Overview
Diaries, correspondence, and other papers of the Richard Henry Dana, Jr. family of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dates
- 1822-1956
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by the Dana family is held by the President and Fellows of Harvard College for the Schlesinger Library. Copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
7.92 linear feet ((19 file boxes) plus 1 supersize folder)This collection of diaries, correspondence, and other papers centers primarily on four women of the Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815-1882) family: Sarah Watson Dana (1814-1907), his wife; Ruth Charlotte Dana (1814-1901), his sister; Elizabeth Ellery Dana (1846-1939), one of his daughters; and Rosamond Dana Wild (1879-1959), his granddaughter.
Spanning three generations, the writings and correspondence of these women provide a day to day, year to year account of one family's existence for over a century (1822-1956). Descriptions of social activities, school days, trips to Europe, as well as news of childbirth, family illnesses, and deaths fill the pages of diaries and letters. Letters from other family members and relatives reveal a closeness of family ties. Life-long friendships can be found among the numerous non-family correspondents. Very few of the letters venture outside the areas of family, health, religion, or weather. Other papers in the collection include family wills and property transactions as well as a small amount of correspondence, etc. for legal cases in which Richard Henry Dana, Jr., or his son, Richard Henry Dana, III (1851-1931), were the attorneys. For other legal papers as well as family papers see: Dana Collection, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. Also Longfellow House Archives, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The collection is divided into two series: Series I consists of diaries, correspondence books, account books, and miscellaneous notebooks; series II of correspondence and other papers.
BIOGRAPHY
The Dana family has been a prominent part of Cambridge, Massachusetts history since the first Richard Dana settled there around 1640.
For family history and genealogy see: Elizabeth Ellery Dana, The Dana Family in America, Cambridge, Mass.: 1956; and Charles Francis Adams, Richard Henry Dana, A Biography, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1890.
SUMMARY OF INVENTORY
- Series I: Diaries, correspondence books, account books, miscellaneous notebooks
- Series II: Correspondence and other papers
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession numbers: 113, 1408, 1676, 69-10
The papers of the Dana family were deposited with the Schlesinger Library in 1960, 1968, and 1969 by the Dana family.
Series II processed under NEH Grant Number RC 24669-76-987.
CONTAINER LIST
- Box 1: Volumes 1-35
- Box 2: Volumes 36-88
- Box 3: Volumes 89-110, 252-260
- Box 4: Volumes 111-139
- Box 5: Volumes 140-149
- Box 6: Volumes 150-157
- Box 7: Volumes 158-169
- Box 8: Volumes 170-189
- Box 9: Volumes 190-197
- Box 10: Volumes 198-204
- Box 11:Volumes 205-219
- Box 12: Volumes 220-231
- Box 13: Volumes 232-251
- Box 14: Volumes 261-271
- Box 15: Folders 1-30
- Box 16: Folders 31-55
- Box 17: Folders 56-68
- Box 18: Folders 69-80
- Box 19: Folders 81-108
INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS
