Ellen Kempton Journal, Mss_64
Correspondence, diaries and journals, deeds, leases, estate records, marriage certificates, court records, bills and receipts, military records, contracts, school notebooks, and other materials, chiefly relating to personal affairs of members of the Allen, Crapo, Davis, Delano, Gifford, Hammond, Hathaway, Howland, Hussey, Jenney, Kempton, Macomber, Mosher, Nye, Ricketson, Rodman, Rotch, Russell, Shearman/Sherman, Slocum, Spooner, Swift, Taber, Tobey, Wing, and Winslow families of Massachusetts (principally Dartmouth, Mass., and nearby towns of Acushnet, Fairhaven, Fall River, Freetown, Marion, Mattapoisett, Middleboro, Rochester, Sandwich, and Westport), Rhode Island, and New York State. Of particular interest are papers of Joseph C. Delano (1796-1886) including letters from Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858) and Mercator Cooper (1804-1872) concerning Perry's expedition and the opening of trade with Japan in the early 1850s; diary (1865) of Ellen S. Kempton (ca. 1838-1865), teacher for New England Freedmen's Aid Society at Edisto Island, S.C.; and letters to Hester Swift Prescott (ca. 1882-1964) from Edith Wharton (1862-1937) and Edith Bangs (ca. 1867-1959) relating to their involvement (1914-1918) with American Fund for French Wounded and its support of American Memorial Hospital at Reims, France. --Also includes correspondence, reports, and other documents, of notable American or English authors, clergy, lawyers, legislators, politicians, explorers, scientists, and teachers including Jacob Whitman Bailey, Augustus Addison Gould, Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, Myron Holley, Jared Potter Kirtland, John Page, Edwin Peary, Charles Achilles Spencer, Daniel Webster, and Ezekiel Whitman. No display constant --No display constant
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Ellen S. Kempton.
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[1st 3 lines: pre-printed letterhead:] Mrs. Theodore F. Butzow 2049 West California Street San Diego, California October 16,1936. My dear Grace, Yesterday Aunt Ellen Kempton's diary was sent to you. Do as you choose with it. I am trying to dispose of some things that others would not know what to do with. Your description of autumn foliage made me wish for another ride with you. We do not have the gorgeous coloring
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Edisto Island, Apr. 24. 1865. So. Ca. James Whaley Plantation
This hasty journal I will keep for my friends at home thinking that a matter of fact account of things seen and heard during my labors here among these people may be interesting to them. Twill be hastily written and those who read must read with no spirit of criticism--- Leaving New York, Saturday, 10 o'clk. Apr. 15 steamer "Fulton" arrived at Hilton Head, Tues. 18 at 2 o'clk. having had a quiet voyage quite monotinous with but little to interest. Beside our company of teachers, Miss Mira B. Stanton, from Lowell, Mr Albert Everett, from Groten, there were three from the New York Society. in this place our fellow passengers separated, some one way some another. We remained on board watching with great interest the novel scenes before us, while Mr. Everett went up to the town or village to find Mr. Dodge to whom we had a letter from the Boston Society. soon after he left us Mr. Dodge came on board, seeing us waiting and most of the passengers gone enquired if we were teachers from the N. Eng. F. A. Soc. After seeing that our baggage was all right took us to the Provost Marshal's office, a long way in the sand and sun. Then we took the oath of allegiance & I rea- lized more than ever I had a country, that civil war was in our land
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