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Call No.: 103--95-M17
Repository: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Creator: CURTIS FAMILY
Title: Papers, 1797(1824-1978)1991
Quantity: 11 cartons, 2 folio, 2 folio+, 2 oversize, 1 supersize, and 23 photograph folders
Abstract: Photographs, correspondence, and clippings of the Curtis family from Boston, Massachusetts.

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FAMILY BIOGRAPHY

Greely Stevenson Curtis, a Civil War veteran, married Harriot Appleton, daughter of industrialist Nathan Appleton in 1863. GSC had contracted malaria during the war, and for most of his married life was a semi-invalid. The Curtises divided their time between Beacon Hill and their country estate in Manchester-by-the-Sea where they lived in the Stone House designed by Henry Van Brunt, and maintained a farm. Family life at Manchester included riding, and other sports, especially tennis and golf at the Essex Country Club. After the death of her husband in 1897, HAC delegated management of the household to her eldest daughter Frances. Until her death in 1923, HAC was a close observer and chronicler of the family's activities in the almost daily letters and postcards she wrote to absent relatives. The Curtises had ten children, five boys and five girls.

William (1865-1899) was handicapped and spent some time with relatives on a farm in Boise, Idaho. He drowned at Manchester. "Billy has slipped away from us...," wrote his mother.

Frances Greely (1867-1957), public servant, attended Miss Shaw and Miss Hersey's school in Boston. She passed the Harvard Examiniations for Women and received certificates in 1885 and 1886. She took a course in Philosophy at Radcliffe, and one in Sanitary Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and studied for two years at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts. As a young woman she also pursued the fashionable life - her days filled by social engagements, Sewing and Lunch Club meetings, and travels abroad and visits with friends in New Hampshire and the Putnam Camp in the Adirondacks. She refused proposals of marriage from Ted Cabot (1893 and 1894) and Henry Warner (1899). She was an avid skater.

FGC was well-known for her civic and charity work. She organized a library and reading classes for African Americans who lived on Beacon Hill, and investigated and proposed plumbing improvements for the Italian immigrants who lived on the north side of Beacon Hill. She was appointed to the board of the Associated Charities of Boston (1898), appointed secretary of the State Board of Charities (1903), and from 1898 regularly attended the National Conference on Charities and Corrections. She was elected a member of the School Committee of Boston (1913- 24) and was the first woman to run, though unsuccessfully, for mayor of Boston, 1925. She and her sisters were charter members of the Women's City Club of Boston. She was director and secretary of the Boston Cooperative Building Society, served on the Board of the Boston Center for Adult Education, and supported the American Schools in Albania and Athens. She was director of the Massachusetts Civic League, chair of the National Playground Association, and a supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Foreign Policy Association, and the United Nations Association. She became interested in farming cooperatives in the 1920s and visited China in 1936, where she met Mao Tse-tung. Summing up her service to the city of Boston, Mark A. DeWolfe Howe wrote "Who deserves more the title of 'First Woman Citizen?'"

Elinor (1869-1947) married the painter Charles Hopkinson in 1903. They lived most of the year in the house in Manchester built for them as a wedding present by her mother, and, during the winter months, stayed in various houses in and around Boston. They had five daughters: Harriot, Mary, Isabella, Elinor, and Joan.

Greely Stevenson (1871-1947) an aviation pioneer, graduated from Harvard in 1892. He contiued to study science at Cornell and Zurich, and earned an M.E. from Cornell in 1896. At first his parents dissuaded him from going into aviation; he became a fire commissioner in Boston in 1899, and then a consulting engineer on fire protection. He was treasurer of the Burgess and Curtis Co. in Newburyport, which was contracted to the U.S. Navy to produce sea planes during World War I. In 1918 the plant and the company records burned. He married Fanny Hooper in 1904; they had four children. In later life GSC was a trustee for his mother and warden of King's Chapel.

Isabella (1873-1966) was a semi-invalid who suffered from persistent severe headaches. From her mid twenties, she spent much time away from home, visiting friends, traveling abroad (Europe in 1893, 1897, and 1901, Egypt in 1904), and in search of cures: at a sanitarium in Bethel, Maine (1908) and a clinic in Stockbridge run by Dr. Austin Riggs. In 1912 she had brain surgery performed by Dr. Cushing but no tumor was found. When she was away from home, she wrote faithfully to the family and her mother wrote daily. When at home and well enough, IC worked in the Boston Dispensary. Her chief occupation was raising money for the Penn School, a school for African Americans on St. Helena Island, South Carolina. In 1904 she bought Moon Island in Squam Lake and made it her summer home. She was an avid gardener, and kept dogs and goldfish.

Harry Appleton (1875-1943) attended Miss Isobel Briggs's school and then, like his brothers, the Hopkinson School in Boston. He graduated from Harvard (1896), studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but left to join the Rough Riders in the Spanish American War. He attended the University of Colorado in Denver and worked as an engineering assayer at the Cripple Creek Mine, Colorado. He then was an electrical service broker in New York City. During World War I he was assistant censor in New York and in 1918 received a commission as captain in the Army Intelligence Division. He married Grace Fargo Chauncey in 1913. They had no children, and she died in 1931.

Frazier (1877-1940) graduated from Harvard in 1898 and was involved in a number of ventures as a cattle broker in the West. He married Gladys Raper, an English woman, in 1909 and settled in La Jolla, California. During World War I he served in the airborne Lafayette Escadrilles and suffered from shell-shock. After fighting depression for many years, he committed suicide in 1940.

James Freeman (1879-1952) graduated from Harvard in 1899 and Harvard Law School in 1903. He was assistant attorney general of Massachusetts and assistant secretary to the U.S. Treasury, and later practiced law in New York. He married Laura Merriam (1912), divorced her (1924), then remarried her and was redivorced (1938). He then married Eleanor Monroe Green. His two sons were killed during World War II; his daughter Frances survived. He was known as a witty after-dinner speaker.

Harriot Sumner (1881-1974), social worker and civic volunteer, was co-founder with her sister Margaret, of the Maverick Dispensary, East Boston, a health clinic for Italian Americans. She was appointed a director of the Associated Charities (Boston) during World War I and worked at the Center for French Wounded and the Home Service Division of Civilian Relief. A good athlete, she skated, played baseball and tennis, and with Margaret played tournament golf. She won the National Women's Golf Championship in 1906. While staying with friends in Richmond, Virginia in 1903, she visited Hampton Institute, and began a lifelong commitment to the school: she raised funds for it, and in 1927 was invited to be Dean of Women, a position that she held for four years. She was the sponsor of the singer Dorothy Maynor whom she discovered at Hampton. She made frequent trips abroad with one or other sibling.

Margaret (1883-1965), social worker, administrator, athlete, was dedicated throughout her life to social welfare in the United States and abroad. After graduating from the Simmons College School of Social Work in 1904, she worked for the Associated Charities of Boston (later the Family Welfare Society), and with her sister Harriot, founded the Maverick Dispensary in 1909. In February 1916 she went to Paris to organize relief for French refugees as head of the investigation department of the Student Atelier Association. In July 1917 she joined the American Red Cross in Paris and served as chief of the Bureau of Refugees; from January through June 1919 she continued her relief work under the auspices of the American Friends Service Committee. She was awarded the the Medaille de Guerre by the French Red Cross (1919) and the Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise by the French government (1920) for her relief work. In January 1921 she returned to Europe to tour child health clinics in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Austria for the ARC. She was offered positions as head of ARC social work in Latvia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Serbia, but declined. From November 1922 through February 1923 MC was again involved in relief work in Greece as Adviser in General Relief for the ARC. She served on the International Migration Service and during World War II, ran the Boston office of the War Production Board and helped place European children in American homes.

