The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum

5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, Delaware  19735

Telephone: 302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

 

 

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:         Parkman, Samuel, 1816-1854.

Title:               Bills and papers

Dates:             1848-1864

Call No.:         Col. 707

Acc. No.:        03x98; 06x81

Quantity:        76 items

Location:        34 J 4

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

Samuel Parkman, a physician, was a resident of Boston, Massachusetts.  He was born in 1816, the son of Mary Bromfield Mason and Samuel Henry Parkman, a merchant.  He attended Harvard University.  In 1849, he married Mary Eliot Dwight (1821-1879), the daughter of Mary Harrison Eliot and Edmund Dwight.  Dr. and Mrs. Parkman lived on Tremont Street, and they had two children, Henry (1850-1924; married Frances Parker) and Ellen Twistleton (1853-1930; married William W. Vaughan).  Dr. Parkman died in December 1854, after contracting typhoid fever from one of his patients.  Mary Eliot Dwight Parkman died on December 8, 1879, while living at 16 Brimmer Street.

 

 

Edmund Dwight (1780-1849) was a merchant in Boston.  He married Mary Harrison Eliot (1788-1846), and they had ten children.  Their daughter Mary Eliot Dwight married Dr. Samuel Parkman.  In 1839, their daughter Anna Cabot Lowell Dwight (1818-1880) married Charles Henry Mills (1813-1872).  In 1850, their daughter Sophia (1823-1879) married John Wells (who became a judge).  In 1852, their daughter Ellen (1828-1862) married the Honorable Edward Turner Boyd Twistleton of Great Britain.  In 1857, their daughter Elizabeth (1830-1901) married James Eliot Cabot.  The other children were Samuel Eliot (1810-1831), Henry (born and died 1812), Charles Eliot (1814-1825), Catherine (1816-1835), and Edmund (1824-1900; he married Ellen Coolidge in January 1855).

 

Edward Turner Boyd Twistleton was a son of Anna Ashe (1771-1860) and Thomas James Twistleton (1770-1824), who was archdeacon of Columbo (in Ceylon, where the Rev. Twistleton died).  Edward was born in Ceylon in 1809, and died in France in 1874.  Edward was a barrister, and he served as a Poor Law Commissioner.  Thomas James Twistleton was a son of the 13th Baron Saye and Sele.

 

Footnotes to the biographical statement: Dr. Samuel Parkman was the nephew of George Parkman, who was murdered by Harvard professor John W. Webster in 1849, a notorious case in the annals of Cambridge.  Mary Eliot Dwight Parkman had a first cousin also named Mary Eliot Dwight (1817-1890).  The older cousin was the daughter of the Reverend Henry Dwight of Utica, New York.  She married Henry Lathrop Young (1818-1900), and among her children was William H. Young.  Letters to William Young’s wife Martha Innis Young are found in Col. 810 at this repository.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

Series I is collection of documents, mostly bills, the largest single part of which are bills sent to Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Parkman of Boston.  However, the collection also contains bills, calling cards, and trade cards relating to other people, mostly members of the Dwight family (Mrs. Parkman’s maiden name was Dwight).  The Parkmans bought gloves, fabrics, picture frames, an umbrella, articles of clothing (mostly masculine), silverware, boots and shoes, and other personal items.  As well, there is a certificate of membership for Dr. Parkman in the Boston Young Men’s Christian Union; a note in German (which mentions the Hon. Edward Twistleton); a bill to Mrs. Parkman for her stay in a hotel in Florence, Italy, in 1864; and a bill addressed to P. M. Parkman for duty on porcelain imported from China.  Also included is a calling card for Mrs. and Miss Parkman.

 

Series I also includes some bills to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mills of Boston, Miss Dwight of Boston, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. E. Twistleton of London, and other miscellaneous bills.  The bills to Mr. and Mrs. Mills are for fabric, a mantilla, table linens, and for the making of shirts, nightgowns, drawers, and chemises.  Miss Dwight purchased table linens, a collar, a cap, a lace cape, edging, a secretary, blankets, and fabric.  (Miss Dwight was undoubtedly Mary Eliot Dwight, and she was purchasing items for her new home with Dr. Parkman.)  The Twistletons purchased table and bed linens (some noted as being for servants’ use) in London, and porcelain in Paris.  A note to Mrs. Twistleton from the office of the Court Journal requests a description of the dress she plans to wear to a “drawing room” (an appearance at court).