This index lists writers and recipients of letters. Information about these individuals is not indexed; nor are subjects. The numbers are folder numbers.
- Abbott, Katharine K. 66
- Adams, B. F. 29
- Adams, Charles Francis 27, 28, 90
- Ailman, J. H. 65
- Albert, Julia D. 64
- Albertson, Mary 66
- Aldrich, Charles 28
- Allen, Elizabeth H. 64
- Allen, Elizabeth K. 63
- Allen, Elizabeth L. 63
- Allen, Mary Gardiner 66
- Allman, Helen A. 67
- Allston, Martha R. 105
- Allyn, Alice A. 69, 72
- Allyn, Anna W. Page 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 107
- Allyn, Dorothea 71
- Allyn, R. P. 64
- Amee, Jennie Teele 71
- Anderson, J. 63
- Andersen, Sarah (Sally) Dana 29, 54
- Andrews, E. W. (Mrs.) 67
- Andrews, R. R. 66
- Andrews, V. M. (Mrs.) 66
- Andrews, W. W. 25
- Archibald, Eliza 65, 67, 70, 71
- Argyll, Elizabeth 4
- Armstrong, M. A. 68
- Arnold, Abby P. 64, 65
- Ashburner, Anne 28, 63
- Ashburner, Grace 30
- Atkinson, C. F. 30, 67
- Atwood, J. W. 68
- Aubin, Helen W. 67
- Aubin, Margaret H. 67, 71
- Augur, Margaret A. 67
- August, Albert 66
- Austin, Alice 66
- Austin, J. O. 67, 90
- Avery, Clara A. 67
- Avery, Mary 63
- Ayer, Clarence W. 67
- Ayres, F. L. 66
- Babbitt, H. Bradford 65
- Bacon, Alfred T. 63
- Bacon, Catharine E. 63
- Bacon, Katharine W. 63
- Bailey, Hollis R. 65
- Balch, Agnes G. 67
- Baldwin, Austin 25
- Baldwin, Henry C. 67
- Baldwin, R. D. 70
- Ballentine, James A. 64
- Bancroft, George 26
- Barnwell, Elizabeth S. 67
- Barry, Phillips 66
- Bartlett, Elizabeth French 68, 69
- Bartlett, H. S. W. 30
- Bartlett, John 64
- Bartlett, Mary E. 69
- Batchelder, Samuel F. 108
- Beal, Francis L. 67, 68
- Beale, Arthur M. 69
- Beale, Joseph H. 67, 69
- Beard, Amy S. 64
- Beard, B. W. 68
- Beard, Mabel 66
- Beard, Stella A. 64, 66, 67
- Beattie, Louisa 67, 68, 69, 72
- Beattie, Martha 65, 66, 67
- Beattie, Mary E. 68, 69, 71
- Beckley, G. G. 29
- Bedell, Harriet M. 68
- Beecher, Catharine E. 14
- Belden, Mary H. 22
- Bell, Gibson 65
- Bell, Helen C. 64
- Bell, Mabel A. 70
- Bell, Sara C. 64
- Bellamy, Anna M. J. 65, 66
- Belton, Elizabeth L. 68
- Bemis, George H. 67
- Bemis, Mary F. 67
- Bemis, Mary Young 65, 67
- Benedict, Clara Woolson 64
- Benjamin, Marian 68
- Bennett, Nannie Whitney 69
- Berntsen, Olivia 65
- Berry, Lena P. 108
- Bidwell, Mary L. 22
- Bigelow, Adeline A. 65
- Bill, Alexander H. 67
- Bissell, Julia W. 63, 64
- Blackall, C. H. 67
- Blackey, John W. 66
- Blake, Elizabeth Vernon 65
- Blake, Sara Lowell 64
- Blanchard, Bertha B. 68
- Blatchford, Mary E. 64, 66, 67
- Blevins, Albert H. 67
- Blight, (Mrs.) 30
- Blossom, Alice S. 67
- Bonholzer, Elsie 69
- Bonner, Margaret W. 67
- Booth, F. 28
- Borgstrom, Beatrice B. (Bessie) 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 108
- Bowditch, Edith 64
- Bowditch, Selma 64
- Bowditch, Sylvia C. 70
- Bowditch, Vincent Y. 64
- Bowen, Mary 69
- Bowla, John T. 64
- Bowler, George P. 68
- Boyle, P. H. 65
- Bradbury, William F. 63, 65
- Braddick, F. (Mrs.) 68
- Bray, M. H. 63
- Bray, William 68
- Brennan, Julia G. 67
- Brewster, A. M. 64
- Brewster, C. F. 65, 66
- Brewster, Carrie 68
- Brigga, Pauline Watson 108
- Briggs, Edward C. 64, 66
- Brooks, Helen L. 70
- Brosnahan, T. 72
- Brown, E. 4
- Brown, Elizabeth 65
- Bryant, Lewis L. 64
- Buckston, Ada L. 27
- Buff, Louis F. 64
- Bullard, Louisa D. 64, 65
- Bumstead, Josephine F. 66
- Burbeck, W. H. 65
- Burgess, S. K. 64
