Finding Aid to the Horace Davis collection of Davis-Bancroft-King family papers BANC MSS 2015/182
Lori Dedeyan
The Bancroft Library
2017
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
bancref@library.berkeley.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Horace Davis collection of Davis-Bancroft-King family papers
Creator:
Davis, Horace, 1831-1916
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 2015/182
Physical Description:
14.5 Linear Feet
2 cartons, 4 document boxes, 6 flat boxes, 1 oversize folder
Date (inclusive): 1667-1976
Date (bulk): 1667-1939
Abstract: This collection contains the papers of California businessman and two-term U.S. Representative Horace Davis. The papers include
Davis’s correspondence, manuscripts, publications, and genealogical research. They also encompass the documents of the Davis
family in America from the 17th to 20th centuries and include land deeds and other contracts, family registers, wills and
estates, correspondence, and other personal and official documents. Smaller sections of the collection pertain to the Bancroft
family and the California minister Thomas Starr King.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English, with one poster in Latin.
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Access
Collection is open for research.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Horace Davis collection of Davis-Bancroft-King family papers, BANC MSS 2015/182, The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley.
Alternate Forms Available
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
Related Materials
Photographs from the Horace Davis collection of Davis-Bancroft-King family papers, BANC PIC 2016.042.
George Bancroft letters, 1845-1886, BANC MSS Z-Z 120.
Separated Materials
Photographs have been transferred to the Pictorial Collections of the Bancroft Library.
Acquisitions Information
Purchased from Michael Good-Books, 6/9/15. Originally collected by Napa Valley Genealogical and Historical Society.
Accruals
No additions are expected.
System of Arrangement
Arranged to the folder level.
Processing Information
Processed by Lori Dedeyan in 2017.
Biographical Information
Horace Davis was a businessman and United States Representative from California. Davis was born on March 16, 1831 in Worcester,
Massachusetts. He attended the Worcester public schools and Williams College, graduated from Harvard University in 1849, and
studied law in the Dane Law School of Harvard University. He was the son of Massachusetts Governor John Davis and the younger
brother of diplomat John Chandler Bancroft Davis.
Davis relocated to San Francisco, California, in 1852, where he first worked as a gold miner, surveyor on a coastal steamer,
and a purser for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. He helped found the Mercantile Library Association of California and
resigned from the organization in 1855. In 1860, he established the Golden Gate Flouring Mills and later became president
of The Sperry Flour Company, which was formed from a consolidation of several local mills in 1892.
During the Civil War, Davis served in a San Francisco-based Home Guard, a local militia and “secret league… formed to ensure
the loyalty of California to the Lincoln administration” and to elect a loyal governor, Leland Stanford, through active campaigning,
maintaining “patriotic propaganda throughout the state,” and patrolling the polls on election day (1). He presided over
the Produce Exchange of San Francisco from 1867 to 1877, when he was elected as a Republican to the United States House of
Representatives. He served there from March 4, 1877 to March 3, 1881.
As a representative from California in Congress, Horace Davis campaigned actively against Chinese immigration and was important
to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first law implemented in the United States to prevent immigration
on the basis of ethnicity. Speaking in 1878 and 1879 in support of Congressional legislation restricting Chinese immigration,
Davis used racist and hyperbolic rhetoric to warn of “an invasion of Asiatics” turning California into “a Mongolian state”
and from there “likely to flood the country,” and described Chinese migrants as “utterly an alien in the body-politic, and
like some foreign substance in the human body, breeding fever and unrest till that system is relieved of its unwelcome presence.”
He premised his argument on this explanation: “Our fathers dealt simply with the question of European immigration. The strangers
coming to these shores in early days… were so little different from our own people that they readily found a place in the
great family. But even the founders of the Republic, in their boasted equality of all men, recognized the diversity of races,
excluded the Indian from representation, and provided for negro slavery”(2)(3). This collection contains a letter from
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, John M. Coghlan, referencing his and Davis’s involvement in a local
‘Anti-Coolie Club’. He was unsuccessful in his candidacy to the Forty-seventh Congress.
Davis presided over the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce from 1883 to 1884 and the Savings and Loan Society in 1885. He served
as a member of the Republican National Committee from 1880-1888. He was elected president of the University of California
in 1888 but resigned in 1890. He was named president of the board of trustees of Stanford University by its founder, Leland
Stanford, whose gubernatorial election he had worked to secure as part of the Home Guard of 1861. He served in this capacity
from 1885 to 1916.
