MS030 - Arthur D. Hill family papers, 1841-1963 (original) (raw)

Scope & Content

Scope and Content

Correspondence, legal diaries, personal notebooks, newspaper clippings, and other papers, relating to the early social and legal life of Arthur Dehon Hill (1869-1947), Boston lawyer and civil libertarian, and correspondence to and from his mother, Caroline Inches Hill, and his wife, Henrietta McLean Hill. Subjects include Hill's activities as Suffolk County, Mass., district attorney (1908-1909) and law professor at Harvard (1915-1919); support of the nomination of Louis Brandeis to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1916; and the post-trial efforts of Hill's law firm to appeal the conviction and delay the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927. Arthur D. Hill and his family spent summers in Portsmouth. He was a proprietor at the Portsmouth Athenaeum.

Biographical Note

1869: Born Paris, France, on June 25, the son of Caroline Inches and Adams Sherman Hill, a professor of English at Harvard.
1872: Family returns to Cambridge, MA.
1879: Brother Henderson (Hendie) Inches born
1873: Sister Constance (Cuckoo) Carey born
1885 Parents go to Europe again
1888-1890: Attends Brown and Nichols School, Cambridge
1890: Family purchases 'The Barns' in Portsmouth, NH
1891: Brother Henderson dies
1894: Graduates from Harvard Law, starts law practice
Marries Henrietta (Hen-Betty-Betsy) Post McLean
1896: Son Adams Sherman II born; sister Constance dies
1897: Daughter Mary Louise born
1904: Member, Barlow and Holmans Law Firm
1908-1909: District Attorney, Suffolk County, MA
1910: Son Arthur Jr. born
1911: Sherman goes west
1912: Supports Roosevelt and the Progresse Party
1914: Molly goes to Europe
1915-1919: Teaches law part time at Harvard
1916: Supports Louis Brandeis for US Supreme Court
1917-1919: Major, US Army JAG Corps
1917: Publishes "What I Saw in France"
1918: Daughter Mary (Molly) marries James Gardiner Coolidge
1919-1923: Corporation Counsel, Boston
1920-1927: Sacco & Vanzetti case
1937: Travel to Europe
1947: Dies in Port Chester, NY, on Nov. 29
1963: Henrietta dies in Boston, Jan. 5.

CONTENTS

Journals and Diaries

Box 1 F1: Unknown, journal, 1867
F2: Adams Sherman Hill, Journal, 1850
F3: Arthur Dehon Hill, Diary, 1887-1888
F4: Arthur Dehon Hill, Diary, 1890-1891
F5: Arthur Dehon Hill, Diary, 1891-1892
F6: Arthur Dehon Hill (?), Diary, 1895

Box 2 F1: Arthur Dehon Hill, Dictated Journal, 1907-1909
F2: Arthur Dehon Hill, European trip, 1917
F3: Arthur Dehon Hill, Diary, 1918-1921
F4: AD Hill, Trip diary with Henrietta McLean Hill, 1925
F5: Arthur Dehon Hill, Trip diary, 1925-1937
F6: Arthur Dehon Hill, Trip notes, 1925, 1932

Family Correspondence

Box 2 F7: Adams Sherman Hill, 1878-1908
F8: Adams Sherman Hill, 1885
F9: Adams Sherman Hill, 1887-1902
F10:Adams Sherman Hill to Henrietta Inches Hill, 1888-1889
F11: Adams Sherman Hill, 1895-1908
F12: Adams Sherman Hill to Darwin Ware, 1853-1857

Box 3 F1: Adams Sherman Hill II to Arthur Dehon Hill, 1901-1917
F2: Adams Sherman Hill II to his mother Henrietta, 1905-1917
F3: Adams Sherman Hill II, 1918-1938
F4: Adams Sherman Hill II to Arthur Dehon Hill, 1938-1939
F5: Adams Sherman Hill to Granny, 1903-1911 and n.d
F6: Arthur Dehon Hill to Adams Sherman Hill, 1899-1903
F7: Arthur Dehon Hill to Adams Sherman Hill, Jr., 1911-1918
F8: Arthur Dehon Hill to Caroline Carey Hill, 1899
F9: Arthur Dehon Hill to Caroline Inches Hill, 1877-1885
F10: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline Inches Hill, 1886
F11: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline Inches Hill, 1889
F12: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline Inches HIll, 1890
F13: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline Inches Hill, 1891
F14: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline Inches Hill, 1892
F15: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline Inches Hill, 1893
F16: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline Inches Hill, 1894-1895
F17: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline Inches Hill, May-June, 1899
F18: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline Inches Hill, July-Aug, 1899
F19: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline Inches Hill, Sept-Dec, 1899
F20: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline Inches Hill, Mar-Aug, 1900
F21: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline Inches Hill, Sept-Dec, 1900

