GrotonSchool 2/22 Dooglas Brown 2008 Archivist 978-448-7661 Peabody, Endicott, 1857-1944. Letters to Rosalind Richards: Guide. Page 1 of 3 Harvard University Library Frames Version OASIS: Online Archival Search Information Questions or Comments Copyright System Statement bMS Am 1722 Peabody, Endicott, 1857-1944. Letters to Rosalind Richards: Guide. Houghton Library, Harvard College Library VE CHARVARDY Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 C 2003 The President and Fellows of Harvard College Descriptive Summary Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University Location: b Call No.: MS Am 1722 Creator: Peabody, Endicott, 1857-1944. Title: Letters to Rosalind Richards, Date(s): 1909-1946. Quantity: 1 box (.5 linear ft.) Abstract: Letters from the American educator Endicott Peabody to Rosalind Richards. Acquisition Information: *62M-343 Gift of Rosalind Richards Gardiner, Maine; received: 1956 6 Feb. Historical Note Endicott Peabody co-founded the Groton School for Boys, Groton Massachusetts and served as headmaster there. Rosalind Richards was a daughter of novelist Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards and granddaughter of Julia Ward Howe. Arrangement Arranged alphabetically by author. Scope and Content http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00828 2/20/2008 Peabody, Endicott, 1857-1944. Letters to Rosalind Richards: Guide. Page 2 of 3 Primarily letters from Endicott Peabody and Fannie Peabody to Rosalind Richards, along with correspondence with Richards' parents. Letters includes discussion of family matters, travels (including postcards), events at the Groton school, and visits to one another and with family and friends. Also includes the memorial booklet for William Amory Gardner and newspaper clippings about his death. Container List (1) Gardner, William Amory, 1863-1937. A.L.s. to [Henry Howe Richards?]; Pride's Crossing, Mass., 15 Jul [n.d.] 1s. (3p.) (2) Gardner, William Amory, 1863-1937. A.L.s. to [Laura Elisabeth (Howe) Richards; Pride's Crossing, 15 Aug [n.d.] 1s. (3p.) Gardner, William Amory, 1863-1937. 4 A.L.s. to Rosalind Richards: (3) [Groton] 8 Apr 1918. 2s. (7p.) env. (4) [Same? n.d.] 1s. (4p.) (5) Same, 4 Mar [n.d.] 1s. (4p.) (6) Washington, 20 Jan [n.d.] 2s. (6p.) (7) Peabody, Endicott, 1857-1944. A.L.s. to [Henry Howe] Richards; Groton, 19 Jan 1943. 1s. (1p.) Peabody, Endicott, 1857-1944. 20 letters to Rosalind Richards: (8) Groton, 27 Apr 1909. 1s. (2p.) (9) Same, 31 May 1910. 1s. (2p.) (10) Same, 16 May 1914. 1s. (2p.) (11) Aboard the St. Paul, 8 Jul 1916. 1s. (3p.) (12) Groton, 3 Jun 1920. 1s. (2p.) (13) North Haven, Maine, 6 Sep 1921. 2s. (2p.) (14) Groton, 6 Mar 1922. 1s. (3p.) (15) Northeast Harbor, Maine, 7 Jul 1927. 1s. (2p.) (16) [N.p.] 6 Jun 1929. 1s. (1p.) (17) Groton, 14 Jun 1932. 1s. (1p.) (18) Same, 3 Jun 1933. 1s. (1p.) (19) Northeast Harbor, Maine, 17 Aug 1935. 1s. (2p.) (20) [Aboard the Scythia] 27 Jun 1936. 1s. (1p.) (21) Groton, 20 Jun 1937. 1s. (3p.) (22) Same, 28 Sep 1937. 1s. (1p.) (23) Same, 2 Jun 1939. 1s. (1p.) (24) Same, 20 Jul 1939. 1s. (1p.) (25) Bermuda, 14 Mar 1939. 1s. (1p.) (26) Northeast Harbor, Maine, 23 Jul 1943. 2s. (2p.) env. (27) Groton, 1 Jun 1944. 1s. (1p.) (28) Peabody, Endicott, 1857-1944. Memorium to William Amory Gardner. Printed copy; Groton, Oct 1937. 8f. (15p.) With newspaper clippings about Gardner's death. (29-164) Peabody, Fannie, 1860-1946. 136 letters to Rosalind Richards; 1920-1946 & [n.d.] http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00828 2/20/2008 Peabody, Endicott, 1857-1944. Letters to Rosalind Richards: Guide. Page 3 of 3 Peabody, Fannie, 1860-1946. 