Series 1. Correspondence
45 boxes
Series 1 consists of personal letters, notes, and cards written by/to members of the Howe, DeWolf, and Fulton families, dating from 1870 to 1970. Letters are arranged in alphabetical order according to the recipients's last name. The series also includes business/professional letters.
| Boxes 1-2 |
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Correspondence to Herbert M. Howe
Contents Note: Box 2 contains letters primarily from Andrew Lynch about the running of Ferrycliffe Farm.
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undated |
| Box 3 |
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Correspondence to Johnn Howe
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undated |
| Box 4 |
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Correspondence to Mary Wilson Fell Howe
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undated |
| Boxes 5-11 |
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Correspondence to Edith Howe
Contents Note: Includes 3 boxes of letters from Richard High Carlton.
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undated |
| Box 12 |
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Correspondence to Halsey DeWolf
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undated |
| Box 13 |
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Correspondence to Edith and Halsey DeWolf
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undated |
| Boxes 14-23 |
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Correspondence to Mary Howe
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1899-1946 |
| Boxes 24-25 |
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Correspondence to Mary Howe and Marshall Fulton
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1940-1974 |
| Box 26 |
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Correspondence to Marshall N. Fulton from Frank T. Fulton (uncle)
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1899-1960 |
| Box 27 |
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Correspondence to Marshall N. Fulton from Jessie N. Fulton (mother)
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1899-1940 |
| Boxes 28-29 |
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Correspondence to Marshall N. Fulton from Mary Howe DeWolf Fulton
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1899-1940 |
| Box 30 |
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Correspondence to Marshall N. Fulton from W. J. Fulton, Sr. (father) and W. J. Fulton, Jr. (brother)
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1899-1942 |
| Boxes 31-32 |
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Correspondence to Marshall N. Fulton
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1899-1972 |
| Box 33 |
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Family Postcards
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undated |
| Boxes 34-39 |
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Correspondence to Frank T. Fulton
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1889-1961 |
| Box 40 |
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Correspondence to William Jewett Fulton, Jr.
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1944-1947 |
| Box 41 |
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Correspondence to Jessie Fisher Fulton
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1920-1931 |
| Box 42 |
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Correspondence to Harriet J. T. Fulton
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undated |
| Box 43 |
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Correspondence to C. M. Fisher
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undated |
| Box 44 |
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Correspondence to/from various Fultons
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undated |
| Box 45 |
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Correspondence to Lewis Herreshoff from the Howe children
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undated |
Series 2. Photographs and Scrapbooks
Includes albums, scrapbooks, and loose photos, negatives and slides, cabinet cards, cased photos, and postcards.
| Boxes 51-53 |
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Herbert M. Howe: Photographs
Contents Note: Three photo albums with pictures of Herbert's family and Ferrycliffe Farm
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ca. 1885-1895 |
| Box 54 |
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Mary Wilson Fell Howe: Photographs
Contents Note: Photo album with famliy portraits of Mary's parents and siblings and other relations.
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undated |
| Box 55 |
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Edith Howe: Photographs
Contents Note: Photo album with pictures of Edith's trip to Europe (Sparin, Italy, and France) and Elkhorn Ranch and Yellowstone in the United States.
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undated |
| Box 56 |
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Edith Howe: Scrapbook
Contents Note: Edith's "memory book" from Miss Porter's School, Farmington, Connecticut.
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1896 |
| Box 57 |
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DeWolf Family: Newsclipping Collection
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1800s |
| Boxes 58 |
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Halsey DeWolf: Photographs
Contents Note: Photo albums with pictures of various trips Hal took between 1901 and 1913, including a trip to the southwestern United States (1911).
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1905-1913 |
| Box 59 |
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Halsey DeWolf: Photographs
Contents Note: Two photo albums:: "Sail Fishing, Florida" (1927) and "After the Hurricane, 1938" Providence and The Ledge, Bristol"
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1927, 1938 |
| Box 60 |
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Mary Howe DeWolf: Postcards of Italy
Contents Note: Mary Howe DeWolf spent her junior year (Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania) in Germany.The album contains postcards she collected of sites in Italy.
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1936-1937 |
| Boxes 61 |
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Fulton Family: Photographs
Contents Note: Photo album and other loose photos, likely of Marshall Fultons's family in Iowa.
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undated |
| Box 62 |
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Marshall N. Fulton: Photographs
Contents Note: Three photo albums with pictures of Marshall's travels to Europe and one album of postcards sent to Marshall and his brother, ca. 1900-1910.
