This subseries consists of correspondence of George P. Bullard with non-relatives, primarily on business and political matters. Included are letters from John Wingate Weeks related to Bullard's support as a member of Weeks's "Faithful Ten," as well as letters from Nathaniel T. Allen, Alexander Graham Bell, James H. Bowditch, Winthrop Murray Crane, Bertha Cranch Ernst in Tunisia, Henry Wilder Foote, Willis L. King, Arthur F. Luke, Grace Maxwell, Charles A. Morss, and Samuel L. Powers. The subseries also contains correspondence on genealogical matters with Samuel P. May, Orion Thomas Mason, and others. One letter from lawyer Clift Rogers Clapp relates to George's legal troubles in 1910.

This subseries contains articles written by George P. Bullard and published in the Newton Graphic describing sights seen on trips abroad, 1911, 1913, and 1922, as well as articles on other subjects apparently written by Bullard for the Graphic and other newspapers. Some of the articles were pasted into a volume by Nina Bullard. Also included are a few undated composition exercises possibly written by George as a schoolboy.

This subseries contains receipts for purchases made by George P. Bullard, including personal and household items, hotels, and investments; three account books, 1891-1926; and two volumes of records of his gambling wins and losses at Monte Carlo, 1907-1924.

This subseries contains printed material documenting George P. Bullard's various businesses and political activities, including items related to John Wingate Weeks and "The Faithful Ten," as well as organizations with which Bullard was associated. Also included are newspaper clippings; biographies of Bullard; his passport; an alphabetical card file with notes and instructions about household matters; nine blueprints showing additions to Bullard's house by Davis, McGrath, and Kiessling; and other miscellaneous papers.

This subseries consists of correspondence of Nina (Jenks) Bullard with non-relatives, primarily letters to Nina and George P. Bullard accepting or declining invitations to their daughter Marian's wedding, February-March 1912. Also included are letters to Nina from Annie A. Whidden, someone with the initials W.F.G. signing their name "Frère Jeannot" and "L'Homme de Gay," and other correspondents. Some letters relate to her travels, and others discuss genealogical subjects.

This subseries contains eight travel diaries of Nina (Jenks) Bullard, kept in Italy, 1901; on a trans-Atlantic voyage to England and Wales, 1908; on another voyage to Tunisia and Europe, including Spain, 1913; in northern Italy, Germany, and Switzerland, 1914; in Italy again, 1921-1922 and 1923-1924; and in Italy and France, 1924. Entries describe art and architecture, social activities, and other subjects. Included are references to her husband George P. Bullard and other traveling companions. Her companion in 1914 was her friend Annie A. Whidden.

This subseries consists of manuscript and typescript writings, primarily speeches, and published articles by Nina (Jenks) Bullard on a variety of subjects, including travel, history, and art and architecture. Most are undated. A few of the folders include supporting material.

This subseries contains papers of Nina (Jenks) Bullard related to her extensive travels, including her passports; tickets stubs, visiting cards, maps, and other ephemera; 11 pocket memoranda books; and miscellaneous undated notes. The memoranda books and loose notes list hotels, itineraries, contacts, accounts, etc. Of particular interest is ephemera and printed matter related to Bullard's 1914 European trip and restrictions on travel instituted at the outbreak of World War I.

This subseries contains a large number of receipts, primarily for hotel stays in Europe and other travel expenses. Also included are inventories of Nina (Jenks) Bullard's property, papers related to her estate and the estate of her husband George, records of investments, and other financial papers and volumes.

This series consists of miscellaneous papers of Nina (Jenks) Bullard, such as an autograph book containing signatures of family members, Dean Academy classmates, and others; volumes related to the wedding of her daughter Marian in 1912, including one with an alphabetical list of invitees and responses; papers documenting Nina's diagnosis of pernicious anemia; and four address books.

The bulk of this subseries consists of letters of congratulations to Charles E. Lauriat, Jr. on his engagement in 1911, his marriage in 1912, the births of his children, and his survival of the Lusitania disaster, as well as letters of condolence after the deaths of his first child Natalie in 1913 and his father in 1920. Many of the latter were sent by prominent booksellers and publishers. The subseries also contains birthday and holiday cards, as well as letters and cablegrams related to the bookstore Charles E. Lauriat Co., especially correspondence with James W. F. Parsons in 1920 about the store's lease. Correspondents include Oakes Ames, Jennie A. "Chum" Boland, the New York Yacht Club, Rena Struggles, and Arthur J. and Cicely "Ciss" Walford.

