Scope and Contents Consists largely of personal and business correspondence and material dealing with Boutwell's career as a geologist (maps, notebooks, manuscripts and illustrations, education, mineral samples, etc.). It also includes familial details (legal and other documentation of his divorce from Esther; family history, including documentation of his claim as a direct descendant of Francis Cooke, a passenger on the Mayflower, possessions of ancestors such as the medical notebooks of H.T. Boutwell,...

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Contains financial papers and materials of both J. M. Boutwell himself as well as his family and mining companies he consulted with. Includes checkbooks and stubs, stock notes, stock dividend records, bank statements, bills and receipts, other stock information, and taxes. Some small amout of financial materials are mixed in with other series, but these are those that seem to have been organized and kept separate. ca. 1885-1969