1863-1982
Guide to the Collection
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| Title: | Saltonstall-Brooks-Lewis
family papers |
| Dates: | 1863-1982 |
| Physical Description: | 5 document
boxes, 1 oversize box, and 3 volumes |
| Call Number: | Ms. N-368 |
| Repository: | Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
library@masshist.org |
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Abstract:
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This collection consists of the personal and family
papers of Muriel Gurdon (Saltonstall) Lewis, including correspondence, travel
notes, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, scrapbooks, diaries, and other
records. There are some scattered items of family members Peter C. and Sarah L.
Brooks, George Lewis, Eleanor (Brooks) Saltonstall, and Leverett Saltonstall.
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Peter Chardon Brooks (1831-1920)
The son of Gorham Brooks (1795-1855) and Ellen (Shepherd) (1809-1884), born
at Watertown (now Belmont), Mass., 8 May 1831. He prepared for college under
Samuel Eliot, and was admitted to Harvard in Aug. 1848, graduating in 1852. He
devoted himself largely to agriculture, forestry, and art, and was a trustee
for valuable estates. He also traveled extensively. He lived for many years on
Arlington Street in Boston, then on Bay State Road. The family had a large
summer estate, "Point of Rocks," at West Medford. Peter Chardon Brooks married
Sarah Lawrence (1845-1915), daughter of Amos Adams
Lawrence (1814-1886) and Sarah Elizabeth (Appleton) (1822-1891). Sarah
(Lawrence) Brooks was an amateur and prolific photographer. She had six
siblings, among whom was William Lawrence (1850-1941), who was elected a Bishop
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Massachusetts in 1893. Sarah Lawrence and
Peter Chardon Brooks had two children: Eleanor (b. 1867) and Lawrence (b.
1868).
Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall (1867-1961)
The daughter of Sarah Lawrence (1845-1915) and Peter Chardon Brooks. She
married in 1891 Richard Middlecott Saltonstall
(1859-1922), a descendant of Sir Richard Saltonstall (1586-1661). The couple
had four children: Leverett (1892-1979),
Eleanor "Nora" (1894-1919), Muriel Gurdon (1896-1990) and Richard (1897-1979). Leverett Saltonstall grew up to
become a senator and governor of Massachusetts. Nora Saltonstall served
overseas for about a year during World War I. Upon her return she went to the
western U.S. on a camping trip and contracted typhoid fever, dying in late July
1919.
Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis (1896-1990)
The third child of Eleanor (Brooks) and Richard Middlecott Saltonstall
(1859-1922), she was an avid horsewoman and yachtswoman. She married in 1926
George Lewis (1887-1952), a graduate of Harvard and
also an avid horseman. They made their home in Sherborn, Mass. The couple had
two children: Eleanor Saltonstall (b. 1928) and
George (b. 1931). Eleanor Saltonstall Lewis married
Levin H. Campbell (b. 1927).
The collection consists of miscellaneous personal and family papers
(1863-1978), newspaper clippings and printed ephemera (1907-1982), scrapbooks,
and diaries and records (1866-1945) of Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis and
other family members, including her mother Eleanor (Brooks) Saltonstall, and
her grandparents Peter Chardon Brooks and Sarah (Lawrence) Brooks. The
collection is housed in five manuscript boxes, one oversize box, and three
oversize volumes in cases.
The Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) holds the following collections
that are related to the Saltonstall-Brooks-Lewis family papers:
Saltonstall-Brooks-Lewis family photographs, ca. 1840-1946. Photo. Coll.
33. Finding aid available at:
http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fap019.
Deposited by Eleanor Campbell in Feb. 1993; gift of Eleanor Campbell in
Sept. 2000.
The collection is organized into the following series:
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| I. Miscellaneous Personal and Family Papers, 1863-1978 |
| II. Eleanor (Brooks) Saltonstall, Travel Papers, 1896-1930 |
| III. Eleanor (Brooks) Saltonstall, Death of, 1961 |
| IV. Newspaper Clippings and Miscellaneous Printed Matter,
1907-1982 |
| V. Volumes, 1866-1945 |
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| Box | Folder | Volume | Contents |
| | | I. Miscellaneous Personal and Family Papers,
1863-1978
Contains items of correspondence, notes, invitations, materials connected
with family events, memorabilia, and travel materials of Muriel Gurdon
Saltonstall Lewis, her mother Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, and a few early items
related to her grandparents Peter Chardon Brooks and Sarah L. Brooks, George
Lewis's father, and an 1863 land transfer in Sherborn.
