Guide to the Ward-Perkins Family Papers
Ward-Perkins Family Papers, ca. 1788-1954
Collection number: Mss 129
Department of Special CollectionsDavidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Processed by:
- Arrangement and description by T. Lewis; latest revision, D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
- Apr. 26, 2011
- Encoded by:
- A. Demeter
Biographical / Genealogical Information
Scope and Content Note
General - Fitch, Donald. "The Ward-Perkins Papers"
General - Early working inventory
General - Biographical documents (photocopies)
Barker
Coffyn
Davenport
Folger
Gardner
Gray
Perkins
Robinson
Rodman
Schönberg
Tilton, Eleanor M. - "The True Romance of Anna Hazard Barker and Samuel Gray Ward"
Von Hoffman
Ward
Prominent Figures - Politicians, Authors, and Social Figures and miscellany
Scope and Content Note
Bancroft, Elizabeth [Davis Bliss] (c.1803-1886) [wife of George Bancroft]
1 ALS to Fanny and Mary [Frances D. Bruen Perkins and Mary A. D. Bruen], (Fitch, 73), 1867
1 ALS to "friends" [Mr. and Mrs. Charles Callahan Perkins], (Fitch, 75), n.d.
1 ALS from Mary E. Perkins, (Fitch, 73), n.d.
30 ALS from Mary Lundie Bruen, (Fitch, 72), 1865-1879
Bancroft, George (1800-1891)
1 ALS to William Bancroft (his brother), (Fitch, 75), 1854
3 ALS to Mary A. D. Bruen, 1876-1886, (Fitch, 74), n.d.
5 ALS to Mary Lundie Bruen, (Fitch, 74), n.d.
9 ALS to Charles Callahan Perkins, (Fitch, 74), 1855-1883
9 ALS to Fanny [Frances D. Bruen Perkins], (Fitch, 73-74), 1853-1865, n.d.
4 ALS to friends and relatives, (Fitch, 74), 1875, 1882, n.d.
2 ALS from Charles Callahan Perkins, (Fitch, 68), 1867, 1868
1 Newspaper clipping re Bancroft biography, 1944
Baring, Thomas
Correspondence and clippings, ca. 1877-1923
Barker, Abraham (1821-1906) [brother of Anna Hazard Barker Ward]
2 ALS to "neice," 1883, 1896
Berensen, Mary
1 picture postcard to Mrs. [Elizabeth Ward] Perkins, 1928
Bridge, Ann (1889-1974) [pseudonym for Lady Mary Dolling O'Malley, English novelist.]
10 ALS to Elizabeth [Ward Perkins], (Fitch, 58), 1942-1951
Bruen, Matthias (1776-1846) [grandfather of Frances Davenport Bruen Perkins]
1 ALS, with typescript copy, of a letter to his sister Mary, with a pencil sketch of Matthias included, (Fitch, 71), 1817
Bryce, James (1838-1922)
1 ALS to Mrs. [Frances D. Bruen] Perkins, (Fitch, 72), 1886
1 ALS to Mr. [Samuel Gray] Ward, (Fitch, 26), 1898
Cabot, James Elliot (1821-1903) [Emerson's literary executor]
2 ALS from Samuel Gray Ward, (Fitch, 23), 1882, n.d.
Channing, William Ellery (1817-1901)
1 ALS (8 pages) to Thomas Wren Ward, re campground WEC and Henry D. Thoreau used while on Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire, (Fitch, 46), 1861
Emerson, Edward W. (1844-1930)
8 ALS to Tom [Thomas Wren Ward], (Fitch, 46), 1861-1867
1 printed copy of address re opening of Emerson Hall in 1905 and 1 note re Samuel Gray Ward's family letters, (Fitch, 31), 1914
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
3 ALS to friends [Samuel G. Ward], (Fitch, 28), 1840, 1842
1 ALS to Thomas Wren Ward, (Fitch, 29), 1840, 1872
1 TL from F. P. Stearns to Sophie R. Howard Ward re deteriorating health of Emerson, 1882
Hecker, (Friar) Isaac (1819-1888) [founder of the Paulists]
2 ALS to "Friend" re Thomas Wren Ward, (Fitch, 48), 1862
2 ALS to Thomas Wren Ward, (Fitch, 48), 1864
James, Alice H. (c.1849-1922) [wife of William James]
1 ALS to Thomas Wren Ward, (Fitch, 30), 1878
James, Alice R. (d. 1957) [wife of Billy James]
1 ALS to "Bessie" [Elizabeth Ward Perkins], (Fitch, 30), 1929
James, Billy (1882-1961) [son of William James]
2 ALS to Elizabeth [Ward Perkins], (Fitch, 30), 1922-1929
James, Henry (1843-1916)
