Unspecified Box 5, folder 11
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Diary, 1855-1863, 1855-1863 Digital
FOUND IN:
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University
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Collection:
William Bond & Son records and Bond family papers, 1724-1931 (inclusive), 1769-1923 (bulk)
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Series:
IV. J. Morton Clinch papers, 1850-1863
Item — unspecified: Box 5, folder 11Identifier: hsi00001
Scope and Contents:
Leather diary kept by J. Morton Clinch in 1855-1856 detailing the weather, political and social news, his personal activities and those of his family and neighbors, and his professional work. Entries also record election results, neighbors' births and deaths, church services, attendance to the theater, and events like a lecture by freed slave Anthony Burns (1834-1862) on May 26, 1855, and the funeral of politician Abbott Lawrence (1792-1855) on August 22, 1855. Also includes some...