1879-1991
Guide to the Collection
Restrictions on Access
The St. Botolph Club records are stored offsite and must be requested at least two business days in advance via Portal1791. Researchers needing more than six items from offsite storage should provide additional advance notice. If you have questions about requesting materials from offsite storage, please contact the reference desk at 617-646-0532 or reference@softlawinternationale.net.
There are restrictions on the use of this collection. Users must sign an agreement stating 他们在获得访问利记手机官网的权限之前了解这些限制.
Abstract
This collection consists of the records of the St. Botolph Club, a gentlemen's social club founded in Boston in 1880. Records include histories, minutes, officers' 信件，财务记录，以及记录艺术展览和文化的材料， social, and sporting events held at the club.
Historical Sketch
The St. Botolph Club was founded in Boston on 10 Jan. 1880 following the circulation of a letter sent to some three hundred prominent male citizens. Signed by Henry Cabot Lodge, Francis 帕克曼，俱乐部的第一任主席，菲利普斯·布鲁克斯，威廉·迪恩·豪威尔斯，还有其他七个人， 邀请函提议成立一个俱乐部，其中设有艺术画廊，每月开放展览 to the public, a reading room, and rooms for general use. Its purpose, as noted in the club 是为了“促进作家、艺术家、 and other gentlemen connected with or interested in literature and art."
这家新成立的俱乐部以纽约的世纪俱乐部为蓝本，最终就其名称展开了争论 deciding on the St. Botolph, the patron saint of Boston (a corruption of St. Botolph's Town in Lincolnshire, England).
The organization's first quarters were located at 87 Boylston St. The club resided in two other locations, 2 Newbury St. (later 4 Newbury St.) and 115 Commonwealth Ave. before securing its current location, 199 Commonwealth Ave. in 1971.
除了社交之外，俱乐部还为会员们提供各种各样的活动. Sunday afternoons were reserved for concerts. "Smoke talks," lectures which surveyed politics, science, social issues, and the arts, began in 1883. Receptions were given for visiting notables, and art exhibitions were held for both member and non-member artists.
该俱乐部在其展览中展示了各种艺术媒介，包括:意大利和意大利 French paintings, decorative arts, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings. It also 推广了当时的“新艺术”，并因此赞助了约翰·辛格·萨金特的第一次单人演出 show in America in 1888. Works by Claude Monet were displayed in 1892, 1895, and 1899. Monet's 1891年2月在纽约的联合俱乐部举行了第一次在美国的演出. By 1900, the club had sponsored solo exhibitions of virtually every important American Impressionist of the era, including J. Alden Weir, John Twachtman, Childe Hassam, Theodore Wendel, John L. Breck, Edmund Tarbell, Lilla C. Perry, and Mary Cassatt. The St. Botolph's 在世纪之交之前对印象派的支持构成了它的主要贡献 the history of art.
The St. Botolph Club continues as one of Boston's social clubs. Women were granted membership in 1990. The club maintains its mission of promoting the arts and literature in the city of Boston.
Sources
Curtis, Joseph Henry. St. Botolph Club: Its Birth and Early Club History. Boston : s.n., n.d.
Collection Description
The records of the St. Botolph Club, housed in 19 record cartons and 1 oversize carton, 包含从1879年至1991年俱乐部历史的松散记录和装订卷. The 记录分为五个系列:史料、行政记录、俱乐部记录 activities, Clippings/scrapbooks, and Recordings.
The bulk of the collection consists of administrative records, both loose and bound, 俱乐部成员与俱乐部官员之间的通信，有关的印刷材料 member activities, and scrapbooks.
Throughout the history of the organization, record-keeping practices were inconsistent. As a result, similar types of records may be found in several locations. For example, financial 利记APP官网手机版俱乐部的信息可以在松散的和捆绑的会议记录，财务记录，和 scrapbooks. Researchers should give attention to series and subseries titles, loose and bound materials within those series, and the scrapbooks for the information needed.
There are periodic gaps throughout the collection. Most notable is the absence of minutes for the years 1972-1975. The scrapbooks end in 1974. There are also significant gaps within the exhibition lists.
