| Format: |
Mixed Material |
| Electronic resources: |
This collection has been digitized. Click here to access the guide to this collection. |
| Call number(s): |
Ms. N-1977 |
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P-787, 6 reels (microfilm) |
| Creator: |
French, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1837-1904. |
| Title: |
Charles Edward French diaries, 1851-1904. |
| Description: |
5 boxes. |
| Restrictions: |
Use of the originals is restricted. This collection is available as color digital facsimiles. |
| Scope: |
Diaries of broker, hardware merchant, and drug merchant Charles Edward French of Boston, Mass., 1851-1904 (with gaps), include descriptions of family activities; school attendance at the Adams School in East Boston; work at the hardware store of George H. Gray and Company early in his career; his ownership of a hardware store and brokerage firm; work selling drugs, including opium; sexual attractions to others; views on local politics and the Civil War; autograph collecting; his father John French’s interest in preserving public gardens; his own interest in preserving the Boston Common and other public gardens and cemeteries; and the weather. |
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Also includes some cash accounts, 1858-1861, and 1864-1866; reminiscences of his childhood; poetry; and estate papers, 1905-1907. |
| Additional forms available: |
On microfilm, P-787, 6 reels. |
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This collection has been digitized. See the collection guide at http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0543 for access to digital images. |
| Finding aids available: |
Collection guide available at: http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0543 |
| Local notes: |
Formerly cataloged as "C.E. French." |
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See separate description of autograph collection removed to Special Collections. |
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Old shelf number: 33.28. |
| Subject(s): |
Adams School (East Boston, Boston, Mass.) |
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George H. Gray and Company (Boston, Mass.) |
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Account books --1856-1861. |
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Autographs --Massachusetts --Collectors and collecting. |
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Brokers --Diaries. |
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Brokers --Massachusetts --Boston. |
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Cemeteries --Massachusetts --Boston. |
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Decedents’ estates --Massachusetts --Boston. |
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Drugstores --Massachusetts --Boston. |
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Hardware stores --Massachusetts --Boston. |
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Merchants --Diaries. |
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Merchants --Massachusetts --Boston. |
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Opium trade. |
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Parks --Massachusetts --Boston. |
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Poetry. |
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Public Garden (Boston, Mass.) |
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Sexual attraction. |
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Weather. |
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Boston Common (Boston, Mass.) |
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Boston (Mass.) --Politics and government --19th century. |
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Boston (Mass.) --Social life and customs --19th century. |
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United States --History --Civil War, 1861-1865 --Public opinion. |
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Diaries --1851. |
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Diaries --1852. |
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Diaries --1853. |
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Diaries --1854. |
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Diaries --1855. |
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Diaries --1856. |
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Diaries --1857. |
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Diaries --1858. |
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Diaries --1859. |
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Diaries --1860. |
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Diaries --1861. |
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Diaries --1862. |
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Diaries --1863. |
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Diaries --1864. |
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Diaries --1865. |
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Diaries --1866. |
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Diaries --1867. |
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Diaries --1868. |
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Diaries --1869. |
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Diaries --1870. |
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Diaries --1871. |
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Diaries --1872. |
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Diaries --1873. |
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Diaries --1874. |
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Diaries --1875. |
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Diaries --1876. |
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Diaries --1877. |
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Diaries --1878. |
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Diaries --1879. |
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Diaries --1880. |
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Diaries --1881. |
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Diaries --1882. |
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Diaries --1883. |
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Diaries --1884. |
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Diaries --1885. |
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Diaries --1886. |
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Diaries --1887. |
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Diaries --1888. |
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Diaries --1889. |
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Diaries --1890. |
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Diaries --1891. |
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Diaries --1892. |
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Diaries --1893. |
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Diaries --1894. |
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Diaries --1895. |
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Diaries --1896. |
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Diaries --1897. |
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Diaries --1898. |
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Diaries --1899. |
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Diaries --1900. |
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Diaries --1901. |
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Diaries --1902. |
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Diaries --1903. |
| Data: |
130638 |
