Author Volume Number and date Title Subject
Douglas Adams and Charles Sullivan. VOLUME 43.  1973-1975

Fort Washington, 1775-1975, and Other Cambridge Fortifications. 

 

Oscar F. Allen.

VOLUME 7. 1911-1912 [1913]

 

John Taylor Gilman Nichols, M.D., 1859-1911.
Glover M. Allen.

VOLUME 24. 1936-1937 [1938]

 

William Brewster, 1851-1919. Life and character of the ornithologist.

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Alice C. Allyn.

VOLUME 21. 1930-1931 [1936]

 

A History of Berkeley Street.
Charles Almy. VOLUME 17. 1923-24 [1931]

The History of the Third District Court of Eastern Middlesex.

 

Sarah R. Ames. VOLUME 17. 1923-24 [1931]

The Cambridge Indian Association.

 

Founded 1886. The Indians were not Cambridge Indians.
Oakes I. Ames.

VOLUME 34.  1951-1952 [1954]

 

Mount Auburn’s Sixscore Years.  Contains important contributions to the history of horticulture in Massachusetts.

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James B. Ames.

VOLUME 39. 1961-1963 [1964]

 

The Founding of the Mount Auburn Hospital.  Antecedents, founding, and early years of the Cambridge Hospital, now the Mount Auburn Hospital.
Carolyn Stetson Ames.

VOLUME 44. 1976-1993

 

Radcliffe’s First Century. 
Thomas Coppin Amory.

VOLUME 16. 1922 [1931]

 

The Old Hooper-Lee House.

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Hollis Russell Bailey.

VOLUME 3. 1908 [1908]

 

Gleanings from the Records of the First Church in Cambridge.
Hollis Russell Bailey.

VOLUME 10. 1915 [1917]

 

The Beginning of the First Church in Cambridge. Documentary paper on the Hooker-Shepard period.
Hollis Russell Bailey. VOLUME 17. 1923-24 [1931]

The Beginnings of the First Parish in Cambridge.

 

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Julia Baynard Pickard Bailey.

VOLUME 22. 1932-1933 [1937]

 

The Distaff Side of the Ministerial Succession in the First Parish Church in Cambridge.
Jeanette Palache Barker.

VOLUME 42. 1970-1972 [1978]

 

A School for All Seasons. 
Joseph Gardner Bartlett.

VOLUME 14 1818 [1926]

 

English Homes of the Founders of Cambridge.

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Samuel Francis Batchelder.

VOLUME 5. 1910 [1911]

 

Adventures of John Nutting, Cambridge Loyalist. The life of a master builder who threw in his lot with the British.
Samuel Francis Batchelder.

VOLUME 13. 1918 [1925]

 

Burgoyne and His Officers in Cambridge, 1777-1778. Includes splendid map of Cambridge in 1777. 
Samuel Francis Batchelder.

VOLUME 18. 1925 [1926]

 

The Washington Elm Tradition.
Samuel Francis Batchelder. 

VOLUME 10. 1915 [1917]

 

Colonel Henry Vassal and His Wife Penelope Vassal. Very detailed and most interesting. The Copley portraits, now owned by the Society, had just been purchased from a descendant in Philadelphia. Numerous Illustrations.

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Joseph H. Beale.

VOLUME 21. 1930-1931 [1936]

 

Prescott Evarts. Brief appreciation of the rector of Christ Church.
Joseph Henry Beale.

VOLUME 22. 1932-1933 [1937]

 

The History of Local Government in Cambridge. Comparison of government in 1635 and 1845.
Joseph Henry Beale.

VOLUME 25. 1938-1939 [1939]

 

The Origin of the New England Town. 

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Stroughton Bell.

VOLUME 24. 1936-1937 [1938]

 

Bits of Russian Court Life in the Seventies. Letter by Mr. Bell’s aunt, Louise Stoughton.
Margaret Charlton Black.

VOLUME 10. 1915 [1917]

 

The Longfellow Prize Essay, 1915.
Charles S. Bolster. VOLUME 39. 1961-1963 [1964] Cambridge Court Houses. 

Traces the history of successive courthouses, both in the Harvard Square area and East Cambridge; with an 1811 map of East Cambridge and a mid-nineteenth century view of the court house.

 

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Elizabeth W. Bolster.

VOLUME 40.  1964-1966 [1967]

 

Behind the Scenes at 47 Workshop.  With reminiscences of Thomas Wolfe among others.
Charles Knowles Bolton. VOLUME 6. 1911 [1912]

The Aims of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.

 

Summary of an illustrated address.

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Elizabeth L. Bond. VOLUME 25. 1938-1939 [1939]

The Observatory of Harvard College and Its Early Founders. 

 

Life and work of William Cranch Bond and George Phillips Bond, father and son.
Marie Bowen, Mary Deane Dexter, and Rosalbe Smith Proell.

VOLUME 22. 1932-1933 [1937]

 

Sparks Street. People and houses.
Maria Bowen.

VOLUME 20. 1927, 1928, 1929 [1934]

 

Reminiscences of Follen Street. Houses and gardens from an early date.

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Walter B. Briggs.

VOLUME 16. 1922 [1931]

 

Two letters from John Adams to Rev. Joseh Willard. Getting John Quincy Adams into college.
Walter B. Briggs.

VOLUME 21. 1930-1931 [1936]

 

William Coolidge Lane. Lane’s Career as Harvard College librarian.
Walter B. Briggs. VOLUME 27.  1941 [1942]

Sundry Observations Upon Four Decades of the Harvard College Library. 

 

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John Perkins Brown.

VOLUME 23. 1934-1935 [1937]

 

Christ Church, Cambridge.
Ellen Susan Bulfinch. VOLUME 3. 1908 [1908] The Tudor House at Fresh Pond.

Fascinating account of country life in house built before the Revolution and long owned by the Storer family.

 

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Bainbridge Bunting. VOLUME 43.  1973-1975

Brattle Street: A Resume of American Residential Architecture, 1673-1973. 

 

Henry J. Cadbury.

VOLUME 24. 1936-1937 [1938]

 

Early Quakers in Cambridge. Rough treatment given to traveling Quakers in the 1600’s.
Joseph W. Chamberlain and Charles W. Eliot 2nd. VOLUME 43.  1973-1975

Historic Books and Resource Materials for “Slide-show on Cambridge History.” 

