French Family Papers Inventory

Box 8:

French, Achsah – Letters sent to son Elvin French, 1844-1851

French, Achsah – Letters received, 1846-1851

Sarah E. Andrew

Louisa M. Kimball

Gardner T. Barker

French, Benjamin and Achsah – Letters received, 1849-1851

William Grover (cousin)

French, Benjamin – Letters sent to son Elvin French, 1849

French, Benjamin – Letters received, 1846-1853

Hulda D. Pike (sister)

Thomas Spofford

H. Holyoke

French, Benjamin – Business papers, 1831-1877

French, Elvin – Letters sent to daughter Gertrude French, 1880-1907

French, Elvin – Letters sent to wife Ida French, 1873

French, Elvin – Letters sent to father Benjamin French, 1858-1863

Photo of French’s dog “Tiff”

French, Elvin – Letters received from James H. Cummings, 1853

French, Elvin – Letters received from Hannah Holyoke, ca. 1845-1863

French, Harry (Elvin) – Letters received on minstrel tour, 1869-1871

French, Elvin – Letters received, 1841-1873

J. N. Towne

Hulda D. Pike (aunt)

W. Alonzo Owens

W. P. Spaulding

Alpheus J. Pike (cousin) – see Box 26 “Pike, Alpheus J.”

French, Elvin – Account Books, 1891-1901, 1894-1904

Box 9: 

French, Elvin – Diary, 1843-1844

French, Elvin – Minstrel scrapbook, c. 1869-1870

Box 10: 

French, Gertrude – Letters sent to mother Ida French, 1895-1901

French, Gertrude – Letters sent to Sarah Peabody (and others), 1906-1911, ND

French, Gertrude – Letters received from Par Ayers, 1922-1925

French, Gertrude – Letters received from Stephen Bixby, 1932-1936

French, Gertrude – Letters received from Sarah Brown, 1917

French, Gertrude – Letters received, 1899-1941

French, Gertrude – Diaries, 1901 and 1933

French, Gertrude – Concert tour record books, 1908-1925 

Box 11:

French, Gertrude – Scrapbook 

French, Gertrude – Notebook, 1933-1941, 1917-1927 

French, Ida – Letters sent to daughter Gertrude French, 1903-1936

French, Ida – Letters received, 1907-1937

French, Ida – Diaries, 1909-1925

French papers – Boxford tax bills, 1907-1929

French papers – Legal and financial

Holyoke Deeds:

Solomon Wood on  to Elizur Holyoke, October 31, 1765

Stephen and Hannah Gould to Elizur Holyoke, February 15,1792

Land agreement between Henry Perley and Samuel Holyoke, December 4, 1806

French papers – Nudd letters, 1862-1891

Nudd genealogy

French papers – Miscellany 

Box 39: 

French, Elvin – Greeting cards received

French, Elvin – Diary (1 page), 1897

French, Elvin – Professional – Lists of companies he was in & instruments he played

French, Elvin – Professional – Havana, Cuba Tour, 1861

French, Elvin – Professional – Business cards

French, Elvin – Professional – Programs

French, Elvin – Professional – Tickets

French, Elvin – Professional – Accounts of Sales, 1869-1870

French, Elvin – Professional – Mannings Minstrels – Route / Account Book

French, Elvin – Professional – Mannings Minstrels – Brochure, c. 1870

French, Elvin – Professional – Mannings Minstrels – Announcement

French, Elvin – Professional – Clippings

French, Elvin – Professional – Hotel menus, 1858-1860

French, Elvin – Professional – Miscellaneous

French, Elvin – Miscellaneous – Lowell

French, Elvin – Miscellaneous – Copies of papers

French, Elvin and Ida – Wedding anniversary clipping

French, Elvin – Holyoke-French house clipping

French, Gertrude – Correspondence concerning land in Los Angeles, 1931-1941

French, Gertrude – Greeting cards received

French, Gertrude – Postcards sent to mother Ida French

French, Gertrude – Postcards received

French, Gertrude – Legal and financial papers

French, Gertrude – Professional – Boston Ladies Symphony Orchestra

French, Gertrude – Professional – Fadette Woman’s Orchestra

French, Gertrude – Professional – Programs / Broadsidees, 1900 and undated

French, Gertrude – Address book

French, Gertrude – Birthday book

French, Gertrude – Notebook – Notes on Holyoke family

French, Gertrude – Notebook

Box 40:

French, Gertrude – Clippings – Magazine articles

French, Gertrude – Clippings about antiques

French, Gertrude – Miscellaneous memorabilia

French, Gertrude – Clippings about trees (includes photographs)

French, Gertrude – Miscellaneous antiques

French, Gertrude – Miscellaneous material on the blind, including Braille samples

French, Gertrude – Miscellaneous – Syrian Protestant College

French, Gertrude – Miscellaneous

French, Gertrude – Monogram stamp

French, Ida and Gertrude – Letters received from the Sawyer family, 1934 and undated

French, Ida and Gertrude – Greeting cards received

French, Ida – Greeting cards received

French, Ida – Medical papers

French, Ida – Diary, 1871

French, Ida – Miscellaneous memorabilia – calling cards and poetry by Boxford authors

Box 41:

French Family – Genealogical information – Dorman, Nudd, French, Gould (Jacob Gould)

French Family – Miscellaneous clippings about dogs and cats

French Family – Miscellaneous memorabilia

French Family – Miscellaneous – Pressed flowers

French Family – Miscellaneous

Fiske, James

Nudd Family – Clippings

Nudd Family – Miscellaneous 

Pike Family – Miscellaneous; 1854 Graduation Exercises for Thetford Academy