Apr.-Aug. 1853
Correspondence from Mary Jackson Lee and H.G. Somerby. Subjects include Lee family matters, Boston social life, and the Lee genealogy. Lee & Higginson accounts.
Sep.-Dec. 1853
Correspondence from Mary Jackson Lee, J. Elliot Cabot, Henry Lee, and Henry Lee, Jr. Subjects include the Boston Theatre, Lee family matters, Boston social life, Boston real estate, commercial debts, and British politics. Lee & Higginson accounts.
1854-1855
Correspondence from Thomas Barry, Mary Jackson Lee, and Henry Lee, Jr. Subjects include the Boston Theatre and Lee family finances. Chart of "movements of navigation and foreign commerce in the principal commercial states." Lee & Higginson accounts.
1856
Correspondence from Henry Lee, Henry Lee, Jr., and Louisa Waterhouse. Subjects include Lee family finances, the Boston Theatre, and the cotton market. Lee & Higginson accounts and business statements for the Boston Theatre. Contains letter from Louisa Waterhouse to Horace Mann, 27 Dec. 1856, donating books to Antioch College.
Jan.-July 1857
Correspondence from Horace Mann, William Minot, Jr., William E. Mayhew, Fanny Kemble, Henry Lee, Jr., William Amory, Susan C. Jackson, and Amelia L. Holmes. Subjects include Antioch College, Lee family finances, and the Boston Theatre. Deed to property at 7 Bedford Place and Lee & Higginson accounts.
Aug.-Dec. 1857
Correspondence from Robert Sears, Mary Jackson Lee, Henry Lee, Henry Lee, Jr., Charles G. Loring, and Fanny Kemble. Subjects include the emancipation of enslaved people, the Boston Theatre, Lee family matters, and the financial problems of Hampden Mills. Financial statements of the Boston Theatre.
1858
Correspondence from Fanny Kemble, Joseph Leonard, Patrick Tracy Jackson, Jr., Mary Jackson Lee, George S. Lyman, and Arthur T. Lyman. Subjects include Henry Lee, Jr.'s investments, the Boston Theatre, and Lee family matters. Documents relating to finances of the Boston Theatre corporation.
1859
Correspondence from Henry Lee, Jr., Daniel Appleton, Jr., and Francis Larcom. Subjects include Lee finances and the Boston Theatre. Financial documents of the Boston Theatre.
Jan.-June 1860
Correspondence from Lucia M. Peabody, John Ober, Francis Larcom, W.A. Sale, Mary E. Parkman, D.G. Ingraham, and S.A. Ripley. Subjects include real estate, the schooling of Bessie Lee, the upkeep of the Lee gardens and property at Beverly Farms, the Boston Theatre, and the death of Mary Jackson Lee. Financial documents of the Boston Theatre.
July-Dec. 1860
Correspondence from E.S. Dixwell, Lois L. Capen, Henry Lee, Jr., Henry Lee, David Larcom, Francis Larcom, Edward D. Sohier, Gardiner Howland Shaw, and David Sears. Subjects include the schooling of Henry Lee III, Henry Lee's remembrance of Mary Jackson Lee, the upkeep of Lee property, the Duke of Newcastle and Anglo-American relations, emancipation, and the productivity of forced and free labor. Financial documents of the Boston Theatre.
Jan.-15 May 1861
Correspondence from Richard B. Hall, Nathan Matthews, D.G. Ingraham, Adam Knox, Richard Borden, A.B. Ely, John Murray Forbes, Wm. Logan Rodman, John H. Reid, and Francis Larcom. Subjects include Henry Lee, Jr., as aide-de-camp to Governor John A. Andrew, Massachusetts preparations for war (the purchase of food, clothing, and arms), and the upkeep of Lee family property. Letters to Andrew concerning military personnel. Quotations from the London Spectator on the Civil War and American politics.
16-29 May 1861
Correspondence from Henry Lee, Jr., Bernard O'Kane, George Winslow, Francis Larcom, W.F. Chapple, George Devereux, Joseph F. Paul, J.T. Fields, Charles Sumner, and Charles H. Dalton. Subjects include job seekers, food, equipment, and transportation for Massachusetts troopers, troop training conditions, and the upkeep of Lee property. Letter from Charles Sumner to Henry Lee, Jr., 25 May 1861, informs Lee that the appointment of regimental surgeons is a function of the governor. Charts and other documents relating to purchases of food, clothing, etc., for troops.
June 1861
Correspondence from Thomas H. Webb, Charles Devereux, Charles R. Lowell, Jr., F.B. Crowninshield, William S. Rosecrans, J. Elliot Cabot, John Gorham Palfrey, and Fletcher Webster. Subjects include relief activities, the purchase of Enfield rifles, military commissions, troop training conditions, and Lee family matters. Statement of receipts and payments of the Boston Theatre.
July-Aug. 1861
Correspondence from J. Elliot Cabot, Edward D. Sohier, William S. Tilton, Charles E. Fuller, D.N. Couch, Joseph Ricketson, J.G. Abbott, and Charles H. Dalton. Subjects include Lee family finances, military commissions, freedom seekers, and General George McClellan and the Army of the Potomac. Orders for Massachusetts Volunteers to appear at Amherst and Harvard commencements.
Sep.-10 Oct. 1861
Correspondence from Joseph Ricketson, Henry Lee Higginson, Amos A. Lawrence, Frank E. Howe, James F. Miller, J.R. Salla, W.W. Bullock, E.C. Dutton, and H.P. Curtis. Subjects include military commissions (Henry Lee Higginson), recruiting, military training, and military displays and martial music as a means to fire the patriotism of the people. Recruiting service documents.
12-31 Oct. 1861
Correspondence from Amelia L. Holmes, Stephen B. Ives, Jr., John Ober, A.G. Browne, Jr., Schuyler Hamilton, Henry Lee, Jr., and Francis W. Palfrey. Subjects include the visit of Henry Lee, Jr., to the 15th and 20th regiments of the Army of the Potomac, recruiting, commissions, and requests for information on soldiers missing in action. Advertising bills for the quartermaster's office and a list of officers of the 15th regiment.
1-15 Nov. 1861
Correspondence from Henry Lee, Jr., A.B. Ely, Charles H. Dalton, John A. Andrew, W.D. Silsbee, John Murray Forbes, Horace B. Sargent, Harrison Ritchie, and Charles E. Griswold. Subjects include the dispute between John A. Andrew and Benjamin F. Butler over recruiting and commissioning of officers, Henry Lee, Jr.'s meeting with Abraham Lincoln, and trouble concerning the election of officers in the Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry.
15-27 Nov. 1861
Correspondence from Patrick Tracy Jackson, Jr., Henry Lee, Jr., Francis Larcom, Lawrence P. Barrett, and Joseph F. Paul. Subjects include commissions, various military matters under the jurisdiction of Governor Andrew, real estate, and Lee property. List of the 20th regiment wounded and missing, November 1861.
2-15 Dec. 1861
Correspondence from Joseph F. Paul, Henry Lee, Jr., F.O. Prince, D.N. Couch, John A. Andrew, E.D. Townsend, Charles R. Lowell, Jr., and Charles H. Dalton. Subjects include the Andrew-Butler dispute, Union engagements on the frontier, and the voyage of the Barque Aura with supplies for the Army of the Potomac. Includes letters to Abraham Lincoln, George B. McClellan, and Benjamin F. Butler.
17-29 Dec. 1861
Correspondence from Benjamin S. Price, Wilder Dwight, Henry Lee, Jr., Thomas J.G. Amory, George Higginson, Waldo Higginson, and F.O. Prince. Subjects include military appointments, elections and promotions, and Massachusetts coastal fortifications. Form for a regiment camp and financial statements of the Boston Theatre and Henry Lee, Jr.
Jan.-Feb. 1862
Correspondence from D.N. Couch, Daniel Oakey, Wilder Dwight, Richard B. Hall, Henry Wilson, Fletcher Webster, E.D. Townsend, Emory Washburn, Henry Lee, Jr., A.G. Browne, Jr., George G. Stoddard, and John E. Lodge. Subjects include the conduct of military officers, military appointments and promotions, prisoner exchanges, the Andrew-Butler dispute, Henry Lee, Jr.'s dispute with A.G. Browne, Jr., and letter of resignation, Boston Theatre debts, and Governor Andrew's treatment by the press.
Mar.-Apr. 1862
Correspondence from Lizzie M. Dawes, Charles Howard, Stephen Cabot, William S. Clark, Richard H. Dana, Jr., Henry Lee, Jr., A.H. Fiske, George N. Faxon, William P. Mason, Jr., and H.M. Aborn. Subjects include job promotions and military transfers, supplies, the war in North Carolina, and Henry Lee, Jr.'s resignation as treasurer of the Boston Theatre. Documents relating to the operation of the Boston Theatre.
May-June 1862
Correspondence from Robert B. Forbes, William Monteith, Stephen Cabot, D.N. Couch, James J. Dana, Henry Lee, Jr., W.D. Russell, James F. Miller, Edward C. Cabot, S.W. Oakey, James Savage, and Nathaniel B. Shurtleff. Subjects include various military matters, Lee family finances, and the Lee and Winthrop genealogies.
July 1862
Correspondence from Henry Lee, Jr., John Murray Forbes, Gardiner Howland Shaw, J.L. Ainsworth, J.A. Higginson, William R. Ware, James J. Dana, W.T. Hunter, Edward Jackson, William Logan Rodman, Edwin Hale Abbott, John L. Fox., C.R. Lowell, Jr., Sidney A. Stetson, Henry Lee Higginson, and John Jeffries, Jr. Subjects include various military matters (promotions and recruiting), Union Army reverses, and the Lee genealogy.
1-11 Aug. 1862
Correspondence from John Jeffries, Jr., A.P. Caraher, William Logan Rodman, James J. Dana, Wilder Dwight, J.C. Taber, Amos A. Lawrence, P.S. Davis, Charles J. Mills, and Henry W. Halleck. Subjects include military appointments, commissions, promotions, and recruiting.
15-27 Aug. 1862
Correspondence from Emory Washburn, Oliver Edwards, William Logan Rodman, Amos A. Lawrence, Daniel Oakey, George Whittemore, Benjamin F. Kendall, Stephen H. Phillips, James M. Nichols, Follen Cabot, and W.J. Loring. Subjects include military appointments, commissions, discharges, and promotions.
Sep.-Oct. 1862
Correspondence from Benjamin. F. Kendall, James Oakes, Henry B. Metcalf, Fisher & Co., William Steffen, George L. Andrews, S.W. Oakey, George W. Pearson, T.C.A. Dexter, George S. Greene, Addison Farnsworth, R.C. Greenleaf, and Henry Lee, Jr. Subjects include military appointments, commissions, discharges and promotions, an aide-memoire on tactics, complaints about government delays on supplies and troop encampment, Francis L. Lee as a soldier, and Henry Lee, Jr., in Washington and North Carolina.
Nov. 1862
Correspondence from Henry Lee, Jr., Henry Briggs. Leverett Saltonstall, J.B. Thayer, James J. Higginson, George W. Kuhn, H.B. Sargent, and Charles W. Eliot. Subjects include Henry Lee, Jr., with his brother's regiment at New Berne, N.C., a description of North Carolina, various military matters, and a 1,000-cigar political bet with Leverett Saltonstall.
Dec. 1862
Correspondence from S.W. Oakey, William Baker, Jr., James C. Mulligan, Stephen Cabot, Henry Lee Higginson, and John Quincy Adams. Subjects include military commissions and promotions and Boston Harbor defenses. Reports on manpower under General Foster and the condition of forts in Boston Harbor.
Jan.-May 1863
Correspondence from J.B. Fox, Thomas J. Lee, Stephen Cabot, Amos A. Lawrence, J. Ingersoll Bowditch, Charles Peirson, C.R. Lowell, Jr., D.N. Couch, Reverdy Johnson, Jr., Harrison Ritchie, John A. Andrew, A.G. Browne, Jr., and Henry Lee, Jr. Subjects include military commissions and promotions, conditions of troops in the field, equipment, the receivership of the United States Insurance Co., and the creation of a bureau in the adjutant general's office to deal with all matters relating to "colored troops." List of commissions in the Massachusetts Volunteers, 3 Jan. 1863.
June-July 1863
Correspondence from R.C. Greenleaf, Joseph S. Cabot, and Charles E. Griswold. Subjects include various Massachusetts military matters and the Cabot genealogy.
Aug.-Sep. 1863
Correspondence from John A. Andrew, C.R. Codman, C.R. Lowell, Jr., Amos A. Lawrence, and Henry Lee, Jr. Subjects include raising a strong militia force for Boston, the defense of Boston and New England, commissions and promotions, and Henry Lee, Jr.'s feelings about the war and the role of Great Britain, Lee to Fanny Kemble, Sep. 1863.
Oct.-Dec. 1863
Correspondence from Henry Lee, Jr., William Endicott, Jr., Fanny Kemble, James J. Higginson, Albert R. Howe, Edward C. Cabot, and John A. Andrew. Subjects include the command of "colored" troops, the Civil War and Great Britain, and James J. Higginson as a prisoner of war.
1863
Draft Riot. Correspondence from Stephen Cabot, Henry Lee, Jr., Thomas J. Little, William Ray, L.B. Whiton, and Caleb E. Niebuhr. Subjects include the conduct of Major Stephen Cabot in defense of Cooper Street Armory during the Draft Riot of 1863.
Jan.-Feb. 1864
Correspondence from Henry Lee, Jr. Subjects include troop reviews, receptions, and other ceremonial functions.
Mar.-Apr. 1864
Correspondence from Anna Loring, Horace C. Lee, F.A. Osborn, and Frank W. Loring. Subjects include the case of an army officer accused of striking a soldier and various other military matters.
May-Dec. 1864
Correspondence from A.G. Browne, Jr., John Quincy Adams, John A. Andrew, Henry Lee, Jr., Reverdy Johnson, Jr., Daniel Oakey, Edward Jackson, James J. Higginson, Robert C. Winthrop, and W.F. Oakey. Subjects include the resignation of Henry Lee, Jr., as aide-de-camp, the state of Henry Lee's health and finances, military commissions and promotions, and a miniature of Daniel Webster given to the Massachusetts Historical Society. Brief of a speech given by Henry Lee, Jr.
1860-1865
Miscellany. Notes on Governor Andrew and lists of officers for promotion.
1865-1866
Correspondence from H.I. Bowditch, Fanny Kemble, Alexander Hamilton, Jr., Patrick Tracy Jackson, Jr., James Jackson, Henry Lee, Jr., Charles E. Guild, John Quincy Adams II, and Robert C. Winthrop. Subjects include the death of Abraham Lincoln, postwar celebrations and commemorations, a statue of Alexander Hamilton for Boston, the abandoning of compulsory military service, the weakening of the Massachusetts militia by the legislature, and proposed alterations to the Old State House.
1867
Correspondence from Theodore Frothingham, George G. Meade, George L. Andrews, C.B. Patten, Josephine S. Lowell, and W.M. Hunt. Subjects include the promotion by brevet of the deceased Henry Lyman Patten and the collection of funds for a full-length portrait of Governor Andrew. List of contributions to Andrew portrait fund.
1868-1869
Correspondence from Henry Wheatland, E.L. Godkin, John Murray Forbes, Theodore Lyman, D.A. Goddard, W.M. Hunt, and James J. Higginson. Subjects include a Henry Lee, Jr., article on Benjamin F. Butler for the Nation, the Butler-Richard Henry Dana race for Congress, a war memorial to Harvard men killed in the Civil War, and the Hamilton statue.
1870-1874
Correspondence from S.B. Russell, William Lee, Henry Lee, Jr., Waldo Higginson, Theodore Lyman, W.H. Whitmore, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Subjects include President Ulysses S. Grant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Lee genealogy, the death of Henry Lee III, and Henry Lee, Jr.'s obituary of Francis C. Lowell.
1875
Correspondence from W.W. Clapp, R.P. Hallowell, William Lee, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John H. Clifford, Henry Cabot Lodge, Amos A. Lawrence, and Waldo Higginson. Subjects include the Faneuil Hall protest against General Sheridan's purging of the Louisiana legislature, the Lee genealogy, Henry Cabot Lodge's sketch of the Cabot family, and Henry Lee's candidacy for the General Court.
