Peter MacQueen Papers
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence and other material relating to the journalistic career of Peter MacQueen.
Dates
- 1871-1922
- Majority of material found in 1898-1917
- Other: Date acquired: 06/15/1967
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Items in this collection may be subject to copyright restrictions. In most cases, the Boston Public Library does not hold the copyright to the items in our collections. It is the sole responsibility of the user to make their own determination about what types of usage might be permissible under U.S. and international copyright law.
Biographical / Historical
Peter MacQueen (1865-1924) was born in Scotland and came to the United States when he was 17 years old. He graduated from Princeton University in 1887 and from Union Theological Seminary in 1890. His first church was in New York. He moved to Boston in 1892 where he preached at the Day Street Church, the First Parish Congregational Church in Charlestown, and the West Somerville Congregational Church. In 1898, he became a war correspondent and went to Cuba with Theodore Roosevelt. He went to the Transvaal in 1900 to cover the guerilla war. After that, MacQueen traveled extensively throughout Russia, Japan, the Philippines, and Africa, and he wrote about and gave lectures on his experiences.
Extent
184.00 Items
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Arranged into 5 sections:
Letters and mss. by Peter MacQueen (Items 1-5)
Letters and mss. to and about Peter MacQueen (Items 6-159)
Printed Material (Items160-161)
Photograph (Items 162)
Miscellaneous (Items 163-183)
Source of Acquisition
Goodspeed's Book Shop
Method of Acquisition
Purchase
Processing Information
This electronic finding aid is transcribed from legacy data. In many cases, transcriptions were not verified against collection materials at the time of transcription. As a result, this finding aid could be incomplete and might only reflect a partial understanding of the material.
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- Title
- Peter MacQueen Papers
- Author
- Rare Books and Manuscripts Department staff, March 2013
- Date
- 03/00/2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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Part of the Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections Repository
