Manuscript volume of poems by William Bourn Oliver Peabody and Oliver William Bourn Peabody
Series: Collections of the Harvard University Archives
Published: 1826
Language: eng
Subjects: Phi Beta Kappa. Massachusetts Alpha (Harvard University)
Description: The volume, which has Lucinda D. Orne's name and the date October 12, 1826 written on the first page, contains manuscript copies of the following three addresses: The hope of our country, a poem delivered at Cambridge to the Phi Beta Kappa Society, August 31, 1826 by William Bourn Oliver Peabody, a poem delivered before the PBK Society, August 29, 1822 by Oliver William Bourn Peabody and a poem delivered at the New Hampshire centennial celebration at Portsmouth, May 21, 1823 by Oliver William Bourn Peabody. None of the poems are attributed within the volume. The relationship between Orne and the Peabodys is unclear; however, it appears that Peabody was the minister of the Unitarian church of which the Ornes were members, and Orne presumably received and copied the text of the poems from William.
Notes: Open for research.

Formerly classified as HUD 3684.122.7.

Orne, Lucinda Dwight, 1786-1828. Manuscript volume of poems by William Bourn Oliver Peabody and Oliver William Bourn Peabody, 1826. HUY 117, Harvard University Archives.

Purchased with the Norton Perkins Fund, December 6, 1930

Lucinda Dwight Orne was born on August 27, 1786, to Bezaleel Howard and Lucinda Dwight. She married Samuel Orne (AB 1804) in 1809 and they settled in Springfield, Massachusetts. The couple had two children, Sophia Dwight Orne and Wentworth Orne. Orne died on October 17, 1828.

Oliver William Bourn Peabody and his twin brother, William Bourn Oliver Peabody, were born on July 19, 1799 to Oliver and Frances Peabody. Both received their Harvard in ABs 1816. William Peabody became a Unitarian minister in Springfield, Massachusetts; Oliver Peabody became a Unitarian minister in Burlington, Vermont.