Thomas R. Lambert Papers, 1834-1856, 1910

Title:

Thomas R. Lambert Papers, 1834-1856, 1910

Creator:

Hale family
Lambert family

Creator Role:

Author

Accession / Call Number:

1976.022

Object ID:

M 1976-022

Date:

1834-1856, 1910

Physical Description:

1 box

Scope and Content:

The Thomas R. Lambert Papers, 1834-1856 and 1910, is comprised entirely of correspondence from Thomas R. Lambert, John Parker Hale, and Lucy Lambert Hale. Thomas R. Lambert's correspondence home to his sister and his mother from aboard various Naval vessels, including the USS Brandywine, the USS United States, and the USS Constitution, describes social life on the ship and in ports during cruises to Brazil, Chile, and Peru and then across the Atlantic to Athens, Malta, Cadiz, and Marseilles. His letters discuss places, some politics, mountain climbing, etc. In one letter, Lambert states that he has learned of Lucy's marriage in an old newspaper he found and complains that he has bad luck in receiving mail from home. He also speaks of his duties as chaplain to the sailors. In his correspondence with his wife and daughter, John Parker Hale writes of his speaking engagements, and describes events, people, and places. To his daughter, Lizzie, he gives some advice on behavior including a lecture on lying by actions rather than by words. In the miscellaneous letters, Folder 8, there is a 1844 letter from E. W. Toppan to J. P. Hale discussing politics and another fragment of a letter from S. A. Hale discussing the breaking of his engagement to a Miss Woodman in 1838. Folder 9 contains letters written by “Jack” presumably John Parker Hale Chandler to his mother and father in 1910.

Subjects:

Correspondence , Chaplains , Travel , Lectures and lecturing , Politics and government

Locations:

New York
Dover, NH
Portsmouth, NH

People:

Hale, John Parker, 1806-1873 , Chandler, John Parker Hale, 1885-1940 , Lambert, Thomas R., 1809-1892 , Toppan, Edmund W., 1808-1845 , Hale, Lucy Lambert, 1841-1915 , Chandler, William E. , 1835-1917

Organizations:

Lambert family
Hale family
United States. Navy

Credit Line:

Gift of John H. Howe in April 1976.

Restrictions:

Available for research.

Level Description:

Collection