4 A.L.s. to [Henry Howe] Richards: (165) Groton, 23 Feb [1939] 1s. (2p.) (166) Same [1939] 1s. (3p.) (167) Tuscon, 15 Feb 1941. 1s. (3p.) (168) Groton [n.d.] 1s. (3p.) Peabody, Fannie, 1860-1946. 7 letters to Laura Elisabeth (Howe) Richards: (169) Groton, 16 Jan 1913. 1s. (2p.) (170) Same, 1 Apr [1939] 2s. (3p.) env. (171) [N.p.] 29 Oct 1940. 1s. (3p.) (172) Groton, 11 Feb [n.d.] 1s. (2p.) (173) Same, 16 May [n.d.] 1s. (2p.) (174) Same [n.d.] 2s. (3p.) (175) Same [n.d.] 2s. (4p.) incomplete at end. (176) Richards, Henry Howe. T.L. (unsigned) to []; Groton, 27 Nov 1938. 1s. (1p.) Extract. hou00828 http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00828 2/20/2008 Groton School - private New England boarding school in Massachusetts - Admission / Di Page 1 of 1 CALENDAR CONTACT us DIRECTIONS SEARCH SITE MAP ALUMNI PARENTS MY GROTON character, intellect, leadership GROTON SCHOOL About Groton Admission St. John's Chapel Academics The Arts Athletics Student Life -Quick Links- Admission How to Apply Directions to the school Zebra Tales Groton School 78 On-line Forms and 282 Farmers Row Downloadable Application Local Map PO Box 991 Regional Map Materials Groton, MA 01450-0991 Financial Aid By Car: School Profile Logan Airport and points just north of Boston Route 93 North to Route 495 South; take the Route 119 west exit-Exit 31 toward Groton/Townsend; turn left onto Great Road/Route 119; follow to center of Groton; turn slight Meet the Office left onto Route 111-Farmer's Row. School gates on right approximately 1.5 miles from Groton center. Groton On The Road 2007- 2008 From Boston-Cambridge and points just west of Boston Route 2 West to Route 495 North-Exit 40B toward Lowell/Lawrence; take the Route 119 exit- Directions to the school Exit 31 toward Groton/Acton; keep right at fork to go onto Route 119 to center of Groton; turn slight left onto Route 111-Farmer's Row. School gates on right approximately 1.5 miles from Local Accommodations Groton center. Video Gallery From New York and the West and South Massachusetts Turnpike (Route 90) east to Route 495 north; Route 119 west Exit 31 (Littleton Video Gallery Archive Common Exit), Route 111 South to the school gates on right (about 1.5 miles from downtown Groton). Contact Us From the North and Northeast Any route south to Route 495; Route 495 south to R119 (Groton-Littleton Common, Exit 31); Route 119 west through the town of Groton to Route 111; Route 111 south (toward Ayer) for 1.5 miles to the school gates on the right. By Train: From Boston's North Station to Ayer. Call (800) 392-6099 for the train schedule. Use taxi service from Ayer to Groton, about 3 miles. By Bus or Limousine: Buckingham Bus service: (978) )448-6057; C&L Limosine (978) 692-9303; Littleton Limo service: (978) 486-4600. Print version of page : Email page to a friend 282 Farmers Row, P.O. Box 991, Groton, Massachusetts 01450 (978) 448-3363 Admission Office: (978) 448-7510 http://www.groton.org/home/content.asp?id=53 2/22/2008 Endicott Peabody (1857-1944) Page 1 of 2 the Products papers project Teaching Eleanor Roosevelt Glossary Home About Eleanor Roosevelt Endicott Peabody (1857-1944) About The Project Endicott Peabody, FDR's headmaster at Groton School, who Online Documents emphasized "manly Christian character," had a profound Eleanor Roosevelt In Her influence on young FDR. Own Words ER, JFK, & the 1960 Election: Peabody, the son of a wealthy Salem, Massachusetts, financier, A Mini-Edition graduated from Cambridge University and returned to America to The My Day Projects enroll in a Massachusetts seminary. In 1884, he was ordained an Episcopal priest. The same year, he and two colleagues founded Teaching Eleanor Roosevelt the Groton School for Boys