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Charles K. Tuckerman Papers
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Gift of the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund (AM 2023-039). Additional archival material (two scrapbooks of correspondence) received as a Gift of Theodore Theodorou to the Program in Hellenic Studies for the Princeton University Library (AM 2023-053).
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Consists of sixteen autographed letters signed from King George I to Charles Tuckerman. Letters were sent from Athens, Tatoi, Corfu (Greece) and Aix-les-Bains (France) ranging from January 1, 1872 to April 24, 1895. Six of the letters are written in stationery adorned with King George's royal cypher and two in mourning stationery.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of letters from Charles Tuckerman to the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs (Athens); a copy of a letter to Dēmētrios Botsarēs (Corfu); and C. K. Tuckerman to "those of his countrymen who are now in Athens", about the day of National Thanksgiving (Athens). The rest of the incoming correspondence comprises autographed letters to Charles Tuckerman from miscellaneous politicians, writers, journalists and other dignitaries, including: "To my dear Charley on his Birth day," 11 March 1829 (three quatrains, inscribed on verso: "For Charles K. Tuckerman"; Rufus Choate; François Guizot (Paris); Bishop Alexander Viets Griswold, (Boston); Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton (New York); Lydia Huntley Sigourney (Hartford); Thomas Chalmers (Edinburgh); Abbott Lawrence (London); George Payne Rainsford James (Hell Gate); William Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon; Sir John Bowring (Government House); Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier and 1st Baron Ettrick (Washington); John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury (Lambeth); [signed illegibly: John Rensen?] to C. K. Tuckerman (Hong Kong); Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier and 1st Baron Ettrick (Washington); copy of Andrew Johnson's letter introducing Charles K. Tuckerman to King George of Greece (Washington); William H. Seward, Secretary of State (Washington); Leōnidas Meletopoulos [Athens]; George Peabody, American financier and philanthropist (London); Alexandros Rizos Rangabes, first Greek ambassador to Washington (Washington D.C.); Dēmētrios Botsarēs, son of the Greek hero Markos Botsarēs (Corfu) written in French; Ioannis Pappadiamantopoulos, aide-de-camp to King George I (invitation) (Athens). There is also a letter from William Ellery Channing to Joseph Tuckerman and a letter from Andrew Mitchell to John B. Heming (Glasgow).
The second folder contains autographed letters signed by the following, among others: Markos Antōnios Rodostamos, Palace [Athens]; Whitelaw Reid, American politician and newspaper editor (New York); Edwin Lawrence Godkin, American journalist and newspaper editor about W. Stillman, (New York); S. J. Cassimati to C. K. Tuckerman, about W. Stillman (Syros); Spyridon Komnos, curator of the National Library of Greece (Athens); two copies of a letter by J. C. B. Davis, acting Secretary of State; two copies of the answer to the letters of recall of Charles K. Tuckerman, addressed to the President of United States by King George of Greece; Leōnidas Meletopoulos [Athens]; George Henry Calvert; a note from "Den Kongl. Porcellainsfabrik; Eugene Schuyler; Epameinōndas Delēgeōrgēs, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs (Athens) on Tuckerman's work "The Greeks of today"; Constance Ann, Lady Muncaster (Muncaster Castle); Prince Philippe of Orléans, Count of Paris (Château d'Eu); letter from Nikolaos Dēligiannēs, chargé d'affaires of Greece in Paris, to C. K. Tuckerman, accompanying the medal of the Order of Redeemer conferred on him by the King; William Henry Waddington, French statesman, to "Mademoiselle et chère cousine"; Eliza Lynn Linton; William Wetmore Story; Sir Edward Watkin, British Member of Parliament and railway entrepreneur, to C. K. Tuckerman (mourning stationery); Thomas Adolphus Trollope; John Bigelow Sr.; Constance Fenimore Woolson, American novelist, poet, and short story writer (1 postcard, ca 1890]; Hector Malot, French writer; Baron Otto von Klenck; Henry Codman Potter; a note from James Ballantyne, Sir Walter Scott's publisher; and Robert Milligan McLane.
