Endicott Family Autograph Collection

1721-1938

Guide to the Collection

The original autographs in this collection have been removed to Special Collections. Photocopies are available for use by researchers.

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Collection Summary

Collection Description

Acquisition Information

Restrictions on Access

Organization

Detailed Description of the Collection

Preferred Citation

Access Terms

Collection Summary

Creator:	Endicott family
Title:	Endicott family autograph collection
Dates:	1721-1938
Physical Description:	8 narrow boxes and 3 boxes of photocopies
Call Number:	Ms. N-1183 (photocopies, 3 boxes)
Call Number:	Special Colls. Endicott (originals, 8 narrow boxes)
Repository:	Massachusetts Historical Society 1154 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02215 library@masshist.org

Abstract:

This collection consists of autographs collected primarily by William Crowninshield Endicott, Jr., and includes autographs of British and American statesmen, literary figures, and artists.

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This autograph collection was compiled primarily by William Crowninshield Endicott, Jr. and includes autographs of British and American statesmen, literary figures, and artists. Among the individuals represented are Henry Adams, Neville Chamberlain, Grover Cleveland, Richard Henry Dana, Charles W. Eliot, Horace Gray, Henry Cabot Lodge, Richard Olney, Francis Parkman, John Singer Sargent, Benjamin F. Thomas, Frederic Tudor, and many others. Many of the letters were written to Joseph Chamberlain, William C. Endicott, Sr., and William C. Endicott, Jr. The collection also contains a small number of photocopies of autographs, the originals of which are not included.

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Acquisition Information

This collection was removed from the Endicott family papers. The Endicott family papers were a gift of William C. Endicott, Jr., 1916, 1922; Louise T. Endicott, 1940; and Benjamin W. Thoron and Walter M. Whitehill, 1958, 1981.

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Restrictions on Access

The original autographs in this collection have been removed to Special Collections. Photocopies are available for use by researchers.

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Organization of the Collection

The collection is organized into the following series:


	I. Autograph letters, 1773-1938
	II. Photocopies, 1721-1937

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Detailed Description of the Collection