MC was proficient in many sports but excelled in golf, winning the Massachusetts State Championship 1901, 1907, 1908, 1914, and the Women's National Golf Championship 1907, 1911, 1912. In 1930 she started the Massachusetts Junior Championship for girls and with her sister Harriot was the founder of the Curtis Cup. MC never married, but worked in Europe and traveled frequently with her lifelong companion, Mabel Sturgis.

For further information see Isabella Hopkinson Halsted, The Aunts (1992). Other Curtis family papers are at the Massachusetts Historical Society. The papers and correspondence of Charles Hopkinson and Elinor Curtis Hopkinson are at the Institute of American Art.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The collection covers principally two generations of the Curtis family and is divided into four series:

Series I, Photographs (#1-24), includes some tintypes, group photographs of the Curtis children taken at regular intervals, and cartes-de-visite and other prints of the Curtises and their friends. Photographs of Harry Curtis document mining at the Cripple Creek Mine, Colorado and those of Margaret Curtis depict war-ravaged France and MC's work with refugees during and after World War I.

Series II, Miscellaneous Curtis and Stevenson family (#25-38), includes scattered 18th century and early 19th century correspondence, notes on genealogy and family history.

Series III, Greely Stevenson and Harriot Appleton Curtis (#39v-139), includes courtship letters from GSC to HAC (ts. transcripts), other letters from GSC to family and friends, and letters from HAC to her mother, aunts, children, and friends. There is information about the Curtis family homes, her estate, and a few recipes. HAC reports on the family's social activities, the careers of her children and their athletic prowess. Her letters to her children are arranged according to their birth order; their letters to her are in Series IV.

Series IV, Children of Greely Stevenson and Harriot Appleton Curtis (#140-520) is arranged by birth order.

William, 1865-1899 (#140). Letters to his family written while living away from home in Boise, Idaho, and other places.

Frances Greely, 1867-1957 (#141-213). Personal correspondence with family and friends describes her European and U.S. trips, charity work, conference activity, service on the Boston School Committee, and campaign for election as mayor of Boston. The lively social life of an upper class Bostonian is documented in her social notes and invitations. There are also clippings, verse, obituaries, and tributes to her civic activism.

Elinor Curtis Hopkinson, 1869-1947 (#214-241). Correspondence, largely with mother and sisters, documents travel abroad, childbirth, child rearing, and family life. There are also scattered letters from Charles Hopkinson and their children.

Greely Stevenson, 1871-1947 (#242-257). Letters written while a student at Cornell and Zurich; description of the Burgess Curtis Co., manufacturer of sea planes during World War I; and letters from his wife Fanny Hooper.

Isabella, 1873-1966 (#258-328). Personal correspondence with family and friends describes European trips, her attempt to find cures for headaches, her treatment at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and life on Moon Island (Squam Lake); also letters describing fundraising for, and visits to Penn School.

Harry Appleton, 1875-1943 (#329-336). Letters and clippings describe his life in Denver, mining in Colorado, and business life in New York City; also scattered letters from his wife Grace Fargo Chauncey.

Frazier, 1877-1940 (#337-354). Clippings and personal correspondence include descriptions of Harvard, his Western ventures as a cattle broker, life in La Jolla, and marriage to Gladys Raper. Includes letters from his wife describing family life, his depression and eventual suicide.

James Freeman, 1879-1952 (#355-366). Correspondence with family includes references to his career as assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts and Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Treasury, marriage to and divorce from Laura Merriam, and marriage to Eleanor Monroe Green.

Harriot Sumner, 1881-1974 (#367-396). Personal correspondence with family and friends includes references to travel, social news, family life, charity work, her position as dean of women at Hampton Institute, 1927-31, fundraising for the school, and sponsorship of the African American singer Dorothy Maynor. Includes family verse.

Margaret, 1883-1965 (#397-525). Personal correspondence with family, colleagues, and friends. (Some correspondence with Mabel Russell Sturgis (#420, 429-432) is closed until 2001.) Includes professional papers concerning the guardianship of Mary Chandler and Eleanor Chandler, and papers relating to MC's work with French refugees for the Student Atelier Association and American Red Cross during World War I, for the ARC in eastern Europe and Greece in the 1920s, for the International Migration Service, and for the United States War Production Board. Includes clippings and letters about her victories in the National Women's Golf Championships.

Additional catalog entries. The following catalog entries represent persons, organizations, and topics documented in this collection. An entry for each appears in the Harvard On Line Library Information System (HOLLIS) and other automated bibliographic databases.

Initials and nicknames of members of the Curtis family.

Abbreviation	Name
GSC	Greely Stevenson Curtis Sr.
HAC	Harriot Appleton Curtis (Mrs. Greely Stevenson Curtis )
HAC Nickname	Ma, Madam, Smoth, Mrs. Smoth
WC	William Curtis
FGC	Frances Greely Curtis
FGC Nickname	Frangle, Francie, Fan, Dangle, France
ECH	Elinor Curtis Hopkinson
ECH Nickname	Beri, Berry, Nell, Elly, Nello
GSC	Greely Stevenson Curtis Jr.
GSC Nickname	Steen, Stivetts, Steeny
IC	Isabella Curtis
IC Nickname	Bella, Bog, Boggy, Beast, Isab, Isabol, Bol, Bolla
HAC	Harry Appleton Curtis
HAC Nickname	Harrison, Chinny
FC	Frazier
FC Nickname	Frere, Teddy, Ted
JFC	James Freeman Curtis
JFC Nickname	Jim, Jum, Jumbo, Jib, Jibby
HSC	Harriot Sumner Curtis
HSC Nickname	Hat, Hattay, Pud (pronounced Pood)
MC	Margaret Curtis
MC Nickname	Peg, Peggy, Pedge
[Also:]	William Summer Appleton (cousin)
[WSA] Nickname	Sumner, Apple, Cousin Sum, Mistrapplton

CONTAINER LIST

• Carton 1: Folders 17, 25-72
• Carton 2: Folders 73-108
• Carton 3: Folders 109-159
• Carton 4: Folders 160-204
• Carton 5: Folders 205-253
• Carton 6: Folders 254-305
• Carton 7: Folders 306-343
• Carton 8: Folders 344-393
• Carton 9: Folders 394-439
• Carton 10: Folders 440-490
• Carton 11: Folders 491-531