研究人员感兴趣的是这个利记手机官网揭示了成员的态度 包含在1880-1896年的通信和偶尔的信件中 secretaries' records. The collection documents the history of an institution typical of the Boston gentlemen clubs of the past hundred or more years, yet unique among them. The records 也揭示了成员对诸如禁酒、资格等不同问题的态度 会员资格，俱乐部里的女人，仆人的福利，第一世界时期的爱国主义 War, and financial hardships in the Great Depression. Finally, the art exhibition catalogues, 音乐会的节目，演讲者的名单，成员的诗歌提供的信息不是 不仅是利记APP官网手机版波士顿自1880年以来的艺术和文学史，而且是利记APP官网手机版个别艺术家， performers, writers, and lecturers.
NOTE: Indexes to the exhibitions, by date of exhibition and name of artist, are available in the MHS Library.
Acquisition Information
The records were deposited at the Massachusetts Historical Society by the St. Botolph Club in 1991. Additional, unprocessed materials were deposited 17 Dec. 1997, 31 Mar. 1999, Mar. 2000, 2005, Aug. 2009, and July 2013. (More expected.)
Restrictions on Access
The St. Botolph Club records are stored offsite and must be requested at least two business days in advance via Portal1791. Researchers needing more than six items from offsite storage should provide additional advance notice. If you have questions about requesting materials from offsite storage, please contact the reference desk at 617-646-0532 or reference@softlawinternationale.net.
There are restrictions on the use of this collection. Users must sign an agreement stating 他们在获得访问利记手机官网的权限之前了解这些限制.
Restrictions on Use
The records of the St. Botolph Club have been placed on deposit at the Massachusetts Historical Society. The Massachusetts Historical Society does not claim ownership of the literary rights (copyright) to this collection. The Massachusetts 历史学会不能允许出版或引用它所引用的文件 not hold copyright. Use of these materials does not imply permission to publish. It is the sole responsibility of the 研究者必须获得文学权利所有者(版权)的正式许可才能 publish or quote from documents in this collection.
All reproductions, including photocopies and digital photographs, are for personal use only. Personal use copies may not be donated 或存放于其他图书馆或档案馆，或供其他研究人员使用 the written permission of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Detailed Description of the Collection
I. Historical materials, 1900-1991
Arranged topically.
系列一包含了各种俱乐部的历史和原始手写的俱乐部歌曲亚瑟 Macy. Historical information on St. Botolph, St. Botolph Church in England, and St. Botolph Church in Boston is also included.
II. Administrative records, 1879-1990
Arranged chronologically within each subseries.
Series II, Administrative records, is broken down into five subseries. Minutes, 1879-1989, 如果没有具体命名，可以包括各种机构，如:年度，执行，董事会 of Governors, special meeting, or committee minutes. Bound records include largely all transactions of the club in its earlier years. Within the bound records are financial reports, treasurer reports, and minutes from the bodies which governed the club.
这些官员的信件，未注明日期，1880-1963年，主要是利记APP官网手机版日常成员的 提名、议员及其提名人的支持信、出席 扶轮社的活动、有关帐户结余的资料、以及从扶轮社辞职. Although the contents of the letters pertain to routine matters, the letters do hold autographs from prominent individuals. See Select Name Index to this correspondence.
大多数早期的财务记录都包含在合订本或剪贴簿中; 然而，1890年至1990年的未注明日期的财务记录中包含了零星的、松散的记录 mid 1970s. Occasional gaps also occur from then through 1990.
包括在一般管理和成员信息，未注明日期，1881年至1989年，是 会员名单(印刷及装订)、访客登记簿及早期通讯录. The 杂项部分主要由财务信息和通信有关 the renovation of the kitchen and library at 199 Commonwealth Ave.
A. Minutes, 1879-1989
Bound records
B. Officer correspondence, 1880-1963
Matted officer correspondence is restricted because of physical format. Use photocopies interfiled in officer correspondence, 1880-1898.
C. Financial records, 1890-1990
D. General administrative records and member information, 1881-1990
E. Miscellaneous, 1890-1984
199 Commonwealth Avenue materials
III. Club activities, 1882-1991
Arranged chronologically within each subseries.
Club activities are divided into three subseries: exhibition materials; announcements, events, notices; and miscellaneous.
展览资料，未注明日期，1882-1991年，主要由原始松散目录组成 exhibitions held at the St. Botolph. Other catalogs and exhibition materials are located in Series IV, Clippings/Scrapbooks. From the information taken from several locations within the collection, an index has been created. Please note that programs, program tickets or annual 展览年份的记录在馆藏中不见了，索引也不见了 incomplete. Indexes, both by date of exhibition and artist, can be found in Appendices B and C.