1876
Correspondence from William J. Dale, William Lee, Charles Eliot Norton, Amos A. Lawrence, Henry Cabot Lodge, Waldo Higginson, J. Henry Lea, Alexander H. Rice, Owen Wister, Samuel Cabot, Jr., John Murray Forbes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Fanny Kemble, and Henry Lee, Jr. Subjects include women's salaries, the Robert Gould Shaw monument, the Cabot family, the Lee genealogy, political appointments, Republican fundraising, and the political reform movement of 1876. Also included is Henry Lee, Jr.'s letter signed "A Free Soiler of 1848."
1877-1879
Correspondence from Martin Brimmer, Owen J. Wister, Henry Cabot Lodge, John J. Babson, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Fanny Kemble, Elizur Wright, William Dean Howells, F.O. Prince, Waldo Higginson, Elizabeth O.P. Sturgis, Theodore Lyman, William Newell, Amos A. Lawrence, Thomas B. Cary, and Henry Parkman. Subjects include political corruption, Henry Lee, Jr.'s legislative activities, 1877, Boston city politics, Episcopal and Unitarian history, Harvard activities, the Lee genealogy, Lodge research on George Cabot, and articles on Fanny Kemble and Hannah Lowell Jackson.
1880-1882
Correspondence from George G. Tarbell, J. Henry Lea, Ellen R. Richards, John Murray Forbes, D.A. Goddard, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, E.L. Godkin, Charles A. Cummings, Frederick C. Shattuck, Edward W. Emerson, John Fiske, Waldo Higginson, and Owen J. Wister. Subjects include the Lee and Cheever genealogy, Republican party finances and strategy, the funeral of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the historical writings of John Tiske, civil service reform, and Massachusetts state politics.
1883
Correspondence from George Frisbie Hoar, James J. Higginson, Richard Olney, Alexander Agassiz, William Minot, Jr., Matthew Hale, Houghton Mifflin & Co., W.R. Bagnall, Waldo Higginson, J. Elliot Cabot, Charles E. French, and Fanny Kemble. Subjects include the governor's veto of a bill incorporating Union Safe Deposit Vaults, Henry Lee, Jr.'s opposition to an honorary degree for Governor Butler, Butler's re-election bid, Boston city politics, and the Appleton genealogy.
1884
Correspondence from James J. Higginson, George A. Bruce, Frederick Law Olmsted, Theodore Lyman, Charles P. Bowditch, Amos A. Lawrence, J. Morris Meredith, Bishop James Healy, Camillus G. Kidder, G.P. King, Leverett Saltonstall, William G. Russell, and Waldo Higginson. Subjects include the Pickering family genealogy, land development on Commonwealth Avenue, James G. Blaine, Grover Cleveland, and the Mugwumps of 1884.
1885-1886
Correspondence from E.L. Godkin, James J. Higginson, Lizzie C. Agassiz, Edward Wheelwright. Henry Lee, Jr., Henry Cabot Lodge, J. Randolph Coolidge, Jr., William Dean Howells, John H. Heywood, Le Baron Russell, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Charles R. Codman, Josiah Quincy, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Waldo Higginson, and Robert C. Winthrop. Subjects include Harvard activities, the Indian Rights Association, and the death of Francis L. Lee.
1887
Correspondence from William Lee, Waldo Higginson, David G. Haskins, Francis H. Lee, Theodore Roosevelt, John Fiske, H.S. Russell, Fanny Kemble, and E.L. Godkin. Subjects include the Lee genealogy, Lee family matters, and an article on Henry Lee for Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography. Theodore Roosevelt's letter to Henry Lee, Jr., briefly discusses Thomas Hart Benton and America's westward expansion, 10 Apr. 1887.
1888
Correspondence from Henry F. Waters, William Rotch Wister, Henry Lee, Jr., James J. Higginson, Henry Cabot Lodge, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles H. Dalton, A.E. Pillsbury, Waldo Higginson, Le Baron Russell, Oliver Ames, George Frisbie Hoar, Leverett Saltonstall, Hugh O'Brien, Owen J. Wister, John Gilbert, and John Murray Forbes. Subjects include the division of Beverly, a Crispus Attucks monument, Henry Cabot Lodge and the protective tariff, fundraising for Grover Cleveland, the Boston Park Commission, and a pension for Mrs. Philip Sheridan. Lodge to Henry Lee, Jr., 12 Apr. 1888.
1889
Correspondence from William R. Richard, Le Baron Russell, Edward Wheelwright, Henry Cabot Lodge, Edward Atkinson, Henry Lee, Jr., John H. Heywood, Walter M. Leman, Fanny Kemble, Henry S. Grew, Edward T. Lowell, Henry W. Swift, John T. Morse, Jr., Martin Brimmer, and Waldo Higginson. Subjects include the Boston Post, preservation of the relics of "Old Boston," Henry Cabot Lodge's biography of Washington, biographies of Lafayette and Franklin, Sewall books and letters, the death of actor John Gilbert and the actor's craft, and the gubernatorial candidacy of William E. Russell.
1890
Correspondence from Henry Cabot Lodge, A.L. Barnett, Brooks Adams, Henry Lee, Jr., Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Waldo Higginson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles F. McKim, Edwin M. Bacon, Arthur T. Lyman, John F. Andrew, Fanny Kemble, and John Quincy Adams. Subjects include the appointment of postmasters, the finances of the Boston Post, the Sewall family, Senator George F. Hoar, the tariff and silver issues, civil service reform, and John Quincy Adams in polities. Henry Lee, Jr., to George Frisbie Hoar, 16 May 1890.
1891
Correspondence from W.W. Clapp, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Patrick Tracy Jackson, Jr., Robert C. Winthrop, Clayton Colman Hall, Waldo Higginson, J. Henry Lea, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., George A. Torrey, Nathan Matthews, Jr., Henry Cabot Lodge, E.A. Grozier, Henry Lyman, George G. Tarbell, James J. Higginson, and Henry Lee, Jr. Subjects include the Lee, Higginson, Jackson, Colman, and Pemberton families; Henry Whitney and state and city politics; the development of Commonwealth Avenue; the engagement of Constance Lodge; the Boston Post; and Henry Lee, Jr.'s thoughts on a Massachusetts income tax.
1892
Correspondence from Sherman Hoar, E.L. Godkin, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Everett, E.A. Grozier, Henry Cabot Lodge, Fanny Kemble, Waldo Higginson, Henry Lee, Jr., Henry Davenport, Charles H. Taylor, E.H. Clement, Thomas N. Hart, and Nathan Matthews, Jr. Subjects include a potential war with Chile, the Maverick Bank cases, the Massachusetts Historical Society, Henry Cabot Lodge's speech on the silver issue, Commonwealth Avenue, Boston city officers and partisan politics, and reminiscences of early 19th-century Boston.
Jan.-Apr. 1893
Correspondence from Joseph B. Warner, William Minot, Jr., James J. Higginson, Nathan Matthews, Jr., John W.T. Nichols, Harrison Ellery, Horace E. Scudder, W. Sturgis Bigelow, E.H. Clement, Edwin P. Hoyt, Theodore Lyman, John Trowbridge, Samuel E. Turner, John Murray Forbes, D.G. Haskins, Ellis & Melledge, and J.B. Thayer. Subjects include Fanny Kemble, Charles Francis Adams' "Three Episodes of Massachusetts History," Massachusetts state politics, and Henry Lee, Jr.'s purchase of the Judge Lee house in Cambridge.
May-Dec. 1893
Correspondence from Annis Lee Wister; H.E. Scudder, Lizzie C. Agassiz, William Minot, Jr., Henry Lane, Francis B. Leigh, J. Henry Lea, Henry Cabot Lodge, W.W. Goodwin, Harrison Ellery, Charles F. McKim, John W.T. Nichols, J. Watson Taylor, James J. Higginson, E.H. Clement, George B. Upham, and Samuel W. Whitman. Subjects include Henry Lee, Jr.'s Atlantic Monthly article on Fanny Kemble, the Lee genealogy, the Cambridge land purchase, Jonathan Jackson, the Boston Theatre and the proposed music hall, and the formation of the Boston Transit Commission.
1894
Correspondence from Charles F. McKim, George G. Tarbell, J. Henry Lea, Robert P. Rantoul, Nathan Matthews, Jr., John T. Morse, Jr., H.E. Scudder, E. Rockwood Hoar, Henry Cabot Lodge, Richard Olney, Ebenezer W. Stone, John W.T. Nichols, Lizzie C. Agassiz, Henry E. Warner, Edward S. Porter, George E. Ellis, William M. McInnes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Ellis & Melledge. Subjects include Henry Lee, Jr.'s tribute to William Minot, Jr., the Lee genealogy, Harvard affairs, the Judge Lee house, and the proposed Boston subway.
1895
Correspondence from William Rotch Ware, Henry Lee, Jr., John W.T. Nichols, Curtis Guild, Jr., Ellis & Melledge, John J. Currier, E.H. Clement, James C. Carter, J. Henry Lea, Pen Hallowell, Robert Grant, Francis C. Lowell, Owen J. Wister, and George G. Tarbell. Subjects include Henry Lee, Jr.'s campaign to save the State House, the tariff and silver issues, Grover Cleveland and Henry Cabot Lodge, the Judge Lee house, and Mayor Edwin U. Curtis. Henry Lee, Jr., to Lodge, 26 Mar. 1895.
1896
Correspondence from James J. Higginson, J. Henry Lea, Charles C. Smith, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Anna C. Granger, E.H. Clement, Pen Hallowell, Walter K. Watkins, Edward Wheelwright, Curtis Guild, Jr., and George G. Tarbell. Subjects include the Lee, Tracy, and Jackson genealogy; Jonathan Sewall letters; Governor Andrew and the Massachusetts Volunteers; Harvard affairs; and state and national politics.
1897-1898
Correspondence from Roger Wolcott, John Ward Dean, W.K. Watkins, Richard Olney, Pen Hallowell, Bessie Schonberg Ward, Ellen Cabot Torrey, John Davis Long, George Lincoln Goodale, Charles H. Parker, Edith Emerson Forbes, Henry Lee, Jr., and S.F. Hughes. Subjects include the Lee and Cabot genealogy, a dinner for Richard Olney, Boston social life, Harvard, Milton Hill, and Henry Lee, Jr.'s illness and his view of the Spanish-American War.
189-
Correspondence from Le Baron Russell, W.H. Whitmore, Lizzie C. Agassiz, Sarah N. Hallowell, Theodore Lyman, William Minot, Jr., Henry Cabot Lodge, Mary C. Olmsted, and Robert C. Winthrop. Subjects include the Lee genealogy, the Agassiz Fund, Harvard, Henry Lee, Jr.'s criticism of Henry Cabot Lodge, and Frederick Law Olmsted.
1917-1934
Correspondence from Worthington C. Ford, Clarence W. Bowen, Albert Matthews, Frederick C. Shattuck, Elizabeth P. Shattuck, Mary Lovering Holman, Charles E. Banks, and Emily F. Woodman. Subjects include Caleb Davis, the Shattuck genealogy, and Lee papers sent to the Massachusetts Historical Society and Baker Library, Harvard Business School.
B. Writings and genealogy, 1833-1898
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
This bulk of this subseries consists of the writings of Henry Lee, Jr., including various letters to the editor on military matters, politics, and historic preservation, memoirs and obituaries of colleagues and friends, and reviews and speeches. Also included are some writings of Henry Lee, papers related to the Massachusetts militia, and Lee family genealogical material.
John A. Andrew, 1865
Reminiscences of Governor John A. Andrew by Henry Lee, Jr.; program of Harvard commencement at which Andrew received an honorary degree.
John A. Andrew, undated
Various drafts of a Henry Lee, Jr., sketch and lecture on Governor Andrew.
Beverly Improvement Society, 1889
Henry Lee, Jr., notes for the Beverly Improvement Society.
George P. Bradford, 1890-1892
Materials on the obituary of George P. Bradford, including two letters from J.B. Thayer to Henry Lee, Jr.
William Francis Bartlett, 1878-1883
Three copies of a speech presenting the Harvard memorial bust of General Bartlett; minutes of meetings of the Bartlett memorial committee.
H.J. Bigelow, 19 Nov. 1890
Remarks of Henry Lee, Jr., on Dr. Bigelow for the Boston Society for Medical Improvement. Includes notes of Henry Lee, Jr., and reprint of remarks in Boston Medical and Surgical Journal and a letter from George B. Shattuck.
Boston, undated
Henry Lee, Jr., lecture on "Old Boston" and articles on Boston military bands, the Charles River embankment, and the electric railway car in Boston.
Boston Common, 1891-1893
Henry Lee, Jr., notes, articles, and letters concerning protection of the Boston Common and rapid transit. Includes a letter from Francis E. Abbot, a flyer announcing the formation of the "Massachusetts Park Defence League," and a Henry Lee, Jr., article entitled "Urban and Suburban."
Boston - Old South Meeting House, 1877
Henry Lee, Jr., notes and newspaper articles concerning the Old South Meeting House and its preservation.
Martin Brimmer, 1896
Henry Lee, Jr., drafts of the obituary of Martin Brimmer.
Phillips Brooks, 1891-Feb. 1893
Henry Lee, Jr., notes and remarks on Phillips Brooks and the obituary of Brooks read before the Massachusetts Historical Society. Includes Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings and letters from Phillips Brooks and Samuel Whitman.
William Story Bullard
Henry Lee, Jr., notes, clippings, and the obituary of William S. Bullard.
"On Burglary..." 1868
Henry Lee, Jr., article on burglars and burglary. Includes notes and an advertisement on the Union Safe Deposit Vaults.
Benjamin F. Butler, 15 July 1883
Argument before the Tewksbury Investigation Committee by Governor Butler.
Independent Corps of Cadets, Henry Clay, the Crisis of 1837, the Charles River embankment, Clarke House, and copperheads, undated
Henry Lee, Jr., notes and remarks.
Sarah G. Cary, undated
Obituary of Sarah G. Cary.
Catholics, undated
Henry Lee, Jr., notes on Irish Catholics and the Puritan heritage.
Civil service reform, Feb. 1884
Henry Lee, Jr., speech before the Civil Service Reform Club of the 5th Congressional District and a list of other speakers.
Sarah Paine Cleveland, Aug. 1893
Copies of Henry Lee, Jr.'s obituary of Sarah Paine Cleveland.
Henry Denison, undated
Reminiscences and opinions concerning Henry Denison.
Charles Devens, Jan.-July 1891
Resolution of the Union Club to attend the funeral of General Devens; notes of Henry Lee, Jr., on Devens and on remarks on Devens before the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Thomas Dudley, undated
Henry Lee, Jr., letter on ancestor Thomas Dudley.
William H. Eliot, undated
Henry Lee, Jr., "toasts at the opening of Tremont House."
Faneuil Hall, 1875, 1890
Clippings on a Faneuil Hall meeting on Louisiana, a speech by Wendell Phillips, and a Democratic party rally.
Free Soil, undated
Henry Lee, Jr., notes on the first Free Soil meeting in 1848.
Genealogical papers, 1874, 1889
Notes on the Lee family and related families. Includes notes on the Record Commissioner's report, "A Brief Genealogy of the Mellows Family of Barbados," by Harrison Ellery; an unsigned letter to Francis H. Lee on the maternal ancestors of Thomas Lee (d. 1766); and a letter from J. Henry Lea.
John Gilbert, 1889
Henry Lee, Jr., articles and notes on actor John Gilbert. Newspaper clippings on Gilbert and letters concerning him from Robert M. Cushing, George Peirce, and George W. Curtis.
Zachariah Hicks, Isaac Hinckley, and Senator George F. Hoar, 1890
Henry Lee, Jr., notes, articles, and speeches. Also includes notes on railroads.
John Hancock, 1896-1897
Henry Lee, Jr., notes on Hancock for an oration by Curtis Guild, Jr., at the dedication of the Hancock memorial, newspaper clippings of the event, and a Henry Lee, Jr., speech on Hancock. Also includes Lee-Guild correspondence.
Harvard Club, N.Y., 1885
Henry Lee, Jr., speech notes and newspaper clippings on a Harvard Club dinner.
Harvard College, 1889
Henry Lee, Jr., notes for a speech on honorary degrees at commencement.
Harvard commencement dinner, 1882
Henry Lee, Jr., speech at dinner.
Harvard commencement, 1884
Henry Lee, Jr., commencement speech.
Harvard Medical School, 1881
Henry Lee, Jr., remarks on the 100th anniversary of the Harvard Medical School and the dedication of a new building.
George Higginson, 1889
Henry Lee, Jr., notes on George Higginson and copies of his obituary on Higginson.
Waldo Higginson, 1891-1894
Obituary of Waldo Higginson and letters on the obituary from Morrill Wyman, George Higginson, James J. Higginson, S.G. Ward, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jon S. Higginson, Richard Sullivan, Jr., Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and John Holmes. Letter from Arkwright Mutual Fire Insurance Co. to Waldo Higginson.