INVENTORY

• Series I: PHOTOGRAPHS
  • 1-24: Photographs, ca.1872-1957, n.d.
    FILED IN PHOTOGRAPH DRAWER.
    • 1-20: Curtis family
      • 1. Cartes de visite, 1871-1875, n.d.
      • 2. Groups, 1872-1899, 1908-1938
      • 3. Tintypes, 1875-1887, n.d.
      • 4. Curtis children et al., 1883-1895, n.d.
      • 5. n.d.
      • 6. n.d.
      • 7. Frances Greely Curtis, n.d.
      • 8. Isabella Curtis at Moon Island, et al.
      • 9-11: Harry Appleton Curtis
        • 9. Harvard Class Day, 1896 and other Harvard views
        • 10. Cripple Creek, Colorado, 1899
        • 11. Europe and US, 1899, 1916
      • 12-18: Mostly Margaret Curtis
        • 12. Also Harriot Sumner Curtis, 1896-1911, n.d.
        • 13. MC abroad, 1914-1918, 1925-1926
        • 14. American Red Cross, 1917
        • 15. World War I
        • 16. MC's album, France and Europe, 1918-1921
        • 17. Clippings removed #16
        • 18. MC, 1943, Curtis bowl, 1957.
          Also photographs from #434, 447, 467, 503, 509.
      • 19. "The Dream," (GSC Sr.'s yacht) etc.
      • 20. Views of Europe (unidentified)
    • 21-24: Others, n.d.
      • 21. Robert Gould Shaw, the Misses Stevenson, et al.
      • 22. Family friends, et al.
      • 23. Furniture, (Althin's)
      • 24. Chubb family

• Series II: CURTIS STEVENSON FAMILIES
  • 25-32: Miscellaneous family history
    • 25. Notes, genealogies, etc.
    • 26. HSC's recollection, etc. of Nathan Appleton's house at 39 Beacon St. (Boston).
    • 27. Isabella Hopkinson Halsted: notes, correspondence re: family history
    • 28. Joan Hopkinson Shurcliff re: Frances Greely Curtis and Curtis family
    • 29. Re: Curtis sisters' membership of Women's City Club, 1966
    • 30. Clippings
    • 31. Re: family papers in Massachusetts Historical Society, etc.
    • 32. Notes re: Richard Derby and Nathan Appleton
  • 33-38: Stevenson and Curtis family correspondence.
    • 33. Helen Pelham Curtis, ca.1790s, William Stevenson, 1797
    • 34. William Stevenson, 1819, James Freeman Curtis, 1851, Greely S. Curtis, 1851, (photocopies)
    • 35. Jonathan Greely Stevenson to Isabella and Mary Ann (sisters), 1825, 1830
    • 36. Hannah Stevenson to family, 1861-1865 (ts. transcripts); and re: HS
    • 37. Hannah Stevenson to HAC and nephews, 1882-1883
    • 38. Civil War: clippings; pamphlet, "Three Weeks at Gettysburg" re: women and nurses.

• Series III: GREELY STEVENSON AND HARRIOT APPLETON CURTIS
  • 39-43: Greely Stevenson Curtis
    • 39-41: Correspondence
      • 39. To fiancee Harriot Appleton and mother et al., 1861-1863 (ts. transcripts)
      • 40. To family and friends, 1879-1896
      • 41. To GSC, 1874-1901, n.d.
    • 42f+. Passport, 1868
    • 43. Clippings, 1896, and obituary 1897, also fragment [by GSC?] re: Civil War, n.d.
  • 44-139: Harriot Appleton Curtis
    • 44. "Cooking school," 1875; recipes
    • 45. Diary, lists, 1891
    • 46. Appointment book, 1891
    • 47-129: Correspondence
      • 47. To Harriot Coffin Sumner Appleton (mother), 1851, 1860
      • 48. To aunts, 1893
      • 49-53: To "girls" (letters often include notes from other family members)
        • 49. 1889-1894: World's Fair, Chicago, London
        • 50. 1895-1899
        • 51. 1902-1905
        • 52. 1907-1909
        • 53. 1910-1921, n.d.
      • 54. To William Curtis, 1886
      • 55-57: To Frances Greely Curtis
        • 55. 1882-1889, 1880s?
        • 56. 1890-1899
        • 57. 1900-1916, n.d.
      • 58-59: To Elinor Curtis Hopkinson
        • 58. 1893-1911
        • 59. 1912-1915, n.d.: GSC Jr.'s trouble with Orville Wright (1/31/1914)
      • 60-64: To Greely Stevenson Curtis, Jr.
        • 60. 1892
        • 61. Jan-Jul 1893
        • 62. Aug 1893 - May 1894, advice re: Cornell; and closing of Miss Isobel Briggs' school [1894]
        • 63. 1895-1898 to GSC in Zurich
        • 64. 1901, n.d.
      • 65-107: To Isabella Curtis
        • 65. 1886-1891
        • 66. 1892
        • 67. 1893, re: cricket at Isobel Briggs' school
        • 68. 1894: IC in Washington, D.C., and Jamaica
        • 69. 1895-1896
        • 70. Jan-Feb 1897 re: illness and death of father, GSC, Sr.; includes condolences from family and friends.
        • 71. Mar-Oct 1897; includes letter from GSC, Sr. to IC, 1884.
        • 72. 1898
        • 73. 1899
        • 74. 1900
        • 75. 1901-1902: "arsenic in wallpaper giving IC headaches?"
        • 76. 1903, re: ECH's wedding preparations and presents
        • 77. 1904
        • 78. 1905
        • 79. 1906
        • 80. Jan-Mar 1907: politics, State House hearings
        • 81. Apr-Dec 1907: re: visit from Booker T. Washington (12/16)
        • 82. Jan-Nov 1908
        • 83. Dec 1908, Amy Lowell's Merry Widow party (12/19)
        • 84-86: 1909
          • 84. Jan: Parkman sale, (1/8); sale of General Washington's seal (1/12); HSC raising money for Hampton Institute (1/28).
          • 85. Feb
          • 86. Mar-Dec
        • 87. Jan-Jul 1910: report of caesarian birth (2/22)
        • 88. Aug-Dec 1910: polio in the Sturgis family (8/9); GSC needs a "good man for flying machines" (8/29)
        • 89. Jan-May 1911: government orders a Burgess plane; MC working on playgrounds with Joseph Lee (2/11); re: Titanic (4/20)
        • 90. Jun-Dec 1911: GSC working on hydroplanes (10/27)
        • 91. Jan-May 1912: suffrage parade (5/12)
        • 92. Jul-Nov 1912: JFC marries Laura (11/26)
        • 93-95: 1913
          • 93. Feb-Apr: Mr. Fish speaks at anti-suffrage party (3/6); birth of Joan Hopkinson (4/2); HSC and MC at Hampton (4/18).
          • 94. May-Jul
          • 95. Aug-Oct: troubles with Wright Co. (8/13); TLS (verso) from Jane Addams refusing invitation to speak at State Conference of Charities, but "would like very much to talk about girls" (8/24); IC in Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (9/18- 10/5).
        • 96-98: 1914
          • 96. Feb-Apr
          • 97. May-Jul
          • 98. Aug-Dec
        • 99. 1915
        • 100. 1916
        • 101. Jan-Jul 1917
        • 102. Aug-Dec 1917
        • 103. Jan-Jul 1918
        • 104. Aug-Dec 1918
        • 105. 1919
        • 106. 1921-1922
        • 107. n.d.
      • 108. To Harry Appleton Curtis, 1892-1894
      • 109-110: To Frazier Curtis (also wife Gladys Raper)
        • 109. 1894-Aug 1899: advice to FC while at Harvard: (12/11/1895); drowning of William Curtis (8/22/1899).
        • 110. Sept 1899-1906, n.d.
      • 111. To James Freeman Curtis, 1893, 1911
      • 112-113: To Harriot Stevenson Curtis
        • 112. 1896-1899; includes MC (8/10/1896).
        • 113. 1900-1916, n.d.
      • 114-119: To Margaret Curtis
        • 114. 1883-1905
        • 115. 1912-1915
        • 116. 1916
        • 117. Jan-Jun 1917: wants MC to stay in France, FGC on school board, IC working at the Dispensary; HSC in East Boston.
        • 118. Jul-Dec 1917
        • 119. 1918-1921, n.d.: Karl Muck's arrest (3/29/1918); death of Helen Homans includes obituary (12/20/1918).
      • 120-129: From family et al., to HAC
        • 120. Fanny Appleton Longfellow? (fragment) n.d., and re: FAL, 1843 (ts. copy)
        • 121. Alice and Edith Longfellow et al., also Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (photocopy), 1863-1909, n.d.
        • 122. Edward Hooper (tenant farmer), 1901-1918, n.d.
        • 123. Mabel Russell Sturgis, 1917
        • 124. 1861-1886
        • 125. 1892-1901: mostly Appletons, includes William Sumner Appleton and copy of condolence letter from Charles Francis Adams (2/28/1897)
        • 126. 1902-1905
        • 127. 1906-1908: description of FGC at Richmond conference (5/8/1908)
        • 128. 1909-1915; includes Richard Dana.
        • 129. n.d.
    • 130-133. Condolence letters regarding death of HAC, 1923
    • 134. Trust and estate papers, 1908-1923
    • 135. Copies of will, probated 1923
    • 136-139: Miscellaneous
      • 136. HAC's 80th birthday skit, 1921
      • 137. Lists, invitations
      • 138. Calling cards, place cards, menus: Thomas Carlyle (ANS), John Masefield, John Galsworthy
      • 139. Valuation of contents of Curtis house, 1911, compiled by William Sumner Appleton