Though Horace Davis was a staunch opponent of Chinese migration, his flour milling companies exported large quantities of
flour to China, the Philippines, and Japan (4). This collection contains letters from Senator Stephen M. White to Horace
Davis at the Sperry Flour Company during the period of increased hostilities preceding the Spanish-American War (1896-1897).
The letters contain direct references to tariff impositions on breadstuffs in the Philippines and to White’s intercession,
at Davis’s behest, in the Spanish government on behalf of Warner, Blodgett & Co., Manila, which opened one of the first big
steam-powered mills in the Philippines (5). After the start of the American occupation of the Philippines in 1898, Davis
rejected an invitation to join the Anti-Imperialist League in 1904, stating that he believed that it was the duty of the United
States to ensure that Filipinos were “fit for self- government before we thrust it upon them,” meaning a continued American
military presence, which secured American financial interests in the Philippines (6). In 1929, Sperry Flour Company was
acquired in the industry consolidation that created General Mills, Inc., though Sperry continued to service the Pacific (7).
In 1899, Davis ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of San Francisco. His platform was that of a champion of “white organized labor”
in San Francisco, leveraging his activity in Congress to present himself as a protector of “the labor of its white citizens
from the disastrous competition of swarms of Chinese” (8).
Davis was married twice and was a devout Unitarian. He died after an appendicitis operation in San Francisco in 1916 and
was buried in Cypress Lawn Cemetery.
References
1. Davis, Horace. “The ‘Home Guard’ of 1861.” Macmillan Company, New York. 1917.
2. Chinese Immigration. Speech of Hon. Horace Davis, of California, in the House of Representatives, June 8, 1878.
3. The Chinese Problem. Speech of Hon. Horace Davis, of California, in the House of Representatives, Tuesday, January 28,
1879.
4. Sperry Flour Company, Manufacturers of Flour and Cereal Products. Catalog. 1913.
5. Doeppers, Daniel F.
Feeding Manila in Peace and War, 1850-1945. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI. 2016.
6. Harris, Susan.
God’s Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902. Oxford University Press. 2011.
7. Doeppers.
8. San Francisco Call, Volume 86, Number 156, 3 November 1899. “Horace Davis, Labor’s Champion.” P.7, 11
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the papers of California businessman and two-term U.S. Representative Horace Davis. The papers include
Davis’s correspondence, manuscripts, publications, and genealogical research. They also encompass the collected documents
of the Davis family in America from the 17th to 20th centuries and include land deeds and other contracts, family registers,
wills and estates, correspondence, and other personal and official documents. Smaller sections of the collection pertain
to the Bancroft family and the California minister Thomas Starr King.
The collection is divided into seven series:
Series 1 (Correspondence) includes the incoming correspondence of Horace Davis, his son, Norris K. Davis, his wife, Edith
K. Davis, and his father, Massachusetts governor John Davis.
Series 2 (Davis family documents) is divided into two subseries: historic documents and contemporary documents. The historic
documents were collected in a scrapbook and range from the 17th to 19th centuries. The documents contemporary to the time
of Horace Davis cover the 19th and 20th centuries.
Series 3 (Manuscripts)contains the writings of Horace Davis, including his articles and memoirs.
Series 4 (Genealogical research) contains five scrapbooks of correspondence, notes, clippings, and other research material
collected by Horace Davis about the Davis, Bancroft, Chandler, and Brigham families.
Series 5 (Publications) includes prints and reprints of articles, speeches, sermons, and other writings by Horace Davis, Andrew
McFarland Davis, John Davis, Hasbrouck Davis, Lucretia Bancroft, Thomas Starr King, and other authors.
Series 6 (Thomas Starr King) contains the collected documents of California minister and Union loyalist Thomas Starr King.
Series 7 (Mayberry Davis) contains the journal of Mayberry Davis, of undetermined relation to Horace Bancroft.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Davis, John, 1787-1854 -- Archives.
Davis, Horace, 1831-1916 -- Archives.
Davis, Dolor, 1593-1673 -- Archives.
King, Thomas Starr, 1824-1864--Archives.
Contracts for deeds--United States.
Legislators--United States.
Davis, Horace, 1831-1916
Series 1.
Correspondence
1834-1923
Physical Description: Carton 1, folders 1-18; Box 4, folders 1-2; Box 10, folder 4
Arrangement
Arranged by recipient, then chronologically.