Hoar, 14 Feb. 1895
Includes Henry Lee, Jr., remarks on Judge E.R. Hoar at a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Lee notes on Judge Hoar, and correspondence from E.R. Hoar, Samuel Hoar, and J.B. Thayer.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1894-1895
Includes copies of remarks on Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, 11 Oct. 1894, and correspondence concerning Holmes from George E. Ellis, John T. Morse, Jr., John Holmes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Samuel Whitman.
Jackson, 1891
Henry Lee, Jr., notes on Andrew Jackson and the Crisis of 1837, as well as obituaries of S.C. Jackson and Patrick Tracy Jackson, Jr.
Fanny Kemble, undated
Newspaper clipping on Fanny Kemble.
Labor Day
Henry Lee, Jr., articles and clippings on Labor Day.
Henry Lee
Notes on Henry Lee's will.
Henry Lee, Jr., 1898
Biographical notes on Henry Lee, Jr., and newspaper clippings on the retirement and death of Lee. Lee notes on the "financial revulsion" of 1857.
Henry Lee, Jr., 1892-1898
Miscellaneous notes of Henry Lee, Jr., clippings on Lee retirement, Lee notes on and review of Edward Everett Hale's The Story of Massachusetts in the Nation, and correspondence from W.P. Garrison and William Everett relating to the review. List of things done in politics by Henry Lee, Jr. List of typographical errors found in the Boston Transcript by Henry Lee, Jr.
Henry Lee, Jr., undated
Henry Lee, Jr., notes on Shakespeare, Emerson, etc., and various other persons and matters. Also includes Lee's "Western Journal."
Henry Cabot Lodge, undated
Henry Lee, Jr., notes on Lodge, Republican politics, and foreign policy between 1884 and 1895.
William H. Logan, 1870
Henry Lee, Jr., obituary of William H. Logan.
Judge John Lowell, 1892
Henry Lee, Jr., speech at a dinner honoring Judge Lowell.
Theodore Lyman, 1891
Clippings concerning the wish of Lee and others to keep Lyman on the Harvard Board of Overseers, as well as the Henry Lee, Jr., obituary of Theodore Lyman.
Maverick Bank case, undated
Clippings.
Jeremiah Mason
Henry Lee, Jr., notes.
Meeting of Independents, 1884 (incorrectly dated 1894)
Lee speech.
William Minot, Jr., and Benjamin Eddy Morse, 1894
Obituaries.
Charles J. Morrill, undated
Henry Lee, Jr., remarks about Charles J. Morrill.
Boston Park System, 1891
Henry Lee, Jr., notes and clippings.
"Mischievous legislation," 1865; "unprincipled partisanship," 1890; Mayor Edwin U. Curtis, 1895; military preparedness, 1898; and "Jabez Pratt-Coroner"
Lee articles.
Francis E. Parker
Henry Lee, Jr., notes on Francis E. Parker.
Perkins, undated
Henry Lee, Jr., remarks on Thomas H. and William Perkins.
Wendell Phillips, 1875
Henry Lee, Jr., article on Wendell Phillips.
Mayor Josiah Quincy and the Frog Pond, undated; the "Republican Marketman's Dinner," 1890; and the 1837 Broad Street riot, undated
Henry Lee, Jr., articles.
Theodore Roosevelt, Oct. 1895
Henry Lee, Jr., article on "Roosevelt's Inconsistencies."
General Sherman, 1865
Henry Lee, Jr., article on General Sherman's conduct.
Slavery and Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, undated
Notes.
Specie payments, undated
Lee speech on the resumption of specie payments.
George Cheyne Shattuck, 1893
Henry Lee, Jr., draft of the obituary of Dr. Shattuck.
State House, 1895-1896
Henry Lee, Jr., draft of an article, "Save the State House," and a Lee speech on the same matter. Clippings and correspondence on the State House. Includes a letter of E.P. Sohier and Clement K. Fay.
Subway, 1895
Henry Lee, Jr., notes, articles, and correspondence concerning the Boston subway. Includes letters from George S. Mandell.
Theological students
Henry Lee, Jr., address to theological students.
Taussig's tariff history
Report on The Tariff History of the United States, by Frank W. Taussig. Report by T. Jefferson Coolidge and a dissent by Henry Lee, Jr., and other members of the Harvard Committee on Political Economy.
Adin Thayer, ca. 1884
Henry Lee, Jr., response to an anti-Mugwump speech by Judge Thayer.
Anna Eliot Ticknor, 1885
Henry Lee, Jr., obituary of Mrs. George Ticknor.
Veterans' Preference Bill, 1895
Henry Lee, Jr., notes and article on the legislative debate over a Veterans' Preference Bill and the governor's veto of it.
Wealth
Clippings of an article "Does Wealth Make Happiness?" which includes a statement by Henry Lee, Jr.
Henry M. Wightman, 1885
Memorial to Henry M. Wightman.
H.F. Wolcott, undated
Letter from H.F. Wolcott.
"New England Guards," undated
Henry Lee, Jr., article.
Martin L. Whischer, 1875
Lee obituary.
Daniel Webster, 1890
Reprint of an 1824 Daniel Webster speech.
Whistler
Henry Lee, Jr., notes on Major George W. Whistler.
Robert C. Winthrop, Dec. 1894
Henry Lee, Jr., memoir of Robert C. Winthrop read to the Massachusetts Historical Society and a letter from Robert C. Winthrop, Jr., on the memoir.
Henry Lee, Jr., miscellany, undated
Various notes and charts on military matters, a narrative of the battle of Bunker Hill, invoices and lists of books, and notes on the estate of Thomas Lee.
Henry Lee, Jr., lectures, undated
Lectures on satire, astronomy, moral courage and personal influence, hospitality in ancient and modern times, occupation as an influence on taste, the duty of civil obedience, the study of dead languages, the duties of public and private economy, moral precepts and circumstances, the nature and effects of speculation, improvement and decay in modern civilization, the accumulation of knowledge, forming moral habits, and intellectual improvement. Also includes instructions on theme writing.
Massachusetts militia, May 1840
Annual returns of various companies.
Genealogy, etc.
Genealogical material of the Lee, Jackson, Cabot, and other related families, as well as a eulogy of Henry Lee.
Genealogy, etc., 1867, 1893
Genealogical material on the Lee, Cabot, Higginson, Quincy, and other related families. Includes drawings of coats of arms, genealogical charts, letters from William H. Whitmore, and a listing of Lee property.
Henry Lee annotated newspapers, 1833-1849
Clippings and notes of Henry Lee on banking currency from the Boston Courier and the New York Evening Post.
Henry Lee appendices, 1844-1845
Various appendices of Letters to the Cotton Manufacturers of Massachusetts (Boston, 1844) and Considerations on the Cultivation and Consumption of Cotton, Connected with Questions of Currency, Credit, Commerce and Banking; Addressed to the Cotton Manufacturers of Massachusetts (Boston, 1845).
Massachusetts militia, 1876-1877
Various statistical charts and other papers of Henry Lee, Jr., relating to the Massachusetts militia and the legislature. Includes letters from B.T. Tinan and Thomas F. Edmands.
Militia miscellany, 1866
Articles by Henry Lee, Jr., on militia matters, a statement of the number of troops in the American Revolution, and notes on Senator Henry Wilson's militia bill.
Massachusetts militia report, 1876-1877
Henry Lee, Jr., report on the Massachusetts militia. Includes correspondence from Charles J. Williams, E.L. Zalinski, and Thomas F. Edmands, notes on military organization in the United States, and draft notes of the Lee report.
Massachusetts militia report, 1876-1877
Henry Lee, Jr., notes and other material relating to the militia.
Massachusetts militia report, 1876-1877
Henry Lee, Jr., notes on and drafts of his militia report.
C. Robert Gould Shaw monument papers, 1886-1897
Arranged chronologically.
This subseries contains the correspondence and other papers of Henry Lee, Jr., relating to the construction of the Robert Gould Shaw monument in Boston, Mass.
Undated
Henry Lee proposals and other plans for the Robert Gould Shaw monument. Includes a letter from John Murray Forbes and extracts from the "Life of Governor Andrew."
1891
Correspondence from Edward Atkinson, Augustus St. Gaudens, John Murray Forbes, and Henry A. Turner. Subjects include subscriptions for the Shaw monument, its inscriptions, legislative action, progress on the bas-relief, and a visit by St. Gaudens to Boston.
Jan.-July 1892
Correspondence from Edward Atkinson, John Murray Forbes, Augustus St. Gaudens, Josephine Shaw Lowell, and M.P. Kennard. Subjects include the Shaw monument inscriptions, adding the names of fallen officers to the monument, and the work and payment of St. Gaudens.
Aug. 1892
Correspondence from John Murray Forbes, Augustus St. Gaudens, M.P. Kennard, and W.H. Hughes. Subjects include the Shaw monument inscriptions and Civil War reminiscences of John Murray Forbes.
Sep.-Oct. 1892
Correspondence from John Murray Forbes, Waldo Higginson, Henry Lee, Jr., Richard M. Hunt, Levi P. Morton, and Josephine Shaw Lowell. Subjects include the Shaw Monument Committee, the monument inscriptions, and the release of St. Gaudens to work on the government medal for the Columbian Exhibition.
Nov.-Dec. 1892
Correspondence from John Boyd Thacher, Charles L. Mitchell, Augustus St. Gaudens, Edward Atkinson, and John Murray Forbes. Subjects include St. Gaudens and the Columbian Exhibition, a contract for a Shaw monument terrace, and the monument inscriptions.
1893
Correspondence from Edward Atkinson, Augustus St. Gaudens, and John Murray Forbes. Subjects include St. Gaudens' delays in completion of the Shaw monument, Monument Committee finances, and the monument inscriptions.
Jan.-Apr. 1894
Correspondence from Edward Atkinson, Charles W. Eliot, Augustus St. Gaudens, and Henry Lee, Jr. Subjects include the Shaw monument inscriptions and other Monument Committee matters.
June-Dec. 1894
Correspondence from Edward Atkinson, Charles W. Eliot, Henry Lee, John Murray Forbes, and Augustus St. Gaudens. Subjects include the Shaw Monument Committee and President Eliot's proposal for inscriptions.
Apr.-July 1895
Correspondence from Edward Atkinson. Subjects include St. Gaudens' progress on the Shaw monument and legislative representation at the unveiling of the statue.
May-Aug. 1896
Correspondence from Augustus St. Gaudens and Edward Atkinson. Subjects include proposed changes by St. Gaudens, payment of the artist, and the completion of the Shaw monument.
Sep.-Dec. 1896
Correspondence from Edward Atkinson and Mimi Lyman. Subjects include the Shaw monument inscriptions, payment of St. Gaudens, and the choice of a date and an orator for the state unveiling.
Jan. 1897
Correspondence from Josephine Shaw Lowell, Thomas L. Livermore, Edward Atkinson, Sarah B. Shaw, and Daniel Appleton. Subjects include the withdrawal of Colonel Livermore as orator at the monument unveiling, the choice of William James and Booker T. Washington as speakers, and military and state participation in the final event.
Feb. 1897
Correspondence from Daniel Appleton, Edward Atkinson, Henry Lee, Jr., Pen Hallowell, Francis H. Appleton, William James, Josephine Shaw Lowell, Mimi Lyman, and Wilson B. Strong. Subjects include Shaw Monument Committee finances; William James's acceptance as orator; and seating, tickets, and other matters of preparation for the statue unveiling.
Mar. 1897
Correspondence from Edward Atkinson, Francis H. Appleton, Pen Hallowell, Mimi Lyman, Sarah B. Shaw, Josephine Shaw Lowell, Ida A. Higginson, Isaac P.T. Edmands, Henry Lee Higginson, William James, Thomas F. Edmands, and Henry Lee, Jr. Subjects include preparations for the Shaw monument unveiling, William James's role as orator, the inclusion of a military man on the list of speakers, and Edward Atkinson's "History of the Shaw Monument."
1-16 Apr. 1897
Correspondence from Henry Lee Higginson, Henry Lee, Jr., John Murray Forbes, William Atkinson, Edward Atkinson, Augustus St. Gaudens, Anna C.L. Waterston, M.P. Kennard, Samuel A. Green, and Francis H. Appleton. Subjects include preparations for the Shaw monument unveiling, reminiscences of John Murray Forbes, and the names inscribed on the monument.
21-30 Apr. 1897
Correspondence from Francis H. Appleton, John Murray Forbes, Henry Lee, Jr., Augustus St. Gaudens, William H. Baldwin, William H. Lawrence, Francis V. Balch, and William James. Subjects include tickets and seating for the Shaw monument unveiling and the order of march for the event. List of dignitaries and seating.
2-19 May 1897
Correspondence from William James, Edward Atkinson, Annie Fields, Charles L. Mitchell, Henry Lee Higginson, William E. Barton, Moses Williams, Ellen Sturgis Dixey, and Julia Ward Howe. Subjects include tickets for the Shaw monument unveiling, Black participation in the proceedings, and William James's speech.
21-31 May 1897
Correspondence from Julia Ward Howe, Henry Lee Higginson, Edward Atkinson, William James, Roger Wolcott, Henry Lee, Jr., and T.R. Sullivan. Subjects include last-minute preparations for and tickets to the Shaw monument unveiling. Includes Henry Lee and Edward Atkinson reports on the Monument Committee and tickets for the May 31 event.
1-4 June 1897
Correspondence from Edward Atkinson, Charles W. Eliot, and Henry Lee, Jr. Subjects include Shaw Monument Committee finances and reactions to the unveiling proceedings.
5 June-July 1897
Correspondence from Edward Atkinson, Houghton Mifflin & Co., Henry Lee, Jr., Josiah Quincy, and John Murray Forbes. Subjects include publication of a pamphlet on the history of the monument containing the addresses given at the statue unveiling.
1886-1887
Newspaper clippings on the reunion of the Massachusetts Colored Veterans Association, a remembrance of Francis George Shaw by John Murray Forbes, a list of Robert Gould Shaw's fallen comrades, and letters to the editor of the Transcript on the Shaw memorial.
D. Henry Lee Shattuck papers, 1933-1957
Arranged chronologically.
This subseries contains the correspondence and other papers of Henry Lee Shattuck relating to the research and writing of the two-volume study, The Jacksons and the Lees: Two Generations of Massachusetts Merchants, 1765-1844, by Kenneth Wiggins Porter (Cambridge, 1937).
1933
Correspondence from Henry Lee Shattuck, Samuel Eliot Morison, Frank C. Ayres, and M.A. DeWolfe Howe. Subjects include Lee papers relating to Harvard, the Union Club, and the Tavern Club.
Jan.-May 1934
Correspondence from Henry Lee Shattuck, N.S.B. Gras, M.A. DeWolfe Howe, and Kenneth W. Porter. Subjects include the editing of Lee papers and documents. Includes a list of manuscript material in Boston and the vicinity on the Lees and Jacksons.
June-Nov. 1934
Correspondence from Henry Lee Shattuck, Kenneth W. Porter, James Jackson, James J. Minot, and Philip Cabot. Subjects include the collection of Jackson and Lee papers and work on Kenneth W. Porter's book The Jacksons and the Lees. Includes Porter's analysis of the Cabot-Jackson-Lee papers.
Jan.-May 1935
Correspondence from Kenneth W. Porter, Henry Lee Shattuck, N.S.B. Gras, Samuel Cabot, P.T. Jackson, and George R. Minot. Subjects include The Jacksons and the Lees (research on Henry Lee-Gallatin correspondence, possible titles, publisher, and pictures).
June-Dec. 1935
Correspondence from Henry Lee Shattuck, Hope Mathewson, Charles Jackson, P.T. Jackson, Kenneth W. Porter, and Elizabeth C. Lyman. Subjects include The Jacksons and the Lees (obtaining pictures and information).
1936
Correspondence from Henry Lee Shattuck, Kenneth W. Porter, Dumas Malone, N.S.B. Gras, and George R. Minot. Subjects include The Jacksons and the Lees (the search for Lee and Jackson papers and publication of the Porter book by Harvard University Press).
June-Dec. 1937
Correspondence from Henry Lee Shattuck, N.S.B. Gras, P.T. Jackson, Frances Carpenter, George R. Minot, J.J. Drury, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Ellery Sedgwick, James Jackson, J.D. Phillips, Francis R. Hart, Margaret Perry, A. Lawrence Lowell, Kenneth W. Porter, and John W. Elliot. Subjects include The Jacksons and the Lees (complimentary copies).
