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Guide to the Lincoln Group of Boston Collection, 1938 Bridgewater State University Maxwell Library Archives & Special Collections Lincoln Group of Boston Collection 1938 - (MSS-008) Finding Aid Compiled by Orson Kingsley Last Updated: March 10, 2017 Maxwell Library Bridgewater State University 10 Shaw Road / Bridgewater MA 02325 / 508-531-1389 Finding Aid: Lincoln Group of Boston Collection (MSS-008) 2 Volume: 7.5 linear feet (17 document boxes) Acquisition: All items in this manuscript group were donated to Bridgewater State University. Access: Access to this record group is unrestricted. Copyright: The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of copyright. Whenever possible, the Maxwell Library will provide information about copyright owners and other restrictions, but the legal determination ultimately rests with the researcher. Requests for permission to publish material from this collection should be discussed with the University Archivist. Table of Contents Administrative History Scope and Content Note Box and Folder List Series 1: Correspondence, 7 boxes, 1938-1989 Series 2: Event Programs and Information, 2 boxes, 1938- Series 3: Histories/Publications/Anniversaries, 2 boxes, 1938-2000 Series 4: Business Records, 2 boxes, 1938-1988 Series 5: Papers and Presentations, 3 boxes, 1937-2004, undated Series 6: Photographs and Media, 1 box, 1942-2002, undated Maxwell Library Bridgewater State University 10 Shaw Road / Bridgewater MA 02325 / 508-531-1389 Finding Aid: Lincoln Group of Boston Collection (MSS-008) 3 Lincoln Group of Boston Collection Administrative History The Lincoln Group of Boston was founded in 1938, with the stated purpose: To interchange ideas about Abraham Lincoln, to promote the study of his life and times, to assist in the investigation of his career, and to distribute authentic information about his work and character. The first meeting was held on February 12, 1938, and included 19 Lincolnians. The first president of the group was F. Lauriston Bullard. The group has continued to meet 2-4 times a year ever since, with each meeting consisting of presentations relating to Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War by both members and guest lecturers. Some of the prominent speakers have included James G. Randall in 1939, Carl Sandburg in 1940, Louis A. Warren in 1955, R. Gerald McMurtry in 1963, James M. McPherson in 1989, and too many others to list here. The group still meets regularly, including an annual meeting at Bridgewater State University. Members continue the tradition of adding research and publications to the historical canon of Abraham Lincoln scholarship. Scope and Content Note The Lincoln Group of Boston Collection was originally housed at Boston University before being transferred to Bridgewater State College in 1980. Additions to the collection have been ongoing ever since. BSU contains sub-collections of individual members of the Lincoln Group of Boston that fall under the umbrella of the Lincoln Group of Boston as a whole. The Maxwell Library contains a separate Lincoln Collection that began in 1975 with the large donation of Lincoln related material by Arthur Lloyd Hayden. Lincoln Group members have been donating material ever since. This collection consists of publications, ephemera, artifacts, and framed art and lithographs pertaining to both Lincoln and the