 

Joseph Chamberlain. VOLUME 43.  1973-1975 [1980]

The First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 1633-1636: Some Events in Its Life. 

 

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Philip Putnam Chase.

VOLUME 20. 1927, 1928, 1929 [1934]

 

Some Cambridge Reformers of the Eighties. Especially good on William E. Russell and the Cleveland campaign, 1884.
Leslie Linwood Cleveland. VOLUME 19. 1926 [1927]

Cambridge History in the Cambridge Schools.

 

Rosamond Coolidge.

VOLUME 32.  1946-1948 [1949]

 

The History of Coolidge Hill.  Extremely interesting account of a corner of Cambridge that remained rural almost to the present.
Julian Lowell Coolidge.

VOLUME 34.  1951-1952 [1954]

 

Lawrence Lowell, President.  Lowell’s contribution to strengthening the college.

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Fanny Elizabeth Corne.

VOLUME 23. 1934-1935 [1937]

 

Mary Isabella Gozzaldi. A brief account of her life.
Edward A. Crane. VOLUME 44. 1976-1987

Observations on Cambridge City Government under Plan E. 

 

F. Stuart Crawford.

VOLUME 37.  1957-1958 [1959]

 

The George G. Wright Collection. 

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Mrs. Samuel McChord Crothers.

VOLUME 31.  1945 [1948]

 

Reminiscences of Cambridge.  Delightful picture of people and life about 1900.
Samuel McCord Crothers.

VOLUME 12. 1917 [1925]

 

Archibald Murray Howe.
Katharine F. Crothers.

VOLUME 33.  1949-1950 [1953]

 

The Early Life of Samuel McChord Crothers. 
Esther Lanman Cushman.

VOLUME 42. 1970-1972 [1978]

 

Where the Old Professors Lived. 

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Includes remarks  Richard Henry Dana, William Roscoe Thayer, and Charles Eliot Norton and the prize essay  John Kirtland Wright.

 

VOLUME 3. 1908 [1908] First Award of the Longfellow Centenary Medal Prize.
Richard Henry Dana.

VOLUME 3. 1908 [1908]

 

Francis Dana.
Elizabeth Ellery Dana.

VOLUME 5. 1910 [1911]

 

Lieutenant James Dana at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Mrs. Richard Henry Dana.

VOLUME 9. 1914 [1915]

 

The Female Humane Society. The Society was ancestor of the Cambridge Associated Charities. Extracts from the records.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana.

VOLUME 25. 1938-1939 [1939]

 

Chronicles of the Craigie House: The Coming of Longfellow. Longfellow’s early days in the house, 1837-1841.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana.

VOLUME 26. 1940 [1941]

 

The Dana Saga.  The family and its houses, 1640-1940.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana.

VOLUME 27.  1941 [1942]

 

Craigie Exhibition.  Comments on portraits, letters, silver.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana.

VOLUME 28.  1942 [1943]

 

Longfellow and Dickens. 
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana.

VOLUME 29.  1943 [1948]

 

Allston in Cambridgeport, 1830 to 1843. 
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana.

VOLUME 29.  1943 [1948]

 

Allston at Harvard, 1796 to 1800. 
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana.

VOLUME 33.  1949-1950 [1953]

 

The Dana-Palmer House.  Extended account of those who lived in the house which now stands in front of the Harvard Faculty Club on Quincy Street.

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John F. Davis.

VOLUME 41. 1967-1969 [1970]

 

The Life Story of Cambridge Water.  Cambridge waterworks and water distribution, past and present.
Andrew McFarland Davis.

VOLUME 3. 1908 [1908]

 

The Writings of Thomas Shepard.
Cecil Thayer Derry.

VOLUME 35.  1953-1954 [1955]

 

Pages from the History of the Cambridge High and Latin School.  Its ascent from Elijah Corlett, first schoolmaster in the 1640’s.
Brenton H. Dickson.

VOLUME 40.  1964-1966 [1967]

 

The Middlesex Canal.  The rise and fall of the canal era, with information on other New England canals as well.

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Francis Cooper-Marshal Donovan.

VOLUME 36. 1955-1956 [1957]

 

The Y.W.C.A. in Cambridge. 
David C. Dow, M.D.

VOLUME 42. 1970-1972 [1978]

 

Biographical Sketch of Thomas Shepard. 
George Francis Dow.

VOLUME 20. 1927, 1928, 1929 [1934]

 

The Value of Ancient Houses to a Community. Summary of an illustrated address.
Sterling Dow.

VOLUME 44. 1976-1981

 

Life in the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House: The Emerson and Dow Years. 

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Laura Howland Dudley.

VOLUME 30.  1944 [1945]

 

Thomas Dudley, Founder of Cambridge.  A carefully prepared biographical account of Dudley.
Tilden G. Edelstein.

VOLUME 37.  1957-1958 [1959]

 

Thomas Wentworth Higginson: His Ante-Bellum Years. 
Henry Herbert Edes.

VOLUME 10. 1915 [1917]

 

Note on the Deacon’s Books of the First Church.

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Charles William Eliot, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, David Williams Cheever, Edward Waldo Emerson, and Samuel McCord Crothers.

 

VOLUME 4. 1909 [1909]

 

Celebration of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Centenary.
Charles W. Eliot 2nd. 

VOLUME 39. 1961-1963 [1964]

 

The Charles River Basin. Various aspects of the Charles River, with an historical map.
Charles W. Eliot 2nd.

VOLUME 42. 1970-1972 [1978]

 

A 125th Anniversary: From Village, Town, City, to ?. 
Charles W. Eliot 2nd.

VOLUME 43.  1973-1975 [1980]

 

Around the Top of The Hill: Houses and Neighbors. 
Charles William Eliot, Percy Mackaye (poem), and Bliss Perry. VOLUME 14 1818 [1926]

Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of James Russell Lowell.

 

Charles William Eliot. VOLUME 12. 1917 [1925]

Personal Recollections of Dr. Morrill Wyman, Professor Dunbar, Professor Sophocles, and Professor Shaler.

 

A paper not to be missed for it flavor of Cambridge in the mid-century.
Charles William Eliot.

VOLUME 17. 1923-24 [1931]

 

Shady Hill and Its Owners.

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Frederick Haven Eliot. VOLUME 27.  1941 [1942] The Craigies. 

