Almy family Additional papers, 1832-1990

Additional material received in 1990 (accession number 90-M72) was added to the collection in May 2015. These materials are housed in #138-171+. Folders added in May 2015 are listed in intellectual, not sequential order.

These papers were in the possession of Elizabeth (Almy) Cobb Hall at the time of her death; they consist largely of correspondence, financial documents, and photographs. The early correspondence centers around the Cabot-Almy connection (see the family trees in MC 235), and features the letters of Samuel Cabot to his son Samuel Cabot, Jr., and the latter's letters to his wife, Hannah Lowell (Jackson) Cabot, and their children; also of interest are letters to Samuel Cabot, Jr. from Theodore Parker, written while traveling abroad the year before his death. The rest of the correspondence focuses on Elizabeth (Almy) Cobb Hall, and includes four generations: Elizabeth (Almy) Cobb Hall's parents, Charles and Helen Jackson (Cabot) Almy; two of Elizabeth (Almy) Cobb Hall's children, Sidney Cobb and Helen (Cobb) Solomon White; and Elizabeth (Almy) Cobb Hall's grandchildren.

There is an extensive series of courtship letters to Elizabeth (Almy) Cobb Hall from Stanley Cobb, a neuropsychiatrist whom she married in 1915. Elizabeth (Almy) Cobb Hall practiced child psychotherapy, but her career is documented only by papers from a Radcliffe College conference (1963) in which she participated, and a few letters (including one note from Helene Deutsch) and bibliographies.

Photographs are primarily of the Cabot and Almy families and their relations; financial documents pertain for the most part to the estates and trusts of Elizabeth (Almy) Cobb Hall and Stanley Cobb.

The professional papers of Stanley Cobb are at the Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.