Box	Folder	Contents
		I. Autograph letters, 1773-1938 Arranged alphabetically. This series consists mostly of autograph letters, but also contains a small number of signatures only. NOTE: The original autographs in this series have been removed to Special Collections. This list reflects the arrangement of the photocopies to be used in the Reading Room.
Box 1	Folder 1		Abercorn, Duke of
				3 June 1902
Box 1	Folder 1		Adams, Brooks (1848-1927)
				24 Oct. 1874
				18 Dec. 1912
Box 1	Folder 1		Adams, Charles Francis
				23 Jan. 1934
				24 Jan. 1934
Box 1	Folder 1		Adams, Henry (1838-1918)
				Sunday, undated
				Monday, undated
				Tuesday, undated
Box 1	Folder 1		Adams, John Quincy (1833-1894)
				2 Nov. 1866
				17 May 1875
				8 Apr. 1876
				[188-]
Box 1	Folder 1		Adams, Louisa Catherine (1775-1852)
				Verses, undated
Box 1	Folder 1		Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873)
				Cutslip autograph, 1855
Box 1	Folder 1		Alverstone, Lord
				1 June 1902
Box 1	Folder 1		Amberley
				6 Dec. 1867
Box 1	Folder 1		Argyll, Duke of
				Fragment, [1877]
				17 June 1896
				5 July 1896
Box 1	Folder 1		Asquith, Herbert Henry (1852-1928)
				7 Aug. 1894
Box 1	Folder 1		Astor, John Jacob
				9 May 1816
Box 1	Folder 2		Balfour, Arthur James
				Undated
				Thursday, undated
				Friday, undated
				28 June 1887
				3 Dec. 1890
				10 Sep. 1891
Box 1	Folder 2		Bancroft, George (1800-1891)
				26 Feb. 1841
				3 Oct. 1863
Box 1	Folder 2		Bancroft, S. B.
				5 June 1897
Box 1	Folder 2		Bayard, Richard Henry
				1 Apr. 1839
Box 1	Folder 2		Bayard, Thomas Francis (1828-1898)
				26 Apr. 1893
				Three envelopes with signature
Box 1	Folder 3		Benton, Thomas Hart
				6 May 1850
Box 1	Folder 3		Beurnonville, G.
				25 Aug. 1797
Box 1	Folder 3		Biddle, Nicholas
				12 July 1823
Box 1	Folder 3		Bismarck, H.
				16 May [no year]
				27 Nov. 1890
Box 1	Folder 3		Blackie, John Stuart
				Signature on printed item, undated
Box 1	Folder 3		Blaine, James Gillespie (1830-1893)
				29 Mar. 1888 (manuscript copy)
Box 1	Folder 3		Bodine, Mr.
				18 Dec. 1880
Box 1	Folder 3		Bonaparte, Caroline
				Saturday, undated
Box 1	Folder 3		Bradley, G. G.
				16 Apr. 1893
				25 Apr. 1893
Box 1	Folder 3		Bright, John (1811-1889)
				6 Sep. 1887
Box 1	Folder 3		Browning, Robert (1812-1889)
				9 May 1888
				18 May 1888
Box 1	Folder 3		Brownson, Orestes Augustus
				Cutslip autograph, undated
Box 1	Folder 3		Burnand, F. C.
				14 Mar. 1884
Box 1	Folder 3		Butler, Benjamin Franklin (1818-1893)
				21 Apr. 1872
Box 1	Folder 4		C., H. C. (initials only)
				15 Sep. 1887
Box 1	Folder 4		Cadogan, Lord
				3 Dec. 1899
Box 1	Folder 4		Calhoun, John Caldwell
				24 Nov. 1828
Box 1	Folder 4		Cameron, William
				Thursday, undated
				1 Oct. 1930
Box 1	Folder 4		Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881)
				16 July 1877
Box 1	Folder 4		Cass, Lewis (1782-1866)
				25 Dec. 1823
				17 May 1833
Box 1	Folder 4		Chadwick, George Whitefield (1854-1961)
				Musical notation, undated
Box 1	Folder 5		Chamberlain, A. Neville
				9 Apr. 1888
Box 1	Folder 5-6		Chamberlain, Austen
				31 Oct. 1887 (manuscript extract)
				11 Mar. 1888
				6 Nov. 1890
				16 Nov. 1896
				1 Nov. 1906
				20 July 1914
				18 Oct. 1925 (typed copy)
				20 Dec. 1925
				17 Nov. 1928
				14 July 1931
				24 July 1931
				25 July 1931 (telegram)
				23 Sep. 1931
				14 Nov. 1931
				13 July 1932
				8 Feb. 1933
				4 June 1934
				2 Feb. 1935
				6 Sep. 1935
Box 1	Folder 7		Chamberlain, Joseph (1836-1914)
				Jan. 24 [no year]
				27 Feb. 1888
				6 Oct. 1888