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ca. 1900-1909, ca. 1930 |
| Box 63 |
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Marshall N. Fulton: Scrapbooks
Contents Note: Two scrapbooks from Marshall's years as an undergraduate at Brown University, Rhode Island.
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1916-1920 |
| Box 64 |
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Marshall N. Fulton: Photographs
Contents Note: Two photograph albums with pictures from Marshall's two years as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford.
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1920-1922 |
| Box 65 |
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Marshall N. Fulton: Scrapbooks
Contents Note: Two scrapbooks with concert programs.
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1928-1941 |
| Boxes 66-67 |
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Marshall N. and Mary Howe Fulton: Scrapbooks
Contents Note: Two scrapbooks of newsclippings and letters from family friends about Marshall and Mary Howe's upcoming wedding. Some letters are addressed to Halsey DeWolf. Also includes snapshots of the wedding and their honeymoon.
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1940 |
| Box 68a |
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Halsey DeWolf: Scrapbook
Contents Note: "His Book" with letters, photographs, school work, writings,etc.
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undated |
| Box 68b |
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Marshal N. Fulton: Scrapbook
Contents Note: "His Book" with letters, photographs, school work, writings,etc.
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undated |
| Box 68c |
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Mary Howe DeWolf Fulton: Scrapbook
Contents Note: "Her Book" with letters, photographs, school work, writings,etc.
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undated |
| Box 69 |
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Howe, DeWolf, and Fulton Families: Photographs
Contents Note: Loose photos of Herbert's family in Philadelphia and Bristol.
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1880-1980 |
| Box 70 |
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Agnes DeWolf: Photographs
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undated |
| Box 71 |
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Howe Family: Photographs
Contents Note: Photo album labeled "Cruise of the Yacht".
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undated |
| Box 72 |
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Edith Howe: Photographs
Contents Note: Photo almbum of the family trip on the Yachy "May," taken by Edith.
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undated |
| Boxes 73-74 |
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Halsey DeWolf: Photographs
Contents Note: Loose photos of Hal's birthday parties.
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1945-1957 |
| Boxes 75 |
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Marshall N. Fulton: Photographs
Contents Note: Loose photographs of Marshall and his family; also includes postcards of Bristol, RI
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undated |
| Box 76 |
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Marshall N. and Mary Howe Fulton: Photographs
Contents Note: Photo album of their wedding in Bristol, Rhode Island.
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1940 |
Series 3. Writings
Series 3 includes schoolwork, diaries and journals, stories, essays and verses.
| Box 81 |
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Edith Howe DeWolf: Diaries
Contents Note:
- Train trip to Florida, March 1893
- Start of steamship trip to Europe June 1900 (not bound)
- "A Line a Day" Book (5 year calendar) with infrequent entries for 1906, 1911, and 1929
- Trip with Hal, Wallis, and Dr. Locke to England and France, August -October 1910; includes postcards
- Trip to Munich, Jan. 22-Mar 20,1937 while Mary Howe is doing her Junior Year Abroad; beginning entries in Edith’s hand; some later entries in Mary Howe’s hand
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1893-1937 |
| Box 82 |
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Halsey DeWolf: Travel Diaries
Contents Note:
- “Visit to Trinidad,” Jan. 17-July 10. 1887
- “Journal of a Walking Trip” (unbound), June 24-July 5, 1890, and “Walking Trip in Holland and Devonshire,” July 6-August 8, 1890.