1 ALS to Anna Hazard Barker Ward, (Fitch, 30), n.d.
2 ALS to Samuel Gray Ward, 1869, (Fitch, 30), n.y.
1 TN, extract from "William Wetmore Story and his friends"
James, William (1842-1910)
1 ALS to Mrs. [Anna Hazard Barker] Ward, (Fitch, 30), [1884]
Lind, Jenny (1820-1887)
1 ALS to Baron [Richard Von] Hoffman, (Fitch, 40), n.d.
Lowell, Amy (1874-1925)
1 ALS to "Bessie" [Elizabeth Ward Perkins], (Fitch, 54), n.d.
Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)
31 ALS to Samuel Gray Ward, (Fitch, 29), 1860-1891
O'Connell, (Cardinal) William Henry (1859-1944)
8 TLS and 1 ALS to Elizabeth Ward Perkins, (Fitch, 57), 1934-1940, n.d.
Powers, Hiram (1805-1873)
Typed copies of 3 letters to Samuel Gray Ward and Anna Hazard Barker, 1837-1843
Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962)
1 TLS to Elizabeth Ward Perkins, (Fitch, 57), 1933
Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)
1 TLS to Samuel Gray Ward, (Fitch, 27), 1900
Saint-Gaudens, Homer (1880-1958)
1 TLS to Mrs. [Elizabeth Ward] Perkins, (Fitch, 54), 1923
Sanborn, F. B. (1831-1917)
2 TLS and 1 ALS to Samuel Gray Ward, (Fitch, 27), 1902
Santayana, George (1863-1952)
3 ALS to Mrs. [Elizabeth Ward] Perkins, (Fitch, 54), 1915, 1916, n.d.
Stephen, Sir Leslie (1832-1904)
1 ALS to Mr. [Samuel Gray] Ward, (Fitch, 27), 1902
Stite, R.
2 ALS to Martha Davenport, n.d.
Ward, Joanna Chipman (c. 1761-1831) [second wife of William Ward, grandmother of Samuel Gray Ward]
1 ALS to William Ward [brother of Samuel Gray Ward], (Fitch, 31), n.y.
Ward, Martha (1812-1853) [sister of Samuel Gray Ward]
1 TL (carbon copy transcript of earlier letter) to Thomas W. Ward [her father], 1836
[Ward, Martha Proctor (1763-1788)] [first wife of William Ward, grandmother of Samuel Gray Ward]
1 ADS - Eulogy, by unknown author, (Fitch, 31), 1788
Ward, Raymond L.
1 ALS to [William] Endicott, along with typed transcript, 1898
Ward, William (1761-1827) [grandfather of Samuel Gray Ward]
1 ALS to "grandson" [Samuel Gray Ward], (Fitch, 31), 1819
Miscellany
Various Documents, ca. 1867-1917
Vital Records - Births, marriages, and wills for various family members, ca. 1845-1954
Family
Ward, Samuel Gray (1817-1907)