 

The miscellaneous items in Series I include undated hotel bills (with no name attached to them); a note about prices of furniture available from Miles & Edwards and from Gillow; calling cards and trade cards, many from Paris; price lists from companies in Paris that rented linens and tablewares; a form letter about liveries for servants; a blank sheet of embossed paper; a few miscellaneous bills; and a letter in French.

 

The second series, accession 06x81, includes house construction bills sent to Mrs. Mary Dwight Parkman, 1858-1864.  The bills relate to the construction of a house at 106 Bolyston Street, Boston, for Mary E. Parkman, in 1858.  She purchased the lot from the Boston Water Power Co.  Her attorney was Henry Lee, Jr.  The architects were Edward C. Cabot and F. H. Jackson.  The builders were Robert T. Bourn (sometimes spelled Bourne) and William Leavitt.  Bills from the stone mason are also found.  One bill from Bourn & Leavitt detailed the charges for extra work or changes made to the original agreement.  After 1859, Bourn & Leavitt submitted several more bills for additional work done, including the building of a shed and various repairs.  Two tax bills are included, one for state and local and the other for federal taxes.  A note from F. H. Jackson assures Mrs. Parkman’s attorney that a small crack in the façade was no cause for alarm.

 

           

ORGANIZATION

 

The items are divided into two series, by accession number.  The documents in accession 03x98  (Series I) are divided by the family to which they relate, with the miscellaneous items at the end.  Accession 06x81 forms Series II; this series was formerly Col. 793 at this repository.

 

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

The materials are in English, with one document in German, and several in French.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

Collection is open to the public.  Copyright restrictions may apply.

           

 

PROVENANCE

           

Accession 03x98: purchased from Peter L. Masi.

 

Accession 06x81: purchased from Charles B. Wood III, Inc.  (These materials were originally a separate collection, Col. 793, but the  two collections were joined in 2020.)

 

 

RELATED MATERIAL

 

The library of the Harvard University School of Medicine holds a collection of letters to and from Dr. Samuel Parkman.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

            People:

                        Dwight family.

                        Twistleton family.

 

Topics:

Gillow & Co.

Boston Young Men’s Christian Union.

Boots – Prices.

China trade porcelain.

Clothing and dress – Repairs.

Courts and courtiers.  

Domestics - Great Britain.

Furniture - Great Britain - Prices.

Hotels - Prices.

Household linens - Prices - 19th century.

Livery.

Men’s clothing.

Porcelain - Prices - 19th century.

Sewing.

Shoes - Prices.

Silverware - Prices.

Voyages and travels.

Bills of sale.

                        Calling cards.

                        Trade cards.

 

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 34 J 4

 

 

Series I: bills and papers

 

All accession numbers in this series begin with 03x98.

 

 

Folder 1: Parkman family

 

.1         calling card for Mrs. S. Parkman and Miss Parkman, with the address 3 Rutland Gate handwritten on it

 

.2         to Dr. Parkman, from John P. Rice, Boston, Jan. 17, 1849: for kid and lined gloves, linen bosom shirt, muslin cravats, lisle something gloves, with credit given for a returned cravat;

                        Printed billhead: importer of European goods, and dealer in every variety of furnishing articles

 

.3         to Mrs. S. Parkman, Jr., from Geo. W. Warren & Co., May 16, 1849, for foulard;

                        Printed billhead: foreign and domestic dry goods

 

.4         to Mrs. Parkman, from Paton & Co., New York, June 16, 1849, for chintz;

                        Printed billhead: curtain material, furniture coverings, damask table linen, diapers, sheetings, blankets, quilts, linen, flannels, &c.