				15 Oct. 1888
				16 Mar. 1902
				3 Feb. 1905
				22 Oct. 1905
Box 1	Folder 8		Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940)
				23 Nov. 1896?
				7 Apr. 1897
				30 Aug. 1897
				7 May 1900
				5 Apr. 1928
				12 Nov. 1931
				17 Aug. 1932
				8 Dec. 1937
				16 Jan. 1938
				25 Dec. 1938
Box 1	Folder 9		Chase, Salmon Portland
				6 July 1852
Box 1	Folder 9		Cheves, Langdon
				13 Feb. 1815
Box 1	Folder 9		Choate, Rufus
				8 June 1830
				1 July 1859
Box 1	Folder 9		Churchill, Clementine S.
				18 Dec. 1931
Box 1	Folder 9		Churchill, Randolph
				30 Sep. 1887
Box 1	Folder 9		Churchill, Winston
				21 Jan. 1905
				26 Jan. 1905
Box 1	Folder 9		Churchill, Winston S.
				22 Dec. 1931
Box 1	Folder 9		Clay, Cassius Marcellus
				28 Aug. 1860
Box 1	Folder 9		Clay, Henry (1777-1852)
				30 May 1818
Box 1	Folder 9		Clayton, John Middleton
				10 July 1844
Box 1	Folder 10		Cleveland, Frances Folsom (1864-1947)
				Thursday, undated
Box 1	Folder 10-12		Cleveland, Grover (1837-1908)
				7 Aug. 1885
				22 Dec. 1885
				28 May 1886
				13 Oct. 1886
				14 Oct. 1886
				22 Oct. 1886
				28 Oct. 1886
				4 Nov. 1886
				5 Nov. 1886
				17 Nov. 1886
				20 Dec. 1886
				18 Jan. 1887
				2 Feb. 1887
				7 Feb. 1887
				18 Apr. 1887
				20 May 1887
				22 July 1887
				15 Sep. 1887
				25 Oct. 1887
				13 Dec. 1887
				7 Apr. 1888
				20 Apr. 1888
				6 Aug. 1888 (letterpress copy)
				30 Oct. 1888
				9 Dec. 1888
				19 Dec. 1888
				25 Jan. 1889
				16 Feb. 1889
				18 Feb. 1889
				23 Feb. 1889
				4 May 1891
				3 Nov. 1891
				30 May 1892
Box 1	Folder 12		Cleveland, Rose Elizabeth (1846-1918)
				11 July 1885
Box 1	Folder 13		Coolidge, Jeff
				17 Jan. 1934
Box 1	Folder 13		Crawford, William Harris
				23 June 1817
				30 June 1823
Box 1	Folder 13		Crittenden, John Jordan (1787-1863)
				12 Mar. 1849
Box 1	Folder 13		Crowninshield, Jacob
				20 Nov. 1796
Box 1	Folder 13		Crowninshield, John
				[1813]
Box 1	Folder 13		Curtis, Benjamin Robbins
				1 July 1858
Box 1	Folder 13		Cushing, Harvey
				10 Aug. 1927
				15 Aug. 1927
Box 1	Folder 14		Dallas, George Mifflin (1792-1864)
				10 Oct. 1847
Box 1	Folder 14		Dana, Richard Henry (1815-1882)
				21 Oct. 1854
				3 Nov. 1854
				28 May 1858
				1861
				23 July 1861
				5 Aug. 1861
				19 Aug. 1861
				1 Nov. 1861
				26 Nov. 1861
				Dec. 1861
				22 Jan. 1862
				17 Dec. 1862
				30 Dec. 1862
				26 Jan. 1863
				19 Sep. 1863
Box 1	Folder 15		Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820)
				8 Feb. 1816
Box 1	Folder 15		De Kay, Charles (1848-1935)
				7 Feb. 1917
Box 1	Folder 15		Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
				18 June 1848
Box 1	Folder 15		Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir (1843-1911)
				Undated
				17 Oct. 1887
Box 1	Folder 15		Dix, John Adams (1798-1879)
				7 Feb. 1861
Box 1	Folder 15		Douglas, Stephen Arnold? (1813-1861)
				19 Jan. 1846
Box 1	Folder 15		Dow, George Francis
				13 Oct. 1917
Box 1	Folder 15		Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marquis of (1826-1902)
				8 May 1895
Box 1	Folder 16		Edward VII
				23 Feb. 1902
Box 1	Folder 16		Edwards, Clarence R.
				6 Mar. 1929
Box 1	Folder 16-17		Eliot, Charles William (1834-1926)
				28 Apr. 1877
				30 Apr. 1877
				3 May 1882
				30 Nov. 1882 (with typescript copy)
				6 May 1884 (with typescript copy)
				18 June 1884 (with typescript copy)
				18 June 1884 (signature on election notice, with typescript copy)
				17 Apr. 1885
				21 Apr. 1885
				8 May 1885
				17 June 1885
				19 Nov. 1885
				5 Dec. 1885
