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Edward Everett Hale Collection
Collection — Container: MS 7373
Call Number: MS 7373
Scope and Contents
This collection dates from 1852-1908 and documents Edward Everett Hale’s personal and professional lives. Correspondence with Hale’s family concerns the health of his children and their education, his relationships with his siblings, and his life and career. Of interest is the series of notes sent to his children’s teacher, Miss Westin, including a letter about the death of his young son. His professional correspondence reflects his involvement in many different ventures, including his work...
Dates:
1852-1908; Majority of material found in 1880-1908; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2014
Handel and Haydn Society Records
Collection — Container: MS 5084
Call Number: MS 5084
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the growth and influence of the Handel and Haydn Society from its inception in Boston, Massachusetts to the international stage. From its beginning, the Society has been governed by its Board of Governance, which oversees all aspects of concert production, financial matters, and chorus administration. The minutes of the first meeting, held on March 24, 1815, record the creation of the Society by Boston merchants whose mission it was to cultivate public appreciation of...
Dates:
1808-2011; Majority of material found in 1815-1995
Hanlon Theatrical Collection
Collection
Call Number: MS Th. 3
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the performances of the Hanlon brothers during the 1870s and 1880s in both the United States and Europe. In addition, the lives of the Hanlons after their theatrical careers are also documented. Included are scrapbooks, costume sketches, photographs, and scripts.
Dates:
1875-1932
Chester Harding Correspondence
Collection — Container: MS Am 1102
Call Number: MS Am. 1102
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of eighteen lettersdating from 1820-1867 that were either written to, or regarding Chester Harding. The letters include thank-you notes, social introductions, and requests for portraits of specific people. Notable correspondents are the 10th Duke of Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton Douglas; the 4th Earl of Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon; the Viscountess Anson, Lady Anne Margaret Coke Anson; as well as poets, writers,...
Dates:
1820-1867; Acquisition: 1969-02
Sophia Hawthorne correspondence with James and Annie Fields
Collection — Container: MS C.1.11
Call Number: MS C.1.11
Scope and Contents
This collection contains approximately 251 letters written to James Thomas Fields (1817-1881), the publisher and friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), and his wife Annie Adams Fields (1834-1915), between the years 1851-1904 by members of the Hawthorne family and they document both the personal and professional nature of their relationship. The majority of the letters were written by Sophia Hawthorne (1809-1871), wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne, to Annie Adams Fields between the years 1851 and...
Dates:
1851-1904
Roland Hayes letters and photographs
Collection — Container: MS 5064
Call Number: MS 5064
Scope and Contents
This collection contains nine letters dating from 1922-1971 that document Roland Hayes’s friendship and business relationship with Kate Seaman and several other correspondents. Hayes was one of the first African American singers to gain national and international fame, specializing in classical songs as well African American spirituals. Topics include his public performances and plans for production and distribution of recordings. Also included are two photographs.Five letters are...
Dates:
1922-1971
Barbara Adams Hebard research files on Bertha Stuart book bindings
Collection
Call Number: MS 7043
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Barbara Adams Hebard’s research on Bertha Stuart, a book cover designer active at the beginning of the twentieth century. Hebard gathered this material with the intent of writing a biography about Stuart. The research became the basis for an exhibit of Stuart’s designs that was featured in the Rare Books Department of the Boston Public Library entitled “A Fixed Rule of Design: The Book Art of Bertha Stuart”. The catalog for the exhibit, Hebard’s correspondence with...
Dates:
1996 - 2009
Thomas Wentworth Higginson collection of correspondence regarding John Brown and the raid on Harpers Ferry
Collection — Multiple Containers
Call Number: MS E.5.1
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence collected by Thomas Wentworth Higginson relating to the abolitionist John Brown (1800-1859) and the armed rebellion led by Brown at the U.S. Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia (later, West Virginia). Correspondence spans the years 1847 to 1904, with the bulk of materials dating between the years 1858 to 1860. Topics discussed include raising money in support of the raid and Brown’s subsequent trial; issues with Hugh Forbes and preparations for the...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1847-1860
Thomas Wentworth Higginson Correspondence
Collection — Container: MS P.91.37
Call Number: MS P.91.37
Scope and Contents
Of the 159 letters in this collection, many deal with abolition, women’s suffrage, and literature. Correspondents include abolitionists, writers, and suffragettes such as Lydia Maria Child, Sarah Orne Jewett, Louise Chandler Moulton, Harriet Spofford, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Anne Whitney, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Also included is correspondence from Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Abby Kelley Foster. In addition, there are letters from Una Hawthorne and Rose...
