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    <title>Grosvenor family papers, 1827-1981 (bulk 1872-1964)</title>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, subject material, financial papers, printed matter, and personal miscellany of various members of the Grosvenor family, principally of Amherst and Millbury, Mass., and Washington, D.C.</abstract>
  <abstract>The bulk of the papers relate to Gilbert H. and Elsie M. Grosvenor's personal and family life in Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Md., and Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada; his association with the National Geographic Society and the National Geographic Magazine; her community work including marches for women's suffrage and a Washington, D.C., drive for pure milk; their family ties with the Alexander Graham Bell and Taft families; their travels; and their associations with the Clarke School for the Deaf, the Volta Bureau, the George Washington University, and Amherst College.  Also included are papers of Gilbert Grosvenor's parents, Edwin A. and Lilian Waters Grosvenor, relating to family matters, Edwin's work in medieval and Byzantine studies at Amherst College, and their travels in Europe and the Middle East.  Other family members represented include Edwin Prescott Grosvenor, Melville Bell Grosvenor, and Lilian Waters Grosvenor's parents, Asa H. and Elizabeth Waters.</abstract>
  <abstract>Prominent individuals represented by correspondence or other material include Herbert Baxter Adams, William Jennings Bryan, Alexander Graham Bell, Viscount James Bryce, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Joseph Conrad, George Constantine, Calvin Coolidge, Samuel Sullivan Cox, Wilcox Darwin, Amelia Earhart, Dwight D. Eisenhower, David Fairchild, Marian Fairchild, George W. Goethals, A.W. Greely, Abram S. Hewitt, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Henry Holt, Herbert Hoover, Julia Ward Howe, Helen Keller, Sinclair Lewis, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Charles A. Lindbergh, George C. Marshall, Alexander Meiklejohn, Fridtjof Nansen, Florence Nightingale, Chester W. Nimitz, Robert E. Peary, W.M. Flinders Petrie, Auguste Piccard, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernest H. Shackleton, Helen Herron Taft, William H. Taft, Ida M. Tarbell, Lowell Thomas, Delia C. Torrey, Lew Wallace. Susan E. Wallace, Woodrow Wilson, and Wilbur Wright.</abstract>
  <abstract>Part II of the Grosvenor family papers contains correspondence of David and Marian Fairchild, material relating to the purchase and development of the Grosvenor family estate in Florida and to the development of the museum at Alexander Graham Bell's estate at Beinn Bhreagh, near Baddeck, Nova Scotia.  Also includes material documenting Gilbert Grosvenor's conflict with National Geographic editor John Henry Hyde over the direction of the magazine.  Correspondents include Oscar P. Austin and John Oliver La Gorce.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.</note>
  <note>Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division's Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Adams, Herbert Baxter</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1850-1901</namePart>
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      <namePart>Austin, Oscar P. (Oscar Phelps)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1848?-1933</namePart>
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      <namePart>Bell, Alexander Graham</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1847-1922</namePart>
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      <namePart>Bryan, William Jennings</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1860-1925</namePart>
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      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Viscount</namePart>
      <namePart>Bryce, James Bryce</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1838-1922</namePart>
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      <namePart>Byrd, Richard Evelyn</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-1957</namePart>
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      <namePart>Conrad, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1924</namePart>
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      <namePart>Constantine, George</namePart>
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      <namePart>Coolidge, Calvin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1872-1933</namePart>
    </name>
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      <namePart>Cox, Samuel Sullivan</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1824-1889</namePart>
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      <namePart>Darwin, Wilcox</namePart>
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      <namePart>Earhart, Amelia</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1897-1937</namePart>
    </name>
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      <namePart>Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1969</namePart>
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      <namePart>Fairchild, David</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1869-1954</namePart>
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      <namePart>Fairchild, Marian</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1880-1962</namePart>
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      <namePart>Goethals, George W. (George Washington)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1858-1928</namePart>
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      <namePart>Greely, A. W. (Adolphus Washington)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1844-1935</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hewitt, Abram S. (Abram Stevens)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1903</namePart>
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      <namePart>Holmes, Oliver Wendell</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1841-1935</namePart>
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      <namePart>Holt, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1840-1926</namePart>
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      <namePart>Hoover, Herbert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1964</namePart>
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      <namePart>Howe, Julia Ward</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1819-1910</namePart>
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      <namePart>Hyde, John Henry</namePart>
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      <namePart>Keller, Helen</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1880-1968</namePart>
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      <namePart>La Gorce, John Oliver</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1880-1959</namePart>
