Fremont-Smith, Paul 2/9/2021 Xfinity Connect Re_Delayed greetings Printout Paul Fremont Smith 2/8/2021 4:38 PM Re: Delayed greetings To RONALD EPP Glad you're getting vaccine! Short supply here in Idaho. Still waiting. Looking forward to MDI by June. Very glad to hear Alec is supporting more research on Eliot work. Let me if more help/funds needed. Really look forward to seeing you this summer! Thanks for message, glad you are busy and well! Cheers, Paul Sent from my iPhone Note: P.F. Smith married into the Eliot family. See Elist family file. On Feb 8, 2021, at 1:09 PM, RONALD EPP wrote: Dear Paul, After a lapse of many months, I am finally responding to a message that you left on my cell last Fall, and after which it was misplaced. I hope you are safe and well. And that you have secured the vaccine. My first shot was last Tuesday with a follow up on the 22nd. i was last on MDI in August 2019 giving a paper to the Beatrix Farrand Society. Since then my research continues and I have received news from the director of The Trustees Archives and Research Center that Alex Goriansky has donated Charles Eliot documents to Harvard and the Trustees. My Dorr Archives have occupied my attention in recent months as I assess a suitable destination for them--while at the same time they prove useful to me on a daily basis. But time moves on and so decisions must be finalized. What have you been yup to? Are you planning to be on MDI this Summer? I have that hope but will have to see what develops at a national level in the interim. Please use my landline if calling: 717-272-0801 All the Best, Ron https://connect.xfinity.com/appsuite/v=7.10.3-14.20201117.063933/print.html?print_161288617754 1/2 9/13/2016 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size Re: Harvard Magazine on Dorr From : Paul Fremont-Smith Tue, Sep 13, 2016 09:57 AM Subject : Re: Harvard Magazine on Dorr To : Ronald Epp I think the Holmes article should add to sales and was well informed. Will get back to you at greater length re longer term projects. Best, Paul From: Ronald Epp Sent: Monday, September 12, 2016 8:12 PM To: Paul Fremont-Smith Subject: Harvard Magazine on Dorr Dear Paul, Thank you for the mobile call this morning about the Dorr vita that appeared in the most recent issue of Harvard Magazine. Sorry I wasn't available to take your call. Steve Holmes and I exchanged several emails as the article was under development but I had no fore knowledge of its content though I was assured about the attribution. It turned out well and reached a audience far larger than those who reside along coastal Maine. I put in the mail today a copy of a letter sent by Charles W. Eliot to Leure B. Deasy on 11.26.1902 regarding the necessity of tax exempt status for the newly formed Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. We talked about the importance of tax exemption at the Asticou Inn and you expressed interest in seeing the evidence. You will note that this copy is from the Chapman Archive (derived from the Deasy-Lynam firm records); whether Harvard has a copy I cannot affirm. All the Best, Ron Epp Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=388659&tz=America/New_York&xim= 1/1 10/4/2016 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size Re: Harvard Magazine on Dorr From : Ronald Epp Tue, Oct 04, 2016 08:48 PM Subject: Re: Harvard Magazine on Dorr To : Paul Fremont-Smith Dear Paul, I hope you and yours have been well. Last Thursday I returned from my nine day book tour through CT and NY. Now I have been catching up on inquiries from readers of the Dorr biography and preparing for my talk at the Maine Historical Society. By the way, my Massachusetts Historical Society talk has been rescheduled for April 10, 2017. I was highly impressed by the Ken Burns documentary you recommended about Martha and Waitstill Sharp. This Unitarian effort was entirely outside the range of my education. Given my growing interest in Rev. Samuel A. Eliot, I wondered whether he was aware of this heroic activity and am inclined to think that he must have been. Also, I wanted to bring to your attention a lovely card that I received from Swan Island author Jane Goodrich (do you know her?) who thanked me profusely for the Dorr bio and said that her forthcoming fictional The House on Lobster Cove (April 2017) about her Kragsyde home on Swans Island would contain many of the characters (including Eliots) that I referenced. We went back and forth about the source of funds needed around 1857 by Dr. Eliot to aid his unmarried sisters and parents. Still working on Champlain Society themes, especially biographical details about members and their careers. Very glad to hear that you and Alec are meeting more often about "family history & sources." Let me know if I can help. All the Best to you and Carol, Ronald Epp From: "Paul Fremont-Smith" To: "Ronald Epp" Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2016 3:14:46 PM Subject: Re: Harvard Magazine on Dorr https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=391463&tz=America/New_York&xim= 1/3 10/4/2016 XFINITY Connect Will be with Alec Goriansky Tuesday. Certainly plan on being with you on April 12. 