This subseries includes the correspondence, personal papers, and business papers of Leverett Saltonstall (1785-1845). Family correspondence, which comprises the bulk of the series, contains letters between Leverett and his father Nathaniel Saltonstall (1746-1815); mother Anna White Saltonstall; siblings Anna, Richard, and Nathaniel; and cousin George Badger. In 1812, Leverett began his correspondence with his wife, Mary Elizabeth Sanders Saltonstall, which continued throughout his life. The majority of letters from Leverett to Mary, and later from Leverett to his children Anne, Caroline, Lucy, and Leverett, were written during his trips to Washington, D.C. as a lawyer before the Supreme Court in 1824-1826 and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Dec. 1838 to Jan. 1843. View the web presentation of selected letters from Leverett to his family.

Personal correspondence includes letters from his Exeter and Harvard classmates, including William Minot, John Gorham, and James S. Dunning. Letters from Exeter classmate Lewis Cass illustrate his impressions of the Northwest Territory and the new state of Ohio.View the web presentation of selected Saltonstall-Cass correspondence. Also included is correspondence with Rev. John E. Abbot, minister of North Church in Salem and Saltonstall's close friend, whose sermons and religious papers are also in this series. A small amount of correspondence and business papers pertain to Saltonstall's Salem law practice, including correspondence with William Prescott and James C. Merrill, wills, deeds, and other documents associated with legal cases. Some material relates to the Brazen-Upham controversy, a libel case between two ministers in Salem in which a large part of the town took sides.

Among Saltonstall's political correspondents, primarily during his tenure as a Congressional representative, are Rufus Choate, Caleb Cushing, Lemuel Shaw, Levi Lincoln, Edward Everett, Horace Mann, Joseph Story, Abbott Lawrence, and Harrison Gray Otis. Also found here is a memorial of Saltonstall's life written by David A. White of Salem in 1854.

To search for specific correspondents, locations, dates, or keywords in this subseries, see the Saltonstall Online Catalog.

This subseries contains manuscript drafts of speeches written and delivered by Leverett Saltonstall, primarily in his capacity as a member of the Massachusetts General Court and later as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. They include speeches to various social and religious groups, public orations marking anniversaries and special events, and speeches that he gave on the floor of the House. His speech on the U.S. tariff also exists in printed form.

See also Leverett Saltonstall's speeches and reports in Printed Material (Series V.A.).

Diaries written by Leverett Saltonstall date from February, 1803, when he still practiced law in Haverhill, Mass., until 1814, shortly before he became active in politics. 1803-1804 volumes are small folios that chronicle the weather, Saltonstall's daily activities in Haverhill and Salem, Mass., and some observations about current events. Beginning with his July 1804 diary, Saltonstall kept larger journals, with more comments on politics, events, and courses of study in which he had interest. These volumes also include a journal of a trip to Portland, Maine in 1806; a diary and expense account (1806-1821); and an 1814 journal of a trip to western Mass. and New York. Transcriptions of all diaries are published in The Saltonstall Papers, Vol. 2, except for the Jan. 1806-Apr. 1807 diary, which is published in the MHS Proceedings 89 (1977): 127-177.

Included in this subseries are Leverett Saltonstall's family, political, and personal correspondence and papers. Before 1870, the bulk of the series is comprised of family correspondence with his mother Mary Elizabeth Sanders Saltonstall; sisters Caroline, Anne, and Lucy; his wife Rose Lee Saltonstall; and other family members. (Saltonstall's correspondence with his father Leverett Saltonstall [1783-1845] can be found in Series I.) Saltonstall's 1847-1849 letters discussing his trip to Europe and the Middle East have been transcribed, and include passports to Palestine written in Arabic. Many of his letters are addressed to his sister Anne, to whom he wrote weekly for many years. Also here are numerous letters congratulating Saltonstall on his engagement to Rose Lee in 1854, letters from his sisters Anne and Caroline from Europe in 1869-1870, letters from his son Richard from London in 1885, and letters from his daughter Rose in Florida in 1886.

