1654-1950
Guide to the Collection
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| Creator: | Dana family |
| Title: | Dana family papers |
| Dates: | 1654-1950 |
| Physical Description: | 89
document boxes, 293 bound volumes (9 extra tall), and 2 oversize
boxes |
| Call Number: | Ms. N-1088 |
| Call Number: | Special Colls. Washington Allston sketch books (vols.
177-180 only) |
| Microfilm Call Number: | P-646, 6 reels (microfilm) (vols. 1-25,
39-103 only) |
| 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
official documents of Francis Dana, Massachusetts revolutionary leader,
minister to Russia, and chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial
Court; Richard Henry Dana, noted poet and essayist; Richard Henry Dana, Jr.,
author and United States attorney for Massachusetts during the Civil War;
Richard Henry Dana III, civil service reformer; and other family
members.
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Francis Dana (1743-1811), Massachusetts revolutionary leader, Continental
Congressman, unofficial United States minister to the Russia of Catherine the
Great, and chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Richard Henry Dana (1787-1879), son of Francis Dana, poet, essayist,
literary scholar, and editor of the periodical Idle
Man.
Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815-1882), anti-slavery lawyer, United States
attorney for Massachusetts during the Civil War, and author of
Two Years Before the Mast (1840).
Richard Henry Dana III (1851-1931), lawyer, civil service reformer, and
author of the Massachusetts Ballot Act of 1888, the first Australian ballot law
enacted in the United States.
The Dana family papers, 1654-1950, consist of 89 boxes, 293 bound volumes,
and 2 oversize boxes of 17th, 18th, and 19th century official documents. The
collection contains primarily the papers of four generations of the
distinguished Dana family: Francis Dana, Richard Henry Dana, Richard Henry
Dana, Jr., and Richard Henry Dana III. Other family members of importance
represented in the collection include: Richard Dana (1700-1772), Edmund
Trowbridge (1709-1793), Edmund Dana (1739-1823), Luther Dana (1763-1832),
Washington Allston (1779-1843), Edmund Trowbridge Dana (1779-1859), Martha
Remington Dana Allston (1784-1862), Elizabeth Ellery Dana (1789-1874), Sarah
Ann Dana (1791-1866), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), Ruth Charlotte
Dana (1814-1901), Sarah Watson Dana (1814-1907), Edmund Trowbridge Dana, Jr.
(1818-1869), Elizabeth Ellery Dana II (1846-1939), Frances Longfellow Dana
(1853-1915), Helen Sherwood Ford Mumford Dana (1865-1934), Richard Henry Dana
IV (1879-1933), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana (1881-1950), and Edmund
Trowbridge Dana III (b. 1886). Also in the collection is a small body of papers
of statesman Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848), a Dana client and friend.
As the Dana papers were acquired over a period of 41 years, the
Massachusetts Historical Society has elected to maintain the integrity of each
donation by arranging the material into twelve distinct series, organized
mostly by family member.
Additional Dana family papers can be found at the Longfellow National
Historic Site and the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History
of Women in America, Radcliffe College, both located in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
Gift of the Dana family.
The collection is organized into the following series:
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| I. Dana family papers I, 1654-1933 |
| | A. General correspondence, 1654-1933 |
| | B. Francis Dana papers, 1749-1810 |
| | C. Richard Henry Dana papers, 1812-1854 |
| | D. Richard Henry Dana, Jr., papers, 1832-1915 |
| | E. Edmund Trowbridge Dana, Jr., papers, 1837-1850 |
| | F. Richard Henry Dana III papers, 1862-1931 |
| | G. Washington Allston papers, 1800-1843 |
| | H. Miscellaneous Dana papers, 1800-1932 |
| II. Dana family papers II, 1658-1926 |
| III. Dana family papers III, 1731-1930 |
| IV. Dana family papers IV, 1658-1840 |
| V. Dana family papers V, 1861-1866 |
| VI. Bound volumes, 1724-1931 |
| | A. Richard Dana volumes, 1724-1785 |
| | B. Francis Dana volumes, 1772-1918 |
| | C. Richard Henry Dana volumes, 1821-1863 |
| | D. Richard Henry Dana, Jr., volumes, 1840-1882 |
| | E. Washington Allston volumes, 1818-1842 |
| | F. Richard Henry Dana III volumes, 1865-1931 |
| | G. Edmund Trowbridge Dana volumes, 1813-1822 |
| | H. Edmund Trowbridge Dana, Jr., volumes |
| | I. Elizabeth Ellery Dana volumes, 1847-1867 |
| | J. Miscellany |
| VII. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana papers, 1947-1950 |
| VIII. Richard Henry Dana papers |
| IX. Richard Henry Dana, Jr., papers, 1834-1895 |
| | A. Legal papers, 1847-1892 |
| | B. Personal correspondence, 1834-1895 |
| | C. Official correspondence, 1863-1865 |
| X. Printed material, 1812-1878 |
| XI. Addenda, 1806-1875 |
| XII. Oversize items, 1683-1875 |
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| Box | Contents |
| I. Dana family papers I,
1654-1933
This series consists of correspondence, legal documents, miscellaneous
notes, lectures, speeches, clippings, and printed material. Subseries A
contains general family correspondence. Subseries B-G are arranged by family
member.
