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Collection Number: 02725

Collection Title: Minis Family Papers, 1739-1948

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Size 8.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 2500 items)
Abstract Jacob Florance Minis of J. F. Minis & Co., shipbrokers, steamship agents, and merchants, of Savannah, Georgia, was the son of Abraham Minis, merchant. His Minis ancestors had been in the Savannah area since before the American Revolution. Minis's first wife, to whom he was married in 1890, was Louisa Porter Gilmer, the daughter of Jeremy Francis Gilmer, a United States Army engineer, 1839-1861, and Confederate Chief of Engineers. Minis married his second wife, Mary Elizabeth Haskell (1873-1964), in 1926. Haskell was born in Columbia, S.C., to A. C. Haskell and Alice Alexander Haskell. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1898 and from 1898 to 1923 she taught school at the Haskell-Dean School in Boston, Mass., and the Cambridge-Haskell School in Cambridge, Mass. She was a close friend of Charlotte Teller, playwright, socialist, and suffragette, who wrote under the name of John Brangwyn; Jacob Giller, a Russian immigrant for whom she provided financial support; and Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese poet and artist, for whom she also provided financial support. Gibran died in 1931, and Haskell was one of his heirs. She was charged with the duty of shipping his possessions and paintings to his birthplace in Bsharri, Lebanon. The collection consists of three series. Series 1, Minis Family Materials, contains personal, business, and literary correspondence and other papers of Jacob Florance Minis, Abraham Minis, Louisa Porter Gilmer Minis, Mary Elizabeth Haskell, and other members of the Minis family. Included are two day-books, 1858-1884, a ledger, 1858-1873, a cash book, 1870-1877, and four account books, 1858-1884, of Abraham Minis, wholesale merchant of Savannah; three letterpress copy books, 1898-1903, of Jacob Florance Minis; 22 notebooks of housekeeping records, scrapbooks, and personal diaries of Louisa Minis; papers concerning property of the Hodgson, Telfair, and Habersham families, 1866-1875; and letters, 1768-1935, from members of the Minis family regarding family heirlooms, Minis family history, and the disposition of Jeremy Francis Gilmer's Civil War era maps. Series 2, Mary Haskell Materials, contains extensive correspondence with and about Kahlil Gibran, Charlotte Teller, Jacob Giller, and others; Haskell's personal diaries, with many entries describing her relationship with Gibran; Haskell's teaching materials, consisting primarily of a series of notebooks; and sketches and writings by Gibran. Series 3, Other Materials, contains photographs of Mary Haskell and friends; a map of Savannah, Ga.; a blueprint of Rockwood, the home of Jeremy Francis Gilmer and later Jacob Florance Minis; and an unidentified plat.
Creator Minis (Family : Savannah, Ga.)
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
The collection is open for research. Any other uses may require permission of the appropriate rights holder(s). Please contact Wilson Library for contact information of the known rights holders.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Minis Family Papers #2725, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Gift of Mary Haskell of Savannah, Ga., 1936-1954 and 1962. Addition of 2011 (Acc. 101399) received from Elizabeth Alexander Davis.
Additional Descriptive Resources
A finding aid compiled between 1951 and 1992 is available upon request at the repository. Additionally, there are detailed descriptions of the collection in folders 1 and 80; container lists in these documents, however, have been superseded.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: Manuscripts Department Staff,

Encoded by: Margaret Dickson, October 2006

This collection was reprocessed in October 2006 by Margaret Dickson.

Folder numbers 8, 62, 211-213, 228, 230-231, and 259 were not used.

Finding aid updated in December 2018 by Jodi Berkowitz because of addition.

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

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Jacob Florance Minis of J. F. Minis & Co., shipbrokers, steamship agents, and merchants, of Savannah, Ga., was the son of Abraham Minis, merchant. His Minis ancestors had been in the Savannah area since before the American Revolution. Minis's first wife, to whom he was married in 1890, was Louisa Porter Gilmer, the daughter of Jeremy Francis Gilmer, a United States Army engineer, 1839-1861, and Confederate Chief of Engineers.