子系列中的大部分公告、事件和通知，均未注明日期， 1886年至1990年，是印刷的节目，门票和通知，以确定文化，社会和 sporting events at St. Botolph. On 8 Nov. 1984, the club held a dinner with Julia Child, the renowned chef. Promotional materials and correspondence with the artists in residence can also be found. Twelfth Night materials, consisting of programs, scripts, and musical scores, document this annual members' only club event.
有趣的是，在第三个子系列中，杂项，未注明日期，1907-1980，是由 members of St. Botolph honoring members of the club including Henry M. Goodrich. An ongoing record, 1959-1971, of members' cribbage scores is also included in this subseries.
A. Exhibition materials, 1882-1991
NOTE: Two indices, listing exhibitions by date and by artist, are available in the MHS Library.
B. Announcements, events, notices: general, 1886-1990
Twelfth Night materials
C. Miscellaneous, 1907-1980
Printed materials, 1938-1976
IV. Clippings/scrapbooks, 1886-1974
由于原始剪贴簿的物理状况不佳，已被拆装，放入 chronological order, and photocopied. Therefore, the original scrapbooks, located in cartons 12-15, are restricted. Users should use the photocopies in cartons 17-18. The scrapbooks contain a variety of materials including: programs, tickets, 确定扶轮社活动、财务及司库报告、年度及委员会的通知 minutes. Much of this material overlaps with other series in the collection.
还包括有关俱乐部活动或会员及其会员的剪报 notable outside activities. These clippings, contained in one file folder in OS Carton 1, are in no particular order; however, the dates range from the 1950s through the 1970s.
A. Scrapbooks, 1886-1974
Disbound in chronological order.
Use photocopies.
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Use photocopies.
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B. Newspaper clippings, 1950s-1970s
V. Recordings, 1981-1986
Arranged chronologically.
This series contains programs recorded at the club consisting of 82 cassettes and two reel-to-reel tapes, some of which are not identified. The programs that have been identified are listed by date, program, box, and the number of copies available.
A. Cassettes
B. Reel-to-reel tapes (Unidentified, undated)
Select Name Index to Officers' Correspondence
| Abbott, Lyman | undated 4 Mar. 1901 |
| Adams, Charles Frances, 2nd, in J. F. Andrew | 11 Nov. 1880 |
| Adams, John Quincy | 1 Oct. 1881 |
| Aldrich, Nelson | 24 Sep. 1940 |
| Aldrich, Thomas Bailey | 19 Dec. 1883 21 May 1892 28 Aug. 1893 |
| Ames, James Barr | 4 May 1885 |
| Amory, Frederic | 1886 26 Apr. 1886 |
| Andrew, J. F. | 11 Nov. 1880 |
| Anthony, A. V. S. | undated [1881] [1884] 20 Sept, [Dec.] 1884 [1885] Nov. 1885 4 Jan. 1886 |
| Atkinson, Edward | 14 Oct. 1881 4 Mar. 1897 |
| Bartlett, T. H. | undated 22 May 1880 |
| Bartol, Elizabeth | 22 Feb. 1881 |
| Bowditch, Ernestus William | 1 Mar. 1884 |
| Bowditch, Alfred | 6 Dec. 1888 |
| Briggs, Lloyd Vernon, in L. C. Briggs form for proposal | 24 Nov. 1930 |
| Brimmer, Martin | 19 Mar, 20 Mar. 1895 28 Apr. 1906 |
| Brooks, Phillips | 30 Nov. 1881 |
| Brown, J. Appleton | 4 Oct., 14 Oct., 19 Oct. 1881 1884 |
| Cabot, Edward C. | 24 May 1880 19 Jan., 3 Feb. 1881 30 Apr. 1895 |
| Clark, Charles Hopkins | 17 Oct. 1898 |