By a descendant.  Contains the “cellar-stair letters” relating to Andrew Craigie’s unacknowledged daughter.

 

Frances H. Eliot.

VOLUME 32.  1946-1948 [1949]

 

The Romance of Street Names in Cambridge. 

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Samuel Atkins Eliot.

VOLUME 23. 1934-1935 [1937]

 

Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Samuel Atkins Eliot.

VOLUME 25. 1938-1939 [1939]

 

“Information, Please!”  Questions on Cambridge history.
Samuel Atkins Eliot.

VOLUME 25. 1938-1939 [1939]

 

The Preservation of Historic Houses. 
Samuel Atkins Eliot.

VOLUME 26. 1940 [1941]

 

Some Cambridge Pundits and Pedagogues. 
Samuel Atkins Eliot.

VOLUME 28.  1942 [1943]

 

All Aboard the “Natwyethum.”  Nathaniel Wyeth’s overland expedition to Oregon in the 1830’s.

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Samuel A. Eliot.

VOLUME 32.  1946-1948 [1949]

 

A Significant Cambridge Anniversary.  Remarks on the Cambridge Synod of 1648.
Samuel A. Eliot.

VOLUME 32.  1946-1948 [1949]

 

Some Musical Memories of Cambridge. 
Thomas H. Eliot.

VOLUME 45.  1980-1985. (Essays On Cambridge History)

 

George H. Browne of Browne & Nichols. 

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Oliver Elton.

VOLUME 21. 1930-1931 [1936]

 

Thomas Oliver. Summary of a longer paper.
Ephram Emerton.

VOLUME 20. 1927, 1928, 1929 [1934]

 

Recollections of Sixty Years in Cambridge.
Sarah McKean Folsom Enebuske.

VOLUME 25. 1938-1939 [1939]

 

Charles Folsom and the McKeans.  Literary circles in the 1850’s and 1860’s.

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Percy H. Epler.

VOLUME 14 1818 [1926]

 

Elias Howe, Jr., Inventor of the Sewing Machine. Thoroughly fascinating.
Prescott Evarts.

VOLUME 16. 1922 [1931]

 

On a Certain Deplorable Tendency. About Sabbath non-observance.
Richard C. Evarts.

VOLUME 39. 1961-1963 [1964]

 

Colonel Richardson and the Thirty-Eighth Massachusetts.  Volunteers in the Civil War.
Richard C. Evarts.

VOLUME 41. 1967-1969 [1970]

 

The Class of 1903.  Reminiscences of the Peabody Grammar School at the turn of the century, including classmate Conrad Aiken.

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Lillian Horsford Farlow.

VOLUME 18. 1925 [1926]

 

Quincy Street in the Fifties. Invaluable, detailed account of houses and gardens.
Robert A. Feer.

VOLUME 40.  1964-1966 [1967)

The Devil and Daniel Shays. 
Eunice Farley Felton. VOLUME 14 1818 [1926] Mrs. Alexander and her Daughter Francesca.

Life in Florence of two interesting people, granddaughter and great-granddaughter of William Gray.

 

Eunice W. F. Felton.

VOLUME 21. 1930-1931 [1936]

 

President Cornelius Conway Felton. Brief notice by his daughter-in-law.

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Mrs. Oliver  Fenn.

VOLUME 43.  1973-1975 [1980]

 

The Story of the Window Shop. 
Dan Huntington Fenn.

VOLUME 44. 1976-1979

 

Let Us Remember: A Cambridge Boyhood. 
 Margaret Henderson Floyd

VOLUME 45.  1980-1985. (Essays On Cambridge History)

 

Harvard Architecture: Integration Through Innovation at the Edges. 

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Henry Wilder Foote.

VOLUME 36. 1955-1956 [1957]

 

The Harvard Divinity School as I Have Known It. 
Edward Waldo Forbes.

VOLUME 35.  1953-1954 [1955]

 

The Agassiz School.  The famous school for girls conducted by Professor and Mrs. Agassiz in their Quincy Street house.  Letters by Ellen Emerson and others.
Edward W. Forbes.

VOLUME 27.  1941 [1942]

 

The Beginnings of the Art Department and of the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard. 
Elliot Forbes.

VOLUME 41. 1967-1969 [1970]

 

The Musical Scene at Harvard.  A lively historical summary, complemented by observations from the author’s own experience.
Harriette M. Forbes.

VOLUME 11. 1916 [1920]

 

Early Cambridge Diaries. Valuable list of early diaries. Many are described as “Unpublished” or “privately owned.” Ownership in the latter case is not indicated, but a brief statement for the nature of the contents is given in all cases.

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Worthington Chauncey Ford.

VOLUME 5. 1910 [1911]

 

Certain Defects in the Publications of Historical Societies. The proper objectives of a local historical society.
Alden S. Foss.

VOLUME 40.  1964-1966 [1967]

 

Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company: Eighty-Four Years in Cambridge.  With interesting sidelights on bicycle racing and the Broad Canal.
Margery S. Foster.

VOLUME 38.  1959-1960 [1961]

 

The Cost of a Harvard Education in the Puritan Period.  Based on the College Stewards’ records; gives many interesting sidelights on early student life.

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Frances Fowler.

VOLUME 23. 1934-1935 [1937]

 

Kirkland Place.
Frank Foxcroft.

VOLUME 13. 1918 [1925]

 

No-License in Cambridge. By a prohibitionist. 
Esther Stevens Fraser.

VOLUME 20. 1927, 1928, 1929 [1934]

 

The John Hicks House. An account of the reconstruction of the house carried out by the author.
Esther Stevens Fraser.

VOLUME 21. 1930-1931 [1936]

 

Painted Decoration in Colonial Homes. Treats both painted furniture and painted walls, stenciling, landscaping, and floral decoration. Eleven plates.

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Edith Davenport Fuller.

VOLUME 11. 1916 [1920]

 

Diary of Timothy Fuller, Jr., and Undergraduate in Harvard College, 1798-1801. “Miss Orne, Sam’s sister is very pretty and well-bred,” etc.
Wendell D. Garrett.

VOLUME 39. 1961-1963 [1964]

 

The Topographical Development of Cambridge, 1793-1896.  The transformation from a village, then three villages, to a solidly built up city, with illustrations and an Embankment company plan.
Wendell D. Garrett.