A large portion of Saltonstall's political papers relate to his role as a leader of the Massachusetts Democratic Party and as a frequent candidate for political office. Included are correspondence and records pertaining to the controversy surrounding the Florida electoral votes in the Hayes-Tilden presidential election of 1876, in which Saltonstall traveled to Florida to oversee the election returns. View the web presentation of selected documents related to Saltonstall's part in the Florida election controversy. An October 1885 letter from Pres. Grover Cleveland confirms Saltonstall's political appointment as collector of the Port of Boston; among the numerous congratulatory letters is a 15 Nov. 1885 note from Theodore Roosevelt. View the web presentation of Roosevelt's letters to Leverett Saltonstall and his son Richard Middlecott Saltonstall. Also among Saltonstall's political papers is an April 1886 letter from Pres. Grover Cleveland asking Saltonstall's opinion of potential political appointees, as well as correspondence related to his removal from political office in 1890.

Personal papers include correspondence related to Saltonstall's numerous Harvard club affiliations, his board positions at the Perkins Institute and School for the Blind and the National Conference of Unitarians, his position as overseer of Harvard University, and his presidency of the Harvard College Alumni Association. Correspondents include Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Eliot, Edward Wheelwright, and Charles E. Norton. A large portion of personal papers relates to Saltonstall's longtime interest in his family genealogy, including correspondence with William Endicott, William Brampton Gurdon, James Hubbard, Henry Saltonstall, and Robert C. Winthrop, Jr. This correspondence discusses Saltonstall's interest in collecting family documents and portraits, as well as his research for his book Ancestry and Descendants of Sir Richard Saltonstall, which was published posthumously. See also Series IV, Family History and Genealogy.

To search for specific correspondents, locations, dates, or keywords in documents dated before 1880 in this subseries, see the Saltonstall Online Catalog.

This subseries includes Saltonstall's address to the Franklin County Agricultural Society at its inaugural meeting about 1850, a lecture about Alexander Hamilton delivered to the Salem Young Men's Union in 1857, an 1885 essay about his recollections of the Salem of his youth (ca. 1830-1845), copies of speeches given at the 50th anniversary of the Harvard class of 1844, and other miscellaneous writings.

Most of the diaries in this subseries are small, page-a-day-format bound volumes. Saltonstall began keeping a diary during his trip to Europe and the Middle East from 1847-1849 and returned to the practice in 1855 until his death in 1895. The 1847-1849 travel diaries contain details of his journeys to France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Constantinople, Greece, England, and Scotland. Later diaries primarily record daily activities, weather, and occasional current events. Beginning in 1860, Saltonstall mentions details of his political activities, and in 1861 through 1865 he regularly discusses events related to the Civil War. Diaries from 1855 to 1861 also contain newspaper clippings. Diaries from 1847-1849, 1855-1865, and 1881-1884 include transcriptions. There are no diaries for the years 1850-1854, 1864, 1869, and 1885-1889.

This subseries contains early Saltonstall family papers that were collected primarily by Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845), his son Leverett Saltonstall (1825-1895), and his grandson Richard Middlecott Saltonstall, who organized them into a series of notebooks and folios. It includes 16th- and 17th-century English deeds related to lands held by the Saltonstall family or their ancestors, as well as papers of Saltonstall ancestors in the Leverett, Cooke, and Sanders families. Among these are the military and political papers of John Leverett (1616-1679), who fought for Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War and served as governor of Acadia (now Nova Scotia) and later as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. View the web presentation of a selection of John Leverett's military papers. Papers of John Leverett (1662-1724), grandson of Gov. John Leverett and president of Harvard College, are also found here.

Papers of other Saltonstall family ancestors include those of the Cooke family, primarily Elisha Cooke, Jr. (1678-1737), speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and a political populist, as well as his son, merchant Middlecott Cooke. View the web presentation of Middlecott Cooke's journal and letters to his father about his journey to new settlements in Maine. The correspondence of Elisha's daughter, Mary Cooke Saltonstall Harrod, with her Loyalist children Leverett Saltonstall (1754-1782) and Mary Saltonstall Badger during and after the Revolutionary War is also part of this subseries. View the web presentation of a selection of Mary Cooke Saltonstall Harrod's correspondence.