This subseries contains 16 pocket and line-a-day diaries of Charles E. Lauriat, Jr. The first diary describes Lauriat, Jr.'s honeymoon in London with his wife Marian in 1912. The rest of the diaries contain very brief entries noting his family, business, and social activities; voyages to Europe and back for his bookstore Charles E. Lauriat Co.; and the weather. Included are many references to the Boston Athletic Association. The last diary is an undated account of an unidentified rowing trip, probably written when he was a young man.

This subseries contains correspondence, printed matter, and other papers related to the bookstore Charles E. Lauriat Co., of which Lauriat, Jr. was president from 1920 to 1937. Included are printed pamphlets, catalogs, advertisements, newspaper articles, and ephemera; three oversize posters advertising a moving sale; typescript lists of book trade contacts; accounts and receipts; agreements; and letters of condolence to the company from other booksellers and publishers after Lauriat, Jr.'s death in 1937.

The subseries includes a copy of George H. Sargent's pamphlet Lauriat's 1872-1922: Being a Sketch of Early Boston Booksellers with Some Account of Charles E. Lauriat Company and Its Founder Charles E. Lauriat (1922), personalized by Lauriat, Jr. for his mother, as well as Donald McKay and the Ships He Built by Richard C. McKay, published by Lauriat's in 1925. Also of interest is the September 1933 Lauriat's catalog advertising, among other books, Mein Kampf (translated as My Battle) by Adolf Hitler.

This subseries consists of papers related to financial support of French children and prisoners of war during World War I. The POW program, in which donors "adopted" specific POWs and paid to have packages of clothing, food, and other items sent to them, was administered by L'Adoption des Prisonniers de Guerre of the International Red Cross. Charles E. Lauriat, Jr., Charles E. Lauriat, Sr., George P. Bullard, E. C. Newcomb, and Andrew Stewart contributed. The individuals receiving support were Gustave Louis Picard and Emile Franc (Charles, Jr.); Léon Grundrich and Arthur Bansart (Charles, Sr.); Vercingétorix Derache and Auguste Dhieux (Bullard); and Jean Gouillon and Ernest Fourmentin (Newcomb and Stewart).

The program for the support of children was carried out through the French Babies Fund, a project of Life magazine, and the Fraternité Franco-Americainé. Charles, Jr. and Marian (Bullard) Lauriat "adopted" three children: Eliane Ozenne (b. 1913) of Paris, Léon Madelon (b. 1915) of Paris, and François Garel (b. 1916) of Côtes-du-Nord.

The subseries consists primarily of letters (mostly in French), index cards with details of donations, and receipts and accounts. Correspondents include Madeleine-Yvonne Sarcey (1869-1950); Anne-Marie Ginisty (1890-1975); Albert Sauveur (1863-1939); J. Terquem; Grundrich, Bansart, and Derache; and Madames Ozenne, Madelon, and Garel, the mothers of the "adopted" children. Some photographs of the children and one of Grundrich are included.

This subseries includes volumes of Charles E. Lauriat, Jr.'s personal, business, investment, estate, and other financial accounts. Loose papers document purchases of personal and household items, donations to charities, and other expenses.

This subseries consists of miscellaneous papers of Charles E. Lauriat, Jr., including printed material; a book of pressed flowers he created in Dresden, Germany, in 1890; material related to his extensive travels; miscellaneous poems and articles, some possibly written by him; and a variety of membership cards, certificates, agreements, and other papers. Printed material includes items related to Franklin College in Dresden, ships' passenger lists, newspaper articles about the Lusitania, a broadside asking for help finding a suitcase Lauriat lost in the sinking, mailings on women's suffrage sent to him in 1915, programs, and obituaries. Travel papers include seven passports of Lauriat with attached photographs.

This subseries consists of correspondence of Marian (Bullard) Lauriat with non-relatives, primarily with friends on personal matters. The earliest letters are responses to a party thrown by Marian and her sister Clara in February 1892 and another party thrown by Marian in March 1897. The subseries also contains letters of congratulations to Marian on her engagement to Charles Lauriat, Jr. in 1911, their marriage in 1912, and the births of their children; responses to a housewarming party in 1913; letters of sympathy on the death of their baby Natalie in October 1913; and correspondence discussing Charles, Jr.'s survival of the Lusitania disaster in 1915 and the likelihood of the United States entering World War I. Letters from the late 1940s relate to the death of Mathilda Abrahams (1866-1945), an immigrant from Sweden who had lived with Harriet (Page) Lauriat, and arrangements for her belongings. Correspondence in the 1950s includes responses to Marian's newspaper advertisements for household help at her home in Hull, Massachusetts.