Scope and Content Note
Outgoing
1 ALS to brother-in-law Abraham Barker, (Fitch, 24), 1890
1 ALS to Eliza Callahan Cleveland, (Fitch, 24), 1896
1 TLS to Richard Watson Gilder, (Fitch, 24), 1902
1 ALS to Baron Osten-Sacken, (Fitch, 26), n.d.
5 ALS to daughter Elizabeth B. Ward Schönberg, (Fitch, 23), 1862-1872
13 ALS to daughter Lydia G. Ward Von Hoffman, (Fitch, 23), 1871-1893
2 ALS to son-in-law Richard Von Hoffman, (Fitch, 23), 1872-1878
2 ALS to father Thomas W. Ward, (Fitch, 22), 1844
8 ALS to son Thomas Wren Ward, (Fitch, 23), 1860-1901
1 ALS to William Collins Whitney, (Fitch, 23), 1887
Incoming
1 ALS from F.H. Baring, (Fitch, 26-27), 1899
2 ALS from brother-in-law Abraham Barker, (Fitch, 24), 1841-1842
1 ALS from Mary B. Bartlett, (Fitch, 25), 1870
3 ALS from Helen C. Bell, (Fitch, 25), n.d.
1 ALS from Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch, (Fitch, 25-26), 1871
2 ALS from J. Elliot Cabot, (Fitch, 27), 1902
1 ALS from John Jay Chapman, (Fitch, 26), 1890
1 ALS from Francis James Child, (Fitch, 25), 1864
1 ALS from Joseph H. Choate, (Fitch, 27), 1906
Typed copies of letters from John Murray Forbes, (Fitch, 26), 1892-1897
5 ALS and 1 TLS from Edwin Lawrence Godkin, (Fitch, 26), n.d.
1 ALS from Claudius Edward Habicht, (Fitch, 42), 1841
1 ALS from William Hawes, (Fitch, 25), n.d.
1 ALS from Thomas Wentworth Higginson, (Fitch, 27), 1901
1 ALS from Alfred E. Hippesley, 1890
3 ALS from Nina Howard Hippesley, (Fitch, 27), 1877
5 ALS from Prudence Rebecca "Lily" Howard, (Fitch, 27), n.d.
4 ALS from Sarah Forbes Hughes, (Fitch, 27), 1899-1900
1 ALS from W.H. Hughes, (Fitch, 27), 1899
2 ALS from Richard Morris Hunt, (Fitch, 26), 1872
1 ALS from aunt Lucy Ann Ward Lawrence, (Fitch, 25), 1857
1 ALS from Josephine Lazarus, (Fitch, 26), n.d.
4 ALS from Col. Henry Lee, (Fitch, 26), 1894-1898
1 ALS from Charles McKim, (Fitch, 25), n.d.
2 ALS from Charles Eliot Norton, (Fitch, 25), 1869
2 ALS from C.R. Osten-Sacken, (Fitch, 26), 1894-1901
1 ALS from Pelatiah Perit, (Fitch, 25), 1858
2 ALS from Fritz W. Rackemann, (Fitch, 25), 1846
3 ALS from Anne Ritchie, (Fitch, 26), n.d.
1 ALS from Georgina Schuyler, (Fitch, 27), 1902
4 ALS from Charles D. Sedgwick, (Fitch, 25), 1847-1856
2 ALS from Goldwin Smith, (Fitch, 25), 1864-1865
1 ALS from son-in-law Richard Von Hoffman, (Fitch, 40), 1872
16 ALS from brother Thomas William Ward, (Fitch, 25), 1850-1859
1 ALS from [anonymous], n.d.
Miscellany
Miscellaneous correspondence
3 essays by SGW with typescript copies: "Idealism and Realism," n.d., "Positivism," n.d., and recollections of poet Jones Very, 1896 (Fitch, 30-31)
"Poems and Translations of German Songs" by SGW, (Fitch, 30), 1880
Other materials (Fitch, 30-31)
Ward, Anna Hazard Barker (1813-1902)
