Miscellaneous Bound Manuscripts
Item
Country
US
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
eng
Contact information: postal address
1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215-3695
Contact information: phone number
01 (617) 536-1608 (general)
01 (617) 646-0532 (library staff)
01 (617) 646-0532 (library staff)
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
reference@masshist.org
Reference number
Misc. Bd.
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (official language of the state)
Miscellaneous Bound Manuscripts
Language of title
eng
Creator / accumulator
Massachusetts Historical Society
Language(s)
eng
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
The Miscellaneous Bound Manuscripts gather documentary materials of diverse types and provenances. Records are individually catalogued. They include letters addressed to Aaron Lopez, a Portuguese Jewish merchant operating from Newport in the 1750s-1770s, from Joseph and William Rotch, his correspondents in Nantucket, Massachusetts. The following are some examples:
Misc. Bd. 1765 February 12: Letter from Joseph Rotch to Aaron Lopez concerning supplies of whale oil.
Misc. Bd. 1762 November 25: Letter from merchants Joseph and William Rotch to Lopez concerning business matters and the status of their whaling enterprise.
Misc. Bd. 1762 October 30: Letter from Joseph and William Rotch to Lopez concerning business matters.
Misc. Bd. 1765 February 12: Letter from Joseph Rotch to Aaron Lopez concerning supplies of whale oil.
Misc. Bd. 1762 November 25: Letter from merchants Joseph and William Rotch to Lopez concerning business matters and the status of their whaling enterprise.
Misc. Bd. 1762 October 30: Letter from Joseph and William Rotch to Lopez concerning business matters.
Archival history
The Miscellaneous Bound Manuscripts collection includes items acquired individually. The documents that were particularly valuable or more likely to be consulted were bound in chronological order.
Administrative / Biographical history
The foundation of the Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) dates back to January 24, 1791, when Rev. Jeremy Belknap (1744-1798) invited nine like-minded Bostonians to join him in creating what they would call "The Historical Society". The founding members made the Society the first historical repository of the United States through their pledges of family papers, books, and artefacts from their collections. At the start of 1792, the Society published its first title, becoming the first North American institution to publish in its field.
Without any other American historical repositories in the 1790s, the MHS took on a broadly national role, one still apparent in its collections and publications. As other historical institutions were founded elsewhere, including the New York Historical Society in 1804 and the American Antiquarian Society in 1812, the Society started to direct special attention to Boston, Massachusetts, and New England.
Without any other American historical repositories in the 1790s, the MHS took on a broadly national role, one still apparent in its collections and publications. As other historical institutions were founded elsewhere, including the New York Historical Society in 1804 and the American Antiquarian Society in 1812, the Society started to direct special attention to Boston, Massachusetts, and New England.
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System of arrangement
Records are arranged chronologically.
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Author of the description
Carla Vieira, 2022
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