Jan.-Nov. 1938
Correspondence from Henry Lee Shattuck, Henry Jackson, Kenneth W. Porter, Barbara D. Simison, and Samuel Eliot Morison. Subjects include complimentary copies and reviews of The Jacksons and the Lees.
1939-1940
Correspondence from Kenneth W. Porter, Henry Lee Shattuck, and William H. Cary. Subjects include the continuing research of Porter on The Jacksons and the Lees (Francis L. Lee).
1941-1942
Correspondence from Henry Lee Shattuck and Kenneth W. Porter. Subjects include reproduction of the letters of Henry Lee, Henry Lee, Jr., and Francis L. Lee, as well as the descendants of Thomas H. Perkins and Henry Lee.
1943-1944
Correspondence from Henry Lee Shattuck, Kenneth W. Porter, M.J. Walsh, and Arthur H. Cole. Subjects include Porter's work on Lee letters, other research on the Jacksons and Lees, and a Lee letterbook at Goodspeed's Book Shop.
1946-1947
Correspondence from Henry Lee Shattuck and Kenneth W. Porter. Subjects include a discussion by Porter on various Jackson-Lee letters and the prospect of publication.
1948
Correspondence from Mark DeWolfe Howe, Henry Lee Shattuck, and Kenneth W. Porter. Subjects include Howe's work on Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Porter articles on the Lees. Includes a draft of a Porter article, "A Note on Burns by a Bostonian."
1950-1957
Correspondence from Henry Lee Shattuck, Arthur H. Cole, Kenneth W. Porter, Benjamin W. Labaree, and Wendell P. Sargent. Subjects include research inquiries on the Jacksons and Lees. Extracts from J.J. Currier's History of Newburyport (1906).
1935-1937
Clippings and correspondence. Correspondence from Henry Lee Shattuck, George C. Lee, and Nelly Almy on photographs of Jackson-Lee portraits, an advertisement of The Jacksons and the Lees, an accompanying illustration of Jonathan Jackson, and a clipping of a Boston Post article on Patrick Tracy Jackson. Notes by experts on Jackson-Lee portraits.
Undated
Removed to Lee family photographs (Photo. Coll. 500.75).Photographs and prints. Includes portraits of Samuel Cabot, Henry Lee, Jr., William Colman Lee, and Joseph Lee, as well as a picture of the Henry Lee house in Brookline.
E. Printed material, 1774-1922
This subseries consists of various pamphlets and other printed material dealing with the tariff, Harvard affairs and commemorations, the Massachusetts militia, and other Lee family causes and interests.
Miscellany
Wrappers and labels for Henry Lee and Henry Lee, Jr., letters and for drafts of appendices of Henry Lee's Letters to the Cotton Manufacturers...
Miscellaneous envelopes, etc.
Binders, labels, wrappers, and envelopes for Henry Lee, Henry Lee-Mary Jackson Lee, and Lee-Thornely letters and other correspondence.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts printed material, 1861-1864, 1892
Various general orders and other documents relating to the Massachusetts Volunteers, rosters of Volunteer field officers, a House bill for the incorporation of Union Safe Deposit Vaults, and a request for funds for a new headquarters building for the Massachusetts Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
Massachusetts and War Department printed material, 1861-1863
Various general orders.
Harvard University, etc., printed material, 1836, 1865, 1884
Circular for the Harvard Bicentennial Dinner and various commemoration programs, as well as a request for funds from the International Conference on Arbitration and Peace, Berne.
Corporations, committees, associations, etc., printed material, 1858-1867, 1880
Includes financial reports of the New England Railroad Mutual Fire Insurance Co. and the New England Emigrant Aid Co.; circulars of the Freedmen's Relief Committee, the Massachusetts Reconstruction Association, and the Republican Campaign Fund for the Southern States; and an announcement of the completion of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel.
Assorted printed material, 1839-1888
Includes material from the Bunker Hill Monument Association, the Massachusetts Rifle Club, and the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company; a ticket to the Boston Light Infantry's Military Ball at Papanti's; and a tribute to General Philip H. Sheridan.
Assorted printed material, 1821-1914
Includes various invitations, the resignation of Rev. Francis W.P. Greenwood as pastor of the New South Church, an announcement of the formation of a committee to oppose the Personal Liberty Bill before the General Court, population and other statistics (1860-1863), a copy of the poem "The Return of the Standards" by Horace B. Sargent, a Pickering family genealogical chart, a circular on the incorporation of Beverly Farms, and a program for a dinner honoring Henry Lee Higginson on his 80th birthday.
Newspaper clippings, 1782-1889
Various clippings, including Henry Lee letters on cotton manufacturing and Henry Lee, Jr., letters on the Draft Riot of 1863.
Newspaper clippings, 1774-1898
Various clippings on the deaths of George Washington, Henry Lee, Margaret Lee, and Francis L. Lee and on the tariff, the militia, and other matters.
Photographs, etc.
Removed to Lee family photographs (Photo. Coll. 500.75).Various photographs and prints of portraits of military figures and Jackson and Lee family members.
Pamphlets, undated-1866
Includes "Report of a Committee of Citizens...Opposed to a Further Increase of Duties on Importations" (1827), "Correspondence between John Quincy Adams and Several Citizens of Massachusetts Concerning the Charge of a Design to Dissolve the Union..." (1829), "Henry Lee, 1782-1867" by Hamilton Andrews Hill, "Memoir of Patrick Tracy Jackson" (1848), "The Militia of the United States" (1864), an 1864 Massachusetts Senate bill on the militia, "Reminiscences of Hon. Jonathan Jackson" (1866), and various lists, sermons, and orations.
Pamphlets, 1876-1922
Includes "Report of the Inspector-General Massachusetts Volunteer Militia" (1876), the July 4 oration of Henry Cabot Lodge (Boston, 1879), "A Massachusetts Savings Bank" by Henry Lee (1893), "A Great Private Citizen: Henry Lee Higginson" by M.A.D. Howe, and the Lee family genealogy by Thomas B. Lee in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register (July 1922).
II. Oversize material, 1710-1892
The bulk of this series consists of 18th- and early 19th-century British and American legal documents pertaining to the sea trade, including trade contracts, the registration of the brig Betsy and the schooner Volant, deeds and accounts of the Lee family, a copy of the act providing for a census in 1790, an 1804 map of Boston's South End, the estate of Joseph Lee, the genealogy of Edward Jackson, and plans for the Robert Gould Shaw monument.
For a list of all names mentioned in this series, as well as the names of select individuals and subjects of historical significance in the collection, see the index.
III. Bound volumes, 1764-1898
Arranged alphabetically by author or owner.
The bulk of this series consists of account books, blotters, cash books, ledgers, letterbooks, memorandum books, and waste books of various family business firms, including those of Joseph Lee and George Cabot; Patrick Tracy Jackson and John Bromfield; Patrick Tracy Jackson, Nathaniel Tracy, and John Tracy; Joseph Lee, Jr., and Henry Lee; and Thomas Lee, Jr. The volumes contain considerable information on mercantile business practices in the world, 1760-1860, as well as on the China, India, European, South American, and West Indian trades. Some of the volumes have been removed to boxes.
For a list of the authors and/or owners of the volumes in this series, as well as the names of select individuals and subjects of historical significance in the collection, see the index.
Thomas H. Cabot journal, 4 Mar.-10 Aug. 1834
Journal kept by Thomas H. Cabot onboard the Logan bound for Gibraltar and Canton on Perkins & Son business. John Murray Forbes served as supercargo on the voyage. Also includes Cabot's notes on how to keep books and make sales.
Digital facsimiles of the log of the ship Logan are available on China, America and the Pacific, a digital publication of Adam Matthew Digital, Inc. This digital resource is available at subscribing libraries; speak to your local librarian to determine if your library has access. The MHS makes this resource available onsite; see a reference librarian for more information.
Biographical sketch of Henry Lee by Hamilton Andrews Hill, 1894
Removed to Box A, Folder 1.Jonathan Jackson letterbooks, 1765-1780
Letterbooks of Jonathan Jackson containing copies of letters to Edmund Quincy, Samuel and Jonathan Smith, Henry and Thomas Bromfield, Henry Cruger, George Brown, Peter Contencin, Isaac Sears, Stephen Sayre, Pelatiah Webster, Martin Brimmer, Thomas and Isaac Wharton, Simon Fraser, Edmund Freeman, Robert Jenkins, Joseph Gardoqui, Samuel Newhall, John Morss, James Tracy, Philip Livingston, Simeon Mayhew, Richard Derby, Jr., Henry Crouch, Hector McNeill, and others. Subjects include colonial mercantile affairs and business transactions; the formation and dissolution of the firm of Jackson & John Bromfield and the formation of Jackson, (Nathaniel) Tracy & (John) Tracy; American opposition to the Stamp Acts and other parliamentary restrictions on shipping; the Continental Congress and nonimportation of British goods; trade with Spain and the West Indies; shipping during the American Revolution; privateering; the capture of the ship Yankee Hero and subsequent prisoner exchange, 1776; and Jonathan Jackson's opinions on taxation, war, and peace.
Jonathan Jackson letterbook, 17 Mar.-14 Sep. 1790
Letterbook of Jonathan Jackson containing copies of letters to Aaron Brown, Joseph Thomas, John Sprague, John Paine, and others. Subjects include the taking of the census in Massachusetts under the direction of Jonathan Jackson.
Jonathan Jackson estate papers, 1806-1829
The will of Jonathan Jackson and records of the executors of his estate.
Jackson & Bromfield accounts and journal, 1764-1771
Account book and business journal of the Jackson & Bromfield firm. Subjects include Jackson & Bromfield shipping orders and invoices.
Patrick Tracy Jackson financial journal, 1836-1847
Subjects include family and business finances.
Patrick Tracy Jackson letterbooks, 1802-1826
Vol. 11-13 removed to Box A, Folders 2-4.Letterbooks of Patrick Tracy Jackson containing letters to Ebenezer Parlay, Ram Duloll Day, Joseph Cutler, Joseph Lee, Jr., Francis C. Lowell, Andrew Cabot, Stephen Higginson, Joseph G. Chamberlain, Peter Remsen, Elihu Doty, Samuel Williams, William Bartlett, Henry Lee, Samuel Cabot, George Lee, Isaac Lawrence, Samuel Yorke, James Schott, E.A. Newton, William Oliver, John Tracy, Jr., Albert Gallatin, Thomas Lee, Jr., David Moody, Christopher Gore, Cornelius Coolidge, James Lloyd, Rufus King, and others. Subjects include the India trade, trade with the West Indies, the trading policies of Emperor Henry Christophe of Haiti, the Embargo Act of 1807, the Non-Intercourse Law of 1809, and the War of 1812 and their effect on shipping and the beginnings of the Merrimack Manufacturing Company and Lowell, Mass. The volume contains very few letters after 1813.
Francis Lee account book and travel journal, 1822-1823
Removed to Box A, Folders 5-6.Subjects include foreign trade accounts and Francis Lee's 1823 trip to England and Scotland.
Harriet J. Lee school composition books, 1834-1840
Removed to Box A, Folders 7-9.Henry Lee account books, 1799-1817
Vol. 25 removed to Box A, Folder 10.Account books of Henry Lee containing copies of orders, invoices, bills of exchange, etc., which detail transactions with merchants, factories, ship captains, and customers. Most of the material concerns the East India trade. Includes Lee's lengthy instructions on bidding, buying, and selling to supercargo Charles D. Miles in Calcutta, 1817 (Vol. 26). Parts of Vol. 25 are torn, and the volume is in generally bad condition.
Henry Lee account books, 1833-1858
Vol. 28-29 removed to Box A, Folders 11-12.Account books of Henry Lee detailing Lee family investments. Includes information on shares held by Henry Lee, Henry Lee, Jr., Francis L. Lee, Harriet Lee Morse, and Elizabeth Cabot Lee in the Appleton, Boott, Cabot, Dwight, Hamilton, Lowell, Mass., Merrimack, Middlesex, and Tremont manufacturing companies; the Charles River Bridge; the Locks and Canals Co.; the Lowell Railroad; and other enterprises. Vol. 30 contains copies of letters from Henry Lee to Henry Lee, Jr., George Higginson, and William Amory. Vol. 31 includes a letter from Henry Lee to James Jackson and a copy of a letter from John Adams to Nicholas Boylston, 1820, discussing the estate in Brookline later owned by the Lees.
Henry Lee garden books, 1857-1862
Removed to Box A, Folders 13-17.Garden books of Henry Lee detailing the land measured and drained, trees and shrubs planted and removed, fruits and vegetables planted and harvested, and laborers employed at the Brookline estate of Henry Lee. Vol. 35 also contains a list of some books given as gifts by Lee, 1860.
Henry Lee notebook, undated
Book of geometry problems and various other sketches relating to measures and navigation.
Henry Lee notebook, Apr. 1850
Removed to Box A, Folder 18.Henry Lee notes on John Bromfield (1779-1849) for a memoir of Bromfield by Josiah Quincy.
Henry Lee letterbooks, 1804-1852
Letterbooks containing copies of letters to Nathaniel Cabot Lee, Joseph Lee, Jr., John Lewis Brown, Patrick Tracy Jackson, Samuel Williams, Arthur Spear, Israel Thorndike, Thaddeus Mayhew, Peter Remsen, Samuel Yorke, William H. Savage, Henry Higginson, Joseph Hall, Jr., Andrew Cabot, Antonio de Frias, William Oliver, George Lee, Ozias Goodwin, Samuel Cabot, Jr., E.A. Newton, William A. Newton, Francis C. Lowell, Thomas H. Perkins, Thomas Lee, Jr., James Russell, Francis Lee, John J. Trowbridge, Charles Williams, James MacKillop, Baboo Delsock Roy, John Tracy, James Williams, R.P. Ochterlony, Charles D. Miles, Richard C. Cabot, James Schott, James B. Higginson, Richard Burr, Clement C. Biddle, J. Horsley Palmer, Thomas Thornely, Alexander Turnbull, David Henshaw, George R. Minot, George Brown, J.J. Dixwell, and others. Also included are letters from Ozias Goodwin, Patrick Tracy Jackson, Andrew Cabot, Thomas H. Perkins, and others. Subjects include the India trade; the coronation of Napoleon; the effects of British Orders-in-Council, Napoleonic trade decrees, the American Non-Intercourse Act, and the War of 1812 on shipping; the various revolutions in Spanish America; French, Indian, Portuguese, Italian, and Arab trading practices; the opium trade; cotton; the China trade; and Henry Lee's opinions on the War of 1812, the cotton trade, currency, the tariff, and general economic matters. There are no letterbooks for 1806-1809, 1819-1834, or 1836-1839.
Henry Lee memoranda books, 1809-1856
Vol. 50 removed to Box B, Folder 1.Memoranda books of Henry Lee concerning prices and sales of merchandise, the state of various markets, insurance, ship arrivals, profit calculations, and expenses relating to the Lee Brookline estate.
Henry Lee scrapbook, undated
Scrapbook of Henry Lee on the Lee family of Quarrendon, England. Includes a coat of arms and genealogical notes.
Henry Lee scrapbooks, 1849-1862
Scrapbooks of Boston newspaper clippings of articles on cotton manufacturing.
Henry Lee scrapbooks, 1843-1862
Vol. 60 and 65 removed to Box B, Folders 2-3.Scrapbooks of clippings from various newspapers concerning international, national, state, and municipal political and economic affairs. Included are scrapbooks concerning the Cuban insurrection of 1851 (Vol. 61), slavery and emancipation (Vol. 62), and the Civil War (Vol. 65).
Henry Lee notebook, undated
Notebook containing 11 pages of verse collected by Henry Lee.
Henry Lee, Jr., account books, 1833-1839, 1895-1898
Account books of Henry Lee, Jr., containing entries relating to Bengal currency, costs of merchandise, and personal finances (earnings, expenses, membership dues, political contributions).
Henry Lee, Jr., bank book, 1861
Removed to Box B, Folder 4.Bank book of Henry Lee, Jr., containing notes on various family accounts.
Biographical sketch of John Winthrop by Henry Lee, Jr., undated
Handwritten and typewritten copies of a two-volume biographical sketch of John Winthrop by Henry Lee, Jr.
Henry Lee, Jr., journals, 1838-1866
Removed to Box B, Folders 5-9.Journals of Henry Lee, Jr., discussing trips to Rio de Janeiro, Europe, and various parts of New England and listing tasks to be done as aide-de-camp to Governor Andrew.