Jacob Florance Minis's second wife, Mary Elizabeth Haskell (1873-1964), was born in Columbia, S.C., to A. C. Haskell and Alice Alexander Haskell. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1898, taught school for three years, and traveled to Europe in 1901. In 1903, she accepted the position of headmistress of the Haskell-Dean School in Boston, Mass., which had formerly been under the direction of her sister Louisa. She directed the school until 1918 when she became headmistress of the Cambridge School, later the Cambridge-Haskell School, in Cambridge, Mass. In January 1923, she moved to Savannah, Ga., to live in the home of Jacob Florance Minis, the widower of her deceased cousin, Louisa Porter Gilmer. They married in 1926.

Mary Haskell met Lebanese poet and artist Kahlil Gibran in 1904 at an exhibit of his paintings in the studio of Clarence Day in Boston, and they became close friends. Throughout his travels to Europe between 1908 and 1911 and while he lived and worked in Boston and New York from 1911 until some point during the 1920s, Haskell provided financial support for Gibran. When Gibran died in 1931, Haskell was named, along with his sister, a principal heir of his will. She was charged with shipping his paintings and possessions to his birthplace in Bsharri, Lebanon. Haskell devoted much of her life to the promotion of Gibran's art and writings.

Along with Kahlil Gibran, Mary Haskell maintained a close relationship with Charlotte Teller, a playwright, socialist, and suffragette, who wrote under the name of John Brangwyn. Other close friends and beneficiaries of her generosity were Barbara Young, a poet and close friend of Gibran's, and Jacob Giller, a young Russian immigrant.

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The collection consists of three series. Series 1, Minis Family Materials, contains personal, business, and literary correspondence and other papers of Jacob Florance Minis, Abraham Minis, Louisa Porter Gilmer Minis, Mary Elizabeth Haskell, and other members of the Minis family. Included are two day-books, 1858-1884, a ledger, 1858-1873, a cash book, 1870-1877, and four account books, 1858-1884, of Abraham Minis, wholesale merchant of Savannah, Ga.; three letterpress copy books, 1898-1903, of Jacob Florance Minis; 22 notebooks of housekeeping records, scrapbooks, and personal diaries of Louisa Minis; papers concerning property of the Hodgson, Telfair, and Habersham families, 1866-1875; and letters, 1768-1935, from members of the Minis family regarding family heirlooms, Minis family history, and the disposition of Jeremy Francis Gilmer's Civil War era maps. Series 2, Mary Haskell Materials, contains extensive correspondence with and about Kahlil Gibran, Charlotte Teller, Jacob Giller, and others; Haskell's personal diaries, with many entries describing her relationship with Gibran; Haskell's teaching materials, consisting primarily of a series of notebooks; and sketches and writings by Gibran. Series 3, Other Materials, contains photographs of Mary Haskell and friends; a map of Savannah, Ga.; a blueprint of Rockwood, the home of Jeremy Francis Gilmer and later Jacob Florance Minis; and an unidentified plat.

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Contents list

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 1. Minis Family Materials, 1739-1935 and undated.

About 1100 items.

Arrangement: by type of material.

Correspondence, deeds, clippings, ledgers, day-books, notebooks, pocket diaries, and other materials relating to Jacob Florance Minis; his father, Abraham Minis; his ancestors; his first wife, Lousia Porter Gilmer Minis; and his second wife, Mary Haskell Minis. See folder 1 for a detailed description of the contents of the series, written in 1961.

Folders 1-7 contain a chronological series of correspondence of Jacob Florance Minis, Louisa Porter Gilmer Minis, and other members of the Minis family, and related materials, 1768-1935, including shipping papers, receipts, federal loyalty papers, stock certificates, wills, indentures, marriage certificates, genealogical materials, and passports. Folders 9-48 contain a chronological series of deeds, and folders 49-61 contain unsorted clippings. See folders 50-51 for clippings taken from Confederate newspapers.

