(MASSACHUSETTS) Correspondence of historian Charles Deane an

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(MASSACHUSETTS.) Correspondence of historian Charles Deane and family. 149 manuscript items: 78 letters to Charles Deane, 1850-89; 46 to his son Ruthven Deane, 1871-1933; 12 to or from his father-in-law Robert Cassie Waterston, 1843-82; 2 manuscript minute books of the English Lake Land Company of Indiana, 1884-1913; and 11 other items; condition generally strong. (MRS) Vp, 1843-1933

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Charles Deane (1813-1889) was a prominent Boston historian and book collector. Much of his correspondence relates to his research and publication projects. Among his prominent correspondents were John Carter Brown (2 letters, 1850 and 1862), John Russell Bartlett (1866), Eliza Susan Quincy (8 letters, 1860-1878), and Robert Charles Winthrop, Jr. (1879). His son Ruthven Deane (1851-1934) was an ornithologist and collector of Audubon prints; he moved to Chicago in 1880. Among his correspondence is a group of ten letters from engraver Sidney L. Smith, 1919-24, as well as a typescript of a long and apparently unpublished 22 November 1840 Audubon letter. Charles's father-in-law Robert Cassie Waterston (1812-1893) was a Boston clergyman; included are his draft letters to William Ellery Channing and Josiah Quincy.