Henry Lee, Jr., lecture notes, June 1835
Removed to Box B, Folder 10.Henry Lee, Jr., Harvard lecture notes on the "History of Chemistry."
Henry Lee, Jr., letterbooks, 1864-1890
Letterbooks of Henry Lee, Jr., containing copies of letters to John A. Andrew, Ambrose E. Burnside, J. Elliot Cabot, Stephen Cabot, U.S. Grant, E.I. Godkin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Reverdy Johnson, Jr., Henry Lee, Abbott Lawrence, Frederick Law Olmsted, John Gorham Palfrey, Henry Wilson, Robert C. Winthrop, William Tecumseh Sherman, Charles W. Eliot, John Murray Forbes, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Waldo Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas H. Perkins, F.O. Prince, Charles Sumner, Edward Atkinson, Charles Devens, George Frisbie Hoar, William Dean Howells, Henry Lee Higginson, Robert Todd Lincoln, Elizur Wright, Henry M. Whitney, Alexander Agassiz, Benjamin F. Butler, Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Lyman, Charles H. Taylor, Richard Olney, Josiah Quincy, Leverett Saltonstall, Augustus St. Gaudens, Frank W. Taussig, Justin Winsor, and others. Subjects include Lee business and family finances; Civil War military matters; Benjamin F. Butler; John A. Andrew; U.S. Grant; national, Massachusetts, and Boston political affairs; Harvard activities; the Cabot and Lee genealogy; and the preservation of the landmarks of Old Boston. There are no letterbooks for 1885-1886.
Henry Lee, Jr., notebooks, 1875-1877
Removed to Box B, Folders 11-12.Notebooks on military affairs in Massachusetts.
Henry Lee, Jr., scrapbook, 1854-1893
Henry Lee, Jr., scrapbook containing clippings of his writings, articles about him and other Bostonians, historical articles, and lectures of Josiah Royce and others at the "School of Ethics" in Plymouth, Mass.
Henry Lee, Jr., scrapbooks, undated
Scrapbooks of Henry Lee, Jr., containing clippings of poems and various other articles and notes on the Lee genealogy. Includes a letter from Anson Titus.
Henry Lee, Jr., scrapbook, 1865-1898
Removed to Box B, Folder 13.Scrapbook of various writings of Henry Lee, Jr. (obituaries, letters to the editor, etc.)
Joseph Lee account book, 1777-1779
Removed to Box B, Folder 14.Account book of Joseph Lee detailing sales of merchandise from the brigantine Oliver Cromwell.
Joseph Lee almanacs, 1828-1831
Vol. 91 removed to Box B, Folder 15. Vol. 92-93 removed to Box C, Folders 1-2.Copies of The Farmer's Almanack with notes on the daily weather.
Joseph Lee blotters, 1773-1788
Removed to Box C, Folders 3-4.Blotters of Joseph Lee & Co. containing entries on business transactions.
Joseph Lee cash books, 1773-1805
Vol. 96 removed to Box C, Folder 5.Cash books of Joseph Lee listing cash receipts and disbursements.
Joseph Lee ledgers, 1767-1802
Ledgers of Joseph Lee containing records of various business transactions. Vol. 99 (1773-1793) is a distillery ledger.
Joseph Lee waste books, 1773-1786
Vol. 104 removed to Box C, Folder 6.Waste books of Joseph Lee detailing various business transactions. Vol. 105 (1784-1786) is a waste book for the wharf and warehouse owned by Brown & Thorndike, George Cabot, and Lee.
Joseph Lee account book, 1800-1812
Account book of Joseph Lee and George Cabot listing vessels and cargo cleared for America from Calcutta.
Joseph Lee waste book, 1781-1784
Removed to Box C, Folder 7.Waste book of Joseph Lee and George Cabot concerning the administration of the estate of Elizabeth Cabot.
Joseph Lee waste books, 1785-1808
Waste books of Joseph Lee and George Cabot detailing business transactions.
Joseph Lee business journal, 1785-1802
Business journal of Joseph Lee and George Cabot detailing various transactions.
Joseph Lee, Jr., letterbook, 27 Feb.-12 May 1812
Removed to Box C, Folder 8.Letterbook of Joseph Lee, Jr., in Havana discussing business and describing Cuba. Writing is in pencil and barely legible.
Joseph Lee, Jr., account book, 1803-1810
Account book of Joseph Lee, Jr., and Henry Lee detailing sales of goods of various brigs.
Joseph Lee, Jr., letterbooks, 1793-1808
Letterbooks of Joseph Lee, Jr., and Henry Lee containing copies of letters to James Duff, E.H. Derby, Jr., John Stille, William Wyman, Jacob Crowninshield, John White, John Williams, Samuel Cabot, Thomas Lee, Jr., Peter Remsen, Rufus Bigelow, Robert Cabot, Nathaniel Bowditch, Israel Thorndike, Francis Lee, Samuel Williams, William Oliver, John Tracy, Jr., Frederic Cabot, Samuel Yorke, Patrick Tracy Jackson, and others. Subjects include Lee business, the India trade, European markets, the Embargo Act, and the prospects for war with Great Britain.
Joseph Lee, Jr., memorandum book, 1807-1822
Removed to Box C, Folder 9.Memorandum book of Joseph Lee, Jr., and Henry Lee containing various accounts, price data, and a detailed letter by H.L. on the subject of cotton, 1822.
Thomas Lee ledger, 1769-1818
Ledger of Thomas Lee detailing business transactions.
Thomas Lee, Jr., account books, 1802-1829
Account books of Thomas Lee, Jr., containing orders, invoices, etc., pertaining to voyages to and transactions in Rotterdam, Boston, Philadelphia, London, Havana, Sumatra, and other ports. Includes copies of letters to Samuel P. Gardner, Ebenezer Francis, George Lee, Joseph Pitcairn, John Bryant, Robert Cabot, Samuel Williams, Henry Lee, Samuel Cabot, Jr., John Bromfield, John Lewis Brown, Charles Williams, Humphrey Devereux, Francis Lee, John H. Cabot, and others.
Thomas Lee, Jr., cash book, 1817-1823
Cash book of Thomas Lee, Jr., listing cash receipts and disbursements.
Thomas Lee, Jr., business journals, 1829-1858
Vol. 129 removed to Box C, Folder 10.Business journals of Thomas Lee, Jr., containing information on daily business transactions. There are no journals for 1834, 1845-1847, or 1852.
Thomas Lee, Jr., ledgers, 1817-1865
Vol. 139-140 removed to Box C, Folders 11-12.Ledgers of Thomas Lee, Jr., containing invoices and other business and personal financial records.
Thomas Lee, Jr., letterbooks, 1817-1831
Letterbooks of Thomas Lee, Jr., containing copies of letters to George Knight, Peter Remsen, George Williams, Abbott Lawrence, James Drake, John Tracy, Jr., John H. Cabot, Thomas Wright, Samuel Williams, Charles W. Story, John Harrod, Ephraim Thayer, Edward W. Waldo, James Moorfield, Henry Lee, Edward Dorr, Lambert Dexter, Martin Van Buren, and others. Subjects include Havana and European trade. The letters to Van Buren relate to the loss of ships in a bombardment of Antwerp by the Netherlands during the Belgian Revolution, 1830.
Thomas Lee, Jr., logbook, 30 Apr.-18 Dec. 1824
Ship's log for the brig Henrico from Boston to Famouth, Gibraltar, Lisbon, and back to Gibraltar.
Digital facsimiles of the log of the brig Henrico are available on Life at Sea, a digital publication of Adam Matthew Digital, Inc. This digital resource is available at subscribing libraries; speak to your local librarian to determine if your library has access. The MHS makes this resource available onsite; see a reference librarian for more information.
Thomas Lee, Jr., waste books, 1804-1824
Waste books of Thomas Lee, Jr., containing invoices, bills of exchange, premium notes, and other business information.
William C. Lee business journal, 1796-1800
Business journal of William C. Lee detailing various business transactions.
John Tracy, Jr., memorandum book, 1810
Memorandum book of John Tracy, Jr., containing memoranda on the goods of Calcutta, Ceylon, Muscat, and other ports.
Account book, undated
Account book containing information on accounts of Humphrey Devereux, Joseph Lee, Francis Lee, Nancy Lee, Andrew Cabot, and others, as well as invoices for various goods.
Indexes, undated
Bound indexes to unknown Lee letterbook and ledger. Listing of names, transactions, and page numbers.
Genealogical material, 1875-1880
"Ancestral tablets" containing genealogical material on the Cheever, Shattuck, Lee, Jackson, Davis, Pickering, and other related families. Also includes a typewritten page on the "Irish Ancestry of President Coolidge" (1925) and three letters of Frederick C. Shattuck concerning genealogy.
General index, undated
Removed to Box C, Folder 13.General index to the papers of Henry Lee, Jr., listing writings, letters, journals, etc.
Manuscript music, undated
Incomplete volume of manuscript music including "Minstrel Song," "Happy Farmer," and other pieces.
Lee European passport, 1853
Removed to Box C, Folder 14.Lee family genealogy
Removed to Box C, Folder 15.Note: This volume has not been microfilmed.
Select Index
This index contains the names of all correspondents in Boxes 1-20 (Series I), all names mentioned in the oversize material (Series II), and the names of the authors and/or owners of the bound volumes (Series III). Also included in this list are the names of select individuals and subjects of historical significance in the collection. The numbers following each item indicate box and folder. For example, correspondence with Francis Abbot can be found in Box 10, Folder 7.
Abbot, Francis, 10.7 |
Abbott, E.S., 7.14 |
Abbott, Edwin Hale, 7.13, 7.14 |
Abbott, J.G., 7.4 |
Aborn, H.M., 7.12 |
Adam, R.B., 7.2 |
Adams, Brooks, 9.8 |
Adams, C[harles] F[rancis], Jr., 8.16 |
Adams, John, 1.15, 2.4 |
Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848), 1.19, 3.3 |
Adams, John Quincy (1833-1894), 1.1, 7.19, 8.8, 8.10, 9.8 |
Adams, Samuel, 2.2 |
Agassiz, A[lexander], 9.2 |
Agassiz, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Cary, 9.4, 9.12, 9.13, 9.17 |
Ainsworth, J.A., 7.14 |
Alexander, [Fletcher], 5.2 |
Alice, sloop, 1.18 |
Allen, George H., 7.13 |
Allen, J.M., 3.11, 3.12 |
Almy, Charles, 17.7 |
Almy, Nelly, 17.15 |
Ames, Hector C., 4.11, 6.5 |
Ames, Oliver, 9.6 |
Amory, Jonathan, 2.15 |
Amory, R[ufus] G[reene], 1.13 |
Amory, Thomas, 1.19 |
Amory, Thomas J.G., 7.10 |
Amory, William, 6.12, 7.5 |
Amoskeag Co., 3.11 |
Anderson, John F., 8.8 |
Andrew, John Albion, 7.1, 7.3, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.10, 7.11, 7.17, 8.1, 8.3, 8.4, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, 8.11, 9.15, 10.1, 10.2 |
Andrew, John F., 9.8 |
Andrews, George L., 7.13, 7.17, 8.11 |
Andrews, Samuel, 4.10 |
Andrews, W[illiam] T., 5.17 |
Appleton, Daniel, 6.15, 16.13, 16.14 |
Appleton, Francis H., 16.14-17, 16.20 |
Appleton, William, 6.13 |
Ariel, schooner, 4.4 |
Armitiag, Joseph, 1.3 |
Ashley, O.D., 6.5 |
Ashton, John, 1.13 |
Asia, ship, 6.3 |
Atkinson, Edward, 9.7, 16.2, 16.3, 16.5-16, 16.18-21 |
Atkinson, Joshua, 1.9 |
Atkinson, William, 16.16 |
Atwood, John, Box OS |
Aura, barque, 7.9 |
Austin, Edward, 4.1 |
Austin, S[amuel, Jr.], 4.2 |
Avery, John, Jr., Box OS |
Aylwin, William C., 3.11 |
Ayres, Frank C., 17.1 |
Babson, John J., 8.16 |
Bacon, Edwin M., 9.8 |
Bagly, Jonathan, 1.7 |
Bagnall, W.R., 9.2 |
Baker, E.C., 6.11 |
Baker, Eliphalet, 1.13 |