in Groton, Massachusetts, Teaching Human Rights approximately forty miles outside Boston. He modeled Groton Support The Project after strict English boarding schools and emphasized "religious Contact The Project observance, vigorous exercise and spartan living. (1) Under his leadership, Groton challenged its students and staff to embrace Search their civil and religious responsibility, declaring in 1884 that "if Go some Groton boys do not enter political life and do something for The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project is a university-chartered research center our land it won't be because they have not been urged."(2) associated with the Department of History of The George Washington University FDR took Peabody's lessons to heart, especially his advocacy of THE GEORGE strenuous Christianity. While at Groton, Roosevelt attended WASHINGTON Peabody's confirmation class, joined a society that helped UNIVERSITY underprivileged boys at summer camp and a club in Boston, and one winter was responsible for helping to care for a local African American woman, to whom he brought food and fuel. FDR later recalled, "as long as I live, the influence of Dr. and Mrs. Peabody means and will mean more to me than that of any other people next to my father and mother." 3 Peabody officiated at FDR and ER's wedding and at the private religious services FDR held before his inaugurations and major events. Peabody died January 20, 1945, the day of FDR's fourth inauguration. Notes: 1. "Peabody, Endicott" in Franklin D. Roosevelt, His Life and Times. Otis L. Graham, Jr., and Meghan Robinson, eds. (New York: Da Capo Press, 1985), 316. 2. Frank Freidel, Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/peabody-endicott.cfm 2/20/2008 Verizon Yahoo! Mail -eppster2@verizon.net Page 1 of 1 Verizon Yahoo! Mail Verizon Central Yahoo! Search: Web Search Welcome, eppster2@verizon. Mail Home All-New Mail Tutorials Help YAHOO! verizon [Sign Out, Member Center 1 MAIL Classic Mail Contacts Calendar Notepad Mail For Mobile - Options Check Mail Compose Search Mail Search the Web [Add Edit] Previous Next I Back to Messages Folders Inbox (3) Delete Reply Forward Move Draft This message is not flagged. [ Flag Message - Mark as Unread Printable View Sent Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:40:21 -0800 (PST) Bulk [Empty] "ELIZABETH and RONALD EPP" Add to Trash [Empty] From: Address Book Add Mobile Alert My Folders [Hide] Subject: Archives: Peabody & Dorr Eliz messages (2) To: dbrown@groton.org Horseshoe Pond Dear Doug, Member Information Ron Archives (26) The letter from Mr. Dorr to President Eliot was written on July 20th, 1919. In it Dorr states that he dined with Endicott Peabody at the Endicotts' (William Crowninshield Endicott) two days earlier (Dorr was related through marriage to Search Shortcuts the Endicotts) The eagle photograph was given to the Groton School on that occasion. My Photos My Attachments It would also be worthwhile to look at correspondence with W.C. Endicott at this time--as well as President Charles W. Eliot. please do not invest too much energy into this project. If you discover anything promising I will gladly travel to Groton and take a look on my own time. Please confirm receipt of this message. I look forward to hearing from you. Ronald Epp, Ph.D. Delete Reply Forward Move Previous Next Back to Messages Save Message Text I Full Headers Check Mail Compose Search Mail Search the Web Copyright © 2008 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright/IP Policy | Terms of Service Send Feedback Help NOTICE: We collect personal information on this site. 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