Physical Description2 folders
Consists of incoming autographed letters signed by several American authors, military and political officials, including Caroline Kirkland, J. G. Holland, I.M. Lawrence, Esq., Columbia College, New York (from the President's Room), G.W. Curtis, Francis Marion Crawford, George Bancroft, Senator Charles Summer, Elihu Benjamin Washburne (U.S. Minister to France), Rev. Henry Whitney Bellows (one letter to Charles Tuckerman and one to Henry Tuckerman), Sir Edward Thornton, the American Legation in Vienna, from the Department of State, Washington to Fleming Tuckerman. The letters are attached in a scrapbook, unpaginated, measuring 31 x 25 cm., belonging to Charles Tuckerman. On the front paste down, there is attached a label with golden lettering "Autographs" and on the flyleaf the handwritten inscription "American."
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of incoming correspondence from several European authors, military and political officials, and noble people, including Sydney Lady Morgan, William Charles Macready, John Bright, Earl of Rosebery, Earl of Derby, Sir Charles Lyell, the Dean of Canterbury, Count Clary for the Empress Eugenie, Lord Houghton, Sir Charles Dilke, P. Th. Kolocotronis (son of Theodōros Kolokotrōnēs, the Greek general and the pre-eminent leader of the Greek War of Independence) (2), Sir Edwin Arnold, George Finlay, Princess Nazlie Khalil, the Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, M. Scobeleff, Eliza Lynn Linton, Sir Edward William Watkin (2), 1st Baronet, Archbishop of York (2), Tomasso Salvini, the Marquess of Harlington, Lord Garnet Wolseley, Edward Freeman, Sir Henry Elliot, Marchioness of Salisbury, and Dēmētrios Vikelas. Many letters are attached on leaves of a scrapbook, unpaginated, measuring 31 x 25 cm., belonging to Charles Tuckerman. Inscription on the flyleaf reads: "European Autographs." There are also two letters and a card from Princess Nazli to Fleming Tuckerman.
Physical Description2 folders
The members of the Philological Club "Parnassus" to Charles K. Tuckerman, thanking him for his letter to the "New York Times" about brigandage in Greece, 10 May 1872, (large 8vo, 34,6 x 21,3 cm., 4 pages) in Greek, with 40 signatures of the members of the Club, among them: N. D. Levidēs (President), Geōrgios Xanthēs, Vasileios I. Phlores, P. Chrysanthos, I[oannes] Altamouras, N.G. Polites, K.N. Papamichalopoulos, Kōnstantinos Zapheiropoulos. Accompanied by a cover letter signed by the president and secretary of the Club, and also a translation into English of both documents.
There is also a document signed by the president and secretary of the philological Club "Parnassus" to Charles K. Tuckerman, announcing his election as honorary member of the Club, Athens, 7 June 1872 (4to, 27,1 x 21,9 cm., 1 p.), in Greek, as well as the diploma of honorary membership dated Athens, 10/22 June 1872 (8vo, 24,9 x 16,7 cm.), in Greek, partly printed. Both documents are accompanied by a translation into English of the Club's decision to grant the honorary membership.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of seven pages from Tuckerman's outgoing letterbooks with copies of a long letter about W. Stillman, 6 December 1869, and his letter of resignation as Minister Resident at Athens, addressed to the Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, 3 April 1871.
Consists of invitation cards sent to Charles Tuckerman from the Queen of England (1); King of Greece (8); Prince and Princess of Wales (2); Duke of Devonshire (2); Countess of Derby (2); Marchioness of Salisbury (1); Herzog von Cumberland, Herzog zu Braunschweig und Lüneburg (2) and Mrs Tait (2), together with a manuscript invitation from Baroness Thérèse Haymerle; the Shah of Persia and other foreign royals and dignitaries. Included also are four menus, three of them for dinners hosted by the King of Greece, one annotated: "1872 / Sat on the King's right / at Corfu".
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of autograph and typescripts of poems by Chalrles K. Tuckerman.
Consists of fifty autograph compositions by C. K. Tuckerman, numbered 1-50, from his time at Boston Latin School. They were kept together in a parchment clutch with a handwritten title "Compositions 1837-8" and a signature (not Tuckerman's).
