Overview
Papers of Robert Grant (Harvard AB 1873), an American novelist and lawyer.
Dates
- Creation: 1809-1940
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.
Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
7 linear feet (18 boxes, 7 volumes)Papers include correspondence, manuscripts, family papers, scrapbooks, and other material. Contains mostly letters to Judge Grant, with a few of his to other people. These deal primarily with his novels, although some touch on other of the more public aspects of his life and some are merely personal letters. Also included in this collection are a number of family papers, especially letters to Judge Grant's father, Patrick Grant (1809-1895) as a young man, from his mother and other relatives.
Biographical / Historical
Robert Grant (1852-1940) was a Boston novelist, whose books were primarily social satire. In addition he was for many years judge of the Probate Court and Court of Insolvency in Boston, and an overseer of Harvard. In 1927 he acted as one of three members of the Sacco-Vanzetti Commission.
Arrangement
Arranged into the following series:
- I. bMS Am 1115: I. Robert Grant correspondence, compositons, and other material
- A. Correspondence, A-Z
- B. Letters from unidentified correspondents
- C. Articles, speeches, etc., by Robert Grant
- D. Miscellaneous
- II. bMS Am 1115.1 - bMS Am 1115.14: II. Robert Grant additional papers
- A. bMS Am 1115.1: Robert Grant scrapbooks
- B. bMS Am 1115.2: The confessions of a frivoulous girl
- C. bMS Am 1115.3: Wise & otherwise or The opinions of a philosopher
- D. bMS Am 1115.4: The bachelor's christmas
- E. bMS Am 1115.5: The art of living
- F. bMS Am 1115.6: Harvard College in the seventies
- G. bMS Am 1115.7: The undercurrent
- H. bMS Am 1115.8: The orchid
- I. bMS Am 1115.9: The law breakers
- J. bMS Am 1115.10: The Chippendales
- K. bMS Am 1115.11: The convictions of a grandfather
- L. bMS Am 1115.12: The high priestess
- M. bMS Am 1115.13: The bishop's grand-daughter
- N. bMS Am 1115.14: Memories of eighty years
Physical Location
b
Immediate Source of Acquisition
bMS Am 1115 and 1115.1: Given in memory of Robert Grant, Harvard Class of 1873, by his sons, Robert Grant Jr., Alexander Galt Grant, and Gordon Grant. ; received: 1940 Jul.22.
bMS Am 1115.2-1115.14: Gift of Robert Grant; received: 1934-1935.
Processing Information
Enhanced with digital content by Alison Harris.
- Title
- Grant, Robert, 1852-1940. Robert Grant papers, 1809-1940: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou00080
Repository Details
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