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| | A. General correspondence,
1654-1933
Box 1 of this subseries contains 17th and 18th century legal documents,
including some belonging to Richard Dana and Edmund Trowbridge. Boxes 2-4
contain almost exclusively the correspondence and legal papers of Francis Dana.
Among his more notable correspondents were: John Adams (1735-1826), Elbridge
Gerry (1744-1814), Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), and Theophilus Parsons
(1750-1813). Some Francis Dana material can also be found in boxes 1 and 5.
Boxes 5-15 contain primarily the correspondence of Richard Henry Dana,
1811-1860. His letters are mostly to and from Dana family members, although
there is also correspondence with William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), Edward
Tyrrel Channing (1790-1856), Caleb Sprague Henry (1804-1884), George Ticknor
(1791-1871), and Gulian Crommelin Verplanck (1786-1870). In addition, there are
Richard Henry Dana letters in boxes 16-23.
Boxes 6-23 contain the correspondence of Richard Henry Dana, Jr., with the
greatest concentration of his letters in boxes 16-23. His important
correspondents included: Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886), Louis Agassiz
(1807-1873), George Douglas Campbell, Duke of Argyll (1823-1900), George
Bancroft (1800-1891), William Maxwell Evarts (1818-1901), William Ewart
Gladstone (1809-1898), Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), James Russell Lowell
(1819-1891), William Henry Seward (1801-1872), Charles Sumner (1811-1874), and
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882).
The papers of Richard Henry Dana III are located in boxes 16-33. The bulk of
his letters is concentrated in boxes 25-33 and covers the years 1884-1931. His
most notable correspondents were: Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (1835-1915),
Charles Joseph Bonaparte (1851-1921), Charles William Eliot (1834-1926), Daniel
Chester French (1850-1931), Henry Lee Higginson (1834-1919), William Lawrence
(1850-1941), Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943),
and Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919). Roosevelt's letters, 1885-1896, are
especially important on the issue of civil service reform.
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| Box 1 | | | Legal documents, etc.,
1654-1769 |
| Box 2 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1770-1782 |
| Box 3 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1783-1795 |
| Box 4 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1796-1808 |
| Box 5 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1809-1824 |
| Box 6 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1825-1834 |
| Box 7 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1835-1840 |
| Box 8 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1841-1842 |
| Box 9 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1843-1844 |
| Box 10 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1845-1848 |
| Box 11 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1849-1850 |
| Box 12 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1851-1852 |
| Box 13 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1853-1854 |
| Box 14 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1855-1856 |
| Box 15 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1857-1860 |
| Box 16 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1861-1864 |
| Box 17 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1865-1867 |
| Box 18 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1868-1870 |
| Box 19 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1871-1872 |
| Box 20 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1873-1875 |
| Box 21 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1876 |
| Box 22 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1877 |
| Box 23 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1878-1879 |
| Box 24 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1880-1883 |
| Box 25 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1884-1890 |
| Box 26 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1891-1900 |
| Box 27 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1901-1909 |
| Box 28 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1910-1914 |
| Box 29 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1915-1918 |
| Box 30 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1919-1923 |
| Box 31 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1924-1926 |
| Box 32 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1927-1929 |
| Box 33 | | | Correspondence, etc.,
1930-1933 |
| | B. Francis Dana papers,
1749-1810 |
| Box 34 | | | Miscellaneous papers, including an account book, legal notes,
writings on Russia, and part of a typescript of the secret journal (1782) of
John Jay (1745-1829),
1749-1810 |
| | C. Richard Henry Dana papers,
1812-1854 |
| Box 35 | | | Miscellaneous notes on literature and religion, clippings, and
letters written between 1840 and 1854 to Henry Reed (1808-1854),
1812-1854 |
| Box 36-37 | | | Handwritten lectures on Shakespeare and typescripts of the lectures,
[1839-1840] |