				14 Dec. 1885
				16 Feb. 1886
				14 Apr. 1886
				16 June 1886
				6 Sep. 1886
				17 Sep. 1886
				7 Nov. 1886
				19 Nov. 1886
				15 Dec. 1886
				9 Jan. 1887
				27 Jan. 1887
				24 Jan. 1888
				9 Feb. 1888
				4 Apr. 1888
				2 Aug. 1888
				23 Sep. 1895 (with typescript copy)
				28 Oct. 1916
Box 1	Folder 18		Endicott, William Crowninshield (1860-1936)
				23 July 1907
				25 July 1931 (letter fragment)
				12 autographs
				Calling card
Box 1	Folder 18		Eustis, William (1753-1825)
				30 Sep. 1823
Box 1	Folder 18		Everett, Edward (1794-1865)
				9 Dec. 1828
				21 Oct. 1853
Box 1	Folder 18		Everett, William
				6 May 1894
				6 May 1894 (different from above)
Box 1	Folder 19		Farrand, Max
				Tuesday, undated
				Friday, undated
				10 Mar. 1928
				14 Apr. 1928
				1 May 1928
Box 1	Folder 19		Felton, Cornelius Conway (1807-1862)
				4 Oct. 1854
Box 1	Folder 19		Fessenden, William Pitt (1806-1869)
				15 Oct. 1852
Box 1	Folder 19		Field, Cyrus West (1819-1892)
				Cutslip autograph, undated
Box 1	Folder 19		Fiske, John (1842-1901)
				16 Mar. 1876
Box 1	Folder 19		Forbes, William Cameron
				22 Jan. 1934
Box 1	Folder 19		French, Amos Tuck
				6 June 1934
Box 1	Folder 19		Fuller, Alvan Tufts
				Engraved invitation, undated
Box 1	Folder 19		Fuller, Melville W.
				20 June 1890
				1 June 1891
				21 June 1891
				7 Oct. 1897
Box 1	Folder 20		Gage, Thomas (1721-1787)
				16 May 1773
Box 1	Folder 20		Gales & Seaton
				3 Mar. 1821
Box 1	Folder 20		Gallatin, Albert (1761-1849)
				4 July 1816
Box 1	Folder 20		George III (1738-1820)
				26 Jan. 1795
Box 1	Folder 20		George, [David Lloyd] (1863-1945)
				6 June 1896
Box 1	Folder 20		Giles, William Branch (1762-1830)
				12 Apr. 1811
Box 1	Folder 20		Gladstone, William Ewart
				25 May 1877
				6 Feb. 1893
Box 1	Folder 20		Godwin, Parke (1816-1904)
				29 Apr. [no year]
Box 1	Folder 20		Goschen, George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount (1831-1907)
				21 Sep. [no year]
				21 Nov. 1902
Box 1	Folder 21		Grant, Ulysses S. (1822-1885)
				17 Oct. 1877
Box 1	Folder 21		Granville
				19 Feb. 1877
Box 1	Folder 21-22		Gray, Horace (1828-1902)
				Mon. evening, undated
				7 Mar. [no year]
				24 Aug. [no year]
				5 Oct. [no year]
				13 Oct. [no year]
				11 Nov. [no year]
				19 Nov. [no year]
				25 Aug. 1852
				22 Sep. 1852
				23 Jan. 1853
				30 Jan. 1853
				4 Feb. 1854
				10 Feb. 1854
				30 July 1855
				9 Feb. 1856
				15 Nov. 1856
				14 Nov. 1857
				15 Nov. 1858
				6 Apr. 1860
				22 Feb. 1865
				22 Nov. 1869
				17 Feb. 1873
				27 Feb. 1873
				5 Mar. 1873?
				18 June 1873
				22 July 1873
				28 Aug. 1873
				15 Feb. 1874
				17 Feb. 1874
				19 Feb. 1874
				2 Mar. 1874
				14 Dec. 1874
				19 Jan. 1875
				28 Jan. 1875
				13 Apr. 1875
				3 May 1875
				7 June 1875
				13 Nov. 1875
				24 Nov. 1875
				13 Dec. 1875
				13 Jan. 1876
				21 June 1891
				23 June 1891
Box 1	Folder 22		Guild, Curtis E.
				18 Feb. [no year]
Box 1	Folder 23		Hale, Edward Everett (1822-1909)
				19 Dec. 1876
Box 1	Folder 23		Harcourt, William Vernon, Sir (Historicus) (1827-1904)
				12 Mar. 1888
Box 1	Folder 23		Harper, Robert Goodloe (1765-1825)
				4 Feb. 1808
				28 Feb. 1808
Box 1	Folder 23		Harrison, Benjamin
				5 Mar. 1889
Box 1	Folder 23		Harrison, Frederic
				19 Feb. 1877
Box 1	Folder 23		Hartington
				10 Mar. 1888
				27 June 1889
				31 Oct. 1889
Box 1	Folder 23		Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
				9 Oct. [185-]
Box 1	Folder 23		Hay, John Milton (1838-1905)
				Invitation acceptance, undated
