1814-1945
Guide to the Collection
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| Title: | Warren-Clarke family papers |
| Dates: | 1814-1945 |
| Physical Description: | 9 document
boxes and 1 oversize box |
| Call Number: | Ms. N-24 |
| 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 papers of the Warren,
Clarke, and related families, primarily correspondence of Samuel Dennis Warren
(1817-1888) and papers related to Boston paper dealers Grant, Daniell &
Co., later Grant, Warren & Co. and S. D. Warren Co.
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John Warren (1767-1828) of Grafton, Mass., married (second) Susanna Grout
(1780-1837). Their children were: Sally Hall Warren, Ann Grout Warren (b.
1807), Joseph Dennis Warren (b. 1808), Jonathan Merriam Warren (b. 1810),
Samuel Alonzo Warren, Samuel Dennis Warren (1817-1888), Sally Elizabeth Warren,
Adelia Maria Warren (b. 1822), and Hannah Dorinda Warren (b. 1824).
Samuel Dennis Warren (1817-1888), a Boston paper manufacturer and merchant,
married Susan Cornelia Clarke (b. 1825), the daughter of Rev. Dorus Clarke
(1797-1884) and Hannah Alvord Bliss Clarke (1801-1878). Their children were:
Josiah Fiske Warren (1850-1853), Samuel Dennis Warren (1852-1910), Henry Clarke
Warren (1854-1899), Cornelia Lyman Warren, Edward Perry Warren, and Fiske
Warren (b. 1862).
Samuel Dennis Warren (1852-1910) married in 1883 Mabel Ashton Bayard. Their
children were: Mabel Bayard Warren (b. 1884), Samuel Dennis Warren (b. 1885),
Katherine Lee Bayard Warren (b. 1889), Bayard Warren (b. 1891), Sylvia Warren
(b. 1896), and Henry Warren (b. 1900).
Samuel Dennis Warren (b. 1885) married in 1909 Helen Thomas, daughter of
Washington B. Thomas (b. 1857) and Caroline Wadleigh Thomas. Washington B.
Thomas was the son of Joseph Brown Thomas and Martha T. Seran Thomas. Caroline
Wadleigh Thomas was the daughter of Bainbridge Wadleigh, legislator of Milford,
N.H.
The Warren family papers consist primarily of the correspondence of Samuel
Dennis Warren (1817-1888), 1831-1879. Included is family correspondence and
papers related to Grant, Daniell & Co., Boston paper dealers, subsequently
Grant, Warren & Co., precursors of S. D. Warren Co. Family correspondents
include his mother Susanna Grout Warren; his sisters Delia, Hannah, and Sarah;
his brothers James and Jonathan; his wife Susan Clarke Warren; and their
children Henry, Nellie, and Samuel D., Jr. Correspondence with Grant, Daniell
& Co. pertains to customers, partnerships, contracts, financial statements,
and reorganizations. Also included is correspondence with Charles W. Eliot,
Phillips Brooks, Austin Phelps, George Washburn, Samuel Eliot, Asa D. Smith,
Franklin Carter, Enoch Wines, Julius H. Seelye, and Roswell Smith related
primarily to philanthropic interests.
The Clarke family papers include correspondence of Rev. Dorus Clarke and
school books and journals of Susan Clarke Warren. Also included is
correspondence of Bainbridge Wadleigh of Milford, N.H., and his family; some
Brown and Thomas family papers; diaries and other volumes of Hannah A. Bliss;
and genealogies of the Bliss, Clarke, Bayard, and Warren families.
Some items are individually described in the MHS manuscript catalog.
Gift of Samuel D. Warren, Essex, Mass., 1973. Additions to the collection
were a gift of Jessica Warren (Mrs. Samuel D. Warren), 1992, through Henry
Lee.
The collection is organized into the following series:
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| I. Loose papers, 1814-1945 |
| II. Bound volumes, 1814-1884 |
| | A. Hannah A. Bliss volumes, 1814-1818 |
| | B. Susan C. Clarke volumes, 1842-1847 |
| | C. Miscellaneous volumes, 1850-1884 |
| III. Oversize materials, 1818-1866 |
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| Box | Contents |
| I. Loose papers,
1814-1945
Arranged chronologically.The bulk of this series consists of the correspondence of Samuel Dennis
Warren (1817-1888). Family letters include correspondence with his mother
describing experiences in Boston and on business trips to New York, 1831-1836;
letters from his sisters Delia, Hannah, and Sarah about student life at Mount
Holyoke Seminary (South Hadley), Abbott Academy (Andover), and the Angelica
(N.Y.) Union School, 1839-1844; letters from his brothers James and Jonathan
describing farming at Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, 1844-1853, with information on land
values related to the building of the Rock River Canal at Milwaukee, 1846; and
letters from Warren to his wife while on business trips to New York, 1849, and
tours of Europe, 1851, 1860, 1865.