- Burke, Martha P. 68
- Burnet, Mabel L. 64
- Burtchall, Grace B. S. 70
- Burton, Minnie G. B. 67
- Butler, Isabel J. 106
- Byerly, A. 65
- Cable, Julius C. 29, 65
- Cabot, Carolyn S. (Carrie) 63, 64, 65
- Cabot, Follen 63, 72
- Cabot, Godfrey L. 70
- Cabot, John Higginson 66, 67
- Cabot, Sady 63
- Cabot, Jessica White 68
- Cahill, Patrick J. 65
- Cairns, Lavinia C. 70, 71, 108
- Calkins, Raymond 70
- Campbell, Mary B. 24, 72
- Campbell, Thomas C. 67
- Capelle, Annie L. 66
- Carpenter, Anna 103
- Carrington, Edwin T. 49, 55
- Carrington, Katherine 49, 55
- Carrington, Sarah 22, 29, 49, 55
- Carrington, Sarah T. 26, 55
- Carson, Caroline 27
- Carter, Margaret 53a, 65
- Carter, Susan N. 28
- Cary, Ethel Grant 68
- Caryl, Harriet E. 63
- Chambre, A. 64
- Channing, Alice 56
- Channing, Anna K. 56
- Channing, Barbara Higginson (Bee) 30, 56
- Channing, Eugene 57, 107, photograph
- Channing, Henrietta M. 24, 56, 90
- Channing, Walter, Jr. 49, 56, 90
- Chapin, Minnie B. W. 29
- Chapman, Emily D. 70
- Chase, W. H. 29
- Chauncey, Emily H. 27
- Cheney, E. P. 68
- Chesley, Annie L. 69
- Chick, Alice Grace 69
- Chick, G. H. 67
- Chick, William A. (Mrs.) 65, 66
- Child, Elizabeth E. S. 28, 30, 63, 64, 65, 66, 72
- Child, F. J. 30
- Child, Helen M. C. 64, 65
- Child, J. F. 72
- Child, J. R. 72
- Christiansen, (Miss) 65
- Churchill, F. H. (Mrs.) 29
- Churchill, H. B. 69
- Churchill, Mabel H. 65
- Clarke, Leverett 99
- Claus, Sylvia 70
- Clement, E. H. 67
- Cloyes, L. J. 66
- Clune, Annie G. 68
- Coale, Elizabeth 68
- Cobb, Mary Fuller 65, 66
- Cogswell, Alice 22
- Coit, Henry A. 63, 66
- Collier, Thurlow Field 108
- Collingwood, Eleanor W. 26
- Comer, Louisa R. 43
- Comins, A. L. 69
- Conant, Kate 64, 87
- Conant, Lucy S. 64, 65
- Cone, Louise P. 68
- Conly, J. A. 64
- Connelly, Pierce 27
- Conners, (Mrs.) 65
- Constable, C. 25
- Conway, Rose 66
- Cooke, Mary A. 26
- Cooke, Mary H. 65
- Coolidge, Mary R. C. 25, 65, 66, 72
- Copeland, Julia H. 66
- Cordeiro, M. C. B. (Mrs.) 99
- Corlyn, W. B. 103
- Corsen, Grace E. 66
- Courtis, Mary Agnes 63, 72
- Crawford, J. G. 71
- Creelman, George W. 64
- Crook, Harriet B. 67
- Cross, Minnie E. 69
- Crownfield, David 69, 70, 71
- Crownfield, Kate 67, 72
- Cunningham, Frederic 42, 64
- Curtis, E. A. 26
- Cushing, Fanny E. 70
- Daggett, Eleanor C. 60
- Daggett, Elizabeth (Watson) 7, 8, 14, 15, 17
- Daggett, Ellsworth 25, 57
- Daggett, June S. 57 87
- Daggett, Leonard M. 64
- Daggett, Mary 57
- Daggett, Susan E. (Suzy) 42, 57
- Dana, Edith (Longfellow) 106
- Dana, Edmund T. (1779-1859) 107
- Dana, Elizabeth Ellery (Betsey) (1789-1874) 10, 24, 30, 104
- Dana, Elizabeth Ellery (1846-1939) 2, 9, 40, 42, 47, 48, 51-84, 86, 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 98, 102, 105, 106
- Dana, Francis (1777-1840) 62, 105
- Dana, Isabella Hazen 53a, 62, 107
- Dana, James J. 62
- Dana, M. H. (?) 62
- Dana, Matilda Adele 29, 58
- Dana, Richard (1787-1879) 103
- Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. (1815-1882) 1-6, 36, 45
- Dana, Richard Henry, III (1851-1931) 9, 41, 42, 52, 88-101
- Dana, Ruth Charlotte (1814-1901) 42, 53, 98, 102
- Dana, Ruth Dana 30
- Dana, Sarah Watson (1814-1907) 1, 7-35, 37, 38, 42, 51, 85, 88, 91, 93, 94, 95, 101, 102
- Dana, Sue 62
- Dana, Theresa 62
- Davie, H. E. 30
- Davis, James C. 65, 66
- Dore, Lillian M. 65
- Dowd, Hannah 99
- Dwight, Theodore F. 63, 64
- Eliot, Amory 67
- Eliot, G. H. 68