| Box 38 | | | Miscellaneous notes, clippings, and printed material,
n.d. |
| | D. Richard Henry Dana, Jr., papers,
1832-1915 |
| Box 39 | | | Miscellaneous papers, including college themes, a typescript of a
journal kept aboard the Alert (1836), a
dissertation on the "Moral & Literary Character of Bulwer's Novels" (1837),
and miscellaneous material relating to a Boston dinner for Charles Dickens
(1842) and an 1860 trip to China,
1832-1872 |
| Box 40 | | | Miscellaneous legal papers, including a copy of the indictment in
the Shadrach Minkins fugitive slave case (1851); notes, clippings, and a
"recollected journal" of the Anthony Burns case (1854); notes concerning
sedition and treason during the Civil War; drafts of prize bills (1864); notes
and printed material relating to the Lawrence-Dana controversy (1876); and an
inventory and other documents concerning the estate of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.,
1851-1908 |
| Box 41 | | | Miscellaneous articles, lectures, and speeches of Richard Henry
Dana, Jr.,
1841-1891 |
| Box 42 | | | Miscellaneous clippings and printed material concerning the life and
writings of Richard Henry Dana, Jr., as well as a diagram of David Glasgow
Farragut's entrance into Mobile Bay (1864),
1841-1915 |
| | E. Edmund Trowbridge Dana, Jr., papers,
1837-1850 |
| Box 43 | | | Miscellaneous drawings, law notes, and newspaper clippings,
1837-1850 |
| | F. Richard Henry Dana III papers,
1862-1931 |
| Box 44 | | | Miscellaneous papers, including biographical notes, drawings, notes
on rowing at Harvard (1870-1872), a Harvard Law School paper: "Should a Lawyer
Accept the Side of a Case which Appears Wrong?" (1877), a law notebook, an
appointment book (1875-1876), reminiscences of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and
correspondence and printed material relating to reunions of the Harvard class
of 1874,
1862-1905 |
| Box 45 | | | Miscellaneous legal papers, invitations, and printed material,
1877-1931 |
| Box 46 | | | Notes, printed material, and clippings relating to the Associated
Charities of Boston, ballot law reform, the Charles River Dam, civil service
reform, and other organizations and issues,
1878-1925 |
| Box 47-48 | | | Miscellaneous speeches and writings, including "An American View of
the Irish Question" and drafts of Hospitable England in
the Seventies,
1902-1921 |
| Box 49-51 | | | Rough drafts of Dana's unpublished autobiography
Activities of Seventy Years and Patronage under Eight
Presidents, n.d. |
| Box 52 | | | Part of a draft of Activities of Seventy
Years and Patronage under Eight Presidents and drafts of
An Autobiographical Sketch: Richard Henry Dana 3d to His
Descendants,
1907 |
| Box 53-54 | | | Clippings and copies of articles by or about Richard Henry Dana III,
1872-1920 |
| | G. Washington Allston papers,
1800-1843
This subseries contains the correspondence and writings of Washington
Allston. Among Allston's correspondents were: John Stevens Cogdell (1778-1847),
Richard Henry Dana, James McMurtrie, Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872),
and Francis Bayard Winthrop (1754-1817).
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| Box 55 | | | Correspondence, clippings, etc.,
1800-1843 |
| Box 56 | | | Miscellaneous writings of Washington Allston and printed material,
etc., by or about Allston, n.d. |
| | H. Miscellaneous Dana papers,
1800-1932 |
| Box 57 | | | Miscellaneous Dana family papers, including correspondence,
genealogical notes, a bibliography of works published by or about members of
the Dana family, notebooks containing family letter indexes compiled by Richard
Henry Dana, Jr., and miscellaneous papers of Allston Dana, Edmund Dana, Edmund
Trowbridge Dana III, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, Luther Dana, Martha
Remington Dana Allston, Richard Dana, Richard Henry Dana IV, and Sarah Watson
Dana,
1800-1907 |
| Box 58-59 | | | Miscellaneous notes and papers concerning the estates of Martha
Remington Dana Allston, Thomas Gold Appleton (1812-1884), Ruth Charlotte Dana,
Sarah Watson Dana, Sarah Dana Swayne, and others; bills and receipts for the
upkeep of Dana property in Cambridge and Manchester, Massachusetts,
1830-1932 |
| Box 60-61 | | | Miscellaneous clippings concerning the careers of Richard Henry
Dana, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., and Richard Henry Dana III, with some notes and
printed material,
1846-1909 |
| Box 62 | | | Mostly undated photographs of Dana family members and property;
business cards; postcards,
1866 |
| Box 63 | | | Notes and extracts of legal cases of Edmund Trowbridge,
n.d. |
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| II. Dana family papers II,
1658-1926 |
| Box 64 | | Miscellaneous legal documents and correspondence, mostly concerning
the legal practice of Edmund Trowbridge,
1658-1759 |
| Box 65 | | Miscellaneous legal documents and correspondence of Edmund
Trowbridge and Francis Dana,
1760-1790 |
| Box 66 | | Miscellaneous papers of Francis Dana,
1791-1811 |
| Box 67 | | Miscellaneous legal documents and correspondence of Richard Henry
Dana, including a small amount of material of Richard Henry Dana, Jr., and
Richard Henry Dana III,
1812-1899 |