• Series IV: CHILDREN OF GSC and HAC
  • 140. William Curtis to family, 1886-1897
  • 141-213: Frances Greely Curtis
    • 141-169: Letters to family
      • 141. 1882-1889
      • 142. 1891-1892
      • 143. 1893
      • 144. 1894
      • 145. 1895-Mar 1896: includes trip to Cairo and Europe
      • 146. Apr-May 1896 in UK
      • 147. 1897
      • 148. 1898
      • 149. 1899: social news; receives proposal from Henry Warner and declines (3/6); re: death of Billy (8/22).
      • 150. 1900
      • 151. 1901
      • 152. 1902: at Tuesday Club with Agnes Irwin (3/13)
      • 153. 1903
      • 154. 1904
      • 155. 1905
      • 156. 1906: European trip Feb-Mar
      • 157. 1907-1908: FGC appointed Director of the State Board of Charities; conference at Richmond (5/08).
      • 158. 1909
      • 159. 1910: dismaying election news from Boston; Fitzgerald wins(1/12-1/13).
      • 160. 1911: trip to England and France
      • 161. 1912: at a Playground meeting (4/1912)
      • 162. 1913-1915
      • 163. 1916-1917: clipping on the Maverick Dispensary (4/18/1916)
      • 164. 1918-1919
      • 165. 1921-1922
      • 166. 1923: observer at the League of Nations, Geneva (9/23)
      • 167. 1924-1928
      • 168. 1930-1957
      • 169. n.d.
    • 170. FGC's passport, 1926
    • 171-201: To FGC
      • 171-173: Ellen Coolidge
        • 171. 1882?-1884
        • 172. 1885-1888
        • 173. 1890-1893
      • 174. Joseph Lee, 1895-1930
      • 175-201: Others to FGC
        • 175. 1877-1879
        • 176. 1880
        • 177. 1880s?
        • 178. June 1881-Sept 1882
        • 179. Apr-Aug 1883
        • 180. Sep-Dec 1883
        • 181-183: 1884
          • 181. Apr-Jun
          • 182. Jul-Sep
          • 183. Oct-Dec
        • 184-186: 1885 includes Ella Lyman (5/27, 7/21, 9/28)
          • 184. Jan-Jun
          • 185. Jul-Aug
          • 186. Sep-Dec
        • 187. Invitations, 1885-1886
        • 188-190: 1886
          • 188. Jan-Apr
          • 189. May-Aug; includes Richard Cabot (5/25).
          • 190. Sep-Dec, Hester Cunningham: books more suitable than politics for a women's debate club (10/3)
        • 191. 1887-1888; includes Ernest Longfellow (10/9/1888).
        • 192-195: 1889
          • 192. Jan-Mar
          • 193. Apr: Ella Lyman, Hester Cunningham (4/14), Joseph Lee (4/26).
          • 194. May-Aug
          • 195. Dec: W.D. Howells to ?FGC
        • 196. 1890; includes Sarah Wyman Whitman, Joseph Lee (1/7); Hester Cunningham with enclosure re: woman's suffrage from Lucy Stone (3/14).
        • 197. 1890s?
        • 198. 1891-1893; includes Richard C. Cabot; proposal from Ted Cabot; Sarah Wyman Whitman.
        • 199. 1894-1899: second proposal from Ted Cabot (5/7/1894)
        • 200. 1900-1939, 1956; includes William James (12/6/03) and John Masefield (10/1923).
        • 201. n.d.; includes Lutie Pleasants.
    • 202. Harvard Examinations for Women certificate, 1886, scrapbook, 1888
    • 203. Re: family theatricals and misc., 1889, n.d.
    • 204. Appointment calendar, 1905
    • 205-208: Birthday and other verse
      • 205. 1937 and prior
      • 206. 1947
      • 207. 1952-1956
      • 208. 1957, n.d.; also tributes.
    • 209. "From FGC's autograph collection," includes letters from Ponsonby, 1824-1826
    • 210. Clippings re: FGC, includes Boston School Committee, 1911-1967, n.d.
    • 211. Obituaries, 1957
    • 212. Tributes, including memoir by HSC, and condolence letters, 1957
    • 213. Will, 1957
  • 214-234: Elinor Curtis Hopkinson
    • 214-232: Letters to family
      • 214. 1881-1889 and prior
      • 215. 1890-1892
      • 216. 1893-1894
      • 217. Jan 1895
      • 218. Feb-Dec 1895
      • 219. 1896
      • 220. Jan-Apr 1897; includes death of GSC.
      • 221. May-Dec 1897
      • 222. 1898
      • 223. 1899
      • 224. 1900-1901
      • 225. 1902
      • 226. 1903: wedding invitation of EC to Charles Hopkinson, marriage, honeymoon, housekeeping
      • 227. Jan-Jul 1904
      • 228. Aug-Dec 1904: plans for new house
      • 229. 1905-1908
      • 230. 1909-1910: party for Frazier and Gladys
      • 231. 1911-1939
      • 232. n.d.
    • 233. Others to ECH, includes Alice M. Longfellow, 1886-1907, n.d.
    • 234. Re: ECH
  • 235-241: Correspondence etc. of Hopkinson family
    • 235. Charles Hopkinson, 1903-1924, n.d.
    • 236. Exhibition catalogue of CH's paintings, 1991
    • 237. Harriot (Happy) Hopkinson, 1913-1949, n.d.
    • 238. Mary (Maly) Hopkinson, 1912-1939
    • 239. Isabella (Ibby) Hopkinson Halsted, and daughter Bella, 1914-1947, n.d.
    • 240. Elinor (Elly) Hopkinson, 1921
    • 241. Joan (Joanie) Hopkinson Shurcliff, 1914, 1948, 1956, n.d.
  • 242-257: Greely Stevenson Curtis Jr. and Fanny (Hooper) Curtis et al.
    • 242-254: Letters to family
      • 242. 1886-1895: advice to Harry at Harvard (10/29/1892); GSC at Cornell (1893/1894); in Zurich (1894-1895)
      • 243. 1896: studying in Zurich
      • 244. Feb-Mar 1897, re: death and burial of father (2/16); includes Fanny Hooper.
      • 245. Apr-Dec 1897
      • 246. 1898-1899: appointed Fire Commissioner in Boston (3/16/1899)
      • 247. 1900-1903: advice to Isabella re: Moon Island (9/03/1902)
      • 248. 1904: marriage to Fanny Hooper, living in New York City
      • 249. Jan-Feb 1905
      • 250. Mar-Dec 1905
      • 251. 1906-1907
      • 252. 1908-1909
      • 253. 1910-1911: move to Rye, Conn., treasurer of Burgess Curtis Co., manufacturer of seaplanes
      • 254. 1913-1920 n.d.: new factory in Marblehead, contract with Navy Dept. for manufacture of training seaplanes (4/13/18)
    • 255. To and re: GSC, Jr., 1885-1890
    • 256. Verse, re: GSC's birthday, etc., 1941, n.d.
    • 257. GSC's children, 1926, 1941, n.d.
  • 258-328: Isabella Curtis
    • 258. Juvenilia
    • 259-296: Letters to family
      • 259. 1882-1892
      • 260. 1893
      • 261. 1894
      • 262. 1895-1896
      • 263. 1897, in Paris when GSC died
      • 264. 1898-1900
      • 265. 1901
      • 266. 1902
      • 267. 1903
      • 268-270: 1904
        • 268. Jan-Feb, Cairo
        • 269. Mar-May
        • 270. Aug-Oct, on Moon Island
      • 271. 1905
      • 272. 1906
      • 273-275: 1907
        • 273. Jan-Mar, abroad
        • 274. Apr-May, abroad
        • 275. Jul-Dec
      • 276. Feb-Oct 1908
      • 277. Dec 1908, in Bethel, Maine
      • 278. 1909
      • 279. Jan-Oct 1910
      • 280. Dec 1910
      • 281. Jan 1911
      • 282. Feb-Dec 1911
      • 283. 1912
      • 284. 1913, mostly from Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
      • 285. 1914
      • 286. 1915-1916; includes postcard from Hampton Institute.
      • 287. 1917
      • 288. 1918, re: Penn Normal Industrial and Agricultural School (2/11 verso, 2/17)
      • 289. 1919-1920