Scope and Contents
Incoming correspondence addressed to Horace Davis, Norris K. Davis, Edith K. Davis, and John Davis.
carton 1, folder 1
Horace Davis- donations to Harvard Library
1863-1869
box 4, Folders 1-2
Letters to Horace Davis
circa 1848-1860
General
Taken from a water-damaged scrapbook.
box 10, Folder 4
Letters to Horace Davis
circa 1848-1860
General
Taken from a water-damaged scrapbook.
carton 1, folder 2
Letters to Horace Davis
1849-1853, 1870-1878
carton 1, Folders 3-7
Letters to Horace Davis
1878-1906
carton 1, folder 8
Letters to Horace Davis from Emma Finney Welch about genealogy
1907
carton 1, Folders 9-12
Letters to Horace Davis about death of Edith King Davis
1909
carton 1, folder 13
Letters to and responses from Horace Davis about death of Edith King Davis
1909
carton 1, folder 14
Calling cards addressed to Horace Davis
circa 1850
carton 1, folder 15
Letters to Horace Davis
undated
carton 1, folder 16
Letters to Norris K. Davis
1898-1923
carton 1, folder 17
Letters to Norris K. Davis from U.S. Treasury Department
1902
carton 1, folder 18
Letters to John Davis, Edith K. Davis
1834-1879
Series 2.
Davis family documents
1667-1942
Physical Description: Carton 1, folders 41-44; Carton 2, folders 3-17; Box 1; Box 4, folders 3-6; Box 10, folders 1-3; Oversize folder 1
Arrangement
Arranged into two subseries: Historic family documents and Contemporary family documents.
Scope and Contents
Includes the documents of the Davis family in America from 1667-1942.
Subseries 2.1.
Historic family documents
1667-1881
Physical Description: Box 1
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Scope and Contents
These materials were originally kept together in a scrapbook and represent the historic documents of the Davis family. Included
are land deeds, contracts, birth and death records, property records, and correspondence. Land records primarily concern property
in New Hampshire and Worcester County, Massachusetts (Marlborough and Northborough towns).
Box 1, folder 1
Will of William Hunt
1667
Box 1, folder 2
Deed of sale betwen Hawkins Mason and Samuel Brigham
1681
Box 1, folder 3
Birth records, children of Samuel Brigham
1685-1756
Box 1, folder 4
Receipt from Samuel Brigham
1689
Box 1, folder 5
Letter from Samuel Wiles to Samuel Brigham
1693
Box 1, folder 6
Record of land deeds for meadow in Marlborough, signed Abraham Williams
1696
Box 1, folder 7
Deed involving John Harr and Samuel Brigham, signed by John Davis
1708
Box 1, folder 8
Will and estate of Samuel Brigham
1719-1720
Box 1, folder 9
Will of Robert Breek
1730
Box 1, folder 10
Letter from Benjamin Wood to his brother
1734
Box 1, folder 11
Land deed, Thomas Amsden to Benjamin Gott
1737
Box 1, folder 12
Land deeds to Benjamin Gott from Abraham Williams, James Carly, and Robert Breech
1735-1737
Box 1, folder 13
Simon and Hannah Davis, family records
circa 1741-1784, 1824
Box 1, folder 14
Deed and bill of sale, signed by William and Nathan Ward, Samuel Brigham, etc.
1742-1743
Box 1, folder 15
Note about death of Benjamin Gott, letter from Samuel Breek about debt to Samuel Gott
1751, 1757
Box 1, folder 16
Letters to Uriah Brigham from Robert Breek
1751, 1762, 1773
Box 1, folder 17
Letter from Samuel Brigham Jr. at Lake George Camp
1755
Box 1, folder 18
Brigham family births and deaths, from Samuel Brigham to Anna McFarland
circa 1756
Box 1, folder 19
Land deed, Seth Rice to Stephen Maynard
1773
Box 1, folder 20
Deed to Isaac Davis from Elizabeth Gray
1776, 1781
Box 1, folder 21
Land deed, Aaron Lyon to Eli Herrington (New Hampshire)
1778
Box 1, folder 22
Receipt for four hundred pounds paid by Isaac Davis to Samuel Brigham
1780
Box 1, folder 23
Land deed, Jonas Brigham to Isaac Davis
1781
Box 1, folder 24
Letter from Lucretia Chandler
1783
Box 1, folder 25
Land deed, Calvin Rice to Isaac Davis (Worcester)
1784
Box 1, folder 26
Land records involving Phineas and Joshua Childs, Isaac Davis, Holloway Taylor, etc.