 

.5         to Dr. Parkman, from Arnaud & Coombs, Boston, July 23, 1849: for picture frame, oval top frame, and picture glass;

                        Printed billhead: looking glass, portrait and picture frames

 

.6         to Dr. Parkman from John H. Rogers, Dept.-Dec. 1849, for repairing boots and a pair of buck moccasins

 

.7         to Dr. Parkman, from George W. Heard, Boston, Jan. 14, 1850: for shirts, pair of braces, buttons, driving gloves, silk gloves, and for altering shirts and putting new bosoms to shirts;

                        Printed billhead: dealer in every variety of gentlemen’s furnishing goods, such as ready made linen, gloves, hosiery, scarfs and cravats, &c, &c

 

.8         note: Adalbert Alexander Dieffenbach promises to pay Dr. Parkman $10.75 as soon as possible, Boston, March 18, 1850

 

.9         to Dr. Parkman from E. H. Wade, April 4, 1850, for an umbrella

 

.10       to Dr. Parkman from L.A. Huntington, Boston, July 1, 1850, for ribbed doe pants, cashmere vest, green frock coat, white drill pants, buff and figured vests, dress pants; and for repairing clothing: adding new sleeve lining to black dress coat, putting new seat to a pair of pants, and repairing sack coat and mixed frock coat;

                        Printed billhead: merchant tailor

 

.11       to Dr. Parkman from Newell Harding, Boston, Oct. 26, 1850, for silver table and dessert spoons, butter ladles, sugar sifter, and threaded dessert forks, plus engraving them

 

.12       to Dr. Parkman, from Arnaud & Coombs, Boston, Nov. 7, 1850: for picture frames, and setting glass in miniature;

                        Printed billhead: looking glass, portrait and picture frames

 

.13       to Dr. Parkman from Newell Harding, Boston, Nov. 25, 1850, for engraved table spoons, threaded table and dessert forks, engraved salt spoons, sugar tongs, and knife rests

 

.14       to Dr. Parkman, from George W. Heard, Boston, Jan. 27, 1851: for kid, silk, and driving gloves; and a cravat and cravat pad;

                        Printed billhead: dealer in every variety of gentlemen’s furnishing goods, such as ready made linen, gloves, hosiery, scarfs and cravats, &c, &c.

 

.15       to Dr. Parkman from John C. Chaffin, Boston, March 1, 1851, for a Grenadine silk cravat;

                        Printed billhead: importer of gloves, hosiery, cravats, braces, &c., and dealer in every variety of gentlemen’s furnishing articles

 

.16       to Dr. Parkman from Enoch Train & Co., Boston, April 7, 1851, for one chaldron cannel coat;

                        Printed form

 

.17       to Dr. Parkman, from George W. Heard, Boston, July 5, 1851: for cravats, bathing cap,  driving and kid gloves, braces, glove stretchers, Jonville[?] scarf;

                        Printed billhead: dealer in every variety of gentlemen’s furnishing goods, such as ready made linen, gloves, hosiery, scarfs and cravats, &c, &c.

 

.18       “charges on 1 case china ware [illegible] ship “Reindeer” from Canton and forwarded to Boston for account and risk of P. M. Parkman, Esq.”

                        With charges for duty, Custom House fees, cartage to Boston boat, freight from Canton, New York, March 31, 1853, W. A. Sa[illegible];

                        This record notes the mark on the case as S.H. Parkman; P.M. Parkman paid on April 1, 1953 [although the year looks like it could read 1800]

           

.19       to Dr. Parkman from I. M. Rice, Boston, July 1, 1853, for boots, gaiters, French shoes, low cut calf shoes, and for repairs;

                        Printed billhead: ladies’ and gentlemen’s boots, shoes, and slippers, [etc.]; firm named altered from Brett & Rice to I. M. Rice

 

.20       to Dr. Parkman, from George W. Heard, Boston, Aug. 26, 1853: for cravat pad, Jonville[?] scarf, gloves, vests, hose, shirts, etc.;

                        Printed billhead: dealer in every variety of gentlemen’s furnishing goods, such as ready made linen, gloves, hosiery, scarfs and cravats, &c, &c.

 

.21       membership notice: Dr. S. Parkman is a member of the Young Men’s Christian Union, Boston, April 19, 1854;

                        Printed form

 

.22       to Dr. Parkman from Israel M. Rice, Boston, July 1, 1854, for boots, gaiters, shoes;

                        Printed billhead: importer of French boots and shoes, and Bordeaux calf-skins – manufacturer to order of gentlemen’s fine boots, shoes, gaiters, and toilet slippers;

 

.23       to Mrs. Dr. S. Parkman, from Sam’l T. Crosby, Boston, July 1, 1854 [full year from back]: for repairing buttons, silver rattle, jewelry, pearl ring; with credit given for old silver, and for exchange of a cuff pin;

                        Printed billhead: fine English and French watches, gold chains, clocks, music boxes, fancy goods, plated and Britannia wares; manufacturer of sterling silver ware and fine jewelry