      • 290. 1921
      • 291. 1922-1925: Penn School (2/18/1923)
      • 292. 1926-1931: FGC director of the League of Nations Massachusetts branch (10/19/1931 ts. verso), and member (1930) of Committee against Repeal of the State Enforcement Law (i.e., against repeal of prohibition) (11/23/1931 ts. verso).
      • 293. 1932: Chilton Club costume party (1/31); prospectus and appeals for Penn School (3/6, 3/13, 4/11).
      • 294. 1933: MC member of Women's Division of Boston Emergency Relief Campaign (2/8 verso); Hampton Institute appeal (2/12 verso); effect of Depression on IC's income (3/33).
      • 295. 1936-1939, 1953, n.d: MC and JFC members of International Migration Service Inc. American branch (1/13/1939 ts. verso); Hampton fundraising (1/22/1939 ts. verso).
      • 296. n.d.
    • 297. Letters to newspapers
    • 298-328: To IC
      • 298. Millicent Raper to IC and re: Raper family, n.d.
      • 299. Sumner Robinson to IC, 1909
      • 300-304: Paulina Smith
        • 300. 1892-1893
        • 301. 1894-1895, with Alice Smith
        • 302. 1896-1899
        • 303. 1900-1907
        • 304. n.d.
      • 305. Mary F. Snelling, 1895-1902, n.d.
      • 306-318: Elise Tyson
        • 306. 1884-1885
        • 307. Feb-Mar 1890
        • 308. Jun-Dec 1890
        • 309. 1892-1893
        • 310. 1894
        • 311. 1895
        • 312. Jan-May 1896
        • 313. Jun-Dec 1896
        • 314. 1897
        • 315. 1898-1899
        • 316. 1900-1905
        • 317. 1907, 1917, 1919
        • 318. n.d.
      • 319-328: Others
        • 319. 1882-1892; includes Warren Sturgis.
        • 320. 1893-1895
        • 321. 1896
        • 322. 1897; includes condolences re: GSC's death.
        • 323. 1898-1899
        • 324. 1900-1902
        • 325. 1903-1906
        • 326. 1907-1908
        • 327. 1909-1955
        • 328. n.d.
  • 329-336: Harry Appleton Curtis
    • 329-333: Letters to family
      • 329. 1898-May 1899, studying at University of Colorado-Denver, accident while working at Cripple Creek Mine (6/29).
      • 330. Jul-Nov 1899: "please send me $2000.... vite, vite, madam" (11/4)
      • 331. Dec 1899 - 1903: in New York working as electrical service broker; includes list of daily expenses (8/18/1901); trip to Europe (1903).
      • 332. 1904-1906: trip to Panama
      • 333. 1908-1912, 1915-1917, 1942, n.d., working as tobacco broker; account of Frazier flying in France (6/8/1915).
    • 334. Re and to: HAC, 1882-1911
    • 335. Clippings, 1890s
    • 336. Telegram re: death of HAC, 1943, and obituary
  • 337-354: Frazier Curtis and wife, Gladys (Raper)
    • 337-350: Letters to family, especially HAC
      • 337. 1884-1897: life at Harvard
      • 338. 1898-1899: life at Harvard
      • 339. 1900-1901: cattle ranching and investment opportunities, need for cash
      • 340. Jan-Apr 1903
      • 341. Nov-Dec 1903
      • 342. 1904
      • 343. 1905
      • 344. 1906-1907
      • 345. 1908
      • 346. 1909: marriage to GRC; includes GRC and her mother.
      • 347. 1910
      • 348. Feb-Sep 1911
      • 349. Oct-Dec 1911
      • 350. 1912-1953, n.d., death of Frazier (1/30/1940)
    • 351-353: To FC
      • 351. 1895-1899
      • 352. Clippings from home, 1899
      • 353. 1900-1924, n.d.; includes clipping re: FC.
    • 354. Clippings re: Alaska, 1900
  • 355-366: James Freeman Curtis
    • 355-364: Letters to family
      • 355. 1892-1894; includes one letter to JFC.
      • 356. 1896-1900
      • 357. 1901
      • 358. 1903-1905
      • 359. 1907
      • 360. 1909
      • 361. 1910-1911
      • 362. 1912-1917; includes clippings re: wedding of JFC and Laura Merriam
      • 363. 1920-1952
      • 364. n.d.
    • 365. Re: Amy Lowell's suit for damages because of car accident against JFC, 1909
    • 366. Tavern Club Memorial re: JFC, 1953
  • 367-396: Harriot Sumner Curtis
    • 367-391: Letters to family
      • 367. 1888-1896
      • 368. 1897-1899: in Europe (May-Jul 1899)
      • 369. 1900-1902
      • 370. 1903: "Hampton was the most exciting thing I ever saw or heard....I can't think of a greater privilege than to be allowed to teach there....Booker Washington spoke...his advice to them was so wise and applicable to all graduating classes of educated Negroes" (5/1)
      • 371. 1904-1905
      • 372. 1906-1907: Carnegie's offer to build a circulating library in Richmond, town's negative reaction for fear of sharing books with Blacks (3/29/1906); Grace at dinner with Kipling and Mark Twain at Dr. Osler's in Oxford (9/1/1907)
      • 373. 1908-1910
      • 374. 1911
      • 375. 1912: Titanic disaster (4/21); suffrage parade in New York (5/31)
      • 376. 1913-1916: John Masefield in Boston reading poems for French wounded (2/18/1916); pro-Wilson politics (11/24/1916).
      • 377-379: 1917
        • 377. Jan-Apr: to MC "don't think about coming home...you are more useful there" (2/9)
        • 378. May-Aug: HSC and IC working at Maverick Dispensary and at East Boston Civilian Relief for Red Cross
        • 379. Sep-Dec
      • 380. Jan-Jul 1918: arrest of Karl Muck (3/27/1918)
      • 381. Aug-Dec 1918
      • 382. Jan-Mar 1919: working at Red Cross
      • 383. Apr-Dec 1919
      • 384. 1920-1921: HSC in France to visit war zones and battlefields with MC, Mabel and Gertrude Sturgis; tour of France and Italy (Mar-Jul 1921); MC invited to be Chief of Social Workers for Red Cross to work in Poland, Baltic States, Serbia, or Czechoslovakia (8/19/1921).
      • 385. 1922-1924: with JFC and his children in Florence during divorce proceedings of JFC and Laura Merriam (Apr-May 1924)
      • 386. 1925-1929: tour with FGC of Italy and Greece (3/8/1926); President Gregg invites HSC to "come for a year...as Dean of Women" [at Hampton Institute] (3/10/1927); scattered information about her work at Hampton, 1927-1931: "you ask about my job: I feel in everlasting confusion so many darn little details...if you've never been a Dean and don't know beans about it what can you expect?" (12/8/1927); Carnegie Hall booked for the choir (2/15/1928); at meeting of deans of women at Howard..."how to arouse initiative in girls to do anything besides sew and dance" (3/3/1929).
      • 387. 1930-1938: program of Hampton Institute Dance Group led by Dorothy Maynor (1938)
      • 388. 1939
      • 389. 1940-1947
      • 390. 1950-1964
      • 391. n.d.
    • 392. HSC to others: with Dorothy Maynor re: her marriage to Rev. Shelby Rooks (2/19/1942); with Harry Cabot re: copy of portrait of Henry Higginson for Boston Symphony Orchestra (9/15/1953).
    • 393-395: To and re: HSC
      • 393. 1888-1905
      • 394. 1907-1978; includes letters from Dorothy Maynor and clipping re: Harlem School of the Arts, founded by Maynor in 1963; Ned Archer to Joan Shurcliff re: HSC and family friendship with his aunt Lutie Pleasants.
