Ward-Perkins Families COPY: Elizabeth H.ward THOMAS WREN WARD OF BOSTON FAMILY TREE (Compiled by Ronald H. Epp, August 2019) William W. & Ruth Putnam Of Salem William W. (1761-1827) m. 1. Martha Proctor (1762-1788); 2. Joanna 'Nancy' Chipman (1761- ) Thomas Wren Ward (1786-1858) m. Lydia Gray W. (1788-1874), daughter of Samuel Gray (1760-1816) m. Anna Orne (1767-1797) Samuel Gray George Cabot Martha Mary Gray William Mary Gray John Thomas Wm. (1817-1907) (1824-87) (1812-53) (1816-19) (1819-30) (1820-1901) (1822-56) (1831-59) m. 1840 m. 1850 William Dorr Anna Hazard Barker W. daughter of Jacob & Eliza Barker Charles Hazen Dorr (1851-76) (1813-1902) (1821-1893) George B. Dorr (1853-1944) Anna Barker Ward Lydia Gray Ward Elizabeth Barker Ward Thomas Wren Ward (1841-75) (1843-1929) (1850-1920) (1844-1940) m. 1862 m. 1870 m. m. 1872 Joseph Thoron Baron Richard F. Baron Ernst Schoenberg Sophia Read Howard (1828-1901) Von Hoffman (1850- ) (1849-1918) Maria Louisa Lt. Col. George C. Elizabeth Howard Ward Howard Ridgely Ward (1864-1950) (1876-1936) (1873-1954) (1881-1946) m. m. 1901 m. 1896 m. 1905 T.W. Ward Wm. Crowninshield Justine Cutting Charles Bruen Perkins* Beatrice Kidder Elizabeth Endicott Jr. (1860-1929) Beatrice (1860-1936) Ward P.L.F.F.S. Thoron Francis Anna Elinor Mary * son of Charles (1867-1938) Davenport 'Nancy' Perkins Perkins Callahan Perkins & Perkins Perkins Mansfield Ryan Frances D. Bruen (1897-1970) (1899-1993) (1900-70) (1912-93) Guide to the Ward-Perkins Family Papers Page 1 of 1 OAC Online Archive of California Collection Guide http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4v19s0s Collection Title: Guide to the Ward-Perkins Family Papers Collection Number: Mss 129 Get Items: No online items Contact UC Santa Barbara::Special Collections Description Primarily correspondence relating to the Ward and Perkins families of Boston, New York and elsewhere. Other families who figure prominently in the papers are the Barkers, the Howards, and the Bruens. Many letters from noteworthy individuals outside of the family circles, such as James Russell Lowell, Amy Lowell, George Bancroft, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry and William James, George Santayana, and Theodore Roosevelt. Background The Ward and Perkins families embodied the ideal of the upper class New England family in the 19th century. Both were very well educated, with several generations of Harvard graduates, most of whom spent time studying and touring in Europe. Both were very wealthy, having found success at international business and finance. Both felt a duty to be active in the social, political, and intellectual movements of their time. The families were brought together by the marriage of Elizabeth Howard Ward and Charles Bruen Perkins in 1896. The collection primarily covers three generations of these families, with extensive correspondence and personal papers of Elizabeth Ward Perkins, her father Thomas Wren Ward, and her grandfather Samuel Gray Ward, as well as her husband's parents, Charles Callahan Perkins and Frances D. Perkins. The papers feature correspondence with many noteworthy individuals outside the family circles, such as George Bancroft, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry and William James, Amy Lowell, James Russell Lowell, Eleanor Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and George Santayana. Extent 5.6 linear feet (15 boxes and 2 oversize boxes). Restrictions Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4v19s0sj/ 8/23/2011 http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4v19s0sj No online items Guide to the Ward-Perkins Family Papers Arrangement and description by T. Lewis; latest revision, D. Tambo Department of Special Collections Davidson Library University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Phone: (805) 893-3062 Fax: (805) 893-5749 Email: special@library.ucsb.edu URL: :http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html © 2011 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Guide to the Ward-Perkins Family Mss 129 1 Papers Ward-Perkins Family Papers, ca. 1788-1954 Collection number: Mss 129 Department of Special Collections Davidson Library University of California, Santa Barbara Processed by: Arrangement and description by T. Lewis; latest revision, D. Tambo Date Completed: Apr. 26, 2011 Encoded by: A. Demeter © 2011 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: Ward-Perkins Family Papers Dates: ca. 1788-1954 Collection number: Mss 129 Collection Size: 5.6 linear feet (15 boxes and 2 oversize boxes). Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Abstract: Primarily correspondence relating to the Ward and Perkins families of Boston, New York and elsewhere. Other families who figure prominently in the papers are the Barkers, the Howards, and the Bruens. Many letters from noteworthy individuals outside of the family circles, such as James Russell Lowell, Amy Lowell, George Bancroft, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry and William James, George Santayana, and Theodore Roosevelt. Physical location: Vault. Languages: English Access Restrictions None. Publication Rights Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained. Preferred Citation Ward-Perkins Family Papers. Mss 129. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara. Acquisition Information Multiple gifts from family members, ca. 1984-2011. Biography The Ward and Perkins families embodied the ideal of the upper class New England family in the 19th century. Both were very well educated, with several generations of Harvard graduates, most of whom spent time studying and touring in Europe. Both were very wealthy, having found success at international business and finance. Both felt a duty to be active in the social, political, and intellectual movements of their time. The families were brought together by the marriage of Elizabeth Howard Ward and Charles Bruen Perkins in 1896. The collection primarily covers three generations of these families, with extensive correspondence and personal papers of Elizabeth Ward Perkins, her father Thomas Wren Ward, and her grandfather Samuel Gray Ward, as well as her husband's parents, Charles Callahan Perkins and Frances D. Perkins. The papers feature correspondence with many noteworthy individuals outside the family circles, such as George Bancroft, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry and William James, Amy Lowell, James Russell Lowell, Eleanor Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and George Santayana. Guide to the Ward-Perkins Family Mss 129 2 Papers Samuel Gray Ward (1817-1907) grew up in Boston and graduated from Harvard University in 1836. His father, Thomas Wren Ward, was the American agent for Baring Brothers & Co. of London, a credit corporation for owners of merchant ships, which would prove to be the family firm for three generations. After graduation, Samuel Gray Ward went on the Grand Tour of Europe with the Harvard mathematician and astronomer John Farrar and members of his family. Among the group was a young relative of Farrar's, Anna Hazard Barker. Sam and Anna spent at least nine weeks of the trip traveling together. Although Anna was some years older and a much more experienced traveler than he, Sam convinced her to marry him, and they were wed in 1840. Anna Hazard Barker Ward (1813-1902) was the daughter of New York State Senator Jacob Barker, an extremely wealthy and successful businessman who was related to Benjamin Franklin's mother. She was raised in Bloomingdale, New York, on the Hudson River, though when she was a teen the family moved to New Orleans, where Jacob Barker increased both his reputation and his fortune. Following the Grand Tour of Europe, she and Samuel Gray Ward became heavily involved with the Transcendentalist movement. In 1838 their mutual friend Margaret Fuller, a noted Transcendentalist thinker and women's rights advocate, introduced them to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and they soon became close personal friends. Fuller, who cultivated an air of intellectual superiority, nevertheless saw Anna Barker as her equal. However, due to peculiarities of the Victorian mindset, Anna's involvement in the Transcendentalist circles waned following her marriage. In 1845, after working at his father's firm for a few years, Samuel Gray Ward took his young family to live in the rural community of Lenox, MA, where he worked as a farmer. They saw this "back to the land" experiment as a Transcendentalist quest of the spirit, and indeed, Sam, who had always been of a delicate constitution, grew more robust and invigorated through his labors. Unfortunately, the death of his father left a vacancy at Baring Bros. that Samuel Gray Ward was called upon to fill. His brother, George Cabot Ward, joined him as his partner, and he began a 35-year career with the firm. In 1862, the family moved to New York. Sam and Anna Ward had three daughters: Anna Barker Ward Thoron, born in 1841, who married a French merchant named Joseph Thoron, but died shortly after the birth of her son Ward in 1875. Their second daughter was Lydia Gray Ward Von Hoffman, born in 1843, who married a German Baron, Richard Von Hoffman, in 1870 and went to live with him in Rome, Italy. Known familiarly as Lily, she often signed her letters with a variety of nicknames such as "Lilypad, "Padsy," and "Dill." The youngest was Elizabeth Barker Ward, who became Baroness Schönberg when she married Baron Ernst Schönberg of Austria. She joined him in his castle, Schloss Pallaus, in South Tyrol, where she died in 1920. Thomas Wren Ward (1844-1940) was the only son of Samuel Gray Ward and Anna Hazard Barker Ward, and he attended school in Vevey, Switzerland in the 1850s, before going to Harvard. His roommate at Harvard was Ralph Waldo Emerson's son Edward. The two had been friends previously and even went camping together before leaving for college. Although he was a sensitive, scholarly sort who dreamed of being a geologist, Thomas Wren Ward was drawn into the family business like his father before him. He would go on to serve the company for four decades. In 1872 he married Sophia Read Howard, and their eldest child was the aforementioned Elizabeth Howard Ward. In 1896, a few years after her own Grand Tour of Europe, Elizabeth Howard Ward (1873-1954) married the much older Boston architect Charles Bruen Perkins (1860-1929), also a Harvard graduate who had studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was the son of the noted author, musician, and painter Charles Callahan Perkins, who had himself graduated from Harvard in 1843 and went on to help establish the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The Perkins family had been wealthy philanthropists and patrons of the arts for generations, the earliest representative in this archive being Thomas Handasyd Perkins (1764-1854), who grew up amidst the turmoil of the American Revolution and went on to travel the world, building a fortune through international trade. Although the war prevented him from attending Harvard, as he was preparing to do, he nevertheless served 11 terms as a Massachusetts state legislator later in life. He and his wife, Sarah Elliott Perkins, were close friends with George Washington. His brother, James Perkins, was his partner in business, and James' great-great-grandson Francis Davenport Perkins (1897-1970) is also represented in the archive. Another Harvard man, Francis D. Perkins was a respected New Yorkmusic critic who fought in theSecond WorldWar.Inall,five generations of the Perkins family can be found in this collection. Scope and Content Notes The papers consist of approximately 2,000 related items (1,500 letters) relating to the Ward and Perkins families of Boston, New York, and elsewhere. Other families who figure prominently in the papers are the Barkers, the Howards, and the Bruens. The basic arrangement of the collection is based on Donald Fitch's article "The Ward-Perkins Papers," published in volume XVI of the UCSB Library publication Soundings (1985), which was itself based on the initial inventory of the collection prepared by Jeffrey Akard of the Santa Barbara firm A.B.I. Books. Citations are provided below, where available, for more detailed information of the items listed. Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. Perkins, Elizabeth Ward Ward, Thomas W. (Thomas Wren), 1786-1858 Ward, Samuel Gray Perkins, Charles C. (Charles Callahan), 1823-1886 Perkins, Charles Callahan, Mrs., d. 1909 Guide to the Ward-Perkins Family Mss 129 3 Papers Boston (Mass.) Related Materials Papers of Samuel Gray Ward and Anna Hazard (Barker) Ward, 1823-1908. Harvard University, Houghton Library. (bMS Am 1465). Thomas Wren Ward Papers, 1717-1943. Massachusetts Historical Society. Refers to the elder Thomas Wren Ward, father of Samuel Gray Ward. Thomas Handasyd Perkins Papers, 1789-1892. Massachusetts Historical Society. Biographical/Genealogical Information Scope and Content Note About the families, including notes and recent printed material Box 1: 1 General - Fitch, Donald. "The Ward-Perkins Papers" Box 1: 2 General - Early working inventory Box 1: 3 General - Biographical documents (photocopies) Box 1: 4-7 Barker Box 1: 8 Coffyn Box 1: 9 Davenport Box 1: 10 Folger Box 1: 11 Gardner Box 1: 12-13 Gray Box 1: 14-15 Perkins Box 1: 16 Robinson Box 1: 17 Rodman Box 1: 18-19 Schönberg Box 1: 20 Tilton, Eleanor M. - "The True Romance of Anna Hazard Barker and Samuel Gray Ward" Box 1: 21 Von Hoffman Box 1: 22-24 Ward Prominent Figures - Politicians, Authors, and Social Figures and miscellany Scope and Content Note Mainly correspondence to, from, and about; also some documents, clippings, writings, and other material. Bancroft, Elizabeth [Davis Bliss] (c.1803-1886) [wife of George Bancroft] Box 2: 1 1 ALS to Fanny and Mary [Frances D. Bruen Perkins and Mary A. D. Bruen], (Fitch, 73), 1867 Box 2: 1 1 ALS to "friends" [Mr. and Mrs. Charles Callahan Perkins], (Fitch, 75), n.d. Box 2: 1 1 ALS from Mary E. Perkins, (Fitch, 73), n.d. Box 2: 1 30 ALS from Mary Lundie Bruen, (Fitch, 72), 1865-1879 Bancroft, George (1800-1891) Box 2: 2 1 ALS to William Bancroft (his brother), (Fitch, 75), 1854 Box 2: 2 3 ALS to Mary A. D. Bruen, 1876-1886, (Fitch, 74), n.d. Box 2: 2 5 ALS to Mary Lundie Bruen, (Fitch, 74), n.d. Box 2: 2 9 ALS to Charles Callahan Perkins, (Fitch, 74), 1855-1883 Box 2: 2 9 ALS to Fanny [Frances D. Bruen Perkins], (Fitch, 73-74), 1853-1865, n.d. Box 2: 2 4 ALS to friends and relatives, (Fitch, 74), 1875, 1882, n.d. Box 2: 2 2 ALS from Charles Callahan Perkins, (Fitch, 68), 1867, 1868 Box 2: 2 1 Newspaper clipping re Bancroft biography, 1944 Baring, Thomas Box 2: 3 Correspondence and clippings, ca. 1877-1923 Barker, Abraham (1821-1906) [brother of Anna Hazard Barker Ward] Box 2: 4 2 ALS to "neice," 1883, 1896 Berensen, Mary Box 2: 5 1 picture postcard to Mrs. [Elizabeth Ward] Perkins, 1928 Bridge, Ann (1889-1974) [pseudonym for Lady Mary Dolling O'Malley, English novelist.] Box 2: 6 10 ALS to Elizabeth [Ward Perkins], (Fitch, 58), 1942-1951 Bruen, Matthias (1776-1846) [grandfather of Frances Davenport Bruen Perkins] Guide to the Ward-Perkins Family Mss 129 4 Papers Prominent Figures - Politicians, Authors, and Social Figures and miscellany Box 2: 7 1 ALS, with typescript copy, of a letter to his sister Mary, with a pencil sketch of Matthias included, (Fitch, 71), 1817 Bryce, James (1838-1922) Box 2: 8 1 ALS to Mrs. [Frances D. Bruen] Perkins, (Fitch, 72), 1886 Box 2: 8 1 ALS to Mr. [Samuel Gray] Ward, (Fitch, 26), 1898 Cabot, James Elliot (1821-1903) [Emerson's literary executor] Box 2: 8 2 ALS from Samuel Gray Ward, (Fitch, 23), 1882, n.d. Channing, William Ellery (1817-1901) Box 2: 9 1 ALS (8 pages) to Thomas Wren Ward, re campground WEC and Henry D. Thoreau used while on Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire, (Fitch, 46), 1861 Emerson, Edward W. (1844-1930) Box 2: 10 8 ALS to Tom [Thomas Wren Ward], (Fitch, 46), 1861-1867 Box 2: 10 1 printed copy of address re opening of Emerson Hall in 1905 and 1 note re Samuel Gray Ward's family letters, (Fitch, 31), 1914 Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Box 2: 11 3 ALS to friends [Samuel G. Ward], (Fitch, 28), 1840, 1842 Box 2: 11 1 ALS to Thomas Wren Ward, (Fitch, 29), 1840, 1872 Box 2: 11 1 TL from F. P. Stearns to Sophie R. Howard Ward re deteriorating health of Emerson, 1882 Hecker, (Friar) Isaac (1819-1888) [founder of the Paulists] Box 2: 12 2 ALS to "Friend" re Thomas Wren Ward, (Fitch, 48), 1862 Box 2: 12 2 ALS to Thomas Wren Ward, (Fitch, 48), 1864 James, Alice H. (c.1849-1922) [wife of William James] Box 2: 13 1 ALS to Thomas Wren Ward, (Fitch, 30), 1878 James, Alice R. (d. 1957) [wife of Billy James] Box 2: 14 1 ALS to "Bessie" [Elizabeth Ward Perkins], (Fitch, 30), 1929 James, Billy (1882-1961) [son of William James] Box 2: 15 2 ALS to Elizabeth [Ward Perkins], (Fitch, 30), 1922-1929 James, Henry (1843-1916) Box 2: 16 1 ALS to Anna Hazard Barker Ward, (Fitch, 30), n.d. Box 2: 16 2 ALS to Samuel Gray Ward, 1869, (Fitch, 30), n.y. Box 2: 16 1 TN, extract from "William Wetmore Story and his friends" James, William (1842-1910) Box 2: 17 1 ALS to Mrs. [Anna Hazard Barker] Ward, (Fitch, 30), [1884] Lind, Jenny (1820-1887) Box 2: 18 1 ALS to Baron [Richard Von] Hoffman, (Fitch, 40), n.d. Lowell, Amy (1874-1925) Box 2: 19 1 ALS to "Bessie" [Elizabeth Ward Perkins], (Fitch, 54), n.d. Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891) Box 2: 20 31 ALS to Samuel Gray Ward, (Fitch, 29), 1860-1891 O'Connell, (Cardinal) William Henry (1859-1944) Box 2: 21 8 TLS and 1 ALS to Elizabeth Ward Perkins, (Fitch, 57), 1934-1940, n.d. Powers, Hiram (1805-1873) Box 2: 22 Typed copies of 3 letters to Samuel Gray Ward and Anna Hazard Barker, 1837-1843 Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962) Box 2: 23 1 TLS to Elizabeth Ward Perkins, (Fitch, 57), 1933 Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) Box 2: 24 1 TLS to Samuel Gray Ward, (Fitch, 27), 1900 Saint-Gaudens, Homer (1880-1958) Box 2: 25 1 TLS to Mrs. [Elizabeth Ward] Perkins, (Fitch, 54), 1923 Sanborn, F. B. (1831-1917) Box 2: 26 2 TLS and 1 ALS to Samuel Gray Ward, (Fitch, 27), 1902 Santayana, George (1863-1952) Box 2: 27 3 ALS to Mrs. [Elizabeth Ward] Perkins, (Fitch, 54), 1915, 1916, n.d. Stephen, Sir Leslie (1832-1904) Box 2: 28 1 ALS to Mr. [Samuel Gray] Ward, (Fitch, 27), 1902 Stite, R. Box 2: 29 2 ALS to Martha Davenport, n.d. Guide to the Ward-Perkins Family Mss 129 5 Papers Prominent Figures - Politicians, Authors, and Social Figures and miscellany Ward, Joanna Chipman (c. 1761-1831) [second wife of William Ward, grandmother of Samuel Gray Ward] Box 2: 30 1 ALS to William Ward [brother of Samuel Gray Ward], (Fitch, 31), n.y. Ward, Martha (1812-1853) [sister of Samuel Gray Ward] Box 2: 31 1 TL (carbon copy transcript of earlier letter) to Thomas W. Ward [her father], 1836 [Ward, Martha Proctor (1763-1788)] [first wife of William Ward, grandmother of Samuel Gray Ward] Box 2: 32 1 ADS - Eulogy, by unknown author, (Fitch, 31), 1788 Ward, Raymond L. Box 2: 33 1 ALS to [William] Endicott, along with typed transcript, 1898 Ward, William (1761-1827) [grandfather of Samuel Gray Ward] Box 2: 34 1 ALS to "grandson" [Samuel Gray Ward], (Fitch, 31), 1819 Miscellany Box 2: 35 Various Documents, ca. 1867-1917 Box 2: 36 Vital Records - Births, marriages, and wills for various family members, ca. 1845-1954 Family Ward, Samuel Gray (1817-1907) Scope and Content Note Oldest son of Thomas Wren Ward and Lydia Gray Ward. Businessman and Transcendentalist. Correspondence to and from, as well as other materials, ca. 1841-1906. Outgoing Box 3: 1 1 ALS to brother-in-law Abraham Barker, (Fitch, 24), 1890 Box 3: 2 1 ALS to Eliza Callahan Cleveland, (Fitch, 24), 1896 Box 3: 3 1 TLS to Richard Watson Gilder, (Fitch, 24), 1902 Box 3: 4 1 ALS to Baron Osten-Sacken, (Fitch, 26), n.d. Box 3: 5 5 ALS to daughter Elizabeth B. Ward Schönberg, (Fitch, 23), 1862-1872 Box 3: 6 13 ALS to daughter Lydia G. Ward Von Hoffman, (Fitch, 23), 1871-1893 Box 3: 7 2 ALS to son-in-law Richard Von Hoffman, (Fitch, 23), 1872-1878 Box 3: 8 2 ALS to father Thomas W. Ward, (Fitch, 22), 1844 Box 3: 9 8 ALS to son Thomas Wren Ward, (Fitch, 23), 1860-1901 Box 3: 10 1 ALS to William Collins Whitney, (Fitch, 23), 1887 Incoming Box 3: 11 1 ALS from F.H. Baring, (Fitch, 26-27), 1899 Box 3: 12 2 ALS from brother-in-law Abraham Barker, (Fitch, 24), 1841-1842 Box 3: 13 1 ALS from Mary B. Bartlett, (Fitch, 25), 1870 Box 3: 14 3 ALS from Helen C. Bell, (Fitch, 25), n.d. Box 3: 15 1 ALS from Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch, (Fitch, 25-26), 1871 Box 3: 16 2 ALS from J. Elliot Cabot, (Fitch, 27), 1902 Box 3: 17 1 ALS from John Jay Chapman, (Fitch, 26), 1890 Box 3: 18 1 ALS from Francis James Child, (Fitch, 25), 1864 Box 3: 19 1 ALS from Joseph H. Choate, (Fitch, 27), 1906 Box 3: 20 Typed copies of letters from John Murray Forbes, (Fitch, 26), 1892-1897 Box 3: 21 5 ALS and 1 TLS from Edwin Lawrence Godkin, (Fitch, 26), n.d. Box 3: 22 1 ALS from Claudius Edward Habicht, (Fitch, 42), 1841 Box 3: 23 1 ALS from William Hawes, (Fitch, 25), n.d. Box 3: 24 1 ALS from Thomas Wentworth Higginson, (Fitch, 27), 1901 Box 3: 25 1 ALS from Alfred E. Hippesley, 1890 Box 3: 26 3 ALS from Nina Howard Hippesley, (Fitch, 27), 1877 Box 3: 27 5 ALS from Prudence Rebecca "Lily" Howard, (Fitch, 27), n.d. Box 3: 28 4 ALS from Sarah Forbes Hughes, (Fitch, 27), 1899-1900 Box 3: 29 1 ALS from W.H. Hughes, (Fitch, 27), 1899 Box 3: 30 2 ALS from Richard Morris Hunt, (Fitch, 26), 1872 Box 3: 31 1 ALS from aunt Lucy Ann Ward Lawrence, (Fitch, 25), 1857 Box 3: 32 1 ALS from Josephine Lazarus, (Fitch, 26), n.d. Box 3: 33 4 ALS from Col. Henry Lee, (Fitch, 26), 1894-1898 Box 3: 34 1 ALS from Charles McKim, (Fitch, 25), n.d. Box 3: 35 2 ALS from Charles Eliot Norton, (Fitch, 25), 1869 Guide to the Ward-Perkins Family Mss 129 6 Papers Family Box 3: 36 2 ALS from C.R. Osten-Sacken, (Fitch, 26), 1894-1901 Box 3: 37 1 ALS from Pelatiah Perit, (Fitch, 25), 1858 Box 3: 38 2 ALS from Fritz W. Rackemann, (Fitch, 25), 1846 Box 3: 39 3 ALS from Anne Ritchie, (Fitch, 26), n.d. Box 3: 40 1 ALS from Georgina Schuyler, (Fitch, 27), 1902 Box 3: 41 4 ALS from Charles D. Sedgwick, (Fitch, 25), 1847-1856 Box 3: 42 2 ALS from Goldwin Smith, (Fitch, 25), 1864-1865 Box 3: 43 1 ALS from son-in-law Richard Von Hoffman, (Fitch, 40), 1872 Box 3: 44 16 ALS from brother Thomas William Ward, (Fitch, 25), 1850-1859 Box 3: 45 1 ALS from [anonymous], n.d. Miscellany Box 3: 46 Miscellaneous correspondence Box 3: 47 3 essays by SGW with typescript copies: "Idealism and Realism," n.d., "Positivism," n.d., and recollections of poet Jones Very, 1896 (Fitch, 30-31) Box 3: 48 "Poems and Translations of German Songs" by SGW, (Fitch, 30), 1880 Box 3: 49 Other materials (Fitch, 30-31) Ward, Anna Hazard Barker (1813-1902) Scope and Content Note Daughter of Jacob Barker and Eliza Hazard Barker, wife of Samuel Gray Ward. Correspondence to and from, as well as other materials, ca. 1828-1899. Outgoing Box 3: 50 5 ALS to brother Abraham Barker, (Fitch, 36), 1869-1894 Box 3: 51 Typed copies of letters to brother Thomas H. Barker, (Fitch, 36), 1837-1838 Box 3: 52 2 ALS to daughter Elizabeth B. Ward Schönberg, 1860 Box 3: 53 10 ALS to daughter Lydia G. Ward Von Hoffman, (Fitch, 36), 1851-1892 Box 3: 54 Typed copies of letters to father-in-law Thomas W. Ward, 1842-1855 Box 3: 55 11 ALS to son Thomas Wren Ward, 1861-1865 Incoming Box 4: 1 4 ALS from brother Abraham Barker, (Fitch, 37), 1841-1846 Box 4: 2 2 ALS from mother Eliza H. Barker, (Fitch, 37), 1846-1856 Box 4: 3 9 ALS from brother Thomas H. Barker, (Fitch, 37), 1837-1849 Box 4: 4 1 ALS from J. Ingersoll Bowditch, (Fitch, 37), 1883 Box 4: 5 Typed copies of letters from George P.A. Healy, (Fitch, 37), 1870 Box 4: 6 4 ALS from Nina Howard Hippesley, (Fitch, 27), 1878-1884 Box 4: 7 1 ALS from E.A. Read, 1880 Box 4: 8 1 ALS from Jane M. Scriven, (Fitch, 37), 1828 Box 4: 9 1 ALS from Edward Sillig, (Fitch, 37), 1856 Box 4: 10 Extracts of letters from Miss Swain, (Fitch, 37), 1852 Box 4: 11 2 ALS from son-in-law Richard Von Hoffman, (Fitch 40), 1872-1873 Box 4: 12 2 ALS from mother-in-law Lydia Gray Ward, n.d. Box 4: 13 1 ALS from "French governess," 1858 Miscellany Box 4: 14 Handwritten copy of her diary, (Fitch, 37), 1845-1855 Box 4: 15 Journal extracts Schönberg, Elizabeth Barker Ward (1847-1920) Scope and Content Note Daughter of Samuel Gray Ward and Anna Hazard Barker Ward, wife of Baron Ernst Schönberg. Correspondence to family members, ca. 1864-1919. Outgoing Box 4: 16 2 ALS to niece Elizabeth Ward Perkins, (Fitch, 39), 1897-1899 Box 4: 17 1 ALS to sister Lydia G. Ward Von Hoffman, n.d. Box 4: 18 Numerous ALS to mother Anna H. Barker War, includes a typed excerpt from a letter from the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Manhattanville, 1864-1897 Box 4: 19 12 ALS and 1 TL (36 pp.) to brother Thomas Wren Ward, (Fitch, 39), 1890-1919 Box 4: 20 1 ALS to "Cousin," (Fitch, 39), 1899 Guide to the Ward-Perkins Family Mss 129 7 Papers Family Von Hoffman, Lydia Gray Ward (1843-?) Scope and Content Note Daughter of Samuel Gray Ward and Anna Hazard Barker Ward, wife of Richard Von Hoffman. Correspondence to and from family members, ca. 1852-1928. Outgoing Box 4: 21 1 ALS to sister Elizabeth B. Ward Schönberg, (Fitch, 40), 1870 Box 4: 22 113 ALS to mother Anna H. Barker Ward, (Fitch, 39), 1855-1876 Box 4: 23 26 ALS to father Samuel Gray Ward, (Fitch, 40), 1855-1876 Box 4: 24 1 ALS to sister-in-law Sophia R. Howard Ward, (Fitch, 40), 1875 Box 4: 25 56 ALS to brother Thomas Wren Ward, (Fitch, 40), 1859-1928 Box 4: 26 1 ALS to "Anna," n.d. Box 4: 27 1 ALS to "Grandmother," 1870 Box 4: 28 1 ALS to [?], n.d. Incoming Box 4: 29 4 ALS from great-aunt Lucy Ann Ward Lawrence, (Fitch, 40), 1852-1855 Box 4: 30 2 ALS from "Grandmother," (Fitch, 40), 1853, n.d. Box 4: 31 2 ALS from [?], 1858 Thoron, Anna Barker Ward (1841-1875) Scope and Content Note Daughter of Samuel Gray Ward and Anna Hazard Barker Ward, wife of Joseph Thoron; died young, soon after the birth of her son, Ward Thoron. Outgoing correspondence, ca. 1854-1856. Box 5: 1 7 ALS to brother Thomas Wren Ward, (Fitch, 44), 1854-1856 Ward, George Cabot (1824-1887) Scope and Content Note Brother of Samuel Gray Ward and business partner with him as the American representatives of Baring Bros., London. Outgoing correspondence, ca. 1846-1873. Box 5: 2 2 ALS to John Murray Forbes, (Fitch, 42), 1865-1868 Box 5: 3 6 ALS to brother Samuel Gray Ward, (Fitch, 42), 1846-1873 Barker, Jacob (1779-1871) Scope and Content Note Father of Anna Hazard Barker Ward, husband of Eliza Hazard Barker; merchant and New York State Senator. Outgoing correspondence to family members, ca. 1801-1869. Box 5: 4 2 ALS to granddaughter Elizabeth B. Ward Schönberg, 1855-1858 Box 5: 5 4 ALS to granddaughter Lydia G. Ward Von Hoffman, (Fitch, 44), 1853-1868 Box 5: 6 4 ALS and 2 TLS to daughter Anna H. Barker Ward, (Fitch, 42), 1801-1869 Ward, Thomas Wren (1844-1940) Scope and Content Note Son of Samuel Gray Ward and Anna Hazard Barker Ward. Correspondence to, from, and about; as well as other materials, ca. 1857-1939. Outgoing Box 5: 7 1 ALS to uncle Abraham Barker, (Fitch, 45), 1900 Box 5: 8 2 ALS to sister Anna B. Ward Thoron, 1857-1859 Box 5: 9 192 ALS to sister Lydia G. Ward Von Hoffman, (Fitch, 45), 1864-1912 Box 5: 10 22 ALS to father Samuel Gray Ward, (Fitch, 45), 1857-1893 Box 5: 11 31 ALS to mother Anna Hazard Barker Ward, 1854-1875 Box 5: 12 22 ALS to "Parents" [SGW & AHBW], (Fitch, 45), 1856-1858 Box 5: 13 2 ALS to daughter Elizabeth Howard Ward Perkins, (Fitch, 58), 1938 Box 5: 14 5 ALS to son George Cabot Ward (1873-1936), (Fitch, 45), 1917-1934 Box 5: 15 1 ALS to "Mother" [probably mother-in-law], 1874 Box 5: 16 1 ALS to "Cecil," n.d. Incoming Guide to the Ward-Perkins Family Mss 129 8 Papers Family Box 5: 17 8 ALS and 1 TLS from Baring Bros., (Fitch, 48), 1886-1923 Box 5: 18 1 ALS from Francis James Child, (Fitch, 48), n.d. Box 5: 19 2 ALS from Charles De Kay, (Fitch, 48), 1880 Box 5: 20 1 TLS from cousin George B. Dorr, (Fitch, 48), 1934 Box 5: 21 1 ALS from Edith Emerson, (Fitch, 46), 1862 Box 5: 22 2 ALS from Ellen T. Emerson, (Fitch, 46), 1862-1867 Box 5: 23 1 ALS from William Endicott, (Fitch, 48), 1908 Box 5: 24 3 ALS from Robert Fulton, (Fitch, 48), n.d. Box 5: 25 5 ALS from Storrow Higginson, (Fitch, 46), 1859-1863 Box 5: 26 1 ALS from Isabella Hutchinson, (Fitch, 46), 1855 Box 5: 27 1 TLS from Dickinson