VOLUME 40.  1964-1966 [1967]

 

The Discovery of the Charles River by the Vikings According to the Book of Horsford.  A review of Professor Horsford’s scientific career as well as his theories concerning Leif Ericson and Norumbega.

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Mrs. Florence Russell Gerould.

VOLUME 31.  1945 [1948]

 

Historical Sketch of the First Church in Cambridge (Unitarian).
Dr. G Edmund Gifford, Jr.

VOLUME 43.  1973-1975 [1980]

 

The Medical Botany of the New England Area: 1782-1842. 

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Roger Gilman.

VOLUME 26. 1940 [1941]

 

Victorian Houses in Old Cambridge.  Styles from Greek Revival to late Richardson, illustrated by sixteen photographs.
Roger Gilman.

VOLUME 28.  1942 [1943]

 

The Wyeth Background.  Cambridge enterprise: the ice business and migration west.
Roger Gilman.

VOLUME 31.  1945 [1948]

 

Windmill Lane to Ash Street.  Valuable for architectural notes on Ash Street houses.

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Peter J. Gomes.

VOLUME 44. 1976-1991

 

Jared Sparks and His House. 
William Watson Goodwin.

VOLUME 2. 1906-1907  [1907]

 

Cornelius Conway Felton.
Warner Foote Gookin.

VOLUME 7. 1911-1912 [1913]

 

Major-General Daniel Gookin. Gookin was the Indian Commissioner in Massachusetts in the 1660’s and 1670’s.

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Mary Isabella Gozzaldi. VOLUME 8. 1913 [1914] Merchants of Old Cambridge in the Early Days.

Fascinating backgrounds of Harvard Square and the firms doing business there: Kent’s Bookstore, Frank P. Merrill Company, Worcester Brothers, and many others, and their predecessors from the earliest days.

 

Mary Isabella Gozzaldi.

VOLUME 9. 1914 [1915]

 

Letters to Mrs. William Jenks, 1806-1813. Good pictures of the first decade of the century.
Mary Isabella Gozzaldi.

VOLUME 15. 1920-1921 [1931]

 

Elmwood and its Owners.
Mary Isabella Gozzaldi.

VOLUME 15. 1920-1921 [1931]

 

Joseph Foster and Shay’s Rebellion. Foster was an early owner of the Riedesel house.
Mary Isabella Gozzaldi.

VOLUME 15. 1920-1921 [1931]

 

Roger Harlakenden. The original owner (d. 1638) of the property at the corner of Bond and Garden Streets occupied by Professor Munn’s House.
Mary Isabella Gozzaldi.

VOLUME 16. 1922 [1931]

 

The Hooper-Lee-Nichols House. Brief account of the home of the Society.
Mary Isabella Gozzaldi.

VOLUME 17. 1923-24 [1931]

 

Susanna Willard.
Mary Isabella Gozzaldi.

VOLUME 17. 1923-24 [1931]

 

The Ruggles-Fayerweather House.
Mary Isabella Gozzaldi.

VOLUME 19. 1926 [1927]

 

Lieutenant George Inman. Inman was an American who joined the British army. Extracts from Journals.
Mary Isabella Gozzaldi.

VOLUME 20. 1927, 1928, 1929 [1934]

 

The Bates-Dana House. Owners of the house that stood on the corner of Brattle Street and Church Street.
Mary Isabella Gozzaldi.

VOLUME 3. 1908 [1908]

 

The Seal of the Society. Chiefly an account of Joseph Glover, whose press appears on the seal of the Society.

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Mary Isabella Gozzaldi.

VOLUME 6. 1911 [1912]

 

A Few Old Cambridge Houses. Particularly interesting for listing of old houses which once stood between Harvard Square and the Charles river.
Mary Isabella Gozzaldi.

VOLUME 13. 1918 [1925]

 

Gerry’s Landing and Its Neighborhood. Principal families from the earliest times: Saltonstall, Vassall, Oliver, Coolidge, Thatcher, Gerry, Stone, White, Forbes, Webster.
Mary Isabella Gozzaldi, Elizabeth Ellery Dana, and David Pittinger.

VOLUME 21. 1930-1931 [1936]

 

The Vassal House. The owners and the house fully treated.
Mary Isabella Gozzaldi.

VOLUME 23. 1934-1935 [1937]

 

Extracts from the Reminicences of Isabella Batchelder James. Life in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s. Fascinating. Separate section on James Russell Lowell by Mrs. James. 
Mrs. Isabella Gozzaldi.

VOLUME 31.  1945 [1948]

 

A Child in a New England Colonial Garden.  The Vassal House garden.

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Anne A. Grady.

VOLUME 45.  1980-1985. (Essays On Cambridge History)

 

The Hooper-Lee-Nichols House: An Architectural History. 
Jeanette E. Graustein.

VOLUME 38.  1959-1960 [1961]

 

Natural History at Harvard College, 1788-1842.  Natural sciences at Harvard in the days of Waterhouse, Peck, and Nuttall.
Roland Gray.

VOLUME 14 1818 [1926]

 

The William Gray House in Cambridge. About Mrs. Henry D. Tudor’s house. William Gray was Mrs. Tudor’s great-grandfather.

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Jerome D. Greene.

VOLUME 33.  1949-1950 [1953]

 

Charles William Eliot: Anecdotal Reminisces.  Especially the early years of Mr. Greene’s association with Eliot as secretary to the president.
Harding U. Greene.

VOLUME 42. 1970-1972 [1978]

 

The History of the Utilities in Cambridge. 
Ludlow Griscom.

VOLUME 35.  1953-1954 [1955]

 

Early History of Cambridge Ornithology. 

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Albert Harrison Hall.

VOLUME 8. 1913 [1914]

 

Thomas Wellington “of Cambridge,” His Ancestors and Some of His Descendants. Includes an interesting map of early landholdings in Watertown, once part of Cambridge. Much genealogy.
Albert Harrison Hall.

VOLUME 21. 1930-1931 [1936]

 

How Massachusetts Grew, 1630-1642. The changing boundaries of the first towns. Thirteen maps.
Edward Henry Hall.

VOLUME 6. 1911 [1912]

 

The Cambridge Humane Society.
Edwin Herbert Hall.

VOLUME 18. 1925 [1926]

 

Historical sketch of Charitable Societies in Cambridge.

