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Title Papers Related to Isabel Clarke Forbes
Reference Ms. N-49, box 25
Library Massachusetts Historical Society
Collection Forbes Family Papers
Collection Series Francis Blackwell Forbes Papers, 1839-1931
Date 1867-1902
Description Legal papers, financial memoranda, and family letters, including one letter of sympathy from a family friend on the death of one of Isabel's young daughters.
Document Type Correspondence, Manuscript, Business Records
Theme(s) Social Life
Keywords children, family, friends, domestic, household, news, death, law, legal, business, banking, finance, money, draft, accounts, expenses, railroad, travel
Countries USA; France; Germany; China; India; Australia; UK
Places Paris; Heidelberg; London
Ports New York, USA; Shanghai, China; Hong Kong, China
Company Russell and Company
Additional Information Isabel Clarke Forbes (c.1846-1931) was the wife of China merchant Francis Blackwell Forbes. They had seven children together, one of whom died young. She travelled extensively through America, Europe and China.
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