Jeannette G. W. Kelsey Family Papers: Finding Aid
mssKelsey
Gayle M. Richardson
The Huntington Library
April 2022
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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Jeannette G. W. Kelsey family papers
Creator:
Kelsey, Jeannette G.
Washburn (Jeanette Garr Washburn), 1850-1931
Identifier/Call Number: mssKelsey
Physical Description:
5.6 Linear Feet
(13 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1851-1948
Date (bulk): 1865-1930
Abstract: Papers of Jeannette Garr Washburn
Kelsey and her extended family; the papers include Jeannette G. W. Kelsey's memoir; family,
social, and business correspondence; volumes, and photographs.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Jeannette G. W. Kelsey family papers, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased for the Huntington from Carmen D. Valentino by the Library Collectors' Council,
January 2020.
Biographical / Historical
Jeannette Garr Washburn Kelsey (1850-1931) was born in Wisconsin to Cadwallader Colden
Washburn (1818-1882) and Jeannette Garr Washburn (1818-1909). C. C. Washburn was a Governor
of Wisconsin from 1872 to 1874, and also a businessman who founded a mill which later became
General Mills; after the birth of her two daughters, Jeannette Garr Washburn began to suffer
from some form of mental illness and was committed to an asylum in 1852 where she remained
until her death in 1909. In June 1869, Jeannette G. W. Washburn married the political
economist and journalist Albert Warren Kelsey (1840-1921) in La Crosse, Wisconsin and the
couple lived in various places including St. Louis, Missouri, and Madison, Wisconsin; from
1878 to 1882 they traveled extensively in Europe and then returned to the United States and
established themselves in Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill neighborhood in a house they named
"Rauhala." Together the Kelsey's had eight living children: architect Albert Kelsey
(1870-1950), lawyer and journalist Charlotte Kelsey Darling (1873-1949), Kate Garr Kelsey
(1875-1959), who worked on behalf of Belgian refugees during World War I, peace activist
Mary Kelsey (1877-1948), Mabel Washburn Parker (1878-1968), inventor and automobile
manufacturer Cadwallader Washburn Kelsey (1880-1970), Ethel Kelsey Wentworth (1882-1964)
wife of the art photographer Bertrand H. Wentworth, and Bonnibel Kelsey (1884-1953).
Jeannette G. W. Kelsey was a published novelist whose titles include "Clouded Amber,"
"Weathering the Storm," and "On the Heights;" she died in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, age 80, on
January 30, 1931.
Scope and Contents
A collection of the papers of the Kelsey family of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania from 1851 to
1948; the papers include correspondence, a memoir and a diary, printed volumes, photographs,
and ephemera. The voluminous correspondence of Jeannette G. W. Kelsey, her husband,
children, extended family, friends, social connections, and business associates covers the
literary, intellectual, cultural, political, and business topics of the 19th and early 20th
centuries. Subjects covered in the collection are American and British politics; the
expatriate community in Europe; family relations; World War I; the Catholic Church; and
business affairs. There is a small amount of material related to the businesses and estate
of Jeannette's father Cadwallader C. Washburn. Correspondents include, among others, Bessie
Rayner Belloc, John Murray Brown, Julia Pitt Byrne, Annie Fields, Fola La Follette, Marie
Belloc Lowndes, Ida Vernon, and Cyrus Woodman.
Processing Information
The collection was processed by Gayle Richardson in April 2022.
Arrangement
Organized in the following series: 1. Correspondence; 2. Writings and printed material; 3.
Photographs and ephemera.
Other Finding Aids
A Kelsey family tree is attached here as a pdf to aid in disambiguating the family members
of multiple generations of the Kelsey family who are represented in the collection:
Kelsey family tree
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Catholic Church -- United States
Catholic women
Expatriate Americans
Families -- United States
Female friendship
Women -- United States -- Social life and customs
Women authors, American
World War, 1914-1918
Great Britain -- Social conditions --
20th century
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century
United States -- Politics and Government
-- 19th century
United States -- Politics and Government -- 20th century
United States -- Social life and customs
-- 19th century
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Business papers
Ephemera -- United States -- 19th century
Ephemera -- United States -- 20th century
Letters (correspondence) -- United States -- 19th century
Letters (correspondence -- United States -- 20th century
Memoirs -- United States -- 19th century
Photographs -- United States
Belloc, Bessie Rayner,
1829-1925
Brown, John Murray, 1842-1908
Byrne, Wm. Pitt, Mrs.,
1819-1894
Darling, Charlotte Kelsey, 1873-1949
Estabrook, Charlotte Kelsey
Gilbert, Anne Hartley,
1821-1904
Kelsey family -- Archives
Kelsey, Albert,
1870-1950
Kelsey, Albert H., 1811-1901
Kelsey, Albert Warren, 1840-1921
Kelsey, Bonnibel, 1884-1953
Kelsey, Cadwallader Washburn, 1880-1970
Kelsey, Charlotte Locke, 1811-1890
Kelsey, Kate Garr, 1875-1959
Kelsey, Mary, 1877-1948
La Follette, Fola,
1882-1970
Parker, Mabel Washburn, 1878-1968
Vernon, Ida,
1843-1923
Washburn, C. C. (Cadwallader
Colden), 1818-1882
Wentworth, Bertrand Hebron, 1868-1953
Wentworth, Ethel Kelsey, 1882-1964
Woodman, Cyrus,
1814-1889
Correspondence
1865-1931
Physical Description: 3.85 Linear
Feet(9 boxes)
Scope and Contents
The correspondence includes letters between the large extended Kelsey family and a
group of letters with friends, social circles, and business partners. There is some
overlap between the two subseries with the same correspondents and recipients having
letters in both subseries.
Arrangement
The Correspondence series is organized into two subseries: Family correspondence
covering the years 1874 to 1926 and Other correspondence covering the years 1865 to
1931.
Family correspondence
1874-1926
Physical Description: 1.75 Linear
Feet
Scope and Contents
The family correspondence includes letters from Jeannette G. W. Kelsey, her husband
Albert Warren Kelsey, their eight children, parents, children's spouses,
grandchildren, various aunts, uncles, and cousins. In some cases, there are letters
from four generations of the family. As was typical of 19th century families the same
names were used for each generation so there are at least four Alberts and multiple
Charlottes; the family often used nicknames to distinguish the various family members.
A family tree of the immediate Kelsey family has been attached to this finding aid to
help with identification of the family members. The letters cover family events, such
as births, marriages, deaths, illnesses, conflicts, travels, and celebrations. There
are no letters from Jeannette G. W. Kelsey's parents, Cadwallader C. Washburn and
Jeannette Garr Washburn, though there are two letters regarding the asylum care of
Jeannette Garr Washburn.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged alphabetically by author last name.
Box 1, Folder 1
Margaret G. Colgate letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1918 November 10
Scope and Contents
With envelope.
