Kirkland-Lothrop family correspondence, 1788, 1823-1828

The Kirkland-Lothrop family correspondence in this sub-subseries consists mostly of letters written to Samuel Kirkland Lothrop when he was a student at Harvard from 1823 to 1827 and a minister in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1828. Correspondents include Lothrop's father (John Hosmer Lothrop), mother (Jerusha Kirkland Lothrop), sisters (Cornelia and Mary Ann), wife (Mary Lyman Buckminster), and uncle (John T. Kirkland). John Hosmer's letters allude to the student rebellion at Harvard in 1823 and urge his son to focus on his studies and distance himself from the troubles on campus. Jerusha Lothrop's letters inquire about John T. Kirkland's health, discuss Kirkland's paralysis (1828) and mention a visit from Lothrop's fiancée Mary Lyman Buckminster. Cornelia Lothrop informs her brother of the suicide of a family friend Lyman Buckminster (1796-1825), a Harvard graduate; the marriage of her friend Susan Brown; and John T. Kirkland's rheumatism. Mary Ann Lothrop's letters discuss Samuel Lothrop's acceptance of a proctorship and her dissatisfaction with John T. Kirkland's new wife, Elizabeth; complaining that Kirkland has been cold to her since his marriage. In other letters, John T. Kirkland writes Lothrop about a trip he took to New York to visit his family (1824) and Mary Ann Buckminster writes to Lothrop in Dover, New Hampshire, expressing her love and affection for him, but complaining that Lothrop has not written to her as often as she would like. Samuel Lothrop Kirkland's letter to his uncle, John T. Kirkland, was written after Kirkland's resignation at Harvard in 1828 and expresses Samuel's high regard for Kirkland, stating that Kirkland's memory will brighten his path throughout his life. This sub-subseries also includes a letter from John T. Kirkland's father, Samuel Kirkland (1741-1808), written to his son George Whitefield Kirkland (1770-1806) at Dartmouth College, commending him for his good behavior and studies at school.