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 | | | Notes, poetry, greeting card, prayer, travel itinerary,
n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 | | | Deed, Horatio Mason to Mary Ann Adams, land in Sherborn,
1863. |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 | | | Papers,
1870-1912 Sarah Lawrence Brooks, dinner guest lists, 1870; Mrs. Gorham Brooks,
memorial service, 1884; George Lewis I wedding invitation, 1884; West Medford
annual work list, 1908; Sarah Lawrence Brooks to Mr. & Mrs. Cobb, 1912.
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 | | | Papers,
1913-1914 Notes on Arboretum, 1913; Sewing Circle pamphlet, 1913; Sarah Lawrence
Brooks will 1914.
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 | | | Papers,
1915-1919 Letters to Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall and Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis,
1915; George Lewis II diploma from military instruction camp, Plattsburg, 1916;
correspondence of Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall and Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall
Lewis with sundry persons, 1919.
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 | | | Papers,
1921-1922 Richard Saltonstall wedding invitation, 1921; Julie Z. Brunnen to Eleanor
Brooks Saltonstall, 1922; Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis journal entry,
1922.
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 | | | Papers,
1923 Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis travel notes, 1923; "Class Distinction"
essay by Katharine Sherwood, 1923; Joseph McKim to Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall,
1923.
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 | | | Papers,
1924-1925 Lord North to Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, 1924; James R. Woods Detective
Agency reports to Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall re: Miss Holman, 1924; "Adventures
of a Nora Saltonstall Scholarship Girl in France," essay by Frances B. Allen,
1925; 2 letters in French to unknown.
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 | | | Papers,
1923-1926 Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis wedding lists, 1923; Lord North to Eleanor
Brooks Saltonstall, 1926.
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 | | | Papers,
1927-1928 Dedication of memorial to Arthur T. Bradlee, 1927; letters to Eleanor Brooks
Saltonstall 1928.
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| Box 1 | Folder 11 | | | Papers,
1929 Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis notes and correspondence re: building house
in Sherborn, 1929.
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| Box 1 | Folder 12 | | | Papers,
1930-1931 Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis notes and correspondence re: building house
in Sherborn, 1930; horse pamphlets, 1931; correspondence of Eleanor Brooks
Saltonstall re: paintings, 1931.
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| Box 1 | Folder 13 | | | Papers,
1933-1934 Christmas poem, 1933; Mary B. Forbes poem, "America," 1934.
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| Box 1 | Folder 14 | | | Papers,
1941 Correspondence re: family silver at Chestnut Hill house, 1940; Eleanor Lewis
recital program, 1941; William Lawrence Memorial Fund brochure, 1941; Windsor
School assembly program, 1941; Alice W. Saltonstall photomechanical, 1941.
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 | | | Papers,
1942-1943 Polly Saltonstall wedding invitation, 1942; Tufts commencement, 1943;
Charles River School graduation play, 1943; First Church in Chestnut Hill
items, 1943.
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 | | | Papers,
1944-1945 Jean Bemis to Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, 1944; First Church items, 1944;
Leverett Saltonstall to Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, 1944; "Three Great
Waterfalls, essay by George Lewis III, 1945; Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis
Red Cross certificate, 1945.
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| Box 1 | Folder 17 | | | Papers,
1946-1948 Winsor School play, 1946; Leverett Saltonstall to Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall
Lewis, 1946; Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall will, 1946; Bill Hunter to Muriel
Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, 1946; Mass. Horticultural Society awards to Muriel
Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, 1947; Leverett Saltonstall gift to Harvard, 1948;
Joseph D. Leland to George Lewis, 1948.
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| Box 1 | Folder 18 | | | Papers,
1950-1952 Susan Saltonstall dance, 1950; First Church program, 1951; Muriel Gurdon
Saltonstall Lewis medical correspondence, 1951; George Lewis memorial
bookplate, 1952.
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| Box 1 | Folder 19 | | | Papers,
1952 Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, trip to France and Portugal: itineraries,
travel notes, bills and receipts, ephemera, 1952.
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| Box 1 | Folder 20 | | | Papers,
1953-1955 Point-to-point meeting, 1953; Henry E. Bothfeld death, 1953; information re:
paintings, 1955.
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| Box 1 | Folder 21 | | | Papers,
1961-1968 First Church, 1961; Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis class notes, 1961;
Winsor School ephemera, 1961; Union Boat Club, 1963; Katherine Noonan letter,
1963; death of Lord Cranworth, 1964; Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis medical
correspondence, 1965-68.
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| Box 1 | Folder 22 | | | Papers,
1970-1971 Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis medical correspondence, 1970; Muriel Gurdon
Saltonstall Lewis reminiscences, 1971; Elizabeth Saltonstall exhibit, 1971.