Box 1, Folder 2
Kate Cowdin letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
approximately 1900 March 27
Box 1, Folder 3
Albert Kelsey Darling letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1925 September 8
Box 1, Folder 4
Albert Kelsey Darling letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1926 July 21
Box 1, Folder 5
Charlotte Kelsey Darling card to Janet Darling
1913 April 13
Box 1, Folder 6
Charlotte Kelsey Darling letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1891-1907
Box 1, Folder 7
Charlotte Kelsey Darling letters to Bonnibel Kelsey
1899 March-July
Box 1, Folder 8
Charlotte Kelsey Darling letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1897-1925
Box 1, Folder 9
Charlotte Kelsey Darling letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey and Albert Warren
Kelsey
1907 September 1
Box 1, Folder 10
Charlotte Kelsey Darling letters to Kate Garr Kelsey
1909-1921
Box 1, Folder 11
Charlotte Kelsey Darling letter to Mary Kelsey
1899 July 10
Box 1, Folder 12
Charlotte Kelsey Darling letter to unidentified recipients
1907 November 3
Box 1, Folder 13
Charlotte Kelsey Darling letter to Ethel Kelsey Wentworth
1899 July 8
Box 1, Folder 14
Janet Darling letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
undated
Box 1, Folder 15
Janet Darling letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
undated
Box 1, Folder 16
Joseph Robinson Darling letter to Jeannette Garr Darling
1915 January 17
Box 1, Folder 17
Joseph Warren Darling letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1923 August 12
Box 1, Folder 18
Angus Estabrook letter to Charlotte Kelsey Darling
1906 March 4
Box 1, Folder 19
Charlotte Kelsey Estabrook letters to Charlotte Kelsey Darling
1890-approximately 1900
Box 1, Folder 20
Charlotte Kelsey Estabrook letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1885-1908
Box 1, Folder 21
Charlotte Kelsey Estabrook letter to Bonnibel Kelsey
1901
Box 1, Folder 22
Charlotte Kelsey Estabrook letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1884-1913
Box 1, Folder 23
Charlotte Kelsey Estabrook letters to Kate Garr Kelsey
1919 July-August
Box 1, Folder 24
Eliza M. Estabrook letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1897 September 12
Box 1, Folder 25
Harold Kelsey Estabrook letter to Albert Kelsey
1894 April 23
Box 1, Folder 26
Harold Kelsey Estabrook letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1904 August 3
Box 1, Folder 27
John D. Estabrook letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1898 July 15
Box 1, Folder 28
Mansfield Estabrook letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1910 May 6
Box 1, Folder 29
Rena Estabrook letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1884-1905
Box 1, Folder 30
George F. Garr letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1904 May-June
Box 1, Folder 31
Joseph T. E. Garr letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1904 June 30
Box 1, Folder 32
Albert Kelsey letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1889-1904
Box 1, Folder 33
Albert Kelsey letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1887-1926
Box 1, Folder 34
Albert Kelsey letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
approximately 1920
Box 1, Folder 35
Albert H. Kelsey letters to Charlotte Kelsey Darling
1883-1890
Box 1, Folder 36
Albert H. Kelsey letter to Albert Kelsey
1889 August 28
Box 1, Folder 37
Albert H. Kelsey letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1883-1890
Box 1, Folder 38
Albert H. Kelsey letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1891-1900
Box 2, Folder 1
Albert H. Kelsey letters to Cadwallader Washburn Kelsey
1890-1896
Box 2, Folder 2
Albert H. Kelsey letters to Charlotte Locke Kelsey
1883-1884
Box 2, Folder 3
Albert H. Kelsey letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1883-1892
Box 2, Folder 4
Albert H. Kelsey letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1890 July 2
Box 2, Folder 5
Albert H. Kelsey note to Kelsey family
1896 December 23
Box 2, Folder 6
Albert H. Kelsey letter to Mabel Washburn Parker
1884 October 22
Box 2, Folder 7
Albert Warren Kelsey letters to Charlotte Kelsey Darling
1903-1905
Box 2, Folder 8
Albert Warren Kelsey letter to Charlotte Kelsey Estabrook
approximately 1885
Scope and Contents
Incomplete, missing first page.
Box 2, Folder 9
Albert Warren Kelsey letters to Albert H. Kelsey
1887-1898
Box 2, Folder 10
Albert Warren Kelsey letter to Bonnibel Kelsey
1903 August 5
Box 2, Folder 11
Albert Warren Kelsey letter to Charlotte Locke Kelsey
1889 May 5
Box 2, Folder 12
Albert Warren Kelsey letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1885-1912
Box 2, Folder 13
Albert Warren Kelsey letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1914-1920
Scope and Contents
Some letters with envelopes.
Box 2, Folder 14
Albert Warren Kelsey letters to Kate Garr Kelsey
1883-1919
Box 2, Folder 15
Albert Warren Kelsey letter to Mabel Washburn Parker
1909 February 25
Box 2, Folder 16
Bonnibel Kelsey letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1900-1909
Scope and Contents
Bonnibel Kelsey's letters are signed: Bonnie.
Box 2, Folder 17
Bonnibel Kelsey letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1913 March 24
Box 2, Folder 18
Bonnibel Kelsey letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1920 April 11
Scope and Contents
With envelope.
Box 2, Folder 19
Bonnibel Kelsey letter to Ethel Kelsey Wentworth
1900 August 30
Box 2, Folder 20
Bonnibel Kelsey letter to unidentified recipient
approximately 1913
Scope and Contents
Incomplete, missing first page.
Box 2, Folder 21
Cadwallader Washburn Kelsey letter to Albert H. Kelsey
1900 February 4
Scope and Contents
Cadwallader W. Kelsey's letters are signed: Karl or Carl.
Box 2, Folder 22
Cadwallader Washburn Kelsey letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
approximately 1900-1919
Box 2, Folder 23
Cadwallader Washburn Kelsey card and letters to Jeannette G.
Kelsey
1915-1919
Box 2, Folder 24
Cadwallader Washburn Kelsey letters to Kate Garr Kelsey
1918-1919
Box 2, Folder 25
Charles Cashman Kelsey letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1923 January 7
Box 2, Folder 26
Charlotte Locke Kelsey letters to Charlotte Kelsey Darling
1883-1885
Box 2, Folder 27
Charlotte Locke Kelsey letter to Albert Kelsey
1884 July 10
Box 2, Folder 28
Charlotte Locke Kelsey letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
before 1891
Box 2, Folder 29
Charlotte Locke Kelsey letters to Albert Warren Kelsey and Jeannette G.