S. Miller, (Fitch, 48), 1902 Box 5: 28 3 ALS from Francis T. Roche, (Fitch, 49), 1929 Box 5: 29 1 ALS from Ernst Schönberg, (Fitch, 49), 1922 Box 5: 30 1 TLS from Charles M. Storey, (Fitch, 49), 1932 Box 5: 31 16 ALS from nephew Ward Thoron, (Fitch, 49), 1910-1935 Miscellany Box 5: 32 School records and correspondence, (Fitch, 49), 1855-1858 Box 5: 33 Various materials honoring TWW as Harvard's "Oldest Living Graduate," (Fitch, 50) Box 5: 34-35 Miscellaneous correspondence Box 6: 1-4 Miscellaneous correspondence Ward, Sophia Read Howard (1849-1918) Scope and Content Note Wife of Thomas Wren Ward, daughter-in-law of Samuel Gray Ward and Anna Hazard Barker Ward. Correspondence to/from, typescript of newspaper account of wedding, and estate information, ca. 1875-1920. Outgoing Box 6: 5 6 ALS to "Father," (Fitch, 50), 1876 Box 6: 6 12 ALS to "Mother," (Fitch, 50), 1876-1893 Box 6: 7 1 ALS to "Ward," n.d. Incoming Box 6: 8 1 ALS from W. Carvel Hall, 1896 Box 6: 9 1 ALS from James M. Howard, (Fitch, 50), 1899 Box 6: 10 1 ALS from [?] Lee, n.d. Box 6: 11 2 ALS from [?] re the death of Josephine Lazarus, (Fitch, 50), 1910 Miscellany Box 6: 12 Typescript newspaper account of her wedding to Thomas Wren Ward, n.d. Box 6: 13 Estate information following the death of Sophie Ward (Fitch, 52) Perkins, Elizabeth Howard Ward (1873-1954) Scope and Content Note Daughter of Thomas Wren Ward and Sophia Read Howard Ward, granddaughter of Samuel Gray Ward and Anna Hazard Barker Ward, wife of Charles Bruen Perkins. Correspondence to/from and about, accounts of wedding to Charles Bruen Perkins, and other materials, ca. 1870s-1953. Outgoing Box 6: 14 23 ALS to grandfather Samuel Gray Ward, (Fitch, 52), 1889-1900 Box 6: 15 1 ALS to [?], 1897 Incoming Box 6: 16 2 ALS from Robert Amendola and his wife, Gerrie Amendola, (Fitch, 58), 1950-1953 Box 6: 17 1 TLS from John Taylor Arms, (Fitch, 59), 1952 Box 6: 18 1 ALS from Cecil B. Atwater, (Fitch, 58), 1951 Box 6: 19 1 ALS from Elizabeth B. Bliss, 1942 Box 6: 20 8 ALS from Otto T. Bannard, (Fitch, 56), ca. 1927-1929 Box 6: 21 1 ALS from Samuel H. Barker, (Fitch, 52), 1889 Box 6: 22 1 ANS from George Grey Barnard, (Fitch, 56), n.d. Box 6: 23 4 ALS and 1 TLS from Daniel Berkeley-Updike, (Fitch, 56), 1928-1941 Box 6: 24 1 ALS from Paul Albert Besnard, (Fitch, 56), 1924 Guide to the Ward-Perkins Family Mss 129 9 Papers Family Box 6: 25 1 ALS from Elizabeth Coatsworth Beston, (Fitch, 57), 1933 Box 6: 26 1 ALS from Laurence Binyon, (Fitch, 53), 1914 Box 6: 27 1 ALS from John Otway Percy Bland (Fitch, 56) Box 6: 28 1 ALS from Montague E. Browning, (Fitch, 57), 1935 Box 6: 29 1 ALS from Arthur Graham Carey, (Fitch, 58), 1938 Box 6: 30 4 ALS and 1 TLS from Morris Carter, with a postcard from his wife, Beatrice, (Fitch, 57), 1937-1938 Box 6: 31 1 ALS from Robert Catterson-Smith, (Fitch, 56), 1923 Box 6: 32 1 ALS from Francis H.H. Clarke, (Fitch, 53), 1915 Box 6: 33 8 ALS from Charles T. Copeland, (Fitch, 53), 1910-1923 Box 6: 34 1 TLS from Ralph Adams Cram, (Fitch, 54), 1919 Box 6: 35 1 ALS from Charles C. Curran, (Fitch, 54), 1912 Box 6: 36 1 ALS from Margaret Duff, (Fitch, 57), 1935 Box 6: 37 2 TLS from Milton Ellis, 1941 Box 6: 38 1 ALS from Louise Endicott, 1940 Box 6: 39 Typed letters and other materials from Sen. Ralph E. Flanders and his wife, Helen Hartness Flanders, (Fitch, 59), ca. 1940s-1950s Box 6: 40 1 TLS from Edward W. Forbes, 1939 Box 6: 41 1 ALS from Helen C. Frick, (Fitch, 54), 1923 Box 6: 42 2 ALS from Isabella Stewart Gardner, (Fitch, 53), 1914 Box 6: 43 1 ALS from Matilda Gay, (Fitch, 56), 1929 Box 6: 44 1 ALS from Richard Watson Gilder, (Fitch, 53), 1896 Box 6: 45 1 ALS from John R. Gilman, (Fitch, 59), 1952 Box 7: 1 1 ALS from Constance Cary Harrison, (Fitch, 53), n.d. Box 7: 2 1 ALS from Laura Hills, (Fitch, 56), 1926 Box 7: 3 2 ALS from Alfred Hippesley, with a typescript account of his wife Nina's death (Fitch, 57) Box 7: 4 2 ALS from May Elliot Hobbs, (Fitch, 56), 1927 Box 7: 5 3 ALS and 6 TLS from Henry A. Hollond, with a typescript account of Cambridge University, (Fitch, 53), 1915-1920 Box 7:6 1 TL from Marjorie Hollond, with newspaper clippings, (Fitch, 58), 1940 Box 7:1 7 1 TLS from Alice S. Howard, (Fitch, 58), 1937 Box 7: 8 2 TLS from M.A. Howe, (Fitch, 57), 1930 Box 7: 9 1 ALS from M.A. DeWolfe Howe, (Fitch, 58), 1940 Box 7: 10 1 ALS from Charles P. Howland, (Fitch, 56), n.d. Box 7: 11 1 ALS from Joseph L. Hurley, (Fitch, 58), 1952 Box 7: 12 3 ALS and 4 TLS from Henry Festing Jones, (Fitch, 54), 1915-1922 Box 7: 13 16 ALS from Anatole Le Braz, (Fitch, 53), 1907-1927 Box 7: 14 1 ALS from Charles Martin Loeffler, (Fitch, 54), 1918 Box 7: 15 1 ALS from A. Lawrence Lowell, (Fitch, 54), 1915 Box 7: 16 1 ALS from Lincoln MacVeagh, (Fitch, 58), [1950] Box 7: 17 3 ALS from Maria-Theresa, (Fitch, 56), 1928-1950 Box 7: 18 2 ALS from Albert Jay Nock, (Fitch, 54), 1916-1917 Box 7: 19 1 ALS from Robert L. O'Brien, (Fitch, 54), 1919 Box 7: 20 3 ALS from Christopher O'Malley, with biographical note, (Fitch, 59), 1952 Box 7: 21 1 ALS from Ralph Barton Perry, (Fitch, 56), 1929 Box 7: 22 1 AL from [Caroline Phillips], (Fitch, 57), 1938 Box 7: 23 2 ALS from William Phillips, (Fitch, 57), 1930-1938 Box 7: 24 1 ALS from A. Kingsley Porter, (Fitch, 56), n.d. Box 7: 25 1 ALS from Sir William Haldane Porter, (Fitch, 53), 1914 Box 7: 26 1 ALS from Chandler R. Post, (Fitch, 57), 1934 Box 7: 27 1 ALS from Denman W. Ross, (Fitch, 54), 1922 Box 7: 28 7 ALS/TLS from Ellery Sedgwick, (Fitch, 53-54), 1913-1936 Box 7: 29 10 ALS from Anne Douglas Sedgwick de Sélincourt, (Fitch, 57), ca. 1932 Box 7: 30 1 ALS from Elizabeth Stevenson, (Fitch, 59), 1953 Box 7: 31 3 TLS from Hayden A. Vachon and his cousin Andrew Vachon, (Fitch 58), 1944-1949 Box 7: 32 1 ALS from Ferdinand Von Hoffman, ca. 1870s Box 7: 33 2 TLS from sister-in-law Justine Bayard Cutting Ward, (Fitch, 59), 1953 Box 7: 34 1 ALS from Wilfred P. Ward, (Fitch, 53), n.d. Guide to the Ward-Perkins Family Mss 129 10 Papers Family Box 7: 35 1 ALS from Winslow Wilson, (Fitch, 58), 1951 Box 7: 36 1 ALS from Charles Herbert Woodbury, (Fitch, 54), 1922 Box 7: 37 1 ALS from Raymond Wyler, (Fitch, 54), 1919 Miscellany Box 7: 38 Biographical information Box 7: 39 Vatican correspondence, (Fitch, 60), 1950 Box 7: 40 "The Lenox Genius," (Fitch, 59), ca. 1885 Box 7: 41 Accounts of her wedding to Charles Bruen Perkins, 1896 Box 7: 42 Miscellaneous items Box 7: 43 Scribner's Magazine articles by EWP, 1925-1927 Box 7: 44 Untitled short story ("Down Murray Hill..."), (Fitch, 60), n.d. Box 7: 45-48 Miscellaneous correspondence Perkins, Charles Bruen (1860-1929) Scope and Content Note Husband of Elizabeth Ward Perkins, son of Charles Callahan Perkins and Frances D. Bruen Perkins. Architect. Box 8: 1 Correspondence, documents, biographical sketch, and clipping, ca. 1891-1948 Perkins, Thomas Handasyd (1764-1854) Scope and Content Note Brother of Charles Bruen Perkins' great-grandfather, great-uncle of Charles Callahan Perkins. Businessman and philanthropist. Box 8: 2 Correspondence, (Fitch, 64), 1825-1842 Perkins, Charles Callahan (1823-1886) Scope and Content Note Father of Charles Bruen Perkins, husband of Frances Davenport Bruen Perkins. Musician, composer, artist and author and patron of the arts. Correspondence to and from, diaries, and other materials, ca. 1842-1889. Outgoing Box 8: 3 1 ALS to William Bliss, (Fitch, 68), 1877 Incoming Box 8: 4 7 ALS from "Mari," (Fitch, 68), 1842-1843 Box 8: 5 6 ALS from "Mother," (Fitch, 68), n.d. Box 8: 6 10 ALS from sister "Saadi," (Fitch, 68), 1842-1843 Box 8: 7 6 ALS from Dorsey Read (Fitch, 68) Box 8: 8 1 ALS from Ary Scheffer, n.d. Box 8: 9 1 ALS from Fred R. Sears, (Fitch, 68), 1842 Miscellany Box 8: 10 Miscellaneous correspondence (Fitch, 68) Box 8: 11 Miscellaneous items, 1856-1889 Box 8: 12 Unbound diary, (Fitch, 68), 1847-1849 Box 8: 13 Bound diary, (Fitch, 68), n.d. Box 8: 14 Memoir of Charles Callahan Perkins by Samuel Eliot (Fitch, 71) Box 8: 15 Les Sculpteurs Italiens by Charles Callahan Perkins (Fitch, 70) Perkins, Francis Davenport (1897-1970) Scope and Content Note Eldest son of Elizabeth Ward Perkins and Charles Bruen Perkins. Music critic for the New York Herald-Tribune. Box 9: 1 Correspondence to "Mother," article by FDP, and clipping, (Fitch, 58), ca. 1926-1947 Perkins, James (1761-1822) Scope and Content Note Grandfather of Charles Callahan Perkins, brother of Thomas Handasyd Perkins, his business partner. Guide to the Ward-Perkins Family Mss 129 11 Papers Family Box 9: 2 Obituary notices, 1822 Perkins, James (1791-1828) Scope and Content Note Father of Charles Callahan Perkins, nephew of Thomas Handasyd Perkins. Box 9: 3 Probate documents, (Fitch, 64-65), 1824-1831 Perkins, Maxwell E. (1884-1947) Scope and Content Note Nephew of Elizabeth Ward Perkins and Charles Bruen Perkins. Editor and book publisher. Box 9: 4 1 TLS to Elizabeth Ward Perkins, (Fitch, 57), 1930 Perkins, Sarah Box 9: 5 1 ALS to James Perkins (1791-1828) in London, (Fitch, 65), n.d. Bruen, Mary Anne Davenport (1793-1892) Scope and Content Note Mother-in-law of Charles Callahan Perkins, mother of Frances D. Bruen Perkins and Mary Lundie Bruen. Outgoing correspondence and other materials, 1817-1884. Box 9: 6 5 ALS to Elizabeth Bancroft, (Fitch, 71), 1859-1884 Box 9: 7 40 ALS/TLS to "Mr. Bliss," (Fitch, 71), 1858-1877 Box 9: 8 1 ALS to John Ward, (Fitch, 71), 1861 Box 9: 9 Passport, (Fitch, 71), 1835 Perkins, Frances Davenport Bruen (1825-1909) Scope and Content Note Wife of Charles Callahan Perkins, daughter of Mary Anne Davenport Bruen and Matthias Bruen (1793-1829). Correspondence and other materials, ca. 1860s. Outgoing Box 9: 10 17 ALS to Elizabeth Bancroft, (Fitch, 72), ca. 1860s Box 9: 11 9 ALS to "Mr. Bliss," (Fitch, 72), ca. 1859 Incoming Box 9: 12 1 ALS from sister Mary Lundie Bruen, (Fitch, 72), n.d. Box 9: 13 1 ALS from [J.W. Preston], (Fitch, 72), 1863 Miscellany Box 9: 14 Obituary notice, (Fitch, 73), ca. 1909 Bliss, Alexander and Bliss, William Davis Scope and Content Note Members of Elizabeth Bancroft's family and close friends of the Bruen family. Correspondence, ca. 1854-1885. Outgoing Box 9: 15 1 ALS to Alexander Bliss from G. Borland, (Fitch, 72), 1862 Box 9: 16 1 ALS to Alexander Bliss from William D. Bliss, 1861 Box 9: 17 1 ALS to [?] from William D. Bliss, n.d. Incoming Box 9: 18 25 ALS from Mary Lundie Bruen, (Fitch, 72), 1854-1885 Box 9: 19 1 ALS from George Hardwick, 1862 Box 9: 20 1 ALS from F.L. Skinner, n.d. Ward, George Cabot (1876-1936) Scope and Content Note Son of Thomas Wren Ward and Sophia Read Howard Ward, brother of Elizabeth Ward Perkins. Box 9: 21 Correspondence from and about, condolences and obituaries, ca. 1901-1936 Guide to the Ward-Perkins Family Mss 129 12 Papers Family Ward, Howard Ridgeley (1881-1946) Scope and Content Note Son of Thomas Wren Ward and Sophia Read Howard Ward, brother of Elizabeth Ward Perkins. Box 9: 22 Biographical document with related letter to Elizabeth Ward Perkins, ca. 1948 Perkins, Anna Ward "Nancy" (1899-1993) Scope and Content Note Daughter of Elizabeth Ward Perkins and Charles Bruen Perkins, granddaughter of Thomas Wren Ward and Sophia Read Howard Ward. Box 9: 23 Correspondence from London, ca. 1914-1915 Howard Family Scope and Content Note Mainly genealogical notes, charts, and articles on the ancestors of Sophia Read Howard Ward, wife of Thomas Wren Ward. Box 10: 1 "A Memoir of the Late Colonel John Eager Howard," (Fitch, 63), 1863 Box 10: 2 "John Eager Howard: Colonel of Second Maryland Regiment - Continental Line," (Fitch, 63), 1863 Box 10: 3 "John Eager Howard: Record of This Gallant Marylander's Career," 1900 Box 10: 4 "Col. John Eager Howard of Maryland (1752-1827)," (Fitch, 63), n.d. Box 10: 5 Documents related to Margaretta "Peggy" Chew Howard, wife of John Eager Howard, n.d. Box 10: 6 "Memoranda" by Charles Howard, transcribed by his nephew Cornelius Howard, (Fitch, 62), 1876 Box 10: 7 "Howard Family Genealogy" bound booklet, (Fitch, 63), 1856 Box 10: 8 "The Howards of Maryland" typescript copy of 1879 article (Fitch, 63) Box 10: 9 "Family Traditions" bound booklet, 1889 Box 10: 10 "Progenitors of the Howards of Maryland," (Fitch, 63), 1938 Box 10: 11 "Colonial Dames of America - Form of Application for Membership," (Fitch, 63), n.d. Box 10: 12 "The Ridgely Family," (Fitch, 62), n.d. Box 10: 13 Genealogical notes, charts, and ephemera, v.d. Box 10: 14 Newspaper clippings and ephemera, v.d. Ward Family Miscellany Box 11: 1 "Early Life of William Ward," bound memoir, 1862 Box 11: 2 "Ward Family Papers" signature sheets, (Fitch, 31), 1900 Box 11: 3 Typescript Ward family history, (Fitch, 62), 1938 Box 11: 4 Appointment book pages, 1893 Box 11: 5 "Poems of Robert Barker," (Fitch, 62), n.d. Box 11: 6 Postcards, n.d. Box 11: 7 Miscellaneous correspondence Box 11: 8 Handwritten copies of various correspondence Box 11: 9 Unidentified correspondence and clippings Box 12-13 Photocopies of correspondence from the collection (some with explanatory notes) Oversize Box 14 Scrapbook - Thomas Wren Ward Box 15 Portfolio - Ward family genealogy Box 15 Bound volume - Perkins and Ward family trees John H. Mansfield Donation - Apr. 12, 2011 Scope and Content Note Notes by JHM, about family members and contents, accompany many of the items. Bruen, Mary Ann Davenport Box 16 Letter (ALS), Jan. 19, 1822 Bruen, Mrs. [Fanny?] Box 16 Letters from husband Charles C. Perkins and others, ca. 1860s-1880s Doane, Elizabeth G. [grandmother of Charles C. Perkins] Box 16 Letter announcing Edward's [?] engagement to Mary Spring Lawrence, Lucy Ward [daughter of William Ward and Joanna Chipman] Guide to the Ward-Perkins Family Mss 129 13 Papers Family Box 16 Letters for Anna Hazard Barker, ca. 1844, 1850-1851 Longfellow, Henry W. Box 16 Letter to Mrs. Cleveland re Charles C. Perkins' book, Mar. 31, 1865 Perkins, Anna Ward, M.D. Box 16 Biographical sketch, diplomas, honors, awards, photographs, obituary, ca. 1970s-1993 Perkins, Charles Bruen Box 16 Letter from Phillipps Brooks re confirmation, May 19, [1876?] Box 16 Letter from Phillipps Brooks, Mar. 3, 1886 Box 16 Notices, in French, 1881, 1888 Perkins, Charles C. Box 16 Admission to Harvard, Feb. 7, 1839 Box 16 Letter to cousin Emma Forbes, [Aug. 31, 1843] Box 16 Note from M. Brimmer (?) to [Mr.?] Eliot, to write a memorial for CCP, and