Folders 63-79 contain a number of volumes, including transcripts of court proceedings relating to Rockwood, the home of Jeremy Francis Gilmer, legal notebooks, letterpress copy books belonging to Jacob Florance Minis, and notebooks, pocket diaries and a scrapbook belonging to Louisa Porter Gilmer Minis and relating to her daily life and the running of her household.

Also included in the series are two day-books, 1858-1884, a cash book, 1870-1877, and a ledger, 1858-1873, belonging to Abraham Minis, wholesale merchant, and A. Minis & Son, of Savannah, Ga.

Folder 1

Correspondence and Related Materials, 1768-1865

Folder also contains a detailed description of the series, written in 1961.

Folder 2

Correspondence and Related Materials, 1866-1889

Folder 3

Correspondence and Related Materials, 1890-1897

Folder 4

Correspondence and Related Materials, 1898-1904

Folder 5

Correspondence and Related Materials, 1905-1909

Folder 6

Correspondence and Related Materials, 1910-1935

Folder 7

Correspondence and Related Materials, undated

Folder 9

Deeds, 1739

Folder 10

Deeds, 1750-1759

Folder 11

Deeds, 1760

Folder 12

Deeds, 1761-1762

Folder 13

Deeds, 1763-1764

Folder 14

Deeds, 1765-1767

Folder 15-16

Folder 15

Folder 16

Deeds, 1768

Folder 17

Deeds, 1769

Folder 18-19

Folder 18

Folder 19

Deeds, 1770

Folder 20

Deeds, 1771

Folder 21

Deeds, 1772-1773

Folder 22

Deeds, 1774

Folder 23

Deeds, 1775

Folder 24

Deeds, 1776-1779

Folder 25-29

Folder 25

Folder 26

Folder 27

Folder 28

Folder 29

Deeds, 1780-1785

Folder 30

Deeds, 1786-1787

Folder 31

Deeds, 1788-1789

Folder 32

Deeds, 1790-1792

Folder 33

Deeds, 1793-1795

Folder 34

Deeds, 1796-1799

Folder 35

Deeds, 1800-1804

Folder 36

Deeds, 1805-1809

Folder 37

Deeds, 1810-1812

Folder 38

Deeds, 1813-1814

Folder 39

Deeds, 1815-1817

Folder 40

Deeds, 1818-1819

Folder 41

Deeds, 1820-1829

Folder 42

Deeds, 1830-1839

Folder 43

Deeds, 1840-1849

Folder 44

Deeds, 1850-1859

Folder 45

Deeds, 1860-1884

Folder 46-47

Folder 46

Folder 47

Deeds, undated and Fragments

Folder 48

Deeds: Seals

Folder 49-61

Folder 49

Folder 50

Folder 51

Folder 52

Folder 53

Folder 54

Folder 55

Folder 56

Folder 57

Folder 58

Folder 59

Folder 60

Folder 61

Clippings

Folder 63

Transcripts of court proceedings, 1857-1872

Relating to Rockwood, the home of Jeremy Francis Gilmer, including the cases of Hyatt, McBurney & Co. vs. Cordelia St. L. Stanford, administrator of John R. Stanford (he died in 1867 and was legally incompetant some years before), and the case of Cordelia Stanford vs. Thomas M. Bradford . Three transcripts in portfolio.

Folder 64

Notebook, 1865-1869

Properties held in trust by R. Habersham and Mary Telfair for Mrs. M. T. Hodgson; lands of Wm. B. Hodgson and Miss Telfair; and memoranda relating to extensive properties (Telfair lands) in Jefferson and Burke counties, Ga.

Folder 65-67

Folder 65

Folder 66

Folder 67

Letterpress copy books, 1898-1903

Belonging to Jacob Florance Minis of Savannah, Ga., each containing about 500 pages.

Folder 68

Notebooks, 1897 and 1897-1899

Belonging to Louisa Porter Gilmer Minis. Inventory of butler's pantry and menus.

Folder 69

Notebook, 1899-1913

Belonging to Louisa Porter Gilmer Minis. Expenses, menus, and miscellaneous information.

Folder 70

Notebook, 1908-1911

Belonging to Louisa Porter Gilmer Minis. Menus.