Kelsey
1884-1886
Box 2, Folder 30
Charlotte Locke Kelsey letters to Cadwallader Washburn Kelsey, Ethel Kelsey
Wentworth, and Mary Kelsey
1884-1885
Box 2, Folder 31
Charlotte Locke Kelsey letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1883-1886
Box 2, Folder 32
Charlotte Locke Kelsey letters to Kate Garr Kelsey
1881-1889
Box 2, Folder 33
Charlotte Locke Kelsey letters to Mary Kelsey
1883-1885
Box 2, Folder 34
Charlotte Locke Kelsey letters to Mabel Washburn Parker
1884-1885
Box 2, Folder 35
Henrietta L. Kelsey letter to Albert H. Kelsey
approximately 1905
Box 2, Folder 36
Henrietta L. Kelsey letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1900 October 12
Box 2, Folder 37
Henrietta L. Kelsey letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
approximately 1905
Box 3, Folder 1
Jeannette G. Kelsey letter to Charlotte Kelsey Darling
1903 February 10
Box 3, Folder 2
Jeannette G. Kelsey letter to Albert Kelsey
1897 March 27
Box 3, Folder 3
Jeannette G. Kelsey letters to Albert H. Kelsey
1874-approximately 1876
Scope and Contents
Letters addressed to "Grandpa."
Box 3, Folder 4
Jeannette G. Kelsey letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1886-1905
Box 3, Folder 5
Jeannette G. Kelsey letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1907-1919
Box 3, Folder 6
Jeannette G. Kelsey letters to Charlotte Locke Kelsey
1874-1886
Scope and Contents
Letters addressed to "Grandma."
Box 3, Folder 7
Jeannette G. Kelsey letters to Kate Garr Kelsey
1919-1921
Box 3, Folder 8
Jeannette G. Kelsey letter to Ethel Kelsey Wentworth
1892 December 2
Box 3, Folder 9
Kate Garr Kelsey letter to Joseph Warren Darling
1923 August 25
Box 3, Folder 10
Kate Garr Kelsey letter to Albert H. Kelsey
1900 December 10
Box 3, Folder 11
Kate Garr Kelsey letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1890-1921
Box 3, Folder 12
Kate Garr Kelsey letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1917-1926
Box 3, Folder 13
Kate Garr Kelsey letter to unidentified recipient
1899 August 9
Scope and Contents
Recipient's name is illegible.
Box 3, Folder 14
Marian Harwood Kelsey letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
approximately 1915
Box 3, Folder 15
Marian Harwood Kelsey letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
before 1918
Box 3, Folder 16
Mary Kelsey letter to Charlotte Kelsey Darling
1901 August 10
Box 3, Folder 17
Mary Kelsey letter to Albert Kelsey
approximately 1885 March 2
Box 3, Folder 18
Mary Kelsey letter to Albert H. Kelsey
1900 August 12
Box 3, Folder 19
Mary Kelsey letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
approximately 1887-1920
Box 3, Folder 20
Mary Kelsey letter to Cadwallader Washburn Kelsey
approximately 1890
Box 3, Folder 21
Mary Kelsey letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1900-1924
Box 3, Folder 22
Mary Kelsey letters to Kate Garr Kelsey
1897-1920
Box 3, Folder 23
Mary Kelsey letter to Ethel Kelsey Wentworth
1900 September 11
Box 3, Folder 24
Washburn Kelsey letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1920 September 4
Box 4, Folder 1
Lillian Upton Lawton letter to Albert H. Kelsey
1900 October 30
Box 4, Folder 2
[-----] Lewis letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1919 June 10
Scope and Contents
First name is illegible.
Box 4, Folder 3
Adelaide McIntre letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1891-1918
Box 4, Folder 4
Gertrude Miller letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1919 March 3
Box 4, Folder 5
Fanny Nevins letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1902
Box 4, Folder 6
Grace Nevins letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1913 December 28
Box 4, Folder 7
Helen Nevins letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1910 September 18
Box 4, Folder 8
Mabel Washburn Parker letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1897-1910
Box 4, Folder 9
Mabel Washburn Parker letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
undated
Box 4, Folder 10
Mabel Washburn Parker letters to Kate Garr Kelsey
1899-approximately 1920
Box 4, Folder 11
Winthrop Parker letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1919 June 14
Box 4, Folder 12
Fanny Payson letter to Charlotte Kelsey Darling
1917 June 3
Box 4, Folder 13
Fanny Payson letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1922 December 28
Box 4, Folder 14
Nellie R. Peck letter to Charlotte Kelsey Darling
1905 April 11
Box 4, Folder 15
Nellie R. Peck letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
approximately 1919 August 20
Box 4, Folder 16
Nellie R. Peck letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
approximately 1900 June 12
Box 4, Folder 17
Charlotte Upton Prizer letter to Janet Darling
1924 July 3
Box 4, Folder 18
Madge K. R. letter to Bird
1888 January 25
Box 4, Folder 19
Catherine R. Turnbull letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
approximately 1910 December 25
Box 4, Folder 20
Ethel Turnbull letter to Mary Kelsey
1908 March 29
Box 4, Folder 21
Ellen Sprague Upton letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1895 January 27
Box 4, Folder 22
Ellen Sprague Upton letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1924 January 8
Box 4, Folder 23
James M. Upton letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1893-1904
Box 4, Folder 24
Thomas Cowdin Upton letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1894 April-December
Box 4, Folder 25
Warren C. Upton letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1895 December 28
Box 4, Folder 26
L. A. Ware letter to Charlotte Locke Kelsey
1890 January 17
Scope and Contents
With autograph note on verso of final page from Charlotte L. Kelsey.
Box 4, Folder 27
Thornton M. Ware letter to Albert Kelsey
1892 December 29
Box 4, Folder 28
Thornton M. Ware letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1892 December 29
Box 4, Folder 29
Thornton M. Ware letter to Cadwallader Washburn Kelsey
1893 January 4
Box 4, Folder 30
Bertrand Hebron Wentworth letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1921 January 11
Box 4, Folder 31
Bertrand Hebron Wentworth letter to Albert Warren Kelsey and Jeannette G.
Kelsey
1920 June 5
Box 4, Folder 32
Bertrand Hebron Wentworth letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1920-1923
Box 4, Folder 33
Bertrand Hebron Wentworth letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
undated
Box 4, Folder 34
Ethel Kelsey Wentworth letter to Jeannette Garr Darling
approximately 1905
Box 4, Folder 35
Ethel Kelsey Wentworth letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1900-1912
Box 4, Folder 36
Ethel Kelsey Wentworth letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1901-1922
Box 4, Folder 37
Ethel Kelsey Wentworth letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey and Albert Warren
Kelsey
1920 June 26
Box 4, Folder 38
Ethel Kelsey Wentworth letters to Kate Garr Kelsey
before 1921
Box 4, Folder 39
Anna Wolfersperger letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1881 April 17
Box 4, Folder 40
Occy G. Wotherspoon letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1902
Scope and Contents
Also includes an incomplete letter from Lottie Winthrop originally enclosed with O.
