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Series II: Writings, 1913-1992, undated
Series III: Financial and Real Estate, 1894-1949
Series IV: Personal Documents, Ephemera and Realia, 1692-1995, undated

Plimpton Family papers, 1607-1995, bulk 1892-1980

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Series I: Correspondence, 1848-1994, undated

This series consists of correspondence written to and by the creators for whom the subseries are named. The subseries are arranged in genealogical order; within each subseries, the correspondence is arranged alphabetically.

Subseries I.1: Pearsons, Frances Taylor and Family, 1848-1900

The letters here were written and/or received by the members of the Pearsons family: W.B.C. (William) Pearsons, his wife, Sarah Taylor Pearsons, and their daughter, Frances, the first wife of George Arthur Plimpton.

Included is a love letter written by William to Sarah during their courtship, as well as several letters he sent to her while serving with the Union Army during the Civil War. Also present are letters written by both Pearsons to Frances and her husband, George Arthur Plimpton.

Among Frances's correspondence are letters written to her cousin, and fellow Wellesley College student, Louise Pearsons, during and after her years at Wellesley. Also contained here is correspondence between Louise and other family members, including her parents, around the time of her marriage, in 1892, to George Arthur Plimpton.

Pearsons, Sarah Taylor and Pearsons, W.B.C.


Box 1 Folder 1 Pearsons, D.K. to Pearsons, Sarah, undated

Box 1 Folder 2 Pearsons, Sarah to Plimpton, Frances Taylor Pearsons and Plimpton, George Arthur,, 1892

Box 1 Folder 3 Pearsons, Sarah to Leonard, Katherine, 1905

Box 1 Folder 4 Pearsons, Sarah to Plimpton, Francis T.P., 1905

Box 1 Folder 5 Pearsons, W.B.C. to Putnam, Olive, 1848

Box 1 Folder 6 Pearsons, W.B.C. to Taylor [Pearsons], Sarah, 1855

Box 1 Folder 7 to 9 Pearsons, W.B.C. to Pearsons, Sarah, 1864, (3 Folders)

Box 1 Folder 10 Pearsons, W.B.C. to Plimpton, George Arthur and Plimpton, Frances Taylor Pearsons,, 1897

Plimpton, Frances Taylor Pearsons

Box 1 Folder 11 Macnaughton, Elizabeth and James, 1892

Box 1 Folder 12 Macnaughton, Elizabeth, 1893

Box 1 Folder 13 to 19 Pearsons, Louise, circa, 1880s-1900, (7 Folders)

Box 1 Folder 20 Pearsons, Sarah, 1892 October-1893 February


Box 2 Folder 1 to 2 Pearsons, W.B.C. and Pearsons, Sarah, 1892-1896, (2 Folders)

Subseries I.2: Plimpton, George Arthur, 1892-1941

This subseries contains personal, professional and vocational correspondence of George Arthur Plimpton.

The bulk of the personal correspondence is with Francis T. P. Plimpton, George's son. The professional correspondence comprises letters to and from partners, employees, and aspiring employees of the educational publishing firm, Ginn and Company. Plimpton's interests in collecting portraits and rare books, as well as his engagement in educational institutions, scholarly organizations, foreign relations and philanthropy are represented in this correspondence.

Family and Personal

Box 2 Folder 3 to 4 General, 1892-1941, undated, 1892-1941, undated, (2 Folders)

Box 2 Folder 5 Adams Family 1904-1919 (Bessie M., Carrie Plimpton and Caroline Amelia Plimpton Adams [Mrs. E.A.]), 1904-1919

Box 2 Folder 6 Harper Family, 1915-1927, undated, 1915-1927, undated

(Annie Adams, Edwin A. and Robert A.)

Box 2 Folder 7 Pearsons, W.B.C. and Sarah, 1892

Box 2 Folder 8 Plimpton, Anne, Francis, Calvin and Emily, 1932

Box 2 Folder 9 Plimpton, Elizabeth, 1904-1915

Box 2 Folder 10 Plimpton, Frances Taylor Pearsons, Marriage and Death of, and Plimpton, Francis T. P., Birth and Infancy of,, 1892-1902

Box 2 Folder 11 to 15 Plimpton, Francis T. P., circa 1904-1908, undated, 1904-1908, undated, (5 Folders)

Box 2 Folder 16 to 17 Plimpton, Francis T. P.--Alaska Trip,1910, (2 Folders)


Box 3 Folder 1 Plimpton, Francis T. P.--Alaska Trip--Presentation Copy, 1910

Box 3 Folder 2 to 12 Plimpton, Francis T. P., 1915-1935, (11 Folders)


Box 4 Folder 1 Plimpton, Francis T. P. and Plimpton, Pauline Ames, 1930-1931

Box 4 Folder 2 to 5 Plimpton, John C. and John C., Jr., 1911-1937, (4 Folders)