| Box 68-69 | | Incoming correspondence of Richard Henry Dana III,
1900-1926 |
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| III. Dana family papers III,
1731-1930 |
| Box 70 | | Miscellaneous correspondence, notes, etc., of Francis Dana, Richard
Henry Dana, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Richard Henry Dana III (including his
diary of a European voyage, 1875), Edith Longfellow Dana, and others,
1731-1930 |
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| IV. Dana family papers IV,
1658-1840 |
| Box 71-72 | | Miscellaneous legal documents and correspondence, mostly concerning
the activities of statesman Harrison Gray Otis,
1658-1840 |
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| V. Dana family papers V,
1861-1866 |
| Box 73 | | Photostats of correspondence between Richard Henry Dana, Jr., and
Secretary of State William Henry Seward (originals at the University of
Rochester Library),
1861-1866 |
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| VI. Bound volumes,
1724-1931
This series contains the Dana bound volumes, originally numbered 1-193 and
arranged by individual. Additions to the collection have been placed under the
appropriate individual and have been designated by decimal points and
additional numerals, e.g. 1.1, 1.2, etc. The bound volumes consist of diaries,
journals, letterbooks, notebooks, account books, law minutes, writ books, and
assorted other items of Richard Dana, Francis Dana, Richard Henry Dana, Richard
Henry Dana, Jr., Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana III, Edmund Trowbridge
Dana, Edmund Trowbridge Dana, Jr., and Elizabeth Ellery Dana.
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| | A. Richard Dana volumes,
1724-1785 |
| Vol. 1-2 (XT) | | | Court account books,
1724-1785
Also on microfilm, P-646, reel 1.
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| Vol. 3-5 (XT) | | | Writ books,
1733-1768
Also on microfilm, P-646, reel 1.
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| Vol. 6-9 | | | Writ books,
1752-1772
Also on microfilm, P-646, reel 1.
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| Vol. 10-16 | | | Court books,
1734-1772
Also on microfilm, P-646, reel 2.
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| Vol. 17-19 | | | Justice of the Peace records,
1757-1772
Also on microfilm, P-646, reel 2.
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| | B. Francis Dana volumes,
1772-1918 |
| Vol. 20 | | | Account book,
1772-1811
Also on microfilm, P-646, reel 3.
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| Vol. 21 | | | Memoranda book -- Spain,
1779-1780
Also on microfilm, P-646, reel 3.
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| Vol. 22 | | | Foreign state papers,
1780-1781
Also on microfilm, P-646, reel 3.
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| Vol. 23 | | | Letterbook,
1780-1781
Also on microfilm, P-646, reel 3.
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| Vol. 23.1 | | | Letterbook -- St. Petersburg, including copies of Dana letters to
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848),
1782-1784
Also on microfilm, P-646, reel 3.
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| Vol. 24-25 | | | Official letterbooks,
1781-1784
Also on microfilm, P-646, reel 3.
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| Vol. 26-27 | | | Journals,
1781-1783 |
| Vol. 28-29 | | | Journals and letters of Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) and John Jay,
1782 |
| Vol. 30-32 (XT) | | | Drafts of a commercial treaty with Russia |
| Vol. 33 | | | Manuscript of a weather system by Eberhard Johann Schrofter,
1782 |
| Vol. 34 (XT) | | | Correspondence with Count Osterman,
1783 |
| Vol. 35-38 | | | Dana meteorological observations,
1785-1787 |
| Vol. 39 | | | Orders and opinions -- Massachusetts General Court and Supreme
Judicial Court,
1785-1791
Also on microfilm, P-646, reel 4.
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| Vol. 40-53 | | | Justices' minute books -- Eastern Circuit,
1787-1806
Also on microfilm, P-646, reel 4.
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| Vol. 54-74 | | | Justices' minute books -- Eastern Circuit,
1789-1804
Also on microfilm, P-646, reel 4.
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| Vol. 75-80 | | | Justices' minute books -- Eastern Circuit,
1792-1803
Also on microfilm, P-646, reel 4.
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| Vol. 81-91 | | | Justices' minute books -- Western Circuit,
1789-1804
Also on microfilm, P-646, reel 5.
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| Vol. 92-93 | | | Justices' minute books -- Southern Circuit,
1793-1805
Also on microfilm, P-646, reel 5.
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| Vol. 94-95 | | | Justices' minute books and circuit books,
1788-1790
Also on microfilm, P-646, reel 5.
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| Vol. 96 | | | Cases ajudged,
1773-1806 (disbound) Cases adjudged by Francis Dana include (in alphabetical order):
Amory vs. Gilman (1806); Commonwealth vs. Lord (1792); Hooper vs. Pagan (1792-1793); King vs. Munson (1803); Larken
vs. Sisson (1801); Leavit vs. Goold
(1799); Libby vs. Johnson, Swett, et al.