Folder 71

Notebook, 1917

Belonging to Louisa Porter Gilmer Minis. Menus.

Folder 72

Notebook, 1917-1919

Belonging to Louisa Porter Gilmer Minis. Menus.

Folder 73

Scrapbook, 1918-1921

Belonging to Louisa Porter Gilmer Minis. Clippings, war relief work, and other information.

Folder 74

Pocket diaries of Louisa Porter Gilmer Minis, 1893-1907

Folder 75

Pocket diaries of Louisa Porter Gilmer Minis, 1901-1903

Folder 76

Pocket diaries of Louisa Porter Gilmer Minis, 1904-1906

Folder 77

Pocket diaries of Louisa Porter Gilmer Minis, 1907-1908

Folder 78

Pocket diaries of Louisa Porter Gilmer Minis, 1913-1914

Folder 79

Pocket diaries of Louisa Porter Gilmer Minis, 1916-1917

Oversize Volume SV-2725/1

Day-book of Abraham Minis, 1858-1873

Oversize Volume SV-2725/2

Ledger of Abraham Minis, 1858-1873

Oversize Volume SV-2725/3

Cash book of Abraham Minis, 1870-1877

Oversize Volume SV-2725/4

Day-book of Abraham Minis, 1874-1884

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About 1400 items.

Arrangement: by type.

Series 2 includes teaching materials consisting of notebooks of clippings and notes compiled by Mary Haskell and looseleaf papers containing class notes, reading lists, exam questions, and other related information, used by her while teaching at girls' schools in the Boston, Mass., area; correspondence relating to the life of Mary Haskell, including letters to, from, and about Kahlil Gibran, as well as letters from Charlotte Teller, Jacob Giller, Barbara Young, and Marianna Gibran; poems and writings by Mary Haskell and Barbara Young; and a number of diaries kept by Haskell throughout her life, with many entries describing her relationship with Gibran. Subseries 2.4, Kahlil Gibran Materials, contains sketches, writings, and letters to Mary Haskell from the artist. Three of Mary Haskell's diaries are included in this subseries, as they contain original sketches by Gibran. Note that this subseries is restricted for copyright purposes. See folder 80 for a detailed description of the contents of Series 2, written in 1961.

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About 65 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical.

Fifty-five notebooks of clippings and notes compiled by Mary Haskell, used by her while teaching at the Haskell-Dean School in Boston, Mass., and the Cambridge-Haskell School in Cambridge, Mass. Each notebook is dedicated to a particular subject or author. There are two alphabetical runs of the notebooks. Folders 144a-144b contain looseleaf papers relating to the teaching profession.

Folder 80

Anglo-Saxon Literature

Folder also contains a detailed description of the series, written in 1961.