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Max Hall.

VOLUME 44. 1976-1985

 

Cambridge as Printer and Publisher: Fame, Oblivion, and Fame Again. 
Richard W. Hall.

VOLUME 38.  1959-1960 [1961]

 

Recollections of the Cambridge Social Dramatic Club.   With a list of plays performed by seasons, 1890-1950.  Also discusses the earlier Cambridge Dramatic Club.
Charles Lane Hanson.

VOLUME 34.  1951-1952 [1954]

 

Four Years at Harvard College, 1888-1892.  Recalls Professors Cooke, Shaler, Child, Hill, Royce, and others

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John A. Harrer.

VOLUME 38.  1959-1960 [1961]

 

The Reverend Jose Glover and the Beginnings of the Cambridge Press.  The printing of the Cambridge Platform of Church Discipline, 1649, with an account of the nine known copies and illustrations showing the four slightly differing states.
Lewis Morey Hastings.

VOLUME 14 1818 [1926]

 

The Streets of Cambridge, Their Origin and History.

By the City Engineer, from old records. Begins with records of the laying out of main roads; contains also a substantial list of dates for later streets and origins of their names. Section on “Early Maps and map-makers.” Reproduction of an 1830 map.

 

Lewis M. Hastings.    VOLUME 7. 1911-1912 [1913]

An Historical Account of Some Bridges over the Charles River.

 

Doris Hayes-Cavanaugh.

VOLUME 19. 1926 [1927]

 

Early Glass Making in East Cambridge. An excellent account of this important industry.

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Dorothy Henderson.

VOLUME 12. 1917 [1925]

 

Longfellow Prize Essay for 1917.
Erastus H. Hewitt.

VOLUME 40.  1964-1966 [1967]

 

Robert Frost of Brewster Village.  An interesting view of the poet by a Brewster Street neighbor.
Thomas Higginson, Wentworth and Others.

VOLUME 1  1905-1906 [1906]

 

Celebration of the Two Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of Cambridge.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

VOLUME 2. 1906-1907  [1907]

 

Cambridge Eighty Years Since. Letters of Higginson’s mother to his brother (1827-1828).
Harley P. Holden.

VOLUME 42. 1970-1972 [1978]

 

The Harvard University Archives: A Source of Cambridge History. 

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John Albert Holmes.

VOLUME 5. 1910 [1911]

 

The Ancient Fish Weir on the Menotomy River.
Archibald Murray Howe.

VOLUME 6. 1911 [1912]

 

The State Arsenal and the identification of the Cannon on Cambridge Common. The arsenal stood on the site of the Hotel Continental in Arsenal Square.
Archibald Murray Howe.

VOLUME 9. 1914 [1915]

 

A Letter from Thomas Hollis. Written to Edmund Quincy, Jr., of Boston by an English benefactor of Harvard, October 1, 1766.
Lois Lilley Howe and Francis Greenwood Peabody.

VOLUME 28.  1942 [1943]

 

The Centenary of the Cambridge Book Club. 
Lois Lilley Howe, Marion Jessie Dunham, Mrs. Robert Goodale, Mary B. Smith, and Edith Sloan Griscom.

VOLUME 35.  1953-1954 [1955]

 

The Cambridge Plant Club. 
Lois Lilley Howe and Mrs. Edward S. King

VOLUME 31.  1945 [1948]

 

The Story of a Lost Brook.  Topography of the Craigie-Berkeley-Street neighborhood.

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Lois Lilley Howe.

VOLUME 24. 1936-1937 [1938]

 

How Cambridge People Used to Travel. Vivid letters of the 1830s and 1840s chiefly by Harriet Spelman Howe. Coach, rain, canal boat, and ocean sailing ship.
Lois Lilley Howe.

VOLUME 25. 1938-1939 [1939]

 

55 Garden Street.  One of the Garden Street houses now occupied by Radcliffe College.
Lois Lilley Howe.

VOLUME 25. 1938-1939 [1939]

 

Dr. Estes Howe: A Citizen of Cambridge.  One of the most interesting papers in the whole series.  The life of Miss Howe’s father touched many aspects of Cambridge life from the 1830s to the 1880s.
Lois Lilley Howe.

VOLUME 30.  1944 [1945]

 

Autobiography of Edward Sherman Dodge.  Lively reminiscences of the 1860’s.
Lois Lilley Howe.

VOLUME 30.  1944 [1945]

 

Harvard Square in the ‘Seventies and ‘Eighties.  A real gem both for its lively style and its fund of information on the buildings and businesses of Harvard Square.  Illustrations, and magnificent map by Miss Howe.

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Lois Lilley Howe.

VOLUME 32.  1946-1948 [1949]

 

Maria Denny Fay’s Letters from England, 1851-1852.  Maria Fay, daughter of Judge Samuel Fay of Fay House, was visiting her brother, then living at Moore Park in England.
Lois Lilley Howe.

VOLUME 33.  1949-1950 [1953]

 

The History of Garden Street.  Most interesting survey, house by house.
Lois Lilley Howe.

VOLUME 33.  1949-1950 [1953]

 

Cambridge Trees.  A record of fine specimens in the Brattle Street neighborhood.  Illustrated.
Lois Lilley Howe.

VOLUME 34.  1951-1952 [1954]

 

Memories of Nineteenth-Century Cambridge.  Picture of life on Kirkland Street in the 1870’s and 1880’s.
Louis Lilley Howe.

VOLUME 34.  1951-1952 [1954]

 

A Tribute to Samuel Atkins Eliot. 
Lois Lilley Howe.

VOLUME 38.  1959-1960 [1961]

 

Bremer Whidden Pond. 

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Rosamond Coolidge Howe.

VOLUME 39. 1961-1963 [1964]

 

The First Cambridge Historical Commission.  Early history of the Cambridge Historical Commission.
William Dean Howells and others.

VOLUME 2. 1906-1907  [1907]

 

Celebration of the Longfellow Centenary.
Richard R. John.

VOLUME 45.  1980-1985. (Essays On Cambridge History)

 

Eben Norton Horsford, The Northmen, and the Founding of Massachusetts. 
Burdette A. Johnson.

VOLUME 45.  1980-1985. (Essays On Cambridge History)

 

The Cambridge YMCA: 100 Years of Service. 