- "Bicycle Trip In England," August 10 - September 13, 1890
- “Motor trip with the Dyers Normandy, Normandy, Bretony, Touraize” July 6-Aug. 24, 1911
- Miscellaneous train trips from Providence (on loose pages), beginning with “Trip to Illinois,” 1943 and continuing to recount other train trips from 1943-194
- “Visit to Trinidad,” 1950
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18871950 |
| Box 83 |
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Agnes DeWolf: Travel Diaries and Copybooks
Contents Note:
- Dresden, Saxony [January 1893]
- “Dresden, Pension, Simone,” January 1894
- Copybook, undated
- "Christmas, 1918"
- “An Old Maid’s Book of Remembrance,” ca. 1905
- “Jokes etc. etc.,” 1905
- "Copybook with newspaper clippings, 1912
- Letter from Margaret Tyndall, regarding travel, undated
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1893-1912 |
| Box 84 |
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Marshall N. Fulton: Diaries and Calendars
Contents Note:
- “My trip with Uncle Frank to Providence," June 4-July 23, 1914
- Daily Diaries for 1915 and 1916
- "A Line a Day" Book (5 year calendar) - only 1917 is complete
- Handbook of Brown University (2), 1916-1917, 1917-1918
- Handbook of Bates College, 1918-1919
- Calendar, 1920 ( with intermittent entries and appointments)
- Oxford University Pocket Diaries, 1920-1921 and 1921-1922
- Diary (5 year), with entries for only 2 years, 1936 and 1937
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1914-1937 |
| Box 85 |
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Frank T. Fulton: Diaries
Contents Note:
- Summer 1905: includes time aboard S.S. Devonian from July 7-Augst 6; two copies - one handwritten and one typed; (separated into 3 folders, with return cruise on S.S. Republic brochure)
- Cruise aboard S.S. Adriatic from New York to England August 1909, with brochure; and S.S. Franconia, July 16, 1912 (neither appear to cover the entire trip
- Account of medical/patient appointments, August 1906
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18871950 |
| Box 86 |
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At School
Contents Note:
- William J. Fulton: Monmouth College Journal (1874)
- Frank T. Fulton: Illinois Industrial University, 1884
- Frank T. Fulton: Knox College, 1891-1894
- Frank T. Fulton: Johns Hopkins, 1896-1898, lectures notes, admission notice, and commencement invitation
- Edith DeWolf Howe: Copybook, 1889
- Edith DeWolf Howe: Agnes Irwin School, 1890-1894: Report Books
- Edith DeWolf Howe: Assignments (in notebook), 1894, some with teacher comments
- Edith DeWolf Howe: “Dictation, c. 1895
- Mary Howe DeWolf Fulton: Junior Year Abroad (Bryn Mawr), 1936-1937
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1874-1837 |
| Box 87 |
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At School
Contents Note:
- Marshalll N. Fulton: Keokuk High School, “Notebook” (undated)
- Marshalll N. Fulton: Keokuk High School, Debate Paper, 1915
- Marshalll N. Fulton: Keokuk High School, Programs, Commencement song (written by Marshall), etc.
- Marshalll N. Fulton: Keokuk High School, Yearbook, 1916
- Marshalll N. Fulton: Brown University, Kindergarten Book [c. 1918]
- Marshalll N. Fulton: Brown University. Programs, etc.
- Marshalll N. Fulton: Brown University, Yearbook
- Marshalll N. Fulton: Oxford University, Rhode Scholar Re-Unions, 1929 and 1947
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1915-1918 |
| Box 91 |
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DeWolfs and Howes:Writings
Contents Note:
- Copybook, undated and unsigned
- Guests book, 1926-1941
- Agnes DeWolf, poems and verses, 1937
- Jack and Helen DeWolf, "A Lullaby," undated
- James A. DeWolf, two books of verses, undated
- John Winthrop DeWolf, "Poems," 1855-1882
- Halsey DeWolf Howe, "Descendants of John Howe," 1976
- Herbert Marhsall Howe, Journal (farm happenings), 1880
- Wallis E. Howe, "DeAmore et Amicitia" [Of Love and Friendship], 2 volumess, one undated and a revised 1942 edition
- Wallis E. Howe, The ABC of Know Howe," 1947
- Wallis E. Howe, verses about Wallis by other Howes, 1948-1961
- Wallis E. Howe, verses, 1954
- Verses by other family members
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1855-1976 |
| Box 92 |
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Frank T. Fulton: Writings
Contents Note:
- "Heart Station," drafts
- “"Heart Station," published copies, 1955 (3)
- “Autobiography,” notes and vacations/trips
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c. 1955 |
| Box 93 |
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Marshall N. Fulton and family: Writings
Contents Note:
- Harriet Jewett Fulton, "Recollections of My Early Life"
- Laura Fulton, "Reminiscences"
- Marshall Fulton, Speeches/Talks, 1936-1950
- Marshall Fulton, verses and recollections
- William J. Fulton, Sr., copybooks, essays, receipts, etc.
- William J. Fulton, Sr., "Recollections of 50 Years, 1858-1908"
- Unsigned
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1859-1950 |
| Box 94 |
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Bishop Mark Anthony DeWolf Howe: Writings
Contents Note:
- Autograph Album, 1883-1887
- "A Brief Sketch of A Long Life," printed by E.W.H. (his wife, Eliza) after his death, 1897
- "Reminiscences"
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1880-1887 |
| Box 95 |
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Halsey DeWolf: Writings
Contents Note:
- "Story of a New York Life," undated
- Verses, 1896-1963
- Speeches and Talks, 1889-1957
- “Story of the Total Solar Eclipse," 1925
- "Recollections of The Society Doctor," c. 1957
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1855-1976 |
Series 4. Legal and Financial Papers
Series 4 includes indentures, wills, inventories, as well as invoices and receipts.
Series 6. Ferrycliffe Farm Records