letter on same sheet, from S.E. [Samuel Eliot?] to Sally, Oct. 14, 1886 Box 16 Translation of Leonardo da Vinci sonnet, n.d. Perkins, Elizabeth Ward Box 16 Letters to grandparents (Samuel Gray Ward and Anna Hazard Barker Ward), 1886-1898 Box 16 Handwritten diary from time in England, 1914-1915 Perkins Family Box 16 Kirkland, John T. (President, Harvard University) - letter (ALS) to T. H. Perkins, S. G. Perkins and James Perkins II, thanking them for gift under James Perkins will, Sept. 15, 1822 Box 17 The Perkins Family - A Private Proof: Printed in Order to Preserve Certain Matters Connected with the Boston Branch of the Perkins Family. by Augustus T. Perkins (Boston: T. R. Marvin & Son, Printers, 1890) Perkins, James Box 17 One letter (ALS) from Josiah Quincy, thanking him for gift, Dec. 28, 1821 Perkins, P. G. [?] Box 17 Letter to her mother, n.d. Ward, Anna Hazard Barker Box 17 Timeline re family events, addressed to Lily Ward von Hoffman, 1875-1891 Ward, Elizabeth [Bessie] Box 17 Death notice (6 July 1920), picture postcard and copy of photo depicting Schloss Pallaus, her residence Box 17 Handwritten note of Baron Ernst von Schönberg Roth Schönberg, 27 Oct. 1905 Ward, Lily Box 17 Letters from Mother, ca. 1876-1891 Ward, Martha Ann [wife of William Ward] Box 17 Poem, n.d. Ward, Samuel Gray {S. G.] Box 17 Notes on Samuel Gray Ward - typescript Box 17 Photographs [b/w] of S. G. Ward's Watercolors - in leather album, incl. Santa Barbara landscape, n.d. Ward, Thomas W. Box 17 Three letters to his sons, Samuel G. Ward and William Ward, 1825, 1826, 1828 Ward, Thomas Wren Box 17 Handwritten notes possibly by TWW Box 17 One letter (ALS) from Brooks Adams, Jan. 10, 1919; one letter (ALS) to Brooks Adams, not sent, Jan. 13, 1920 Ward, Thomas Wren, II Box 17 Letters from R. von Hoffman, 1879-1882 Box 17 Letter from Lily Ward, 1879 Box 17 Note from Mrs. Dill, n.d. Unidentified Box 17 Letter from Maria [?], July [21?], 1772 Box 17 Letter, p. 2, sending respects to Mr. Perkins, also your mother and Mary, n.d. Guide to the Ward-Perkins Family Mss 129 14 Papers 8/23/2019 Elizabeth Howard Ward Perkins (1873-1954) - Find A Grave Memorial ? Find A GRaVE Elizabeth Howard Ward Perkins BIRTH 7 Aug 1873 New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA DEATH 30 Aug 1954 (aged 81) BURIAL Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory Jamaica Plain, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA MEMORIAL ID 118199709 . View Source Elizabeth was buried on September 2, 1954. Photo added by Jim Stevens Family Members Parents Spouse ? Thomas Charles Wren Ward Bruen 1844-1940 Perkins 1860-1929 Sophia (m. Read Howard (marriage) Ward 1896) 1848-1918 Siblings Children Howard ? Francis Ridgely Davenport Ward Perkins 1881-1946 1897-1970 8/23/2019 Elizabeth Howard Ward Perkins (1873-1954) - Find A Grave Memorial ? Anna W Perkins 1899-1993 Elinor Clifford Perkins Mansfield 1900-1970 Mary Elizabeth Perkins Ryan 1912-1993 Inscription And His Wife Elizabeth Howard Ward Born August 7, 1873 Died August 30, 1954 Gravesite Details On the same stone with her husband Created by: Jim Stevens Added: 5 Oct 2013 Find A Grave Memorial 118199709 Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 23 August 2019), memorial page for Elizabeth Howard Ward Perkins (7 Aug 1873-30 Aug 1954), Find A Grave Memorial no. 118199709, citing Forest Hills Cemetery and 8/23/2019 Elizabeth Howard Ward Perkins (1873-1954) - Find A Grave Memorial Crematory, Jamaica Plain, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Jim Stevens (contributor 47249634) . Copyright © 2019 Find A Grave . Privacy Statement . Terms of Service FirstSearch: WorldCat Detailed Record Page 1 of 3 OC LC FirstSearch COLGATE UNIV WorldCat Detailed Record Click on a checkbox to mark a record to be e-mailed or printed in Marked Records. Home Databases Searching Results Staff View My Account Options Comments Exit Hide tips List of Records Detailed Record Marked Records Saved Records Go to page ? WorldCat results for: ti: elizabeth and ti: ward and ti: perkins. Record 1 of 1. WorldCat Subjects E-mail Print Export Help 1 Mark: Prev Next Detailed Add/View Record Comments Charles H. Woodbury and Elizabeth Ward Perkins papers, Charles H Woodbury; Elizabeth Ward Perkins 1878-1952 Archival Material 2.2 (partially microfilmed on 2 reels) linear ft. Letters, writings, inventory of paintings, a scrapbook and original art work, some of it pertaining to or compiled by Elizabeth Ward Perkins. GET THIS ITEM Availability: TITT Connect to the catalog at Colgate University Libraries External Resources: MY Loan FIND RELATED More Like This: Search for versions with same title and author I Advanced options Find Items About: Woodbury, Charles H. (max: 41) Title: Charles H. Woodbury and Elizabeth Ward Perkins papers, 1878-1952. http://0-firstsearch.oclc.org.library.colgate.edu/WebZ/FSQUERY?format=BI:next=html/records.html:bad=html/records.html:nu..3/7/2007 FirstSearch: WorldCat Detailed Record Page 2 of 3 Author(s): Woodbury, Charles H. 1864-1940 (Charles Herbert), Perkins, Elizabeth Ward, 1873-1954 Year: 1878-1952 Description: 2.2 linear ft. (partially microfilmed on 2 reels) Language: Undetermined Abstract: Letters, writings, inventory of paintings, a scrapbook and original art work, some of it pertaining to or compiled by Elizabeth Ward Perkins. Twenty-three letters received by Perkins, 1940-1952, concerning the disposition of Woodbury's paintings; notes and essays by Woodbury on the technique and philosophy of drawing, painting and etching, and a paper by Woodbury and Perkins "The Modern School and Its Sources"; sixty-two drawings, one etching, and two paintings by Woodbury; lists of art work; and miscellaneous items. A card file (ca. 900 cards) of watercolors and oils painted by Woodbury between 1886 and 1942. Information includes the title of the work, the date painted, the size, and the disposition of the work. Ca. 340 letters from Woodbury to Perkins, undated and 1914-1946, written from Maine, Massachusetts and various locales; ca. 40 letters from Woodbury to his mother, 1890-1894, mostly written from Holland. Included with the letters from Holland is a card file containing notes on the letters. Other letters are to Woodbury from Edward Filene, 1895, John B. Paine, and Thomas Allen, regarding the painting "Mid-Ocean," and a letter from Sam Houghton regarding his purchase of a watercolor. Also included are a scrapbook of clippings relating to Woodbury and Perkins and the Woodbury Training School in Applied Observation and their other art education endeavors; and a book, Descendants of Alexander Robinson and Angelica Peale (c 1896), owned by Perkins. SUBJECT(S) Descriptor: Art schools -- Maine -- Ogunquit Art -- Technique Art teachers Painters -- Massachusetts Genre/Form: Scrapbooks Works of art Note(s): Bio/History: Woodbury was a marine painter, instructor, writer, etcher, illustrator; Ogunquit, Maine. Perkins was an art patron and Woodbury's teaching collaborator. General Info: Microfilmed portion must be consulted on microfilm. Use of unmicrofilmed material requires an appointment and is limited to Washington, D.C. storage facility./ Many papers of Woodbury were in Perkins' possession at the time of his death. The card file on reel 2788 was donated in 1957 from the American Art Research Council, Whitney Museum of American Art, which had received it from Perkins' heirs. Material on reel 268 was owned jointly by Perkins' three sisters and brother, and donated in 1957 with the assistance of Giovanni Castano (Castano Galleries, Boston, Mass.), along with Charles C. Perkins' (Elizabeth Perkins' father-in-law) diary and art works, and Samuel Gray Ward's (her grandfather) art works and photographs, each described and housed separately. The scrapbook (unmicrofilmed) probably came at the same time. The remainder of the unmicrofilmed material was donated by Perkins' sisters, Anna W. Perkins and Mary Perkins Ryan, 1989./ (Additional Woodbury papers, described and housed separately, were donated by the Woodbury family.) 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An engagement of Washingtonians was announced in New York a week since, that of Miss Elizabeth Howard Ward, daughter of Thomas Wren Ward, and Mr. Charles Bruen Perkins, of Boston. Miss Ward is a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel G. Ward, who after many years' residence in Washington Square, New York, came to Washington to reside. The return of Miss Frances Griffin from a visit to her former home in Atlanta adds a typical young Southern beauty to the participants in the present social season, in which she will assist her mother, Mrs. R. J. Griffin, while dividing her time with attendance at a ladies' seminary near the Capital. Miss Griffin is the daughter of Maj. R. J. Griffin, formerly one of Atlanta's most prominent business men, who has established his family in apartments at the National for the winter. Wimodaughsis will be at home Wednesday afternoon, from 3 to 6 o'clock, at 1328 I street northwest, to meet Rev. Anna H. Shaw and Miss Emily Howland. Mrs. C. M. 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Items placed on the Newspaper Abstracts website and associated http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=9952 5/12/2008 AT 85, A BUSY COUNTRY DOCTOR - The New York Times Page 1 of 3 The New York Times JUDI BILL DENCH NIGHY This copy is for your personal. noncommercial use only. You can order presentation-ready copies for distribution DEV to your colleagues, clients or customers, please click here or use the "Reprints" tool that appears next to any PATEL article. Visit www.nytreprints.com for samples and additional information. Order a reprint of this article now. August 21, 1984 AT 85, A BUSY COUNTRY DOCTOR By EDWARD A. GARGAN. Special to the New York Times WESTERLO, N.Y.- - The blue spruce now soars 80 feet, its needled branches spreading outward in thick layers. When Dr. Anna W. Perkins planted a three-inch spruce seedling in 1929, right next to her newly built white clapboard house, she had already been practicing "country medicine" for one year here in the foothills of the Catskills. For 56 years, Dr. Perkins has tended to the country people here, where gentle hills full with corn seem draped in coverlets of green corduroy. She watched the Depression ravish these hills. She has seen family farming yield to larger farms. She has seen three generations of men she delivered as babies trudge off to fight in three wars. She has seen generations of children, some gaunt and unwashed, give way to generations healthy and well scrubbed. 'A Cow and a Pig' "When I first came here, every household practically had a cow and a pig - they all just took care of their needs," said Dr. Perkins, her 85 years betrayed somewhat by her snow-white hair but belied by the firmness of her handshake. "Nowadays, there are just about a dozen large farms. The other people don't have much of that anymore." In 1925, she graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. She completed her internship at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan and then went to practice "where they needed doctors." 'I Built This House' "Here I was, a woman, a doctor and a Catholic," Dr. Perkins said of her arrival. "There were no Ca holics when I came. "The next year I built this house in a field." "It took quite a while before I was n't a city person," she said. She has never returned to New York City. No longer is her house surrounded by fields. Now Main Street is lined with simple wooden houses set back on well-kept lawns. Grain silos and cow barns dot the valley below this village of http://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/21/nyregion/at-85-a-busy-country-doctor.html?pagewan.. 1/18/2012 AT 85, A BUSY COUNTRY DOCTOR - The New York Times Page 2 of 3 450 people. Along the back roads, though, mobile homes and tired, tar paper-covered houses clothes lines running from rickety porches - reveal some of the poverty that creeps through these hills. Nearly everyone around here comes to Dr. Perkins, to the office she has kept in her house since it was first built. In most cases, their parents and grandparents also came to her. "In one case," she said, "I've taken care of five generations, the last baby being the fifth." The Helderbergs, as the foothills are known, and medicine have both changed much in the six decades since she graduated from medical school, Dr. Perkins said. 'Sensible, Ordinary Things' "It's very different," she said. "When I came here, there were little schoolhouses of a few children. A lot of children weren't very clean, nits in their hair, scabies, their teeth bad. I remember one long building of children with measles. You saw what you could do to make them comfortable - sensible, ordinary things." "When I first came," she recalled, "the only medicine was morphine, quinine and aspirin. Roughly speaking, that was it." Above all, Dr. Perkins is given to firm views on individual character and the self-discipline that instills good health. "In those days, people's trouble came from outside germs," she said. "Now the main trouble comes inside themselves, drinking, smoking, things like that. I think it's wanting something from the outside to come and help you." Although she has been attending medical lectures, the weekly "grand rounds," at the Albany Medical College for decades, she admits failing to understand every recent nuance in modern medicine. "Some of it you just can't," she said. 'The Fundamentals' "Some of it you absorb," she added. "A lot of chemistry is beyond me. But the fundamentals are still there. You have the heart, the lungs. If you have the fundamentals, you know where your knowledge stops. You know when to refer people." Her first 10 or 15 years here, she said, babies were delivered at home, a practice that gave way to hospital deliveries. She firmly disapproves of home deliveries today despite a revived interest in the practice. "If you don't have to take the risk, you shouldn't," she said. "Delivering children at home was anxious work for me. You never knew if there was going to be a problem." While she still makes house calls, she sees patients more regularly at her office, its shelves filled, not with fading magazines but with literature. http://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/21/nyregion/at-85-a-busy-country-doctor.html?pagewan.. 