Correspondence, journals, compositions and other papers of Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward Howe, and materials relating to other Howe family members.

Correspondence, journals, compositions and other papers of Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward Howe and materials relating to other Howe family members.

First part of the collection consists of letters written to Maud Howe Elliott by various correspondents, discussing daily life, literature discussions, and the literary works of the Howe family. Several letters from William Henry Hurlbut written while he was in Europe discuss the details of his life there and the welfare of mutual acquaintances. The second part of the collection consists of an 1863 diary of Julia Ward Howe, recording her expenditures and daily activities, a folder of contemporary translations of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, and a composition by Julia Ward Howe about the Massachusetts governor.

The Howe Family papers and photographs document Walter and Bertha Howe and their relatives, and contain correspondence with family and friends, financial, tax and insurance documents, photographs, photograph albums, and 35 slides. The photographs depict friends and family, including late 19th and early 20th century images of life in Cambria County containing Wilkinson and Cothery family members.

Primarily correspondence of Maud Howe Eliot, Julia Ward Howe, Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, and Rosalind Richards. Correspondents include Hester Alington, Henry Beston, Margaret (Terry) Chanler, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth, Olivia Howard Dunbar, and Annie (Ward) Mailliard. Includes photographs of Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Maud Howe Elliott and others.

Collection documents all three families and Gardiner, Maine. Includes correspondence, compositions, photograph, and notebooks of verse.