circa 1793
Box 1, folder 27
Land deed, Holloway Taylor to Isaac Davis (Worcester)
1794
Box 1, folder 28
Plans of lands deeded to Isaac Davis (Worceste)
circa 1807
Box 1, folder 29
Land deed, Amasa Maynard to Isaac Davis (Worcester)
1809
Box 1, folder 30
Land deed, Simeon Bellows to Isaac Davis (Worcester)
1812
Box 1, folder 31
Indenture between Isaac Davis and Betsy Thurston
1816
Box 1, folder 32
Letter to Aaron Bancroft from John Bancroft
1816
Box 1, folder 33
John Davis and John Mower- expedition agreement to West Country and power of attorney
1819
Box 1, folder 34
Letter to Eliza Bancroft from John C. Bancroft
1819, undated
Box 1, folder 35
Will of John Chandler Bancroft (Aaron Bancroft, executor)
1819, 1823
Box 1, folder 36
Deed, Mary W. Healy to John Davis
1822
Box 1, folder 37
Land deed, Amos Rice to Isaac Davis
1824
Box 1, folder 38
Dissolution of parternship between Levi Lincoln and John Davis
1824
Box 1, folder 39
Land deed, Isaiah Thomas to John Davis
1825
Box 1, folder 40
Letter to Joseph Davis, from "his uncle Leander"
1828
Box 1, folder 41
Sale of pew in Worcester parish meeting house to Aaron Bancroft
1829
Box 1, folder 42
Deed, Samuel Davis to Phineas Davis
1831
Box 1, folder 43
Deed, Phineas Davis to John Davis
1833
Box 1, folder 44
Land deed, William Eager to John Davis
1834
Box 1, folder 45
Abstract from Wood's History of Long Island NY, relating to Lyon Gardiner
1835
Box 1, folder 46
Will of Aaron Bancroft
1837
Box 1, folder 47
Letter to John Davis from Caleb Cushing
1839
Box 1, folder 48
Letter to Governor John Davis from Amos Laurence
1843
Box 1, folder 49
Receipts to John Davis from Gardner Johnson, Worcester
1845, 1847
Box 1, folder 50
Horace Davis, Williams College documents
1845-1846, 1871
Box 1, folder 51
Horace Davis, Harvard documents and bills
1846-1853
Box 1, folder 52
Letter from Amos Lawrence to John Davis
1846
Box 1, folder 53
Will of John Davis
1852, 1854
Box 1, folder 54
Account of the Doings of Eliza Davis, John C. B. Davis and Hasbrouck Davis, executors
1855
Box 1, folder 55
Letter to Horace Davis from Andrew McFarland Davis
1881
Box 1, folder 56
Miscellaneous notes on money due
undated
Box 1, folder 57
Copied psalms and verses
undated
Box 1, folder 58
Uknown journal entry
undated
Box 1, folder 60
Miscellaneous, relating to John Davis, John C. B. Davis, and Isaac Davis
undated
Subseries 2.2.
Contemporary family documents
1822-1942
Physical Description: Carton 1, folders 41-44; Carton 2, folders 3-17; Box 4, folders 3-6; Box 10, folders 1-3; Oversize folder 1
Arrangement
Arranged in a roughly chronological order.
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the documents of the Davis family roughly contemporary to the time of Horace Davis, such as land
deeds; military certificates; receipts, invoices, and other business documents; daybooks and registers; and wills and estates.
