Scope and Contents From the Series: Series I. Business and Legal Papers contains notes and documents from 1822 to 1867. These papers include notes about certain legal cases, receipts, wills, titles, and legal advice. Correspondence clearly about business matters can be found here as well. Of interest in the "Pettingate vs. Piper" case, in which Richard Pettingate, a Navy first office, was accused by second mate Walter Piper of smuggling tobacco for personal use. The two men later made threats to kill one another. A number of...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series I. Business and Legal Papers contains notes and documents from 1822 to 1867. These papers include notes about certain legal cases, receipts, wills, titles, and legal advice. Correspondence clearly about business matters can be found here as well. Of interest in the "Pettingate vs. Piper" case, in which Richard Pettingate, a Navy first office, was accused by second mate Walter Piper of smuggling tobacco for personal use. The two men later made threats to kill one another. A number of...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Manuscripts and Printed Material includes notes Cushing made in preparation for a history of Newbury, Massachusetts he was writing. Also included is a manuscript of this history written for the Newbury bi-centennial in 1835. Folder 10 includes a miniature printing of the Boston Transcript from 1874 and campaign pamphlets against Benjamin Franklin Butler, who lost his campaigns for governor in 1878 and 1879, but became governor from 1883 to...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Manuscripts and Printed Material includes notes Cushing made in preparation for a history of Newbury, Massachusetts he was writing. Also included is a manuscript of this history written for the Newbury bi-centennial in 1835. Folder 10 includes a miniature printing of the Boston Transcript from 1874 and campaign pamphlets against Benjamin Franklin Butler, who lost his campaigns for governor in 1878 and 1879, but became governor from 1883 to...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Manuscripts and Printed Material includes notes Cushing made in preparation for a history of Newbury, Massachusetts he was writing. Also included is a manuscript of this history written for the Newbury bi-centennial in 1835. Folder 10 includes a miniature printing of the Boston Transcript from 1874 and campaign pamphlets against Benjamin Franklin Butler, who lost his campaigns for governor in 1878 and 1879, but became governor from 1883 to...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Subseries A. Correspondence contains a sampling of Cushing's letters to and from many people. They include complaints, invitations to several functions, thank you notes, letters recommending promotions, and letters asking for favors. Also included is a letter from a man who claimed he was held against his will for twelve years. He wanted justice, asking for Cushing's help. Other notes, such as an original love poem, can be found here as well.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Subseries A. Correspondence contains a sampling of Cushing's letters to and from many people. They include complaints, invitations to several functions, thank you notes, letters recommending promotions, and letters asking for favors. Also included is a letter from a man who claimed he was held against his will for twelve years. He wanted justice, asking for Cushing's help. Other notes, such as an original love poem, can be found here as well.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries B. Spofford Correspondence is of both a personal and business nature. The two earlier letters from 1829 and [1834], are addressed to Doctor Richard Spofford (1787-1872), a Newburyport physician who apparently treated Cushing's wife during her illness. His son, Richard Smith Spofford (1833-1888), was a Newburyport attorney and husband of writer Harriet Prescott Spofford. He was a friend and business acquaintance of Cushing a most of the Spofford correspondence is addressed to him,...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries B. Spofford Correspondence is of both a personal and business nature. The two earlier letters from 1829 and [1834], are addressed to Doctor Richard Spofford (1787-1872), a Newburyport physician who apparently treated Cushing's wife during her illness. His son, Richard Smith Spofford (1833-1888), was a Newburyport attorney and husband of writer Harriet Prescott Spofford. He was a friend and business acquaintance of Cushing a most of the Spofford correspondence is addressed to him,...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries B. Spofford Correspondence is of both a personal and business nature. The two earlier letters from 1829 and [1834], are addressed to Doctor Richard Spofford (1787-1872), a Newburyport physician who apparently treated Cushing's wife during her illness. His son, Richard Smith Spofford (1833-1888), was a Newburyport attorney and husband of writer Harriet Prescott Spofford. He was a friend and business acquaintance of Cushing a most of the Spofford correspondence is addressed to him,...