Also found here are the papers of Dr. Nathaniel Saltonstall (1746-1815) of Haverhill, Mass., including correspondence with Gen. Henry Knox concerning an investment in Maine lands; the papers of Nathaniel Saltonstall (1784-1838), son of Dr. Nathaniel Saltonstall; the family correspondence of Mary Elizabeth Sanders Saltonstall, wife of Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845); the papers of Mary's parents, Thomas and Elizabeth Elkins Sanders; and those of her brother, Charles Sanders. The correspondence of Anne Elizabeth and Caroline Saltonstall, daughters of Mary Elizabeth and Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845), is also found here.

Early documents (1524-1603) include transcriptions.

To search for specific correspondents, locations, dates, or keywords in this subseries, see the Saltonstall Online Catalog.

Correspondence and papers in this subseries are primarily those of Richard Middlecott Saltonstall, his son Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979), and the Saltonstall family archivist, Louise Emerson Carlisle, and largely relate to family genealogy, history, portraits, and archival records. Non-genealogical topics include Richard Saltonstall's engagement to Eleanor Brooks in 1891; Richard's Harvard alumni activities; letters from Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall to her mother Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall (1906) and to her family while she was in Europe (1911-1912, 1914); correspondence related to the family's property in Chestnut Hill, Mass.; correspondence related to the death and estate settlement of Richard M. Saltonstall; and condolences on the death of Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall in 1944.

Also here are awards and commendations, such as Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall's World War II Citation for Meritorious Service and honorary degree from Tufts University, as well as numerous political awards and recognitions of Leverett Saltonstall, sent to Carlisle for inclusion in the family papers. Other correspondents in this series include Peter Chardon Brooks; his daughter Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall; and Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall, daughter of Richard M. and Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall. Letters to Richard from his Harvard classmate Theodore Roosevelt are also here. View the web presentation of Theodore Roosevelt's letters to the Saltonstall family.

Beginning about 1934, most of the correspondence in this series is that of Louise Emerson Carlisle, who was hired by Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall after the death of her husband to organize and research the family's genealogical papers. Carlisle corresponded regularly with Eleanor and Eleanor's son Leverett Saltonstall about family papers, portraits, silver, furniture, and other heirlooms. During Leverett's service as governor of Massachusetts and U.S. senator, he and Carlisle corresponded almost daily concerning genealogical or historical enquiries that came through his office or his personal correspondence. Later correspondents include Leverett's children Muriel Saltonstall Lewis and William L. Saltonstall.

This subseries contains trust documents, deeds, mortgages, wills, and other financial records related to the Brooks and Saltonstall families, as well as information related to family owned properties in Chicago and Massachusetts.

The bulk of Lawrence family correspondence is that of Sarah Lawrence Brooks (1845-1915) to her mother Sarah Appleton Lawrence; her father Amos A. Lawrence; and her brother Amory Appleton Lawrence. One folder consists of letters from Amos A. Lawrence to his granddaughter Eleanor Brooks. The series also contains a few related documents, such as Sarah's baptismal record. Sarah Lawrence Brooks was the wife of Peter Chardon Brooks and the mother of Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall.

The papers of William Gurdon Saltonstall (1831-1889) include photocopies of the letterbook of the U.S.S. Commodore Hull, of which Saltonstall served as acting master commander during the siege of Washington, North Carolina in April 1863. Also in this series are photocopies of Saltonstall's letters to his mother Caroline Sanders Saltonstall, which describe his military experiences in great detail. The original letterbook and letters are held by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass.

Drafts of Saltonstall's autobiography and Civil War reminiscences are written in pencil, or typed, with handwritten additions.

