Joseph Peace Hazard papers (MSS-0090)

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Series 1. Correspondence, 1839-1892
1.82 cubic feet

This series has been arranged into four separate subseries: outgoing correspondence, incoming correspondence, travel letters series one, and travel letters series two. The incoming and outgoing correspondence includes letters with mediums and spiritualists, as well as with family members chronicling events affecting the Hazard family. The travel letters were written by Joseph Peace Hazard while traveling in Europe and South America. These letters were numbered by Hazard and detail the social and economic conditions of the places he visited and provide descriptions of the architecture and geography of the areas.

Series 1. Subseries 1a. Outgoing correspondence, 1858-1892
0.25 cubic feet

This subseries contains copies of correspondence Joseph Peace Hazard sent. Arranged chronologically.

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 1	Outgoing correspondence	1858-1866, 1874
Box 1, Folder 2	Outgoing correspondence	1882, 1885-1888
Box 1, Folder 3	Outgoing correspondence	1889 January-September
Box 1, Folder 4	Outgoing correspondence	1889 October-December
Box 1, Folder 5	Outgoing correspondence	1890 January-April
Box 1, Folder 6	Outgoing correspondence	1890 May-December
Box 1, Folder 7	Outgoing correspondence	1891 January-March
Box 1, Folder 8	Outgoing correspondence	1891 April -June
Box 1, Folder 9	Outgoing correspondence	1891 July-September
Box 1, Folder 10	Outgoing correspondence: Parts of letters, most discuss European travels	circa 1880-1892

Series 1. Subseries 1b. Incoming correspondence, circa 1839-1890
0.52 cubic feet

This subseries contains letters sent to Joseph Peace Hazard. It includes correspondence with multiple family members, as well as with mediums Mary Hull and Dinah Sherman, Luther Colby (editor of the spiritual publication “Banner of Light”), spiritualist Theodore Parker, philosopher Robert Dale Owen, and poet John Greenleaf Whittier. Arranged alphabetically.

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 11	A: Includes letters from Anthorp family	1856-1874
Box 1, Folder 12	B	1857-1891
Box 1, Folder 13	Ca-Cn: [Note: Map from one letter removed and added to oversize]	circa 1839-1890
Oversize Folder 1, Item 1	Plot map of Narragansett from letter in 1/13	circa 1890
Box 1, Folder 14	Co: Includes letters from Luther Colby, editor of the spiritual publication “Banner of Light”	1862-1890
Box 1, Folder 15	D-Hay	1859-1891
Box 1, Folder 16	Hazard family members, including Hazard, including Anna Hazard, Barclay Hazard	1881-1886
Box 1, Folder 17	Hazard family members, including Mary Hazard, Eliza Hazard, and Elizabeth	1857-1890
Box 1, Folder 18	Hazard family members, including George Hazard, Gertrude Hazard, Hortense Hazard, and L.F Hazard	1863-1866
Box 1, Folder 19	Hazard family members, including Isaac P. Hazard	1859-1864
Box 1, Folder 20	Hazard family members, including Margaret Hazard, Mary Hazard, Rowland G. Hazard (brother), Rowland G. Hazard (nephew), Rowland R. Hazard (cousin)	1857-1890
Box 1, Folder 21	He-I: Includes Mary Hull, M.J. Hooker, R.J. Hull, Larry Hunter	1858-1891
Box 1, Folder 22	J-K: Includes Wash. Jackman, Diana Kearny, Henry Kiddle, Stephen Knowles, Herbert Knowles	1858-1891
Box 1, Folder 23	L: Includes John Lane, Joseph Leidy, Leodegar Lipp (Kinsky), Henry Little	1862-1891
Box 1, Folder 24	Letters from various correspondents	1856-1889
Box 1, Folder 25	M-O: Includes J. Newton Marshall, Anna Peace Mason, Agatha Mayor, Robert Dale Owen, Walter Mudford	1860-1891
Box 1, Folder 26	Pa: Includes Ruth Paine, Charlie (Charley) Parker, Theodore Parker, Kneeland Partelow	1855-1890
Box 1, Folder 27	Pe: Includes Anna Peace, George Peace, Joseph Hazard Peace, Francis Peckham, HB Perry	1859-1890
Box 1, Folder 28	Ph-Q: Includes W.P. Phelon from Hermetic Publishing Co., Nathaniel Pierce, Mary Powell, W.W. Preston, Abby Quincy, Elizabeth Quincy	1859-1891
Box 1, Folder 29	R: Includes P.P. Randolph, Mariann Reece, Helen Reese, Nellie Reese, Laura Robinson, and Edmund Rodman	1856-1891
Box 1, Folder 30	Sa-Sl: Includes Eric von Schoneberg, Henry Seybert, Dinah Sherman, J. Herbert Shedd	1858-1891
Box 1, Folder 31	Sm-Sz: Includes Charlotte Smith, R.D. Smith, Hazard Stevens	circa 1860-1891
Box 1, Folder 32	Ta: Sourindra Mohun Tagore, Bessie Taylor, John J. Taylor	1889-1891
Box 1, Folder 33	Th: Includes Timothy Thornhill	1857, 1888-1889
Box 1, Folder 34	Vernon: Including Joseph Peace Vernon, S.B. Vernon, Rebecca Peace Vernon	1857-1890
Box 1, Folder 35	William Vernon, J.W. Vose of Aquidneck Bank	1860-1865, 1888-1890
Box 1, Folder 36	Wakefield, George Wales, Annie Ward, W.A. Warner, John Greenleaf Whittier, Mary P. Williams	1859-1889