 

.24       note from Friederich Thomae, Frankfort, Sept. 17, 1863, mentioning Frau Parkman from America, and the address of Edward Twistleton, 3 Rutland Gate, Hyde Park, London;

                        Endorsed on back: Thomae’s receipt for trunk in London, Sept. 1863

 

.25       to Mme Parkman from A La Couronne D’Italie, Florence, for stay from May 20-26, 1864, including charges for meals, a lamp, coffee, lodging, etc.; the bill is in French;

                        Printed billhead: Hotel et Pension, [etc.];

                        Endorsed on back: a week in Florence coming up from Rome in May 1864, after 5 months, 69 years ago, 1933

 

 

 

Folder 2: Mills, Dwight, and Twistleton families

 

[In 1839, Charles Henry Mills (1813-1872) married Anna Cabot Lowell Dwight (1818-1880), a sister of Mary Eliot Dwight Parkman.]

 

[In 1852, Mary Eliot Dwight Parkman’s sister Ellen Dwight (1828-1862) married the Hon. Edward T. B. Twistleton of Great Britain.]

 

.26       to Chas. H. Mills, from Benj. & E. Jacobs & Co., Boston, July 21, 1848; for yards of linen and cotton;

                        Printed billhead: family linen and housekeeping establishment, [also lawn handkerchiefs, flannels, blankets, and quilts, etc.]

 

.27       bill for making 6 shirts at 75 cents each; endorsed on back: Miss Hovey, Sep. 25th 1848

 

.28       to Mrs. Mills from A. M. Baxter, Boston, Oct. 5, 1848, for making nine chemises and for sewing cotton [thread]; payment received by Elizabeth J. Baxter

 

.29       to Mrs. Mills, from Alex. T. Stewart & Co., New York, Jan. 31, 1848 or 1849 [both dates appear]: for a mantilla;

                        Printed billhead

 

.30       to Mrs. Mills from E. J. Baxter, Boston, March 10, 1849, for making six nightgowns and for sewing cotton [thread]; payment received by A. M. Baxter

 

.31       to Mrs. Mills from Harriet Appleton, March 12, 1849: for linen and cotton bed sheets, pillowcases, bolster cases, table cloths, napkins, overlay, and buttons

 

.32       to Mrs. Mills from R. F. Hovey, Jan. 16, 18 [on back], for making pairs of drawers, and for 2 spools of cotton

 

 

 

.33       to Miss Dwight from C. C. Holbrook, Oct.-Nov. 1848, for edging and linen something,

 

.34       to Miss Dwight from Paton & Co., New York, 1849, for damask cloths, napkins, overlay, chintz, etc.

                        Printed billhead: curtain material, furniture coverings, damask table linen, diapers, sheetings, blankets, quilts, linen, flannels, &c.

 

.35       to Miss Dwight from Daniell & Co., Boston, Jan. 23, 1849, for Waltham cotton;

                        Printed billhead: silks, linens, shawls, alepines, quilts, blankets, cottons, flannels, house-keeping articles, and mourning goods;

                        Endorsed on back: “unbleached cotton for 18 pillow cases”

 

.36       to Mrs. Dwight, 228 Irving House, from Thomas Shepherd, New York, Jan. 31, 1849, for collar, cap, lace cape

                        Printed billhead

 

.37       to Miss Dwight from Levi Ruggles, Boston, Feb. 10, 1849, for secretary;

                        With note: Please pay the above, S. Parkman, James R. Mills & Co.

 

.38       to Miss Dwight, from Benj. & E. Jacobs & Co., Boston, Feb. 20, 1849; for yards of damask, brown cloth, doilies, plaid something, blankets, bird’s eye diaper;

                        Printed billhead: linen goods and housekeeping articles, [also lawn handkerchiefs, flannels, blankets, and quilts, etc.]

 

.39       to Miss M. Dwight, from Mrs. Sarah A. Savels, Feb. 22, 1849, for cutting and making three French night-dresses, plus three night-dresses with yokes, and sewing cotton

 

.40       to Miss Dwight, from J. Danforth, Manchester, March 9, 1849, for 6 rose top chairs in plush and 6 plan stuffed French chairs;

                        [the bill was originally addressed to Dr. S. Parkman, but his name was crossed out and Miss Dwight was substituted]

 

.41       to Miss Mary Dwight, from Lawson & Harrington, Boston, March 16, 1849, for yards of fringe and bordering, and pounds of hair;

                        Printed billhead: upholsterers, manufacturers and importers of fashionable furniture, upholstery goods and trimmings; … mattresses and bedding, window shades …, shades, wire screens, &c. painted to order….