Box 4 Folder 6 Plimpton, John C. and Plimpton, Carrie--"War letters,", 1914-1921

Box 4 Folder 7 "War letters,", 1915-1918

Professional

Box 4 Folder 8 A, 1911-1913

Box 4 Folder 9 Ayer, Flora H., 1912-1913

Box 4 Folder 10 B, 1912-1913

Box 4 Folder 11 C, 1905-1916

Box 4 Folder 12 D, 1911-1923

Box 4 Folder 13 DeWitt, E.A., 1915-1916

Box 4 Folder 14 E, 1912-1913

Box 4 Folder 15 F, 1912-1915

Box 4 Folder 16 G, 1912-1913

Box 4 Folder 17 to 19 Gosling, Arthur, 1924-1925, (3 Folders)


Box 5 Folder 1 H, 1912-1916

Box 5 Folder 2 Hall, Dana and O. J. Laylander, 1915-1916

(Chicago office)

Box 5 Folder 3 Hill, Charlotte F., 1912-1913

Box 5 Folder 4 to 5 Hilton, H.H., 1915-1916, (2 Folders)

Box 5 Folder 6 Hodgdon, F.C., 1915-1916

Box 5 Folder 7 Hughan, Evelyn West, 1920-1925

Box 5 Folder 8 I-J, 1912-1913

Box 5 Folder 9 K, 1912-1913

Box 5 Folder 10 to 11 Krekel, C. Harry and Edith, 1912-1913, (2 Folders)

Box 5 Folder 12 L, 1913-1916

Box 5 Folder 13 Lawler, Thomas B., 1913-1916

Box 5 Folder 14 M, 1912-1913

Box 5 Folder 15 N, 1912-1920

Box 5 Folder 16 O, 1912-1913

Box 5 Folder 17 P, 1912-1913


Box 6 Folder 1 to 4 Parkhurst, Lewis, 1915-1916, (4 Folders)

Box 6 Folder 5 Partners, 1915

Box 6 Folder 6 R, 1912-1913

Box 6 Folder 7 Robeson, L.B., 1915

Box 6 Folder 8 S, 1912-1915

Box 6 Folder 9 Smith, David Eugene, 1912-1913

Correspondence in this folder has been moved to George A. Plimpton Papers, 1634-1956, Series I: Correspondence and Personal Documents, Subseries 1: Cataloged Correspondence, Smith, David Eugene, 1912-1913 (Box 6 Folder 7)

Box 6 Folder 10 Smith, S.C., 1915-1916

Box 6 Folder 11 T, 1912-1913

Box 6 Folder 12 Thomas, Richard S., 1915-1916

Box 6 Folder 13 to 15 Thurber, Charles H., 1912-1916 (3 of 4 Folders), 1912-1916


Box 7 Folder 1 Thurber, Charles H., 1912-1916 (1of 4 Folders), 1912-1916

Box 7 Folder 2 U-W, 1912-1921

Ginn and Company

Box 7 Folder 3 to 9 1916-1929, (7 Folders)


Box 32 Folder 3 to 7 Financial Reports, 1914-1930, (5 Folders)


Box 7 Folder 10 Gift Account Finances, 1925-1926

Vocational

Book and Portrait Collection

Box 7 Folder 11 General, 1926-1929

Box 7 Folder 12 Book Collection, Cataloguing and Placement of, 1930-1936

Box 7 Folder 13 Education of Shakespeare, 1933

Box 7 Folder 14 to 15 Exhibits, 1903-1933, (2 Folders)

Box 7 Folder 16 to 17 Hospitality, 1902-1933, (2 Folders)


Box 8 Folder 1 to 3 Lectures, 1902-1934, (3 Folders)

Box 8 Folder 4 Martini, Giovanni, 1902-1907

(Joseph)

Box 8 Folder 5 to 6 Portrait Collection, 1905-1936, (2 Folders)

Box 8 Folder 7 Rara Arithmetica, 1921

Educational Institutions and Scholarly Organizations

Box 8 Folder 8 American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1914

Box 8 Folder 9 American Academy of Political Science, 1926

Box 8 Folder 10 American Philological Association, 1922

Box 8 Folder 11 American Political Science Association (Dictionary of American Biography),, 1919

Box 8 Folder 12 Amherst College, 1925

Box 8 Folder 13 Amherst College-- Delta Kappa Epsilon House Library, 1936

Box 8 Folder 14 Barnard College, 1916-1927

Box 8 Folder 15 Bibliographical Society of America, 1906-1921

Box 8 Folder 16 College Board of the Presbyterian Church in the USA, 1908-1913

Box 8 Folder 17 Doshisha University, 1904-1926

Box 8 Folder 18 to 19 Educational Institutions, General, 1912-1928, (2 Folders)

Box 8 Folder 20 Evangelical Seminary of Mexico--Howland, John, 1925-1926


Box 9 Folder 1 Friends of the Library of Columbia University, 1933

Box 9 Folder 2 Mediaeval [sic] Academy of America, 1924-1932

Box 9 Folder 3 to 5 Phillips Exeter Academy, 1903-1928, (3 Folders)