      • 395. Birthday poems, 1941, 1971
    • 396. Pottery notes, etc., 1914-1915
  • 397-525: Margaret Curtis
    • 397-403: Miscellaneous personal.
      See also #472-476.
      • 397. School paper, 1900; appointment book, 1914; expenses and addresses [summer 1918].
      • 398. Trips to Italy, diary, receipts, etc., 1912; diary, receipts, 1921.
      • 399. Golf clippings, etc., 1914-1915, 1964, n.d.
      • 400. History of Manchester by MC, ms. and ts. copies, notes, 1959
      • 401. Power of Attorney for HSC, n.d.
      • 402. Memorial service, 1965
      • 403. Notes and memorabilia, n.d.
    • 404-419: Letters to family.
      See folder #404 for detailed description of letters. See also MC's professional papers #472-511.
      • 404. 1888-1899: childhood diseases, sports, especially golf
      • 405. 1901-1904: golf tournament (1903); Putnam Camp news.
      • 406. 1905-1910: to Britain for golf tournament (1905)
      • 407. 1911-1914: sinking of Titanic, trip to Europe; includes HSC.
      • 408. 1915 - Apr 1916: relief work in Paris
      • 409. May-Dec 1916: relief work, trip back to U.S and return to France with Mabel Sturgis (10/4)
      • 410. Feb-Jun 1916, ms. copies of letters, some to Mabel Sturgis
      • 411. Feb 1916 - Apr 1917, ts. copies of letters, some to Mabel Sturgis
      • 412. 1917: accepts job with American Red Cross (6/25); made chief of Bureau of Refugees and Home Relief in Paris (8/26); then Associate chief with wider responsibilities (10/7).
      • 413. 1918: relief work in Dept. of Yonne (1/13); Helen Homans's death; new appointment in Bureau of Refugees (11/10); MC and MRS offer services to the American Friends Service Committee (12/1).
      • 414. 1919: MC elected Sous Chef of Department of Relief for Friends (1/15); plans to return with MRS to US (3/31); work in the Ardennes, (4/7, 4/13).
      • 415. 1920-1921, includes partial ts. transcripts: MC's return to Europe (1/8/1921); work for ARC in Paris; relief work in Poland (1/24-2/12); inspection trip in Czechoslovakia; visits Prague (3/8); visits Dr. Hilda Clark in Vienna (3/18, 21); reorganization of ARC (7/3).
      • 416. 1922-1923: with ARC en route to Greece to work with refugees from Smyrna (10/26/1922); in Athens (11/14); in the Islands, Salonica and Kavalla (12/3); in Patras (12/16); Delphi (12/26); Spetzai (1/7/1923); Salonica (1/21); in Crete (2/6); in Geneva at the League (2/21).
      • 417. 1925-1929, to Geneva for International Migration Service (8/24/1925); in Pasadena (1/30/1927); golf (2/6-8/27, 3/9/1927); golf championship (9/25/1927); Leslie Cup (10/20/1927); for IMS in Geneva, Germany, and Poland (7/7/-7/29/1929).
      • 418. 1930-1953: State Junior Championship (8/13/1932); in Zurich for IMS (7/29/1939); eve of war in Berlin (8/18/1939), and England (9/1/1939).
      • 419. n.d.: family matters, Manchester, golf.
    • 420. MC to Mabel R. Sturgis, 1916, 1920-1929.
    • 421. MC to others, 1900, 1922-1923, 1953, n.d.
    • 422-448: Others to MC
      • 422-424: Cornelia R. Barnes
        • 422. 1902-1903: re: friends, visits, social events, and golf
        • 423. 1904: social events, friends, and golf
        • 424. 1905-1907: golf at Cromer (6/13/1905), championship (10/22/1919), other tournaments
      • 425-426: Helen Homans to MC
        • 425. 1900-1910, and prior: school events and trips
        • 426. 1916-1919, n.d.; includes pamphlet and letters from L'Hôpital de L'Alliance where HH worked; also obituary of HH.
      • 427. Helen Keller: TLS and ALS, 1891, 1955-1959
      • 428. Esther Sayles Root (Rootie) 1918-1922, n.d.;
      • 429-432: MRS to MC.
        • 429. 1904-1908
        • 430. Jan-Feb 1918 (in France)
        • 431. Mar-Dec 1918 (in France)
        • 432. 1923, 1939
      • 433. MRS to others, 1900, 1915-1918
      • 434-448: Others
        • 434. 1892-1902: golf tournament at Morristown (10/13/1896); includes reference copy of photograph.
          Original photograph in #18.
        • 435. 1903: friendships, lunch clubs, dances, social events
        • 436. 1904: golf, social events
        • 437. 1905: golf championship in England
        • 438. 1906: social news
        • 439. 1907: letters of congratulations on golf championship
        • 440. 1907-1911: golf; social reform (5/7/1910).
        • 441. 1912-1914, re: MC's trip to Europe with MRS (2/18/1912); news about charities (5/2/1912).
        • 442. 1916: social news, relief contributions
        • 443. 1917: contributions for relief work in Paris
        • 444. 1918-1919: Helen Homans's illness, 1918, Griette's illness and death (3/7/1919)
        • 445. 1920-1934: social work; description of embassy life in Rome from wife of U.S. ambassador, Sydney Fairbanks (8/24/1920).
        • 446. 1937-1940: Easter customs in Prague (4/4/1940)
        • 447. 1944-1957: includes letter from female Army pilot, description of towing target practice, etc. (7/21/1944); includes reference copy of photograph.
          Original photograph in #18.
        • 448. n.d.
    • 449-511: Professional papers
      • 449. Correspondence re: Associated Charities (later Family Welfare Society), 1905-1906, 1922; writings on charity, 1913, n.d..
      • 450. Chelsea fire relief, 1908: lists of burned streets, relief stations, donations, and offers of food and shelter
      • 451. Committees of Boston Female Asylum, National Conference of Charities and Corrections, and other charity work, 1912, 1914, n.d.
      • 452. Other charities, 1919, n.d.
      • 453. Handbook re: charities, other printed materials, 1911-1926
      • 454-471: Re: legal guardianship of Mary Chandler
        • 454. Summary of case, letter and notes, 1921, n.d.
        • 455. Correspondence with Westborough State Hospital and State Board of Insanity re: Chandler as public charge at Westborough, transfer to family care, 1914-1919
        • 456. Appointment of MC as guardian; custody of Eleanor Chandler, Mary's daughter; insurance claims; assets held in trust, 1914-1919.
        • 457. Receipts, bills, 1914-1922
        • 458. Expenses, insurance claims, guardian's fees, 1920-1922
        • 459. Chandler property in Athol, Mass., and in Florida, 1920-1922
        • 460-466: Correspondence with and re: Mary Chandler
          • 460. Mary Chandler to MC: her wish to be released, concern about daughter (5/21/1914), 1914-1916.
          • 461. To HSC, 1916-1922
          • 462. With Lawtons et al.; enclosures from Mary Chandler and Fred Chubb, 1914-1927, n.d.
          • 463. Mrs. C.E. Tomlin to MC and HSC, 1915-1916
          • 464. Carrie Kurtz with MC, 1918-1922
          • 465. HSC et al., 1918-1922