 

.42       to Miss Dwight, from Chas. A. Bandouine, Boston, April 11, 1848, for spring and thin mattresses, and for boxing them;

                        [the bill was originally addressed to Dr. S. Parkman, but his name was crossed out and Miss Dwight was substituted]

 

.43       to Miss Dwight from Paton & Co., New York, June 1, 1849, for yards of shade chintz;

                        Printed billhead: curtain material, furniture coverings, damask table linen, diapers, sheetings, blankets, quilts, linen, flannels, &c.

 

.44       to Miss Dwight, from Sarah W. Davis, May 7, 1849, for washing[?]

 

 

.45       to the Honble E. Twistleton, from John Wilson & Sons, London, Dec. 2, 1854, for pillowcases (some for servants), bolster cases, tablecloths (some for servants) and napkins, pastry and fish napkins, Wellington huckaback, twilled dusters, etc.

                        Printed billhead

 

.46       to Madame Twistleton, from Maison Toy, Paris, March 1855, endorsed on back as “estimate of dinner service,” two lists, one headed “service de table filet …” and the other headed “service de dessert”;

                        Printed billhead: depot special de porcelains anglaises, [with lists of articles available, including French porcelain and crystal] 

 

.47       printed form letter to the Hon. Mrs. Twistleton, from Court Journal Office, no date, requesting that she send the publication a description of the costume she plans to wear at the Drawing Room of Thursday next;

                        Printed letter, with seal of Great Britain

 

 

 

Folder 3: miscellaneous documents

 

.48       bill from Marsh, Bell Hotel, Gloucester, no date; with a British revenue stamp

 

.49       bill from Beaufort Arms, Tintern Abbey, no date, for bread and cheese, cold meat, and ale

 

.50       bill from The George, Glastonbury, no date, for dinners, bread, and milk

 

.51       bill from John Archer, Foley Arms Hotel, Malvern, June 9, no year, for bed and sitting rooms, servants board, attendance, luncheons, ale, etc.

 

.52       bill from Royal Hotel, Clevedon[?], June 5-6, for teas, lights, breakfast, luncheons, ale, attendance, etc.

 

.53       the name Honble. Mrs. G. Murray Smith written on stationery of Gumley Hall, Market Harborough

 

.54       “pieces of furniture, March 1855”: lists furniture and prices:

from Miles & Edwards: washstands, birch wardrobe with looking glass, toilet table and glass, stand for portfolios, towel stand, chintzes;

from Gillows: washstand, b.w. &c [birch wardrobe, &c], t.t. & glass [toilet table], small and large sofas, plain round table

 

.55       printed calling card: Madame Mazzuchi Allard, 57 Corso Re Umberto; with Turin added in ink

 

.56       calling card (hand-written): Mme de Callias, 18, rue Montolivet, Fbg St. Honoré;

                        On verso: Madame Eseallier[?], 83, rue Note Dame des Champs

 

.57       printed trade card: Mmme Clinard, robes et confections, Rue St. Honoré 414

 

.58       printed trade card: Daux-Bryard, loueur de voitures de remises, [etc.], Paris

 

.59       printed calling card: Dr. Ed. Fredet, professeur hon.real Ecole de Medicine de Clermont, Vic-Consul d’Espagne, Royat; with his addressed added in ink

 

.60       printed trade card: Mlles Lepinier, modes & coiffures, … Paris

 

.61       printed trade card: Vve Leroy, confections, dentelles, robes unies et brodeer, commission

 

.62       printed calling card: G. A. Mazzuchi

 

.63       printed trade card: Meroni Antonia, manifattura de merletti a fuselli, [etc.], Cantu, Lombardia; illustrated with medals won at various exhibitions, 1881-1893;

                        On back: calculations and Hotel Royal

 

.64       printed trade card: Mme Reichling, couturiere en robes

 

.65       printed trade card: Rene, importer and esginer of high glass millinery, … Boston, New York, Newport

 

.66       top part of printed billhead or lettersheet: Spanish Depot, wholesale & retail lace &outfitting warehouse, … [address in London]