Baker, John J., 7.7 |
Baker, Thomas, Box OS |
Baker, William, Jr., 7.19 |
Bakhelder, Caleb, 1.14 |
Balch, Francis V., 16.17 |
Baldwin, William H., 16.17 |
Banks, Charles E, 9.18 |
Banks, Nathaniel, 6.17, 7.6 |
Baring Brothers & Co., 2.6 |
Barnard, John, Box OS |
Barnett, A.L., 9.8 |
Barrett, L[awrence] P., 7.8 |
Barrett, Thomas, 1.13 |
Barry, Thomas, 6.10, 6.11, 6.13 |
Bartlett, Samuel, 2.3, 2.5, 2.13 |
Bartlett, W[illiam], 1.13 |
Bartlett, William Francis, 10.4 |
Barton, William E., 16.18 |
Batchelder, Cabot, 1.18 |
Batchelder, Josiah, 1.13, 1.14 |
Beals, Thomas, 2.13 |
Bele, Thomas, Box OS |
Bemis, George, 3.10, 3,11, 3.15 |
Bennett & Dickson, 1.16 |
Bentley, Joshua, 1.13, 1.14 |
Berlin, Florence, 17.7 |
Bethel, ship, 1.7 |
Betsy, brig, 1.13-16, Box OS |
Beverly Improvement Society, 10.3 |
Biddle, Clement C., 3.5-8, 4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.5, 5.12, 6.2, 6.3 |
Bigelow, Henry J[acob], 4.1, 4.9, 4.10, 5.9, 5.14, 10.5 |
Bigelow, John P., 4.3 |
Bigelow, W[illiam] S[turgis], 9.11 |
Bill, James B., 8.1 |
Blaine, James G., 9.3 |
Blanchard, George & Sarah, 2.15 |
Bollan, W[illiam], 1.7 |
Borden, Richard, 7.1 |
Boston Common, 10.7 |
Boston - Old South Meeting House, 10.8 |
Boston Post, 8.5, 9.6-10 |
Boston Theatre, 6.2, 6.3, 6.7, 6.9-17, 7.3, 7.10-12, 9.12 |
Boston Evening Transcript, 12.9 |
Boston Transit Commission, 9.12, 9.13, 13.12 |
Bowditch, Charles P., 9.3 |
Bowditch, Henry Ingersoll, 8.10 |
Bowditch, J[onathan] Ingersoll, 6.6, 6.7, 8.1, 8.12 |
Bowditch, Nathaniel I., 6.5 |
Bowditch, William I., 6.1 |
Bowdoin, James, 1.11 |
Bowen, Clarence W., 9.18 |
Bowles, Mary, 1.9 |
Boyd, Francis, 4.10, 5.10 |
Boyd, James & Sons, 7.1 |
Braden, Henry S., 8.1 |
Bradford, George P., 10.3 |
Bradlee, C[aleb] D[avis], 1.1 |
Briggs, Henry, 7.18 |
Brimmer, Martin, 1.14, 7.5, 8.1, 8.16, 9.7, 10.9 |
Britton, Charles & Sarah, 1.8 |
Bromfield, Ann, 1.2, 2.15 |
Bromfield, Henry & Thomas, 1.7, 1.18 |
Bromfield, John, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 |
Bronson, J., 3.7 |
Brooks, P[eter] C[hardon], 1.19, 2.7 |
Brooks, P[eter] C[hardon], Jr., 7.7 |
Brooks, Phillips, 10.10 |
Brooks, Thomas, 1.3 |
Brown, Nehemiah, 8.4, 8.5, 8.7 |
Brown, William, 7.4, 7.12-15, 7.17 |
Brown & Thorndike, 1.13 |
Browne, A[lbert] G., Jr., 7.6, 7.9, 7.11, 8.1, 8.8 |
Bruce, George A., 9.3 |
Bryant, William Cullen, 8.15 |
Bull, Job & Sarah, 1.5 |
Bullard, Stephen, 5.12, 5.15-19, 6.1-4, 6.7 |
Bullard, William S., 3.17, 4.1, 4.2, 4.5-9, 4.12, 4.13, 5.1, 5.3, 5.5, 5.8, 5.11-16, 5.19, 6.1-5, 6.7, 10.11 |
Bullard & Lee, 3.17, 3.18, 4.5, 4.6, 4.9, 4.12, 4.13, 5.1, 5.3, 5.11, 5.12, 5.16, 5.18, 5.19, 6.1-5 |
Bullock, Alexander H., 8.15 |
Bullock, [W.W.], 7.4-6 |
Burditt, B[enjamin] A., 6.17 |
Burke, John, 1.13-16, Box OS |
Burnell, R.S., 7.6 |
Burnside, A[mbrose] E[verett], 8.8 |
Bustamante, Santiago, 1.1 |
Butler, Benjamin F., 7.7, 7.9, 7.11, 8.12, 9.2, 10.13 |
Butler, H.H.G., 5.18 |
Butler, Noble, 5.18 |
Cabot, Andrew, 1.17, 1.19 |
Cabot, Anna, Box OS |
Cabot, E[dward] C[larke], 7.13, 8.4 |
Cabot, Elizabeth, 1.7, 1.8, 1.17 |
Cabot, Elliot, 5.12 |
Cabot, Follen, 7.16 |
Cabot, Francis, 1.6, 1.17, Box OS |
Cabot, George, 1.9, 1.17, 8.16, Box OS, Vol. 105-109 |
Cabot, George E., 17.5 |
Cabot, J. Elliot, 5.12, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 7.3, 7.4, 9.2 |
Cabot, John, 1.6, 1,17, 1.19 |
Cabot, Joseph, 1.6, 1.7, Box OS |
Cabot, Joseph S., 8.2 |
Cabot, Lizzie, 1.1, 5.12 |
Cabot, Philip, 17.3 |
Cabot, Richard Clarke, 2.16 |
Cabot, Samuel (1759-1819), 1.17 |
Cabot, Samuel (1815-1885), 6.2 |
Cabot, Samuel (1850-1906), 8.15, 16.18 |
Cabot, Samuel (1884-1967), 17.4 |
Cabot, Stephen, 7.12, 7.13, 7.19, 8.1, 8.5, 8.8, 8.12 |
Cabot, Thomas Handasyd, Vol. 1 |
Cabot, Walter, 6.1 |
Cabot genealogy, 5.19, 8.2 |
Calhoun, J[ohn] C[aldwell], 3.8, 5.17 |
Capen, Lois L., 6.17 |
Caraher, A.P., 7.15 |
Carey, William H., 17.9 |
Carpenter, Deborah, 3.5 |
Carpenter, Frances, 17.7 |
Carter, James C., 9.14 |
Cary, Alice, 16.20 |
Cary, Richard, 7.6, 7.14 |
Cary, Sarah G., 11.2 |
Cary, Thomes B., 8.16 |
Cary, William H., 17.9 |
Casey, Henry, 4.10 |
Chamberlain, S.E., 8.15 |
Chandler, P[eleg] W[hitman], 7.3 |
Chapman, Samuel, 1.7 |
Chapple, W.F., 7.2 |
Cheves, Langdon, 5.11 |
Child, Dudley R., 9.15 |
Child, F[rancis] J[ames], 8.12 |
Civil Service Reform, 11.4 |
Clapp, W[illiam] W[arland], 7.16, 8.14, 9.9 |
Clark, W[illiam] S[mith], 7.12 |
Clarke, Ambrose, 2.3 |
Clarke, Henry & Priscilla, 1.19 |
Clarke, John, Box OS |
Clarke, Jonas, 1.5 |
Clarke, Richard, 1.17 |
Clarke, Thomas, 1.7 |
Clay, Henry, 11.1 |
Clement, E[dward] H[enry], 9.10-12, 9.14, 9.15, 12.9 |
Cleveland, Grover, 9.3, 9.6, 9.14 |
Cleveland, Sarah Paine, 11.5 |
Clifford, John H., 8.14 |
Codman, C[harles] R[ussell], 8.3, 9.4 |
Cole, Arthur H., 17.11, 17.14 |
Collinger, M., 4.3 |
Colman, John, 1.6 |
Colman, William, 1.9 |
Cook, Isaac & Martha, 1.7 |
Coolidge, J. Randolph, Jr., 9.4 |
Coolidge, T. Jefferson, 13.14 |
Coolidge, Mrs. Thomas Jefferson, 9.6 |
Cosby, F., 5.18 |
Cotting, Charles U., 9.3 |
Couch, D[arius] N[ash], 7.4, 7.9, 7.11, 7.13, 8.1 |
Covel, Samuel, 1.14 |
Cranch, Richard, 2.4 |
Crawford, Thomas, Box OS |
Crouch, Henry, 1.8 |
Crouch & Gray, 1.8 |
Crowninshield, F[rancis] B., 7.3 |
Cruft, [S].B., 7.17 |
Cruttenden, Mackillop & Co., 2.14, 3.4 |
Cummings, Charles A., 9.1 |
Cunningham, Francis, 4.4, 4.5 |
Cunningham, J.S., 3.11, 3.12 |
Currier, J.W., 4.10 |
Currier, John J., 9.14 |
Curtis, Edwin U., 9.14, 13.3 |
Curtis, George J., 5.16 |
Curtis, George W., 11.12 |
Curtis, H.P., 7.5 |
Curtis & Co., 7.9 |
Cushing, [ ], 7.2 |
Cushing, J[ohn] P[erkins], 6.3 |
Cushing, Robert M., 11.12 |
Cushing, Thomas C., 2.2 |
Cutter, Mary L., 7.6 |
Dale, William J., 8.12, 8.15 |
Dalton, C[harles] H[enry], 7.2, 7.4, 7.7, 7.9, 9.6, 13.18 |
Dana, James J., 7.13-15 |
Dana, Richard H., Jr., 7.12, 8.12 |
Dana, S.G., 3.12 |
Danforth, Samuel, 1.8 |
Davenport, Addington, 1.4, 1.5, Box OS |
Davenport, Henry, 9.10 |
Davis, Caleb, 1.1, 9.18, Vol. 161 |
Davis, Isaac, 1.13 |
Davis, J., Jr., 6.6 |
Davis, P.S., 7.14, 7.15 |
Dawes, Lizzie M., 7.12 |
Dean, John Ward, 9.16 |
Dearborn, Henry A.S., 5.13 |
Degrand, P[eter] P[aul] F[rancis], 2.3 |
Dehon, William, 4.4 |
Deluis, [ ], 2.18 |
Denison, Daniel, 1.3, 1.4 |
Denison, Henry, 11.6 |
Denny, George, 5.17 |
Densmore, Albert M., 6.12 |
Derby, Elias H., 1.15 |
Derby, George, 6.1 |
Devens, Charles, 8.8, 11.7 |
Devereux, Charles, 7.2, 7.3 |
Devereux, George, 7.2 |
Dewar, Andrew, 1.7 |
Dexter, Gordon, 5.15 |
Dexter, T.C.A., 7.17 |
Dixey, Ellen Sturgis, 16.18 |
Dixwell, E[pes] S[argent], 6.17 |
Doering, Rev. & Co., 4.10 |
[Domiston], Dr. E.E., 6.4 |
Doolittle, O., 4.10 |
Doolittle, Theo. A., 4.10 |
Down, John, Box OS |
Draft Riot, 8.5 |
Drake, Jas., 2.19 |
Drew, Thomas, 7.6 |
Driscole, John & Mary, 4.4 |
Drury, J.J., 17.7 |
Dudley, J.G., 6.4 |
Dudley, Thomas, 11.8 |
Dunbar, Peter, 4.2 |
Dunn, James C., 8.3 |
Dutton, E.C., 7.5 |
Dutton & Wentworth, 5.16 |
Dwight, Anna C.L., 3.15 |
Dwight, Mary E., 4.9, 5.13 |
Dwight, [Wilder], 7.10, 7.11, 7.15 |
Edmands, Thomas F., 15.10, 15.12, 16.15 |
Edwards, Isaac [P.T.], 16.15 |
Edwards, Oliver, 7.16 |
Eliot, Charles W., 7.18, 9.4, 16.8, 16.9, 16.17, 16.20 |
Eliot, Josiah, 1.14 |
Eliot, Samuel, 6.1, 6.2 |
Eliot, William H., 11.9 |
Ellery, Harrison, 9.4, 9.11, 9.12, 11.11 |
Elliot, John W., 17.7 |
Elliot Manufacturing Corporation, 3.3 |
Ellis, Asa, 2.3, 2.5 |
Ellis, George E., 9.13, 12.4 |
Ellis, J., 6.7 |
Ellis & Melledge, 9.11, 9.13, 9.14 |
Ely, A[lfred] B., 7.1, 7.7 |
Emerson, Edward W., 9.1 |
Emerson, R[alph] Waldo, 8.13, 9.1 |
Emerson, William, 1.7 |
Endicott, Robert, 2.1 |
Endicott, William, Jr., 8.4 |
Epps, Daniel, 1.4 |
Everett, Edward, 2.10, 3.18, 4.1, 7.5 |
Everett, William, 9.10, 12.11, 12.9 |
Farnsworth, A[ddison], 7.17 |
Farrant, Godslee, Box OS |
Favorite, schooner, 1.12, Vol. 158 |
Faxon, George N., 7.12 |
Fay, Clement K., 13.11 |
Fellows, J.F., 7.13 |
Fernandez, Andres, 1.1 |
Fields, Annie, 16.18 |
Fields, J[ames] T[homas], 7.2 |
Fisher & Co., 7.17 |
Fiske, A.H., 7.12 |
Fiske, John, 9.1, 9.5 |
Fletcher, Alexander & Co., 4.13 |
Follett, Dexter H., 7.7 |
Folsom, Charles, 6.11, 6.12 |
Forbes, Edith Emerson, 9.16 |
Forbes, J[ohn] M[urray], 7.1, 7.7, 7.14, 8.1, 8.12, 8.15, 9.1, 9.6, 9.11, 16.1-7, 16.9, 16.16, 16.17, 16.21, 16.22, Box OS |
Forbes, R[obert] Bennet, 7.13 |
Forbes, Thomas Tunno, 3.4 |
Ford, Worthington C., 9.18 |
Forts in Boston Harbor, 7.19 |
Foster, [ ], 7.19 |
Foster, [ ] S., 8.1 |
Foster, James & Sarah, 1.8 |
Foster, John, Box OS |
Foster, N.H., 6.16 |
Fox, J.B., 8.1 |
Fox, John L., 7.14 |
Fox, T[homas] B., 8.1 |
Francis, Eben, 2.2, 2.6, 2.7, 2.14 |
Francis, T.E., 7.5 |
Free Trade Convention (1831), 3.6 |
French, Charles E., 9.2 |
French, Helen H., 17.8 |
Frost, Samuel, 4.1 |
Frothingham, Theo., 8.11 |
Fuller, Charles E., 7.4 |
Fuller, William, 1.3 |
Gage, Addison & Co., 7.9 |
Gage, Zachariah, 1.14, 1.15, Box OS |
Gallatin, Albert, 2.7, 3.6 |
Gardiner, J.W. Tudor, 3.9 |
Gardner, George, 1.8 |
Gardner, George W., 8.1 |
Gardner, Henry, Vol. 161 |
Gardner, John, 1.19, 2.3 |
Gardner, Jon, 1.5 |
Gardner, S.J., 3.12 |
Gardner, Samuel, 1.7 |
Gardoqui, Joseph, 1.8, Box OS |
Garrison, W.P., 8.12, 12.9 |
Gay, Timothy, 1.13 |
Gebhard & Co., 2.18, 2.19 |
George III (Great Britain), 1.17 |
Gerrish, Benjamin, 1.5, 1.7 |
Gerrish, Isabel F., 9.18 |
Gilbert, John, 9.6, 9.7, 11.12 |
Gladstone, William Ewart, 5.14 |
[Glynn], John, Box OS |
Goddard, D.A., 8.12, 9.1 |
Godkin, E[dwin] L[awrence], 8.12, 9.1, 9.4, 9.5, 9.10 |
Goodale, George Lincoln, 9.16 |
[Goodhue, Jonathan], 5.11 |
Goodwin, Ozias, 5.14 |
Goodwin, W[illiam] W[atson], 9.12 |
Gordon, George H., 7.17 |
Gordon & Smith, 2.3 |
Gore, Christopher, 2.14 |
Gorham, Nathaniel, Jr., 1.19 |
Gorham, R. 9.6 |
[Goslier], John Berenberg, 2.17 |
Gouge, William M., 4.1, 4.3, 5.6, 5.8, 5.10, 5.11, 5.12, 5.14 |
Gould, A[ugustus] A[ddison], 7.14 |
Gowen, William C., 2.17, 2.19 |
Grand, Francis, 3.9 |
Granger, Anna C., 9.15 |
Grant, Mrs., 5.3 |
Grant, Robert, 9.14 |
Grant, Samuel, 1.13 |
Grant, Ulysses S., 8.13 |
Grant, Pillans & Co., 2.17-19 |
Gras, N.S.B., 17.2-4, 17.6-8 |
Gray, James, 1.13, 1.14 |
Gray, William, 1.18, 7.5 |
[Greeharn], John, 7.15 |
Green, Zacheus, 2.3 |
Greene, Col., 7.3 |
Greene, George S., 7.17 |
Greene, Samuel A., 16.16 |
Greene. Thomas A., 5.17 |
Greenleaf, R.C., 7.17, 8.2 |
Greenough, D.S., 3.10, 3.18 |
Greenwood, John, 8.9 |
Gregory, Frances W., 17.14 |
Grew, Henry S., 9.7 |
Griffin, Jon, 2.2 |
Griffing, John & Eliza, 1.3 |
Grinnell, Joseph, 5.17 |
Griswold, Charles E., 7.7, 8.2 |
Grozier, E.A., 9.9, 9.10 |
Grunch, George, 5.12 |
Guild, Charles E., 8.10 |
Guild, Curtis, Jr., 8.12, 9.14, 9.15, 11.14 |
Habersham, Josephine Clay, 4.2 |
Habersham, William N., 3.11-13, 3.17, 3.18, 4.1-4, 5.13 |
Habershoh, Muller & Meyer, 6.13 |