Folder 81-82

Folder 81

Folder 82

Bible

Folder 83

The Boy's King Arthur

Folder 84

Carlyle-Burns-Ruskin-Browning-Tennyson

Folder 85

Chaucer-Spenser-Sydney

Folder 86

Composition

Folder 87

Faulty Sentences

Folder 88

Grammar

Folder 89

Hamlet

Folder 90

House of Atreus

Folder 91

Hunt-DeQuincy-Shelley

Folder 92

Ivanhoe

Folder 93

Julius Caesar

Folder 94

Lamb-Hazlitt-Coleridge-Landor-Keats

Folder 95

Lays of Ancient Rome and of the Scotch Cavaliers

Folder 96

Literarture X Bibliography

Folder 97

Milton

Folder 98

Mythology V

Folder 99

Mythology VI

Folder 100

Mythology VII

Folder 101

Petrareli-Boccaccio-Dante

Folder 102

Prehistoric and Celtic England

Folder 103

Scott

Folder 104

Shelley

Folder 105

Silas Marner

Folder 106

Spectator-Pope-Swift-Defoe

Folder 107

Spelling

Folder 108

Twelfth Night

Folder 109

Wordsworth

Folder 110

Arts

Folder 111

Books

Folder 112-113

Folder 112

Folder 113

Current Events

Folder 114

Exams

Folder 115

Faces

Folder 116

Literature

Folder 117

Miscellaneous

Folder 118

Personal

Folder 119

Poetry

Folder 120

Romanticism

Folder 121

Shelley-Carlyle-Ruskin-Art

Folder 122-123

Folder 122

Folder 123

America

Folder 124

Dutch

Folder 125

Egypt

Folder 126-129

Folder 126

Folder 127

Folder 128

Folder 129

English Literature

Folder 130-131

Folder 130

Folder 131

France

Folder 132-133

Folder 132

Folder 133

German

Folder 134

Greek

Folder 135

Irish

Folder 136

Italian Art

Folder 137

Italy

Folder 138

Medieval Literature

Folder 139

Orient

Folder 140

Russia

Folder 141

Scandinavia

Folder 142

Spain

Folder 143-144

Folder 143

Folder 144

Untitled

Folder 144a-144b

Miscellaneous teaching materials

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About 1100 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Personal correspondence relating to the life of Mary Haskell. The bulk of the letters date between 1906 and 1948 and concern Kahlil Gibran and Haskell's relationship with him. As one of the heirs in his will, Haskell was able to recover the letters she had written to him, and they are included in this subseries. These letters tend to be philosophical in nature. Major correspondents in the series are Charlotte Teller, a close friend of Minis's, and Jacob Giller, a young Russian immigrant for whom Haskell provided financial support. After Gibran's death, Haskell corresponded for a while with Marianna Gibran, his sister; Barbara Young, a poet and close friend of Gibran's; and others regarding the disposition of his estate and the shipment of his paintings and possessions to his birthplace of Bsharri, Lebanon. Other correspondents include Floretta Elmore Greeley, a former student of Haskell's, and Neva Wright, a doctoral student who requested information about Gibran for her dissertation.

Other materials include a copy of Joseph Langdon's will, a copy of Louisa Porter Gilmer Minis's will, poems by Mary Haskell, poems by Barbara Young, clippings and ephemera, and other papers.

Please note that letters written by Kahlil Gibran to Mary Haskell are in Subseries 2.4, Kahlil Gibran Materials.

Folder 145

Correspondence and other materials, 1760-1906

Folder 146

Letters from Floretta Elmore Greeley, 1906-1922

Folder 147

1907-January 1908

Folder 148-149

Folder 148

Folder 149

February 1908-December 1908

Folder 150-151

Folder 150

Folder 151

1909

Folder 152-153

Folder 152

Folder 153

January 1910-September 1910

Folder 154

October 1910-April 1911

Folder 155-157

Folder 155

Folder 156

Folder 157

May 1911-December 1911

Folder 158-165

Folder 158

Folder 159

Folder 160

Folder 161

Folder 162

Folder 163

Folder 164

Folder 165

1912

Folder 166-170

Folder 166

Folder 167

Folder 168

Folder 169

Folder 170

1913

Folder 171-175

Folder 171

Folder 172

Folder 173

Folder 174

Folder 175

1914

Folder 176-179

Folder 176

Folder 177

Folder 178

Folder 179

1915

Folder 180-182

Folder 180

Folder 181

Folder 182

1916

Folder 183-184

Folder 183

Folder 184

1917

Folder 185-186

Folder 185

Folder 186

1918

Folder 187

1919

Folder 188

1920

Folder 189

1921-1922

Folder 190

1923-1924

Folder 191

1925-1928

Folder 192

1929-May 1931

Folder 193-195

Folder 193

Folder 194

Folder 195

June 1931-December 1931

Folder 196-200

Folder 196

Folder 197

Folder 198

Folder 199

Folder 200

1932

Folder 201

1933

Folder 202

1934-1937

Folder 203

1938-1941

Folder 204

1942-1948

Folder 205-207

Folder 205

Folder 206

Folder 207

Undated letters and papers

Folder 208

Poems by Mary Haskell

Folder 209

Clippings and ephemera

Folder 210

Poems by Barbara Young

Folder 214-220

Folder 214

Folder 215

Folder 216

Folder 217

Folder 218

Folder 219

Folder 220

Other papers

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.3. Diaries, 1894-1944 and undated.