Consists of autograph compositions signed and dated by Charles k. Tuckerman. The first twenty-five compositions are entitled as following: 1. Which excites the most influence in the world, man or woman? (Sept. 29, 1837); 2. Which is the best manner of disposing of the dead, burying, burning, or embalming? (Oct. 4, 1837); 3. What would be a good and suitable letter for a son to write to a parent (Oct. 16, 1837); 4. Evil language (Oct. 21, 1837); 5. Education (Oct. 25, 1837); 6. The North American Indians, where are they, and why are they so? (n.d.); 7. Acknowledge God in all thy ways (n.d.); 8. Astronomy (Nov. 16, 1937); 9. Who is the greatest person, he who can conquer a kingdom or can conquer himself? (n.d.); 10. Patriotism (Dec. 1, 1837); 11. Were the Americans right in refusing to pay the tax on tea, and thereby incurring the expense and the bloodshed of a seven years war? (Dec. 9, 1837); 12. Which is most calculated to make us happy, health, wealth, power, or honour? (Dec. 15, 1837); 13. I didn't think (Dec. 22, 1837); 14. Has War been productive of most good or evil among mankind? (Jan. 4, 1838); 15. Which causes us most trouble, ourselves, or other people? (Jan. 11, 1838); 16. Ought the high and the low to be settled with in the same manner for the same fault? (Jan. 22, 1838); 17. Is ignorance any excuse for crime? (Jan. 27, 1838); 18. I know the right, and I approve it too. I know the wrong and yet the wrong pursue (Febr. 2, 1838); 19. I'll do better next time (Febr. 9, 1838); 20. Which receives the most continued honours, the Conqueror or the Philanthropist? (Febr. 17, 1838); 21. Procrastination (Febr. 23, 1838); 22. Anticipation (March 2, 1838); 23. Is it sinful to countenance sin? (March 9, 1838); 24. May we do evil that good may come of it? (March 13, 1838); and 25. Prayer (March 20, 1838).
Cosnists of autograph compositions signed and dated by Charles K. Tuckerman. The second half of the compositions numbered 26-50 entitled: 26. Can we in all cases do what we ought to do, and ought we to be blamed for not doing what we have not the ability of doing? (March 30, 1838); 27. Stars (April 5, 1838); 28. Spring (April 28, 1838); 29. Is it wrong to be ashamed? (April 24, 1838); 30. History (May 1, 1838); 31. Truth (May 11, 1838); 32. Which is most conducive to happiness, seeing or hearing? (May 18, 1838); 33. Clarity (May 25, 1838); 34. The facilities of travelling (May 29, 1838); 35. Ought children to obey their parents in all things, and in view of the child can the parents ever be wrong? (June 8, 1838); 36. The equality of happiness throughout the world (June 15, 1838); 37. What constitutes man? (June 21, 1838); 38. Which produces the most beneficial influence upon the child, severity or kindness? (July 2, 1838); 39. Since the declaration of Independence, which nation has produced the best government? (July 5, 1838); 40. Natural and moral ability (July 9, 1838); 41. Which is the most useful metal, Gold or Iron? (July 17, 1838); 42. It is more blessed to give than to receive (July 25, 1838); 43. Which is longest, a day without food, or a night with a toothache? (Aug. 1, 1838); 44. Thunder, its causes and effects (Aug. 10, 1838); 45. The Rainbow (Aug. 18, 1838); 46. What hath God wrought for me? (Aug. 23, 1838); 47. Which is most apparent in the operations of nature, the Wisdom or Goodness of God? (Aug. 1838); 48. I'd be a butterfly (Sept. 3, 1838); 49. Whoseever heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them not shall be likened unto a foolish man which built his house upon the sand (Sept. 14, 1838); and 50. Gratitude (Sept. 19, 1838).
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Consists of an autograph manuscript of an apparently unpublished essay "Our Foreign Service" (36 numbered folios, incomplete).
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of fragments of autograph manuscripts of two other works, the first commencing "Nor does this concentration of the heart and mind of man ..." (8 loose leaves, foliated 1-8); and the second "that the Marseilles Steamer, in which I left Constantinople for the last time ..." (5 loose leaves, foliated 94-97 and 1 unfoliated).