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      <namePart>Lewis, Sinclair</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1885-1951</namePart>
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      <namePart>Lindbergh, Anne Morrow</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1906-2001</namePart>
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      <namePart>Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1902-1974</namePart>
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      <namePart>Marshall, George C. (George Catlett)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1880-1959</namePart>
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      <namePart>Meiklejohn, Alexander</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1872-1964</namePart>
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      <namePart>Nansen, Fridtjof</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1861-1930</namePart>
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      <namePart>Nightingale, Florence</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1820-1910</namePart>
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      <namePart>Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1885-1966</namePart>
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      <namePart>Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1856-1920</namePart>
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      <namePart>Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1853-1942</namePart>
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      <namePart>Piccard, Auguste</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1884-1962</namePart>
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      <namePart>Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1882-1945</namePart>
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      <namePart type="date">1858-1919</namePart>
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      <namePart>Shackleton, Ernest Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1922</namePart>
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      <namePart>Taft, Helen Herron</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1861-1943</namePart>
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      <namePart>Taft, William H. (William Howard)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1930</namePart>
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      <namePart>Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1944</namePart>
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      <namePart>Thomas, Lowell</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1892-1981</namePart>
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      <namePart>Torrey, Delia C</namePart>
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      <namePart type="date">1827-1905</namePart>
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      <namePart>Wallace, Susan E. (Susan Elston)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1830-1907</namePart>
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      <namePart>Wilson, Woodrow</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1856-1924</namePart>
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      <namePart>Wright, Wilbur</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1867-1912</namePart>
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      <title>National geographic magazine</title>
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    <topic>Community leadership</topic>
    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
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    <topic>Deaf</topic>
    <topic>Education</topic>
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    <topic>Middle Ages</topic>
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    <topic>Milk hygiene</topic>
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    <topic>Women</topic>
    <topic>Suffrage</topic>
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    <geographic>Amherst (Mass.)</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
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    <geographic>Baddeck (N.S.)</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
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    <geographic>Bethesda (Md.)</geographic>
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    <geographic>Byzantine Empire</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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    <geographic>Europe</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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    <geographic>Millbury (Mass.)</geographic>
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    <geographic>Middle East</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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    <geographic>Nova Scotia</geographic>
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    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
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      <title>Edwin A. Grosvenor papers</title>
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      <namePart>Grosvenor, Edwin A. (Edwin Augustus),</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1845-1936</namePart>
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      <title>Edwin Prescott Grosvenor papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Grosvenor, Edwin Prescott,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1875-1930</namePart>
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      <title>Elsie May Grosvenor papers</title>
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      <namePart>Grosvenor, Elsie May,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1878-1964</namePart>
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    <titleInfo>
      <title>Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1875-1966</namePart>
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      <title>Lilian Waters Grosvenor papers</title>
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      <namePart>Grosvenor, Lilian Waters,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1852-1931</namePart>
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      <title>Melville Bell Grosvenor papers</title>
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      <namePart>Grosvenor, Melville Bell,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1901-1982</namePart>
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      <title>Asa H. Waters papers</title>
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      <namePart>Waters, Asa H. (Asa Holman),</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1808-1887</namePart>
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      <title>Elizabeth Waters papers</title>
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      <namePart>Waters, Elizabeth.</namePart>
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