| Cole, J. Foxcroft | 17 Apr. 1890 |
| Coolidge, Thomas Jefferson | 5 May 1892 29 Jan. 1896 |
| Crowninshield, Benjamin W. | 7 Jan., 30 Sep. 1884 20 Mar. 1890 |
| Crowninshield, Caspar | 6 Feb. 1883 |
| Crowninshield, Frederic | 17 Oct. 1881 |
| Darrow, Whitney | 28 May 1940 |
| Deane, Charles | 1 Jan. 1883 |
| Dodge, Theodore Aryault | 6 Oct., 5 Dec., 8 Dec. 1883 8 July 1893 |
| Dyer, Louis | 13 Jan. 1885 |
| Eliot, Samuel | 30 Nov. 1881 |
| Fessenden, Reginald A. | 11 Oct. 1929 |
| Foote, Arthur | undated in Fabien Sevitzky form for proposal, 20 Feb. 1935 |
| French, Daniel Chester | 21 Oct. 1881 5 Jan. 1885 5 Jan. 1889 |
| Frothingham, Octavius Brooks | 10 Oct. 1883 |
| Gaston, William | 5 Jan. 1893 |
| Gaugengigl, I. M. | 11 May 1880 |
| Gilman, Arthur | 2 Nov., 28 Dec. 1880 7 Feb. 1882 |
| Grant, Robert | 21 Dec. 1882 |
| Green, Samuel A. | 3 Jan. 1889 4 Jan. 1893 5 June 1908 |
| Greenslet, Ferris | 7 Feb., 13 Dec., 23 Dec. 1922 24 Jan. 1940 |
| Guerin, Jules | 12 Jan. 1907 |
| Gurney, Ephraim W. | 2 Mar. 1881 |
| Hale, Edward Everett | Feb. 1880 19 Feb. 1880 |
| Hale, Philip | 7 May 1893 |
| Hale, Philip L. | 19 Jan. 1923 |
| Hassam, Childe | 3 Dec. 1896 |
| Higginson, Francis Lee | 31 July 1891 |
| Higginson, Thomas Wentworth | 16 Dec. 1883 |
| Hoar, Ebenezer R. | 16 May 1892 |
| Hoar, George F. | 4 Jan. 1882 |
| Hopper, Edward | 27 May 1963 |
| Houghton, Henry O. | 4 Jan. 1881 |
| Hovey, William A. | 25 May 1880 |
| Howells, William Dean | 19 Sep., 31 Oct. 1884 29 Mar. 1885 5 Jan. 1886 |
| King, Stanley, in C. J. Prescott form for proposal | 30 Jan. 1935 |
| La Farge, John. | undated |
| Lane, George M. | 2 Jan., 13 Jan. 1882 |
| Lang, Benjamin J. | undated 14 Jan., Apr., (printed), 11 Apr. 1881 |
| Langley, Samuel P. | 19 Aug. 1893 |
| Lawrence, William | 5 Nov. 1881 |
| Lee, Henry | 16 May 1892 |
| Lincoln, Solomon | 16/17 Feb. 1880 28 Oct. 1901 |
| Lodge, Henry Cabot | 1 Oct. 1885 |
| Long, John D. | 28 Dec. 1882 |
| Longfellow, A. W., Jr. | 2 Mar. 1897 |
| Longfellow, Ernest W. | 13 Dec. 1881 |
| Longfellow, W. P. P. | 19 Apr. 1880 29 Nov. 1882 |
| Lovering, William C. | 10 Nov. 1893 12 Feb., 25 Sep. 1895 |
| Lowell, Abbott Lawrence | 28 Sep. 1940 |
| Lowell, Percival | 22 Jan. 1895 |
| Mansbridge, Albert | 5 Feb. 1922 |
| Matthews, Nathan, Jr. | 7 June 1902 |
| McKim, Charles F. | 5 Aug. 1893 |
| Mifflin, George | 30 Nov. 1881 |
| Millett, F. D. | 6 Jan. 1881 |
| Minot, Charles Sedgwick | Oct. 1880 |
| Minot, Lawrence | 8 Feb. 1899 |
| Minot, William, Jr. | 17 Mar. 1881 8 Mar. 1886 |
| Mitchell, Silas Weir | 9 Feb. 1882 |
| Mitchell, Stewart | 4 Nov. 1939 |
| Morse, John T. | 27 Apr., 31 Oct. 1881 28 Nov. 1884 |
| Newcomb, Simon | 16 Mar. 1907 |
| Norton, Charles Eliot | 8 Oct. 1881 25 Mar. 1895 |
| O'Reilly, John Boyle | 29 Sep. 1880 |
| Osgood, James R. | 29 Apr. 1881 18 Sep., 28 Sep. 1884 26 Dec. 1885 |
| Paine, Ralph D. | 10 Apr. 1922 |
| Paine, Robert Treat, II | undated |
| Parkman, Francis, in F. H. Smith | 21 Dec. 1880 |
| Parsons, Alfred | undated 24 Mar. 1893 |
| Peabody, Francis G. | 31 Dec. 1881 |