carton 1, folder 41
Davis family farm book (register of accounts)
1822-1844
box 10, Folder 2
John Davis- land grant for U.S. Land Office, signed by President Martin Van Buren
1839
carton 1, folder 42
Mrs. Horace Davis- day book (register of entertainments)
1899-1905
carton 1, folder 43
Land deeds: T.W. Lyles to John F. Kennedy (1860), Louis Riller to Miles Laughrin (1856), Miles L6aughrin to Andrew Williamson
(1864)
1856-1864
carton 1, folder 44
SF Chamber of Commerce and Naval Rosters
1888-1899
Scope and Contents
Thirty-Eighth Annual Report of the Chamber of Commerce, of San Francisco. (1888)
Officers and Members of the American Society of Naval Engineers. (1899)
Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers. Volume XI. (1899)
List and Station of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States, and of the Marine Corps... (1898)
carton 2, folder 3
Horace Davis- receipts and invoices
1874-1875
box 10, Folder 1
Horace Davis- marriage license and poster for San Francisco mayoral candidacy
1875, 1899
carton 2, folder 4
Horace Davis- bills, receipts, and property taxes
1877-1884
carton 2, folder 5
Horace Davis- Fireman's Fund Insurance Company receipts
1878-1882
carton 2, folder 6
Norris K. Davis- cards and identification
1883, 1917-1935
carton 2, folder 7
Norris K. Davis- military service
1899-1923
box 10, Folder 3
Norris K. Davis- military certificates for Second Assistant Engineer, Captain in Coast Artillery Corps and Major in Coast
Artillery Corps
1901-1902, 1918-1919
carton 2, folder 8
Wedding invitations
1896-1909
carton 2, folder 9
Contract of sale of Norris K. Davis machine works
1907
carton 2, folder 10
Estate of Julia M. Norris
1904
carton 2, folder 11
Estate of Edith K. Davis
1910
carton 2, folder 12
Last Will and Testament of Frederica Gore Davis
1916
carton 2, folder 13
Estate of Horace Davis
1926
carton 2, folder 14
Norris Davis divorce proceedings
1932
carton 2, folder 15
Miscellaneous
circa 1860-1900
carton 2, folder 16
Clippings of Horace Davis, Norris K. Davis, George Bancroft
circa 1890-1950
carton 2, folder 17
Clippings of society pages and obituaries
1907, 1938-1942
box 4, Folder 3
Photographs of persons and churches
1872-1903
Scope and Contents
Horace Davis, Bancroft Davis, Old Hollis Street Church, Stockton Admission Day Celebration (September 9, 1896), unidentified
group photograph of schoolchildren with teacher, East Farleigh Church, Paine Homestead in Worcester, Massachusetts, Unitarian
Church of Northboro, Massachusetts.
box 4, Folder 4
Portrait engravings, drawings, and print reproductions
circa 1840-1901
Scope and Contents
John Davis, Rufus Chandler, Patty Howe Davis, David Davis, Phineas Davis, Eliza Bancroft Davis.
box 4, Folder 5
Memorial resolution for Horace Davis from Savings Union Bank
1916
box 4, Folder 6
Plaque: dedication of the library collection of Horace Davis
undated
oversize_folder 1
Poster in Latin, honoring George Bancroft (unknown origin)
1870
Series 3.
Manuscripts
1844-1939
Physical Description: Carton 1, folders 19-40; Carton 2, folders 1-2
Arrangement
Horace Davis works arranged chronologically. Works by other authors listed afterwards.
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts and typescripts for memoirs and articles by Horace Davis. Also includes translations and transcriptions of the
diaries of Heinrich Lienhard and Captain John A. Sutter at New Helvetia, as well as poetry by other authors about Horace Davis.
carton 1, Folders 19-22
Horace Davis memoirs for years 1844-1881
circa 1900
Carton 2, Folder 2
Horace Davis memoirs for years 1886-1893
circa 1900
Carton 2, Folder 1
Horace Davis memoirs for years 1883-1884
circa 1900
carton 1, folder 23
Horace Davis memoirs for years 1895-1904
circa 1900
carton 1, folder 24
Horace Davis memoirs for year 1908
circa 1900
carton 1, folder 25
Horace Davis memoirs, miscellaneous pages
circa 1900
carton 1, Folders 26-27
Horace Davis memoirs, typescript
1902-1903, 1908
carton 1, folder 29
Horace Davis: "In Memory of Frank Jameson Symmes"
undated
carton 1, folder 28
Horace Davis: "President Hayes' Religious Faith"
1916
carton 1, Folders 30-31
Horace Davis: California in the Civil War
circa 1913
carton 1, folder 32
Horace Davis: The Home Guard of 1801
circa 1917
carton 1, folder 33
Notes and copy of a letter by Lucretia Bancroft
1855
carton 1, folder 34
Journal of voyage to San Francisco (unknown author)
1860
carton 1, folder 35
The Diary of Heinrich Lienhard of New Helvetia, translation by Theo Schwegler
1939
carton 1, folder 36
Heinrich Lienhard diary translation, typescripts
circa 1939
carton 1, folder 37
Pictures from the Life of Heinrich Lienhard (publication in German)
1898
carton 1, folder 38
Transcription of John A. Sutter's diary at New Helvetia
circa 1939
carton 1, folder 39
Samuel Haven: "The Character of the Late Hon. John Davis of Worcester, Massachusetts"
1864
carton 1, folder 40
Edward Robeson Taylor: "Horace Davis" and "The Harriet" (poems)
1916
Series 4.