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of an autograph manuscript signed of "Sonnet. Dolce Far Niente", 1 leaf.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of typescripts of the poems: "Nature and Art" (14th line rewritten by hand); "The Engadine"; "Thoune", 2 leaves; "An Etruscan Tomb"; "Greece at the Congress", dated "April 1878"; "The Song"; "Lake Como"; "Lines on a Statue" signed by Charles Tuckerman; and "Two Sonnets" [England - France].
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of proofs of the poems: "An Etruscan Tomb", with autograph corrections; "The Sonnet" and "The Gift of Beauty", "Night Wind"; and "A Priest of Nature" together with an offprint of "An Appeal" ("From Calignani's Messenger" - "Florence 1887").
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of a diploma of honorary membership of the Greek Philological Society of Constantinople for C. K. Tuckerman, Constantinople, 4 April 1873. Oblong folio, 39,6 x 52,4 cm., in Greek, partly lithographed. Accompanied by a cover letter signed by the president and the secretary of the Club in Constantinople in 1873 (see: Box 5, folder 1).
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of a diploma of honorary presidentship of the Philekpaideutikos Syllogos Thessalonikēs for C. K. Tuckerman, (folio, 49,6 x 32,8 cm.), in Greek.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of a passport issued by the American Embassy in Paris (Legation des Etats-Unis d'Amerique en France) for C. K. Tuckerman, September 17, 1872. Folio, 43,4 x 27,7 cm., in French.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of a document signed by the president and secretary of the Phileducational Society of Thessaloniki to Charles K. Tuckerman, announcing his election as honorary president of the Club (24 January 1873); document from the Athenaeum, signed "for the secretary" by Spencer Hall, to C. K. Tuckerman, inviting him "to the house of the Club for a period of a Month", London, 29 April 1873 (4to, 25,7 x 20,5 cm.), 1 p., with etched vignette; document from the Athenaeum, signed "for the secretary" by Spencer Hall, to C. K. Tuckerman, re-inviting him "to the House of the Club for the further period of a Month", London, 2 June 1873 (4to, 23,8 x 20 cm.), 1 p., with etched vignette; Epaminondas Deligeorgis, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, to C. K. Tuckerman, on his work "The Greeks of today", Athens, 31 March / 12 April 1873 (large 8vo, 30 x 20,6 cm.), 2 pp., printed letterhead "MINISTÈRE / DES / AFFAIRES ETRANGÈRES"; a partly printed document signed by Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, to C. K. Tuckerman, appointing him Honorary Commissioner "to attend on behalf of the United States the International Exhibition to be held at Vienna, Austria, in the year 1873", Washington, 21 March 1873 (large 8vo, 33,2 x 21 cm.), 2 pp. There is also an award of the School for Moral Discipline (July 29th, 1838).
Consists of four original legal agreements in parchment regarding the property of Charles K. Tuckerman signed by Mrs. Mary Fleming Tuckerman.
Physical Description3 folders
Consists of a copy of a legal agreement regarding the last will of Charles Keating Tuckerman. Included also is a folder with correspondence between Mrs. Charles K. Tuckerman and Fleming Tuckerman with W.W. Baldwin, who resigns as Trustee of the Estate of the late Charles K. Tuckerman (see: Box 3, folder 9).
Physical Description1 folder
Act of Release signed by the creditors of Nye Brothers & Co of Canton China, "Charles Keating Tuckerman was only a salaried partner in the firm […] and had no interest in the profits and losses of that firm", New York, February 10, 1859. Large 8vo, 32,5 x 20 cm., 1 p.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of original documents from the Evamgelical Cemetery in Florence, Italy (Cimitero Degli Evangelico di Firenze) regarding the burial of Charles K. Tuckerman there. Documents are written in Italian and English.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of a printed leaflet (Notice) written in two columns in Greek and French. Contains a list of names that contributed to the Ophthalmology Clinic of Athens (Greece). "Avis. Liste des noms des personnes, qui se sont dispensées de s'envoyer des cartes de visite pour la Nouvelle Année, et qui ont bien voulu consacrer la dépense que cette obligation eût nécessitée, à une offrande pour l'Hôpital Ophthalmiatrique…"
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of carte de visite photographs (small albumen prints mounted on cards) depicting portraits of miscellaneous people including portraits of Tuckerman's family members. Photographs were taked by several photographers (stamp on the verso). A few cards are inscribed on the verso.