(1801-1804); Libby vs. Marshall (1792);
Livermore vs. Newburyport (1804);
Lock vs. Maine Fire and Marine Insurance (1803);
McIntire vs. Parker (1791);
Mandel vs. Rowe (1773); Masurey vs. Putnam (1791); May
vs. Calder (1806); Mendon vs. Wrentham
(1791); Montgomery vs. Partridge (1786-1788);
Morgan vs. Westfield (1793);
Otis vs. Otis and will of Job Otis (1805);
Palmer vs. Donner (1799); Parsons vs. Lovejoy (1795); Parsons vs. McMasters (1794-1796);
Payson vs. Payson (1804); Pomeroy vs. Crocker (1793); Pond
vs. Metcalf (1802); Porter vs. Bussey
(1803-1804); Prince vs. Prince (1791);
Ray vs. Ensliss (1799); Robertson vs. Ker (1793); Rogers
vs. Winslow (1799); Rollins vs. Emery
(1799); Ross vs. Bailey (1796);
Waite vs. Brigham (1788); Willard vs. Brigham (1797); Laws
of Inheritance (n.d.)
Also on microfilm, P-646, reel 5.
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| Vol. 97 | | | Court cases, A-L (disbound)
Also on microfilm, P-646, reel 6.
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| Vol. 98 | | | Court cases, M-Z (disbound)
Also on microfilm, P-646, reel 6.
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| Vol. 99-103 | | | Charges to the grand jury,
1792-1798
Also on microfilm, P-646, reel 6.
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| Vol. 104 | | | Miscellaneous law minutes |
| Vol. 105 | | | Map of the United Provinces,
1793 |
| Vol. 106-108 | | | Miscellaneous notebooks |
| Vol. 108.1 | | | Catalogue of books |
| Vol. 109 | | | Francis Dana estate,
1811 |
| Vol. 110 | | | Francis Dana estate,
1811-1918 |
| | C. Richard Henry Dana volumes,
1821-1863 |
| Vol. 111 | | | Commonplace book |
| Vol. 112-113 | | | Commonplace books |
| Vol. 114-121 | | | Lectures on literature |
| Vol. 122-129 | | | Lectures on English drama |
| Vol. 130-141 | | | Literary compositions |
| Vol. 142 | | | Letters and poems,
1821-1847 |
| Vol. 143 | | | Journal,
1844-1845 |
| Vol. 144-146 | | | Journals,
1845-1863 |
| Vol. 146.1 | | | Notes on Washington Allston |
| | D. Richard Henry Dana, Jr., volumes,
1840-1882
Note: This collection also contains six volumes of
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., that were not included in the original arrangement and
description of the Dana family papers. They are shelved at the end of the
collection. See the
Appendix for a description of these six additional
volumes.
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| Vol. 147-148 | | | Docket books, including prize ships,
1856-1865 |
| Vol. 149 | | | Docket book,
1841-1855 |
| Vol. 150 | | | Journal,
1842-1843 |
| Vol. 151-152 | | | Journals,
1843-1853 |
| Vol. 153-154 | | | Journals,
1853-1860 |
| Vol. 155-156 | | | Journal of a European trip,
1856 |
| Vol. 157 | | | Italian journal,
1880-1881 |
| Vol. 158 | | | Diary,
1851-1858 |
| Vol. 159 | | | Diary,
1859-1865 |
| Vol. 160 | | | Diary,
1866-1872 |
| Vol. 161-162 | | | Diary,
1877-1878 |
| Vol. 162.1 | | | Diary,
1873 |
| Vol. 162.2 | | | Diary,
1875 |
| Vol. 162.3 | | | Diary,
1877 |
| Vol. 163 | | | Drafts of letters,
1853-1880 |
| Vol. 164-166 | | | Letterbooks,
1861-1882 |
| Vol. 167-168 | | | Account books,
1840-1847 |
| Vol. 169 | | | Account book,
1861-1878 |
| Vol. 170 | | | Draft of The Seaman's
Friend, 1841 |
| Vol. 171 | | | Draft of To Cuba and Back,
1859 |
| Vol. 172 | | | Draft of "Twenty-Four Years After" chapter to 1869 edition of
Two Years Before the Mast,
1869 |
| Vol. 173-175 | | | Notebooks concerning the ship Waverly's case,
1866 |
| Vol. 175.1 | | | Notebook of legal cases,
1856-1858 |
| Vol. 175.2 | | | Notebook concerning William Beach Lawrence
vs. Richard Henry Dana, et al.,
