Blake-Clapp-Arguimbau Family Papers 1798-1984 Guide to the Collection The Blake-Clapp Arguimbau family papers are stored offsite and must be requested at least one business day in advance. Contact the Library at library@masshist.org or (617) 536-1608 to request materials. Please discuss your request with the reading room staff before requesting cartons by barcode. There are restrictions on the use of this collection. Users must sign an agreement stating that they understand these restrictions before they will be given access to the collection.

Table of Contents Collection Summary Collection Description Related Materials Acquisition Information Restrictions on Access Restrictions on Use Organization Detailed Description of the Collection Preferred Citation Access Terms Materials Removed

Collection Summary

Collection Description

The Blake-Clapp-Arguimbau family papers contain correspondence, diaries, subject files, poetry and other papers of three inter-related families.

The bulk of the collection consists of family and personal correspondence among Clifford Blake Clapp, Lawrence Baker Arguimbau and his wife Elinor Clapp Arguimbau, Nicholas Clapp Arguimbau, Ellen Hubbs Arguimbau, and Reginald deCourcy Arguimbau.

The papers of Lawrence Arguimbau contain his diaries on gardening and the raising of daylilies in Onset and Lancaster, Mass., correspondence, and subject files, including references to his role as a faculty member at the Mass. Institute of Technology and testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee during the 1950s.

The papers also contain sermons, lectures (most on temperance), poetry, and two diaries (1856, 1861-64) kept by Jonathan Blake, a town official and historian of Warwick, Mass., and poetry and other writings of Martha Merriam Blake.

Related Materials

The Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) holds the following collections related to the Blake-Clapp-Arguimbau family papers:

Blake-Clapp-Arguimbau family daguerreotypes. Photos. 1.412-425.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Ellen H. Arguimbau, Edith A. Davidson, and Nicholas C. Arguimbau, Jan. 1997.

Restrictions on Access

The Blake-Clapp Arguimbau family papers are stored offsite and must be requested at least one business day in advance. Contact the Library at library@masshist.org or (617) 536-1608 to request materials. Please discuss your request with the reading room staff before requesting cartons by barcode.

There are restrictions on the use of this collection. Users must sign an agreement stating that they understand these restrictions before they will be given access to the collection.

Restrictions on Use

The Blake-Clapp Arguimbau family papers contain correspondence that authors may have considered confidential or private when written and personal information about living or recently deceased individuals. The Massachusetts Historical Society cannot give permission to publish or cite documents by individuals for whom it does not hold copyright. Use of the collection does not imply permission to publish or cite documents in the collection. Permission to publish or cite correspondence among Reginald deCourey Arguimbau, Lawrence Baker Arguimbau, and George Arguimbau in Cartons 6 and 7 of the collection must be obtained in writing from members of the Arguimbau family.

Photocopies are for personal use only. Personal use photocopies may not be donated or deposited in other libraries or archives, or made available to other researchers without the written permission of the donor.

Organization of the Collection

The collection is organized into the following series:

Detailed Description of the Collection

Preferred Citation

Blake-Clapp-Arguimbau family papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.

Access Terms

This collection is indexed under the following headings in ABIGAIL, the online catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related persons, organizations, or subjects should search the catalog using these headings.

Photographs Removed from the Collection

Daguerreotypes from this collection have been removed to the Daguerreotype collection (Photos. 1.412-425).