Scope and Content Note
Outgoing
5 ALS to brother Abraham Barker, (Fitch, 36), 1869-1894
Typed copies of letters to brother Thomas H. Barker, (Fitch, 36), 1837-1838
2 ALS to daughter Elizabeth B. Ward Schönberg, 1860
10 ALS to daughter Lydia G. Ward Von Hoffman, (Fitch, 36), 1851-1892
Typed copies of letters to father-in-law Thomas W. Ward, 1842-1855
11 ALS to son Thomas Wren Ward, 1861-1865
Incoming
4 ALS from brother Abraham Barker, (Fitch, 37), 1841-1846
2 ALS from mother Eliza H. Barker, (Fitch, 37), 1846-1856
9 ALS from brother Thomas H. Barker, (Fitch, 37), 1837-1849
1 ALS from J. Ingersoll Bowditch, (Fitch, 37), 1883
Typed copies of letters from George P.A. Healy, (Fitch, 37), 1870
4 ALS from Nina Howard Hippesley, (Fitch, 27), 1878-1884
1 ALS from E.A. Read, 1880
1 ALS from Jane M. Scriven, (Fitch, 37), 1828
1 ALS from Edward Sillig, (Fitch, 37), 1856
Extracts of letters from Miss Swain, (Fitch, 37), 1852
2 ALS from son-in-law Richard Von Hoffman, (Fitch 40), 1872-1873
2 ALS from mother-in-law Lydia Gray Ward, n.d.
1 ALS from "French governess," 1858
Miscellany
Handwritten copy of her diary, (Fitch, 37), 1845-1855
Journal extracts
Schönberg, Elizabeth Barker Ward (1847-1920)
Scope and Content Note
Outgoing
2 ALS to niece Elizabeth Ward Perkins, (Fitch, 39), 1897-1899
1 ALS to sister Lydia G. Ward Von Hoffman, n.d.
Numerous ALS to mother Anna H. Barker War, includes a typed excerpt from a letter from the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Manhattanville, 1864-1897
12 ALS and 1 TL (36 pp.) to brother Thomas Wren Ward, (Fitch, 39), 1890-1919
1 ALS to "Cousin," (Fitch, 39), 1899
Von Hoffman, Lydia Gray Ward (1843- ?)
Scope and Content Note
Outgoing
1 ALS to sister Elizabeth B. Ward Schönberg, (Fitch, 40), 1870
113 ALS to mother Anna H. Barker Ward, (Fitch, 39), 1855-1876
26 ALS to father Samuel Gray Ward, (Fitch, 40), 1855-1876
1 ALS to sister-in-law Sophia R. Howard Ward, (Fitch, 40), 1875
56 ALS to brother Thomas Wren Ward, (Fitch, 40), 1859-1928
1 ALS to "Anna," n.d.
1 ALS to "Grandmother," 1870
1 ALS to [?], n.d.
Incoming
4 ALS from great-aunt Lucy Ann Ward Lawrence, (Fitch, 40), 1852-1855
2 ALS from "Grandmother," (Fitch, 40), 1853, n.d.
2 ALS from [?], 1858
Thoron, Anna Barker Ward (1841-1875)
Scope and Content Note
7 ALS to brother Thomas Wren Ward, (Fitch, 44), 1854-1856
Ward, George Cabot (1824-1887)
Scope and Content Note
2 ALS to John Murray Forbes, (Fitch, 42), 1865-1868
6 ALS to brother Samuel Gray Ward, (Fitch, 42), 1846-1873
Barker, Jacob (1779-1871)
Scope and Content Note
2 ALS to granddaughter Elizabeth B. Ward Schönberg, 1855-1858
4 ALS to granddaughter Lydia G. Ward Von Hoffman, (Fitch, 44), 1853-1868
4 ALS and 2 TLS to daughter Anna H. Barker Ward, (Fitch, 42), 1801-1869
Ward, Thomas Wren (1844-1940)