          • 466. With Henry Hubert re: circumstances regarding his marriage to Mary Chandler, difficulties, separation, 1921-1922
        • 467-471: Re: guardianship of Eleanor Chandler (Mary Chandler's daughter)
          • 467. To MC, et al., 1914-1915, 1922, 1935; includes reference copy of photograph of Eleanor.
            Original photograph in #18.
          • 468-471: Margaret Taylor to MC: letters and financial receipts
            • 468. 1915-1916
            • 469. 1917-1919
            • 470. 1920-1921
            • 471. 1921-1922, n.d.; includes others to MC and letter from Eleanor Chandler.
      • 472-522m: MC's relief work in Europe.
        See also MC's letters to family #404-419.
        • 472. IDs, safe conducts, visas, Red Cross permits, letters of introduction, for relief work in France, Greece, 1916-1921, n.d.
        • 473. Passenger lists and invitations, 1916-1918; Médaille de Guerre, 1919; and re: Médaille de la Reconnaissance Française, 1920.
        • 474o. Passport, etc., 1916, Médaille de la Reconnaissance Française, 1920
        • 475. Personal expenses, accounts, 1916-1920, n.d.
        • 476. Notes, expenses, memos, ca.1916-1920: notes on towns, population figures, returned refugees, expenditures
        • 477-481: Student Atelier Association, 1916-1917
          • 477. Data cards on refugee families, visits to refugees
          • 478. Letters from refugees, also to Helen Shurtleff, some in French, 1916-1919 and prior, n.d.
          • 479. Other correspondence, some in French, including recruitment in U.S., and letters from Helen Shurtleff, 1916-1917
          • 480. Re: purchase of Ford automobile, 1916-1918 and prior, n.d.
          • 481. Report and journal of tour of devastated regions of France with Helen Shurtleff, ts., 1917
        • 482. Other World War I French charities
        • 483-500: American Red Cross
          • 483-487: Bureau of Refugees, 1917-1919
            • 483. Reports, lists, correspondence re: ARC personnel needs, etc., 1917-1918
            • 484. Refugee statistics, 1917-1918, n.d.
            • 485. MC's lectures re: social work and European relief work, ca.1917-1919
            • 486. Appeals, donations, ARC expenses, 1918-1919, n.d.
            • 487. Clippings, descriptions of MC by Richard Cabot et al., 1918, n.d.
          • 488-493: Correspondence and reports re: ARC and American Friends Service Committee.
            Description of letters in #488.
            • 488. 1917-1918 includes reports (7/8/1918); biographical information on MRS and MC (8/2/1918).
            • 489. 1917-1919: from Molly Dewson
            • 490. 1917-1918: from French friends and colleagues (in French)
            • 491. 1919-1948: from French friends and colleagues (in French)
            • 492. 1919: ARC workers in Port-Said, Egypt (3/26); relief work in Rumania, (9/24); report on Friends Service Committee in Vienna (10/31, 11/11); report on Vienna, Budapest, Prague (11/22); Bolshevist prison camp in Poland, relief needs in Poland (12/1919).
            • 493. 1920: Vienna Friends' Relief Mission (1/17); refugee housing in Paris (1/30); conditions in Prague (11/5); general report on European relief situation (11/30).
          • 494-498: American Red Cross: European Child Health Program
            • 494. 1921: MC's trip to Poland, maps and documents, etc.
            • 495. 1921: MC's report on visit to Poland, (3/5); Homer Folks's report on Poland (3/30); reports on Prague (5/8), Latvia (8/8), Poland (8/13), Vienna (9/1), Poland, Czechoslovakia, Baltic states, and Austria (9/8).
            • 496. 1922-1923: ARC operations in Europe, report on Lower Austria, work in Poland (9/22); conditions in Russia (11/24/1922).
            • 497. n.d.: descriptions of war-time France; reports on Austria, Poland and Budapest.
            • 498. Printed reports on child health programs in Europe and Czechoslovakia, 1921-1922, n.d.
          • 499-500: MC's ARC mission in Greece, 1922-1923
            • 499. Correspondence, IDs, refugee reports, bulletins, clippings; smallpox deaths in Crete; Greek Refugees Book (in Greek); visits to refugees near Athens; Central Committee for Coordination of Relief Work, Athens.
            • 500. Memo books, history of Greece
        • 501. Emergency Campaign, 1934-1935: clippings, radio skit to raise money
        • 502. International Migration Service: correspondence, 1938-1940
        • 503-507: U.S. Committee for the Care of European Children, Boston Branch
          • 503. Correspondence, 1940-1941; includes reference copy of photograph.
            Original photograph in #18.
          • 504. Minutes, reports, expenditures, 1940
          • 505. Memos, writings by English refugees, 1941, n.d.
          • 506. Names of sponsors, placements of children, etc., 1940-1941, n.d.
          • 507. Printed re: care of European children, 1940-1941
        • 508. Re: World War II; includes account of Warsaw after German occupation (12/1939), clippings, poem.
        • 509. Women's Golf Association of Massachusetts re: gift of mobile kitchen (canteen) for British War Relief, 1941; includes reference copies of photographs.
          Original photographs in #18.
        • 510. British War Relief: bank statements, 1941
        • 511. War Production Board: clippings, 1942-1943; certificate of service for MC, 1945.
      • 512-521: Miscellaneous printed
        • 512. ARC and allied printed material, including Instructions and Information for Red Cross Workers in France, 1914-1918
        • 513. Maps: France, Greece, Russia, ca.1914-1922
        • 514f. Circular, "Taisez-vous, mefiez-vous...," other printed, 1915, 1918, n.d.
        • 515. Other French printed, 1915-1918
        • 516f. "Documents de la Section Photographique de l'Armée Française," #10, 14, 19, 1917, n.d.
        • 517+. Posters: 10 French re: child health and TB, 5 black and white political bulletins, 3 colored Czech re: child health, 1 Polish, 1917, n.d.
        • 518o. Posters and french newspapers re: Woodrow Wilson, 1918, n.d.
        • 519f+. Other printed, 1918-1939
        • 520. Other French printed, 1919
        • 521. Other printed, 1919-1926, n.d.
      • 522m. Wooden signpost: "Premiere ligne/Section de Droite/Gauche," n.d.
    • 523-525: Society of Friends
      • 523. Reconstruction magazine, 1917-1920
      • 524. Reports and bulletins re: relief in Europe, 1917-1920
      • 525. Bulletins, etc., 1921-1926, n.d.
  • 526-531: Curtis family: miscellaneous
    • 526. Others to Curtis family
    • 527. Others to others, 1901-1908, n.d.; includes copy of W.S. Bigelow's letter re: women's suffrage.
    • 528. Sketches by FGC et al., n.d.
    • 529. Hair of HAC and young children
    • 530. Poems
    • 531. Lists, rules, notes, fragments