Correspondents include Caroline S. Burrage; Rosalie and Kate Carroll; Constance "Connie" (Bayntun) Coward, some addressed to Rena Struggles and forwarded to Marian; Susannah "Susie" Emerson; Eleanor R. "Frosty" Frost; Kent Roberts "Bobbo" Greenfield; Christine (Terhune) Herrick; James Frederic "Eric" Herrick; Rudolph Arend Houwen, a friend from the Netherlands; Mary de Labenska; Marion Raymond; Dorothy Sanderson; Townsend "Towney" Scudder III; Muriel E. Smith; Cynthia Olive Sperring; Rena Struggles, the Lauriat children's British nurse; Mary Emma (Thomson-Glover) Todd; Myrtle Todd, Marian's goddaughter; Arthur J. Walford; Robert and Betty Wason; and Louise Studley Wright. Among the most frequent correspondents are Greenfield, Eric Herrick, and Struggles. Letters from Struggles begin in 1926 and discuss the activities and well-being of the Lauriat children and members of the Struggles family, as well as life in London, Bath, and Brighton, England, during World War II. Struggles describes the London Blitz and the bombing of her home on 16 November 1940 that killed her mother; the deaths of other family members and friends; and the perseverance of the British people.

The subseries also includes some drafts of Marian's outgoing correspondence, as well as letters written to her and her husband Charles, Jr. together.

This subseries contains 15 pocket, line-a-day, and travel diaries of Marian (Bullard) Lauriat. The first two diaries, 1894, 1896, were written while she was a girl growing up in West Newton, Massachusetts, and contain brief entries about her daily activities with friends and family, school, church, etc. The third is a combination diary and scrapbook describing a trip to Europe with her mother Nina Bullard in 1897, including the trans-Atlantic voyage on the S.S. Canada, activities on board, and fellow passengers, particularly a Miss Fell; sights seen in Liverpool and London; Marian's education at Mmes. Thavenet and Taylor's boarding school in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France; sights seen in Paris with her father George P. Bullard; travel in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Belgium; and the voyage back on the Canada. Inserted into the volume are letters; programs, ticket stubs, calling cards, and other printed matter and ephemera; flowers; drawings; and receipts. Loose papers have been removed and filed in separate folders.

The next ten volumes consist of seven pocket diaries, one each for the years 1899 to 1905, and three line-a-day diaries kept from 1906-1910, 1911-1915, and 1916 (with a few entries from 1935). Entries in these diaries describe Marian's daily activities in West Newton, again in Neuilly-sur-Seine (in 1901), and on various trips. Many entries mention her parents, her sister Clara Bullard (later Jaynes), and her husband Charles E. Lauriat, Jr. Also included are four folders of select loose pages from weekly and monthly calendars with brief notes about Marian's activities, 1904-1905, 1924-1927, 1930-1937. The last two diaries contain very brief entries about trips taken in 1953 and 1955. Both are mostly blank.

This subseries consists primarily of notebooks kept by Marian (Bullard) Lauriat during her education at the Peirce School in West Newton, Massachusetts; Newton High School; and Mmes. Thavenet and Taylor's boarding school in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Many of the notebooks include doodles, sketches, and messages presumably to classmates. The subseries also contains papers documenting her work as a Sunday School teacher, including an attendance book and two printed booklets with her extensive annotations; notes apparently taken during a course on the Bible in the early 1950s; sketchbooks; and poetry. Many of the papers and volumes in this subseries are undated.

This subseries consists of papers and volumes related to trips taken by Marian (Bullard) Lauriat. Included are three travel notebooks containing itineraries; miscellaneous notes about places visited, hotels, letters and postcards sent, and gifts purchased; and addresses of contacts. The subseries also contains Lauriat's passports, 1920, 1930, and 1955; ephemera, including tickets to and calls slips from the British Museum Reading Room; a notebook kept by an unidentified person taking care of Lauriat's house in Hull, Massachusetts, while she was on a trip to England in 1955, including detailed instructions by Lauriat and attached receipts; and a fabric suitcase cover, removed and saved by Lauriat, listing all the places she visited between 1900 and 1904.

