Elizabeth Palmer correspondence with Joseph Pearse Palmer
Collection — Multiple Containers
Call Number: MS Ch M.2.2. pt. 3
Scope and Contents
The subjects of the 20 letters in this collection written between 1771 and 1785 by Elizabeth Palmer to her husband Joseph Pearse Palmer range from her doubts of ever being happy with him, her concerns about the family’s finances, and her desire to have the problem between John Hancock and Palmer’s father, General Joseph Palmer, resolved.
Dates
- 1771-1785
Creator
- Chamberlain, Mellen (Person)
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Biographical / Historical
Elizabeth Hunt Palmer (1755-1838) was born in 1755 in Watertown, Massachusetts. She married Joseph Pearse Palmer (1750-1797), who participated in the Boston Tea Party and fought in the Revolutionary War. Palmer was the grandmother of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804-1894), Mary Tyler Peabody (1806-1887), and Sophia Hawthorne (1809-1871).
Extent
19.00 Items
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Method of Acquisition
Donated to the Boston Public Library to Mellen Chamberlain in 1893.
Processing Information
Finding aid written by Rare Books and Manuscripts staff.
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Creator
- Chamberlain, Mellen (Person)
- Palmer, Elizabeth Hunt (Family)
- Title
- Elizabeth Palmer correspondence with Joseph Pearse Palmer
- Author
- Rare Books and Manuscripts staff
- Date
- 01/00/2015
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- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2014: Updated by Kimberly Reynolds, 2014.
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