Scope and Content Note
Outgoing
1 ALS to uncle Abraham Barker, (Fitch, 45), 1900
2 ALS to sister Anna B. Ward Thoron, 1857-1859
192 ALS to sister Lydia G. Ward Von Hoffman, (Fitch, 45), 1864-1912
22 ALS to father Samuel Gray Ward, (Fitch, 45), 1857-1893
31 ALS to mother Anna Hazard Barker Ward, 1854-1875
22 ALS to "Parents" [SGW & AHBW], (Fitch, 45), 1856-1858
2 ALS to daughter Elizabeth Howard Ward Perkins, (Fitch, 58), 1938
5 ALS to son George Cabot Ward (1873-1936), (Fitch, 45), 1917-1934
1 ALS to "Mother" [probably mother-in-law], 1874
1 ALS to "Cecil," n.d.
Incoming
8 ALS and 1 TLS from Baring Bros., (Fitch, 48), 1886-1923
1 ALS from Francis James Child, (Fitch, 48), n.d.
2 ALS from Charles De Kay, (Fitch, 48), 1880
1 TLS from cousin George B. Dorr, (Fitch, 48), 1934
1 ALS from Edith Emerson, (Fitch, 46), 1862
2 ALS from Ellen T. Emerson, (Fitch, 46), 1862-1867
1 ALS from William Endicott, (Fitch, 48), 1908
3 ALS from Robert Fulton, (Fitch, 48), n.d.
5 ALS from Storrow Higginson, (Fitch, 46), 1859-1863
1 ALS from Isabella Hutchinson, (Fitch, 46), 1855
1 TLS from Dickinson S. Miller, (Fitch, 48), 1902
3 ALS from Francis T. Roche, (Fitch, 49), 1929
1 ALS from Ernst Schönberg, (Fitch, 49), 1922
1 TLS from Charles M. Storey, (Fitch, 49), 1932
16 ALS from nephew Ward Thoron, (Fitch, 49), 1910-1935
Miscellany
School records and correspondence, (Fitch, 49), 1855-1858
Various materials honoring TWW as Harvard's "Oldest Living Graduate," (Fitch, 50)
Miscellaneous correspondence
Miscellaneous correspondence
Ward, Sophia Read Howard (1849-1918)
Scope and Content Note
Outgoing
6 ALS to "Father," (Fitch, 50), 1876
12 ALS to "Mother," (Fitch, 50), 1876-1893
1 ALS to "Ward," n.d.
Incoming
1 ALS from W. Carvel Hall, 1896
1 ALS from James M. Howard, (Fitch, 50), 1899
1 ALS from [?] Lee, n.d.
2 ALS from [?] re the death of Josephine Lazarus, (Fitch, 50), 1910
Miscellany
Typescript newspaper account of her wedding to Thomas Wren Ward, n.d.
Estate information following the death of Sophie Ward (Fitch, 52)
Perkins, Elizabeth Howard Ward (1873-1954)
Scope and Content Note
Outgoing
23 ALS to grandfather Samuel Gray Ward, (Fitch, 52), 1889-1900
1 ALS to [?], 1897
Incoming
2 ALS from Robert Amendola and his wife, Gerrie Amendola, (Fitch, 58), 1950-1953
1 TLS from John Taylor Arms, (Fitch, 59), 1952
1 ALS from Cecil B. Atwater, (Fitch, 58), 1951
1 ALS from Elizabeth B. Bliss, 1942
8 ALS from Otto T. Bannard, (Fitch, 56), ca. 1927-1929
1 ALS from Samuel H. Barker, (Fitch, 52), 1889
1 ANS from George Grey Barnard, (Fitch, 56), n.d.
4 ALS and 1 TLS from Daniel Berkeley-Updike, (Fitch, 56), 1928-1941
1 ALS from Paul Albert Besnard, (Fitch, 56), 1924
1 ALS from Elizabeth Coatsworth Beston, (Fitch, 57), 1933
1 ALS from Laurence Binyon, (Fitch, 53), 1914
1 ALS from John Otway Percy Bland (Fitch, 56)
1 ALS from Montague E. Browning, (Fitch, 57), 1935
1 ALS from Arthur Graham Carey, (Fitch, 58), 1938
4 ALS and 1 TLS from Morris Carter, with a postcard from his wife, Beatrice, (Fitch, 57), 1937-1938
1 ALS from Robert Catterson-Smith, (Fitch, 56), 1923
1 ALS from Francis H.H. Clarke, (Fitch, 53), 1915
8 ALS from Charles T. Copeland, (Fitch, 53), 1910-1923
1 TLS from Ralph Adams Cram, (Fitch, 54), 1919
1 ALS from Charles C. Curran, (Fitch, 54), 1912
1 ALS from Margaret Duff, (Fitch, 57), 1935
2 TLS from Milton Ellis, 1941
1 ALS from Louise Endicott, 1940
Typed letters and other materials from Sen. Ralph E. Flanders and his wife, Helen Hartness Flanders, (Fitch, 59), ca. 1940s-1950s
