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A-70/M-59

Gardner family. Papers, 1826-1880: A Finding Aid

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

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Call No.: A-70/M-59
Note: CLOSED. USE MICROFILM. REQUEST AS: M-59
Repository: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Creator: GARDINER FAMILY
Title: Papers, 1826-1880
Quantity: 4 file boxes, incl. 3 vol.
Abstract: Correspondence, travel journals, and scrapbooks of the William H. Gardiner family of Boston, Massachusetts.

Acquisition Information:

Accession numbers: 58-57, 59-59

Gift of Sister Geraldine Mary, O.S.A., Denver, Colorado. Received Sept. 1958, May 1959

Notes: This gift was received from Sister Geraldine Mary [Cabot]. Mrs. William N. Davis was her great aunt. Mrs. Davis was also a cousin of Elizabeth Cary Agassiz. Sister Geraldine is the daughter of Mrs. William Cabot, nee Mary Caroline Gardiner. Mr. William Nye Davis, a graduate of Harvard College, came from Salem.

Access Restrictions:

Access. Unrestricted. Originals are closed; use microfilm M-59.

Scope and Content

The inter-relations and activities of a large and prominent Boston family are well illustrated in the letters of the William H. Gardiner family. Included are letters from the Perkins, Cary, Agassiz and Cushing branches of the family. Most of the letters written between 1850-1870 are full of family gossip and travel news. There is a large body of letters from Mary Gardiner Davis to her parents, William H. and Caroline Perkins Gardiner from 1853-1863; her travel journals and scrapbooks, also her unpublished writings, including a tale of New England life in the 19th century.

Catalog entries:

1. Boston - Social life and customs

2. Travel

3. Agassiz, Louis

4. Diaries

i. Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary

ii. Cary, Emma F

iii. Cary family

iv. Davis, Mary Gardiner

v. Davis, William Nye

vi. Gardiner, Caroline Perkins

vii. Gardiner, William H.

viii. Gardiner, John S

ix. Gardiner, Louisa

x. Gardiner, Sophie

xi. Perkins, Sallie (Mrs. Thomas H.)

INVENTORY

1. Memo to the will of Perkins 4p. nd.

2. Elizabeth Cary Agassiz: 12 letters to Uncle William (William H. Gardiner) 1856, 1867-1880

3. Louis Agassiz: 1 letter to William H. Gardiner, 1867.

4. Anne M. C. : 1 letter to Mrs. William H. Gardiner. nd.

5. Emma F. Cary: 11 letters to Louisa Gardiner, 1852-1880, many no date.

6. Emma F. Cary: "Memories, Old Temple Place"

7. Mary Perkins (Mrs. T. G.) Cary: 3 Letters to Wm. H. Gardiner, 3 Letters to Mrs. Wm. H. Gardiner (Caroline) 1860,1870

8. Nancy Perkins (Mrs. William F.) Cary: 1 letter to Louisa Gardiner. nd.

9. Nancy Perkins (Mrs. William F.) Cary: 4 letters to Caroline and 4 letters to Wm. Gardiner 1860's

10. Sarah P. Cary: 2 letters to Uncle William (Wm. H. Gardiner) 1869.

11 Sarah P. Cary: 1 letter to Mary Gardiner (note accompanying wedding present)? 1856 ?

12. Thomas G. Cary: 3 letters to William H. Gardiner, 1838-1839

13. Thomas G. Cary Jr.: 5 letters to Uncle William (Wm. H. Gardiner) 1872-1874 re Agassiz Museum, etc.

14. William F. Cary: 2 telegrams to Wm. H. Gardiner 1 telegram to C. G. Ripley. 1851

15. Tom F. Cushing: 1 letter to Aunt Caroline (Mrs. Wm. H. Gardiner) 1860

16. H. T. Davis: 1 letter to Wm. H. Gardiner, 1867 1 letter to Mary nd.

17. S. H. Davis: 1 letter to Mary [Gardiner Davis], 1863
For Mary Gardiner Davis letters, etc. see folders 50-vol. 2

18. Caroline Perkins Gardiner (Mrs. Wm. H. Gardiner): 1 letter to Charlie, (Charles Perkins Gardiner) 1850's

19. Caroline Perkins Gardiner (Mrs. Wm.H.Gardiner): 6 letters to Mary, (Mary Gardiner Davis) 1862-1863.

20. To Caroline Perkins Gardiner (Mrs. Wm. H. Gardiner) From: Elizabeth[Gardiner to Caroline, Sallie J. C. to Aunt Caroline, E. Dexter to Caroline 2 notes, E. M. Perkins to Caroline L. Van De Wegen to Mrs. Gardiner, Madge to Caroline

21 TO Charles P. Gardiner from E F G. (Amy) 7 letters, nd.

22 Edward Gardiner. 2 letters to Charlie (Charles P. Gardiner). 1855, 1858.

23. John S. Gardiner: 2 letters to Carl Rufus (brother Charles) nd.

24. John S. Gardiner: 5 letters to Father and Mother. (Wm. H. Gardiner), 1853-1854

25. John S. Gardiner: 21 letters to Mary (Mary Gardiner Davis) 1853-1855.

26. John S. Gardiner: 1 letter to Louigi (Louisa Gardiner) 1859.

27. John S. Gardiner: "Le Guide Diplomatique.." 33p. MS Paris & Leipsig,1851

28. ?[John H. Gardiner] "Answer to W--- First principles of government." incomplete. nd.