Series 1. Subseries 1c. Travel letters series one, 1856-1860
0.75 cubic feet

The correspondence in this subseries was written by Joseph Peace Hazard to his siblings while traveling in Europe. The letters were numbered by Hazard when he wrote them. Included with some of the letters are flora and fauna which Hazard collected and sent with the letters. The subseries is arranged chronologically.

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 37	No. 1	1856 July 10
Box 1, Folder 38	No. 2	1856 July 7
Box 1, Folder 39	No. 3	1856 July 27
Box 1, Folder 40	No. 4	1856 August 15
Box 1, Folder 41	No. 5	1856 August 11
Box 1, Folder 42	No. 6	1856 August 26
Box 1, Folder 43	No. 7	1856 September 15
Box 1, Folder 44	No. 9	1856 October 24
Box 1, Folder 45	No. 10	1856 November 14
Box 1, Folder 46	No. 11	1856 December 12
Box 1, Folder 47	No. 12	1857 January 3
Box 1, Folder 48	No. 13	1857 January 19
Box 1, Folder 49	No. 14	1857 February 1
Box 1, Folder 50	No. 15	1857 March 5
Box 1, Folder 51	No. 16	1857 March 20
Box 1, Folder 52	No. 17	1857 April 4
Box 1, Folder 53	No. 18	1857 May 17
Box 2, Folder 1	No. 19	1857 June 11
Box 2, Folder 2	No. 20	1857 June 27
Box 2, Folder 3	No. 21	1857 August 8
Box 2, Folder 4	No. 22	1857 September 10
Box 2, Folder 5	No. 23	1857 October 14
Box 2, Folder 6	No. 24	1857 December 1
Box 2, Folder 7	No. 25	1858 January 7
Box 2, Folder 8	No. 26	1858 February 22
Box 2, Folder 9	No. 27	1858 April 15
Box 2, Folder 10	No. 28	1858 May 10
Box 2, Folder 11	No. 29	1858 August 2
Box 2, Folder 12	No. 30	1858 October 14
Box 2, Folder 13	No. 31	1858 November 14
Box 2, Folder 14	No. 32	1858 December 24
Box 2, Folder 15	No. 33	1859 February 1
Box 2, Folder 16	No. 34	1859 February 29
Box 2, Folder 17	No. 35	1859 March 24
Box 2, Folder 18	No. 36	1859 April 8
Box 2, Folder 19	No. 37	1859 May 29
Box 2, Folder 20	No. 38	1859 July 16
Box 2, Folder 21	No. 39	1859 August 27
Box 2, Folder 22	No. 40	1859 October 11
Box 2, Folder 23	No. 41	1859 November 6
Box 2, Folder 24	No. 42	1860 February 7
Box 2, Folder 25	No. 43	1860 March 4
Box 2, Folder 26	No. 44	1860 May 13

Series 1. Subseries 1d. Travel letters series two, 1866-1868
0.3 cubic feet

The correspondence in this subseries was written by Joseph Peace Hazard to his siblings while traveling in Europe and South America. The letters were numbered by Hazard when he wrote them. Included with some of the letters are flora and fauna which Hazard collected and sent with the letters. The subseries is arranged chronologically.

