Papers, 1827-1976 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, genealogies, drawings, albums, account books, obituaries, wills, essays, contracts, patents, poems, photographs, and other papers of John Rowland Morewood, his wife, Sarah (Huyler) Morewood, their children: William Barlow, Alfred, and Anne Morewood, John's parents and sister in England: George and Ellen Barrow Morewood and Ann (Morewood) McConnel, William Barrow Morewood's wife, Maria (Melville) Morewood and their children, and other members of the Morewood, Melville, and Lathers families. Subjects include John Morewood's involvement with the China tea trade; the family lock and security door business in New York, N.Y.; Broadhall, the family home in Pittsfield; William B. Morewood's student days at an English boarding school; Arrowhead, the Pittsfield residence of Herman Melville, uncle of Maria Morewood; and daily social life in Berkshire County, Mass. Other family members represented include Allan and Sophia Thurston Melville (parents of Maria Morewood) and Anne Morewood's husband, Richard Lathers, Jr