THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ARCHIVES & RESEARCH CENTER

Guide to

Long Hill Correspondence Collection

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by Alyssa Loney

February 2016 Last updated: June 2016

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Extent: 1 folders Linear feet: > 0.25

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

PROVENANCE Gift of Mrs. Sidney Lockwood Tynan, 2012.

OWNERSHIP & LITERARY RIGHTS The Long Hill Correspondence Collection is the physical property of The Trustees of Reservations. Photograph rights, including copyright, belong to the photographers or their legal heirs and assigns.

CITE AS The Long Hill Correspondence Collection. The Trustees of Reservations, Archives & Research Center.

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS This collection is open for research.

LONG HILL

Henrietta Lockwood (1906- 2000) was the daughter of Atlantic Monthly owner and editor Ellery Sedgwick (27 February 1872- 21 April 1960) and Mabel Cabot Sedgwick (3 July 1873 - 5 March 1937). The couple married in 1904. In 1916 the couple purchased a one hundred and fourteen acre property in Beverly, Massachusetts that they named Long Hill. After Mabel Cabot Sedgwick’s death in 1937, Ellery Sedgwick married Marjorie Russell (1896-1978), who continued establishing the gardens at Long Hill.

Ellery Sedgwick was the son of Attorney (16 August 1824- 26 December 1903) and Henrietta Ellery Sedgwick (18 October 1829- 22 February 1899). Although Henry Dwight Sedgwick worked in , he commuted weekly to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where his wife raised their five children: Ellery, Henry Dwight Sedgwick (1861-1957), (1863-1951), Jane Minot Sedgwick (1859-1918), and Alexander Sedgwick (1867-1929).

Ellery Sedgwick was born in New York, New York on 27 February 1872. He graduated from the Groton School in 1890 and in 1894. He taught classics at the Groton School from 1894 to

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1896. His editorial career included publications such as the Youth's Companion at , Leslie's Monthly Magazine, and the American Magazine. He returned to Boston in 1909 as the editor of Monthly and president of the Atlantic Monthly Company. He died 21 April 1960 in Washington, D.C., and is buried in the plot in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

Mabel Cabot Sedgwick was born in 3 July 1873 in Brookline, Massachusetts to Walter Channing Cabot (28 April 1829- 8 May 1904) and Elizabeth Rogers Mason (25 May 1834-12 December 1920). In 1907, she wrote and published The Garden Month-By-Month, a gardening guide. She established the gardens at Long Hill.

In 1917, Mabel Cabot Sedgwick and Ellery Sedgwick moved into a farmhouse at Long Hill, where Mable Cabot Sedgwick began work on the gardens. Between 1921 and 1925 they constructed a Charleston-style Colonial Revival house, designed by Philip Richardson of Boston. They purchased the interior woodwork from Ball House, a mansion in Charleston, South Carolina and used this in the building of the house. In 1925, the Sedgwicks moved into the newly constructed house, and Mabel Cabot Sedgwick began to create the garden’s geometric garden rooms. She died on 5 March 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts.

In 1939, Ellery Sedgwick married (Isabel) Marjorie Russell (1896-1978), daughter of Champion Branfill Russell (1860-1945) and Isabel Ellen Bruce (1860-1934). Marjorie Russell was born on 11 June 1896 in Essex, England. She continued the gardens at Long Hill, establishing the Carriage House Garden and developing the woodland slope garden. She was known as a rare plant propagator. She died on 29 November 1978 at Long Hill.

Mabel Cabot Sedgwick and Ellery Sedgwick had four children: Henrietta Ellery Sedgwick Lockwood, Ellery Sedgwick, Jr., Samuel Cabot Sedgwick, and Theodora Sedgwick Bond.

Henrietta Ellery Sedgwick Lockwood was born on 13 May 1906 in New York, New York. She married John Edwards Lockwood (8 April 1904- 31 August 1993) on 14 May 1932 at Long Hill. He was the son of William A. Lockwood (1874-1966) and Elizabeth Edwards. Henrietta was a known horticulturalist, who established her own garden at her home in Westchester County, New York in 1938, which she continued to work on until her death on 4 August 2000.

Ellery Sedgwick, Jr. was the president and chairman of the Medusa Corporation of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, a leading cement maker. He was born 28 October 1909 in Boston, Massachusetts and died on 2 September 1991 in Ohio. He married Irene E. Wade (17 December 1913 – 9 February 2013) in 1941.

Samuel Cabot Sedgwick was a career diplomat with the State Department. He was born on 6 February 1913 in Boston, Massachusetts and died 24 July 2003 in Oregon. He married Paula Knipe (1916-1990) on 5 January 1941.

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Theodora Sedgwick Bond was born on 27 October 1916 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. She married Brigadier General William Bond (4 December 1918-1 April 1970). She died in Santa Cruz, Arizona on 27 October 1981.

In 1979, Theodora Sedgwick Bond, Henrietta E.S. Lockwood, Ellery Sedgwick, Jr., and S. Cabot Sedgwick gave Long Hill to The Trustees of Reservations. Raymond and Linda Gosselin gave additional land to the Trustees in 1994. More information can be found at http://www.thetrustees.org/places- to-visit/northeast-ma/long-hill.html

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DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

The Long Hill Correspondence Collection contains only one series: Correspondence.

Series I, Correspondence, contains two letters written by Isobel Majorie Russel Sedgwick to Jack Tynan and Sidney Lockwood Tynan detailing her journey to Asia. One letter contains information on her journey to Japan, while the other contains information relating to China.

The collection is stored in Assorted Historical Collections box.

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Box Folder Contents Date

Series I. Correspondence

> 0.25 (1 folder) Dates: 1972

Arranged chronologically.

Correspondence

1 10 Isobel Majorie Russel Sedgwick Correspondence 1972

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