				25 May [no year]
				26 Nov. [no year]
				15 Feb. 1876
				10 July 1901
Box 1	Folder 23		Hayne, Robert Young (1791-1839)
				22 Mar. 1824
Box 1	Folder 23		Herschell, Farrar (1837-1899)
				23 May [no year]
				29 Sep. [no year]
Box 1	Folder 24		Hicks-Beach, Michael, Sir
				12 Mar. 1887
Box 1	Folder 24		Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood (1816-1895)
				22 Apr. 1872
				26 Apr. 1872
				4 May 1872
				31 May 1872
Box 1	Folder 24		Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)
				18 Feb. [no year]
				4 Jan. 1892
				5 Jan. 1892
Box 1	Folder 24		Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1841-1935)
				13 Jan. 1871
				29 Apr. 1876
				6 Sep. 1879
				12 Mar. 1885
				29 Nov. 1889
Box 1	Folder 24		Homans, Robert?
				20 Jan. [no year]
Box 1	Folder 24		Houghton, Lord
				6 Apr. 1882
Box 1	Folder 24		Howard, John Eager (1752-1827)
				20 Oct. 1814
Box 1	Folder 24		Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910)
				11 Apr. [no year]
Box 1	Folder 24		Howe, M. A. de Wolfe
				11 June 1932
				16 June 1932
Box 1	Folder 24		Howe, Samuel Gridley (1801-1876)
				Saturday evening, undated
Box 1	Folder 24		Hülsemann, Chevalier
				10 Oct. 1854
Box 2	Folder 1		Irving, Henry
				27 Mar. 1889
				26 June 1897
Box 2	Folder 1		James, Henry (1818-1882)
				30 Jan. [no year] (letter fragment)
				11 Apr. [no year]
				5 Dec. 1881
Box 2	Folder 1		James, Henry (1879-1947)
				11 Jan. 1924?
				17 Jan. 1924
Box 2	Folder 1		James, Henry, Sir
				Cutslip autograph, undated
				Tuesday, undated
				15 July 1886
Box 2	Folder 1		Jenkins, Edward
				29 July 1878
Box 2	Folder 1		Jevons, W. Stanley
				5 Oct. 1881
Box 2	Folder 1		Johnson, Reverdy (1796-1876)
				15 Jan. 1840
Box 2	Folder 1		Jowett, Benjamin (1849-1909)
				18 Apr. 1877
Box 2	Folder 1		King, Rufus (1755-1827)
				20 Aug. 1816
Box 2	Folder 2		Lamar, Lucius Q. C.
				2 Mar. 188-
Box 2	Folder 2		Lamont, Daniel Scott (1851-1905)
				12 Mar. [no year]
Box 2	Folder 2		Lee, Henry
				29 Nov. 1884
Box 2	Folder 2		Lincoln, Benjamin (1733-1810)
				26 Apr. 1790
Box 2	Folder 2		Lincoln, Levi (1782-1868)
				31 Dec. 1836
Box 2	Folder 2		Lind, Jenny
				Jan. 1852
Box 2	Folder 2		Livingston, Edward (1764-1836)
				29 July 1833
Box 2	Folder 2		Lockwood, Frank
				18 Sep. 1891
				11 Oct. 1891
Box 2	Folder 2-3		Lodge, Henry Cabot (1850-1924)
				31 Jan. 1887
				1 May 1887
				19 May 1887
				28 Jan. 1893
				2 Nov. 1894
				4 July 1896
				2 Jan. 1898
				24 Jan. 1899
				1 May 1899
				7 May 1900
				15 Aug. 1903
				21 Dec. 1907
				27 Dec. 1907
				25 Aug. 1909
				11 Nov. 1909
				14 Jan. 1910
				5 Jan. 1911
				26 Feb. 1912
				31 Mar. 1912
				24 Apr. 1916
				8 Apr. 1917
				12 May 1917
				16 Nov. 1917
				23 Jan. 1918
				23 Jan. 1918 (different from above)
				21 May 1920
				15 Jan. 1921
				21 Mar. 1921
				28 Mar. 1921
				20 May 1921
				29 June 1921
				10 Jan. 1922
				11 Dec. 1923
				31 Dec. 1923
Box 2	Folder 3		Lodge, Oliver
				30 Dec. 1908
Box 2	Folder 3		Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)
				23 June 1852
				21 Nov. 1872
Box 2	Folder 3		Lowell, J.
				14 May 1891
Box 2	Folder 3		Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)
				11 Feb. 1890
				18 Feb. 1890
				23 June 1895
Box 2	Folder 4		McLean, John (1785-1861)
				20 Dec. 1814
Box 2	Folder 4		Manning, Daniel
				Cutslip autograph, undated
Box 2	Folder 4		Marshall, [John] (1755-1835)
				27 Feb. 1826
				[3 Mar. 1821]; see Gales & Seaton
Box 2	Folder 4		Meyer, George von Lengerke (1858-1918)
				14 July 1909