Genealogical research by Horace Davis
1830-1912
Physical Description: Boxes 5-9
Arrangement
Arranged in a roughly chronological order, by scrapbook.
Scope and Contents
Five scrapbooks of correspondence, research, and collected clippings by Horace Davis, about the Davis, Bancroft, Chandler,
and Brigham families.
box 5
Scrapbook: Genealogical research by Horace Davis on descendants of Dolor Davis
circa 1830-1912
Scope and Contents
Includes publications by Horace Davis about Governor John Davis, Eliza Bancroft Davis, and Dolor Davis; correspondence, notes,
and research material; and other documents used by Horace Davis in his research. All materials have been pasted into the scrapbook.
box 6
Scrapbook: Genealogical research by Horace Davis on the Bancroft, Brigham, and Chandler families
circa 1847-1912
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, notes, research material, and other documents used by Horace Davis in his research. Also included
are some official documents belonging to Horace Davis. All materials have been pasted into the scrapbook.
box 7
Scrapbook: newspaper clippings about Davis family and Civil War
1853-1912
box 8
Scrapbook: newspaper clippings about Bancroft family
1881-1908
box 9
Scrapbook: newspaper clippings of published poetry, biographical and travel articles, and short fstories
circa 1880-1900
Scope and Contents
Includes clippings of poetry, short stories, and articles by various authors and from various newspapers and magazines, such
as Harper's Bazaar, Ladies' Home Journal, Century Magazine, and several others.
Series 5.
Publications
1868-1974
1868-1911
Physical Description: Boxes 2-3; Carton 2, folders 22-30
Arrangement
Arranged by author, and then alphabetically by work.
Scope and Contents
The published speeches, sermons, articles, and other writings of Andrew McFarland Davis, Horace Davis, John Davis, Thomas
Starr King, Lucretia Bancroft, and Hasbrouck Davis. Also includes writings about the aforementioned.
box 2, Folder 1
Andrew McFarland Davis: A-E
1890-1903
Scope and Contents
Andros's Publication Money (1900); Boston "Banks", 1681-1740. Those Who Were Interested in Them (1903); Certain Considerations
Concerning the Coinage of the Colony and the Public Bills of Credit of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay (1989); The College
in Early Days (Harvard, 1893); Corporations in the Days of the Colony (1894); The Currency and Provincial Politics (1900);
The Early College Buildings at Cambridge (1890).
box 2, Folder 2
Andrew McFarland Davis: F-H
1887-1908
Scope and Contents
A Few Words About the Writings of Thomas Shephard (1908); The Fund at Boston in New England (1903); Hints of Contemporary
Life in the Writings of Thomas Shepard (1908); An Historical Study of Law's System (1887); Historical Work in Massachusetts
(1893).
box 2, Folder 3
Andrew McFarland Davis: I-J
1886-1907
Scope and Contents
The Indian College at Cambridge; Indian GamesL An Historical Research (1886); A Few Additional Notes Concerning Indian Games
(1887); Jackson's LL.D. A Tempest in a Tea-Pot (1907); John Harvard's Life in America (1908); The Journey of Moncacht-Apé,
An Indian of the Yazoo Tribe, Across the Continent, About the Year 1700 (1889).
box 2, Folder 4
Andrew McFarland Davis: L-M
1882-1905
Scope and Contents
Lawful Money, 1778 and 1779 (1903); The Law of Adultery and Ignominious Punishments (1895); The Utility of a Liberal Education
in Every-day Life (1882); The limitation of Prices in Massachusetts, 1776-1779 (1905); The Merchants' Notes of 1733 (1903).
box 2, Folder 5
Andrew McFarland Davis: O-P, S-T
1889-1910
Scope and Contents
Occult Methods of Protecting the Currency, Sewall's Mnemonic Lines and Their Interpretation (1899); "Previous Legislation":
A Corrective for Colonial Troubles (1900); The Prospectus of Blackwell's Bank, 1687 (1904); Provincial Bands: Land and Silver
(1895); The Site of the First College Building at Cambridge (1889); Two Forgotten Pamphleteers in the Massachusetts Currency
Controversy, 1720-1740 (1910).