 

.67       blank embossed note paper

 

.68       advertisement: Maison Armandias, linge, argenterie, services de table, [Paris], with price lists of linens for one and two weeks [presumably for renting or washing said linen], and prices of “couverts” for a month;

                        printed

 

.69-.70             advertisement: Maison Pillon Pillot & Coumbus, services de table, bals & soirées [Paris], with price lists of linens for one, two, or four weeks [presumably for renting or washing said linen], and prices of “argenterie” for a month;

                        printed

 

.71       printed letter from H. & G. Fletcher, London, no date: enclosing estimate for livery for servants [unfortunately, the estimate is no longer with this letter]

 

.72       advertisement: John Wilson & Sons, London: list of goods available (table linens, handkerchiefs, towels, dusters, carpet covers, bed tickens, quilts, long cloths, window muslins, etc., etc., etc.; also goods for charities (blankets, rugs, Welch flannels, etc.);

                        Printed;

                        Endorsed on back: Wilson’s list of stock

 

.73       bill to unknown person from E. Hooper, endorsed on back: Marblehead week, Dec. 10th, 1848; for making two caps, six flannel petticoatds, saddlers silk and sewing silk; with note: “The Money may be sent to Dr. Hoopers,44 Summer Street, directed to Miss Hooper.”

 

.74       receipt: Edna Little received money from Alvan Dodge for Nathaniel Little, Newbury, Sept. 23, 1853

 

.75       on one side: notes about 2 dozen large, 2 dozen small, 2 pairs of two other things;

            On other side: “estimate of Ellen Coolidge’s cutlery, Thornhill, Nov. ’54, London”

                        [Ellen Coolidge married Edmund Dwight (1824-1900) in January 1855.]

 

.76       letter, to Madame, from Pagani, Paris, March 22, 1855: letter is in French

 

 


Series II: Mrs. Parkman’s house construction bills

 

All accession numbers in this series begin with 06x81.

This series was formerly Col. 793 at this repository.  The two collections were joined in 2020.

 

Folder 4:

 

06x81.1           receipt: Henry Lee, Jr., attorney for Mrs. M. E. Parkman, paid William Minor, Jr., for services in examination of records and deed of land on Boylston Street purchased from Boston Water Power Co., and for examination of title and deed of back wall adjoining that land, purchased from Lafayette Burnham; and for registering deed from Burnham; June 11-July 9, 1858

 

06x81.2           receipt: Mr. Lee, attorney for Mrs. Parkman, paid Jesse Boynton for piles, labor of workers, and for machine hoisting stone, July 23, 1858; approved by F. H. Jackson

 

06x81.3           receipt: Henry Lee, Jr., attorney for Mary E. Parkman, paid Luther L. White, for recording deed from Boston Water Power Co., Aug. 20, 1858

 

06x81.4           articles of agreement between Mrs. Mary E. Parkman and Messrs Bourn & Leavitt, builders, Sept. 6, 1858: this contract names F. H. Jackson as the architect; the contract specifies when payments are due (after second floor laid, after fourth floor laid, after building is plastered, etc.); Mrs. Parkman, Robert T. Bourn, and William Leavitt all signed the document;

                        Printed form

 

06x81.5           short note from F. H. Jackson, architect, to Henry Lee, Jr., agent for Mrs. Mary E. Parkman, Sept. 6, 1858: Bourn and Leavitt have completed second floor and are entitled to a payment

 

06x81.6a         survey of cellar stone laid by Layward & Lothrop, signed by William Sparrell, surveyor, Boston, Sept. 6, 1858; endorsed on back: Mrs. Parkman’s house; this is attached to acc. 06x81.6b

 

06x81.6b         receipt: Layward & Lothrop were paid by Bourn & Leavitt for excavation work, mason’s work, and for block stones, Sept. 23, 1858; approved by F. H. Jackson, Nov. 15, 1858; acc. 06x81.6a is attached to this

 

06x81.7           receipt: Bourn & Leavitt were paid by Henry Lee, Jr., for wok on Mrs. Parkman’s house, Boston, Sept. 7, 1858;

                        Printed form, with decorative border, from C.K. Darling [stationer]

 

06x81.8           wrapper, on which is written Bourn & Leavitt’s receipts for payments on house, 1858, Sept. 7, 1.000 [$1000]