This subseries contains receipts and other financial papers of Marian (Bullard) Lauriat, including bank books, personal account books, and estate papers. Receipts and account books document purchases made by Lauriat on trips abroad and at home. Also included are papers documenting charitable contributions; receipt books for her children's allowances; an account book kept by Rena Struggles in 1928 while caring for the Lauriat children, listing groceries and child care items; and material related to the estates of Martha Frances Metcalf in 1937 and Martha Lauriat Tarbell in 1957. Lauriat's own estate papers consist of copies of her will, certificates, statements, correspondence, agreements, receipts, and notes and volumes recording the disbursement of her property.

This subseries also contains papers related to the care, finances, death, and burial of Mathilda Abrahams (1866-1945), an immigrant from Sweden who had lived with Harriet (Page) Lauriat. Marian Lauriat paid for Abrahams's funeral and burial in 1945. Included are receipts for Abrahams's rent at 562 Tremont Street, Boston, 1939-1942.

This subseries consists primarily of miscellaneous inventories of property, lists of gifts, and other inventories and lists created by Marian (Bullard) Lauriat at various times, including several related to her engagement and wedding. Included are both volumes and loose papers.

This subseries contains five scrapbooks compiled by Marian (Bullard) Lauriat, as well as miscellaneous printed material. The first scrapbook, 1847-1925, contains correspondence and personal papers of Lauriat and family members, including her birth certificate and those of her parents; her parents' marriage certificate; early letters and papers of her parents and others; ephemera, such as programs, invitations, and ticket stubs; school reports; material documenting Lauriat's travels; postcards and calling cards; and silhouettes and photographs, including many of Lauriat at different ages. Of particular interest is printed material from the coronation of George V in 1911.

The rest of the scrapbooks primarily contain newspaper clippings related to various topics of interest to Lauriat, including many articles about the births, marriages, and deaths of friends and family members. The second scrapbook, 1892-1954, includes an undated pencil sketch of Lauriat by Ethel Hale Freeman. The fourth scrapbook, 1929-1959, includes photographs of Lauriat's children.

Loose printed material, filed at the end of the subseries, consists of newspaper clippings, programs, postcards, calling cards, and other items, including a small printed booklet about women's suffrage titled Objections Answered by Alice Stone Blackwell, as well as papers related to an air raid test on 15 May 1952.

This subseries consist of address books, guest books, and other miscellaneous volumes and papers of Marian (Bullard) Lauriat. The guest books contain personal messages from individuals who visited the Lauriats, including many family members.

This subseries consists of correspondence of Nathaniel Page Lauriat with non-relatives, as well as a smaller amount of letters to his wife Jane (née Welch), beginning in 1944, and to Nathaniel and Jane together. Early correspondence includes birthday and Christmas cards, letters of condolence after Charles E. Lauriat, Jr.'s death in 1937, and letters related to Nathaniel's interests in stamp collecting and theater.

The bulk of Nathaniel's correspondence dates from 1937 to 1947 and consists primarily of letters from friends, colleagues, and classmates, including some in military service during World War II. The subseries contains letters from David Handy in England discussing the lead-up to the war and world politics, as well as letters from Maurice Stanley Friedman, a pacifist and conscientious objector. Also included is correspondence about Nathaniel's education at Harvard and Meadville Theological School; letters written during his tenure as publicity director of the New London Players, an acting company in New Hampshire, and on the Arlington Street Church Music Committee; letters of congratulations to him and Jane on their marriage in June 1945 and the birth of their first child in 1946; and later material related to Nathaniel's interest in genealogy, 1988-2002, specifically the Bedford flag and its connection to his ancestors, the Pages. This material includes correspondence with Sharon Lawrence McDonald and a copy of her publication The Bedford Flag Unfurled, personalized to Nathaniel, as well as other printed material.

Additional correspondents include Miriam "Mimi" (Haskell) Berlin, Elizabeth (Colp) Chellis, Orval S. Clay, Nat M. Cohen, Jr., John Peaslee Graves, Jeannette (Tufts) Greene, Kent "Bobbo" Roberts Greenfield, James "Uncle Jim" Frederic Herrick, Nona James, Elizabeth "Betty" (Heimick) Koch, Robert Bond Lundblad, John C. Millard, Thomas J. Nolan, Jr., Eva Pratt Owen, Andrew Eliot Rice, Lee H. Salisbury, Rena Struggles, Malcolm "Mac" Read Sutherland, Barbara Webber, Sidney Werber, Helen Wieselberg, and many others.

This subseries consists primarily of receipts from Nathaniel Page Lauriat's trip to Europe in the summer of 1955.