1/18/2012 AT 85, A BUSY COUNTRY DOCTOR - The New York Times Page 3 of 3 Flannery O'Connor's "Habit of Being," Umberto Eco's "Name of the Rose" and "The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson" are standard fare. "You'd be surprised who is reading this when I come out here," she said. A Family of Finches When patients are not crowding her office or she is not dashing into the hinterlands in her four- wheel-drive car to see a patient, Dr. Perkins retreats to a nearby marsh to watch birds, a passion fueled in part by the disappearance of some species. "I saw a young eagle about 20 years ago," she said, hoisting her field glasses to follow the flight of a distant bird. "You can still see great blue herons. I have a family of about 50 finches around the house now. I want to claim them as dependents on my income tax form." Practicing country medicine, Dr. Perkins said, means more than placing a stethoscope to a child's chest and listening. It means listening to people, hearing what they have to say, as well as what their bodies have to say, she said. In recent years, some medical schools have instituted programs in family practice. "It's very funny," Dr. Perkins said. "They're trying to go back to the old things. But to get young doctors to go into it, they have to make it into a specialty." "It's getting to be much less of a human thing and much more of a scientific thing," she said. "I'm in between the way it used to be and the way it's getting to be." photo of Westerlo, N.Y.; photo of Dr. Anna W. Perkins Copyright 2012 The New York Times Company Home Privacy Policy Search Corrections XML Help Contact Us Back to Top http://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/21/nyregion/at-85-a-busy-country-doctor.html?pagewan. 1/18/2012 , Anna W. - Albany Hilltowns Page 1 of 3 kins, Anna W. Ilbany Hilltowns tents Default 1 Birth Image 2 Education 3 Occupation Placeholder 4 Marriage & Children 5 Religion 6 Life caption 7 Appearance 8 Personality 9 Death 10 Obituary 11 Postscript 12 Additional Media 1 a W. Perkins was born in Newport, Rhode Island in about 1899. She was raised in a wealthy C family in Brookline, RI. She had a sister Mary P. Perkins. ation : educated in private schools and even attended a school in an English convent. She graduated dcliffe and later in 1925 from Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1974 she I an Honorary degree of Doctor of Sciences from Union College in Schenectady and it was In weather fair and foul, by day and by night, you have for fifty years brought medical care and comfort to a rural region made fortunate by your dedication." pation her internship at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. she left the city and moved to Westerlo to become a country doctor in the Helderbergs. Initially irst decade or two she delivered babies at homes or at her office before hospital deliveries common. ww.albanyhilltowns.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Perkins,_Anna W. 1/18/2012 Perkins, Anna W. - Albany Hilltowns Page 2 of 3 Her fees were always reasonable, charging only $2.00 for a house call in 1959 and $5.00 in 1990. During the depression she would accept payment in eggs, milk and chicken or even kept an account until the families could pay. Her fee for delivering a baby was $25.00. Her office, which was in her home in Westerlo, was filled not with old magazines but fine literature books. During her tenure as a rural doctor, she traveled by whatever means necessary to reach her patients. She had used her feet, horses, sleigh and finally in 1984 a four wheel drive car to make her house calls. One patient remembered that on a snowy day with the roads impassable, she got a ride from a snow plow and when that could no longer take her where she was going she got out and put on her snowshoes. Significant changes occurred in medicine over her career. She was pleased with the change to hospital deliveries for babies as she thought you couldn't be too careful. She attended Medical lectures at Albany Medical College as well as weekly grand rounds to keep up with advancements. But she thought that the key to medicine was really listening to your patients. She was interviewed by the New York Times in 1984. She continued to make house calls until 1991 when medical issues caused her to retire. Marriage & Children Religion She was born and raised Catholic and when she arrived in the Hilltowns in 1928 Catholics were unknown. Life In 1929 she built a small clapboard house in Westerlo that served as her home and office. In her spare time, she enjoyed bird watching. Appearance She was a small woman. Personality She was a strong believer in character and self discipline Death Dr. Anna W. Perkins died in early May of 1993 at Albany Medical Center at the age of 93 of pneumonia and heart failure. She was survived by her sister Mary P. Ryan of Goffstown, NH. http://www.albanyhilltowns.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Perkins,_Anna_W. 1/18/2012 Perkins, Anna W. - Albany Hilltowns Page 3 of 3 Obituary Postscript Albany Medical College presents the "Anna Perkins Scholarship" to a student studying family medicine in honor of her dedication. Additional Media Sources Lange, Ed, "An unforgettable physician; The legendary Dr. Anna W. Perkins may be gone, but she's not forgotten", Capital Region Living, October 2009, page 26. Gargan, Edward A., "At 85, A Busy County Doctor", The New York Times, August 21, 1984. Howe, Marvine, "Anna Perkins, 93, A Family Doctor in Rural New York", New York Times, May 4, 1993. Retrieved from "http://www.albanyhilltowns.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Perkins,_Anna_W." Categories: Biography Westerlo Biographies This page was last modified on 3 January 2010, at 18:37. http://www.albanyhilltowns.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Perkins,_Anna_W. 1/18/2012 Charles C. Perkins papers, 1844-1868. Page 1 of 2 Archives, Manuscripts, Photographs Catalog Login My List 0 ? Help Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) Search All Search Images About Keyword Browse Finding Aids Combined Browse Images Search History Switch Catalog Search: General Keyword Refine Search You're searching: Archives, Manuscripts and Photographs Add to my list Creator: Perkins, Charles C. (Charles Callahan), 1823-1886 Title: Charles C. Perkins papers, 1844-1868. Phy. Description: 64 items (on 2 partial microfilm reels) reels 268 and 4677 Additional forms: 35mm microfilm reels 268 and 4677 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Bio / His Notes: Painter, etcher, author, art and music critic; Boston, Mass. Perkins studied art in Rome and Paris and promoted art education for the masses. He organized the Boston Art Club and served as president, 1869-1879; was a founder and honorary director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and was instrumental in instituting an art curriculum for Massachusetts and the city of Boston. Perkins was the author of ITALIAN SCULPTORS and TUSCAN SCULPTORS, both illustrated by his own drawings. Summary: Sketches, watercolors, sketchbook, a photograph and an illustrated journal. REEL 268: 58 pencil and pen and ink studies of sculpture in Italy; 3 watercolors; a photograph of Perkins; and a 27 page journal kept while in Spain, July 2-18, 1854. Perkins writes mainly about the countryside, museums, the Alhambra, architecture, and military movements due to the insurrection in Madrid. The journal is illustrated with 6 drawings. REEL 4677: A sketchbook, April-June, 1844, of travel in Italy, containing 20 pencil drawings of architecture, landscapes, and portraits of local people. Provenance: Papers on reel 268 were received from heirs along with papers of Elizabeth Ward Perkins and Samuel Gray Ward. (Perkins was Elizabeth Ward Perkins' father-in-law.) The sketchbook on reel was lent for filming in 1991 by Diana Korzenik, who purchased it from a flea market in Nashua, New Hampshire and was told that it came from a Massachusetts house. Location of Original: Sketchbook, reel 4677: Original returned to lender, Diana Korzenik, after microfilming. Restrictions: Patrons must use microfilm copy. Subject-Topical: Art critics Etchers Painters Subject - Geographical: - Spain -- History -- 19th century Italy -- Description and travel Form / Genre: Travel diaries Works of art Sketchbooks Travel sketches http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!214720!0&term= 11/25/2007 Charles Callahan Perkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 1 of 3 Charles Callahan Perkins From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Callahan Perkins (March 1, 1823 - August 25, 1886), art critic, author and organizer of cultural activities, had from his parents, James and Eliza Greene (Callahan) Perkins, both the material inheritance and the temperament that naturally made him an influential friend of the arts of design and of music in Boston, his native city. The father, descended from Edmund Perkins who emigrated to New England in 1650, was a wealthy and philanthropic merchant; the mother was a gracious, cultivated woman. From the family home in Pearl Street Charles attended several schools before entering Harvard College. The prescribed academic course he found irksome, but he was graduated in 1843. He had previously drawn and painted and, declining chances to enter business, he went abroad soon after graduation, determined to study art. At Rome he became friendly with the sculptor Thomas Crawford, then struggling against poverty, and gave him encouragement. In 1846 he took a studio at Paris, where he had instruction from Ary Scheffer. Later he was at Leipzig, pursuing studies in the history of Christian art. During a second residence at Paris he took up etching with Bracquemond and Lalanne. He made many etchings to illustrate his own books. Circumstances led Perkins, a wealthy man, to devote his life to interpreting the art of others rather than to creative art. His love of music competed with his enthusiasm for painting and sculpture. In 1850-51 and from 1875 until his death he was president of the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston, whose concerts he sometimes conducted and for which he wrote meritorious music. He married, June 12, 1855, Frances Davenport Bruen, daughter of the Rev. Matthias Bruen, of New York. At their home many concerts and recitals were given. Perkins was the largest subscriber toward the Boston Music Hall, to which he also contributed the great bronze statue of Beethoven, modeled by his friend Crawford--the work which since 1902 has stood in the entrance hall of the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston. An invitation extended to Perkins in 1857 to give some lectures at Trinity College, Hartford, on "The Rise and Progress of Painting, started him as a lecturer. He possessed charm and magnetism on the platform. After a second period of European residence, ending in 1869, he lectured frequently on Greek and Roman art before Boston school teachers, and at the Lowell Institute on sculpture and painting. Thirteen years' service on the Boston school committee amplified his educational work. He brought to Boston the South Kensington methods of teaching drawing and design to children, and he was instrumental in founding the Massachusetts Normal Art School, now the Massachusetts School of Art. As a committeeman he was also assigned the third division of the school system, comprising the North and West Ends. He took pains to know personally all teachers of his division, often entertaining them at his home. Prior to 1850 Perkins had proposed an art museum for Boston but had found the plan premature. When others twenty years later revived this project he supported it gladly. He was second among the incorporaters of the present Museum of Fine Arts, securing for its opening a gift of Egyptian antiquities and making valuable suggestions as to arrangement of exhibits. Among the directors he advocated showing contemporary work as well as the arts of antiquity. He had, meantime, been elected to the presidency of the Boston Art Club, which he held for ten years, and to which he gave much time. He systematically devoted part of each day to writing. Tuscan Sculptors, published in London in 1864, brought him a European reputation. It was followed in 1868 by Italian Sculptors, with illustrations drawn and etched by the author. He edited, with notes, Charles Locke Eastlake's Hints on Household Taste (1872), Art in Education (1870), Art in the House (1879) from the original of Jakob von Falke, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Callahan_Perkins 2/17/2010 Charles Callahan Perkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 2 of 3 and Sepulchral Monuments in Italy (1885). In 1878 he brought out, with illustrative woodcuts which he had designed, Raphael and Michaelangelo, dedicated to Henry W. Longfellow, whose previously unpublished translations of the sculptor's sonnets were included in the book. His Historical Handbook of Italian Sculpture appeared in 1883, and in 1886, in French, Ghiberti et Son École. At the time of his death he had nearly finished his closely documented History of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, Massachusetts, which other hands completed. He was also critical editor of the Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, edited by Champlin. [1] He liked society and good fellowship. He was the grandfather of Maxwell Perkins, the noted editor, and the great-grandfather of Archibald Cox, whose mother Frances Bruen Perkins was the daughter of Edward Clifford Perkins and Elizabeth Hoar Evarts. Elizabeth was the daughter of US Attorney General, Secretary of State and Senator William Maxwell Evarts. Perkins died in Windsor, Vermont in a carriage accident which he driving with Senator Evarts. He was the great nephew of Thomas Handasyd Perkins, who founded the Perkins shipping empire J. & T.H Perkins with Charles' grandfather James. Further reading [There are tributes to Perkins by Robert C. Winthrop, Thomas W. Higginson and Samuel Eliot, with a biography by the last-named, in the Proc. Massachusetts Historical Society, 2 ser. III (1888). See also: Justin Winsor, The Memorial History of Boston, vol. IV (1881); A. F. Perkins, Perkins Family (1890); Dwight's Journal of Music, March 1, 1856; and Boston Transcript, Aug. 26, 1886.] Source Citations "Charles Callahan Perkins. "Dictionary of American Biography Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936. "Perkins, Charles Callahan". Encyclopcedia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911. This article incorporates text from the Encyclopxdia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. External links Boston Art Club Guide to the Cleveland - Perkins Family Papers Charles Callahan Perkins - Ask Art Later Years of the Saturday Club 1870 1920 Retrieved from 1"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Callahan_Perkins" Categories: 1823 births | 1886 deaths People from Boston, Massachusetts | American art historians Harvard University alumni American painters Baldwin, Evarts, Hoar & Sherman family This page was last modified on 18 December 2009 at 17:04. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Callahan_Perkins 2/17/2010 5/12/2018 Charles Callahan Perkins - Wikipedia WIKIPEDIA Charles Callahan Perkins Charles Callahan Perkins (March 1, 1823 - August 25, 1886) was an art critic, author, organizer of cultural activities, and an influential friend of design and of music in Boston. Contents Biography References Sources Further reading Portrait of Charles C. Perkins, 19th century External links Biography Charles C. Perkins was born in Boston on March 1, 1823, to James and Eliza Greene (Callahan) Perkins. His father. descended from Edmund Perkins who emigrated to New England in 1650, was a wealthy and philanthropic merchant. His mother was a gracious, cultivated woman. The family was wealthy. Perkins was the great nephew of Thomas Handasyd Perkins, who founded the Perkins shipping empire J. & T.H Perkins with Charles' grandfather James. Perkins attended several schools before entering Harvard College, where he found the prescribed academic course irksome. He graduated in 1843. He had previously drawn and painted and went abroad soon after graduation to study art. In Rome he became friendly with and encouraged the sculptor Thomas Crawford, then struggling economically. In 1846, Perkins took a studio at Paris, where he had instruction from Ary Scheffer. Later he pursued studies in the history of Christian art in Leipzig. Returning to Paris he took up etching with Bracquemond and Lalanne. He made many etchings to illustrate his own 51 and from 1875 until his death he was president of the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston, and sometimes conducted their concerts and wrote music the ensemble performed. (The German publisher Breitkopf and Härtel, the world's oldest music publishing house, issued Perkins's Piano Trio and two string quartets in 1854 and 1855 respectively; Perkins's compositions were the first works by an American ever published by that firm.) He married on June 12, 1855, Frances Davenport Bruen, daughter of the Rev. Matthias Bruen, of New York. They gave many concerts and recitals at their home. Perkins was the largest subscriber to the construction of the Boston Music Hall, forwhich he also contributed the great bronze statue of Beethoven, modeled by his friend Crawford, which since 1902 has stood in the entrance hall of the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston. An invitation extended to Perkins in 1857 to give some lectures at Trinity College, Hartford, on "The Rise and Progress of Painting," started him as a lecturer. He possessed charm and magnetism on the platform. After another European sojourn ended in 1869, he lectured frequently on Greek and Roman art before Boston school teachers, and on sculpture and painting at the Lowell Institute. he served for thirteen years on the Boston school committee. He brought to Boston the South Kensington methods of teaching drawing and design to children, and he was instrumental in founding the Massachusetts Normal Art School, now the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. As a committeeman he was also assigned the third division of the school system, comprising the North and West Ends. He took pains to know personally all teachers of his division, often entertaining them at his home. Prior to 1850, Perkins had proposed an art museum for Boston but had found the plan premature. When others revived this project twenty years later he supported it. He was second among the incorporaters of the Museum of Fine Arts, secured for its opening a gift of Egyptian antiquities, and made valuable suggestions for arranging its exhibits. He advocated showing contemporary work as well as the arts of antiquity. He was also elected president of the Boston Art Club, a post he held for ten years. He systematically devoted part of each day to writing Tuscan Sculptors, published in London in 1864, which brought him a European reputation. It was followed in 1868 by Italian Sculptors, with illustrations drawn and etched by the author. He edited, with notes, Charles Locke Eastlake's Hints on Household Taste (1872), Art in Education (1870), Art in the House (1879) from the original of Jakob von Falke, and Sepulchral Monuments in Italy (1885). In 1878 he brought out, with illustrative woodcuts which he had designed, Raphael and Michaelangelo, dedicated to Henry W. Longfellow, and included Longfellow's previously unpublished translations of the sculptor's sonnets. His Historical Handbook of Italian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Callahan_Perkin 2/4 5/12/2018 Charles Callahan Perkins - Wikipedia Sculpture appeared in 1883, and in 1886, in French, Ghiberti et son École. At the time of this death he had nearly finished his closely documented History of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, Massachusetts, which others completed. He was also critical editor of the Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, edited by Champlin. [1] He was the grandfather of editor Maxwell Perkins and the great-grandfather of Archibald Cox. Perkins died on August 25, 1886, in Windsor, Vermont in a carriage accident while he was driving with U.S. Senator William M. Evarts of New York. References 1. New International Encyclopedia Sources "Charles Callahan Perkins. "Dictionary of American Biography Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936. Further reading Johnson, Rossiter, ed. (1906). "Perkins, Charles Callahan" (https://archive.org/strea m/biographicaldict08johnuoft#page/n293/mode/1up). Dictionary of American Biography. 8. Boston: American Biographical Societies. p. 293. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Perkins, Charles Callahan". Encyclopxedia Britannica. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 173. There are tributes to Perkins by Robert C. Winthrop, Thomas W. Higginson and Samuel Eliot, with a biography by Eliot, in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 2 ser. III (1888). See also: Justin Winsor, The Memorial History of Boston, vol. IV (1881); A. F. Perkins, Perkins Family (1890); Dwight's Journal of Music, March 1, 1856; and Boston Transcript, Aug. 26, 1886. External links Boston Art Club (http://www.bostonartclub.com) Guide to the Cleveland - Perkins Family Papers (https://web.archive.org/web/2007061 1230745/http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/clevelandperkins.pdf Charles Callahan Perkins - Ask Art t(http://www.askart.com/AskART/P/charles_callaha n_perkins/charles_callahan_perkins.aspx) Later Years of the Saturday Club 1870 1920 (https://books.google.com/books?id=5CZ cVp6fQwC&pg=PA17&Ipg=PA17&) Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=Charles_Callahan_Perkins&oldid=798753555" This page was last edited on 3 September 2017, at 16:47. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Callahan_Perkins 4/4 The Perkins Brothers and Boston's Changing Taste 53 ] increasingly diverse population. 4 In both views, however, the Brahmins are with a central role in building Boston's culture, even though their motives erpreted differently. many of the protagonists of our story-the founders and early supporters came disproportionately from this group of elite Bostonians, many of of fortunes established in the early part of the century. The familial, pro- financial, educational, and institutional ties that bound them undoubtedly their joint endeavor, and their shared experiences of institution building smoother the complex process that eventually led to the museum's estab- Box. as we will see, the Brahmin "institutional constellation" was not always body. In fact, in the crucial winter of 1869-1870, divisions and tensions the parties that converged to negotiate the idea of an art museum. At of this convergence, one vital figure joined the fray: a Bostonian named Perkins. CEAZLES CALLAHAN PERKINS, AN INSPIRED ADVOCATE or IS69, just as the Athenxum's Fine Arts Committee was working of the Lawrence bequest and gift, Charles Callahan Perkins (fig. 21) Boston after years of residence in Europe. Once back in Boston, he threw the work of establishing an art museum in his native city. Calahan Perkins was born on March I, 1823, on Pearl Street, within a year of his paternal grandfather, James Perkins, whose mansion had become is fourth home in 1822.5 Charles was the fourth of five children born couple, James Perkins Jr. and Eliza Greene Callahan, niece of the rich Gardiner Greene. 6 The Perkins children's home was next door to and their great-uncle Thomas Handasyd Perkins lived nearby and younger generations of his remarkably close-knit extended family.7 In Perkins enclave in downtown Boston, where "all the appointments were and all the people kind," the Perkins children's lives began with all the comfort that their family's background assured.8 their father died suddenly, and only a year later their mother remarried and to New Jersey with her new husband, leaving the children in Boston.9 of these circumstances, Charles and his siblings, of whom only Sarah Eved to see old age, remained extraordinarily close. 10 The Perkins chil- endowed from birth not only with wealth but also with a vast social web siblings, uncles, aunts, cousins, and family friends. Many of Charles's would be benefactors of Boston's cultural and educational institutions, the Athenxum and the museum: among his cousins were, for example, H. Hirayama. 'with Eclat's The Boston Athenosum and the Orig in of the Museum of Fire Arts, Boston. Boston 2003. [ 54 ] CHAPTER TWO FIG. 2I Charles Callahan Perkins, ca. 1875 Photograph, 19.7 x 14 cm (mount). Collection of the Boston Athenxum, Gift of the Estate of Miss Eliza Callahan Cleveland, 1914 James Elliot Cabot (Athenxum and museum trustee), Edward Clarke Cabot (Athenxum trustee and architect of its Beacon Street building), Thomas Greaves Cary (Athenxum trustee and president), Samuel Eliot (Athenxum and museum trustee, and, later, Athenxum president), and John Hubbard Sturgis (one of the two architects of the museum's first building), to name but a few. Even before going to Harvard, Charles knew several of Boston's future intellectual and cultural leaders through his sister Sarah and her husband, Henry Russell Cleveland, a promising but short-lived writer. A young Harvard professor named Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was one of Cleveland's closest friends, as was an ambitious lawyer named Charles Sumner, long before he became an influential United States senator.11 Although her gender denied her many of the privileges that her brothers took for granted, Sarah eventually developed a cultural presence of her own among accomplished Bostonians and was an intimate friend of Catherine and Grace Norton (mother and sister, respectively, of the Harvard art historian Charles Eliot Norton), the British actress Fanny Kemble, and Louisa Crawford, wife of the sculptor Thomas Crawford, among others.12 For Charles, who had always loved music and art, Harvard's academic rigor pro- vided more challenge than pleasure. When he sailed to Europe in 1843, the year of his college graduation, the continent's sights and sounds therefore brought him almost constant rapture. Charles's grand tour-with his siblings, along the traditional routes- The Perkins Brothers and Boston's Changing Taste [ 55 ] furnished him with a requisite familiarity with Europe but also changed his experience awoke in him a lasting desire to succeed as an artist in his own he began a period of intense study in both the visual and musical arts. siblings sailed home in 1845, Charles stayed in Europe until 1849. This first Europe was followed by two more, from 1851 to 1854 and from 1857 to 1869. of the twenty-six years between Charles's Harvard graduation and his final Boston in 1869, about two decades were spent in Europe. where he first went in 1844, Charles plunged into an intensive course of and music. Like his great-uncle Thomas Handasyd, Charles was capable diable industry. He visited galleries, churches, and concert halls, sketched 25 . painted, read, composed, and wrote, all the while keeping up a full and social life. In 1844 Crawford praised Perkins's singular industry in a letter to and patron Charles Sumner in Boston: that I have never met with so young [a] person in whom I could find united qualifications Mr. Perkins possesses to make existence the highly intellectual should be. Mr. P has really been a hard worker this winter, not merely in sight- which forms a part and portion of life in Rome, but also in music, drawing, and-oh, patience inimitable!-the German language. What think you? in each, and half a dozen lessons a day. 13 Charles Callahan Perkins, "Lady Louisa," FIG. 23 Charles Callahan Perkins, "Villa Borghese," See from a sketchbook. Graphite draw- April 27, 1844, from a sketchbook. Graphite draw- paper. 