1 TLS from Edward W. Forbes, 1939
1 ALS from Helen C. Frick, (Fitch, 54), 1923
2 ALS from Isabella Stewart Gardner, (Fitch, 53), 1914
1 ALS from Matilda Gay, (Fitch, 56), 1929
1 ALS from Richard Watson Gilder, (Fitch, 53), 1896
1 ALS from John R. Gilman, (Fitch, 59), 1952
1 ALS from Constance Cary Harrison, (Fitch, 53), n.d.
1 ALS from Laura Hills, (Fitch, 56), 1926
2 ALS from Alfred Hippesley, with a typescript account of his wife Nina's death (Fitch, 57)
2 ALS from May Elliot Hobbs, (Fitch, 56), 1927
3 ALS and 6 TLS from Henry A. Hollond, with a typescript account of Cambridge University, (Fitch, 53), 1915-1920
1 TL from Marjorie Hollond, with newspaper clippings, (Fitch, 58), 1940
1 TLS from Alice S. Howard, (Fitch, 58), 1937
2 TLS from M.A. Howe, (Fitch, 57), 1930
1 ALS from M.A. DeWolfe Howe, (Fitch, 58), 1940
1 ALS from Charles P. Howland, (Fitch, 56), n.d.
1 ALS from Joseph L. Hurley, (Fitch, 58), 1952
3 ALS and 4 TLS from Henry Festing Jones, (Fitch, 54), 1915-1922
16 ALS from Anatole Le Braz, (Fitch, 53), 1907-1927
1 ALS from Charles Martin Loeffler, (Fitch, 54), 1918
1 ALS from A. Lawrence Lowell, (Fitch, 54), 1915
1 ALS from Lincoln MacVeagh, (Fitch, 58), [1950]
3 ALS from Maria-Theresa, (Fitch, 56), 1928-1950
2 ALS from Albert Jay Nock, (Fitch, 54), 1916-1917
1 ALS from Robert L. O'Brien, (Fitch, 54), 1919
3 ALS from Christopher O'Malley, with biographical note, (Fitch, 59), 1952
1 ALS from Ralph Barton Perry, (Fitch, 56), 1929
1 AL from [Caroline Phillips], (Fitch, 57), 1938
2 ALS from William Phillips, (Fitch, 57), 1930-1938
1 ALS from A. Kingsley Porter, (Fitch, 56), n.d.
1 ALS from Sir William Haldane Porter, (Fitch, 53), 1914
1 ALS from Chandler R. Post, (Fitch, 57), 1934
1 ALS from Denman W. Ross, (Fitch, 54), 1922
7 ALS/TLS from Ellery Sedgwick, (Fitch, 53-54), 1913-1936
10 ALS from Anne Douglas Sedgwick de Sélincourt, (Fitch, 57), ca. 1932
1 ALS from Elizabeth Stevenson, (Fitch, 59), 1953
3 TLS from Hayden A. Vachon and his cousin Andrew Vachon, (Fitch 58), 1944-1949
1 ALS from Ferdinand Von Hoffman, ca. 1870s
2 TLS from sister-in-law Justine Bayard Cutting Ward, (Fitch, 59), 1953
1 ALS from Wilfred P. Ward, (Fitch, 53), n.d.
1 ALS from Winslow Wilson, (Fitch, 58), 1951
1 ALS from Charles Herbert Woodbury, (Fitch, 54), 1922
1 ALS from Raymond Wyler, (Fitch, 54), 1919
Miscellany
Biographical information
Vatican correspondence, (Fitch, 60), 1950
"The Lenox Genius," (Fitch, 59), ca. 1885
Accounts of her wedding to Charles Bruen Perkins, 1896
Miscellaneous items
Scribner's Magazine articles by EWP, 1925-1927
Untitled short story ("Down Murray Hill..."), (Fitch, 60), n.d.
Miscellaneous correspondence
Perkins, Charles Bruen (1860-1929)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, documents, biographical sketch, and clipping, ca. 1891-1948
Perkins, Thomas Handasyd (1764-1854)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, (Fitch, 64), 1825-1842
Perkins, Charles Callahan (1823-1886)
Scope and Content Note
Outgoing
1 ALS to William Bliss, (Fitch, 68), 1877
Incoming
7 ALS from "Mari," (Fitch, 68), 1842-1843
6 ALS from "Mother," (Fitch, 68), n.d.
10 ALS from sister "Saadi," (Fitch, 68), 1842-1843
6 ALS from Dorsey Read (Fitch, 68)
1 ALS from Ary Scheffer, n.d.
1 ALS from Fred R. Sears, (Fitch, 68), 1842
Miscellany
Miscellaneous correspondence (Fitch, 68)
Miscellaneous items, 1856-1889
Unbound diary, (Fitch, 68), 1847-1849
Bound diary, (Fitch, 68), n.d.