G. Wotherspoon's letter; one letter incomplete.
Box 4, Folder 41
Annie [-----] letters to Helen Nevins?
1890 February
Box 4, Folder 42
Barbara [-----] letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
approximately 1900 December 29
Box 4, Folder 43
Carrie [-----] note to Helen [-----]
approximately 1900
Box 4, Folder 44
Ellen [-----] letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1890-1893
Box 4, Folder 45
Ellen [-----] letter to Charlotte Locke Kelsey
approximately 1880 March 8
Box 4, Folder 46
Emma [-----] letters to Albert Warren Kelsey?
1888-1889
Box 4, Folder 47
Jean [-----] letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1915
Box 4, Folder 48
L---- B---- card and letter to unidentified recipient
before 1925
Box 4, Folder 49
Lizzie [-----] letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
before 1890
Box 4, Folder 50
Mari [-----] letter to Dear Girls
approximately 1890
Box 4, Folder 51
Unidentified author letter to Helen [-----]
1889 May 27
Scope and Contents
Author's name is illegible.
Other correspondence
1865-1931
Physical Description: 2.1 Linear
Feet
Scope and Contents
This series of letters includes correspondents from America, Great Britain, and
Europe written to various members of the Kelsey family. The letters cover world
events, political issues, local business affairs, and news of friends and family.
Jeannette G. W. Kelsey was involved with raising funds for creating a memorial window
for the actress Anne Hartley Gilbert and there is a group of letters from 1905 to 1906
with responses to her request for contributions to the memorial. Also, Jeannette came
into possession of a group of letters and other material related to the writer and
women's rights activist Bessie Rayner Parkes and her daughter Marie Belloc Lowndes;
this material includes letters both to-and-from them to various people, often with
autograph notes written by Belloc about the contents of the letter or the writer of
the letter. Correspondents include, among others, John Murray Brown, Julia Pitt Byrne,
Annie Fields, Fola La Follette, Ida Vernon, and Cyrus Woodman. Also included is one
box of business-related papers and correspondence for Cadwallader C. Washburn;
business and personal papers for the Kelsey family and two folders of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania business-related papers and correspondence.
Arrangement
Materials arranged alphabetically by author last name.
Box 5, Folder 1
Lucy A. Adams letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1880-1881
Box 5, Folder 2
Emily Aston letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1923 December 13
Box 5, Folder 3
Joseph K. Aston letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1896-1899
Box 5, Folder 4
L. E. H. Baker letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1877 June-October
Box 5, Folder 5
The Baldwin School letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1911 May 4
Scope and Contents
Signed by Caroline Lewis, Secretary.
Box 5, Folder 6
Ettwell Augustine Bracher Barnard letter to Bessie Rayner
Belloc
1906 August 25
Box 5, Folder 7
Ettwell Augustine Bracher Barnard letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1918 March 29
Scope and Contents
With envelope.
Box 5, Folder 8
Ettwell Augustine Bracher Barnard letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1923 August 28
Scope and Contents
With envelope.
Box 5, Folder 9
Frances J. Barnes letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1904 June 22
Box 5, Folder 10
Nancy Barr letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1918? March 20
Box 5, Folder 11
Bessie Rayner Belloc letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1898 September 9
Box 5, Folder 12
Bessie Rayner Belloc note to Jeannette G. Kelsey?
approximately 1919
Scope and Contents
Mentions Elizabeth von Arnim's novel "Christopher and Columbus."
Box 5, Folder 13
Elodie Agnes Belloc letters to Grandmama
1903 May 6-7
Scope and Contents
With clipping.
Box 5, Folder 14
Edwin N. Benson letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1906 January 10
Box 5, Folder 15
William Bernard cards and letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1905 January-November
Scope and Contents
With envelope; in French.
Box 5, Folder 16
Marion Biddle letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
approximately 1900
Box 5, Folder 17
F. S. Bird letter to Adele Barr
1926 August 12
Box 5, Folder 18
Ethel Harewood Bolton letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
approximately 1905 July 27
Box 5, Folder 19
Josephine van Boskerck letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1904 June 22
Box 5, Folder 20
M. Adelaide Boyd letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
approximately 1900
Box 5, Folder 21
Anne B. Brock letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
approximately 1905
Box 5, Folder 22
Emily E. Brodhead letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1892 January 9
Box 5, Folder 23
Frances Mary Brookfield letter to Bessie Rayner Belloc
approximately 1903?
Box 5, Folder 24
John Murray Brown letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1865-1869
Box 5, Folder 25
Mary Percy Brown letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1924 January 16
Box 5, Folder 26
Anna F. Brush letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1906 March 6
Box 5, Folder 27
Julia Pitt Byrne letters, cards, and postcards to Jeannette G.
Kelsey
1881-1893
Scope and Contents
Some of these letters and cards were copied into Jeannette Kelsey's memoir of her
friendship with Julia Pitt Byrne.
Box 5, Folder 28
Hannah Cameron letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1912 October 31
Box 5, Folder 29
May Campbell letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1916 January 1
Box 5, Folder 30
May Campbell letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1910-1911
Box 5, Folder 31
May Campbell letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1911 October 7
Box 5, Folder 32
Maybud Campbell letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1914-1916
Box 5, Folder 33
Anna K. Channing letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
approximately 1905-1918
Box 5, Folder 34
Walter Channing letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1887 May 25
Scope and Contents
Letter is in regards to Jeannette Garr Washburn.
Box 5, Folder 35
Eugenia M. Cheston letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1906 January 25
Box 5, Folder 36
The Christian Science Monitor letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1924-1925
Scope and Contents
Letters are addressed to: Mr. J. G. W. Kelsey.
Box 5, Folder 37
Dorothy Clarendon letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1913 January-March
Scope and Contents
With envelope.
Box 5, Folder 38
Harry L. Clark letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1906 January 17
Box 5, Folder 39
Oscar W. Collet letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1878 January-May
Box 5, Folder 40
Nina Cooke letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1906 January 14
Box 5, Folder 41
Margaret Cope postcard to Albert Warren Kelsey and Jeannette G.
Kelsey
1917 June 15
Box 5, Folder 42
Corporation of Glasgow letter to Bessie Rayner Belloc
1901 August 10
Box 5, Folder 43
J? E. Crane letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1915 November 6
Box 5, Folder 44
B. L. D. letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey?
1896 December 14
Scope and Contents
Letter addressed to "My dear Friend."
Box 5, Folder 45
Maria L. Dalton letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
approximately 1900
Box 5, Folder 46
Charlotte Kelsey Darling letter to Bessie Rayner Belloc
1903 December 13
Box 5, Folder 47
James Davenport letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1911-1914
Box 5, Folder 48
M. Debber letter to Charlotte Kelsey Darling
1915 March 8
Box 5, Folder 49
Marie Dekker letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1909-1916
Box 5, Folder 50
Marie Dekker letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1915-1922
Scope and Contents
With envelope and postcard.