1879 |
| Vol. 175.3 | | | Printed volume concerning Lawrence vs. Dana,
et al., containing the argument for the respondent,
1868 |
| Vol. 175.4 | | | Printed volume concerning Lawrence vs. Dana,
et al., containing Lawrence's closing argument,
1868 |
| Vol. 175.5 | | | Typewritten volume containing the master's report on
Lawrence vs. Dana, et al.,
1868 |
| Vol. 175.6-8 | | | Scrapbooks of printed briefs and arguments, speeches, etc.,
1850-1856 |
| Vol. 175.9-10 | | | Scrapbooks of printed briefs and arguments,
1858-1878 |
| Vol. 175.11 | | | Scrapbook of literary and miscellaneous pamphlets,
1852-1855 |
| Vol. 175.12-16 | | | Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings,
1843-1881 |
| Vol. 176 | | | Scrapbook of clippings concerning Dana's failed appointment as
minister to England,
1876 |
| | E. Washington Allston volumes,
1818-1842 |
| Vol. 177-180 | | | Sketch books
These volumes are stored in E187
Allston. |
| Vol. 181 | | | Color book |
| Vol. 182-183 | | | Letters and poems,
1818-1842 Correspondence from Washington Allston to Charles R. Leslie in Volume 182
includes letters dated: [1818] Aug. 23; 1819 Nov. 15; 1820 May 31; 1821 May 20;
1821 Sep. 7; 1821 Nov. 13; 1822 May 8; 1822 July 23; 1823 Feb. 7; 1823 Mar. 25;
1823 July 28; 1824 Sep. 29; 1825 June 6; 1826 Nov. 9; 1827 Aug. 12; 1833 Nov.
6; and 1842 Oct. 11.
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| Vol. 184 | | | Lectures on art |
| Vol. 185 | | | Miscellaneous papers |
| | F. Richard Henry Dana III volumes,
1865-1931 |
| Vol. 186-187 | | | Autobiographical notes |
| Vol. 188 | | | Notes on Richard Henry Dana, Jr. |
| Vol. 188.1 | | | Address book, n.d. |
| Vol. 188.2 | | | Account book,
1870-1874 |
| Vol. 188.3 | | | Log of the Harvard University crew,
1873 |
| Vol. 188.4 | | | Diary of trip to England,
1876 |
| Vol. 188.5 | | | Appointment book,
1888 |
| Vol. 188.6 | | | Appointment book,
1893 |
| Vol. 188.7 | | | Appointment book,
1905 |
| Vol. 188.8-9 | | | Appointment books,
1909 |
| Vol. 188.10-11 | | | Appointment books,
1910 |
| Vol. 188.12-13 | | | Appointment books,
1911 |
| Vol. 188.14-20 | | | Appointment books,
1912-1918 |
| Vol. 188.21-32 | | | Small appointment books,
Jan.-Dec. 1918 |
| Vol. 188.33-39 | | | Appointment books,
1919-1925 |
| Vol. 188.40-43 | | | Appointment books,
1926-1929 |
| Vol. 188.44 | | | Journal of Richard Henry Dana III and Edith Longfellow Dana, volume
I,
1865-1881 |
| Vol. 188.45 | | | Journal of Richard Henry Dana III and Edith Longfellow Dana, volume
II,
1880-1913 |
| Vol. 188.46 | | | Journal of Richard Henry Dana III and Edith Longfellow Dana, volume
III,
1913-1917 |
| Vol. 188.47 | | | Journal of Richard Henry Dana III and Edith Longfellow Dana, volume
IV,
1918-1922 |
| Vol. 188.48 | | | Journal of Richard Henry Dana III and Helen Sherwood Ford Mumford
Dana, volume V,
1922-1930 |
| Vol. 188.49 | | | Journal of Richard Henry Dana III and Helen Sherwood Ford Mumford
Dana,
1930-1931 |
| Vol. 188.50-51 | | | European journals,
1875-1876 |
| Vol. 188.52 | | | Account book for the Sarah Ann Dana trust,
1911-1926 |
| Vol. 188.53 | | | Scrapbook of clippings of articles by or about Richard Henry Dana
III,
1887-1923 |
| Vol. 188.54 | | | Scrapbook containing most of the printed publications of Richard
Henry Dana III |
| Vol. 188.55 | | | Scrapbook on civil service reform,
1880-1890 |
| Vol. 188.56 | | | Scrapbook on tariff reform,
1885-1892 |
| Vol. 188.57 | | | Scrapbook on ballot law reform (Australian ballot), containing
notes, ballots, etc.,
1888
Note: This volume has been disbound and moved to Box
OS 2 in Series XII (Oversize items).