Box 2	Folder 4		Mifflin, Thomas (1744-1800)
				24 Aug. 1790
Box 2	Folder 4		Millais, John E., Sir
				21 May 1889
				Feb. 1890
				25 Feb. 1896
Box 2	Folder 4		Minot, [Francis]
				18 Feb. 1882
Box 2	Folder 4		Monroe, James
				23 May 1813 (signature on passport)
Box 2	Folder 4		[Morley], John
				22 July 1894
Box 2	Folder 4		Murdoch, Harold
				21 Mar. 1927
Box 2	Folder 4		Napier, Francis (1819-1898)
				1 July 1858
Box 2	Folder 4		Northbrook
				11 Nov. 1880
Box 2	Folder 4		Norton, Charles Eliot (1827-1908)
				18 Nov. 1858
				21 Jan. 1861
Box 2	Folder 5		O'Connell, William (1859-1944)
				18 Feb. 1929
Box 2	Folder 5		O'Hagan, Thomas (1812-1885)
				5 June 1879
Box 2	Folder 5		Olney, Agnes P.
				17 Sep. [no year]
Box 2	Folder 5-6		Olney, Richard (1835-1917)
				2 Mar. [no year]
				24 Mar. [no year]
				27 Apr. [no year]
				18 May [no year]
				5 Aug. [no year]
				13 Aug. [no year]
				14 Sep. [no year]
				19 Sep. [no year]
				24 Sep. [no year]
				14 Nov. [no year]
				1 Feb. 1861
				8 Feb. 1861
				22 Sep. 1873
				19 July 1880
				8 May 1884
				14 Sep. 1884
				3 Feb. 1885
				9 Mar. 1885
				11 Apr. 1885
				2 May 1885
				29 June 1885
				6 Aug. 1885
				12 Aug. 1885
				15 Sep. 1885
				27 May 1886
				25 June 1886
				22 Sep. 1886
				25 Jan. 1887
				8 Mar. 1887
				12 Apr. 1887
				10 Sep. 1887
				20 Sep. 1888
				6 May 1909
Box 2	Folder 7		Palfrey, John Gorham (1796-1881)
				15 Sep. 1853
Box 2	Folder 7		Parkman, Francis (1823-1893)
				23 Mar. [no year]
				30 Nov. 1869
				14 June 1875
				7 June 1878
				27 Aug. 1879
				9 May 1884
				13 Oct. 1885
				29 Jan. 1886
				6 Jan. 1887
				20 Jan. 1887
Box 2	Folder 7		Paulding, James Kirke (1778-1860)
				24 Apr. 1836
Box 2	Folder 8		Pepper contract, in Arabic?
				Undated, cataloged under "Arabic"
Box 2	Folder 8		Peterborough
				15 Mar. 1877
Box 2	Folder 8		Peters, Richard (1744-1828)
				23 Aug. 1790
Box 2	Folder 8		Pinckney, Charles (1757-1824)
				15 Apr. 1820
Box 2	Folder 8		Pinckney, William (1764-1822)
				23 Jan. 1815
Box 2	Folder 8		Plimsoll, Samuel
				7 Feb. 1882
Box 2	Folder 8		Poinsett, Joel Roberts (1779-1851)
				19 Mar. 1824
Box 2	Folder 8		Polk, James K. (1795-1849)
				21 Dec. 1826
Box 2	Folder 8		Porter, James D.
				Cutslip autograph, with other names, undated
Box 2	Folder 8		Quincy, Josiah
				[188-] (manuscript copy)
Box 2	Folder 9		Radford, William
				Cutslip autograph, with other names, undated
Box 2	Folder 9		Randall-MacIver, David (1873-1945)
				6 Aug. 1932?
Box 2	Folder 9		Randolph, John (1773-1833)
				26 Mar. 1820
Box 2	Folder 9		Reay, Lord
				17 Dec. 1884
Box 2	Folder 9		Rhodes, C. J.
				25 Apr. 1898
Box 2	Folder 9		Rhodes, James Ford
				30 Mar. [no year]
Box 2	Folder 9		Rives, William Cabell (1793-1868)
				16 Apr. 1859
Box 2	Folder 9		Roberts, Lord
				27 Feb. [no year] (facsimile)
				27 Feb. [no year] (facsimile, different from above)
				26 Jan. 1897
Box 2	Folder 9		Rodney, Caesar
				Autograph, undated
Box 2	Folder 10		Roosevelt, Theodore
				18 Feb. 1888
				22 Feb. [1888]
				16 May 1898
				25 June 1900
				20 Sep. 1901
				10 Nov. 1904
				26 Jan. 1907
				10 Mar. 1909
				28 Nov. 1911
				29 Aug. 1918
Box 2	Folder 10		Rosebery, Lord
				7 Apr. 1879
				26 Nov. 1881
				25 May 1897
Box 2	Folder 10		Rothschild, Ferdinand, Baron
				30 Dec. 1886
Box 2	Folder 10		Rush, Richard (1780-1859)
				20 Jan. 1817
Box 2	Folder 11		Salisbury
				30 June 1890
				23 Aug. 1895
Box 2	Folder 11		Saltonstall, Richard M.
				16 Nov. 1918
Box 2	Folder 11-12		Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925)