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Lewis Jerome Johnson. VOLUME 6. 1911 [1912]

The History and Meaning of the Proposed New Charter for Cambridge.

 

Arguments for preferential voting.
Arthur Krim.

VOLUME 45.  1980-1985. (Essays On Cambridge History)

 

The Suburban Architecture of Dana Hill. 
Benjamin W. Labaree.

VOLUME 39. 1961-1963 [1964]

 

The Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution.  Background and affects of the incident.
Southworth Lancaster.

VOLUME 36. 1955-1956 [1957]

 

Fire in Cambridge.  Firefighting from the earliest times.

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William Coolidge Lane.

VOLUME 2. 1906-1907  [1907]

 

Nehemiah Walter’s Elegy on Elijah Corlet. Brief account of Cambridge’s first schoolmaster (d. 1687). The elegy reprinted here is by Corlet’s assistant.
William Coolidge Lane.

VOLUME 4. 1909 [1909]

 

Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse and Harvard University.
William Coolidge Lane. VOLUME 7. 1911-1912 [1913] The Building of Holworthy Hall. The construction of a dormitory north and east of the older buildings is hailed as  looking “far into the future.”

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Paul J. Lewis.

VOLUME 43.  1973-1975 [1980]

 

The Historical Development of Cambridge Common. 
Rupert Ballou Lillie.

VOLUME 26. 1940 [1941]

 

The Gardens and Houses of the Loyalists. 
Blanche Linden-Ward. VOLUME 44. 1976-1997

Putting the Past in Place: The Making of Mount Auburn Cemetery. 

 

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Zelda Lions and Gordon W. Allport.

VOLUME 40.  1964-1966 [1967]

 

Seventy-Five Years of Continuing Education: The Prospect Union Association.  The contributions to adult education of both the original Prospect Union, which conducted actual classes, and the later Educational Exchange, which offers a referral service.
G. Burton Long.

VOLUME 42. 1970-1972 [1978]

 

The Romance of Brick. 
Robert W. Lovett.

VOLUME 38.  1959-1960 [1961]

 

The Harvard Branch Railroad, 1849-1855.  Thorough account of this short-lived enterprise, with a map and a reproduction of a contemporary advertisement.

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A. Lawrence Lowell and others.

VOLUME 2. 1906-1907  [1907]

 

Celebration of the Agassiz Cemetary.
William M. Macnair.

VOLUME 20. 1927, 1928, 1929 [1934]

 

One Hundred Years of Church Life. An account of the Prospect Congregational Church.
George A. Macomber.

VOLUME 41. 1967-1969 [1970]

 

Rambling Notes on the Cambridge Trust Company; or Tales of a Wayside Bank.  History with anecdotes.

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Mary Hume Maguire.

VOLUME 36. 1955-1956 [1957]

 

The Curtain-Raiser to the Founding of Radcliffe College.  Courses for women offered under Harvard auspices before the founding of Radcliffe.
Ralph May.

VOLUME 39. 1961-1963 [1964]

 

The Cambridge Boat Club.  Also covers the earlier casino.

Samuel W. McCall, Lucia Ames Mead, Samuel McChord Crothers, and Bliss Perry.

 

VOLUME 7. 1911-1912 [1913] Thomas Wentworth Higginson Memorial.

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Charles John McIntire. VOLUME 6. 1911 [1912] Why I Started the Index to Paige’s History of Cambridge.

“I commenced the index for my own personal use and comfort … as its proportions grew… more time was devoted to it, depriving me of necessary rest and exercise.”

 

Alexander Mckenzie. VOLUME 3. 1908 [1908] Some Cambridge Men I Have Known.

Among others: President Walker, Dr. Andrew Peabody, Professors Felton, Sophocles, Bowen, Child, Agassiz, and Lowell, Asa Gray, and Charles William Eliot.

 

Eileen G. Meany.

VOLUME 38.  1959-1960 [1961]

 

The Avon Home.  The operation of an actual home for children from 1874 to 1913, and a social agency since.

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Mrs. James Lowell Moore.

VOLUME 25. 1938-1939 [1939]

 

The Fayerweather House.  Mrs. Moore’s family owned the house from 1827 to 1907.  A vivid account.
Arthur B. Nichols

VOLUME 28.  1942 [1943]

 

Thomas Fuller and His Descendants.  Thomas Fuller died in 1698.  His great-great-great granddaughter was Margaret Fuller.
Albert P. Norris.

VOLUME 22. 1932-1933 [1937]

 

Cambridge Land Holdings Traced from the Proprieters’ Records of 1635. Account of land holdings up into the eighteenth century. Two very detailed maps.

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Charles Eliot Norton

VOLUME 1  1905-1906 [1906]

 

Reminiscences of Old Cambridge. Changes between 1830 and 1905. Especially interesting on the Kirkland Street Region.
Penelope Barker Noyes.

VOLUME 41. 1967-1969 [1970]

 

From Lover’s Lane to Sparks Street.  Reminiscences of her neighborhood and early years, by Justin Winsor’s granddaughter.
Thomas Francis O’malley. VOLUME 17. 1923-24 [1931]

Gallows Hill, the Ancient Place of Execution.

 

Executions near Linnaean Street up to 1817.
Thomas Francis O’Malley.

VOLUME 20. 1927, 1928, 1929 [1934]

 

Old North Cambridge. Much about old hotels and taverns in and above Porter Square.

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Mary Towle Palmer.

VOLUME 17. 1923-24 [1931]

 

The Story of the Bee. The sewing circle started in 1861.
Foster M. Palmer.

VOLUME 39. 1961-1963 [1964]

 

Horse Car, Trolley, and Subway.  Street railways and rapid transit in Cambridge, with an 1862 map. [A view of around 1900 is mislabeled 1890.]
Bryan Patterson.

VOLUME 43.  1973-1975 [1980]

 

Louis Agassiz and the Founding of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.

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William L. Payson.

VOLUME 37.  1957-1958 [1959]

 

Notes on Some Tory Row Land Titles. 
W. Rodman Peabody.

VOLUME 22. 1932-1933 [1937]

 

The Browne and Nichols School.
Franklin Perrin.

VOLUME 2. 1906-1907  [1907]

 

The Washington Home Guard. A volunteer company organized for local protection when other military companies left Cambridge during the Civil War.

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Bliss Perry, Moorfield Storey and Joseph Hodges Choate. VOLUME 10. 1915 [1917]

Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Richard Henry Dana.

