Papers, 1776-1879 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:The collection contains a wide variety of items ranging from family correspondence to official documents. Also included are promissory notes and receipts (mainly of Thomas Plummer), copies of deeds, wills, lecture notes, and childhood school papers. There are a number of letters from Alexander Hamilton Rice (1818-1895), Alexander Hamilton Bullock (1816-1882), Peleg Whitman Chandler (1816-1889), Robert Charles Winthrop (1809-1894), Edward Everett (1794-1865), George Lunt (1803-1885), Dioclesian Lewis (1823-1886), and Rufus Choate (1799-1865), concerning the Whig Party, Boston Public Library, and Plummer's duties as Alderman