				Calling card, undated
				Undated
				Thursday, undated
				Friday, undated
				Friday, undated (different from above)
				Sunday, undated
				Wed. 8th, undated
				Tues. 12th, undated
				1903?
				1903
				11 Mar. 1903
				30 Mar. 1903
				2 Aug. [1906] (with typescript copy)
				13 Mar. [1907]
				25 Apr. [1907]
				[28 Apr. 1907]
				[29 Apr. 1907]
				7 May 1907 (telegram)
				[1915]
				[1915] (different from above)
				9 Apr. 1915
				12 June 1916
				18 Feb. 1918
				27 Mar. 1920
				3 Mar. 1921
				21 Mar. 1921
				20 Apr. 1921
				11 July 1923 (true copy, typescript)
				[1924]
				2 Jan. 1924
				12 Jan. 1924
				13 Jan. [1924]
				3 May 1924
				29 May 1924
				9 Aug. 1924 (typescript copy)
Box 2	Folder 13		Scott, Winfield (1786-1866)
				2 Jan. 1843
Box 2	Folder 13		Seddon, Richard John (1845-1906)
				Cutslip autograph, undated
				10 June 1902 (telegram)
				16 June 1902
Box 2	Folder 13		Sewall, David (1735-1825)
				18 July 1791
Box 2	Folder 13		Seymour, Horatio (1810-1886)
				11 Sep. 1871
Box 2	Folder 13		Shaw, Lemuel (1781-1861)
				14 July 1855
Box 2	Folder 13		Shaw, Lemuel (1828-1884)
				26 Jan. 1863
				14 Mar. 1863
				8 Apr. 1863
Box 2	Folder 13		Sheridan, P. H.
				Cutslip autograph, undated
Box 2	Folder 13		Southard, Louis Carver
				14 July 1903
Box 2	Folder 13		Sparks, Jared (1789-1866)
				Friday morning, undated
				25 Nov. 1851
Box 2	Folder 13		Spencer, John Canfield (1788-1855)
				12 Jan. 1818
Box 2	Folder 13		Storey, Moorfield (1845-1929)
				3 Sep. 1877
Box 2	Folder 13		Story, Joseph
				27 June 1818
				20 Jan. 1845
Box 2	Folder 13		Strathcona and Mount Royal, Donald Alexander Smith, Baron (1820-1914)
				29 June 1900
Box 2	Folder 13		Sumner, Charles (1811-1874)
				10 June 1845
				10 July 1845
Box 2	Folder 14		Taney, Roger Brooke (1777-1864)
				28 Jan. 1825
Box 2	Folder 14		Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878)
				14 May 1875
Box 2	Folder 14		Thomas, Benjamin Franklin (1813-1878)
				10 Oct. 1861
				23 Feb. 1865
				7 Apr. 1865
				4 Jan. 1868
				22 Apr. 1869
				13 May 1869
				12 July 1875
				11 Feb. 1876
Box 2	Folder 14		Thomson, Elihu
				18 Apr. 1924
Box 2	Folder 14		Trevelyan, Charles Edward (1807-1886)
				21 July 1877
Box 2	Folder 14		Trumbull, Jonathan (1740-1809)
				8 June 1783
Box 2	Folder 15		Tudor, Frederic (1783-1864)
				18 June 1855
				10 Aug. 1855
				13 Aug. 1855
				10 Sep. 1855
				13 Sep. 1855
				8 Oct. 1855
				22 Oct. 1855
				22 Oct. 1855 (different from above)
				27 Oct. 1855
				5 Nov. 1855
Box 2	Folder 16		Upshur, Abel Parker (1791-1844)
				[30 Mar. 1842]
Box 2	Folder 16		Van Buren, John (1810-1866)
				1 July 1857
Box 2	Folder 16		Victoria, Queen
				5 June 1838 (signature on official document)
				28 Mar. 1886
Box 2	Folder 16		Villiers, Charles Pelham (1802-1898)
				2 Dec. 1883
Box 2	Folder 16		Vilmorin, Maurice Lévêque de (b. 1849)
				9 June 1913
Box 2	Folder 17		Waite, Morrison Remick (1816-1888)
				29 June 1887
Box 2	Folder 17		Walpole, Robert, Sir
				Cutslip autograph, undated
Box 2	Folder 17		Walsh, David Ignatius (1872-1947)
				12 May 1915
Box 2	Folder 17		Washington, George (1732-1799)
				Song written by a seaman in tribute, undated
				Engraved invitation, 179-
Box 2	Folder 17		Webster, Daniel (1782-1852)
				Wednesday, undated
				18 Nov. 1839
Box 2	Folder 17		Westminster
				6 Mar. 1877
Box 2	Folder 17		White, Henry
				14 Nov. 1916
Box 2	Folder 17		Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)
				14 Sep. 1878 (typescript copy)
Box 2	Folder 17		Wilson, Henry (1812-1875)