Memoir of Charles Callahan Perkins by Samuel Eliot (Fitch, 71)
Les Sculpteurs Italiens by Charles Callahan Perkins (Fitch, 70)
Perkins, Francis Davenport (1897-1970)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence to "Mother," article by FDP, and clipping, (Fitch, 58), ca. 1926-1947
Perkins, James (1761-1822)
Scope and Content Note
Obituary notices, 1822
Perkins, James (1791-1828)
Scope and Content Note
Probate documents, (Fitch, 64-65), 1824-1831
Perkins, Maxwell E. (1884-1947)
Scope and Content Note
1 TLS to Elizabeth Ward Perkins, (Fitch, 57), 1930
Perkins, Sarah
1 ALS to James Perkins (1791-1828) in London, (Fitch, 65), n.d.
Bruen, Mary Anne Davenport (1793-1892)
Scope and Content Note
5 ALS to Elizabeth Bancroft, (Fitch, 71), 1859-1884
40 ALS/TLS to "Mr. Bliss," (Fitch, 71), 1858-1877
1 ALS to John Ward, (Fitch, 71), 1861
Passport, (Fitch, 71), 1835
Perkins, Frances Davenport Bruen (1825-1909)
Scope and Content Note
Outgoing
17 ALS to Elizabeth Bancroft, (Fitch, 72), ca. 1860s
9 ALS to "Mr. Bliss," (Fitch, 72), ca. 1859
Incoming
1 ALS from sister Mary Lundie Bruen, (Fitch, 72), n.d.
1 ALS from [J.W. Preston], (Fitch, 72), 1863
Miscellany
Obituary notice, (Fitch, 73), ca. 1909
Bliss, Alexander and Bliss, William Davis
Scope and Content Note
Outgoing
1 ALS to Alexander Bliss from G. Borland, (Fitch, 72), 1862
1 ALS to Alexander Bliss from William D. Bliss, 1861
1 ALS to [?] from William D. Bliss, n.d.
Incoming
25 ALS from Mary Lundie Bruen, (Fitch, 72), 1854-1885
1 ALS from George Hardwick, 1862
1 ALS from F.L. Skinner, n.d.
Ward, George Cabot (1876-1936)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence from and about, condolences and obituaries, ca. 1901-1936
Ward, Howard Ridgeley (1881-1946)
Scope and Content Note
Biographical document with related letter to Elizabeth Ward Perkins, ca. 1948
Perkins, Anna Ward "Nancy" (1899-1993)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence from London, ca. 1914-1915
Howard Family
Scope and Content Note
"A Memoir of the Late Colonel John Eager Howard," (Fitch, 63), 1863
"John Eager Howard: Colonel of Second Maryland Regiment - Continental Line," (Fitch, 63), 1863
"John Eager Howard: Record of This Gallant Marylander's Career," 1900
"Col. John Eager Howard of Maryland (1752-1827)," (Fitch, 63), n.d.
Documents related to Margaretta "Peggy" Chew Howard, wife of John Eager Howard, n.d.
"Memoranda" by Charles Howard, transcribed by his nephew Cornelius Howard, (Fitch, 62), 1876
"Howard Family Genealogy" bound booklet, (Fitch, 63), 1856
"The Howards of Maryland" typescript copy of 1879 article (Fitch, 63)
"Family Traditions" bound booklet, 1889
"Progenitors of the Howards of Maryland," (Fitch, 63), 1938
"Colonial Dames of America - Form of Application for Membership," (Fitch, 63), n.d.
"The Ridgely Family," (Fitch, 62), n.d.
Genealogical notes, charts, and ephemera, v.d.
Newspaper clippings and ephemera, v.d.