This subseries contains newspaper clippings, programs, and other printed material and miscellaneous papers of Nathaniel Page Lauriat and, to a lesser extent, Jane (Welch) Lauriat. Included are programs for plays in which Nathaniel appeared, as well as a copy of The Torch (Vol. 33, No. 1, May 1960), a publication of the International Association of Torch Clubs, with his article titled "The Three-Pronged Revolution and the Intellectual Life."

According to a note in the collection written by Marian Lauriat, these two scrapbooks were compiled by her maternal grandmother Clara (Merithew) Jenks. They include poems, household recipes and tips, and miscellaneous articles clipped from newspapers and pasted into manuscript volumes. Both volumes were originally memoranda or ledger books, probably belonging to Henry Ray Jenks. Some memoranda and accounts from 1870-1871 are visible.

This subseries consists primarily of five volumes of Frank Lyman Jenks, including two autograph books. The first autograph book, 1877-1890, contains the signatures of Louisa May Alcott; Charles Dickens; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; William Hickling Prescott; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; and John Townsend Trowbridge, as well as family members and friends at Franklin, Massachusetts, with poems and personal messages. The second autograph book, 1889-1890, is inscribed "L. Frank Jenks / Xmas 1889 / From B.A.T." and includes signatures of friends and family and sketches of pigs. The subseries also contains a scrapbook, most likely compiled by Jenks, with printed jokes, poems, illustrations, and stories, many from Puck magazine, pasted into an account book probably kept by his father Henry Ray Jenks; an unidentified volume that is mostly blank, with pages removed, except for an inscription on the inside cover; and a list of books, possibly written by Jenks, with loose sheets by Nina Bullard in 1918 listing "additions in the last two years."

This subseries contains papers of Clara (Bullard) Jaynes and, to a lesser extent, her husband Julian C. Jaynes. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters of condolence to Clara after Julian's death in June 1922. Also included are responses to a party thrown by Clara and her sister Marian in February 1892; letters from Julian to George Hutchinson, 1905-1906; printed material related to Clara's alma mater, the National Park Seminary, as well as a manuscript copy of her 1905 graduation speech; and reviews of her publication Magic Wells and other newspaper clippings. The subseries also contains one volume, a list of wedding gifts the couple received in 1917 and flowers and gifts received after the birth of their first child Helen in 1918.

This subseries consists primarily of papers related to the estate of Blanche (Lauriat) Manson and the distribution of her property.

This line-a-day diary of Martha Frances Metcalf, kept sporadically during the years 1914-1917 and 1924-1925, contains brief entries primarily describing social and church activities. Metcalf mentions George P. Bullard, Nina (Jenks) Bullard, and other members of the Bullard family, including her aunt Rena (Bullard) Richardson. Entries in 1915 discuss news of the sinking of the Lusitania. Metcalf also writes about the failing health and death of Metcalf Everett Pond (1845-1916). The volume also contains miscellaneous accounts, 1921-1936, and memoranda.

The papers of George Bullard Lauriat include correspondence, childhood drawings, programs, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and other material.

The papers of Charles Emelius Lauriat III consist of correspondence, programs, newspaper clippings, and other material. Included are a few pages of a diary, most likely written by Lauriat, describing his daily activities in April 1928 and the arrival of his younger sister Patience. Also included is the special order, dated 30 December 1940, announcing his promotion to technical sergeant in the 101st Combat Engineers, Massachusetts National Guard.

This subseries contains miscellaneous papers related to "various swindles" and get-rich-quick schemes apparently perpetrated or participated in by Miss Lauriat Foster of New York and others, including a "scientific" betting system, mining claims, a proposed "industrial home" for unemployed women, and stock in a cookbook company. Included are a number of letters and odds sheets sent to Foster from Irving Edward Coleman (1881-1946), using the alias J. E. Harrington, at racetracks in Florida. Coleman discusses their betting system and the loss of his own and others' money, and asks Foster for more money. Also included are copies of the agreement establishing their betting syndicate, 25 September 1931. Lauriat Foster claimed to be related to the Lauriats, but she has not been identified.

The papers of Patience Lauriat include correspondence, printed material, her wedding guest list, and a one-page typescript autobiography written in 1939 describing the first 11 years of her life.

This small subseries contains miscellaneous papers of unidentified individuals, as well as identified members of the Bullard, Lauriat, Jenks, and related families who have no designated series or subseries in this guide. Included are letters, drawings, poems and other writings, a commonplace-book, and other papers. Most of the material is undated.