Contained in this subseries are undated genealogical and historical notes and memos written by Leverett Saltonstall and others. A draft of Saltonstall's essay about the history of Haverhill, Mass. is also found here. See also Saltonstall's March 1815 correspondence with James Merrill, which discusses the sketch. Saltonstall's essay was printed anonymously in 1816 as "An Historical Sketch of Haverhill, in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts: with Biographical Notices" in the MHS Collections, 2nd Ser., 4: 121-176.

Caroline Saltonstall (1815-1883), sister of Leverett Saltonstall (1825-1895), organized this collection of material with a note to give it to her brother upon her death. The documents, most of which are written in Caroline's hand, contain sketches of family ancestors, including her father Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845); historic places of interest; and genealogical information.

This bound volume contains H. B. Somersby's extracts of 16th- and 17th-century wills of Saltonstall ancestors, extracts from parish registers, pedigrees, family trees, and other extracts copied from British records. Somersby was employed by Caroline Saltonstall and Leverett Saltonstall (1825-1895) to research the family genealogy in England.

This subseries contains two essays written by Salem genealogist George Phippen, who was employed by Caroline Saltonstall and Leverett Saltonstall (1825-1895) to research their family history. One article discusses the origin of the name and family of Saltonstall, and the other outlines the ancestry and descendants of Sir Richard Saltonstall, one of the founders of Watertown, Mass. Included in the second article are family pedigrees, a list of authorities and sources, Saltonstall residences in England, and biographical information about Sir Richard Saltonstall, his children, and later descendants, including Caroline and Leverett's father, Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845). Also included is biographical and genealogical information about the Ward, Cooke, and other related families. See also Family Papers (Series III) to find correspondence between Caroline Saltonstall and Phippen.

These documents include the research, drafts, and records associated with the writing and publication of Leverett Saltonstall's Ancestry and Descendants of Sir Richard Saltonstall, First Associate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Patentee of Connecticut. Saltonstall died in 1895 before the book was completed, and his son Richard Middlecott Saltonstall completed it and had it privately printed by Riverside Press in Cambridge, Mass. in 1897. Included here are Leverett Saltonstall's research notes; a bound volume of handwritten notes (not in Saltonstall's hand) entitled "Data for Saltonstall Genealogy"; "Directions and Suggestions" written by Leverett Saltonstall to his publishers in case something happened to him before the book went to press (it did); bills and receipts for the production of the printed volume; and a distribution list indicating who should receive copies of the book. An 1895 draft, proof sheets with engravings, and a bibliography are also part of the series. Corrections and additions were sent to the publisher after the original publication in 1897. The MHS holds two copies of the published volume in its collections.

Genealogist J. Gardner Bartlett was hired by Richard Middlecott Saltonstall to make corrections to Ancestry and Descendants of Sir Richard Saltonstall, compiled by his father Leverett Saltonstall (1825-1895). This series contains notes from Bartlett's genealogical research, primarily pedigree charts. Bartlett's completed "Historical Genealogy of the Saltonstall Family in England and America" is a typed, bound manuscript with photographs pasted into the volume.

Entitled "Excerpts from an article on the Saltonstall Family written by Robert Saltonstall Miller of London, England, February 6th, 1930," this typescript also contains the penciled notations of Louise Emerson Carlisle, assistant to Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall.

This scrapbook of articles and images related to the Saltonstall homestead in Haverhill, Mass. was compiled by A. L. Bartlett and presented to Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979) in 1932.

Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall employed Louise Emerson Carlisle as an assistant, after the death of her husband Richard Middlecott Saltonstall in 1922, to organize the Saltonstall family papers and research the Saltonstall genealogy. Carlisle later served Sen. Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979), Eleanor's son, in a similar capacity. Carlisle's genealogical papers contain undated research notes, pedigrees, extracts from historical articles and vital records. Also included is her research on Gurdon Saltonstall, governor of Connecticut (1666-1724), as well as the Lee, Brooks, Chardon, Sanders, and Rogers families. Genealogical and social correspondence between Carlisle and Bertha E. Sturgis is also located here. See also Series III, Family Papers, for Carlisle's extensive correspondence with Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall and Leverett Saltonstall, and Series VII, Collection History, for Carlisle's research on Saltonstall family portraits, artifacts, silver, books, and manuscripts.