Ward Family Miscellany
"Early Life of William Ward," bound memoir, 1862
"Ward Family Papers" signature sheets, (Fitch, 31), 1900
Typescript Ward family history, (Fitch, 62), 1938
Appointment book pages, 1893
"Poems of Robert Barker," (Fitch, 62), n.d.
Postcards, n.d.
Miscellaneous correspondence
Handwritten copies of various correspondence
Unidentified correspondence and clippings
Photocopies of correspondence from the collection (some with explanatory notes)
Oversize
Scrapbook - Thomas Wren Ward
Portfolio - Ward family genealogy
Bound volume - Perkins and Ward family trees
John H. Mansfield Donation - Apr. 12, 2011
Scope and Content Note
Bruen, Mary Ann Davenport
Letter (ALS), Jan. 19, 1822
Bruen, Mrs. [Fanny?]
Letters from husband Charles C. Perkins and others, ca. 1860s-1880s
Doane, Elizabeth G. [grandmother of Charles C. Perkins]
Letter announcing Edward's [?] engagement to Mary Spring
Lawrence, Lucy Ward [daughter of William Ward and Joanna Chipman]
Letters for Anna Hazard Barker, ca. 1844, 1850-1851
Longfellow, Henry W.
Letter to Mrs. Cleveland re Charles C. Perkins' book, Mar. 31, 1865
Perkins, Anna Ward, M.D.
Biographical sketch, diplomas, honors, awards, photographs, obituary, ca. 1970s-1993
Perkins, Charles Bruen
Letter from Phillipps Brooks re confirmation, May 19, [1876?]
Letter from Phillipps Brooks, Mar. 3, 1886
Notices, in French, 1881, 1888
Perkins, Charles C.
Admission to Harvard, Feb. 7, 1839
Letter to cousin Emma Forbes, [Aug. 31, 1843]
Note from M. Brimmer (?) to [Mr.?] Eliot, to write a memorial for CCP, and letter on same sheet, from S.E. [Samuel Eliot?] to Sally, Oct. 14, 1886
Translation of Leonardo da Vinci sonnet, n.d.
Perkins, Elizabeth Ward
Letters to grandparents (Samuel Gray Ward and Anna Hazard Barker Ward), 1886-1898
Handwritten diary from time in England, 1914-1915
Perkins Family
Kirkland, John T. (President, Harvard University) - letter (ALS) to T. H. Perkins, S. G. Perkins and James Perkins II, thanking them for gift under James Perkins will, Sept. 15, 1822
The Perkins Family - A Private Proof: Printed in Order to Preserve Certain Matters Connected with the Boston Branch of the Perkins Family... , by Augustus T. Perkins (Boston: T. R. Marvin & Son, Printers, 1890)
Perkins, James
One letter (ALS) from Josiah Quincy, thanking him for gift, Dec. 28, 1821
Perkins, P. G. [?]
Letter to her mother, n.d.
Ward, Anna Hazard Barker
Timeline re family events, addressed to Lily Ward von Hoffman, 1875-1891
Ward, Elizabeth [Bessie]
Death notice (6 July 1920), picture postcard and copy of photo depicting Schloss Pallaus, her residence
Handwritten note of Baron Ernst von Schönberg Roth Schönberg, 27 Oct. 1905
Ward, Lily
Letters from Mother, ca. 1876-1891
Ward, Martha Ann [wife of William Ward]
Poem, n.d.
Ward, Samuel Gray {S. G.]
Notes on Samuel Gray Ward - typescript
Photographs [b/w] of S. G. Ward's Watercolors - in leather album, incl. Santa Barbara landscape, n.d.
Ward, Thomas W.
Three letters to his sons, Samuel G. Ward and William Ward, 1825, 1826, 1828
Ward, Thomas Wren
Handwritten notes possibly by TWW
One letter (ALS) from Brooks Adams, Jan. 10, 1919; one letter (ALS) to Brooks Adams, not sent, Jan. 13, 1920
Ward, Thomas Wren, II
Letters from R. von Hoffman, 1879-1882
Letter from Lily Ward, 1879
Note from Mrs. Dill, n.d.
Unidentified
Letter from Maria [?], July [21?], 1772
Letter, p. 2, sending respects to Mr. Perkins, also your mother and Mary, n.d.