101. Finding Aids: Samuel Eliot Collection Of Personal And Family Papers,
Jewett, Sara Orne (18491909), nd (2). Lathrop, Rose HawthOrne (1851-1926), nd.Lothrop, Samuel Kirkland, 1872. Livermore, Mary Ashton (1820-1905), 1909
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Samuel Eliot Collection of Personal and Family Papers Contact Information: Reference Department Boston, Massachusetts 02108 Appointment Form
Processed by: Stephen Nonack 7 April 1983 Encoded by: Lisa Starzyk-Weldon 2 October 2001 Table of Contents Descriptive Summary Acquisition Information Access Restrictions Related Materials ... Miscellaneous Letters: Letters to Mrs. John H. Morison Descriptive Summary Samuel Eliot Collection of Personal and Family Papers, 1810-1910 Eliot, Samuel, 1821-1898 5 linear feet (82 folders in 2 boxes; 16 volumes) The papers of Samuel Eliot (1821-1898) comprise an unique, multifaceted family archive spanning the years 1810-1910. Accumulated by various members of the Otis and Eliot families of Boston, the collection consists of diaries, scrapbooks, letters, miscellaneous documents and associated printed matter. Acquisition Information This collection formerly known as the Morison Collection of Autograph Letters comprise materials accumulated by various members of the Eliot and Otis families of Boston and inherited by a descendant, Samuel Eliot Morison. Admiral Morison later transferred the papers to the Athenaeum, in stages, during the 1960s until 1967. Access Restrictions: Related Materials Biographical Note (22 December 1821-14 September 1898) Historian and educator, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, into a well-known business and literary family, the son of William Havard Eliot and Margaret Boies (Bradford) Eliot. His father, a brother of Samuel Atkins Eliot, built the Tremont House, participated in the musical life of the city, and died suddenly in 1831 while a candidate for mayor. His mother was a daughter of Alden Bradford. Eliot graduated first in the class of 1839 at Harvard and after two years in Robert Gould Shaw's counting house in Boston, Eliot traveled for four years in Europe in the first half of the 1840s. During the decade following his return, he devoted himself to writing, his first historical work being the short | |
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