Title: Rogers Memorial Collection: Henry Munroe Rogers papers,
Authors: Rogers, Henry Munroe, 1839-1937; Willard, E. S. 1853-1915; Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900; Sothern, E. H. 1859-1933; Merrill, Frank T., 1848-; Epstein, Jacob, 1880-1959; Chadwick, G. W. 1854-1931; Benedict, Evelyn, approximately 1869-; Dresser, Julia Doane, approximately 1859-; Foote, Arthur, 1853-1937; Francillon, Rosamund Liszt Marie, 1841-1910.; Gericke, Wilhelm, 1845-1925; Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943; Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935; Kennan, George, 1845-1924; Lewis, Arthur, 1846-1930; Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924; Marlowe, Julia, 1865-1950; Moore, Helen, 1862-1954,; O'Reilly, John Boyle, 1844-1890; Rogers, Clara Bates, 1845-1923,; Rogers, John Hicks, approximately 1809-1887,; Shaw, Francis George, 1809-1882; Tasker, Lyman H., approximately 1828-1904.; Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915; Wister, Owen, 1860-1938; Boston Public Library; Houghton Mifflin Company; Rogers Memorial Collection.
Year: 1812
Subjects: Willard, E. S.; Sothern, E. H.; Lincoln, Abraham, Anecdotes.; Rogers, Henry Munroe,; Barnett, John,; Irving, Henry,; Marlowe, Julia,; Shaw, Robert Gould,; Strauss, Johann, Portraits.; Terry, Ellen,; Boston Latin School (Mass.); Königliches Conservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig; Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States; Theater United States; Boston (Mass.) Social life and customs; California Description and travel; Colorado Description and travel; Egypt Description and travel; India Description and travel; Italy Pictorial works.; Japan Description and travel; Nebraska Description and travel; Switzerland Pictorial works; United States History Naval operations; Utah Description and travel; Wyoming Description and travel
Abstract: This collection is arranged into eight subseries. A includes five scrapbooks of letters and printed ephemera addressed to Henry Munroe Rogers, and portrait photographs of actors and artists. B includes correspondence, mostly mounted on loose scrapbook pages. Correspondents who appear in A and/or B include G.W. Chadwick; Sir Jacob Epstein; Arthur Foote; Wilhelm Gericke; Albert Bushnell Hart; Childe Hassam; Houghton Mifflin Company; George Kennan; Henry Cabot Lodge; Julia Marlowe; Helen Moore; John Boyle O'Reilly; Thomas Nelson Page; E.H. Sothern; Booker T. Washington; Edward Smith Willard; and Owen Wister. The collection also includes letters from Rogers to his parents and sisters, written during his Civil War service and travel to Europe and Asia. Much of the correspondence is with Rogers's theatrical friends and with representatives of patriotic organizations such as the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Subseries C includes correspondence relating to gifts Rogers made to Boston Public Library and Harvard University. D includes groups of letters to father John Hicks Rogers, and to friend Evelyn Benedict; and a typescript of an important letter from Francis George Shaw concerning the body of his son Robert Gould Shaw.