box 2, Folder 6
Horace Davis: A
1884-1912
Scope and Contents
An Afternoon View of College Life (1912); Alexander S. Taylor (in Overland Monthly, 1886); American Constitutions: The Relations
of the Three Departments As Adjusted by a Century (1884).
box 3, Folder 1
Horace Davis: C-J
1872-1909
Scope and Contents
California Breadstuffs (1894); Collegiate Education of Women (1890); Dr. Benjamin Gott: A Family of Doctors (1909); The Flouring
Industry of California (1897); The "Home Guard" of 1861 (1917); Japanese Wrecks in American Waters (1872); Horatio Stebbins
(1909).
box 3, Folder 2
Horace Davis: L-W
1868-1898
Scope and Contents
Liberal Christianity (address, 1885); The Limitations of State Universities (1891); The Loss of the Harriet (Overland Monthly,
1891); The Nicaragua Canal (Overland Monthly, 1892); The Relation of the University to the Public Schools (1889); Shakespeare
and Copyright (The Atlantic Monthly, 1893); Shakespeare and Lyly (1893); Shakespere's Sonnets (Overland Monthly, 1888); Wheat
in California (Overland Monthly, 1868); Wheat in California: Retrospect and Prospect (Overland Monthly, 1898).
carton 2, folder 23
Horace Davis: The Patriotic Services of Thomas Starr King
1899
box 3, Folder 3
Horace Davis: speeches in Congress
1878-1879
Scope and Contents
Chinese Immigration: Speech of Hon. Horace Davis of California, in the House of Representatives, June 8, 1878.
The Chinese Problem. Speech of Hon. Horace Davis, of California, in the House of Representatives, Tuesday, January 28, 1879.
box 3, Folder 4
Horace Davis: books
1881, 1911
Scope and Contents
Dolor Davis: A Sketch of His Life with a Record of His Earlier Descendants. Private printing. 1881.
The Public Ministry of Jesus. American Unitarian Association, Boston. 1911.
box 3, Folder 5
Mrs. Lucretia (Chandler) Bancroft: A Letter to her Daughter, Mrs. Gherardi
1901
box 3, Folder 6
Hasbrouck Davis: The Subterfuge of Infidelity, a sermon
1853
box 3, Folder 7
In Memoriam: Hasbrouck Davis
1871
carton 2, folder 22
Thomas Starr King: sermons and orations
1852-1892
box 3, Folder 8
Publications about Bancroft and Davis family members
1885-1912
Scope and Contents
Biographies, records, and memorial proceedings for John Davis, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, George Bancroft, and Hasbrouck
Davis.
Carton 2, Folders 24-26
Publications about Thomas Starr King
1864-1902, 1950-1952, 1974
Carton 2, Folder 27
Works by other authors
1824-1913
Carton 2, Folder 28
Issues of the Christian Register
1899-1900
Carton 2, Folder 30
John Davis: speeches before Congress
1838, 1840
Scope and Contents
Speech of Mr. Davis, of Massachusetts, upon the Bill Reported by the Committee of Finance, and Commonly Called the Sub-Treasury
Bill (1838)
Sub-Treasury Bill. Reply of John Davis, of Massachusetts, to Mr. Buchanan, on Pennsylvania, on the Reduction of Wages and
of the Value of Property (1840)
Series 6.
Thomas Starr King
1848-1932, 1976
Physical Description: Carton 2, folders 18-21; Box 10, folder 5; Oversize folder 1
Arrangement
Arranged by category of material.
Scope and Contents
Includes collected correspondence, personal documents, portraits, and clippings about the life and memorialization of Thomas
Starr King.
carton 2, folder 19
Personal documents
1848-1861
carton 2, folder 20
Honors and memorials
1864-1931
carton 2, folder 21
Clippings about T.S. King
1922-1932
oversize_folder 1
Clippings about T.S. King
circa 1892
box 10, Folder 5
Photographs, engraving, and clippings
circa 1870-1931, 1976
Series 7.
Mayberry Davis
circa 1849-1861
Scope and Contents
One letter and one journal belonging to Mayberry Davis, of unknown relation to the family of Horace Davis.
Carton 2, Folder 29
Mayberry Davis, tax log and memoir/ fictionalized autobiography
circa 1849-1861