This personal memoir by Robert Saltonstall describes his interest in family history and includes genealogical material, family pedigrees, photographs, places of interest to Saltonstalls in England, and a report about the Saltonstall family reunion in England in 1986.

This transcript records a talk given by an unknown speaker in Boston in June 1998. Although the transcript in entitled "Genealogy: Peter Chardon Brooks," the talk discusses early Brooks family history, beginning with Thomas Brooks's arrival in Watertown, Mass. in 1630.

This scrapbook was created by Timothy Peter Erps, a student at Saltonstall Elementary School in Salem, Mass., and his grandfather Peter Doyle, a retired principal at the school. It consists of photocopied newspaper clippings, printed reports, and typed articles about the history of the Saltonstall family, Salem, and Saltonstall School.

The miscellaneous genealogical material contained here is largely undated. It includes excerpts from numerous genealogical sources, notes, lists, and family pedigrees written in various hands, including that of Leverett Saltonstall (1825-1895). Although some of the material relates to Sir Richard Saltonstall (1586-1661), much of the material describes genealogies of families not directly related to the Saltonstalls.

Similar to the miscellaneous genealogical material described above, documents in this subseries include excerpts from genealogical sources, pedigrees, lists, and research notes about the Saltonstall family and families both directly and indirectly related to them. This material was originally housed in one of the "Tengwell volumes" or notebooks, compiled by Leverett Saltonstall (1825-1895). Some of the research notes are written in Saltonstall's hand.

This undated genealogy is a photocopy of a 200-page bound manuscript of "A Record of Verified Ancestral Pedigrees showing the Lineal Descent of Sophie Forrest Mickle-Saltonstall and Muriel Winthrop Saltonstall."

The Cabot-Orne genealogy consists of photocopies of 19th-century documents, including a letter containing the pedigree of the Cabot family, with copies of supporting documents and notes.

Included here are an 1830 Massachusetts House of Representatives Judiciary Committee report written by committee chair Leverett Saltonstall, a copy of the 1836 speech Saltonstall delivered to the City Council upon becoming Salem's first mayor, copies of several speeches that Saltonstall delivered in the U.S. House of Representatives (1839-1842), and other addresses and reports written by Saltonstall. Also in this series are obituaries and memorials written about Leverett Saltonstall after his death in 1845, including that of Benjamin Merrill, published in the MHS Collections, Series III, 9: 117-125.

This printed material includes a copy of a speech made by Leverett Saltonstall in his capacity as Massachusetts commissioner of the U.S. Centennial Commission during the centennial celebration at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Penn. on 2 July 1876; a reprint of Saltonstall's 1885 "Reminiscences of Salem," published by the Essex Institute in 1945; and a copy of a speech given at the commencement exercises of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind ca. 1887. Also here are several memorials written after Saltonstall's death, including those printed in the Transactions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts and the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Material in this subseries includes printed genealogies of Saltonstall ancestors and related families, historical essays, reprints from genealogical and historical journals, and newspaper clippings.

This subseries contains a brief biography of Rev. John E. Abbot (1793-1819), Salem minister and friend of Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845); an 1829 rule book for the Mass. House of Representatives given to Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979) when he served as Mass. Speaker of the House; Elizabeth Elkins Sanders's copy of Report of a Visit to Some of the Tribes of Indians, located West of the Mississippi River (1843) and an 1846 copy of Elizabeth Elkins Sanders's own Tract on Missions, originally published in 1844 when Sanders was 82. Several articles on Saltonstall family portraits, including a 1962 exhibition catalog from the Peabody Museum in Salem, Mass., are found here, as well as a copy of the 1979 memorial of Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979) published in the Congressional Record.

Additional printed material includes a ca. 1754 pamphlet regarding the plaintiffs' case in a trial involving land that is now part of the state of Maine; documents related to Harvard University commencements, exhibitions, and reunions; a souvenir booklet of Grover Cleveland's Inaugural Ball (1885); an invitation to the memorial service for Ulysses S. Grant; political newspaper clippings; various memorials and obituaries; and pamphlets related to several town and church celebrations. The bulk of 20th-century material is newspaper clippings.