Container	Description	Date
Box 2, Folder 27	No. 1	1866 November 28
Box 2, Folder 28	No. 2	1866 November 30
Box 2, Folder 29,	No. 3	1866 December 10
Box 2, Folder 30	No. 4	1866 December 25
Box 2, Folder 31	No. 5	1867 January 3
Box 2, Folder 32	No. 6	1867 January 21
Box 2, Folder 33	No. 7	1867 March 3
Box 2, Folder 34	No. 8	1867 March 28
Box 2, Folder 35	No. 9	1867 April 17
Box 2, Folder 36	No. 10	1867 April 27
Box 2, Folder 37	No. 11	1867 May 20
Box 2, Folder 38	No. 12	1867 June 7
Box 2, Folder 39	No. 13	1867 June 14
Box 2, Folder 40	No. 14	1867 June 29
Box 2, Folder 41	No. 15 (includes list of trip costs)	1867 July 25
Box 2, Folder 42	No. 16	1867 August 10
Box 2, Folder 43	No. 16 1/2	1867 September 10
Box 2, Folder 44	No. 17	1867 September 11
Box 2, Folder 45	No. 18	1867 October 20
Box 2, Folder 46	No. 19	1867 November 1
Box 2, Folder 47	No. 20	1868 April 6
Box 2, Folder 48	No. 21	1868 July 16
Box 2, Folder 49	No. 22	1868 July 28
Box 2, Folder 50	No. 23	1868 August 13
Box 2, Folder 51	Unnumbered letters	1867-1868

Series 2. Personal papers and writings, circa 1822-1891
1.25 cubic feet

This series contains the papers and writings of Joseph Peace Hazard. Included are biographical and historical sketches relating to Boston, Narragansett, Newport, Theodore Parker (minister and transcendentalist), as well members of Hazard’s family. Also included are his recollections on séances and seeing the spirits of Theodore Parker and Robert Burns; a notebook chronicling Hazard’s encounters with the supernatural; notes concerning the construction of “The Castle” in Narragansett and the “Memorial Tower” at Tower Hill; leaflets, fliers, and poems relating to spiritualism, religion, organizations, and businesses; bills, invoices, and receipts for household, travel, and other expenses; and pressed flowers, plants, and seeds Hazard collected.