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| Box 1 | Folder 23 | | | Papers,
1978 John Walsh to Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis re: Monet painting, 1978.
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| | | II. Eleanor (Brooks) Saltonstall, Travel Papers,
1896-1930
Travel notes, itineraries, calling cards, bills, correspondence, and
ephemera of Eleanor (Brooks) Saltonstall from trips to Europe (1896), Italy
(1906), South America (1925), Ireland (1928 and 1929), and Italy and France
(1930).
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| Box 1 | Folder 24 | | | Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall travel papers,
1896-1926 Itineraries and travel notes from trips to Europe (1896), Italy (1906),
South America (1925), and Italy & France (1930).
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| Box 1 | Folder 25 | | | Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall travel papers,
1928-1929 Itineraries, calling cards, bills, correspondence, notes, greeting cards,
& ephemera concerning trips to Ireland in 1928 and 1929.
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| Box 1 | Folder 26 | | III. Eleanor (Brooks) Saltonstall, Death of,
1961
Materials on the death of Eleanor (Brooks) Saltonstall in 1961, including
newspaper announcements and a typescript of her memorial service.
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| | | IV. Newspaper Clippings and Miscellaneous Printed Matter,
1907-1982
The newspaper clippings (1907-1982) are arranged chronologically and contain
many clippings related to the political career of Leverett Saltonstall
(1892-1979), brother of Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis. There are also
clippings concerning other family members, friends, and society events. Other
printed matter includes a folder of items related to Leverett Saltonstall,
1930s-1960s; and a folder of campaign literature for Levin H. Campbell,
1966.
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| Box 2 | Folder 1-18 | | | Newspaper clippings, chronological order,
1907-1982. |
| Box 2 | Folder 19 | | | Levin H. Campbell printed campaign literature,
1966. |
| Box 2 | Folder 20 | | | Leverett Saltonstall printed matter,
1930s-1960s. |
| Box 2 | Folder 21-23 | | | Misc. printed matter. |
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| | | V. Volumes,
1866-1945
The volumes (1866-1945) were kept primarily by Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall
Lewis, and include address books, scrapbooks, Christmas lists, wedding lists,
and diaries. The scrapbooks date from 1914 and 1915, and both contain mementos
of social activities, including invitations, notes, guest lists, and calling
cards. Her diaries include a travel diary for a voyage in 1913 to Italy; a
three-year line-a-day diary for 1913-1915, which also includes the voyage to
Italy; a cruise diary (1922) for a three-day cruise off the Maine coast; a
volume of travel notes for voyages to Great Britain in 1923 and 1924; and
line-a-day diaries for 1943-1945. There are also a bound passport (1866) and a
bound ms. genealogy of Peter Chardon Brooks; a commonplace book of Eleanor
Brooks Saltonstall (1874-79) a shared book of writings, Rainy Day Magazine (ca. 1908), of Eleanor "Nora"
Saltonstall and Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, a "logbook" travel diary of
Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall on a voyage to South America (1925), and a history
notebook (1920) of Richard Saltonstall. Three oversize scrapbooks contain
newspaper clippings and other printed matter about Leverett Saltonstall,
1934-1939.
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| Box 3 | | Vol. 1 | | Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, address book, n.d. |
| Box 3 | | Vol. 2 | | Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, address book, n.d. |
| Box 3 | | Vol. 3 | | Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, address book, n.d. |
| Box 3 | | Vol. 4 | | Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, address book, n.d. |
| Box 3 | | Vol. 5 | | Peter Chardon Brooks, passport,
1866. |
| Box 3 | | Vol. 6 | | Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, commonplace book,
1874-1879. |
| Box 3 | | Vol. 7 | | Peter Chardon Brooks, "Brooks Genealogies,"
[1885] Bound ms. genealogy of the Brooks family
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| Box 3 | | Vol. 7a | | Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, "Wedding List,"
Sept. 1891. name/address book for wedding invitations
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| Box 3 | | Vol. 8 | | Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall and Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis,
"Rainy Day Magazine,"
ca. 1908. Writings by the girls with clipped illustrations glued in
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| Box 3 | | Vol. 9 | | George Lewis II, address book,
1913? |
| Box 3 | | Vol. 10 | | Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, school notebook,
1913. |
| Box 3 | | Vol. 11 | | Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, travel diary,
28 Oct.-11 Nov. 1913. Travel from N.Y. in the S.S. Cincinnati for
Naples, with photographs and postcards glued in. Arrival at Madeira on Nov. 5,
Gibraltar on Nov. 7, and Naples on Nov. 10. Ends on Nov. 11 while still in
Naples.
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| Box 4 | | Vol. 12 | | Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, diary,
1 Jan. 1913-31 May 1915. Some gaps. Entries 28 Oct. 1913-9 June 1914 describe a voyage to Italy (see
also vol. 11) and include travel in Italy, France, the Hague, Amsterdam,
Brussels, London, and return in S.S. Caronia, arr. in Boston June 9.