Letters from Grant, Daniell & Co. to Warren, 1839-1860, relate to
dealings with customers, partnerships, contracts, financial statements, and
reorganizations, 1856-1858. Warren's correspondence with Charles W. Eliot,
Phillips Brooks, Austin Phelps, George Washburn, Samuel Eliot, Asa D. Smith,
Franklin Carter, Enoch Wines, Julius H. Seelye, and Roswell Smith pertains
primarily to philanthropic interests, 1875-1879.
Clarke family papers include correspondence of Rev. Dorus Clarke with his
daughters Ellen and Susan and with other ministers, as well as letters on
journalistic matters, 1844-1866. The series also contains correspondence of
Bainbridge Wadleigh and his family, 1873-1879, including letters to his
daughters Helen and Carrie about social life in Washington and city scenes,
1873-1874, and letters from Helen and Carrie to their parents describing
student life during the early days of Wellesley College, 1877-1878. Also
included are some Brown and Thomas family items and genealogies of the Bliss,
Clarke, Bayard, and Warren families.
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| Box 1 | | Undated,
1814-1839 Included is a photocopy of a Warren Hastings letter, 14 Aug. 1760; three
commissions in the 20th Regiment, New Hampshire state militia, to John Barrett,
1814, 1816, 1818; the will of John Flagg, Roxbury, 1830; family correspondence
of Samuel Dennis Warren with his mother and siblings; letters of Samuel Dennis
Warren from Amherst Academy, 1831-1832, and from Boston, beginning in 1832;
letters of Sarah and Delia from Ipswich Female Seminary and Abbott Female
Seminary (Andover); and the articles of agreement for Grant, Daniell & Co.,
1839, in which the principals were Moses Grant, Otis Daniell, and Samuel Dennis
Warren.
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| Box 2 | | 1840-1845 Included is Clarke family correspondence, beginning in 1840; Warren family
correspondence among the siblings; letters from Delia and Hannah at Mount
Holyoke; Susan C. Clarke correspondence with friends and relatives; and letters
of Joseph and Jonathan Warren from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, beginning in 1842.
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| Box 3 | | 1846-June 1851 Included is correspondence of Samuel Dennis Warren and his wife and letters
from Europe in 1851.
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| Box 4 | | July 1851-1859 Included are scattered items of the related Brown and Thomas families,
beginning in 1852, and correspondence of Samuel Dennis Warren in Europe,
1853.
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| Box 5 | | 1860-1865 Included are letters to Samuel Dennis Warren and Susan Clarke Warren from
their children Henry, Nellie, and Samuel D., Jr., 1862-1865.
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| Box 6 | | 1866-1879 Included are letters from J. B. Thomas in Europe, 1866-1867; a significant
amount of Dorus Clarke correspondence; Wadleigh family correspondence, 1870s;
letters from Carrie Wadleigh at Wellesley to her parents; a letter by Mary
Clemmer, 2 Apr. 1877, about her imprisonment during the Civil War; and an 1878
description of an early women's rights meeting run by Elizabeth Cady
Stanton.
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| Box 7 | | 1880-1945 and miscellaneous Included are a few printed items; photographs; genealogical notes on the
Bayard, Bliss, Clarke, and Warren families; typed transcripts of some letters
in the collection, 1834-1838; a few John Warren typed transcripts, 1797, 1802;
letters to Cornelia Warren from her brothers Samuel and E. P. Warren,
1898-1911; and an account written in 1945 of fighting in Germany during World
War II.
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| II. Bound volumes,
1814-1884
This series consists of diaries kept by Hannah Bliss Clarke, Susan Cornelia
Warren, George Brown, and an anonymous woman; scrapbooks of Samuel Dennis
Warren, Jr. and Washington B. Thomas; and other volumes.
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| | A. Hannah A. Bliss volumes,
1814-1818
This subseries contains diaries kept by Hannah Alvard Bliss Clarke as a
young girl and teenager in Longmeadow, Mass. Entries describe religion, church
and school attendance, and daily activities. Also included in this subseries
are an undated commonplace book and two penmanship copy-books.