Box 5, Folder 51
Marie Dekker letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1911 June 20
Box 5, Folder 52
Wynanda Dekker letter to Albert H. Kelsey
1883 January 28
Scope and Contents
In French.
Box 5, Folder 53
Wynanda Dekker letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1914 July 16
Scope and Contents
In French.
Box 5, Folder 54
Blanche L. Delaplaine letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1876 November 27
Box 5, Folder 55
George P. Delaplaine letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1891-1893
Box 5, Folder 56
George P. Delaplaine letter to Henry B. Sherman
1875 April 26
Scope and Contents
Letter of introduction for Albert Warren Kelsey.
Box 5, Folder 57
George P. Delaplaine letter to George O. Tiffany
1873 April 14
Scope and Contents
Letter of introduction for Albert Warren Kelsey.
Box 5, Folder 58
Dorothy Dersher letter to John B. Prizer
1927 January 2
Scope and Contents
With envelope.
Box 5, Folder 59
F. L. Dingley letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1892 December 14
Box 5, Folder 60
Sophie Doriot letter to Bessie Rayner Belloc
1918 May 6
Scope and Contents
In French.
Box 5, Folder 61
Sophie Doriot cards to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1918 March-May
Scope and Contents
One card in French.
Box 5, Folder 62
Sophie Doriot letters to Kate Garr Kelsey
1915 May-August
Scope and Contents
In French.
Box 5, Folder 63
Mary C. Duke letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1919 June 18
Box 5, Folder 64
Doris Earle letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1920 April 8
Box 5, Folder 65
Elinor Earle letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1906 February-November
Box 5, Folder 66
Elinor Earle letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
approximately 1910 October 21
Box 5, Folder 67
Mary Pardee Earle letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
approximately 1920 December
Box 5, Folder 68
Mary Pardee Earle letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
approximately 1910 December 28
Box 5, Folder 69
Henrietta I. Emory letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1913 November 19
Box 5, Folder 70
Henrietta I. Emory letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1914 December 24
Box 5, Folder 71
Chancellor C. English letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1906 January 12
Box 5, Folder 72
Julia G. Ewing letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
approximately 1910 December 30
Box 5, Folder 73
S. Augusta Fairbanks letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1903 October 20
Box 5, Folder 74
Sister M. Fidelia letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1918-1925
Box 5, Folder 75
L. Field cards to Bessie Rayner Belloc
1905-1909
Box 5, Folder 76
Annie Fields letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1902-1913
Box 6, Folder 1
L. B. Forbush letter to J. M. Forbes
1866 November 19
Scope and Contents
With envelope.
Box 6, Folder 2
Foreign Mission Sisters of St. Dominic, St. Teresa's Convent, Maryknoll,
New York, letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1925 May 8
Scope and Contents
Signed by Mother Mary Joseph.
Box 6, Folder 3
Davis H. Forsythe letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1896-1899
Box 6, Folder 4
Davis H. Forsythe letter to Cadwallader Washburn Kelsey
1896 October 2
Box 6, Folder 5
Davis H. Forsythe letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1899 March-June
Box 6, Folder 6
Jennifer Frayn? letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1906 February 4
Box 6, Folder 7
The Free Library of Philadelphia letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1925 September 22
Box 6, Folder 8
William R. Furlong postcard to Joseph Robinson Darling
1930 March 26
Box 6, Folder 9
Florence Gautier card to Bessie Rayner Belloc
1913 February 8
Box 6, Folder 10
General Register House, Edinburgh, letter to Bessie Rayner
Belloc
1903 August 14
Scope and Contents
Signed by W. Livingstone; with envelope.
Box 6, Folder 11
John B. Gest letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1900 December 24
Box 6, Folder 12
Anne Hacker card to Janet Darling
1924 July 5
Scope and Contents
With envelope.
Box 6, Folder 13
Alice M. Haines letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1906 May 8
Box 6, Folder 14
Betty Harris card to Jeannette G. Kelsey
approximately 1905 April 24
Box 6, Folder 15
Letitia H. Harrison letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1906 January 15
Box 6, Folder 16
A. M. Hart letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1900 March 23
Box 6, Folder 17
John B. Hayes letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1882 November 22
Box 6, Folder 18
Lizzie Hehu letter to Mary Kelsey
approximately 1887 June 15
Scope and Contents
Addressed to "Dear little Bopeep."
Box 6, Folder 19
Charlotte Heller? letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1919 August 10
Box 6, Folder 20
Fred W. Hellberg letters to Kate Garr Kelsey
1902-1904
Box 6, Folder 21
Mary F. Henderson card to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1881
Box 6, Folder 22
Sallie Houston Henry letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1906 January 23
Box 6, Folder 23
Daisy Hersee letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1923-1925
Box 6, Folder 24
Caroline Matilda Hillhouse letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1918-1919
Box 6, Folder 25
Frank E. Holmes letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1912-1919
Box 6, Folder 26
Ellen Gowen Hood letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
approximately 1905-1916
Box 6, Folder 27
Ellen Gowen Hood letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1918 October 29
Box 6, Folder 28
Mary Hood letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1915 November 30
Box 6, Folder 29
Helen Howe letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
approximately 1905
Box 6, Folder 30
Osborne Howes letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1887-1899
Box 6, Folder 31
Margaret Howitt letter to Bessie Rayner Belloc
1923 June 14
Box 6, Folder 32
Jessie Hughes letters to Kate Garr Kelsey
1920-1924
Box 6, Folder 33
William H. Hughes letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
approximately 1885
Box 6, Folder 34
William Hyde letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1873 January 14
Box 6, Folder 35
P. Sidney Irwin letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1923 August 16
Scope and Contents
With envelope.
Box 6, Folder 36
Mary H. Johnston letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
approximately 1880
Box 6, Folder 37
Hilda Justice letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1896 June 23
Box 6, Folder 38
F. F. Kane letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1911 February 1
Box 6, Folder 39
Albert Kelsey letter to The Literary Editor, The North American
1916 February 16
Box 6, Folder 40
Jeannette G. Kelsey letters to Bessie Rayner Belloc
1895-1903
Scope and Contents
Some letters with envelopes; some letters incomplete with missing pages of portions
of pages torn away.
Box 6, Folder 41
Jeannette G. Kelsey letters to Bessie Rayner Belloc
1904-1912
Scope and Contents
Some letters with envelopes; some letters incomplete with missing pages of portions
of pages torn away.
Box 6, Folder 42
Lucy Kimball letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1873 June 25
Box 6, Folder 43
Fola La Follette letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1905 March-May
Box 6, Folder 44
Bertha L. Landis letters to Kate Garr Kelsey
1918-1922
Box 6, Folder 45
Helen S. Lang letter to Bessie Rayner Belloc
1904 March 1
Box 6, Folder 46
Mrs. Hampton L. Lanson letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1893 March 20
Scope and Contents
Written in third person.