Container	Description	Date
Box 2, Folder 52	Power of Attorney; Cash legacies	1885-1890
Box 2, Folder 53	Security lists and income statements	1885-1891
Box 2, Folder 54	Autobiographical materials	undated, 1889-1890
Box 2, Folder 55	Family biographical information	undated, 1889-1890
Box 2, Folder 56	Biographical sketches and recollections	undated, 1889-1891
Box 2, Folder 57	Historical sketches and recollections on Rhode Island	undated, 1885-1891
Box 2, Folder 58	Poem	1891
Box 2, Folder 59	Spiritualism: Séance recollections; accounts of seeing the spirits of Theodore Parker, Robert Burns, and others; history of spiritualism and mediums; predictions; account of seeing Abdulmejid in Constantinople	circa 1875-1891
Box 2, Folder 60	The De Lancey School (formerly Henry Hobart Brown’s School), Philadelphia, 1888-1889	1888
Box 2, Folder 61	Chicago High Schools Public Graduation Exercises	1891
Box 2, Folder 62, Item 1	How to Try Remarkable Experiments at Home	undated
Box 2, Folder 62, Item 2	Banner of Light	1860 March 15
Box 2, Folder 62, Item 3	It Can Be Found Here, A Hymn Paraphrased by J.W. Lane	1891
Box 2, Folder 62, Item 4	The Egyptian Portico	circa 1890
Box 2, Folder 62, Item 5	Rules and Regulations of the Bridport Working Men’s Mutual Improvement Association	1867
Box 2, Folder 62, Item 6	Losses and Savings on Cotton	1886
Box 2, Folder 62, Item 7	South Carolina Agriculture, The State in its Relations to Agriculture	circa 1886
Box 2, Folder 62, Item 8	The Twin Oak at Peacedale, RI	circa 1880
Box 2, Folder 62, Item 9	Joseph Gabrielli letter	undated
Box 2, Folder 62, Item 10	A Needed Warning on Overgrown Military, George Washington	1890
Box 2, Folder 62, Item 11	"Solemn Truths" and "Glad Tidings" (poems)	undated
Box 2, Folder 62, Item 12	Narragansett Pier Railroad and Connections, Summer Arrangement	1888 June 25
Box 2, Folder 62, Item 13	Woman’s National University and School of Useful and Ornamental Arts membership ticket	circa 1890
Box 2, Folder 62, Item 14	Woman’s National Industrial League, "To The Women of America"	circa 1891
Box 2, Folder 62, Item 15	"The Sunlight of Our Household" (poem)	undated
Box 2, Folder 62, Item 16	Bread Cast Upon the Waters, No. 8, Who is to Blame?	undated
Box 2, Folder 62, Item 17	Bread Cast Upon the Waters, No. 1, Your Dying Hour	undated
Box 2, Folder 62, Item 18	"A Query and its Answer" by Belle Bush (poem)	undated
Box 2, Folder 62, Item 19	Book Club Meeting toasts	1860
Box 2, Folder 62, Item 20	A New Year’s Greeting by J. Hudson Taylor	1889
Box 2, Folder 63, Item 1	American Peace Society to Joseph Peace Hazard	1891 March 24
Box 2, Folder 63, Item 2	"In regard to the subject of religion"	1889
Box 2, Folder 63, Items 3-6	Mr. Gladstone and the South, Southerners Insisting that they do Sympathize with the Cause of the Home Rule	1886
Box 2, Folder 63, Item 7	American Peace Society, Endorsement by Distinguished Men	undated
Box 2, Folder 63, Item 8	Union Party of Rhode Island platform	undated
Box 2, Folder 63, Item 9	Newport Reading Room invitation	1889
Box 2, Folder 63, Item 10	Newport Reading Room funding request	1890
Box 2, Folder 63, Item 11	Propositions to alter the Constitution of the Newport Reading Room	undated
Box 2, Folder 63, Item 12	Biographical sketch of Robert Owen	circa 1857
Box 2, Folder 63, Item 13	Oliver H. Perry recognition	1883
Box 2, Folder 63, Items 14-15	Contributions to erect a state statue to the memory of commodore Oliver Hazard Perry	1883
Box 2	The London Central Subway Railway; Underground Railway Communication in Great Cities (Automatic Ventilating Superficial Subway System) by Colonel Rowland R. Hazard	circa 1888-1889
Oversize Folder 1, Item 6	Narragansett Times	1855 October 13
Oversize Folder 1, Items 7-8	Narragansett Times	1887 July 15
Box 2, Folder 65	The National Bank of Commerce, Providence, RI	1890
Box 2, Folder 66	Rhode Island Central Bank. Letter to Stockholders	1852 February
Box 3, Folder 1	Schoolbook: Questions with Hazard’s written answers	circa 1822-1830
Oversize Folder 1, Item 5	The Spiritual Age newspaper	1858 June 26
Box 3, Folder 2	Advertisements, business cards, programs French; German; Dutch; English; Italian	circa 1857-1880
Box 3, Folder 3	Bills, receipts, and tickets/ticket stubs French; German; Dutch; English; Italian	circa 1857-1891
Box 3, Folder 4	Bills, receipts, invoices Polish; German; English; Spanish; Italian	circa 1857-1890
Box 3, Folder 5-7	Calling cards General Note: Arranged alphabetically by folder	circa 1850-1891
Box 3, Folders 8	Newspaper clippings and notes	undated, 1887-1891
Oversize Folder 1, Item 4	The Providence Daily Journal	1888 January 7
Box 3, Folder 9	Fragments of letters and notes	circa 1857-1890
Box 3, Folder 10	Fragments of letters and notes	undated, 1888-1891
Box 3, Folder 11	R.E. [W.E.] Gladstone’s letter of Oct. 29ths, 1886	1857-1891
Box 3, Folder 12	Hotel bills	undated, 1857-1882
Box 3, Folder 13	Hotel bills	undated, 1857-1858
Box 3, Folder 14	Hotel bills	undated, 1859
Box 3, Folder 15	Hotel bills	undated, 1857-1860
Box 4, Folder 1	Hotel bills	undated, 1857-1860
Box 4, Folder 2	Letters of introduction on behalf of Joseph Peace Hazard	1856-1857
Box 4, Folder 3	Maps and travel brochures	circa 1857-1860
Box 4, Folder 4	Notes on “The Castle” and Memorial Tower, South Kingstown, Rhode Island	circa 1882-1890
Box 4, Folder 5	Notes on the Banshee, religion, land around Tower Hill Road and the sea side, plans, illness, supplies, Union League House membership, deed for The Castle; Drawings	circa 1858-1890
Box 4, Folder 6	Pressed plants, leaves, and feathers	circa 1857-1891
Box 4, Folder 7	Pressed plants, flowers, and leaves (most taken from “The Home and Grave of Lord Byron”)	circa 1859-1860
Box 4, Folder 8	Pressed flowers and plants	circa 1857-1865
Box 4, Folder 9	Pressed flowers, plants, and leaves	circa 1857-1860
Box 4, Folder 10	Leather bound notebook, mostly blank	1884
Box 4, Folder 11	“Joseph P. Hazard, Record of Watch Ringing:” Journal by Hazard detailing instances of watch ringing which he believed to be communication with a spiritual world General Note: Journal transcribed and facsimile available in Special Collections Reading Room: SP COLL BF1277 .H39 2018 RIColl.	1887-1891
Box 4, Folder 12	“Some of the Historical, Economical and Social Results of War and Peace on the American Continent” by Levi K. Joslin. A paper presented to the Universal Peace Conference	1890
Oversize Folder 1, Item 2	Diagram of Joseph Peace Hazard tombstone presumably created by Hazard	undated