 

Norman Pettit.

VOLUME 40.  1964-1966 [1967]

 

Lydia’s Conversion: An Issue in Hooker’s Departure.  The theological background of an historical event.
James Duncan Phillips.

VOLUME 19. 1926 [1927]

 

The Riverside Press.
Elizabeth B. Piper.

VOLUME 32.  1946-1948 [1949]

 

Memories of the Berkeley Street School.  This famous girls’ school was founded in 1862 by Mr. Lyman Richards Williston.
Lucy Kingsley Porter.

VOLUME 33.  1949-1950 [1953]

 

The Owners of Elmwood. 

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David T. Pottinger.

VOLUME 22. 1932-1933 [1937]

 

John Burgoyne: Politician, Dandy, and Man of Letters.
David T. Pottinger.

VOLUME 22. 1932-1933 [1937]

 

Old Cambridge.
David T. Pottinger.

VOLUME 23. 1934-1935 [1937]

 

Thirty-Eight Quincy Street. The house designed by Henry Greenough which stood on the corner of Broadway.
David T. Pottinger.

VOLUME 33.  1949-1950 [1953]

 

Eldon Revere James. 
David T. Pottinger.

VOLUME 33.  1949-1950 [1953]

 

Maude Batchelder Vosburgh. 
David T. Pottinger.

VOLUME 35.  1953-1954 [1955]

 

I, Too, in Arcadia.  Delightful recollections of student days at Harvard.

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David B. Potts.

VOLUME 40.  1964-1966 [1967]

 

A Historical Perspective.  Further discussion of the Prospect Union.
Roscoe Pound.

VOLUME 7. 1911-1912 [1913]

 

The Place of Judge Story in the Making of American Law.
Willard Reed.

VOLUME 29.  1943 [1948]

 

An Excommunication in Harvard Square.  Deacon Hillard’s wife was excommunicated in 1809.
Elizabeth W. C. Reinhardt

VOLUME 43.  1973-1975 [1980]

 

Lois Lilley Howe, Fellow, American Institute of Architects. 

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Robert Bell Rettig.

VOLUME 42. 1970-1972 [1978]

 

Cambridge Historical Commission: Progress and Prospects. 
Irma Adelaide Rich.

VOLUME 15. 1920-1921 [1931]

 

Some Vital Errors in the Cambridge Vital Statistics. Deaths recorded on Cambridge grave stones are not necessarily those of births and deaths occurring in Cambridge.
Harold B. Richmond.

VOLUME 34.  1951-1952 [1954]

 

Cambridge, a Pioneer Home of Electronics.  John Stone, pioneer in radio manufacture, and followers in electronics.

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G. Frederick Robinson.

VOLUME 24. 1936-1937 [1938]

 

How the First Parish in Cambridge Got a new Meeting-House. A Cambridge-Watertown dispute in the 1750’s.
Patricia Rodgers.

VOLUME 45.  1980-1985. (Essays On Cambridge History)

 

A View Through the Lens: Photography and Cambridge, 1844-1906. 
Patricia H. Rodgers. VOLUME 44. 1976-1995

Lakeview Avenue: Early History, Architecture, and Residents. 

 

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M. David Samson.

VOLUME 45.  1980-1985. (Essays On Cambridge History)

 

H.H. Richardson in Cambridge. 
Henry Hallam Saunderson.

VOLUME 32.  1946-1948 [1949]

 

Cambridge, the Focal Point of Puritan Life.  The Puritans as builders for the future.
Laura Dudley Saunderson.

VOLUME 35.  1953-1954 [1955]

 

Forty Years in the Fogg Museum.  Mrs. Saunderson joined the Fogg Museum in 1897, two years after its founding and retired only in 1939.
Laura Dudley Saunderson.

VOLUME 38.  1959-1960 [1961]

 

The Evolution of Cambridge Heights.  Reminiscences and an account of the building up of the area above Linnaean Street.

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Stephen Paschall Sharples.

VOLUME 2. 1906-1907  [1907]

 

Nathanial Jarvis Wyeth. Wyeth was an energetic Cambridge character, inventor of ice-cutting machinery and a pioneer in the Oregon Territory.
Stephen Paschall Sharples.

VOLUME 4. 1909 [1909]

 

The Lawrence Scientific School.
O. Robert Simha.

VOLUME 42. 1970-1972 [1978]

 

MIT in Cambridge, 1911-1970. 
Barbara Miller Solomon.

VOLUME 45.  1980-1985. (Essays On Cambridge History)

 

A Pioneer in Women’s Education: From Moorhead, Minnesota, to Cambridge, Massachusetts, With Ada Louise Comstock.  

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Sophi Shuttleworth Sompson. VOLUME 16. 1922 [1931] Two Hundred Years Ago.

Complete reprinting of a children’s Christmas and birthday book originally published in 1859. Essentially a short history of Cambridge. Notes by Thomas Francin O’Malley.

 

Eliot B. Spalding.

VOLUME 36. 1955-1956 [1957]

 

The Founder and Three Editors of the Cambridge Chronicle. 
A. Warren Stearns.  

VOLUME 9. 1914 [1915]

 

Cambridge Grants and Families in Billerica 1641-1655. Detailed account of landholdings.

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Chauncey DePew Steele, Jr.

VOLUME 37.  1957-1958 [1959]

 

A History of Inns and Hotels in Cambridge. 
Edmund H. Stevens.

VOLUME 20. 1927, 1928, 1929 [1934]

 

Cambridge Physicians I Have Known. Physicians practicing in 1871.
William E. Stone.

VOLUME 7. 1911-1912 [1913]

 

A Petition of Dr. Daniel Stone. Stone was a “chirurgeon” who lived at the corner of Dunster and Mount Auburn Streets until 1657. His geneology.

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Charles M. Sullivan.

VOLUME 45.  1980-1985. (Essays On Cambridge History)

 

Remembrance: Charles W. Eliot 2nd. 
Robert Sullivan.

VOLUME 41. 1967-1969 [1970]

 

The Murder Trial of Dr. Webster, Boston 1850. 

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Arthur E. Sutherland.

VOLUME 41. 1967-1969 [1970]

 

The Harvard Law School’s Oldest Houses.  College House No. 2, Dane Hall, Austin Hall, and Gannett House, with much general history of the Law School and an aside on and hitherto unpublished daguerreotype of Henry Hobson Richardson.
Arthur Eugene Sutherland.