Box 6, Folder 47
Carrie L. Lea letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1894-1920
Box 6, Folder 48
Carrie L. Lea letters to Kate Garr Kelsey
1919 January-October
Box 6, Folder 49
L. W. Learned letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1896 December 25
Box 6, Folder 50
L. W. Learned letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1881
Box 6, Folder 51
Anna M. Lewis letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1907 April 3
Box 6, Folder 52
Emile G. Longuemary letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1878 May 23
Box 6, Folder 53
Marie Belloc Lowndes letter to Charlotte Kelsey Darling
approximately 1918 February 19
Box 6, Folder 54
Marie Belloc Lowndes letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1912-1924
Scope and Contents
With envelopes.
Box 7, Folder 1
Mary P. McClaughton letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1919 June 23
Box 7, Folder 2
Cécile Kievits McCouch postcard and letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1918-1919
Box 7, Folder 3
Josephine McFadden letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
approximately 1905 November 3
Box 7, Folder 4
D. J. McGillicuddy letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1910 September-October
Box 7, Folder 5
Marceline [-----] letters to Bessie Rayner Belloc
1881 July
Scope and Contents
In French.
Box 7, Folder 6
Nancy P. Hollingswood Marles letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
approximately 1916 November 10
Box 7, Folder 7
Charles J. Martin letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1899 January 18
Box 7, Folder 8
Helen Massey letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
approximately 1905? September 27
Box 7, Folder 9
Thomas Massey letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1895-1906
Box 7, Folder 10
Thomas Massey letter to Mary Kelsey
1907 October 7
Scope and Contents
With clipping.
Box 7, Folder 11
G. M. Metcalf letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1917 November 17
Box 7, Folder 12
Amelia Miles card to Albert Warren Kelsey
1913 December 26
Box 7, Folder 13
Eleanor Miller card to Albert Warren Kelsey
approximately 1910 April 17
Box 7, Folder 14
René Miller letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1905 March 11
Box 7, Folder 15
Josephine Proudfit Montgomery letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1911 March 23
Box 7, Folder 16
George Moore letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1920 September 11
Scope and Contents
With envelope.
Box 7, Folder 17
Milicent Moore letter to Bessie Rayner Belloc
1919 July 17
Box 7, Folder 18
Nathalie Morris letter to Charlotte Kelsey Darling
approximately 1918 September 23
Box 7, Folder 19
Nathalie Morris card to Kate Garr Kelsey
approximately 1900 October 25
Box 7, Folder 20
Molly Moss letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
approximately 1905 July 5
Box 7, Folder 21
Molly Moss letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1910 June 21
Scope and Contents
With envelope.
Box 7, Folder 22
Mercedes P. Muñoz letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1911 January 5
Box 7, Folder 23
Mercedes P. Muñoz letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1914 April 6
Box 7, Folder 24
Olive Murray letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1906
Box 7, Folder 25
Grace N---- letter to Charlotte Kelsey Darling
approximately 1910
Box 7, Folder 26
Cecelia Helen Neall letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
approximately 1905 December 26
Box 7, Folder 27
Charlotte W. Neall letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1910 February 14
Box 7, Folder 28
Frank L. Neall letter to Mary Kelsey
1899 May 3
Box 7, Folder 29
Margaret Acton Neall letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
approximately 1905
Box 7, Folder 30
Margaret Acton Neall letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
approximately 1910
Box 7, Folder 31
Margaret Acton Neall letters to Kate Garr Kelsey
approximately 1900-1902
Scope and Contents
With envelope.
Box 7, Folder 32
Margaret Acton Neall letter to Kate Garr Kelsey and Mary Kelsey
approximately 1915
Box 7, Folder 33
Mina W. Neall letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1920 December 27
Box 7, Folder 34
Mary Neville letters to Bessie Rayner Belloc
approximately 1915
Box 7, Folder 35
Oakes and van Amringe letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1906 January
Scope and Contents
Signed by Guy van Amringe.
Box 7, Folder 36
Emma C. O'Callaghan letter to Bessie Rayner Belloc
1904 March 5
Box 7, Folder 37
Annette Odiorne letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1909 July 9
Box 7, Folder 38
Hannah W. Odiorne letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1893 February 1
Box 7, Folder 39
Maude M. Palmer letters and postcard to Albert Warren Kelsey
1909-1912
Box 7, Folder 40
Maude M. Palmer letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1908-1920
Box 7, Folder 41
Maude M. Palmer letters and postcards to Kate Garr Kelsey
1908-1924
Box 7, Folder 42
Laura B. Parker letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1921 November 22
Scope and Contents
With envelope.
Box 7, Folder 43
Mabel Washburn Parker letter to Maude M. Palmer
1890 June 10
Box 7, Folder 44
H. M. Partridge letters to Kate Garr Kelsey
approximately 1917-1923
Box 7, Folder 45
Henry S. Paul letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1905 January 10
Box 7, Folder 46
M. B. Paul letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
approximately 1905 February 28
Scope and Contents
With envelope.
Box 7, Folder 47
Anna R. Peck letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1881 April 1
Box 7, Folder 48
J. F. Perkins letters to Mrs. Kelsey
1917 October 4-20
Box 7, Folder 49
Sallie Perry Pollak letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1887 December 3
Box 7, Folder 50
Simon Pollak letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1898-1899
Box 7, Folder 51
Allan Pollock letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
approximately 1900
Box 7, Folder 52
Charles Pope letter to Albert Warren Kelsey and Jeannette G.
Kelsey
approximately 1880
Box 7, Folder 53
Meriton? Pyne letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
approximately 1900 October 29
Box 7, Folder 54
Ernest Radford letters to Bessie Rayner Belloc
1904 February-March
Box 7, Folder 55
Elizabeth Ray letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
approximately 1900
Box 7, Folder 56
Mary R. Rea letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1919 June 23
Box 7, Folder 57
Sister Mary Adrian Reynolds letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1908 October 10
Box 7, Folder 58
Sara Lippincott Richards letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1924 March 17
Box 7, Folder 59
Anne Thackeray Ritchie letter to Bessie Rayner Belloc
approximately 1904 June 1
Box 7, Folder 60
C. E. Robinson letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1907-1912
Box 7, Folder 61
Henrietta M. Robinson letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1881-1903
Box 7, Folder 62
J. Blythe Robinson letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1896 March-October
Box 7, Folder 63
Rebecca G. Rogers note to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1906 April 4
Box 7, Folder 64
Eduaro Roth letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1871 March 24
Scope and Contents
With envelope.
Box 7, Folder 65
Ethel E. Rowe letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1921? April 23
Box 8, Folder 1
Sacred Heart Academy, Madison, Wisconsin, card and letter to Jeannette G.