44 items.

Arrangement: by type, then chronological.

Forty-four diaries kept by Mary Haskell throughout her life, describing her daily life as a teacher, her travels in Europe and North America, her marriage to Jacob Florance Minis, and her relationships with her friends. Haskell's relationship with Kahlil Gibran figures prominently in these diaries.

Please note that three diaries containing sketches by Gibran and dating between 1912 and 1916 are in Subseries 2.4, Kahlil Gibran Materials.

Folder 221

Diary, 1894

Freshman year at Wellesley College.

Folder 222

Diary, 1901

Six lines a day, kept while traveling in Europe. Records every item purchased on the trip and its price.

Diary, October 1902-December 1903

Brief daily accounts of Mary Haskell's first year as headmistress of the Haskell-Dean School, a girls' boarding school, in Boston.

Folder 223

Diary, 1904

Contains entry about meeting Kahlil Gibran on May 10th.

Diary, 1905

Folder 224

Diary, 1906

Diary, 1907

Folder 225

Diary, 1908

Diary, 1909-1912

Folder 226

Diary

Copies of the records of Haskell's meetings with Kahlil Gibran from earlier diaries.

Folder 227

Diary, September 1911-April 1912

Records of Haskell's visits to Gibran in New York City. Contains a letter from Arthur Farwell, the president of the American Music Society.

Folder 229

Diary, August 1913-September 1914

Folder 232

Diary, November 1916-May 1918

Folder 233

Diary, August 1918-January 1919

Folder 234

Diary, April-August 1919

Folder 235

Diary, August 1919-April 1920

Folder 236

Diary, April 1920-May 1920

Folder 237

Diary, August 1920-September 1920

Folder 238

Diary, September 1920

Folder 239

Diary, September 1920-January 1921

Folder 240

Diary, January 1921-March 1921

Folder 241

Diary, April 1920-August 1921

Folder 242

Diary, July 1921

Folder 243

Diary, August 1921-January 1922

Folder 244

Diary, January 1922-April 1922

Folder 245

Diary, March 1922-April 1922

Folder 246

Diary, May 1922

Folder 247

Diary, May 1922-September 1922

Folder 248

Diary, September 1922-October 1922

Folder 249

Diary, November 1922

Folder 250

Diary, December 1922-January 1923

Folder 251

Diary, May 1923-June 1923

Records visits to New York from Savannah, Ga.

Folder 252

Diary, November 1923-May 1924

Written during visits to New York.

Folder 253

Diary, June 1924

Records of meetings with Gibran on the way to and returning from Boston.

Folder 254

Five-line-a-day diary, 1926-1929

Kept while in Savannah, Ga., and while traveling in Europe and the United States.

Folder 255

Five-line-a-day diary, 1930-1934

Records Haskell's journey to New York after hearing of Gibran's death, 12 April 1931.

Folder 256

Five-line-a-day diary, 1935-1939

Folder 257

Five-line-a-day diary, 1940-1944

Folder 258

Notebook

Notes and jottings on philosophical ideas.

Folder 260

Book of prayers belonging to Mary Haskell

Folder 261

School notebook, 1907-1909

Containing biblical quotations, poems, and parables.

Folder 262

School notebook, undated

Folder 263

School notebook, undated

Containing morning prayers and miscellaneous jottings.

Folder 264

Looseleaf notebook, 1910-1912

Containing poems by Aristides Evangelus Phoutrides of Harvard, dedicated to Mary E. Haskell, and including biographical information on Phoutrides.

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.4. Kahlil Gibran Materials, 1904-1931 and undated.

About 125 items.

Arrangement: by type, then chronological.

Subseries contains letters written by Kahlil Gibran to Mary Haskell between 1904 and the time of his death in 1931, writings by Gibran, three diaries belonging to Mary Haskell containing sketches by Gibran, and one typed copy of "The Broken Wings, or a Chapter from a Spiritual Biography."

