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James W. Brooks Deeds and Correspondence

This file is part of the Administrative Materials collection. Access may be restricted due to privacy concerns. For questions about access, please contact hflib@fas.harvard.edu.

• HF-ID: HFAdm-006
• Category: Administrative Materials
• Creator:
  • Adams, Charles F.
  • Brooks, James W.
  • Cline, A.C.
  • Eliot, Charles W.
  • Fisher, R.T.
  • Foster, D.R.
  • Higginson, Henry L.
  • Higginson, James J.
  • Hughes, C.
  • Lyford, W.H.

• Associated Person:
  • Fiske, John

• Date: 1906-1973
• Location: Harvard Forest, Petersham MA, Prospect Hill Tract (Harvard Forest), Simes Tract (Harvard Forest), Slab City Tract (Harvard Forest), Tom Swamp Tract (Harvard Forest)
• Media: Paper, CD
• Contents:
  • 1 accordion folder, 3 file folders.

• Keywords: harvard forest history
• Abstract:
  • Folder 1. Copies of deed from James W. Brooks to President and Fellows of Harvard College; related deeds and plans of land deeded to J.W. Brooks.
  
  
  • Folder 2. Correspondence of Charles F. Adams, J.W. Brooks, Charles W. Eliot, R.T. Fisher, Henry L. Higginson, James J. Higginson, A.C. Cline, D.R. Foster and C. Hughes (1906-1991).
  
  
  • Folder 3. J.W. Brooks correspondence (October 26, 1906 to June 19, 1909) compiled by W.H. Lyford (1972).

• Archives Location: Map Room, stack 12, drawer 1
• Access: Restricted
• Provenance: J.W. Brooks correspondence and documents in folder 3 donated on June 12, 1973 by John Fiske of Petersham, MA.
• Administrative Notes:
  • Harvard University ID: D-400-1 (-1 Deed from James W. Brooks to P. & F.; -1a Old deeds and plan of lands deeded to James W. Brooks, deeded in D400-1 to P. & F. Also list of these documents.).