Civil War. Series 5, Papers and Presentations, does not contain folder numbers due to the continual addition of papers as they are found in the collection or donated to the collection. Many additional papers can be found in specific collections of individual members of the Lincoln Group of Boston. Related collections include the Arthur Lloyd Hayden Papers; the Judge Elwin L. Page Papers; the Rev. Joseph L. McCorison Papers; the Richard F. Lufkin Collection; the Kenneth A. Bernard Papers; and the Maxwell Library Lincoln Collection. Maxwell Library Bridgewater State University 10 Shaw Road / Bridgewater MA 02325 / 508-531-1389 Finding Aid: Lincoln Group of Boston Collection (MSS-008) 4 Box and Folder List Series 1: Correspondence, 1938-1989 (arranged alphabetically) Incoming Correspondence Box 1 Folder 1. Allen, Gardner W., 1938-1942 2. Allison, Guy, 1956-1960 3. Armstrong, C.R., 1955-1958 4. Atkinson, Betty, 1967-1969 5. “A” miscellaneous -Adams, Emma, undated -Allman, L.T., 1939 -Anderson, Frank, 1956 6. Bachrach, Dr. Samuel, 1955-1962 7. Barber, Rev. Laurence, 1951-1964 8. Barton, Agnes, undated 9. Barton, Fred, 1954 10. Barton, Robert, 1938-1955 11. Basler, Roy P., 1951 12. Bates, Mabel, 1978-1989 13. Beecher, Milton, 1951-1967 14. Bennett, Rev. Hiram, 1947-1959 15. Bernard, Kenneth, 1949-1977 16. Bernard, Kenneth, 1979-1984 17. Bollenback, A.W., 1957-1958 18. Booth, Edwin P., 1949-1969 19. Bromsen, Maury A., 1971 20. Brown, Marion E., 1947-1955 21. Bruce, Robert V., 1956-1974 22. Buck, Paul H., 1938-1949 23. Built, Emma E., 1950-1959 Box 2 Folder 1. Bullard, Clara, 1949-1953 2. Bullard, F. Lauriston, 1938-1952 3. Bullock, Chandler, 1938-1958 4. “B” miscellaneous -Betts, Karl, 1959 -Borden, Neil, 1952 -Borit, 1967 -Brigham, Clarence, 1938 -Brown, Helen, 1967 Maxwell Library Bridgewater State University 10 Shaw Road / Bridgewater MA 02325 / 508-531-1389 Finding Aid: Lincoln Group of Boston Collection (MSS-008) 5 -Brown, Jason, 1973 -Brown, Mary Lake, undated -Bubb, Harry D., 1955 -Bundick, George, 1941 5. Callahan, North, 1955 6. Cameron, Kenneth, 1955-1956 7. Chopin, John C., 1965-1966 8. Chopin, Stuart, 1962-1967 9. Cobb, Josephine, 1958, 1974 10. Corneau, Octavia Roberts, 1944-1960 11. Costley, Clara, 1953-1962 12. Cushman, Esther, C., 1938-1939 13. “C” miscellaneous -Case, Harold, 1964 -Cohen, Beryl, 1957 -Colquette, 1963 -Conner, Grace, 1952 -Cramer, J.H., 1946 -Cook, Waldo, 1938 -Crowley, J.A., 1938 -Curtis, Laurence, 1959 14. Dever, Paul A., 1950 15. Dunlap, Lloyd, 1959 16. “D” miscellaneous -Darcy, Mary, 1965 -Drake, Herrick, 1959 -Donald, David, 1950 17. Eames, Ashley, 1963-1964 18. Eckman, Arthur, 1947-1969 19. Ellsworth, Edward, 1960-1961 20. “E” miscellaneous -Egan, Joseph, undated -Ellenwood, Louis, 1958 21. Farnum, George, 1939-1957 22. Fiore, Jordan, 1963-1979 23. Fitzpatrick, Richard, 1956-1968 24. Forbes, Allan and Mary Bowditch, 1938-1958 25. “F” miscellaneous -Farringer, Alice, 1958 -Fowler, A.R., 1963 -Fowler, Robert, 1960 26. Gardiner, Bruce, 1963-1964 27. Gates, Arnold, 1954-1969 28. George Jr., Joseph, 1958-1968 29. Gibson, George, undated 30. Gillis, William, 1964-1983 Maxwell Library Bridgewater State University 10 Shaw Road / Bridgewater MA 02325 / 508-531-1389 Finding Aid: Lincoln Group of Boston Collection (MSS-008) 6 31. Green, Richard D., 1961-1964 32. Greenberg, 1941 33. “G” miscellaneous -Garbowski, Edward, 1966 -Gartland, Arthur, 1963 -Gates, H. Phelps, 1960 -Gerken, C.A., 1954 -Gleason, 1948 -Goldberg, Emanuel, 1960 -Goodman, Nellie, 1961 -Greene, Howard F., 1951 -Greenwood, E.R., 1938 34. Haines, John W., 1947-1966 35. Hale, Ralph and Margaret, 1943-1950 36. Hallen, Rudolph, 1961-1965 37. Hamilton, Leon D., 1957-1958 38. Hartman, L.O., 1938-1944 39. Havlik, Robert, J., 1968 40. Hayden, Arthur Lloyd, 1940-1968 41. Hesseltine, Norman, 1940 Box 3 Folder 1. Hobbs, Lanella, 1962-1963 2. Horan, James D., 1956-1957 3. Hubler, Mary Jane, 1983 4. Huntington, Lester, 1968 5. “H” miscellaneous -Hamlen, Joseph, 1954 -Hansen, Arthur, 1943 -Hall, Isabel, 1951 -Hatch, Francis, 1952 -Hathaway, Christine, 1943 -Hawley, William Pope, 1941 -Hern, Brandon, 1954 -Herrick, Cheesman, 1941 -Holzman, Robert, 1958 -Hooker, Richard, 1940 -Howe, M.A. DeWolfe, 1938 -Hunt, Elmer, 1949 -Heron, Grace, 1983 6. Jacobs, Warren, 1938 7. Jenkins, Herbert F., 1949-1952 8. Jonah, David A. (librarian Brown University), 1950-1962 9. “J” miscellaneous -Jones, M.B., 1939 Maxwell Library Bridgewater State University 10 Shaw Road / Bridgewater MA 02325 / 508-531-1389 Finding Aid: Lincoln Group of Boston Collection (MSS-008) 7 10. Kacen, Norma, 1960 11. Kelly, Lanella, 1965 12. Kattenberg, Burns, undated 13. Kincaid, Robert L., 1952-1957 14. “K” miscellaneous -Kaplan, David, 1961 -Kennedy, John F., 1959 (original moved to Business Records Series) -Kim, K.W. (Donggill), 1954 -Kohner, Carrol, 1967 -Kopf, Carl Heath, 1938 15. Lake, Harry, 1938-1941 16. Larson, Sylvia, 1984, 2000-2004 17. Livingstone, Richard N., 1963 18. Lloyd, Andrew, 1953-1959 19. Lobdell, LeRoy, 1963 20. Lufkin, Richard F., 1948-1963 21. Luke, Myron H., 1955-1958 22. Lydston, Ray, 1953-1962 23. “L” miscellaneous -Lackey, H.W., 1941 -Lattimer, John, 1965 -Lebeaux, Alexander, 1962 -LeBlanc, Edward, 1958 -Lincoln, Preston, 1959 -Lockwood, Caroline, undated -Louttit, W. Easton, 1958 -Luhrs, Henry E., 1939 24. McCarthy, Michael J., 1952-1954 25. McCorison Jr., Joseph L., Ruth, and Lyle, 1938-1968 26. McEwan, David, 1954 27. McMurtry, R. Gerald, 1952-1964 28. Mead, Corinne, 1952-1954 29. Mearns, David C., 1958-1959 30. Meyer, John and Isidore, 1956, 1960 31. Millane, William, 1949 32. Moellering, Margaret, 1955-1958 33. Moiles Jr., William, 1952 34. Monaghan, Jay, 1942, 1951 35. Moody, Robert E., 1951-1958 36. Mook, Telfer, 1960-1963 37. Morgan, James, 1938-1952 38. Myers, John, 1959-1967 39. “M” miscellaneous -McGowan, John, 1960 -McGushin, Herb, 1957 -Magoun, Roger, 1956 Maxwell Library Bridgewater State University 10 Shaw Road / Bridgewater MA 02325 / 508-531-1389 Finding Aid: Lincoln Group of Boston Collection (MSS-008) 8 -Marsh, Eleanor, 1964 -Martin, undated -Meneeley, A. Howard, 1955 -Mitchell, Stewart, 1948 -Munger, Harold, 1952 40. “N” miscellaneous -Nelson, James, undated -Nims, William, 1955 -Nyman, Lloyd, 1960 41. O’Connor, Thomas H., 1959-1965 42. Oedel, Howard, 1954-1967, 1977 43. Olson, Frederick, 1938-1963 44. Olson, Lester, 1954-1955 45. “O” miscellaneous a. O’Brien, Robert Lincoln, 1952 b. Osborn, Charles, 1958 c. Oxnam, G. Bromley, 1952 Box 4 Folder 1. Page, Elwin L., 1947-1955 2. Page, Elwin L., 1956-1970, undated 3. Parker, E. Lawrence, 1955 4. Prosser, Florence Dean, 1957-1963 5. Provine, Robert Calhoun, 1962-1963 6. “P” miscellaneous -Paine, Janet M., 1955 -Palmer, William Lincoln, 1938 -Perry, Lewis, 1947 -Powell, Dr.
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