				13 Mar. 1861
Box 2	Folder 18		Winston, Madge K. J.
				[1888]
Box 2	Folder 18		Winthrop, Clara Bowdoin
				5 Jan. [no year]
				15 Feb. [no year]
Box 2	Folder 18		Winthrop, Grenville Lindall
				8 Jan. 1935
Box 2	Folder 18		Winthrop, Robert Charles (1809-1894)
				24 Sep. 1864
				20 June 1872
				1 July 1872
				6 Mar. 1873
				21 May 1873
				2 Nov. 1875
Box 2	Folder 18		Wolcott, Oliver (1760-1833)
				19 Apr. 1797
Box 2	Folder 18		Wolcott, Roger
				2 July 1936
Box 2	Folder 18		Wolseley, Garnet Wolseley, Viscount (1833-1913)
				Greenwich Park, 1888
				Isle of Wight, 1888
				War Office, 1888
				11 Aug. 1888
				31 Oct. 1888
Box 2	Folder 19		Twelve illegible items
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		II. Photocopies, 1721-1937 Arranged alphabetically. This series contains only photocopies of autographs. The originals of these items are not included in this collection.
Box 3	Folder 1		Adams, Samuel
				16 Nov. 1778
Box 3	Folder 2		Ames, Fisher
				6 Apr. 1793
Box 3	Folder 3		Arnold, Benedict
				14 May 1776
Box 3	Folder 4		Biddle, Nicholas
				28 Jan. 1836
				7 June 1838
Box 3	Folder 5		Bloomfield, Robert
				22 Aug. 1817
Box 3	Folder 6		Carter, Samuel
				10 Nov. 1721
Box 3	Folder 7		Chamberlain, Neville
				26 Sep. 1937
Box 3	Folder 8		Clay, Henry
				1 Feb. 1845
Box 3	Folder 9		Dearborn, Henry
				20 Aug. 1806
Box 3	Folder 10		Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820)
				2 Oct. 1798
Box 3	Folder 11		Decatur, Susan
				17 Feb. 1815
Box 3	Folder 12		DeLancey, James
				19 Feb. 1754
Box 3	Folder 13		Fulton, Robert
				18 Sep. 1811
Box 3	Folder 14		Gage, Thomas (1721-1787)
				18 Sep. 1759
Box 3	Folder 15		Gates, Horatio
				31 July 1760
Box 3	Folder 16		Heath, William (1737-1814)
				6 Feb. 1778
Box 3	Folder 17		Irving, Henry
				16 June 1894
Box 3	Folder 18		Kosciuszko, Thaddeus
				1 Dec. 1812
Box 3	Folder 19		Lincoln, Benjamin (1733-1810)
				11 June 1777
Box 3	Folder 20		Putnam, Israel (1718-1790)
				5 Jan. 1777
Box 3	Folder 21		Schuyler, Philip John (1733-1804)
				15 Oct. 1780
Box 3	Folder 22		Scott, Walter, Sir (1771-1832)
				[24] Sep. 1810
Box 3	Folder 23		Scott, Winfield (1786-1866)
				31 Oct. 1812
Box 3	Folder 24		Stark, John (1728-1822)
				27 Oct. 1768

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Preferred Citation

Endicott family autograph collection, Massachusetts Historical Society.

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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.


	Persons:
		Adams, Henry, 1838-1918.
		Chamberlain, Joseph, 1836-1914.
		Chamberlain, Neville, 1869-1940.
		Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908.
		Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882.
		Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926.
		Endicott, William Crowninshield, 1826-1900.
		Endicott, William Crowninshield, 1860-1936.
		Gray, Horace, 1828-1902.
		Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924.
		Olney, Richard, 1835-1917.
		Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893.
		Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925.
		Thomas, Benjamin Franklin, 1813-1878.
		Tudor, Frederic, 1783-1864.


	Subjects:
		Authors, American--Autographs.
		Autographs--Collections.
		Statesmen--Great Britain--Autographs.
		Statesmen--United States--Autographs.

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Collection processed by Jennifer Doyle and Katherine H. Griffin, September 2003.
Encoded by Susan Martin, June 2009

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