26 x 22.4 cm (sheet). Collection of ing on paper, 26 X 22.4 cm (sheet). Collection of Athenxum, Purchase, 2006 the Boston Athenxum, Purchase, 2006 [ 56 ] CHAPTER TWO FIG. 24 Thomas Crawford, Hebe and Ganymede, ca. 1851, modeled 1842. Marble 175-3 X 81.3 x 52.I cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Charles Callahan Perkins, 76.702. Photograph © 2013 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Perkins's diligence as well as "gentlemanly deportment and truly amiable charac- ter"14 immediately charmed the sculptor, himself on the verge of success. That same year, 1844, Crawford's Orpheus and Cerberus was unveiled at the Athenxum to great acclaim, and his marriage to Luisa Ward, daughter of New York's leading bank Samuel Ward and sister of Julia Ward Howe, solidified his position among Bosto cultural elite. The two Americans became fast friends in Rome, the "city of cities. A serious aspiring artist himself, Charles Perkins was also patron to many of artist friends. From Crawford, for example, Perkins commissioned, in 1843, Hebe Ganymede in marble (ca. 1851, modeled 1842; fig. 24) and, in 1853, a bronze statue the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven, making Perkins the sculptor's second most important patron after Sumner. 16 (Charles's sister Sarah Cleveland also chased from Crawford, by 1850, a marble statuette, Christian Pilgrim, now in Athenxum's collection 17) Perkins also offered opportunities for artistic cultivatie and camaraderie to his friends, many of them ambitious expatriate American artists at the many gatherings-private concerts, drawing sessions, and parties-he held his home in Rome. Perkins's frequent guests included Crawford, the sculpto APPENDIX [ I7I ] CHARLES CALLAHAN PERKINS Boston, MA 1823-1886 Windsor, VT Harvard University A.B. 1843, A.M. (no date) Charles Callahan Perkins was a well-known critic, patron, and connoisseur of both the visual and musical He was also a philanthropist active in establishing and supporting organizations dedicated to those arts. He was a scion of a wealthy mercantile family known for its patronage of Boston's cultural institutions in the first half of the nineteenth century. The family's involvement was particularly deep with the Boston Arthenzum: his grandfather James Perkins and great-uncle Thomas Handasyd Perkins were two of the most significant benefactors to the institution. In 1855 he married Frances Davenport Bruen of New York and Sewport, Rhode Island. After his graduation from Harvard, Perkins spent about two decades in Europe (in three installments) before returning to Boston in 1869. Throughout his life, his chief interests remained the fine arts and music. He initially studied those disciplines in various European capitals, but he never succeeded in establishing famself as a professional painter or composer. Instead, his greatest distinction lay in his work as an art his- torian: in the late 1860s he was awarded the Légion d'honneur by the French government and made the first American member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, both on the merit of his publications on the history of Inalian sculpture. In addition, he made valuable contributions to his native city by organizing and support- sig several institutions of art and music. A connoisseur as well as a reformer, he also took an active part, in such official and private capacities, in the state's effort to reform art education during the 1870s and 188os. A well-established art historian with European credentials, Perkins brought to the MFA's founding Board his long-standing passion for establishing an institution of art in Boston, his extensive knowledge of the history, and his considerable social standing and connections in both Boston and abroad, all of which made him the leading visionary among the incorporators. Samuel Eliot, also an incorporator, was his cousin. Perkins's life is discussed in greater detail in chapter 2. BA: proprietor, 1845-1886 NFA: trustee, 1870-1886; honorary director, 1876-1886 OTHER INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATIONS Readémie des Beaux-Arts, Institut de France; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Social Science Association; Boston Art Club (president); Handel and Haydn Society (president); Harvard Musical Association (director, vice president); Harvard University (lecturer); Lowell Institute (lecturer); Massachusetts estorical Society (member-at-large of the council); Trinity College, Hartford, CT (lecturer) BIBLIC OFFICE HELD Sisston School Committee (1872-1884) ELECTED SOURCES assuel Eliot, "Tribute to Charles C. Perkins," Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 2nd ser., 3 October 1886): 59-61; Martin Brimmer, "Charles Callahan Perkins," Proceedings of the American Academy of the and Sciences 22 (May-December 1886): 534-539; Samuel Eliot, "Memoir of Charles Callahan Perkins, M." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 2nd ser., 3 (February 1888): 223-246; "Charles Callahan Perkins," in Later Years Saturday Club, 1870-1920, ed. Mark Anthony DeWolfe Howe (Boston: Houghton Wardlin Company, 1927), 17-20. 8/23/2019 Perkins and Storey Families - Jamaica Plain Historical Society plain Distorical Q AMERICA 1987 TCInIIS auy Savity Families People . Walter H. Marx When China trade merchant brothers Thomas and James Perkins headed south of Boston for summer country homes in the early 1800's, the younger Thomas built a house (now gone) near Jamaica Plain in Brookline, at Heath and Warren Streets, while James chose the shores of Jamaica Pond, building Pinebank I in 1802 Pinebank III pitifully stands today on the site, the only residence spared in the Jamaica Park Project of the 1890's. Here James died in 1822 with Pinebank going to his grandchildren: Charles, Edward and Sarah. Sarah continued to live there after she married Henry Cleveland in 1838. Her letters, which are preserved in the New York Public Library, tell of her early life at the house: boating on the Pond starting at the Perkins Boathouse on the Cove (which was filled in by the city by 1920), long horseback rides, and the like. After her husband's early death in 1843, Mrs. Cleveland relinquished her share in Pinebank to Edward upon his marriage. By 1848 he had torn down Pinebank I to build a French-style mansion with mansard roof, which Sarah termed Sarah not to her liking. She described the first home's demolition to 8/23/2019 Perkins and Storey Families - Jamaica Plain Historical Society plain historical Q 1987 bricks from England "the 11,000 Virgins of St. Ursula" and gave her avid stamp of approval. She made her observation from her home, Nutwood, built in 1866 on the ridge opposite Pinebank on the tongue of high land on the Pond's north shore next to the Quincy Shaw's. This land she shared with Charles, now home from studies in Europe, in a house called second too, Oakwood approached by the now leaf-covered stairway at 5. Perkins and Chestnut Streets. Both sides of Chestnut Street on the Boston side were Perkins Heart land until the area on the Ward's Pond side was sold to the Jamaica Plain Aqueduct Company-to become parkland in the 1890's. Oakwood and Nutwood stood until the early 1970's when they became part of the Cabot Estate Condominiums and (unlike the Shaw House) were demolished. As an art historian and author, Charles became the best- known Perkins of his generation. The former school on St. Botolph Street was named for him. Graduating from Harvard Charles in 1843, he studied art in Italy and France, before turning to N music. Some of his works survive. He specialized in Renaissance Art, and several books that he authored became basic texts in the field. Like his neighbors, he made time for civic causes like the Boston Art Club, the Boston School Board (1870-83), the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Handel & Hayden Society. Charles gave the Beethoven statue that today graces the New England Conservatory, and pushed for music and art training in American schools. He also lectured before the Lowell Institute. 8/23/2019 Perkins and Storey Families - Jamaica Plain Historical Society plain Distorical Q THE EDEN OF AMERICA 1987 Into Nutwood moved ? Charles Moorfield Storey and his wife Susan. Son of eminent jurist and author, Moorfield Storey of Roxbury (1845-1929), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Charles graduated from Harvard in 1912, and had garnered a law degree by 1915. He entered a Boston law firm, but was in Washington on government business during World War I. A hater of political corruption like his father and endowed with a keen sense of public duty like his neighbors, Storey soon was on boards that watched over Boston City Hall. He was active in academic institutions and various societies, while also sitting on the boards of various companies. Storey is remembered for his political collision with Governor Curley, who in 1935 removed Storey from the watchdog Finance Commission on a trumped-up charge to make room for a gubernatorial crony. Storey, a tall, slim man with a high sense of public duty, took it all in stride. The Governor's Council later passed a resolution proclaiming belief in Storey's integrity. He served the Commission again from 1939 to 1942. Storey worked for the government once more in World War II and lost a son in action. The family regretfully moved out of 229 Perkins Street in 1974 and six years later Charles Storey 8/23/2019 Perkins and Storey Families - Jamaica Plain Historical Society plain Distorical OF THE EDEN AMERICA OF STATE 1987 Sources: Dictionary of American Biography; National Cyclopedia of American Biography; Obituary, Boston Globe, March 20, 1980; C. Everitt, The Tavern at 100, 1984; Cabot, Skating on Jamaica Pond; S.P. Shaw, grandson. Written by Walter H. Marx. Reprinted with permission from the November 6, 1992 Jamaica Plain Gazette. Copyright © Gazette Publications, Inc. f in Su Previous PAUL GORE Next QUINCY ADAMS SHAW JAMAICA PLAIN ART COLLECTORM Abou Artic Resources Newsletter t les JP History Even Colo Photo Galleries Sign Thomas Handasyd Perkins - Wikipedia Page 1 of 3 Thomas Handasyd Perkins From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins, or T.H. Perkins (December 15, 1764 - January 11, 1854), Thomas Handasyd Perkins was a wealthy Boston merchant and an archetypical Boston Brahmin. Starting with bequests from his grandfather and father-in-law, he amassed a huge fortune. As a young man he was a slave trader in Haiti, a Maritime Fur Trader, trading furs from the American Northwest to China, and then a major smuggler of Turkish opium into China. [2][3] Contents 1 Life and career 2 References Born December 15, 1764 3 Footnotes 4 Further reading Died January 11, 1854 (aged 89) 5 External links Brookline, Massachusetts Nationality American Occupation Shipping magnate Life and career Net worth USD $3 million at the time of his death (approximately 1/1116 of US His parents, James Perkins and Elizabeth Peck, had ten children in eighteen years. When Perkins was GNP)¹ twelve, he was in the crowd which first heard the Declaration of Independence read to the citizens of Boston. The family had planned to send Perkins to Harvard College, but he had no interest in a college education. In 1779 he began working, and in 1785 when he turned 21 he became legally entitled to a small bequest that had been left to him by his grandfather Thomas Handasyd Peck, a Boston merchant who dealt largely in furs and hats. Until 1793 Perkins engaged in the slave trade at Cap-Haitien Haiti. In 1785, when China opened the port of Canton to foreign businesses, Perkins became one of the first Boston merchants to engage in the China trade. He sailed on the Astrea to Canton in 1789 with a cargo including ginseng, cheese, lard, wine, and iron. On the trip back it carried tea and silk cloth. In 1815 Perkins and his brother James opened a Mediterranean office to buy Turkish opium for resale in China. Perkins was also a major industrial investor within Massachusetts. He owned the Granite Railway, the first commercial American railroad, which was built to carry granite from Quincy quarries to Charlestown for construction of the Bunker Hill Monument and other city buildings in Boston. He also held significant holdings in the Elliot textile mills in Newton, the mills at Holyoke and Lowell, New England canals and railroads, and lead and iron mines including the Monkton Iron Company in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Handasyd_Perkins 5/27/2017 Thomas Handasyd Perkins - Wikipedia Page 2 of 3 Vermont. In addition, Perkins was politically active in the Federalist Party, serving terms as state senator and representative from 1805-1817. Additionally, he invested in many of the mills on Lowell, MA including Appleton Mills. [4] In later years Perkins became a philanthropist. In 1826, he and his brother James Perkins contributed half the sum of $30,000 that was needed for an addition to the Boston Athenaeum, and the old Boston Athenaeum Gallery of Art was moved to James Perkins's home. [5] The Perkins School for the Blind, still in existence in Watertown, Massachusetts, was renamed in his honor after he donated his Boston mansion to the financially troubled "Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind" in 1832. He was also a major benefactor to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, McLean Hospital, and helped found the Massachusetts General Hospital. Upon retirement, Perkins built a summer home on Swan Island in the Kennebec River near Richmond, Maine. He helped the island achieve independent municipal status by paying legal fees for its charter and the town was renamed Perkins in gratitude. It is now Perkins Township, a ghost town. Colonel Perkins died on January 11, 1854 in Brookline, Massachusetts, and is buried in the family plot at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Perkins married Sarah "Sally" Elliott (1768-February 25, 1852) on March 25, 1788, in Boston, Massachusetts. They had three children: Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins, Jr. ("Short-arm Tom"), whose daughter Louisa married the Boston painter William Morris Hunt; 6 Elizabeth Perkins Cabot (1791-1885); and Caroline Perkins Gardiner (1800-1867). His nephew John Perkins Cushing was active in Perkins' China business for 30 years; the town of Belmont, Massachusetts is named for his estate. His great nephew Charles Callahan Perkins became a well known artist, author and philanthropist like his grandfather James Perkins. References ck. Thomas G. Cary (1856). Memoir of T. H. Perkins (https://archive.org/stream/memthomashand00caryrich#page/n11/mode/2up). Carl Seaburg and Stanley Paterson, Merchant Prince of Boston. Colonel T.H. Perkins, 1764-1854, Its 1971. Footnotes 1. Klepper, Michael; Gunther, Michael (1996), The Wealthy 100: From Benjamin Franklin to Bill Gates-A Ranking of the Richest Americans, Past and Present, Secaucus, New Jersey: Carol Publishing Group, p. xiii, ISBN 978-0-8065-1800-8, OCLC 33818143 (https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33818143) 2. American Merchants and the China Opium Trade, 1800-1840. Jacques M. Downs. Business History Review, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Winter, 1968) 3. American Trade in Opium to China, Prior to 1820. Charles C. Stelle. Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Dec., 1940) 4. M., Rosenberg, Chaim. Legendary locals of Lowell, Massachusetts (https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/854956846). ISBN 9781467100489. OCLC 854956846 (https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/854956846). 5. The Philanthropy Hall of Fame, Thomas Perkins (http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/hall_of_fame/thomas_perkins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Handasyd_Perking 5/27/2017 Thomas Handasyd Perkins - Wikipedia Page 3 of 3 6. The History of the Descendants of John Dwight of Dedham, Mass., Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, J.F. Trow & Co., New York, 1874(https://books.google.com/books?id=WLfMU4yd1FYC&pg=PA421) Further reading Hunt, Freeman (1858). "Thomas Handasyd Perkins". Lives of American Merchants https://books.google.com/books?id=lygKAAAAIAAJ). 1. Perkins and Company, Canton 1803-1827. Bulletin of the Business Historical Society, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Mar., 1932). Jstor 3110803. External links Massachusetts Historical Society Thomas Handasyd Perkins papers, 1783-1892 http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0268)guide Portrait(http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/james-perkins-1822-gilbert-stuart) of James Perkins, brother of T.H. Perkins Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=Thomas_Handasyd_Perkins&oldid=776994778' Categories: 19th-century American railroad executives American philanthropists Businesspeople from Boston | People from Brookline, Massachusetts 1764 births 1854 deaths American expatriates in China People from Sagadahoc County, Maine This page was last edited on 24 April 2017, at 16:33. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Handasyd_Perkins 5/27/2017 8/26/2019 Perkins Estate - Wikipedia Coordinates: 42°19'14"N 71°8'39"W WIKIPEDIA Perkins Estate The Perkins Estate is a historic estate at Perkins Estate 450 Warren Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. The property was part of U.S. National Register of Historic the summer estate of the Cabot family, Places T.H. originally belonging to Thomas Handasyd Perkins; the present main mansion house was built in the 1850s to a plan by Edward C. Cabot for his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Perkins Cabot. The grounds of the property were originally designed by Perkins, and subsequent generations maintained the grounds to a high degree. In the 1980s it was owned by Mitch Kapor, [2] founder of Lotus Software. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [1] See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Brookline, Massachusetts Show map of Massachusetts References Show map of the United States Show all 1. "National Register Information System" Location 450 Warren St., (http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/ Brookline, All_Data.html). National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Massachusetts 2008-04-15. Coordinates 42°19'14"N 2. "MACRIS inventory record for Perkins 71°8'39"W Estate" (http://mhc-macris.net/Details. Area 22 acres (8.9 ha) aspx?Mhcld=BKL.AF). Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved Architect Cabot, Edward C. 2014-05-21 8/26/2019 Perkins Estate - Wikipedia Picturesque MPS Brookline MRA NRHP reference # 85003306 (https:// npgallery.nps.gov/ AssetDetail/NRIS/ 85003306) [1] Added to NRHP October 17, 1985 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=PerkinsEstate&oldid=789962356 This page was last edited on 10 July 2017, at 18:40 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Biographical Note: Mary Perkins Ryan (1912-1993) Mary Perkins Ryan was born in Boston, on April 10, 1912, the youngest of four children of Charles Bruen and Elizabeth (Ward) Perkins. Ryan entered the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Connecticut at the age of thirteen and graduated in 1927. After a year and a half traveling and learning in Europe, Ryan returned to the United States. She entered the College of the Sacred Heart, Manhattanville in 1929. During her four years at college, Ryan majored in English and edited the college magazine, The Essay. Mary Perkins Ryan married John Ryan in 1942. After graduating in 1932, Ryan worked in a variety of secretarial positions and with the publishing firm Sheed and Ward. While at Sheed and Ward, Ryan met Leonard Feeney, S. J. She encountered him again when she returned to New York City and he provided her with an idea for her first book, At Your Ease in the Catholic Church (1938). At Your Ease was "believed to be the first book of etiquette for Catholics ever published." Perkins also authored Speaking of How to Pray (1944); worked at the Liturgical Institute at the University of Notre Dame starting in 1950; co-edited The Art of Teaching Christian Doctrine (1957) with Austrian Jesuit Johnnes Hofinger; served as the founding editor of The Living Light (1964-1972), a publication of the United States Catholic Conference; authored the controversial Are Parochial Schools the Answer? (1964); edited Professional Approaches for Christian Education (PACE) from 1973 to 1988; and continued to work as a freelance writer from the 1970s through the 1980s. Throughout her life, Ryan authored, edited, or translated over 25 works on the topics of theology, philosophy, and liturgy. Mary Perkins Ryan died on October 13, 1993. Sources: Bryce, M.C. "Mary Perkins Ryan." The Living Light 12 (Summer 1975): 276-281. Hughes, Kathleen. How Firm a Foundation: Voices of the Early Liturgical Movement. Chicago, IL: Liturgical Training Publications, 1990. O'Hare, P. "Mary Perkins Ryan (1912-1993): Mulier Furtis." The Living Light (Spring 1994): 3-8. Scope and Contents The collection consists of the correspondence of Mary Perkins Ryan, writings by and about Ryan, notes and other ephemera dating from 1932-1951. The materials reflect a small portion of Ryan's writing career. The correspondence primarily consists of letters to Ryan from religious men and women about her book Speaking of How to Pray (1944). Notable correspondents include Leonard Feeney, John LaFarge, Gerald Ellard, and Martin Hellriegel. The articles and essays by Mary Perkins Ryan deal with Catholic liturgy, spiritual life, and religious education. Writings of note by Ryan include her thesis, "The Interests in Mary Perkins Ryan Papers MS.2003.030 Page 5 Mary Perkins Ryan Papers 1932-1951 MS.2003.030 http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1114 EGIUM COLL FLAND MDCCCI Archives and Manuscripts Department John J. 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[ Flag Message - Mark as Unread Printable View Sent Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:49:37 -0400 Bulk [Empty] "ELIZABETH EPP" Add to Address Book Trash [Empty] From: Add Mobile Alert My Folders [Hide] Subject: Ward-Perkins Family Papers Eliz messages (1) To: russell@library.ucsb.edu Member Information CC: eppster2@verizon.net Ron Archives (19) Dear Ms. Russell: I am the recently retired library director at Southern New Hampshire University. Search Shortcuts For the past six years I have been engaged in researching the life of the My Photos founder of Acadia National Park, George Bucknam Dorr (1853-1944). My Attachments Mr. Dorr is the maternal son of Mary Gray Ward (1820-1901), the sister of Samuel Gray Ward whose letters figure so prominently in the Ward- Perkins Papers. Recently I have been volunteering at the Concord Free Public Library, developing finding aids for the magnificent manuscript holdings they have of the Concord Sages. By a rather circuitous route I've been led through Emerson's manuscripts to the second Thomas Wren Ward (1844-1940), Mr. Dorr's cousin. I'm writing today with three purposes in mind. One, the excellent article by Donald Fitch on "The Ward-Perkins Papers" refers (p. 50) to Margaret Snyder's "The Other Side of the River" article on T.W. Ward. In that article Ms. Snyder refers to a ten year correspondence during the 1930's with Mr. Ward following their meeting in Jamaica Plain. Do you know whether this correspondence is extant? If this is the same Margaret Irene Snyder that wrote The Chosen Valley my efforts to find biographical information about her through the Chatfield (MN) Historical Society has been of little value in tracking down the correspondence on her end. My hope was that since T.W.Ward and Mr. Dorr kept in touch with one another throughout their lives, that some additional correpondence might help me better understand their relationship. Second, it is difficult to determine from the the Fitch article or the finding aid whether Ward-Perkins Papers scrapbooks might contain photographs of Mary Gray Ward Dorr and her family members (husband and two sons). I have yet to unearth any photograph of Mr. Dorr's father or brother and the image evidence for both Mr. Dorr and his mother is very slight. Can you be of any assistance? Fortunately, I do have rather broad evidence on the Ward family in its transitioning from Salem to Boston in the generation of Thomas Wren Ward (1786-1858). http://us.f842.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?Search=&Idx=125&YY=334&y5beta=yes... 10/8/2007 Verizon Yahoo! Mail -eppster2@verizon.net Page 2 of 2 Finally, the Bar Harbor Historical Society on Mount Desert Island (ME) is in possession of the Guest Book kept by Mary Gray Ward at the home that she and her husband built in 1880 called Old Farm, what George B. Dorr calls the inspiration for the development of Acadia National Park. After years of arm twisting, trhe museum 'curator' permitted me to open, read, and compile for the first time a list of Old Farm guests (1880-1937). The names include one President, many European visitors, Boston Brahmins, Congressmen, etc. Charles Bruen Perkins wrote a poem in this book when he visited in 1888, returning in 1892; Elizabeth Ward Perkins visited in 1907; I also have an entry for Edward Newton Perkins for 1888 but know nothing of his relationship to C.B. Perkins. Anna H.B. Ward visited in 1886 (and left a photo behind), Sophia Read Howard Ward visited in 1886 with her husband. Were you aware of this? Fitch( p. 52) says that Elizabeth Howard Ward wrote to ":the family" from North East Harbor (was there a family estate there?). I'm also curious whether the "George Howard" ('Uncle George) who wrote to Elizabeth on May 9, 1901 may have had any relationship to the English Howard family that owned Castle Howard and Naworth Castle where the Dorr's were six-month houseguests in 1876 during their grieving period following the death of the Dorr's eldest son, William. I recognize that that I have presumed to set before you a formidable task. If you could briefly acknowledge this email perhaps it is best if I call you at your convenience so that we might discuss these points and what is and is not known within your family about connections with the Dorr's. I have found in the Ward manuscripts sufficient quality and range of experiences that makes me wish that their roles in 19th-century America had received the scholarly attention it deserves. But for now, I want to remain focused on the themes shared by Samuel G. Ward and Mr. Dorr as they carved out their quite different roles. Thank goodness for Fitch's reference to Diana Mansfield Russell or I would have not had the opportunity to follow up these issues. With best wishes, Ronald H. Epp, M.L.S., Ph.D. 47 Pond View Dr. Merrimack, NH 03054 603-424-6129 Delete Reply Forward Spam Move Previous Next I Back to Messages Save Message Text Full Headers Check Mail Compose Search Mail Search the Web Copyright © 2007 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. I Copyright/IP Policy I Terms of Service Send Feedback Help NOTICE: We collect personal information on this site. To learn more about how we use your information, see our Privacy Policy. verizon YAHOO! http://us.f842.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?Search=&Idx=125&YY=334&y5beta=yes.. 10/8/2007 MRS. C. B. PERKINS,: LECTURER, WRITER Special to The New York Times. New York Times (1857-Current file); Sep 1, 1954; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2003) pg. 27 MRS. C. B. PERKINS, LECTURER, WRITER Art and Religion Her Subjects -Widow of the Founder of Institute for Blind Dies Special to The New York Times. BOSTON, Aug. 31-Mrs. Eliza- beth Ward Perkins, a lecturer and writer on art and religion and the widow of Charles Bruen Perkins, founder of the Perkins Institute for the Blind here, died here today after a long illness. Her age was 81. The daughter of Thomas Wren Ward and Sophia Howard Ward, she attended the Brearley School in New York and studied music for two years in Europe. She worked out a theory of mental training through drawing and lectured on it at Boston Univer- sity, schools and museums. Mrs. Perkins also lectured on religious subjects and presented exhibitions of religious art. She was the author of two books, "Observation" and "The Art of Seeing." She was a member of the cor- poration of the Perkins Institute, president of the Boston Children's Art Center and a trustee of the Boston Children's Museum, She was a Benedictine oblate and a director of the National Liturgi- cal Conference. Among her organizations were the American Federation of Ar- tists, the Guild of Boston Artists, the Paulist League of Boston, the League of Catholic Women and the Catholic Art Association. Her husband died in 1929. Sur- viving are a son, Francis Daven- port Perkins, and three daugh- ters, Dr. Anna Ward Perkins, Mrs. Eleanor Perkins Mansfield and Mrs. Mary Perkins Ryan. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.