Kelsey
1919-1921
Scope and Contents
Signed by Sister Bertha and Sister Theodosine.
Box 8, Folder 2
C. H. St. Clair letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1906 April 16
Box 8, Folder 3
Roland St. Clare letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1905 September 5
Box 8, Folder 4
W. H. B. Sands note to Bessie Rayner Belloc
1902 January 30
Box 8, Folder 5
Samuel B. Scott letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1914 June 14
Box 8, Folder 6
Anna F. Simpson letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1924 September 22
Box 8, Folder 7
Helen Simpson postcard to Kate Garr Kelsey
1918 December 31
Box 8, Folder 8
D. Sinclair letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1904 May 25
Box 8, Folder 9
Eliza Smith letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1876-approximately 1900
Box 8, Folder 10
John S. Spelman letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1923 December 26
Box 8, Folder 11
Iduldah J. Steel letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1903 January 19
Box 8, Folder 12
Gysbert van Steenwyk letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1875 June 25
Box 8, Folder 13
Marette van Steenwyk card and letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
undated
Box 8, Folder 14
Mary M. Stewardson note to Albert Warren Kelsey
approximately 1870
Box 8, Folder 15
Mary M. Stewardson letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
approximately 1905 March 3
Box 8, Folder 16
William C. Stimson letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1905-1906
Box 8, Folder 17
E. Stratton card to Bessie Rayner Belloc
1905 January 12
Box 8, Folder 18
Charles H. Strout letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1886-1892
Box 8, Folder 19
John W. Sullivan letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1867 June 13
Box 8, Folder 20
Mary Swainson letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1913 June 5
Box 8, Folder 21
Margaret Sweeney letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1904-1906
Box 8, Folder 22
T. K. Ware and C. E. Ware, Counsellors at Law, letter to Albert H.
Kelsey
1891 May 13
Box 8, Folder 23
Harriet L. Tanssig letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1903 July 21
Box 8, Folder 24
Annie Tasker letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
approximately 1875-1881
Box 8, Folder 25
E. Tidmarsh letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1890 November 11
Box 8, Folder 26
Lilian Treldway letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1910 March-July
Box 8, Folder 27
Robert J. Turnbull letters to Albert Warren Kelsey
1887-1902
Box 8, Folder 28
Ida Vernon letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1911 January-November
Box 8, Folder 29
Ida Vernon letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1912-1918
Box 8, Folder 30
S. P. W. postcard to Bessie Rayner Belloc
1905 January 5
Box 8, Folder 31
Reinhold Waden letter to Albert Warren Kelsey and Jeannette G.
Kelsey
1902 January 11
Scope and Contents
In German.
Box 8, Folder 32
A. Wallace letters to Kate Garr Kelsey
1921 January-July
Box 8, Folder 33
John Warke letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1910 June 14
Box 8, Folder 34
J. W. Washburn letter to Bessie Rayner Belloc
1901 October 28
Scope and Contents
Also enclosed: letter from W. Washburn to J. W. Washburn, October 25, 1901.
Box 8, Folder 35
Mrs. W. M. Wason letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1915-1920
Box 8, Folder 36
Pendleton G. Watrough letter to Charlotte Kelsey Darling
1902 July 19
Scope and Contents
With envelope.
Box 8, Folder 37
Agnes Wedgwood letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1922 October 15
Scope and Contents
With envelope.
Box 8, Folder 38
Ella Henrietta Divel Wheeler letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1916 October 27
Box 8, Folder 39
Ella Henrietta Divel Wheeler letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
1914 October 21
Box 8, Folder 40
Guy B. Wheeler and Ella Henrietta Divel Wheeler letter to Albert Warren
Kelsey and Jeannette G. Kelsey
1919 June 23
Box 8, Folder 41
F. Whelahan letter to Bessie Rayner Belloc
approximately 1900
Box 8, Folder 42
Mignonette Violett Whelen letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1906 January 20
Box 8, Folder 43
Blanche Whiffen letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
approximately 1910 February 6
Box 8, Folder 44
Benjamin B. Whittemore letter to Albert H. Kelsey
1891 February 28
Scope and Contents
Preceded by "There's no need on this occasion…," poem read at the dinner given at
Quincy House to A.H.K., March 5, 1891; both letter and poem copied out by Jeannette
G. Kelsey.
Box 8, Folder 45
Mary Willes card to Albert Warren Kelsey
1909 December 28
Box 8, Folder 46
Talcott Williams letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1906 February 1
Scope and Contents
Written and signed by Williams' secretary.
Box 8, Folder 47
Alice E. Willits card to Kate Garr Kelsey
1918 December 15
Box 8, Folder 48
Annis Lee Wister letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1906 January 13
Box 8, Folder 49
Cyrus Woodman letters to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1875-1876
Box 8, Folder 50
Don Jose [-----] letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1910? October 23
Box 8, Folder 51
Florence [-----] letter to Kate Garr Kelsey
approximately 1910 October 2
Box 8, Folder 52
Julia E.? letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
approximately 1915 January 21
Scope and Contents
Last name illegible.
Box 8, Folder 53
Lena [-----] letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
1919 June 20
Box 8, Folder 54
Tom [-----] letter to Albert Warren Kelsey?
1886 June 17
Box 8, Folder 55
Unidentified author letter to Bessie Rayner Belloc; letter to Jeannette G.
Kelsey
approximately 1880
Scope and Contents
Letter to Belloc contains autograph notes by Belloc; signature on letters is
illegible.
Box 8, Folder 56
Unidentified author letter to Bessie Rayner Belloc
approximately 1910 February 4
Scope and Contents
Signature is illegible.
Box 8, Folder 57
Unidentified author letter to Albert H. Kelsey?
approximately 1880
Scope and Contents
Written by a doctor; signature is illegible.
Box 8, Folder 58
Unidentified author letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
approximately 1890 June 16
Scope and Contents
Signature is illegible.
Box 8, Folder 59
Unidentified author letter to Albert Warren Kelsey
1899 April 5
Scope and Contents
Signed with illegible initials.
Box 8, Folder 60
Unidentified author letter to Jeannette G. Kelsey
approximately 1885 September 15
Scope and Contents
Incomplete, missing final page.
Box 9, Folder 1
Washburn-Crosby Co.: correspondence
1874-1900
Box 9, Folder 2
C. C. Washburn's Flouring Mills Co.: Board of Directors' meeting
minutes
1896-1899
Box 9, Folder 3
C. C. Washburn's Flouring Mills Co.: correspondence
1880-1899
Box 9, Folder 4
C. C. Washburn's Flouring Mills Co.: financial reports, summary of
accounts, receipts and expenditures, stockholder's reports
1894-1899
Box 9, Folder 5
C. C. Washburn's Flouring Mills Co.: Steam Plant Improvement Committee:
meeting minutes
1894-1896
Box 9, Folder 6
Office of Executors, of the Estate of Governor C. C. Washburn:
correspondence
1882-1898
Box 9, Folder 7
Kelsey family business papers: Banking House of B. K. Jamison and
Co.
