1823-1902
Guide to the Collection
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| Creator: | Walker, Amasa,
1799-1875 |
| Title: | Amasa Walker papers |
| Dates: | 1823-1902 |
| Physical Description: | 3 document
boxes and 2 narrow boxes |
| Call Number: | Ms. N-1718 |
| 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 papers of Amasa
Walker, political economist, abolitionist, peace advocate, farmer, and merchant
of North Brookfield, Mass.
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The papers of Amasa Walker (1799-1875), political economist, abolitionist,
peace advocate, farmer, and merchant of North Brookfield, Mass., consist of 1
narrow box of loose papers and 4 boxes containing 13 vols. The loose papers
(1823-92) include correspondence on the peace movement and League of Universal
Brotherhood; national politics, particularly with regard to the slavery
question; and lectures. Correspondents include Charles Sumner and Thomas Drew.
There also are a few family letters.
Seven scrapbooks contain clippings on Walker's views in debates over
slavery, currency and bank failures, and other misc. subjects. Several of the
vols. had been used by Walker as account books and are partially or wholly
obscured by the clippings. These include two account books and a financial
letterbook (1837-39) of the India Fire and Marine Insurance Co. of Boston of
which Walker was a trustee and an account book recording sales of dry goods by
the Boston firm of Carleton, Walker, and Co. (1825-27).
One vol. also contains an undated account of a voyage to Malta by Robert W.
Walker. The collection also includes an anonymous account book recording sales
of shoes and boots (1848); accounts of the "Hale farm" in North Brookfield
(1855-63); two small vols. kept by Walker as one of the commissioners appointed
by the state to investigate an epidemic of pleuropneumonia among cattle,
including the results of examinations of the herds in eastern Mass. (1860); and
a scrapbook containing obituaries of Walker's son, Francis A. Walker (1897).
Gift of Philip Walker, October 1940.
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| Box | Volume | Contents |
| Box 1 | | Loose papers,
1823-1892 |
| | Bound volumes |
| Box 2 | Vol. 1 | | Miscellaneous accounts, n.d. |
| Box 2 | Vol. 2 | | Account book/Scrapbook, 1825-1827,
1847-1873 Contains accounts of sales of dry goods by the Boston firm of (Charles G.)
Carleton, (Amasa) Walker, and Co., 1825-27. The accounts are partially obscured
by clippings on a variety of subjects, c. 1847-73.
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| Box 2 | Vol. 3 | | Account book/Scrapbook,
1837-1838,
1861-1867 Contains accounts for marine insurance of the India Fire and Marine
Insurance Co. of Boston, 1837-38. Partially obscured by clippings on Walker's
views of emancipation vs. separation and other subjects, c. 1861-67.
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| Box 3 | Vol. 4 | | Account book/Scrapbook,
1837-1838,
1850s Contains fire insurance accounts of the India Fire and Marine Insurance Co.
of Boston, 1837-38. Partially obscured by clippings on elections and other
topics from the 1850s and an undated account entitled, "My voyage to Malta from
memory" written by Robert W. Walker.
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| Box 3 | Vol. 5 | | Account book/Scrapbook,
1837-1839,
1837-1874 A financial letterbook of the India Fire and Marine Insurance Co. fills only
part of the vol. The vol. was used primarily as a scrapbook for clippings of
Walker's speeches and letters, and other printed materials on issues of
currency, failures and suspension of banks, and other economic topics, most
dating from 1857-59.
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| Box 3 | Vol. 6 | | Personal account book,
1842-1843 Walker's personal accounts and memoranda, including charitable contributions
and expenses on a trip to a Europe.
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| Box 3 | Vol. 7 | | Anonymous account book,
1848 Anonymous account book recording wholesale sales of shoes and boots. All but
one account (dated 1848) are undated. This vol. does not appear to be in
Walker's handwriting.
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| Box 3 | Vol. 8 | | Journal of the Mass. House of Representatives,
1849 Clippings of proceedings of the House while Walker was its Secretary of
State in 1849.
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| Box 4 | Vol. 9 | | "Hale farm" accounts,
1855-1863 Accounts of farmwork, keeping cattle, etc. of the Hale farm in North
Brookfield, Mass.
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| Box 4 | Vol. 10-11 | | Records kept by Walker as a commissioner appointed by the state to
investigate an epidemic of pleuropneumonia in cattle,
1860
2 vols.Include records of visits and counts of herds in eastern Mass., 1860.
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| Box 4 | Vol. 12 | | Scrapbook,
1872-1902 Contains clippings on the Peace Jubilee in Boston (1872), its thirty year
anniversary in 1902, and the centennial of the Battle of Bunker Hill (1875).
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| Box 5 | Vol. 13 | | Scrapbook,
1897 Contains obituaries upon the death of Walker's son, Francis A. Walker.
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Amasa Walker 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: |
| | Drew, Thomas. |
| | Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. |
| | Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897. |
| | Walker, Robert W. |
| | Walker family. |
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| Organizations: |
| | Carleton, Walker, and Company (Boston,
Mass.). |
| | India Fire and Marine Insurance Company (Boston,
Mass.). |
| | League of Universal Brotherhood. |
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| Subjects: |
| | Abolitionists. |
| | Account books--1825-1863. |
| | Agriculture--Accounting. |
| | Antislavery movements--United States. |
| | Cattle--Massachusetts--Diseases. |
| | Farms--Massachusetts--North Brookfield.
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| | Insurance, Fire--Massachusetts--Boston. |
| | Insurance,
Marine--Massachusetts--Boston. |
| | Merchants--Massachusetts--Boston. |
| | Ocean travel. |
| | Peace movements--United States. |
| | Scrapbooks--1847-1902. |
| | Shoes--Prices. |
| | Voyages and travels. |
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