Folder 265

Letters, circa 1904-1910

Folder 266

Letters, 1911

Folder 267

Letters, 1912

Folder 268

Letters, 1913

Folder 269

Letters, 1914

Folder 270

Letters, 1915

Folder 271

Letters, 1916

Folder 272

Letters, 1917

Folder 273

Letters, 1918

Folder 274

Letters, 1919-1921

Folder 275

Letters, 1922-1931

Folder 276-277

Folder 276

Folder 277

Writings

Folder 278

Diary belonging to Mary Haskell, June 1912-June 1913

Includes sketches and a self-portrait by Gibran.

Folder 279

Diary belonging to Mary Haskell, November 1914-June 1915

Includes a sketch by Gibran entitled "The Madman."

Folder 280

Diary belonging to Mary Haskell, August 1915-October 1916

Includes sketches by Gibran.

Folder 281

Kahlil Gibran's corrected typed copy of "The Broken Wings, or a Chapter from a Spiritual Biography," which he gave to Mary Haskell in January 1912.

Image Folder PF-2725/1

Sketches by Gibran

Some are annotated by Mary Haskell.

Image Folder PF-2725/2

Sketches by Gibran

Image Folder PF-2725/3-4

PF-2725/3

PF-2725/4

Photographs and prints of sketches by Gibran

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 3. Other Materials, 1880-1953 and undated.

36 items.

Photographs of Mary Haskell, Charlotte Teller, other friends and family, and Rockwood, the home of Jeremy Francis Gilmer; six cartes-de-viste of unidentified men; a map of Savannah; a photograph of the 4th Annual National Drainage Congress in Savannah, Ga.; a blueprint of Rockwood; and an unidentified plat.

Image Folder PF-2725/5

Photographs

Mary Haskell, age six, 1880

Mary Haskell and Frances Hall Rousmaniere, Wellesley College, 1897

Charlotte Teller, 1909

Photograph of portrait of Mary Haskell by Willem Van Kongenburg, 1926

Photograph of portrait of Jacob Florance Minis by Willem Van Kongenburg, 1926

Image Folder PF-2725/6

Photographs

Mary Haskell and Eleanor Cabot, Sierra Club trip

Mary Haskell and unidentified woman, Sierra Club trip

Sierra Club outing: Aristides Phoutrides, Tom Eliot, Mary Haskell, Putnam (?), and Francis Farquhar

Two Photographs of Mary Haskell dressed as Pan, College Tree Day, Wellesley College, 1897

Charlotte Teller, 4 May 1911

Image Folder PF-2725/7

Photographs

Charlotte Teller and Gilbert Hirsch

Gilbert Hirsch

Mary Haskell and Asuncion Parrenas, Savannah, Ga., 1953

Three Photographs of Mary Haskell, Savannah, Ga., 1953

Mary Haskell, Eleanor Cabot, and an unidentified woman, Sierra Club outing

Emilie Michel (Mrs. Lamar Hardy)

Mary Haskell, Sierra Club outing

Mary Haskell and her four sisters: Frederika Christiana Haskell Walling, Alice Van Yeveren Haskell Benet, Lousia Porter Haskell Daly, and Marion Alexander Haskell Raoul, early 1940s

Image Folder PF-2725/8

Photographs

Two carte-de-visites of Jeremy Francis Gilmer

Four carte-de-visites of unidentified men

Two unidentified dogs

"Rockwood," home of Jeremy Francis Gilmer

Three photographs of a map of Savannah, Ga. (see OP-2725/1 for original map)

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-2725/1

Maps

Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-2725/1

Map of Savannah, Ga.

Blue print of Rockwood and surrounding property

Photograph of the 4th Annual National Drainage Congress, Savannah, Ga.

Unidentified plat

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 4A. Photograph (Addition of 2011).

1 item

Acquisitions Information: Accession 101399

Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-2725/1

Copy print of photograph (11x14) of Minis Family, 1899

Includes list of names and ages of people in image.

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Reel M-2725/1-8

M-2725/1

M-2725/2

M-2725/3

M-2725/4

M-2725/5

M-2725/6

M-2725/7

M-2725/8

Microfilm

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