Dates:
1848-1909; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1910
Oliver Wendell Holmes Correspondence
Collection — Container: MS Am.1303
Call Number: MS Am.1303
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 29 letters from Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) to various correspondents, dating from 1852-1892. Primary recipients are Phineas Barnes and Clara Barnes Martin, friends of Holmes who write about personal and family matters. Other letters pertain to Holmes’ literary endeavors and reminiscence of Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. Also included are letters to James T. Fields and Bram Stoker.
Dates:
1852-1892; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1939
John Holt Collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 5085
Abstract
This collection documents John Holt’s work as an education reformer, particularly his pioneering work in alternative education, homeschooling, and youth rights. Holt published several books on education, among them How Children Fail (1964) and How Children Learn (1967), as well as the newsletter Growing Without Schooling, and much of the collection relates to these publications. Also included...
Dates:
1943-1991; Majority of material found within 1965-1985
William Dean Howells Correspondence
Collection — Container: MS Acc 586
Call Number: MS Acc 586
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 20 letters written by the American novelist and literary critic William Dean Howells, 1837-1920. The majority of the letters, dated between 1869 and 1888, are to James Ripley Osgood (1836-1892) the editor of the Atlantic Monthly in which Howells critiques manuscripts submitted to the magazine while he was assistant editor. In other letters to Osgood, Howells discusses his plans for and progress of his own work. In addition, Howells...
Dates:
1863-1898
Mary Botham Howitt and William Howitt papers
Collection
Call Number: MS Eng.328
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of personal and professional correspondence from English poet Mary Botham Howitt (1799-1888) and her husband, English writer William Howitt (1792-1879), between 1823-1888. Of interest is a letter by Mary Botham Howitt discussing her translations of Fredrika Bremer’s articles pubished in a Stockholm newspaper and a letter by William Howitt discussing his interest in the Aurora Borealis. The collection also contains several manuscript fragments of poems, in both Mary and...
Dates:
1823 - 1888
Catharine Sargent Huntington papers relating to the theater
Collection
Call Number: MS Am.2200
Scope and Contents
This collection documents Catharine Sargent Huntington’s (1887-1987) work with the Boston Stage Society, The New England Repertory Theater, Dr. Punch’s Workshop, as well as her other theater related activities and interests from 1919-1974. In addition, it contains plays that Huntington collected over the years. Types of records include announcements, clippings, correspondence, costume sketches, handwritten notes, and musical scores. Playbills, photographs, prompt books, reports, theater...
Dates:
1919 - 1974
Il Fondo L’Adunata Collection
Collection — Container: MS 3290
Call Number: MS 3290
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the correspondence of major figures in the writing, editing, publication, and dissemination of L’Adunata. In addition, subjects also include matters of the leadership and development of the Italian-American Anarchist movement.
Dates:
1917-1985; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1986
Joseph F. Dean Civil War Correspondence
Collection — Container: MS Am. 515
Call Number: MS Am. 551
Dates:
1862-1863; Other: Date acquired: 05/23/1967
Michael and Antoinette Kavanagh family papers
Collection — Container: MS 2766
Call Number: MS 2766
Abstract
Family papers of theater manager, Michael Kavanagh (1887-1967), and stage and film actress and playwright, Antoinette Walker Kavanagh (1874-1970). The papers span the years 1908-1967 and document the couple’s theatrical careers and family matters, including correspondence, scripts, photographs, clippings, financial records, and playbills.
Dates:
1908-1967
Minuetta Kessler Collection
Collection — Container: Kessler Collection
Call Number: Kessler Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials from 1919 and 2002 which relate to the career of Minuetta Kessler: this includes correspondence, audio/visual recordings, manuscripts, and published works. Spreadsheets with more detailed inventory available upon request.
Dates:
1920-2002; Majority of material found in 1945-1997
Horace Killam Correspondence
Collection — Container: MS 3967
Call Number: MS 3967
Scope and Contents
This collection of thirty-five letters documents Horace Killam’s experiences in both battle and as a prisoner of war. In addition, it details the Killam family’s experience of sending a family member to war. Primary correspondents include Killam’s mother Catherine Killam, father Oliver Killam, brothers Charlie and Henry Killam, and aunts, cousins, and friends. Killam’s first letter home was composed on stationery intended for soldiers and printed with the ballad “Brave Boys Are...
Dates:
1864
Lane/Mead Boston Maritime Collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 3898
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the industrial development and history of the Port of Boston. It is an artificially constructed collection containing material from various entities connected with the Port of Boston Harbor Shipping Industry, including Arthur Lane, Jane Mead, Capt. A. Ross Pope, the Boston Shipping Association, Walter Egee, and Capt. Steve Palmer.
Dates:
1931-2004; Majority of material found in 1931-2002