2017. I have package from Tim for Alec. We plan to meet more often in Boston on family history & sources. Cheers, Paul From: Ronald Epp Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 8:52 PM To: Fremont-Smith, Paul Subject: Re: Harvard Magazine on Dorr Dear Paul, I received your phone message earlier today. Since my return here I've been busy writing talks I'm scheduled to give in CT and NY during the last week of the month before I return to Portland (ME) on October 26th for an address at the Maine Historical Society. Perhaps you'll have the opportunity to see me April 12th at the Massachusetts Historical Society were I'll stress some emerging Eliot family conservation themes. But for the last few days I've been proofreading the HCTPR essays for the second edition. And so it goes. All well on your end? Ron Epp From: "Paul Fremont-Smith" To: "Ronald Epp" Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 9:57:00 AM Subject: Re: Harvard Magazine on Dorr I think the Holmes article should add to sales and was well informed. Will get back to you at greater length re longer term projects. Best, Paul From: Ronald Epp Sent: Monday, September 12, 2016 8:12 PM To: Paul Fremont-Smith Subject: Harvard Magazine on Dorr Dear Paul, Thank you for the mobile call this morning about the Dorr vita that appeared in the most recent issue of Harvard Magazine. Sorry I wasn't available to take your call. Steve Holmes and I exchanged several emails as the article was under development but I had no fore knowledge of its content though I was assured about the attribution. It turned out well and reached a audience far larger than those who reside along coastal Maine. I put in the mail today a copy of a letter sent by Charles W. Eliot to Leure B. Deasy on 11.26.1902 regarding the necessity of tax exempt status for the newly formed Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. We talked about the importance of tax exemption at the Asticou Inn and you expressed interest in seeing the evidence. You will note that this copy is from the Chapman Archive (derived from the Deasy-Lynam firm records); whether Harvard has a copy I cannot affirm. All the Best, Ron Epp https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=391463&tz=America/New_York&xim= 2/3 10/5/2016 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size Re: Harvard Magazine on Dorr From pfsjrgo@aol.com Tue, Oct 04, 2016 09:58 PM Subject: Re: Harvard Magazine on Dorr To : eppster2@comcast.net Dear Ron, After nine days I'm sure the inquiries must be very interesting. Keeping you busy I hope. Ken Burns had a good show at Charlie Rose table, which led me to the Sharps. I was introduced to Martha by my grandmother, Frances, Eliot, F-S. I did search the Sharp collection and found at least three letters between Rev. Sam and Waitsill Sharp from 1940 to 1947, the last thanking Waitsill for his previous work in Prague. At the Arlington St. Church the Sunday school kids did Czech folk dances, recorded later by early PBS. Filed somewhere I'm sure. He was very involved in the Unitarian mission to aid refugees, and many were! In the previous century, 1857, Mayor Eliot lost family fortune, some said in the Panic of that year. The Lyman family had sufficient funds to help, his father in law, and another Mayor. I do not know Jane Goodrich and hope to read her new book.I have changed the MHS to April 10, As I return to Boston on the 5th please let me know when you get in. Meantime I hope to see you Portland, Oct. 26. Let me know where and when your talk is. Catherine Schmitt is coming to Cambridge early November. More on the Champlain Society themes. Also I return to MDI for a wedding Oct. 15 and will get to Jeff Dobb's, Acadia 100 years, a documentry written by Gunnar Hanson. I've heard they made good use of Chas. Eliot content, father and son. Your help in continuing this conservancy saga will certainly make it complete, to be shared by a wider public. Thanks, Paul -Original Message From: Ronald Epp To: Fremont-Smith, Paul Sent: Tue, Oct 4, 2016 