Included here are two booklets of sermon notes written in an unidentified hand, containing sermons that are dated 23 Feb. 1692, 10 Oct. 1697, 1698, 12 Oct. 1741, and 12 Nov. 1741.

Transcribed by an unknown student, this manuscript notebook is a copy of "A Logick System" by Charles Morton (1627-1698). Morton was a non-conformist minister and educator who taught his classes in English and had students copy his systems for physics, ethics, logic and other courses into notebooks for further study. He probably wrote this work between 1675-1685, when he taught at Newington Academy near London. In 1686, he emigrated to Massachusetts to teach at Harvard College, becoming a fellow and the college's first vice president. This notebook, copied in 1694, was most likely that of a Harvard student. It may have become part of this collection among the papers of Elisha Cooke, Jr. (1678-1737), who attended Harvard from 1694-1697, or John Leverett (1662-1724), later president of Harvard University from 1708-1724, who taught at the college beginning in 1685. This notebook is believed to be only one of five manuscript copies of Morton's work. See "Aristotelian and Cartesian Logic at Harvard: Charles Morton's 'A Logic System' and William Brattle's 'Compendium of Logick'" (Rick Kennedy ed.), Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Vol. 67: Boston, 1995.

David K. Hitchcock (1813-1895) of Newton and Boston, Mass. was a prominent dentist. Harvard-educated, he served as a Republican in the Massachusetts legislature about 1854. One of the directors of the American Peace Society, Hitchcock educated the dentist to the Sultan of Turkey and was recognized by the Turkish government. The connection with the Saltonstall family is unknown. Papers include letters from Charles Sumner (1856), former president Ulysses S. Grant in his capacity as president of the Mexican Southern Railroad in New York (1881), and Massachusetts Governor Oliver Ames (1887). Other papers include political and social correspondence and an 1862 commission as justice of the peace.

This subseries contains an account book and meeting record book of the Elections Committee of the Young Men's Democratic Club of Massachusetts. The club was founded in 1887 "to foster and disseminate Democratic principles and to help elect honest men." The volumes may have belonged to Richard Middlecott Saltonstall, who was a member in the late 1890s, but his name does not appear in the volumes, and they are not written in his hand. See also MHS collection Ms. N-505: Young Men's Democratic Club of Massachusetts, 1887-1903.

Records include the 1669 will of William Everton of Charlestown, Mass.; several 1682 warrants and notices from Daniel Gookin related to the arrest and trial of a Native American in Natick, Mass.; two letters from John Higginson of Salem (1694); a notice from Lt. Gov. William Stoughton to Capt. Stephen Sewall and John Higginson of Salem (1695); 18th-century copies of letters from Queen Anne of England to Princess Sophia (1714); and other miscellaneous letters, appointments, accounts, and notices.

Included here are lists of documents as they were originally organized into folios, including an early undated list, a 1937 list of items which were kept in a vault in the office of Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979), and Louise Emerson Carlisle's handwritten list of documents (1939). Other lists include: an inventory of the Ward Collection, Saltonstall family papers given to the MHS by Robert Saltonstall Ward in 1933 and now integrated into the Saltonstall family papers; lists of artifacts and photographs; lists of material kept at the Saltonstall home in Chestnut Hill, Mass. (1934-1937); and lists of papers kept in "Tengwell volumes" (1959).

Carlisle's research notes include handwritten information about portraits, artifacts, silver, books, manuscripts, and pamphlets in the collection, compiled from 1937 to 1963.

This subseries contains the correspondence of Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979) and his son William L. Saltonstall with various museums, historical societies, and appraisers concerning a silk quilt made ca. 1704 by Sara Sedgwick Leverett, wife of Gov. John Leverett. The quilt, now in the possession of the Peabody Essex Museum, was originally backed by late 17th-century letters and a 1701 Harvard College catalog. The MHS holds the catalog and letter fragments.