| Pyle, Howard | 23 Mar. 1906 |
| Quincy, Josiah P. | 26 Dec. 1883 |
| Reid, Robert | 26 Oct. 1901 [1908-1911] |
| Reid, Whitelaw | 5 May 1892 |
| Rideing, William Henry | 26 May 1884 20 Feb. 1893 |
| Robinson, Edward | 23 Feb., 21 Oct., 25 Oct. 1886 |
| Roche, James Jeffrey | 19 Jan., 10 Feb. 1894 |
| Ropes, John C. | 19 Jan., 10 Feb. 1894 |
| Rotch, A. Lawrence | 15 Dec. 1905 |
| Rotch, Arthur | 22 Dec. 1880 |
| Saltonstall, Leverett | 21 Dec. 1882 |
| Sedgwick, William Thompson | 6 Feb 1885 7 Dec. 1902 |
| Shattuck, Frederick C. | 21 Nov. 1880 |
| Storey, Moorfield | 26 Nov. 1886 24 Jan. 1887 |
| Sturgis, Russell | 9 Oct. 1896 16 Jan. 1904 14 July 1908 |
| Tarbell, Edmund C. | 7 Oct. 1895 |
| Taylor, Francis Henry | 28 Mar. 1940 |
| Towne, Charles Hanson | 4 Mar. 1941 |
| Trowbridge, John | 11 Apr. 1892 |
| Vaillant, George C. | [1931] 19 Oct. 1931 |
| Vinton, Frederic P. | 29 Apr. 1881 |
| Walcott, John C. | 1 May, 9 May 1940 |
| Waterman, Marcus | 7 May 1880 |
| Watson, William | 20 Feb. 1885 |
| White, John Williams | 21 Oct. 1940 |
| White, Paul Dudley | 11 Oct. 1940 |
| Wigglesworth, Edward | 27 Dec. 1881 |
| Winsor, Justin | 6 Apr. 1892 |
| Winthrop, Robert C. | 7 Jan. 1882 9 Mar. 1892 28 Nov. 1895 |
| Wolcott, Roger | 23 Dec. 1886 4 Mar. 1899 |
Exhibition Indices
MHS图书馆有两个索引，按日期和艺术家列出展览.
Materials Removed from the Collection
以下照片已从收藏中移至MHS照片档案馆，现为 stored with oversize photographs.
Photo album showing the interior and exterior, and floor plans of the St. Botolph Club, 199 Commonwealth Avenue. 28 black and white and 4 color photographs.
1 color photograph of a prayer from the St. Botolph church, Boston, England.
13张威廉·莫里斯·亨特画作的相册，在圣. Botolph Club.
15张8 × 10的黑白照片和13张5 × 7的黑白底片 painting exhibition.
2 black and white photographs and 1 photogravure of Francis Parkman.
13 photographs of unidentified people.
2 unidentified photographs of architectural details, one might be the St. Botolph Club, 199 Commonwealth, the other 115 Commonwealth.
4 black and white photographs of a church in Boston (Lincolnshire), England. By C. V. Clark.
2 black and white photographs of Boston (Lincolnshire), England. 1) A street view [Bargate]. 2) A harbor view.
13 Miscellaneous views of Lincolnshire, England.
2 color photographs of George Sagendarph, in Florida.
1 black and white photograph of Joseph R. DeCamp, artist.
2 black and white photographs showing the interior of [St. Botolph's Church, Lancashire, taken in 1953].
1 8x10 black and white photograph of [Roy Lamson?] playing a clarinet at the St. Botolph Club, n.d.
5 unidentified black and white photographs.
2 8x10 black and white photographs of Christopher O'Riley, pianist.
3 8x10 black and white photographs of Elizabeth Parcells, soprano.
18 × 10黑白照片，哈佛合唱团，12月16日，6:30[80年代].
Preferred Citation
St. Botolph Club records, Massachusetts Historical Society.
Access Terms
This collection is indexed under the following headings in ABIGAIL, the online catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related persons, organizations, or subjects should search the catalog using these headings.