8:48 pm Subject: Re: Harvard Magazine on Dorr Dear Paul, I hope you and yours have been well. Last Thursday I returned from my nine day book tour through CT and NY. Now I have been catching up on inquiries from readers of the Dorr biography and preparing for my talk at the Maine Historical Society. By the way, my Massachusetts Historical Society talk has been rescheduled for April 10, 2017. I was highly impressed by the Ken Burns documentary you recommended about Martha and Waitstill Sharp. This Unitarian effort was entirely outside the range of my education. Given my growing interest in Rev. Samuel A. Eliot, I wondered whether he was aware of this heroic activity and am inclined to think that he must have been. Also, I wanted to bring to your attention a lovely card that I received from Swan Island author Jane Goodrich (do you know her?) who thanked me profusely for the Dorr bio and said that her forthcoming fictional The House on Lobster Cove (April 2017) about her Kragsyde home on Swans Island would contain many of the characters (including Eliots) that I referenced. We went back and forth about the source of funds needed around 1857 by Dr. Eliot to aid his unmarried sisters and parents. https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=391464&tz=America/New_York&xim=1 1/3 9/15/2016 dochistcontents.html DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF PHILANTHROPY AND VOLUNTARISM IN THE UNITED STATES, 1600-1900 The Documentary History of Philanthropy and Voluntarism in the United States is a collection of edited primary documents, interpretive texts, and bibliographic references. It is intended for use as a curricular resource and reference work on the development of charities, voluntary associations, nonprofit organizations, philanthropic giving, and voluntary action. The Documentary History is a work-in-progress. At present, it covers the development of institutions and activities through the end of the nineteenth century. Two major nineteenth century topics remain to be covered: fraternal/sororal associations and the charity organization movement. The documents are available as downloadable pdf documents. To use them readers will need Adobe Acrobat, which is available gratis by clicking this icon: Get Acrobat Reader To access the documents, click the blue underlined links. On the left side of the pdf document is a tab titled "thumbnails." Clicking this will open a window containing thumbnails of every page of the document. Clicking a thumbnail will take you to the page to which is refers. Doing this enables readers to browse the document. The editor welcomes questions and comments, as well as suggestions for materials that should be added to the collection. Please send these to These texts are available free of charge. Users are asked, however, to give credit to the editor when these materials are included in course packets. The Documentary History Project has been generously supported by the AAFRC Trust for Philanthropy, the Nonprofit Sector Research Fund, and the Program on Non-Profit Organizations, Yale University. Peter Dobkin Hall Hauser Center on Nonprofit Organizations John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University PART ONE: PHILANTHROPY AND VOLUNTARISM IN COLONIAL AMERICA 1. The Statute of Charitable Uses (1601) https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/phall/dochistcontents.htm 1/15 2 A Historical Overview of Philanthropy, Voluntary Associations, and Nonprofit Organizations in the United States, 1600-2000 PETER DOBKIN HALL he terms nonprofit sector and nonprofit organiza- Horton Smith [2000] calls the "dark matter" of the nonprofit T tion are neologisms. Coined by economists, law- universe), are not. yers, and policy scientists in the decades follow- None of the contemporary definitions does justice to the ing World War II as part of an effort to describe complex historical development of these entities and activi- and classify the organizational domain for tax, ties. Every aspect of nonprofits that we consider distinc- policy, and regulatory purposes, the meaning varies depend- tive-the existence of a domain of private organizational ing on the identity and intentions of the user. activity, the capacity to donate or bequeath property for char- Defined narrowly, the terms refer to entities classified itable purposes, the distinction between joint stock and non- in section 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue stock corporations, tax exemption-was the outcome of un- Code of 1954 and subsequent revisions: nonstock corpora- related historical processes that