Box 4 F1: Arthur Dehon Hill to Caroline Inches Hill, Feb-June,1901
F2: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline Inches Hill, July-Aug, 1901
F3: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline Inches Hill, Sept, 1901
F4: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline Inches Hill, Oct-Dec, 1901
F5: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline Inches Hill, April-Aug, 1902
F6: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline I. Hill, Sept-Oct, 1902
F7: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline I. Hill, 1903
F8: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline I. Hill, 1904
F9: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline I. Hill, Jan-July, 1905
F10: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline I. Hill, Aug-Dec, 1905
F11: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline I. Hill, Jan-June, 1906
F12: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline I. Hill, July-Dec, 1906
F13: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline I. Hill, 1907

Box 5 F1: Arthur Dehon Hill to Caroline Inches Hill, 1908
F2: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline I. Hill, 1909
F3: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline I. Hill, April, 1911
F4: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline I. HIll, May, 1911
F5: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline I Hill, June, 1911
F6: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline I. Hill, July, 1911
F7: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline I. Hill, Aug-Sept, 1911
F8: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline I. Hill, Oct, 1911
F9: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline I. Hill, Nov, 1911
F10: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline I. Hill, Dec, 1911
F11: Arthur D. Hill to Caroline I. Hill, Jan, 1912

Box 6 F1-3: Arthur Dehon Hill to Caroline Inches Hill, 1912 and n.d.
F4: to Henderson Inches Hill, 1882-1888
F5-15: to Henrietta McLean Hill, 1891-1919 and n.d.
F16: to Mary Hill Coolidge, 1918-1941
F17: to Ninny and Harry, n.d.

Box 7 F1: Arthur Dehon Hill to W.C.Forbes, 1899-1911
F2: to William B. Platt, 1888-1891
F3: to assorted, 1891-1945
F4: Caroline Carey Hill to Arthur Dehon Hill, 1891-1893
F5-20: Caroline Inches Hill to Arthur D. Hill, 1877-1905, n.d.

Box 8 F1: Caroline Inches Hill to James C. Davis, 1864-1868 & n.d.
F2: Coolidge family, 1891-1938 & n.d.
F3: Dehon family, 1856-1904 & n.d.
F4-5: Henderson Inches Dehon to Caroline I. Hill, 1858-67
F6: Henderson Inches Hill to Arthur Dehon Hill, Jr., 1885-89
F7: Mary Hill Coolidge to Arthur D. Hill, Jr., 1914
F8: Henderson Inches Hill to Caroline Inches Hill, 1889 & nd
F9-12: Mary Hill Coolidge, 1927-1940 & nd
F13-19: Henrietta McLean Hill to Arthur Dehon Hill, 1892-1900

Box 9 F1-7: Henrietta McLean Hill to Arthur Dehon Hill, 1901-1912
F8: Henrietta McLean Hill to Mary Coolidge, n.d.
F9: Hill family, 1883-1947 & n.d.
F10: McLean family, 1850-1936 & n.d.
F11: Natalie McLean, 1894-1910

Special Correspondence

Box 9 F12: Batchelder, S. F., 1885-1891
F13: Blake family, 1891-1944
F14: Bradley, L., 1895-1947
F15: Carey, Agnes & Arthur, 1879-1895 & n.d.
F16: Cheney, Paul H., 1888-1895
F17: Cleaveland family, 1895- 1902
F18: Eliot, Charles W., 1859-1886
F19: Evans, Elizabeth, 1890-1919

Box 10 F1: Forbes, W. C., 1900-1911
F2: Frankfurter, Felix & Marion, 1930-1942 & n.d.
F3: Green, Phyllis, 1943-1947
F4: Hand, Augustus N., 1885-1947 & n.d.
F5: Hooper, Ellen S., 1896-1958 n.d.
F6: Legrand, Arthur L., 1941-1946
F7: Mills, Charles E., 1887-1947
F8-15: Otis, Sarah Bird to Henrietta McLean Hill, 1888-1893

Box 11 F1-2: Otis, Sarah Bird to Henrietta McLean Hill, 1894-1908 & n.d.
F3: Otis, Sarah Bird, n.d.
F4: Perkins family, 1853-1947
F5: Platt, William Barnes, 1888-1953
F6: Post, Regis H., 1890-1905 & n.d.
F7: Richards, Laura F., 1891-1942 & n.d.
F8: Roosevelt, Archibald B., 1947
F9: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1898 & n.d.
F10-11: Scudder, Gardiner, 1882-1896
F12: Stone, Helen E., 1887-1936

General Correspondence

Box 11 F13: 1891-1968
F14: no date

Box 12 F1-12: A-I

Box 13 F1: Illegible
F2-13: J-So

Box 14 F1-2: S-T
F3: Unsigned
F4-7: V-Z

Legal Files

Boxes 15-18: Journals of Work, 1904-1947 [48 vols.]