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Consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings mainly of poems and articles by Charles K. Tuckerman including clippings from Greek newspapers about Tuckerman, in the last leaves of the book, ranging from 1843 to 1874. Titles of the newspapers and dates are handwritten. Small 4to, 19,5 x 15,5 cm., [84] folios. Limp black morocco. There are also a few loose newspaper clippings.
Physical Description2 folders
Consists of an autograph poem entitled "Sonnet" by Paul Musurus-Bey, signed and dated by the poet. Poem is attached in a loose-leaf page with a clipping of the poem "Effets de neige" by the same poet (undated), next to it.
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Consists of a sealed envelope containing a lock of hair; envelope is inscribed and dated on both sides.
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Consists of an oval crayon sketch of Mrs. Alex[ander] Hamilton. Inscription on the reverse reads: "Mrs. Alex[ander] Hamilton / Aetatis 96. / From a Crayon Sketch / by Martin. / H. T. Tuckerman / with the compliments of his friend / Benson J. Lossing."
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of fifty-three letters mainly addressed to the New York poet and lawyer Fleming Tuckerman (1858-1923), son of Charles K. Tuckerman, some of them tipped onto loose album leaves. Included are several letters from diplomats and politicians, among them four from the American Republican politician, historian, and statesman Henry Cabot Lodge (3 May, 28 June and 17 November 1919, and 9 November 1920); (1) from the Greek diplomat and bibliophile Joannes Gennadius (17 December 1916); and (1) from the Greek minister to Washington Georgios Roussos (19 November 1918). There is also an extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York regarding the death of Athur Lyman Tuckerman; (1) letter from the French Red-Cross; letters from the Mayor of Boulogne; Schuyler M. Meyer, Assembly Chamber New York; British Embassy, Washington; United States Senate; (1) letter from the President's Room of Princeton University regarding the Greek language; Whitney Warren (architect); and the Consulate General of France in New York and London.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of Fleming Tuckerman's diploma from the Columbia College, New York.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of a certificate of Fleming Tuckerman's admission as an attorney, proctor, solicitor, counsel and advocate issued by the Southern District of New York.
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Consists of an autograph letter signed by Fleming Tuckerman to his mother; a copy of a memorandum in re settlement of estate of E.C. Cozens (1912); two newspaper clippings of Fleming Tuckerman's obituary; copy of a printed article by Arthur Fleming [Tuckerman] entitled "A Yankee on the throne of France." There is also typescript of the genealogical tree of Mary Griffin; and a card from Helen B. Kraft to Therese Tuckerman.
Physical Description1 folder
This series consists of architectural watercolors, pencil and ink sketches, by Arthur Lyman Tuckerman, son of Charles K. Tuckerma. He was a graduate of the Beaux Arts, Paris, and designed the new wings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In his short life he published three books.
Consists of thirty-two drawings in watercolor, pencil, and ink on twenty-three loose paper sheets by the architect-scholar of European architecture Arthur Lyman Tuckerman (1861-1894), son of Charles K. Tuckerman.The skecthes depict several places in Europe especially private, secular, and eccleciastical buildings in Italy (Venice), Belgium (Brussels), France, and Switzerland. Included are a few watercolor drawings of the old Porte D'Ostende in the old city wall, Bruges, Belgium. One of those dated 1884, written on the roof of a building. There are also four larger watercolors, one of those signed by the artist "By Arthur Lyman T[uckerman]" in pencil, on the right-hand corner (part is cut).
Among the pencil sketches are: a pencil folding drawing of the Schloss Neuhabsburg castle with a handwritten title at the top right corner of the drawing: "Schloss Habsburg, near Lucerne. August 30th, 1881"; the Doge Palace in Venice (September 19, 1981); Sta Maria della Salute, Venice; St. Giorgio Maggiore; a view of The Château de Chaumont in France (May 1, 1881); the Porte de Hal, Brussels (April 11, 1883); and the Apse of Poissy Church (June 19, 1881). The two drawings in ink comprise a sketch for offices building in French Romanesque style and the facade of Saint Trophime in Arles in the south of France. The majority of the pencil drawings are on both sides of the same sheet. All pen and pencil drawings are captioned and dated by the artist.
There is also a photograph portrait of the artist and a copy a short biographical note.
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