converged and assumed tions and trusts formed for charitable, educational, religious, significance to one another only at later points in time. and civic purposes which are exempt from taxation and to Processes of development and change are continuous and which donors can make tax-deductible contributions. The ongoing. The institutional and organizational realities we at- terms can also refer to the broader range of organizations tempt to capture in creating such synoptic terms as nonprofit in section 501(c)-categories that include political parties, sector are, at best, of only temporary usefulness. Because trade associations, mutual benefit associations, and other en- such frameworks may incentivize collective behavior (as tities that enjoy various degrees of exemption, accord donors when entrepreneurs come to understand the economic bene- various kinds of tax relief, and are constrained in distribut- fits associated with nonprofit ownership or the tax benefits ing their surpluses in the form of dividends. of charitable giving), they may actually serve to accelerate Most broadly construed, the terms refer to the larger uni- processes of growth and change. It is no accident that the verse of formal and informal voluntary associations, non- impressive proliferation of registered tax-exempt nonprofits stock corporations, mutual benefit organizations, religious in the United States from fewer than 13,000 in 1940 to more bodies, charitable trusts, and other nonproprietary entities. than 1.5 million at the end of the century coincided with leg- Some of these are classified as exempt organizations by the islative and regulatory policies that defined and systemati- Internal Revenue Service (IRS); others, such as religious cally favored nonprofits and those who contributed to their bodies (which are not required to incorporate or apply for support. Nor is it a coincidence that ownership of hospitals tax-exempt status) and informal organizations (which David shifted from predominantly public and proprietary in 1930 32 Pt. 1. Boston and the Urban III.A "The Energing Tradition of Elite Philanthropy? The Crystallezation of Elite Pulaulthoups" SAMUEL ATKINS ELIOT, "PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CHARITIES OF BOSTON" (1845) In September, 1830, at the celebration which took place, under the direction of city authorities, of 1830 the two hundredth anniversary of the settlement of Boston, President Quincy delivered an address which was replete with interesting comments on the history and character of the city. In a note to the oration, which was published, he inserted a list of societies and institutions for various purposes of charity, education, and religious and moral instruction, to which the benevolence of Bostonians had been directed within the last thirty years. The amount of money shown by this catalogue to have been given away in a town which numbered from twenty-five thousand inhabitants, in 1800, to sixty thousand, in 1830, excited some surprise, and was very gratifying to those who from birth, personal relations, or other circumstances, took an interest in the character and reputation of the city. In the short term of fifteen years which have elapsed since 1830, the population has nearly doubled (1845) its amount at that time; and it has become a question of deep interest to many, how far, and in what particular ways, the character of Boston has been or is to be SO affected by such a sudden development of its resources, and such an immense accession to its physical and commercial strength. As a community must, like an individual, be either growing worse or better, it behooves us to look carefully into facts from time to time, and ascertain their bearing upon character; and while we should not be deterred from this scrutiny by the fear or the shame of finding ourselves losing ground, SO neither should we shrink from it because it may seem like boastfulness to proclaim our own good deeds It is in no spirit of Busin boastfulness, then, that the following attempt has been made to enumerate the principal objects of liberating Boston liberality; but with the hope of drawing from the facts collected some useful practical inferences, not inconsistent with a becoming modesty. Nor would we be supposed to imply, that we consider the mere giving of money as a sufficient proof of the existence of the true spirit of charity; but we are desirous that the facts should be known, and that every one should pass his own judgement upon them 83-109 Sauce Online Peter Dobkin Hall (ed) Documentory History of Philanthropy aid lunkerism the U.S. 9/15/2016