VOLUME 37.  1957-1958 [1959]

 

David Thomas Pottinger. 
Arthur Eugene Sutherland.

VOLUME 37.  1957-1958 [1959]

 

A House and Three Centuries.  This is the fullest account available of the home of the Society, the Lee-Nichols House, 159 Brattle Street, and of the families who have lived in it.

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Charles L. Taylor.

VOLUME 36. 1955-1956 [1957]

 

The Story of the Episcopal Theological School. 
Helen Ingersoll Tetlow.

VOLUME 34.  1951-1952 [1954]

 

From a Dana Hill Widow.  The life of Henry Francis Harrington, Pastor of the Lee Street Church, 1854-1864.
William Roscoe Thayer. VOLUME 4. 1909 [1909] Journal of Benjamin Waterhouse.  

Excellent articles about an original, testy, and thoroughly engaging character who stimulated the study of natural history at Harvard.

 

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Priscilla Gough Treat.

VOLUME 41. 1967-1969 [1970]

 

College Redbooks and the Changing Social Mores.  Sixty years of change at Radcliffe, as reflected in Redbooks.
Maude B. Vosburgh.

VOLUME 30.  1944 [1945]

 

The Disloyalty of Dr. Benjamin Church, Jr.  Church was Surgeon General and in Cambridge when his disloyalty was discovered in 1775. 
Edward Wagenknecht. 

VOLUME 45.  1980-1985. (Essays On Cambridge History)

 

Longfellow in Perspective. 

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Henry Pickering Walcott.

VOLUME 16. 1922 [1931]

 

Some Cambridge Physicians. Includes an account of the founding of the Cambridge Hospital.
Robert Walcott.

VOLUME 32.  1946-1948 [1949]

 

A Tribute to Frank Gaylord Cook. 
Robert Walcott.

VOLUME 33.  1949-1950 [1953]

 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana. 

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G. B. Warden.

VOLUME 44. 1976-1983

 

Newtowne, 1630-1636. 
Norman Hill White, Jr.

VOLUME 15. 1920-1921 [1931]

 

Printing in Cambridge since 1800.
Charles F. Whiting.

VOLUME 33.  1949-1950 [1953]

 

Historical Associations of Charlestown and Cambridge. 

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Charles F. Whiting. VOLUME 41. 1967-1969 [1970]

Francis Avenue and the Norton Estate: The Development of a Community. 

 

Catharine Kerlin Wilder.

VOLUME 37.  1957-1958 [1959]

 

Artemas Ward and the Siege of Boston. 
Catharine K. Wilder.

VOLUME 41. 1967-1969 [1970]

 

Eighty-Five Aromatic Years in Harvard Square.  A history of Leavitt & Peirce, tobacconists and Harvard rendezvous.

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John Willard,  Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Woodward Emory. VOLUME 1  1905-1906 [1906] Reminiscences of John Bartlett.

Appreciative account of John Bartlett, proprietor of a famous bookstore, compiler of Familiar Quotations, editor of Shakespearian Concordance.*Also contains full reports of the first year’s meetings, interesting for their account of the purposes of the Society, the distinguished membership, gifts and other information.

 

Susanna Willard. VOLUME 11. 1916 [1920]

Letters of the Reverend Joseph Willard, President of Harvard, and of Some of His Children, 1794-1830.

 

Travel, academic doings, and family life in the first quarter of the 1800’s.
Albert B. Wolfe.

VOLUME 43.  1973-1975 [1980]

 

Cambridge 1774-1779—Inspiration for 1974-1979. 

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John W. Wood.

VOLUME 34.  1951-1952 [1954]

 

Frederick Hastings Rindge.  Donor of the Manual Training School, the Cambridge Public Library, the City Hall.  Rindge’s family history is extraordinary.
John W. Wood.

VOLUME 35.  1953-1954 [1955]

 

Cambridgeport: a Brief History. 
John W. Wood.

VOLUME 36. 1955-1956 [1957]

 

Some Aspects of the East Cambridge Story.  Among other topics, the story of the glass industry in Cambridge.
Jay Backus Woodworth. VOLUME 17. 1923-24 [1931]

The Origin and Nature of the Old Gravestones of the Cambridge Burial Yard.

 

Where the stones were quarried.
Edwin B. Worthen.

VOLUME 25. 1938-1939 [1939]

 

Cooperation between Schools and Local Historical Societies. 

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George Grier Wright.

VOLUME 13. 1918 [1925]

 

The Schools of Cambridge, 1800-1870.
George Grier Wright.

VOLUME 15. 1920-1921 [1931]

 

Gleanings from Early Cambridge Directories. Old firms, ancestors of later ones, and their locations. Harvard Branch Railroad.
George Grier Wright.

VOLUME 20. 1927, 1928, 1929 [1934]

 

Early Cambridge Newspapers. A carefully documented account.

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Elizabeth Woodman Wright.

VOLUME 44. 1976-1989

 

Recollections of the First Parish in 1905-1906. 
William J. Young. VOLUME 39. 1961-1963 [1964]

The History and Restoration of the Wallpaper in the Emerson House in Cambridge. 

 

With illustrations of the “Bay of Naples” wallpaper.
Hiller B. Zobel.

VOLUME 40.  1964-1966 [1967]

 

Jonathan Sewall: A Lawyer in Conflict.  The Boston Massacre and various slavery cases.

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VOLUME 9. 1914 [1915]

 

The Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association. An account of its activities as suggestive of aims of local historical societies.
Assorted VOLUME 12. 1917 [1925]

Class Day, Commencement, and Phi Beta Kappa Day, 1829.

 

Programs and a Newspaper Abstract.
Assorted

VOLUME 1  1905-1906 [1906]

 

Report on Historic Sites. A list of the most important Historic Sites in Cambridge, with the location of each. It also contains all the existing inscriptions
Assorted VOLUME 3. 1908 [1908] Second Report on Historic Sites.

Correction of errors and omissions in the First Report. Includes map of Harvard Yard, showing original ownership of the lots now included in it.

 

Assorted

VOLUME 5. 1910 [1911]

 

Report on the Committee on Early Settlers’ Descendants. List of fourteen members who had filed their genealogy with the Society.