Partial index of personal names, organizations, and subjects

• Adams, Charles Francis 125
• Addams, Jane 95
• Afro-Americans--Education 81, 370, 372, 387, 392, 394. See also Hampton Institute and Penn School (Saint Helena Island S.C.)
• Aircraft industry 60, 88-90, 95, 253-254
• American Friends Service Committee 413-414, 488-493
• American National Red Cross 384, 412, 415-416, 472, 483- 500, 512
• Appleton, Harriot Coffin (Sumner) 47
• Appleton, Nathan 26, 32
• Appleton, William Sumner 125, 139
• Boston (Mass), School Committee 212
• Briggs, Isobel 62, 67, 334
• Cabot, Ella (Lyman) 184-186, 193
• Cabot, Richard C. (Richard Clarke) 189, 198, 486
• Carlyle, Thomas 138
• Childbirth 87, 93
• Clark, Hilda 415
• Cookery 44
• Cornell University--Alumni and Alumnae 61, 62
• Courtship--United States 39
• Cunningham, Hester 190, 193, 196
• Curtis, Greely Stevenson, 1830-97 39-43, 70-71, 220, 244, 263, 322
• Curtis, Greely Stevenson, 1871-1947 61-64, 242-257
• Curtis, Frances Greely 7, 55, 127, 141-231, 292, 528
• Curtis, Frazier 109-110, 230, 337-354
• Curtis, Harriot (Appleton) 44-139
• Curtis, Harriot Sumner 112-113, 212, 367-396, 401, 461, 463, 465
• Curtis, Harry Appleton 9-11, 108, 242, 329-336
• Curtis, Isabella 8, 65-107, 258-328,
• Curtis, James Freeman 92, 111, 295, 355-366, 385
• Curtis, Margaret 12-18, 114-129, 294-295, 377, 384, 386, 397-525
• Curtis, William 54, 109, 140
• Dana, Richard 128
• Dewson, Mary Williams 489
• Family Welfare Society 449
• Folks, Homer 495
• Galsworthy, John 138
• Golf 399, 404-406, 417-419, 422-424, 434, 435-437, 439- 440, 509
• Halsted, Isabella (Hopkinson) 27, 239
• Hampton Institute 84, 93, 286, 294-295, 370, 386-387
• Harvard University--Alumni and Alumnae 3, 109, 242, 337- 338
• Homans, Helen 119, 413, 425-426, 444
• Hopkinson, Charles 226, 235
• Hopkinson, Elinor (Curtis) 58-60, 214-234
• Howells, W.D. (William Dean) 195
• International Migration Service 295, 417, 502
• Irwin, Agnes 152
• James, William 200
• Keller, Helen 427
• Lee, Joseph 89, 174, 196
• Longfellow, Alice M. (Alice Mary) 121, 233
• Longfellow, Edith 121
• Longfellow, Ernest Wadsworth 191
• Longfellow, Fanny (Appleton) 120
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 121
• Lowell, Amy 83, 365
• Masefield, John 138, 200, 376
• Maynor, Dorothy 387, 392, 394
• Muck, Karl 119, 380
• Penn School (Saint Helena Island, S.C.) 288, 291, 293
• Radcliffe College--Alumni and alumnae 2, 190, 193, 196, 202
• Shaw, Robert Gould 21
• Shurcliff, Joan (Hopkinson) 28, 93, 241, 394
• Shurtleff, Helen (Mrs. Ernest W.) 408, 478, 481
• Social work--United States 89, 117, 157, 161, 163, 378
• Society of Friends 523-525
• Stevenson, Hannah 36, 37
• Stone, Lucy 196
• Student Atelier Association 477-481
• Sturgis family 88, 319, 384, 410-411
• Sturgis, Mabel Russell 123, 384, 409-411, 420, 429-432, 488
• Suffrage--Anti-suffrage 93
• United States Committee for the Care of European Children--Boston Branch 503-507
• United States. War Production Board 511
• Washington, Booker T. 81, 370
• Whitman, Sarah (Wyman) 196, 198
• Women golfers see Golf
• Women in aeronautics 447
• Women--Suffrage 91, 196, 375, 527
• World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, American 408- 413, 421, 423-424, 428, 472-491
• World War, 1914-1918--Posters 514f, 517+, 518o