The collection contains correspondence, documents, and financial records (mainly bills and receipts) of the Beal and Holmes families. There are a number of items from the Civil War era.

The collection contains papers relating to Joseph Sampson Beal, Alexander Holmes, Joseph Alexander Holmes, and other Holmes family members, from the Kingston and Plymouth, Massachusetts area. A brief genealogical chart is included in folder 1 of the collection.

.4 linear feet (1 document box)

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

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