29. Louisa Gardiner: 1 letter to Mary (Mary Gardiner Davis) 1862.

30. Louisa Gardiner: 1 letter to Charley (Charles P. Gardiner) nd.

31. TO Louisa Gardiner: 1 letter from Ruth Vose nd. 1 Letter to Jennie Reynolds. nd.

32. Louisa Gardiner: School notes and literary extracts. 1850 - 1853, 1864. loose notes, also 2. v.

33. Minette de Lingneux (Mrs. John S.) Gardiner) 3 letters to Wm. H. Gardiner, 1 letter to Mrs. Gardiner, 1 letter to Mary 1860

34. Sophie H. Gardiner: 2 letters to Mary Gardiner Davis. 1860, 1863

35. Sophie H. Gardiner: (Mrs. Edward Gardiner): 14 letters to Mrs. Wm. H. Gardiner, 1859-1860

36. Sophie H. Gardiner: 3 letters to Wm. H. Gardiner. 1860

37. William H. Gardiner: To J. Cushing. 1851-1852 re Elizabeth Gardiner's estate

38. William H. Gardiner: 1 letter to William N. Davis. 1862.

39. William H. Gardiner: 1 letter to Charles P. Gardiner. 1864.

40. William H. Gardiner: 1 letter to Minette, after John's death. nd.(1860's)

41. William H. Gardiner - Henrietta Thorndike. 1859. business correspondence.

42 Glidden family - 3 notes, nd, 1862, 1884.

43. M. Magee & M.M. Phillips: 6 letters to Sally Perkins, 1826-, 1 letter to Mrs. Thomas H. Perkins 1826-1843

44. Edward N. Perkins: 1 letter to Wm. H. Gardiner, 1860.

45. Mary S[arah] P[erkins]: 1 letter to Louisa Gardiner. nd.0

46. William H. Prescott: 1 note to Mary G. Davis, 1853?

47. Elizabeth Sewall & Ellen Mary Sewall: 2 letters to Louisa Gardiner 1 letter Louisa to Miss Sewall 1854

48. Pauline Agassiz Shaw (Mrs. Qunicy Shaw): 2 notes to Wm. H. Gardiner. 1870

49. E. A. Wadsworth: 2 letters to Mary G. Davis. 1862, 1863.

50. - Vol. 2 MARY GARDINER DAVIS: (Mrs. William Nye Davis)
- 50. MGD: 4 letters to Carl Rufus ( brother Charles) nd.
- 51. MGD: 6 letters to Charles P. Gardiner. nd. (1860's)
- 52. MGD: 3 letter to John S. Gardiner. 1863?
- 53. MGD: 9 letters to Mother & Father (Mrs. & Mr. Wm. H. Gardiner) 1853-1858.
- 54. MGD: 30 letters to Mother & Father (Mrs. & Mr. Wm. H. Gardiner) 1859.
- 55. MGD: 34 letters to Mother & Father (Mrs. & Mr. Wm. H. Gardiner) 1860.
- 56. TO MGD. Lucretia W. Revere 1 letter to MGD. 1862, Mimi (Mrs. T. Lyman) 3 letters to MGD. 1862-1863, Mary Lyman 1 letter to MGD. nd., Fanny 1 letter from Shanghai. nd.
- 57. Mrs. Davis: 1 letter to William N. Davis, signed Mother. nd.
- 58. William N. Davis: 16 letters to Wm. H. Gardiner. 1860.
- 59. Letters of condolence to William Nye Davis on the death of his wife, Mary Gardiner Davis, on Feb. 4 at Nice. 1863.
- 60. Bills, etc. re illness and death of Mary G. Davis. 1863.
- 61. MGD: Inventories, accounts,etc.: 1. Linen book. 1856; 2. List of Brookline articles, 1854; 3. Account books -Servants - 1845-1859; 4. Personal expenses, 1858-1863.
- 62. MGD: Journal, 1861-1862 (Travel diary - Grand Tour) with partial index by M.W. Brown. 191 sheets written on 4 sides. See digital image.
  Folder 62 CLOSED. Use microfilm: M-59, reel 968. no. M7.
- 63. MGD: Thoughts for life, 1850-1856
- 64. MGD: Common Place Book. 1858-
- 65. MGD: Notes. nd.
- 66. MGD: [Clifton Manor] an untitled story.
- 67. MGD: Eulalie de Pontoris; a historette without a moral, or Half the life of a woman of impulse. 114 p. incomplete.
- 68. MGD: Long Meadow Farm; a tale of New England life in the 19th century. 556 un'd p. in 30 sections.
- 69. MGD: Naples story nd.
- 70. MGD: Nathalie or the would-be actress. A vaudeville in two acts. Written for Christmas Evening of 1854. (in notebook)
- 71. MGD: Volume of poems, 1852-1854. (in black lea. notebook.)
- Vol. 1 MGD: Scrapbook, 1853. Mounted leaves collected on her travels. ? handwriting, is it Wm. N. Davis.?
- Vol. 2 MGD: Scrapbook, 1861-1862. Travels in Nassau 1861, and Europe1861-1862.
  Includes 50 photographs.

72: Gardiner family PHOTOGRAPHS: Louisa Gardiner, Mr. & Mrs. William Nye Davis, Prof. Louis Agassiz (3), Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, 3 unidentified.

73: Gardiner family: Miscellany - 12 items, incl. unidentified letters, etc. and Farmer's Almanak, 1841

Vol. 3 Unidentified Commonplace book, also contains french lessons of MGD.

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