|
| Vol. 188.58 | | | Scrapbook on politics,
1890-1911 |
| Vol. 188.59 | | | Scrapbook of miscellany,
1901-1905 |
| Vol. 188.60 | | | Scrapbook,
1923-1924 |
| | G. Edmund Trowbridge Dana volumes,
1813-1822 |
| Vol. 189-190 | | | Notebooks |
| Vol. 191 | | | Account book,
1813-1822 |
| | H. Edmund Trowbridge Dana, Jr., volumes |
| Vol. 191.1 | | | Notebook believed to have belonged to Edmund Trowbridge Dana,
Jr. |
| | I. Elizabeth Ellery Dana volumes,
1847-1867 |
| Vol. 192 | | | Account book,
1847-1867 |
| | J. Miscellany |
| Vol. 193 | | | Notebook, author unknown |
|
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| Box | Contents |
| VII. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana papers,
1947-1950 |
| Box 74 | | Chronology of the life of Washington Allston and correspondence
between Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana and Helen Ingersoll Tetlow (1877-1976)
relating to Washington Allston, Charles Dickens, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
and other literary subjects,
1947-1950 |
|
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| Box | Contents |
| VIII. Richard Henry Dana papers |
| Box 75 | | Handwritten essays of Richard Henry Dana on such subjects as
"spiritual freedom," "man an amenable being," and "man insufficient to
himself," n.d. |
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| Box | Contents |
| IX. Richard Henry Dana, Jr., papers,
1834-1895 |
| | A. Legal papers,
1847-1892
This subseries consists primarily of the legal papers of Richard Henry Dana,
Jr. (boxes 76-78), and Richard Henry Dana III (boxes 77-80). Also included in
this subseries are papers concerning civil service reform and galley proofs of
Charles Francis Adams' Life of Richard Henry
Dana.
|
| Box 76 | | | Research notes, drafts of remarks, partial briefs, trial
transcripts, and newspaper clippings pertaining to the legal practices of
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., and Richard Henry Dana III, including notes on the
will of John Quincy Adams,
1847-1879 |
| Box 77 | | | Research notes, briefs, clippings, etc., pertaining to the legal
practices of Richard Henry Dana, Jr., and Richard Henry Dana III,
1880-1881 |
| Box 78 | | | Notes, briefs, etc. of Richard Henry Dana, Jr., and Richard Henry
Dana III relating to a suit of the French brig Cananore against the East Boston Dry Dock Company,
1881-1885 |
| Box 79 | | | Notes, briefs, etc. of Richard Henry Dana, Jr., and Richard Henry
Dana III, mostly from the files of Richard Henry Dana III, including papers
concerning the incorporation of the Boston Young Men's Christian Association
(1885),
1882-1889 |
| Box 80 | | | Miscellaneous notes, briefs, etc. of Richard Henry Dana III,
including bills and receipts for the Civil Service
Chronicle (1889-1892) and other material relating to civil service
reform, as well as galley proofs of Charles Francis Adams'
Life of Richard Henry Dana (1890),
1889-1892 |
| | B. Personal correspondence,
1834-1895 |
| Box 81 | | | Personal correspondence of Richard Henry Dana, Jr., 1834-1881, and
correspondence of Elizabeth Ellery Dana II with Charles Francis Adams, Jr., and
Theodore Frelinghuysen Dwight (1846-1917), 1889-1895, relating to Adams'
biography of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.,
1834-1895 |
| | C. Official correspondence,
1863-1865 |
| Box 82 | | | Correspondence of Richard Henry Dana, Jr., concerning his service as
United States attorney and the Civil War prize ships cases,
1863-1865 |
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| Box | Contents |
| X. Printed material,
1812-1878 |
| Box 83 | | Printed material relating to the prize ships and other admiralty
cases,
1862-1878 |
| Box 84 | | Printed material pertaining to the Lawrence-Dana plagiarism
controversy,
1866-1869 |
| Box 85 | | Printed material relating to Richard Henry Dana, Jr.'s work as
counsel for the United States before the Fisheries Commission at Halifax, Nova
Scotia, and legal pamphlets written by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., on habeas
corpus and other matters,
1857-1877 |
| Box 86 | | Miscellaneous printed material, including Statutes and Laws of Harvard College,
1862-1875 |
| Box 87 | | Miscellaneous printed material, including A
Dissertation on the Bite of a Rabid Animal, by James Gillman (1812),
An Address delivered at the opening of the Tenth
Exhibition of the American Academy of the Fine Arts, by Gulian C.
Verplanck (1824), The Spirit of the Pilgrims
(March 1828), and various items in German and Italian,
1812-1828 |
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| Box | Volume | Contents |
| | XI. Addenda,
1806-1875
This series contains printed volumes, framed letters, and index cards which
belonged to the Dana family, including two volumes of Idle Man, edited by Richard Henry Dana, and some copies
of his Poems and Prose Writings.
|
| Vol. 194-195 | | Idle Man, by Richard Henry Dana,
1821-1822 (2 copies) |
| Vol. 196 | | Poems and Prose Writings, volume I,
by Richard Henry Dana,
1849 |
| Vol. 197-198 | | Poems and Prose Writings, volume II,
by Richard Henry Dana,
1849 (2 copies) |
| Vol. 199 | | Oration at Lexington, April 19, 1875,
by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. |
| Vol. 200 | | An Improved History and Description of the
Tower of London...,
1815 |
| Vol. 201 | | The Federalist, 1842
edition |
| Vol. 202 | | A Sermon: Preached at the Church of the
Advent..., by C. S. Henry,
1846 |
| Vol. 203 | | Public School Education, by Sir J. T.