- Emerson, M. R. 23
- Eustis, Ella P. 63
- Fields, Annie 30
- Fiske, F. L. 30
- Francis, Julia F. 6
- Freeman, Grace 108
- Fulton, Robert 102
- Galvez y Fatio, Sofia 63
- Gardel, J. S. H. (Mrs.) 4, 11
- Goodrich, Mary B. (H?) 25, 28
- Gown, Nellie 64, 69
- Gray, Andrew 66
- Hanilere, Grace H. 63
- Hedrick, T. B. (Mrs.) 67
- Higginson, Susan Cabot 24
- Hill, S. O. (Mrs.) 66
- Holmes, O[liver] W[endell] 64
- Hopkins, Katie F. C. 99
- Hoppin, E. M. 72
- Horsford, Lilian 30
- Howard, Fred S. 71
- Hoyte, Maude Beckles 67, 68, 108
- Hubbard, Gardiner G. 95
- Humphrey, Marie 22
- Huntington, William R. 25
- Ireland, Catharine Innes 68
- Jewett, Sarah O. 28
- Johnson, Francis 108
- Kelliher, Kate 64
- Kernahan, Rachel Mary 100
- Leffingwell, June E. 28
- Levering, Joseph 4
- Little, Abby W. 5, 30, 63, 72
- Little, George C. 5, 25
- Logan, E. G. 72
- Lyman, Richard Dana 106
- Lyman, Ruth Charlotte (Dana) 9, 37, 39, 42, 45-50, 52, 86, 94
- Lynch, Louise Adele 23
- Magee, Louise C. 67
- Marsh, Ann 12, 23, 24, 104
- Marsh, Carolyn C. 26, 27, 28
- Marsh, Fanny A. 26, 49, 59, 104
- Marsh, F. J. 23
- Marsh, Laura L. 26
- Marsh, Lydia 3, 4, 10, 23, 23, 25, 30, 53a, 108
- Marsh, Mary B. 49, 59
- Matheson, Bessie 67
- Melcher, Sarah 30
- Morris, F. 64
- Morris, J. H. 28
- Mulvey, Mary Ann 100
- McCurdy, Michael A. 5
- McDonald, 6
- MacDonald, (Mrs.) 68
- Palmer, Billy 71
- Palmer, Mary 71
- Park, A. Edwards 23
- Pitman, S. C. 1
- Porter, Sarah 22, 25, 27, 30, 49
- Pumpelly, A. L. 23
- Reilly, William Arthur 71
- Remington, Elizabeth 6
- Remis, Mary 72
- Robertson, James G. 71
- Rouzand-Willson, (Mrs.) 6
- Ruhmau, Louise 27
- Russell, Ida 23, 24
- Ryan, E. 99
- Salter, Christina H. 69
- Saltmarsh, Mary H. 100
- Sanger, William Cary 99
- Sault, Lillian 67
- Schaff, Alice 44
- Severance, S. A. 25
- Skinner, Angela Henrietta Channing (Dana) 42, 91-95, 98, 101
- Skinner, R. Dana 29
- Smith, J. C. 53a
- Smith, Mary Avery 107
- Smith, William H., Jr. 68
- Stone, Kate F. 66
- Stone, Rosalie B. 29, 60
- Swayne, Sarah Watson (Dana) 2, 9, 36-44, 46, 52, 91, 94, 96
- Swayne, Walter S. 28, 29, 53, 61
- Tallman, Beatrice B. 68
- Thayer, Adele G. 25
- Townes, Mary 23
- Trancaccio, Tessie 27
- Tureinie, L. di 4
- Ulaeder-Bray, Louise 29, 66
- Underhill, Sue D. 62
- Updike, Elizabeth B. 64
- Upham, F. Baxter 103
- Vernon, Anne 30
- Walsh, Marie 68, 69, 70, 71
- Ware, Mary 25
- Warner, J. M. S. 72
- Warner, N. Lee 4
- Watson, Edmund 13
- Watson, Fanny P. 22
- Watson, Henry 26
- Watson, John M. 16, 108
- Watson, Mary 7, 8, 12, 15, 16, 17, 20
- Watson, Mary A. 20, 22, 23
- Watson, R. W. 5
- Watson, William, Jr. 19, 20, 21
- Wells, M. G. 22
- Wells, Samuel 28
- Wheaton, Martha B. 5, 24, 25, 26, 30
- Wild, Desire Thatcher (Nye) (Mrs. Alfred) 26
- Wild, Mary Rosamond (Dana) 9, 42, 47, 48, 85-87, 91, 92, 93, 94, 97, 98
- Wild, Rosamond Dana 62
- Willard, Joseph 108
- Willard, Sidney 108
- Willard, Susanna 63, 72, 105
- Willson, Mary (Watson) 12, 14, 17, 18
- Winthrop, E. W. 25
- Wisgand, Thomas S. 63
- Wood, Mary C. 108
- Wrieth, Elizabeth Stumpf 100
Processing Information
Processed: Series I, 1960, 1968
Series II processed: July 1977
Series II processed by: Madeleine Bagwell Perez
- Title
- Dana family. Papers of the Dana family, 1822-1956: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- sch00134
Repository Details
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