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Roxbury (Boston, Mass.) -- History

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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Mary Richards letters to her brother Giles Richards

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Call Number: RH MS P802
Overview These two letters of 1836 were written by Mary Richards, aunt of Amos Adams Lawrence, for whom Lawrence, Kansas and Lawrence College (Appleton, Wisconsin) are named. Richards' letters are to her brother Giles Richards, a prominent Ohio pioneer in textile manufacturing. She writes of the Richards family of Roxbury, Massachusetts, describing their mother's declining health and death, their brother George's residency in Paris, activities of their brother-in-law Amos Lawrence and nephew Amos,...
Dates: 1836