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| Box 8 | | | Commonplace book, undated |
| Box 8 | | | Penmanship copy-book,
17 May 1814 |
| Box 8 | | | Diary,
8 Nov. 1814-9 Apr. 1815 |
| Box 8 | | | Diary,
29 May-28 Aug. 1815 |
| Box 8 | | | Diary,
16 Dec. 1816-25 Jan. 1818 |
| Box 8 | | | Penmanship copy-book,
5 June 1818 |
| | B. Susan C. Clarke volumes,
1842-1847
This series includes diaries kept by Susan Cornelia Warren in Boston.
Entries describe walks with family members, church attendance, household
chores, her courtship and engagement to Samuel Dennis Warren, and daily
activities.
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| Box 8 | | | Exercises in Rhetoric, Temple School,
1 Jan. 1842 |
| Box 8 | | | Diary,
1 Oct.-31 Dec. 1846 |
| Box 8 | | | Diary,
1 Jan.-31 Mar. 1847 |
| Box 8 | | | Diary,
20 Apr.-25 May 1847 |
| | C. Miscellaneous volumes,
1850-1884 |
| Box 8 | | | George Brown diary (typescript),
23 Feb.-28 June 1850 This volume consists of a typescript of the diary of George Brown of
Hallowell, Maine, kept during a voyage around Cape Horn to San Francisco to
join the California gold rush. Most of the entries were written on board the
ship Thomas Wattson, which sailed from
Philadelphia. Included are many religious observations. George Brown was
probably the brother-in-law of Joseph B. Thomas, the ship's captain.
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| Box 8 | | | Diary on steamer Cuba, unknown author,
18 Apr.-9 June 1866 This diary was kept by an anonymous woman on the steamer
Cuba, traveling from New York City to Ireland,
Scotland, England, and France. Entries describe the countryside of Ireland and
Scotland, cultural institutions, and daily activities.
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| Box 8 | | | Samuel Dennis Warren, Jr. scrapbook,
1872-1877 |
| Box 9 | | | Washington B. Thomas scrapbook,
1872-1879 This scrapbook of Washington B. Thomas contains Harvard memorabilia.
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| Box 9 | | | Samuel D. Warren, Jr. log of Wayward,
5-23 Aug. 1878 |
| Box 9 | | | Ellen S. S. Hammond genealogical notes on the Olcott family,
20 May 1884 |
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| Box OS | III. Oversize materials,
1818-1866
This series contains loose manuscripts and photographs removed from Series I
and II. A note has been inserted at the original location of each item
indicating its removal to oversize.
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Warren-Clarke 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: |
| | Baird family. |
| | Barrett, John. |
| | Bayard family--Genealogy. |
| | Bliss family. |
| | Bliss family--Genealogy. |
| | Brown, George. |
| | Brown family. |
| | Clarke, Dorus, 1797-1884. |
| | Clarke, Hannah Alvard Bliss,
1801-1878. |
| | Clarke family. |
| | Clarke family--Genealogy. |
| | Clemmer, Mary, 1839-1884. |
| | Olcott family. |
| | Thomas, Washington Butcher,
1857-1929. |
| | Thomas family. |
| | Wadleigh, Bainbridge, 1831-1891. |
| | Wadleigh family. |
| | Warren, Samuel Dennis, 1817-1888. |
| | Warren, Samuel Dennis, 1852-1910. |
| | Warren, Susan Cornelia, 1825-1901. |
| | Warren family. |
| | Warren family--Genealogy. |
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| Organizations: |
| | Harvard University--Students. |
| | Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. |
| | S. D. Warren Company (Boston, Mass.). |
| | Thomas Wattson (Ship). |
| | Wellesley College. |
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| Subjects: |
| | Commonplace-books. |
| | Copybooks. |
| | Europe--Description and
travel--1800-1918. |
| | Farms--Wisconsin--Wauwatosa. |
| | Merchants--Massachusetts--Boston. |
| | Paper industry--Massachusetts--Boston. |
| | Penmanship. |
| | Scrapbooks--1872-1879. |
| | Voyages and travels. |
| | Voyages to the Pacific coast. |
| | Washington (D.C.)--Social life and
customs. |
| | Women--Education. |
Photographs from this collection have been removed to the Warren-Clarke
family photographs. Photo. Coll. 128.
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