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Brimblecom family correspondence, 1823-1919 (bulk 1830-1855).
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Brimblecom family correspondence, 1823-1919 (bulk 1830-1855)Creator/Contributor:
Brimblecom family.Creator/Contributor:
Brimblecom, Samuel A., 1823-, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Brimblecom, Samuel, 1799-, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Brimblecom, Charles, 1825-, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Brimblecom, Edward, 1830-, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Brimblecom, Lucy A., 1840-, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Brimblecom, Harriet Buttrick, 1801-, correspondent.Abstract:
Consists of letters between Brimblecom family members including the Rev. Samuel Brimblecom, his wife Harriet Buttrick Brimblecom,
and their children Charles, Edward, Capt. Samuel A. and Lucy Brimblecom. Topics include temperance, anti-slavery, farming,
China and the Opium trade, education of the Brimblecom children, life in Maine and Massachusetts and homesteading in Ohio,
Illinois and California. Also includes essay and guide to the collection contents (box 2).
Date:
1830 (issued)Subject:
n-us--- -- a-cc---Temperance -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- Sources
Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
Agriculture -- United States -- History -- Sources
Education -- United States -- History -- Sources
Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- Sources
Tempérance -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
Mouvements antiesclavagistes -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- Sources
Abolitionnistes -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle -- Sources
Abolitionists
Agriculture
Antislavery movements
Education
Frontier and pioneer life
Temperance
Travel
China -- Description and travel -- Sources
China -- History -- Opium War, 1840-1842 -- Sources
Maine -- Description and travel
Massachusetts -- Description and travel
Ohio -- Description and travel
Illinois -- Description and travel
California -- Description and travel
Chine -- Descriptions et voyages -- Sources
Chine -- Histoire -- 1840-1842 (Guerre de l'opium) -- Sources
Maine -- Descriptions et voyages
Massachusetts -- Descriptions et voyages
Ohio -- Descriptions et voyages
Californie -- Descriptions et voyages
California
China
Illinois
Maine
Massachusetts
Ohio
United States
Brimblecom family -- Archives
Brimblecom family -- Correspondence
Brimblecom, Samuel A -- 1823- -- Correspondence
Brimblecom, Samuel -- 1799- -- Correspondence
Brimblecom, Charles -- 1825- -- Correspondence
Brimblecom, Edward -- 1830- -- Correspondence
Brimblecom, Lucy A -- 1840- -- Correspondence
Brimblecom, Harriet Buttrick -- 1801- -- Correspondence
Note:
Box 1, folders 9-10 and box 2, folder 4: Also on microfilm with call number BANC FILM 3287.
Container list with letter details and summaries available in the library.
Purchase; From Schoyer's Books; 20010307.
Related collection: Samuel A. Brimblecom correspondence, 1847-1849 (BANC MSS 79/43 c).
Related collection: Brimblecom family correspondence, 1847-1849 (BANC MSS 2010/245).
The Rev. Samuel Brimblecom, born Feb. 11, 1799 to Col. Samuel Brimblecom, was educated at the Divinity School of the Univ.
of Cambridge and married Harriet Buttrick, born in 1801, on Oct. 22, 1822 in Concord, Mass. They had 9 sons: Samuel, Charles,
Frederick, Francis Alden, Edward, William, Henry, James, Albert J., and one daughter, Lucy A., born between 1823-1840 in Maine
and Mass. The marriage between Rev. Brimblecom and Harriet was dissolved in 1851.
Preferred citation: Brimblecom family correspondence, 1823-1919, BANC MSS 2002/198 cz, The Bancroft Library, University of
California, Berkeley.
In English.
Type:
Archives.History.
Personal correspondence.
Sources.
Physical Description:
print
2 boxes (0.6 linear ft.)
1 microfilm reel : negative and positive
Language:
English