Series 3. Images, circa 1860-1890
0.12 cubic feet

This series contains photographs and sketches of members of the Hazard family, friends, and the grave of Jane Anne Terrill Gibson (relative of Mary Peace) at St. Mary the Virgin Church in Washfield, England.

Container	Description	Date
Box 4, Folder 13, Item 1	Thomas R. Hazard	circa 1860-1886
Box 4, Folder 14, Item 2	“Mrs. Watson and her Page. The Page being Wyatt Taylor, son of John J. Taylor”	1890
Box 4, Folder 15, Item 3	Bessie Taylor, Stamford, Connecticut	1888 August
Box 4, Folder 16, Items 4-10	St. Mary the Virgin Church, Washfield, England interior and exterior images	circa 1860-1880
Oversize Folder 1, Item 3	Joseph P. Hazard	circa 1890

Series 4. Artifacts and objects, circa 2039-200 BCE, 1857-1860
0.43 cubic feet

This series contains items likely collected by Hazard during his travels. It includes seeds, foliage taken from Lord Byron’s estate and grave, stones/gems, a bronze spearhead, a figurine, bronze spearhead, and cuneiform tablets.

Container	Description	Date
Object Box 1, Tray 1, Column 2a	Clay statue/figurine head, possible from Archaic period	circa 600-200 BCE
Box 5, Item 1	Piece of oak branch/tree labelled “Byron oak,” likely taken from Lord Byron’s estate or gravesite	undated
Object Box 1, Tray 2, Column 2	Bronze spearhead	circa 800-200 BCE
Box 5, Item 2	“Jasper, Rome, found on Pincian Hill while walking with Theodore Parker, Feb 4th, 1860”	undated, 1860
Box 5, Item 3	Stone from Switzerland, July 1, 1860	undated, 1860
Box 5, Item 4	“Spanish Charcoal”	undated
Box 5, Item 5	“Crucible clay such as cast steel… 1857”	undated, 1857
Box 5, Item 6	“Seed of Honeysuckle from Valhalla [?], July 1860”	undated, 1860
Box 5, Item 7	Undescribed stones/gem	undated
Box 5, Item 8	“Seeds of Scarlet Elder… July 1857”	undated, 1857
Object Box 1, Tray 1, Column 1a-b	A Sumerian archival text about the delivery of cows from Puzrish Dagan (Drehem), Iraq, dated to the sixth year of King Amar-Suen (2039 BCE); A so-called “messenger text,” likewise in Sumerian, listing deliveries of foodstuffs to “messengers.” Most likely from Umma, Iraq, and dated to the fifth year of King Shu-Sin (2031 BCE)	circa 2039-2031 BCE
Box 6	Fragment of an Assyro-Babylonian monumental inscription of the Assyrian King Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BCE). Most likely from Calah (Nimrud)	circa 883-859 BCE
Object Box 1, Tray 1, Column 1c	Promissory note in Neo-Babylonian about silver to be returned with interest, from Babylon, dated to the fourth year of Darius I (518 BCE)	518 BCE
Box 4, Folder 14	Cards from boxes that the tablets came in at time of donation which provide further information	undated

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