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| Box 4 | | Vol. 13 | | Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, scrapbook,
1914. Mementos from social activities, including invitations, notes, guest lists,
and calling cards.
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| Box 4 | | Vol. 14 | | Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, scrapbook,
1915. Mementos from social activities, including invitations, notes, guest lists,
and calling cards.
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| Box 4 | | Vol. 15 | | Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, Christmas lists,
1919-1924. Lists of gifts given and received.
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| Box 4 | | Vol. 16 | | Richard Saltonstall, history notebook,
[1920]. Looseleaf notebook with notes on history lessons.
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| Box 4 | | Vol. 17 | | Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, address book,
1920. |
| Box 4 | | Vol. 18 | | Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, diary,
6-9 July 1922. Record of a cruise from North Haven to Buck's Harbor, Maine, in yawl
Fish Hawk. Includes photographs (not part of
Photo. Coll. 33).
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| Box 5 | | Vol. 19 | | Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, travel notes,
1923, 1924. Notes on voyage 12 May-17 Aug. 1923 in S.S. Majestic to England and Scotland, and return in S.S.
Aquitania, with lists of people met and places
visited, but no diary entries. Notes on voyage 21 June-28 July 1924 in S.S.
Homeric to Wales and England. Diary entries for
July 7, 8, 10, 12, 16-28. Date of return not noted.
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| Box 5 | | Vol. 20 | | Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, Log Book,
24 Jan.-29 Mar. 1925. Printed logbook completed in ms., "Cruise Round South America." Includes
printed geography info. on S. America She traveled from N.Y. to Havana,
Columbia, Panama Canal, Peru, Chile, Straits of Magellan, Argentina, Uruguay,
Brazil, Trinidad, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and return to N.Y.
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| Box 5 | | Vol. 21 | | Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, travel diary,
23 Jan.-29 Mar. 1925, with daily entries covering the same
voyage as above (vol. 20), in a smaller diary format. |
| Box 5 | | Vol. 22 | | Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, Christmas lists,
1925-1931. Lists of gifts given and received.
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| Box 5 | | Vol. 23 | | Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, wedding list,
1926. Address book for wedding invitations.
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| Box 5 | | Vol. 24 | | Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, wedding lists,
1926. Two-vol. index of wedding guest list.
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| Box 5 | | Vol. 25 | | Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, diary,
1943. Line-a-day diary. Weather, daily activities, charitable work, news of
children and relatives.
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| Box 5 | | Vol. 26 | | Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, diary, 1944. Line-a-day diary. Weather, daily activities, charitable work, news of
children and relatives.
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| Box 5 | | Vol. 27 | | Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, diary,
1945. Line-a-day diary. Weather, daily activities, charitable work, news of
children and relatives.
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| | OS Vol. 1 | | Leverett Saltonstall, newspaper clippings and other printed matter,
1934-1938. |
| | OS Vol. 2 | | Leverett Saltonstall, newspaper clippings and other printed matter,
Oct. 1938-Jan. 1939. |
| | OS Vol. 3 | | Leverett Saltonstall, newspaper clippings and other printed matter,
Jan.-Feb. 1939. |
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| Oversize box | | | Oversize materials
Town of Sherborn, Plan of Town Forest Land,
1950; blueprints; drawings of cars; certificates to Muriel Gurdon
Saltonstall Lewis and Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, for crossing the arctic
circle (1968) and the equator (1925); printed proclamations of Leverett
Saltonstall; fragment of 1866 map of Sherborn; map of Dover riding and walking
trails, 1965; watercolor of St. Peters in Rome.
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Saltonstall-Brooks-Lewis family papers, Massachusetts Historical
Society.
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.
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| Persons: |
| | Brooks, Peter Chardon, 1831-1920.
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| | Brooks, Sarah Lawrence,
1845-1915. |
| | Brooks
family--Genealogy. |
| | Campbell, Eleanor Lewis, 1928- .
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| | Campbell, Levin H., 1927- .
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| | Lewis, George, 1931- .
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| | Lewis, Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall,
1896-1990. |
| | Saltonstall, Eleanor, 1894-1919.
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| | Saltonstall, Eleanor Brooks,
1867-1961. |
| | Saltonstall, Richard, 1897-1979.
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| Subjects: |
| | Family
history--1900-1949. |
| | Politicians--Massachusetts. |
| | Scrapbooks--1934-1939. |
| | Women travelers. |
Photographs from this collection have been removed to the
Saltonstall-Brooks-Lewis family photographs, ca. 1840-1946. Photo. Coll. 33.
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