Hale, Edward Everett, 4.13, 12.9 |
Hale, Matthew, 9.2 |
Hale, Nathan, 3.7, 5.5, 5.12 |
Haley, T.W., 9.13 |
Hall, Clayton Colman, 9.9 |
Hall, Richard B., 7.1, 7.11 |
Hall, T.B., 7.9 |
Halleck, H[enry] W., 7.15 |
Hallowell, N.P. (Pen), 9.14-16, 16.14, 16.15, 16.20 |
Hallowell, R[ichard] P., 8.14 |
Hallowell, Sarah N., 9.17 |
Hamilton, Alexander, Jr., 8.10 |
Hamilton, Schuyler, 7.6 |
Hammatt, S., 5.17 |
Hampden Mills, 6.13 |
Hancock, John, 11.14, Box OS |
Harbach, J.W., 6.15 |
Hardwar, John, Box OS |
Harmony, ship, 2.9 |
Harrison, William Henry, 4.3 |
Hart, Francis R., 17.7 |
Hart, Thomas N., 9.10 |
Harvard Club, N.Y., 11.15 |
Harvard College commencement, 11.17, 11.18 |
Harvard Medical School, 11.19 |
Harvey, [C.M.], 16.15 |
Haskins, David G., 9.5, 9.11 |
Hassan, John T., 9.1 |
Hayes, A[ugustus] A[llen], 7.14 |
Hayne, Robert, 3.6, 3.7 |
Hayward, George, 7.17 |
Hayward, Nathan, 7.8 |
Healy, James, 9.3 |
Heard, John T., 3.6, 3.8, 4.4 |
Heywood, John H., 5.18, 9.4, 9.7 |
Hicks, Zachariah, 11.13 |
Higginson, A.S., 9.9 |
Higginson, F.L., 16.16 |
Higginson, Mrs. G., 3.11 |
Higginson, George, 4.2, 5.5, 12.1, 12.2, 7.10 |
Higginson, Henry, 2.6, 2.16 |
Higginson, Henry Lee, 7.5, 7.14, 7.19, 16.15, 16.16, 16.18, 16.19 |
Higginson, Ida, 12.2, 16.15 |
Higginson, J.A., 7.14 |
Higginson, J.P., 2.16 |
Higginson, James B., 3.13 |
Higginson, James J., 6.2, 7.18, 8.4, 8.8, 8.12, 9.1-4, 9.6, 9.7, 9.9, 9.11, 9.12, 9.15, 12.2 |
Higginson, John, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 |
Higginson, Jon S., 12.2 |
Higginson, Mary C., 3.8, 3.15, 4.7, 4,9, 5.18 |
Higginson, Stephen, 1.14, 1.15, 1.17, 1.19 |
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 9.1, 9.4, 9.8-10, 12.2 |
Higginson, Waldo, 3.8, 3.11, 3.13, 3.18, 4.10, 7.10, 8.12-16, 9.1-10, 12.2, 16.5 |
Hill, Hamilton Andrews, Vol. 2 |
Hinckley, Isaac, 11.13 |
Hincks, Edward W., 9.11 |
Hoar, E[benezer] R[ockwood], 9.13, 12.3 |
Hoar, George F., 9.2, 9.6, 9.8, 11.13 |
Hoar, Samuel, 12.3 |
Hoar, Sherman, 9.10 |
Hobbs, Eben, 6.5 |
Hodges, R.W., 9.13 |
Holman, Mary Lovering, 9.18 |
Holmes, Amelia L., 6.12, 7.6 |
Holmes, John, 12.2, 12.4 |
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 8.14, 9.4, 9.6, 9.8, 9.13, 12.4 |
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 9.9, 9.15 |
Hooper, S[amuel], 6.17 |
Hopkins, Solomon, 1.14, Box OS |
Horton, Charles P., 8.3 |
Hoskel, William, Box OS |
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 9.2, 16.21 |
Howard, Charles, 7.12 |
Howard, Robert, Box OS |
Howe, Albert R., 8.4 |
Howe, Frank E., 7.15 |
Howe, Julia Ward, 16.18, 16.19 |
Howe, M.A. DeWolfe, 17.1-3 |
Howe, Mark DeWolfe, 17.13 |
Howells, W[illiam] D[ean], 8.16, 9.4 |
Howland, Lizzie H., 1.1 |
Howland, Shove, 2.3 |
Hoyt, Edwin P., 9.11 |
Hubbard, William, 1.4 |
Hughes, S.F., 9.16 |
Hughes, W.H., 16.4 |
[Huickley], Isaac, 11.13 |
Hungerford, Thomas, 1.3 |
Hunt, Richard M., 16.5 |
Hunt, W.M., 8.11, 8.12 |
Hunter, W.[T.], 7.14 |
Hurd, John, 1.11 |
Huskisson, William, 3.4 |
Hutchinson, Foster, 1.7 |
Hutchinson, Thomas, Box OS |
Inches, Henderson, Jr., 3.12 |
Ingraham, D.G., 3.7, 6.16, 6.17, 7.1 |
Ives, Stephen B., Jr., 7.6 |
Jackson, Mr., 1.16, 1.17, 1.19 |
Jackson, A.S., 3.9 |
Jackson, Andrew, 12.5 |
Jackson, Catherine C., 4.8 |
Jackson, Charles (1775-1855), 3.2 |
Jackson, Charles, Jr. (1805-1880), 3.10 |
Jackson, Charles [Loring (1847-1935)], 17.5 |
Jackson, Edward, 1.1, 1.7, 7.14, 8.2, 8.8, Box OS |
Jackson, Francis H., 3.7, 3.16, 4.1-3, 5.4, 5.11, 5.13, 15.13 |
Jackson, H., 1.2, 3.8, 3.9 |
Jackson, Hannah L., 3.13, 4.5-9, 4.11, 4.13, 5.1, 5.3, 5.4, 5.6, 5.9, 5.11, 8.16 |
Jackson, Henry, 17.8 |
Jackson, James {1777-1867), 1.19, 2.1, 3.1, 5.18, 8.10 |
Jackson, James (d. 1900), 9.14 |
Jackson, James (1881-1952), 17.3, 17.7 |
Jackson, Jonathan, 1.1, 1.2, 1.9-12, 1.18, 2.1, 2.2, 2.5, 9.12, Vol. 3-9 |
Jackson, Mary, 1.6, 1.17, 1.19, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.8-20, 3.1, 3.3-5, 3.7-11, 3.15-18, 4.3-13, 5.1-18, 6.5-10, 6.13, 6.14, 6.16, 6.17 |
Jackson, Patrick Tracy (1780-1847), 2.1, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.11, 2.14, 2.20, 3.2, 3.10, Vol. 10-16 |
Jackson, Patrick Tracy, Jr., 3.16, 4.5, 4.6, 4.10, 4.11, 4.13, 5.1, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.10, 5.11, 6.12-14, 7.8, 8.10, 8.12, 9.9, 12.5 |
Jackson, Patrick Tracy (1893-1959), 17.4-7 |
Jackson, Sarah, 3.8 |
Jackson, Susan C., 3.9, 3.15, 3.16, 3.18, 6.12, 12.5 |
Jackson & Higginson, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16 |
James, William, 16.14, 16.15, 16.17-19 |
Jarvis, Charles, 1.9, 1.10 |
Jarvis, Leonard, 1.12 |
Jefferson, Thomas, 1.12 |
Jeffries, John, Jr., 7.14, 7.15 |
Jenks, John, 2.2 |
Johnson, John, 1.13 |
Johnson, Reverdy, Jr., 8.1, 8.8 |
Jones, Abigail, 1.8 |
Jones, Mary, Ebenezer, Thomas, Edener, Elijah, Samuel, 1.1 |
Jones, Sophy, 1.12, 1.13 |
Kemble, Frances Anne (Fanny), 1.2, 6.12-14, 8.3, 8.4, 8.10, 8.15, 8.16, 9.2, 9.5, 9.7, 9.8, 9.10, 9.11, 9.12, 12.6 |
Kendall, Benjamin F., 7.16, 7.17, 9.7 |
Kennard, M.P., 16.3-5, 16.13, 16.16, 16.17 |
Kidder, Camillus G., 9.3 |
King, G.P., 9.3 |
King, Jonathan, 2.1 |
King, Rufus, 1.12 |
Kingsbury, Joseph, 1.13 |
Kingston, Stephen, Box OS |
Knap, Mary, 1.17 |
Kneeland, [Dr.] S[amuel], Jr., 7.2 |
Knight, W.W., 5.16 |
Knox, Adam, 7.1 |
Knox, H[enry], 2.1 |
Kuhn, George W., 7.18 |
Kynnier, William, Box OS |
Labaree, Benjamin W., 17.14 |
Labor Day, 12.7 |
Lamb, Thomas, 4.12 |
Lane, Henry S., 4.1, 9.1 |
Langdon, Thomas, 2.19 |
Larcom, David, 6.1, 6.16, 6.17 |
Larcom, Francis, 6.15-17, 7.1, 7.2, 7.8 |
Larvin, Mrs. Emory, 7.6 |
Lawrence, Abbott, 3.7, 3.11 |
Lawrence, Amos A., 5.17, 7.5, 7.15, 7.16, 8.1, 8.3, 8.12, 8.14, 8.15, 8.16, 9.3 |
Lawrence, James, 7.5 |
Lawrence, William, 16.17 |
Lea, J. Henry, 8.15, 9.1, 9.9, 9.12-15, 11.11 |
Lear, Tobias, 1.18 |
Learnard, William, 3.14 |
LeBarnes, J.W., 7.5 |
Lee, Alice, 9.18 |
Lee, Bessie, 6.16 |
Lee, Edmund, 1.3 |
Lee, Elizabeth C., 1.1, 4.4, 5.12 |
Lee, Elizabeth P., 5.10, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 7.6, 7.7, 7.12, 7.17, 7.18 |
Lee, Francis (1784-1830), Vol. 17 & 18 |
Lee, Francis H., 9.5, 11.11 |
Lee, Francis L., 3.15, 4.4-13, 5.2-11, 5.13-17, 6.5, 7.13, 7.17, 7.18, 9.4 |
Lee, George C., 17.15 |
Lee, George W., 2.5 |
Lee, Harriet J., 3.10, 4.1, 4.4, 4.5, 4.7, 4.12, 5.1, 5.3, 5.4, 5.6-8, 5.10-12, Vol. 19-21 |
Lee, Henry, 1.5, 1.19 |
Lee, Henry (1782-1867), 1.2, 2.2, 2.4-9, 2.11-20, 3.1-8, 2.11-12, 3.14-18, 4.1-13, 5.2, 5.4-12, 5.14-20, 6.1-13, 6.17, 14.4, 15.1-9, Vol. 22-66, 106-109 |
Lee, Henry, Jr. (1817-1898), 1.1, 1.2, 3.7-18, 4.1-13, 5.1-19, 6.1-17, 7.1-19, 8.1-16, 9.1-17, 10.1-3, 10.5-12, 11.1, 11.3-5, 11.7-19, 12.1-5, 12.7-14, 13.1-20, 14.1-5, 15.10-14, 16.1-21, Vol. 67-89, 162 |
Lee, Henry, III, 5.18, 6.17, 8.13 |
Lee, Horace C., 8.7 |
Lee, John, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 2.1 |
Lee, John C., 4.2, 4.13, 7.1 |
Lee, Jonas, 2.1 |
Lee, Joseph (1643-1716), 1.4, 1.5 |
Lee, Joseph (1680-1736), 1.5, 1.6 |
Lee, Joseph (1710/11-1802), 1.7, 1.17, 2.1, Box OS |
Lee, Joseph (1744-1831), 1.8, 1.9, 1.13, 1.14, 2.2, 2.7, 2.15, Vol. 90-109 |
Lee, Joseph, Jr. (1779-1845), 2.3, 2.5-9, 2.12, 3.2, 3.3, 4.13, Vol. 110-114 |
Lee, Joseph (b. 1901), 17.11 |
Lee, Joseph & Company, 1.13 |
Lee, L., 1.12, 1.13 |
Lee, Mary Cabot, 2.9, 3.1 |
Lee, Mary Jackson, 1.6, 1.17, 1.19, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.8-20, 3.1, 3.3-5, 3.7-11, 3.15-18, 4.3-13, 5.1-18, 6.5-10, 6.13, 6.14, 6.16, 6.17 |
Lee, S. Adams, 8.13 |
Lee, Thomas (1673-1766), 1.5, 1.6 |
Lee, Thomas (1741-1830), 1.7, 1.11, 1.13, 1.15, 1.19, 2.1-5, 2.13, 2.15, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.5, Box OS, Vol. 114 |
Lee, Thomas (1779-1867), 3.6, 3.7, 3.9, 5.9, 5.17, 6.11, 8.8, 14.1, Vol. 115-141 |
Lee, Thomas J., 8.1 |
Lee, William, 8.13-15, 9.5 |
Lee, William Colman, 1.1, 2.3, Vol. 154 |
Lee, William P., 7.1, 7.7 |
Lee, Woodis, 1.5 |
Lee & Cabot, 1.13-18, Box OS, Vol. 105-109 |
Lee & Higginson, 5.17-19, 6.1-12 |
Leigh, Francis B., 9.12 |
Leigh, John, 1.3 |
Leigh, Joseph, 1.3 |
Leman, Walter M., 9.7 |
Leonard, Joseph, 6.13, 6.14 |
Letters to the Cotton Manufacturers of Massachusetts, 5.5, 15.2-9 |
Lewis, Richard C., 6.1-4 |
Lewis, Winslow, 6.10 |
Lincoln, Abraham, 7.7, 7.9, 7.17, 8.10 |
Lincoln, Benjamin, 1.9 |
Lincoln, F[rederick] W., Jr., 6.17 |
Lindsay, Capt., 7.9 |
Little, Thomas, 8.5 |
Livermore, C.F., 8.5 |
Livermore, Thomas L., 13.12, 16.13 |
Lloyd, James, 2.7, 2.9 |
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 8.14-16, 9.4, 9.6-10, 9.12-14, 9.17, 12.2, 12.11 |
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 17.7 |
Lodge, John E., 7.6, 7.7, 7.11 |
Logan, William H., 12.12 |
Long, John Davis, 9.16 |
Longfellow, Fanny Appleton, 5.10 |
Longfellow, Henry W., 4.9, 8.15 |
Lord, Robert, 1.4 |
Lord, Thomas, 1.3 |
Loring, Anna T., 7.14, 7.16, 8.7, 8.12 |
Loring, Augustus D., Jr., 17.10 |
Loring, Charles G., 6.13 |
Loring, Frank W., 8.7 |
Loring, Katharine, 17.8 |
Loring, W.T., 7.16 |
Love, Thomas, 1.8 |
Lovering, Joseph, 1.14 |
Lovitt, John, 1.8 |
Lowell, A. Lawrence, 17.7 |
Lowell, Anna C., 8.12 |
Lowell, Charles Russell (1807-1870), 3.14 |
Lowell, Charles Russell, Jr. (1835-1864), 7.3, 7.9, 7.14, 8.1, 8.3 |
Lowell, Edward T., 9.7 |
Lowell, Elizabeth C., 2.1-3 |
Lowell, Francis (1775-1817), 2.4 |
Lowell, Francis C. (1824-1897), 8.13, 9.14 |
Lowell, John, 9.4, 12.13 |
Lowell, John A., 1.2, 1.9, 1.16, 1.17, 1.19 |
Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 8.11, 16.3, 16.5, 16.13-15 |
Lyman, Arthur T., 6.14, 9.8 |
Lyman, Elizabeth C., 17.5 |
Lyman, George S., 6.14 |
Lyman, Henry, 9.9 |
Lyman, Mimi, 16.12, 16.14, 16.15 |
Lyman, Theodore, 8.12, 8.13, 8.16, 9.3, 9.11, 9.17, 12.14 |
McClellan, [George Binton], 7.4, 7.9 |
McDuffie, George, 3.4, 3.5 |
McInnes, William M., 9.13 |
McKim, C[harles] F[ollen], 9.8, 9.12, 9.13, 16.16, 16.21 |
Madison, James, 2.11-13 |
Malone, Dumas, 17.6 |
Mandell, George, 13.12 |
Mann, C.H., 7.6 |
Mann, Horace, 6.11, 6.12 |
Manning, Ethelwyn, 17.5 |
Manufacturers' & Merchants' Bank, 3.5 |
Marcy, Randolph B., 7.6 |
Martin, D.A., 8.11 |
Martyn, Edward, Box OS |
Mason, Jeremiah, 13.1 |
Mason, William P., Jr., 7.12 |
Massachusetts Mills, 5.3 |
Mathewson, Hope, 17.5 |
Matthews, Albert, 9.18 |
Matthews, Nathan, 7.1 |
Matthews, Nathan, Jr., 9.9, 9.10, 9.11, 9.13 |
Mayhew, I., 1.7 |
Mayhew, William E., 6.4, 6.12 |
Meade, George G., 8.11 |
Mellows family, 11.10 |
Melville, Thomas, 1.19 |
Mercer, Robert & Richard, 1.15 |
Meredith, J. Morris, 9.3 |
Mertens & Co., 2.16 |
Metcalf, Henry B., 7.17 |
Miles & Cabot, 2.16 |
Military ball (state), 8.9 |
Miller, Col. [James F.], 7.5, 7.13 |
Mills, Anna C.L., 7.5, 7.17 |
Mills, Charles J., 7.15 |
Milton Hill, 9.16 |
Minerva-Turner, ship, 1.19 |
Minot, George R., 17.4-7 |
Minot, James, 1.4, 1.5 |
Minot, James J., 17.3 |
