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Box 85

 Container

Contains 75 Results:

Incoming Correspondence, 1808-1880

Subseries 1.1.1

 Sub-Series — Box: 85
Identifier: Subseries 1.1.1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Cornelia Elizabeth Boardman was the sixth child of Elijah Boardman and Mary Anna Whiting. She was born August 4, 1808 in New Milford, Connecticut. She attended school in New Haven where her brother William Whiting Boardman resided, and New York where her sister, Caroline Boardman Schroeder, lived. Her father died when she was 15 years old. Despite several proposals of marriage, Cornelia chose to remain single and care for her mother, who lived to the age of 80. Cornelia inherited the family...
Dates: 1808-1880

Acly, Charles Gardner to Boardman, Cornelia E., 1873 Nov 20

Subseries 1.1.1

 File — Box: 85, Folder: 1
Identifier: Subseries 1.1.1
Scope and Contents

Reverend C. G. Acly writes to Cornelia Boardman regarding the winter weather; convocation of clergy; local news; Mr. Schroeder’s obituary of his brother-in-law Mr. Wright; and Mrs. Acly’s visit to Brooklyn.

Dates: Other: 1873 Nov 20

Atwater, I. to Boardman, Cornelia E., 1874 Aug 8

Subseries 1.1.1

 File — Box: 85, Folder: 2
Identifier: Subseries 1.1.1
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I. Atwater writes to thank Cornelia E. Boardman for her donation for the relief of the sufferers of the grasshoppers. Atwater was the treasurer of the Episcopal diocese fund.

Dates: Other: 1874 Aug 8

Blackman, H. to Boardman, Cornelia E., undated

Subseries 1.1.1

 File — Box: 85, Folder: 3
Identifier: Subseries 1.1.1
Scope and Contents

H. Blackman writes to ask Cornelia E. Boardman if she can contribute white flowers to an arrangement he is planning to give to a friend whose mother died.

Dates: Other: undated

Bonesteel, Virgil Dryden and Bonesteel, Sarah Elizabeth Todd to Boardman, Cornelia, 1845 Mar 6, undated

Subseries 1.1.1

 File — Box: 85, Folder: 5
Identifier: Subseries 1.1.1
Scope and Contents Two letters, one from Virgil Dryden Bonesteel to Cornelia E. Boardman regarding the availability of horses to purchase. Notes that Mr. Pallock will bring horses to show her on Saturday. He leaves room for his wife, Sarah Elizabeth Todd Bonesteel, to add a letter regarding her son's croup and sickness and her wish to visit New Milford. Asks Cornelia to congratulate a friend who had a daughter and requests that she write. The second, from Sarah Todd Bonesteel in Poughkeepsie, is addressed to...
Dates: Other: 1845 Mar 6, undated

Chapman, Sarah to Boardman, Cornelia E., 1865 Jul 31

Subseries 1.1.1

 File — Box: 85, Folder: 6
Identifier: Subseries 1.1.1
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Sarah Chapman writes to Cornelia E. Boardman from Newtown inquiring about the possibility of visiting her in New Milford on her way to a cousin's house in Roxbury.

Dates: Other: 1865 Jul 31

Clarke, L. to Boardman, Cornelia E., undated

Subseries 1.1.1

 File — Box: 85, Folder: 7
Identifier: Subseries 1.1.1
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L. Clarke writes to Cornelia Boardman from New Milford in October (no year given) in response to a letter from Cornelia and encloses her cards. Mentions having read Cornelia's letter to Mrs. Boardman, Mr. Schroeder and others. She provides the size of a table in need of a cloth. Requests that Julie procure a yard of fabric if she goes shopping again.

Dates: Other: undated

Clarke, Mary to Boardman, Cornelia E., 1874 Mar 20

Subseries 1.1.1

 File — Box: 85, Folder: 8
Identifier: Subseries 1.1.1
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Mary Clarke writes from New Milford. She thanks Cornelia E. Boardman for her letter and reports on the health of family; notes a letter from Mrs. Tyler; says she has made one hundred pounds of soap since Cornelia's departure; talks of Miss Boothe's death and burial.

Dates: Other: 1874 Mar 20

Cogswell, Susan M. to Boardman, Cornelia E., 1873 Mar 13

Subseries 1.1.1

 File — Box: 85, Folder: 9
Identifier: Subseries 1.1.1
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Susan M. Cogswell writes from Plainfield NJ about a visit from "Lillie Lee" and how she and Susie are so happy to see one another. She notes that she will visit New Milford in the Spring, that the sleighing in New Jersey is over and the roads are dreadful. Asks that Cornelia rely news about the health of little Peter Matthews to Lilly. Notes a trip to see Neelie and says that George and Neelie should be proud of their boys.

Dates: Other: 1873 Mar 13

Dyer, Heman, Twing, A. T., and Potter, Henry Codman to Boardman, Cornelia E., 1874 May 22

Subseries 1.1.1

 File — Box: 85, Folder: 10
Identifier: Subseries 1.1.1
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Heman Dyer, Alvi Tabor Twing, and Henry C. Potter of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church write from Bible House in New York requesting Cornelia E. Boardman assist financially in paying the debts of a deceased Bishop Randall so that his successor, Bishop Spaulding, will not be held responsible for them. They note that they require $15,000 and that they propose to raise the sum among a limited number of persons.

Dates: Other: 1874 May 22