Box 9 Folder 6 Union Theological Seminary, 1915-1916

Foreign Relations

Box 9 Folder 7 to 9 American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, 1913-1934, (3 Folders)

Box 9 Folder 10 to 11 China, 1917-1928, (2 Folders)

Box 9 Folder 12 China--S.Y. Livingston Hu, 1921-1926

Box 9 Folder 13 Japan, 1918-1921

Box 9 Folder 14 Korea--YMCA, 1921-1926

Box 9 Folder 15 Liberia, 1903-1925

Box 9 Folder 16 Near East Relief, 1914-1933 (1 of 7 Folders), 1914-1933


Box 10 Folder 1 to 6 Near East Relief, 1914-1933 (6 of 7 Folders), 1914-1933

Box 10 Folder 7 Philippines--YMCA, 1926

Box 10 Folder 8 Turkey, 1928

Box 10 Folder 9 Wilson, Woodrow, 1913

"Peace"

Box 10 Folder 10 to 12 Church Peace Union, 1918-1922, (3 Folders)

Box 10 Folder 13 Citizens Committee of One Thousand, 1918

Box 10 Folder 14 League to Enforce Peace, 1916-1921

Box 10 Folder 15 World Peace Foundation, 1922-1929

Box 10 Folder 16 Other Peace Organizations, 1921-1929

Subseries I.3: Plimpton, Francis T. P. and Pauline Ames Plimpton, 1906-1994, undated

The bulk of this subseries includes the correspondence between Francis T.P. Plimpton and Pauline Ames Plimpton. When separated, due to professional or family obligations or the occasional solo trip, they corresponded frequently. Other correspondents include their children, parents and the extended Ames, Pearsons and Plimpton families.

Also included here is the correspondence they received regarding "Letters in Training" a privately published compilation of the letters George Plimpton wrote to his parents while he was stationed in Italy (1945-1946). Francis and Pauline distributed "Letters in Training" to their friends and family at Christmas 1946.

Francis's correspondence, somewhat more extensive here than Pauline's, includes correspondence with family, friends and teachers dating from his youth. Pauline's correspondence contains letters regarding her writings about Villa Balbianello, a property on Lake Como, Italy, purchased by her uncle, Butler Ames.

Francis and Pauline


Box 11 Folder 1 to 12 To and From Francis and Pauline, 1932-1971, (12 Folders)

Box 11 Folder 13 Ames Family--General, 1916-1950

Box 11 Folder 14 Ames, Blanche, 1932-1937, 1967, 1932-1937, 1967


Box 12 Folder 1 Davis, Evvie, 1933-1992

(Mrs. John Paschall Davis)

Box 12 Folder 2 Metropolitan Museum of Art

Box 12 Folder 3 Pearsons Family, 1939-1956, undated, 1939-1956, undated

Box 12 Folder 4 Plimpton, Calvin H., 1937-1978

Box 12 Folder 5 Plimpton, Fanny Hastings, 1930-1944

Box 12 Folder 6 Plimpton, Francis Taylor Pearsons, Jr., 1976-1981

Box 12 Folder 7 Plimpton, George Ames, 1942-1970

Box 12 Folder 8 Plimpton, George Ames--Letters in Training--Regarding, 1946-1947

Box 12 Folder 9 to 10 Plimpton, George Arthur, 1909-1935, (2 Folders)

Box 12 Folder 11 Plimpton, Oakes Ames, 1950-1981

Box 12 Folder 12 Plimpton, Sarah, 1958-1979

Box 12 Folder 13 Stevenson, Adlai, 1958-1960

Francis

Box 12 Folder 14 1906-1916 (1 of 2 Folders), 1906-1916


Box 13 Folder 1 1906-1916 (2 of 2 Folders), 1906-1916

Box 13 Folder 2 1921-1948

Box 13 Folder 3 1958-1978

Box 13 Folder 4 Family--General, 1939-1981

Box 13 Folder 5 "Fan Mail,", 1961-1979

Box 13 Folder 6 Reminiscences of, 1945

Box 13 Folder 7 to 9 United Nations Appointment, 1961, (3 Folders)

Pauline


Box 14 Folder 1 1949-1994

Box 14 Folder 2 to 3 Memorial Service for Francis, 1983, (2 Folders)

Box 14 Folder 4 to 5 Villa Balbianello, 1990-1992, (2 Folders)

Portrait Collection-- George Arthur Plimpton's

Box 14 Folder 6 to 7 Correspondence, 1940-1979, (2 Folders)

Box 14 Folder 8 Information Pages, undated

Box 14 Folder 9 Lists, 1926-1956, undated, 1926-1956, undated

Box 14 Folder 10 Purchases, 1929-1932, undated, 1929-1932, undated


Box 52 Folder 1 Photographs--Collection, undated

Box 52 Folder 2 Photographs--From dealers, undated