Minot, William, Jr., 3.13, 3.17, 3.18, 4.5, 4.9, 4.11, 5.1, 5.10, 5.12, 6.12, 9.2, 9.11, 9.12, 9.13, 9.17, 13.1 |
Minot, Hooper & Co., 9.11-14 |
Miralla & Co., 2.17 |
Mitchell, Charles L., 16.6, 16.18 |
Moe, J.C. & E., 7.9 |
Monteith, William, 7.13 |
Montgomery, Capt., 7.13 |
Morgan, William, Box OS |
Morison, Samuel E., 17.1, 17.2, 17.8 |
Morland, W.W., 7.14 |
Morrill, Charles James, 13.2 |
Morrison, Donald, 2.4 |
Morse, Benjamin Eddy, 13.1 |
Morse, Frances R., 1.2, 9.18 |
Morse, John T., Jr., 8.13, 9.7, 9.13, 12.4 |
Morse, L.C., 6.12 |
Morton, Levi P., 16.5 |
Mulligan, James C., 7.19 |
Munroe, T., 7.1 |
Needham, Edmund, 1.18 |
Nelson, M.J., 8.1 |
Netherell, J.N., 8.1 |
New England Emigrant Aid Co., 6.10 |
Newell, Andrew, 1.8 |
Newell, William, 8.16 |
Newman, Carolus, Box OS |
Newton, E.A., 2.6 |
Nichols, George [H.], 9.12 |
Nichols, James M., 7.16 |
Nichols, John W.T., 9.11-14 |
Niebuhr, Caleb E., 8.5 |
Noble, John, 17.7 |
Norcross Brothers, 16.6 |
Northrup, B[irdsey] [Grant], 8.3 |
Norton, Charles E., 7.8. 8.1, 8.15 |
Oakes, James, 7,17 |
Oakey, Daniel, 7.11, 7.16, 8.8 |
Oakey, S.W., 7.13, 7.17, 7.19 |
Oakey, W.F., 8.8 |
Ober, John P., 6.16, 7.5, 7.6 |
O'Brien, Hugh, 9.6 |
O'Kane, Bernard, 7.2, 7.5 |
Olmsted, F[rederick] L[aw], 9.3, 9.17 |
Olmsted, Mary C., 9.17 |
Olney, Richard, 9.2, 9.13, 9.16 |
Ormarabal, Jose Maria de, 1.1 |
Orne, Timothy, 1.7 |
Osborne, F.A., 8.1, 8.7 |
Otis, Harrison Gray, 6.5 |
Owen, John, 1.13 |
P., M.E., 7.4 |
Packard, Col., 7.9 |
Packard & Gowen, 2.17 |
Page, William, 1.14 |
Paine, Charles C., 3.14, 3.15, 4.3 |
Paine, Ebenezer, 1.13 |
Palfrey, Francis W., 7.6 |
Palfrey, J[ohn] G[orham], 7.3 |
Palmer, Wilson & Co., 2.17, 2.19 |
Parker, Charles H., 3.15, 4.3, 4.6, 4.8, 4.9, 4.11, 5.1, 5.11, 9.16 |
Parker, [Francis J.], 7.11 |
Parker, F[rancis] E., 8.16, 13.4 |
Parker, James, 6.5 |
Parker, Lydia D., 7.5 |
Parkman, Henry, 8.16 |
Parkman, Mary E., 6.16, 7.5, 7.8 |
Parkman, Samuel, 4.10 |
Patten, C.B., 8.11 |
Patty & Molly, brig, 1.6 |
Paul, Joseph F., 7.2, 7.8, 7.9 |
Peabody, [Lucia], 6.16 |
Pearson, George W., 7.17 |
Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil (1825-1891), 4.3 |
Peel, Sir Robert, 5.14, 5.19 |
Pegan, Mary, 1.6 |
Peirce, George, 9.7, 11.12 |
Peirson, Charles, 7.19, 8.1 |
Pemberton, John, 1.3 |
Perkins, John, 1.3 |
Perkins, S.H., 4.4 |
Perkins, Thomas Handasyd, 2.3, 13.5 |
Perkins, William, 13.5 |
Perry, Margaret, 17.7 |
Peters, John, Box OS |
Phelps, J.W., 8.12 |
Phillips, George W., 4.2, 4.3 |
Phillips, J[ames] D[uncan], 17.7, 17.14 |
Phillips, Stephen H., 7.16 |
Phillips, Wendell, 11.10, 13.6 |
Philocles, 1.7 |
Phipps, Samuel, 1.4 |
Pickering, Henry W., 4.3, 4.4 |
Pickering, Octavius, 3.8 |
Pickering, Winslow & Co., 7.1 |
Pickett, Thomas, 1.13 |
Pickman, Benjamin, 1.8, 2.2 |
Pierce, Albin D., 8.4 |
Pierce, E.L., 16.16 |
Pillsbury, A.S., 9.6 |
Pomhammon, alias Israel Rumblemash, 1.6 |
Porter, Edward S., 9.13 |
Porter, Eliphalet, 1.19 |
Porter, Kenneth W., 9.18, 17.2-14 |
Pratt-Coroner, Jabez, 13.3 |
Preble, W[illiam] P[itt], 3.7 |
Prescott, James, 1.9 |
Prescott, Oliver, 2.1 |
Prescott, William, 2.6, 2.7 |
Preston, [George] R., 7.17 |
Preston, W[illiam] C[ampbell], 3.4 |
Price, Benjamin S., 7.10 |
Prince, [E.] Octavius, 3.10, 7.9, 7.10, 8.16 |
Princess Ann, ship, 2.14 |
Putnam, E., 8.8 |
Putnam, Jesse, 2.3 |
Putnam, [John] C., 8.1 |
Pynchon, William, 1.13 |
Quincy, Edmund, 1.7 |
Quincy, Eliza S., 5.18 |
Quincy, Josiah (1709-1784), 1.7 |
Quincy, Josiah (1772-1864), 3.7, 3.8, 3.9 |
Quincy, Josiah. (1859-1919), 9.4, 16.21 |
Raguet, C[ondy], 3.4, 3.6, 3.7 |
Randolph, John, 3.4 |
Rantoul, Robert P., 9.13 |
Ray, William, 8.5 |
Raymond, W., 8.8 |
Reaper, brig, 2.8, 2.9, 2.11, 2.13 |
Reed, Bell & De Yongh & Co., 2.17, 2.18, 2.19 |
Reid, John H., 7.1, 7.7, 16.16 |
Remsen, Peter, 2.5 |
Republic, ship, 3.13 |
Rice, Alexander H., 8.15 |
Richard, William R., 9.7 |
Richards, Ellen R., 9.1 |
Richards & Jones, 2.6 |
Ricketson, Joseph, 7.4, 7.5 |
Rider, John, 1.6 |
Rinza, schooner, 4.3 |
Ripley, Ezra, 7.4 |
Ripley, George, 5.16 |
Ripley, S.A., 6.16 |
Ritchie, Harrison, 6.5, 7.7, 7.16, 8.1 |
Robinson, William H., 5.16 |
Rodgers, Joseph, 3.2 |
Rodman, William Logan, 7.1, 7.14, 7.15, 7.16, 7.17 |
Rogers, John, 1.4 |
Rogers, Sarah, 1.4 |
Rollins, William, 2.17 |
Roosevelt, Theodore, 9.5, 13.8 |
Rosecrans, W[illiam] S[tarke], 7.3 |
Rotch, Francis, 1.9, 1.12 |
Ruck, John, Box OS |
Ruffin, Josephine, 16.6 |
Rumble, Adrianah, 7.6 |
Rumblemash, Israel, alias Pomhammon, 1.6 |
Russel, [W.] C., 3.10 |
Russell, Dr., 8.13 |
Russell, Emily, 1.2 |
Russell, H.S., 9.5, 9.7, 16.20 |
Russell, James, 2.9, 2.12 |
Russell, LeBaron, 9.4, 9.6, 9.7, 9.17 |
Russell, S.B., 5.9, 5.10, 5.11, 6.6, 6.7, 8.13 |
Russell, Thomas, 1.12 |
Russell, William G., 7.13, 9.3 |
[S.], C.E., 8.10 |
St. Gaudens, Augustus, 16.2-4, 16.6-9, 16.11, 16.12, 16.16, 16.17 |
Sale, W.A., 6.11, 6.16 |
Salla, J.R., 7.5 |
Salter, Robert, Box OS |
Saltonstall, Leverett, 7.18, 9.3, 9.6 |
Sargent, H[orace] B., 6.16, 7.7, 7.18 |
Sargent, Wendell P., 17.14 |
Savage, James, 7.13 |
Scarlett, Samuel, 1.5 |
Schenkle, J.P., 7.10 |
Schouler, William, 7.4, 7.5, 7.7, 7.10-17, 7.19, 8.1-4, 8.6-8 |
Schurz, Carl, 8.15 |
Scott, Winfield, 7.6 |
Scudder, H[orace] E., 9.11-13 |
Seabury, Frank, 12.11 |
Searle, Fanny, 1.2 |
Sears, David, 6.17, 7.5 |
Sears, Robert, 6.13 |
Sedgwick, Ellery, 17.7 |
Sedgwick, Theodore, 3.6, 3.7 |
Sewall, Jonathan, 1.5, 1.15, 3.3, 9.7, 9.15 |
Sewall, Samuel, 1.5, 9.7 |
Seymour, Paul, 5.18 |
Shattuck, Elizabeth P., 9.18 |
Shattuck, Frederic C., 9.1, 9.4, 9.18 |
[Shattuck, George C.], 1.2, 10.5, 13.10 |
Shattuck, Henry L., 17.1-15 |
Shaw, Francis George, 16.22 |
Shaw, Gardiner Howland, 4.5, 4.7, 4.8, 4.10, 5.3, 5.4, 5.7, 5.14, 6.17, 7.14 |
Shaw, Robert Gould (monument), 8.15, 16.1-21 |
Shaw, Sarah B., 16.13, 16.15 |
Shearer, Thomas, Box OS |
Shed, Samuel, 1.9 |
Shimmen, William, 2.6, 2.7, 2.14 |
Shreve, Thomas H., 5.18 |
Shurtleff, Nathaniel B., 7.13 |
Sibley, Samuel, 1.6 |
Silsbee, W.D., 7.7 |
Simison, Barbara Damon, 17.8 |
Simpkins, John, 8.1 |
Smith, Benjamin, 1.14 |
Smith, Charles, Box OS |
Smith, Charles C., 9.15 |
Smith, Elias, 1.12 |
Smith, John, 1.13 |
Snow, Eleazer, 1.13 |
Sohier, Ed[ward] D., 6.17, 7.4, 13.11 |
Somerby, Horatio Gates, 6.8 |
Sowdon, A.J.C., 8.12 |
Sparhawk, Nathaniel, 1.13 |
Spear, David, 1.13 |
Sprague, [Samuel], 9.8 |
Stanton, E[dwin] M., 8.11 |
State House (Massachusetts), 3.11, 9.14 |
Steffen, William, 7.17 |
Steiglitz & Co., 2.18, 2.19 |
Stephens, John, Box OS |
Stetson, Sidney A., 7.14 |
Stetson, S.A. & Co., 6.13 |
Stevenson, Thomas G., 8.1 |
Stillman, Dr. Samuel, 1.18 |
Stoddard, George G., 7.11 |
Stone, Ebenezer W., 4.2, 9.13 |
Storer, Woodbury, 2.3 |
Strong, Wilson B., 16.14 |
Sturgis, Elizabeth O.P., 8.16 |
Sturgis, James, 8.10 |
Sturgis, Josiah, 5.17 |
Sturgis, William, 2.4 |
Sullivan, Richard, Jr., 4.6-9, 4.11, 4.13, 5.1, 5.6, 5.12, 12.2 |
Sullivan, Russell, 16.20 |
Sullivan, T.R., 16.19 |
Sumner, Charles, 7.2 |
Surgeons (Civil War), 7.14 |
Swett, Samuel W., 6.12, 7.6 |
Swift, Henry W., 9.7 |
Taber, J.C., 7.15 |
Tappan, Edward A., 4.2, 4.3 |
Tarbell, George G., 9.1, 9.9, 9.13, 9.14, 9.15 |
Taussig, Prof. Frank W., 13.14 |
Taylor, Charles H., 9.10 |
Taylor, J. Watson, 9.12 |
Taylor, David & Sons, 7.1 |
Temple, James, 3.6 |
Thacher, John Boyd, 16.6 |
Thatcher, Samuel, 1.12 |
Thayer, Adin, 13.15 |
Thayer, J[ames] B[radley], 7.18, 9.11, 10.3, 12.3 |
Thompson, John, 1.14 |
Thompson, N.A., 4.2, 4.4 |
Thorndike, Israel, 2.2 |
Thornely, Thomas, 5.14 |
Ticknor, Anna Eliot, 13.16 |
Ticknor, George, 7.5 |
Tilton, Eleanor M., 17.12 |
Tilton, William S., 7.4 |
Tinan, B.T., 15.10 |
Torrey, Ellen Cabot, 9.16 |
Torrey, George A., 9.9 |
Towne, Benjamin, 1.2 |
Towne, Solomon, 2.18 |
Townsend, E[dward] D[avis], 7.9, 7.11 |
Tracy, John, 1.18, Vol. 156 |
Tracy, Nancy, 3.5 |
Tracy, Nathaniel, 1.13 |
Tracy, Patrick, 1.16, 1.17 |
Trask, Amos & Hannah, 1.8 |
Tremlett, H.M., 7.19 |
Trowbridge, John, 9.11 |
Trowbridge, Libbie P., 7.6 |
Tuck, Henry, Box OS |
Tuckerman, G., 5.12 |
Tudor, Frederic, 5.18 |
Turner, Henry A., 16.2 |
Turner, Samuel E., 9.11 |
Tuttle, Mr., 9.18 |
Tyler, John, 4.4, 4.9, 5.7, 5.9 |
Union, brig, 1.8 |
Upham, George B., 9.12 |
Veteran's Preference Bill, Massachusetts (1895), 13.17 |
Vickere, John, 1.13 |
Volant, schooner, 1.14, 1.15, Box OS |
Wade, Thomas, 1.4 |
Waite, Thomas, 1.4 |
Wallace, Daniel, 1.13 |
Walsh, M.J., 17.11 |
Ward, Bessie Schonberg, 9.16 |
Ward, Samuel G., 3.11, 3.12, 6.5, 6.15, 8.1, 12.2 |
Ward, Thomas W., 3.13, 4.5, 5.2 |
Ware, H[enry], 8.1, 8.8 |
Ware, W[illiam] Rotch, 7.14, 9.14 |
Waring, Mrs. Guy, 17.5 |
Warner, Henry E., 9.13 |
Warner, Joseph B., 9.11 |
Warren, Edwin R., 7.6 |
Warren, J.M., 1.2 |
Warren, Joseph, 1.19 |
Washburn, Emory, 7.11, 7.16 |
Waterhouse, Benjamin, 2.14, 3.3, 3.6 |
Waterhouse, Louisa Lee, 1.2, 5.14, 5.17, 6.2, 6.11, 6.17 |
Waterhouse, S., 6.12 |
Waters, Henry F., 9.6 |
Waterston, Anna C.L., 16.16 |
Watkins, Walter K., 9.15, 9.16 |
Webb, Thomas H., 7.3 |
Webb & Co., 2.19 |
Webster, Daniel, 4.10, 8.8, 13.18 |
Webster, Fletcher, 7.3, 7.11, 8.12 |
Welch, Charles Alfred, 4.7, 4.11, 4.12, 5.1, 7.1 |
Wells, William & Greene, 2.18, 2.19 |
Wellman, W.W., 8.4 |
Wells, Frank, 8.1 |
Wetherell, J.W., 16.16 |
Wheatland, Henry, 8.12 |
Wheelwright, Charles H., 4.3, 4.5 |
Wheelwright, Edward, 9.4, 9.7, 9.15 |
Wheelwright, Mary C., 17.5 |
[Whelan, C.O.], 7.7 |
Whistler, George, 13.19 |
Whitcher, Martin L., 3.18 |
White, Freeman, 4.2 |
White, Horace, 8.15 |
White, Joseph & Sarah, 1.6 |
[Whitman, Samuel W.], 9.12, 10.10, 12.4 |
Whitmore, W[illiam] H., 8.13, 9.17, 14.5 |
Whiton, L[yman] B., 8.5 |
Whittemore, George, 7.16 |
Wightman, Henry M., 13.18 |
Wigley, Edmund, 1.3 |
Wild, Edward A., 7.14 |
Wild, Micah, 1.13 |
Willard, Abijah, Levi, Abel, 1.7 |
Willard, Joseph, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 |
Willett, George E., 17.15 |
Williams, A.S., 7.17 |
Williams, Charles J., 15.12 |
Williams, George, 3.3 |
Williams, H., 9.12 |
Williams, Moses, 16.18 |
Williams, Samuel, 2.4 |
Williams, Thomas, Box OS |
Wilson, H[enry], 7.7, 7.11, 8.2, 15.11 |
Wilson, Palmer, 2.17 |
Winslow, George, 7.2 |
Winsor, F[rederick], 8.3 |
Winthrop, Adam, Box OS |
Winthrop, James, 2.1 |
Winthrop, Robert C., 8.8, 8.10, 8.12, 9.4, 9.9, 9.17, 13.20 |
Winthrop, Robert C., Jr., 13.20 |
Winthrop, William, 1.2, 1.12 |
Wister, Annis Lee, 9.12 |
Wister, Owen (Dan), 8.15 |
Wister, Owen J., 8.16, 9.1, 9.6, 9.14 |
Wister, William Rotch, 9.6 |
Wolcott, Huntington Frothingham, 13.18 |
Wolcott, Roger, 9.16, 16.19 |
Wood, Jonathan, 5.13 |
Wood, Joseph, 2.2 |
Woodis, Henry & Sarah, 1.4, 1.5 |
Woodman, Emily F., 9.18 |
Woolsey, Theodore D., 8.15 |
Wright, Elizur, 8.16 |
Wyman, M[orrill], 7.16, 12.2 |
Yorke, Samuel & James Schott, 2.7 |
Zalinski, E. [L.], 15.12 |
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