1891-1893
Box 9, Folder 8
Kelsey family business documents, bills, deeds, receipts, personal
papers
1867-1920
Box 9, Folder 9
Kelsey family business papers: bills, receipts, investment and bonds
documents, estimates
1868-1919
Box 9, Folder 10
Kelsey family business papers: John Munroe and Co.
1878-1898
Box 9, Folder 11
Kelsey family business papers: legal correspondence
1896-1914
Box 9, Folder 12
Kelsey family papers: charities, clubs, philanthropic activities, and
voting
1866-1919
Scope and Contents
With envelopes.
Box 9, Folder 13
Kelsey family register: with genealogical information
1899-1907
Box 9, Folder 14
Kelsey family Guest Book
1924-1929
Scope and Contents
Binding damaged and loose; leather covers have red rot, handle carefully.
Box 9, Folder 15
Edgar J. Pershing, Philadelphia, Pa.: business correspondence
1901-1931
Box 9, Folder 16
John Howard Weatherby legal papers and correspondence
1889-1908
Writings and printed material
1885-1948
Physical Description: 1.33 Linear
Feet(3 boxes)
Scope and Contents
The manuscript and printed material includes a memoir, a diary, an autobiography, and
printed volumes. Jeannette G. W. Kelsey created a memoir upon the death of her close
friend Julia Clara Pitt Byrne, a British author and a fixture of British and Continental
society. The two-volume memoir was written from 1893 to 1925, to create a record of
their friendship and includes autograph text and copies of letters, laid in letters,
photographs, and printed material. The 1921 diary was kept by Jeannette G. W. Kelsey
during the last year of her husband, Albert Warren Kelsey's life. The printed material
includes an autobiography of Albert Warren Kelsey (1911), genealogical volumes, novels
by Bessie Rayner Parkes and Marie Belloc Lowndes, a Masonic publication, and a book of
publications for the University of Wisconsin Washburn Observatory.
Box 10, Folder 1
Albert Warren Kelsey Autobiographical Notes and Memoranda
1911
Box 10, Folder 2
Jeannette G. Kelsey Diary
1921
Box 11, Volume 1
Jeannette G. Kelsey Memoir of her friendship with Julia Pitt
Byrne
1893-1894
Scope and Contents
Laid into volume: original letters, clippings, printed material, postcards, and
photographs.
Box 11, Volume 2
Jeannette G. Kelsey Memoir of her friendship with Julia Pitt
Byrne
1896-1925
Scope and Contents
Laid into volume: original letters, clippings, printed material, postcards, and
photographs. Note: binding damaged and loose.
Box 12, Volume 1
Some Notes on the Evesham Branch of the Washbourne Family : nonfiction / by
E. A. B. Barnard
1914
Box 12, Volume 2
The End of Her Honeymoon : novel / by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes
1913
Scope and Contents
Inscribed: F. Barker March 1915.
Box 12, Volume 3
The Lonely House : novel / by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes
1920
Scope and Contents
Inscribed: Fannie Barker New York.
Box 12, Volume 4
The History of Our Cat Aspasia : children's book / by Bessie Rayner
Parkes
1856
Scope and Contents
Inscribed: August 2 1900 Mrs. Kelsey. A Diary 50 years old.
Box 12, Volume 5
The Washbournes of Otterley : nonfiction / by Humphrey Pakington
1948
Scope and Contents
With many penciled notes; printed material laid in.
Box 12, Volume 6
Proceedings of the Supreme Council of…the Northern Masonic
Jurisdiction…Milwaukee, Wis.:
1901
Scope and Contents
Paper binding split and damaged.
Box 12, Volume 7
Publications of the Washburn Observatory of the University of Wisconsin: Vol.
III
1885
Photographs and ephemera
1851-1926
Physical Description: 0.42 Linear
Feet(1 box)
Scope and Contents
The photographs include a tintype, black and white cartes-de-visite, card photographs,
and unmounted photographs; subjects include the Kelsey family, their extended family,
friends, travels, and houses. The ephemera includes visiting cards, greeting cards,
invitations, printed programmes, brochures, and clippings. There are also folders of
material related to Bessie Rayner Parkes, Marie Belloc Lowndes, and Ida Vernon.
Box 13, Folder 1
Estabrook children
1886 December
Scope and Contents
Card photograph.
Box 13, Folder 2
George Garr
undated
Scope and Contents
Card photograph.
Box 13, Folder 3
Kelsey family
1870-1890
Scope and Contents
Tintype, cartes-de-visite, card photographs.
Box 13, Folder 4
J. M. Upton
1887 February 22
Scope and Contents
Card photograph.
Box 13, Folder 5
Dingly family
undated
Scope and Contents
Card photographs.
Box 13, Folder 6
Caroline Matilda Hillhouse
approximately 1890
Scope and Contents
Card photograph.
Box 13, Folder 7
Hattie Learned and Agnes Learned
1884-approximately 1900
Scope and Contents
Card photographs.
Box 13, Folder 8
Ellen Rose Peck
undated
Scope and Contents
Card photograph.
Box 13, Folder 9
Marie Pellegrin
undated
Scope and Contents
Carte-de-visite.
Box 13, Folder 10
Captain ?
1897?
Scope and Contents
Card photograph. Inscription on verso is illegible.
Box 13, Folder 11
Unidentified men, women, and children
undated
Scope and Contents
Cartes-de-visite, card photographs, other photographs.
Box 13, Folder 12
Trips to Niagra Falls, Honduras, and Mexico City
1907
Scope and Contents
Photographs.
Box 13, Folder 13
Unidentified house, porch, and gardens
undated
Scope and Contents
Photographs.
Box 13, Folder 14
Ephemera: autograph list, printed programmes, cards, brochures, church
calendar, memorial programme
1878-1922
Box 13, Folder 15
Christmas and birthday greeting cards
1883-1920
Scope and Contents
Some cards with autograph notes.
Box 13, Folder 16
Invitations: autograph and printed
1851-1926
Scope and Contents
With envelopes.
Box 13, Folder 17
Newspaper clippings
1881-1926
Box 13, Folder 18
Visiting and calling cards: Allyn-Zeller
approximately 1885-1924
Scope and Contents
Some cards with autograph notes.
Box 13, Folder 19
Bessie Rayner Belloc: visiting card, photograph, printed material,
programmes, clippings, obituaries
before 1925
Box 13, Folder 20
Marie Belloc Lowndes "The Moving Finger Writes:" printed short story,
published in McClure's Magazine
1908
Box 13, Folder 21
Ida Vernon: clippings, printed material, Christmas card
before 1923