Coleridge,
1861 |
| Box 88 | | | Framed letters of Francis Dana (Apr. 17, 1807)
and William Ellery (Oct. 11, 1806) |
| Box 89 | | | Obsolete index cards to the Dana papers |
|
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| Box | Contents |
| XII. Oversize items,
1683-1875
This series consists of some oversize legal and official documents of
Edmund Trowbridge and Francis Dana.
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| Box OS 1 | | Deeds and other documents, most of which relate to the legal
practices of Edmund Trowbridge and Francis Dana, taken from the Dana family II
papers,
1683-1875 Included are four documents of Francis Dana, previously framed: his
appointment as Middlesex County Justice of the Peace (1779), his appointment as
United States minister to St. Petersburg (1780), his selection as a
Presidential Elector (1792), and his appointment as United States Minister
Plenipotentiary to the French Republic (1797).
|
| Box OS 2 | | Scrapbook on ballot law reform (Australian ballot),
1888
Note: This scrapbook, previously bound as Vol. 188.57
and located in Series VI.F. (Richard Henry Dana III volumes), has been disbound
and is shelved here.
|
The following seven volumes were not included in the original arrangement
and description of the Dana family papers. Six of the volumes belonged to
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., and one belonged to Rev. Samuel Dana (1778-1864). They
are shelved at the end of the collection.
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| Volume | Contents |
| Richard Henry Dana, Jr., volumes |
| Vol. 1a | | Index Rerum, by Rev. John Todd
(Northampton, 1836). This is a printed volume with blank pages for a subject index. It is filled
in by Dana with legal terms.
|
| Vol. 2a | | Vangerow's Vortraege uber die Pandecten im Wintersemester,
1848-1849 |
| Vol. 3a | | Commonplace book with quotations |
| Vol. 4a | | Docket book,
Sep. 1840-Oct. 1847 |
| Vol. 5a | | Casebook, including newspaper clippings and commentary concerning
various cases,
ca. 1856 |
| Vol. 6a | | Casebook, including newspaper clippings and commentary concerning
various cases,
ca. 1857 |
| Vol. 7a | Rev. Samuel Dana memorandum book,
1849 |
Dana 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.
| | |
| Persons: |
| | Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886. |
| | Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915. |
| | Adams, John, 1735-1826. |
| | Allston, Washington, 1779-1843. |
| | Bonaparte, Charles J. (Charles Joseph),
1851-1921. |
| | Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878. |
| | Dana, Edmund, 1739-1823. |
| | Dana, Edmund Trowbridge, 1779-1859. |
| | Dana, Edmund Trowbridge, 1818-1869. |
| | Dana, Elizabeth Ellery, 1789-1874. |
| | Dana, Elizabeth Ellery, b. 1846. |
| | Dana, Frances Longfellow, 1853-1915. |
| | Dana, Francis, 1743-1811. |
| | Dana, Helen Sherwood Ford Mumford,
1865-1934. |
| | Dana, Richard, 1700-1772. |
| | Dana, Richard Henry, 1787-1879. |
| | Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882. |
| | Dana, Richard Henry, 1851-1931. |
| | Dana, Ruth Charlotte, 1814-1901. |
| | Dana, Sarah Ann, 1791-1866. |
| | Evarts, William Maxwell, 1818-1901. |
| | Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814. |
| | Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924. |
| | Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth,
1807-1882. |
| | Ripley, Sophia Willard Dana,
1803-1861. |
| | Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. |
| | Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. |
| | Trowbridge, Edmund, 1709-1793. |
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| Organizations: |
| | Brook Farm Phalanx (West Roxbury, Boston,
Mass.). |
| | Massachusetts--Supreme Judicial
Court. |
| | |
| Subjects: |
| | Civil service--United States. |
| | Massachusetts--History--1775-1865. |
| | Massachusetts--History--Civil War,
1861-1865. |
| | Massachusetts--Politics and
government--1775-1865. |
| | Massachusetts--Politics and
government--1865-1950. |
| | Russia--History--Catherine II,
1762-1796. |
| | United States--History--Civil War,
1861-1865. |
| | United States--History--Revolution,
1775-1783. |
| | United States--Politics and
government--1775-1783. |
| | United States--Politics and
government--1783-1865. |
| | United States--Politics and
government--1865-1933. |
|
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