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| | MHS | Edith Emerson Forbes and William Hathaway Forbes Papers, 1827-ca. 1964 : Guide to the Collection |
 | | William Cameron Forbes worked as a partner in his grandfather's firm, J.M. Forbes and Co., after 1899, and was appointed by President Roosevelt in 1904 to the Philippine Commission, where he held several administrative posts and then served as governor-general of the islands, 1909-1913. |
 | | This collection is composed of the family papers of Edith (Emerson) Forbes, the daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and her husband William Hathaway Forbes, the son of John Murray Forbes, of Milton, Mass. |
 | | Edith (Emerson) Forbes was a prolific letter-writer, and this series is particularly strong in correspondence between her and her children, particularly after the death of William Hathaway Forbes in 1897. |
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