Box 58 F1: Agar, Herbert, 1941
F2: Allen vs. Bishop, n.d.
F3: Battis, George H., 1909
F4: Danvers vs. Holdfast, 1892
F5: Ellis vs. Western Union, 1892
F6: Johnson vs. Duncan, n.d.
F7: Landlord liability, n.d.
F8: Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1896
F9: Morton vs. Boston & Maine Railroad, 1892
F10: Notes, 1938 and n.d.
F11: O'Shaughnessy vs. P.P.C. Co., n.d.
F12: Rooney vs. MacGinty, n.d.
F13: Soliday, Joseph H., 1939
F14: S.S. Pierce vs. Smith, n.d.
F15: Wild vs. Boston & Maine Railroad, 1898
F16: Williams vs. Merritt, n.d.

Subject Files

Box 58 F17: Adams Sherman Hill, health, 1911
F18: Adams Sherman Hill, II, baby book, 1896
F19: school papers, 1904-1922
F20: Arthur Dehon, Civil War, 1862-1865
F21: Arthur Dehon Hill, school & church papers, 1910
F22: school papers, 1842-1892 & n.d.
F23: miscellany, 1947 & n.d.
F24: professional activities, 1908-1909
F25: World War I, 1917-1919

Box 59: F1: Chicken raising, 1892 & n.d.
F2: Caroline Carey Hill, baby book, 1883
F3: school papers, 1912-1917 & n.d.
F4: Caroline Dehon Hill, n.d.
F5: Children's keepsakes, 1848-1889 & n.d.
F6: Caroline Inches Hill, genealogy notes, 1908 & n.d.
F7: notes on children, 1869-1898
F8: poetry and quotes, binder, n.d.
F9: Drivers' licenses Mary H. Coolidge & Adams S. Hill, 1917
F10: Garden records, 1925-1928 & n.d.
F11: Harvard University, 1886-1935

Box 60 F1: Henderson Inches Hill, baby book, 1879
F2: Henderson Inches Dehon's essays, 1864-1866
F3: Huxley, Aldous, quotations, 1851-1878 & n.d.
F4: Literary criticism, n.d.
F5: Marriage Vows, Arthur D. Hill & Henrietta McLean, 1895
Includes guest list
F6: Massachusetts General Hospital, 1921-1931, 1v.
F7: Massachusetts General Hospital, 1927-1948 & n.d.
F8: McLean, Nathalie, 1894
F9: Moses, Robert, 1941
F10: Mount Auburn Cemetery, 1891
F11: Obituaries, 1811-1941 & n.d.
F12: Parson, Herbert: Desirability of an Amendment to the
Federal Constitution..., 1900
F13: Poetry, 1935 & n.d.
F14: Richards, Laura E., 1942 & n.d.
F15: Stories, 1908 & n.d.
F16: The Barns, records, 1890-1935, 1v.

Box 61 F1: The Barns, records, 1936-1947, 1v.
F2: miscellany, 1816-1945
F3: William Dehon, military appointment, 1841
F4: Wedding gifts, 1895
F5: Windsor School, n.d.
F6: World War II, 1943-1945

Printed Materials

Box 61 F7: Attitude of the Better Classes, n.d.
F8: Clippings: Arthur D. Hill District Attorney, 1909
F9: Mixed, bound, n.d.
F10: Map, World War II, European Front, n.d

Box 62 F1: Playbills, invitation, 1881-1947
F2: Publications, 1913-1948 & n.d.
F3: 1921-1949 & n.d.
F4: Rates for Day Cable Letters, n.d.
F5: World War I, 1918 & n.d.

Miscellany

Box 62 F6: Address book, 1923?
F7: Arthur Dehon Hill (?), As to how to answer Taft, n.d.
F8: A brief appeal, 1895
F9: Passport, 1925
F10: Speech by A.D. Hill, 1906, 4 copies
F11: Speech, 1908
F12: Speech, 1909
F13: Speech, 1918
F14: Book of lists, 1v., n.d.
F15: Christmas cards, unsent, n.d.
F16: Finding aids, early (2) and n.d.
F17: Objects: Badge, travel wallet, case, box with buttons

Box 63 F1: Postcards, unused
F2: Receipts, 1876-1931 & n.d.
F3: Unknown, notes, n.d.
F4: Windsor School songs, 1916-1917

Scrapbooks

Box 63 F5: Scrapbook, 1872-1884, 1v.
F6: Scrapbook, 1909-1919, 1v.

Box 64 F1: Scrapbook, 1920-1926, 1v.
F2: Mr. Dooley and other philosophers, n.d.
F3: Scrapbook, n.d., indexed
F4: Mollie Hill, school papers, n.d.
F5: The Barns, water supply, 1940
F6: Scrapbook, loose pages, 1930-1935
F7: Scrapbook, loose pages, 1933-1937