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COLLECTION Identifier: MS Am 2361

W. Cameron Forbes collection of family and historical documents

Overview

Forbes family materials and historical documents collected by the American businessman and ambassador W. Cameron Forbes.

Dates

  • Creation: circa 1680-1900

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.

Extent

.5 linear feet (1 box)

This collection is an assortment of Forbes family letters and historical documents collected over the years. Also includes two signed autograph poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Biographical / Historical

Forbes was an American business and government executive. He served as governor-general of the Philippines, 1909-1913, and ambassador to Japan, 1930-1932.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by name.

Physical Location

b

Immediate Source of Acquisition

50M-454-50M-539. Gift of W. Cameron Forbes, Esq., 614 Sears Building, Boston, Massachusetts; received: 1951.

Title
Forbes, W. Cameron (William Cameron), 1870-1959, collector. W. Cameron Forbes collection of family and historical documents, circa 1680-1900: Guide.
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Description rules
dacs
Language of description
und
EAD ID
hou01652

Repository Details

Part of the Houghton Library Repository

Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

Houghton Library’s Reading Room is free and open to all who wish to use the library’s collections.

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