Pinkham family correspondence (Ms.85.16)

The Brown University Library's collection of Pinkham family correspondence represent a small portion of a larger collection of family correspondence pertaining to the lives of a prominent Nantucket family intimately involved in the whaling business. (Related materials may be found at the Nantucket Historical Association).

The letters in this collection are chiefly directed to Malvina F. Pinkham (who married Joseph Marshall in Nantucket in 1846) and Elizabeth Pinkham (who married William H. Crosby on Nantucket in 1834), both of whom relocated to the New Bedford area after marriage. The letters include much discussion of social life in Nantucket (Mass.), New Bedford (Mass.) and Providence (R.I.), as well as national politics and family life.

Although purchased by Carleton D. Morse for his collection on whaling, there is little discussion of whaling in the letters.