 

06x81.9           receipt: Edw. C. Cabot was paid by Mr. H. Lee, Jr., for commission on Mrs. Parkman’s house, Boston, Sept. 17, 1858

 

06x81.10         short note, F. H. Jackson, architect, Boston, Sept. 16, 1858, to Henry Lee, Jr., agent for Mrs. M. B.[sic] Parkman: fourth floor completed and Bourn & Leavitt entitled to a payment;

                        On back: endorsed with above information

 

.06x81.11        receipt: Bourn & Leavitt were paid by Henry Lee, Jr., for wok on Mrs. Parkman’s house, Boston, Sept. 18, 1858;

                        Printed form, from Chas. K. Darling, stationer

 

06x81.12         letter from W. J. White[illegible], Boston Water Power Office, September 28m 1858, to Henry Lee, Jr.: responding to his complaint that lots similar to Mrs. Parkman’s were sold at a lesser price; she paid the rate prevailing at the time of her purchase

 

06x81.13         letter from F. H. Jackson, no date, to Henry Lee, Jr.: the cracks arise from settling of arch stone [includes sketch of this] and are no cause for alarm; a new face brick will be  placed over door and the other will be easily remedied

 

06x81.14         receipt: E. C. Cabot, Boston, Oct. 1, 1858, was paid by Mrs. Parkman for drawing and specifications of the house

 

06x81.15         short note, F. H. Jackson, architect, Boston, Oct. 19, 1858, to Henry Lee, Jr: roof completed and Bourn & Leavitt entitled to a payment;

                        On back: receipt: Bourn & Leavitt acknowledge they received payment for Mrs. Parkman’s house

 

06x81.16         receipt: E. C. Cabot, Boston, Nov. 51858, was paid by Mrs. Parkman for drawing and specifications of the house [she is paying his fee over time]

 

06x81.17         bill from Bourn & Leavitt, Boston, 1859, to Mrs. Mary E. Parkman: details of building her house; initial cost was $9363, and this details extra charges, such as additional foundation work;;building a party wall; a different furnace and range; additional ventilators in fireplaces; extra glass for doors and windows; a recess in front parlor and an arch in dining room; installing picture frame moulding; putting up coal bins and a bookcase; soapstone fireplaces; etc.;

                        On back: note form F. H. Jackson, March 19 1859: he acknowledges that bill is correct except for the question of the front steps (which cannot be resolved until Mr. Cabot returns); also Bourn & Leavitt still need to complete the curb around the front area, build a balcony, and install iron grills on front doors

 

06x81.18         receipt: F. H. Jackson, Boston, April 1, 1859, was paid by Mrs. M. E. Parkman for services in building her house in Boylston Street

 

06x81.19         bill from Bourn & Leavitt, Boston, April-December 1860, to Mrs. Mary E. Parkman, for various work done for her, including painting a chair, making a table leaf rack, putting up curtain iron and bolt, painting shed and fence, setting glass, etc.; includes charges for materials and for days of labor, including that of a mason

 

06x81.20         receipt: Bourn & Leavitt, Boston, Feb. 15-17, 1862, were paid by Mrs. M. E. Parkman for days of work, lumber, nails, and hinges

 

06x81.21         receipt: F. H Jackson was paid by Mrs. S. Parkman, May 12, 1862, for something to do with a lease on her house, and advertising it

 

06x81.22         receipt: C. M. Whittlesy, Boston, June 2, 1862, was paid by Mrs. M. E. Parkman for raising sidewalk and resetting edge stone; payment approved by F. H. Jackson

 

06x81.23         receipt: Bourn & Leavitt, Boston, February-August 1864, were paid by Mrs. M. E. Parkman, for something to do about the front door, plumbing work, mason work, and lumber; with U.S. Internal Revenue stamp

 

06x81.24         tax bill: to Mrs. Mary E. Parkman paid her state, city and county tax, Nov. 6, 1860;

                        Printed form

 

06x81.25         tax bill: to Mrs. Mary E. Parkman paid her U.S. Internal Revenue tax, Oct. 8, 1863;

                        Printed form

 

06x81.26         wrapper, endorsed “statement of estate of Mrs. M. E. Parkman, April 1858”; and “M. E. Parkman, Sept. 6, 1858, Wm. Dwight’s note collected interest paid to M.E.P., $6.000 on mortgage”