LLOYD FAMILY PAPERS – 1866-1941

9 boxes (3.55 linear feet) of personal correspondence, papers, documents, journals, newsclippings and personal items of Henry Demarest Lloyd and Jessie Bross Lloyd and family members and one friend. This includes: 1 box of Jessie Bross Lloyd’s correspondence and papers (1872-1904); 3 ½ boxes of Jessie Bross Lloyd’s memorials upon her death, and obituaries, manuscripts by her, a guest book, and 24 of her diaries (1885-1904) and 4 books belonging to her; ½ box of Jessie Bross Lloyd and Henry Demarest Lloyd combined correspondence and papers (1875-1889) which includes wills and some financial papers; ½ box of Henry Demarest Lloyd’s correspondence and papers (1874-1903); ¾ box of William Bross Lloyd’s correspondence, papers, speech, article, journals and printed materials (1874-1941); ¾ of box of miscellaneous correspondence, papers, newsclippings, manuscripts, obituaries, a poem, deeds and a book (1866-1937) which includes materials of grandparents Mary Jane Bross and William Bross, Grandmother Lloyd, Caro Lloyd and Caroline Stallbohm. Miscellaneous includes a copy of a letter of Robert Louis Stevenson about Henry Lloyd and an original letter by Edward Everett Hale on WEALTH VS. COMMONWEALTH; 1 box of personal items for museum (see list) and 1 framed photograph of Henry Demarest Lloyd and Jessie Bross Lloyd.

Revised 2023 by Lucy Hereford, Erin Matson.

LLOYD FAMILY PAPERS 1866-1941

Preliminary Container List of Papers

Series 1. Jessie Bross Lloyd

Box 1

Folders

1 Incoming correspondence on JBL’s engagement 1873

2 “ from Henry D. Lloyd 1872-1889

3 “ from Henry D. Lloyd’s parents 1876, 1887, n.d.

4 “ from her children 1884-1898

5 “ from her family, friends, and others 1874-1889

6 Incoming from family and friends to JBL & HDL 1875-1902

7 Incoming correspondence from family, friends, and others 1891-1904, n.d.

8 Outgoing from JBL & HDL to their children 1885-1889

9 Outgoing 1887

10 Correspondence relating to JBL’s death 1905

11 JBL wills 1882, 1885

Box 2

Folders

1-4 Memorials and Addresses (includes some minimal correspondence, and a memorial by

Jane Addams)

5 Obituaries 1905-1905

6 Diaries 1873, 1878, 1880, 1882, 1883, 1884

Box 3

Diaries 1885, 1886, 1888, 1889,. 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1895,1897,1898

Box 4

Folders

1 Diaries 1899, 1900, 1901, 1903, 1904, Misc.

2 Untitled manuscripts (3)

3 “God Blessed Forever” manuscript

4 “Lucretia Mott” manuscript

5 “Literary Spinster” manuscript

6 “Literary Spinster” manuscript

Box 5

Folders

1 Books Belonging to Jessie Bross Lloyd

-William C. Gannett and Jenkin Lloyd Jones., The Faith That Makes Faithful, Chicago:

Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1899

-Cupid’s Birthday Book

-Poems of George Eliot, New York, White, Stokes & Aller, 1883

-Anne Reeve Aldrich, Songs About Life, Love and Death, New York, Charles Scribner’s

Sons, 1899

2 Miscellaneous - Includes newsclippings, cookbooks, “Baby Abroad in Winter,” “Birds of a

Feather,” announcement, JBL’s calling cards, notepaper from Wayside, membership

card in The Fortnightly of Chicago, etc.

3 Guest Book 1884, 1888, 1901

Series 2. Henry Demarest Lloyd

4 Incoming correspondence from parents and parents-in-law 1874-1897

5 “ from family, friends, etc. 1875-1904

6 Outgoing correspondence to JBL 1891-1903, n.d.

7 Incoming correspondence from JBL 1897

8 “ letters of introduction 1891-1898

9 Outgoing correspondence 1885

10 Incoming correspondence from children 1890-1901, n.d.

Box 6

Folders

1 Business papers 1874-1903

2 Financial papers, property tax receipts 1879-1899

3 HDL Wills, 1882, 1885

4 Newsclippings 1906-1919

5 Newsclippings 1899-1907 (includes about HDL after his death)

6 Miscellaneous papers n.d.

7 Henry Demarest Lloyd memorial 1903 (tickets to memorial)

Series 3. William Bross Lloyd

8 Incoming correspondence 1874-1914, n.d.

9 Incoming and outgoing correspondence 1892-1941

10 Papers and newsclippings regarding Winnetka’s Public Gas and Water Plants

1907-1908, n.d.

11 Manuscripts and a speech:

-First Traction article

-Speech on Local Transportation 1903

12 Miscellaneous papers, receipts 1911, n.d.

13 WBL Diary - undated

14 Books:

-Birthday Book for Children

-Aetna Life Insurance Co. Almanac, 1883

-Log of the Cruise of the Jessie C. - 1892

Series 4. Other Family Members and Friends

Box 7

Folders

1 Correspondence of Grandmother n.d.

2 Poem to Mary Jane Bross from William Bross 1873

3 Caro Lloyd newsclippings 1892

4 Caroline Stallbohm incoming correspondence 1904-1905 re: JBL’s death

5 “ “ “ “ 1904-1908, n.d.

Series 5. Miscellaneous

6 Miscellaneous family correspondence and papers 1884-1905

7 “ “ newsclippings 1906, n.d.

8 Obituaries 1905, 1937, n.d.

9 Miscellaneous correspondence and papers 1873-1894

10 Real estate deeds, etc. 1866-1883

11 Miscellaneous papers n.d.

12 Manuscripts, non-family 1898

-”Disorders in Milan”

-”The Case of Bonamelli, Bishop of Cremona”

-”American Lady’s Experience in Milan During the Riots in May”

13 Book of Photographs - Harvard University, Boston, Mass.: Moses King, Publ., 1896

Box 8

Folders

1 Jessie Bross Lloyd Picture frame

2 “ “ Small sewing kit

3 “ “ Small box with pin, bookmark, and callings

4 “ “ Broken flower pot

5 “ “ Matchbox

6 “ “ House on stilts

7 “ “ Ermine pelt and locks of hair

8 “ “ Writing quills

9 “ “ Children’s art work (four and dried flowers) 1880-1890s

10 “ “ Eyeglasses

11 Henry Demarest Lloyd - Eyeglasses

12. William Demarest Lloyd - Pen Holder

13 “ “ Pen Holder

14 “ “ Chicago Manual Training School – School colors

15 Grandparents Lloyd Wedding card printing plates

16. Blotter, probably JBL’s

1 photograph of Jessie Bross Lloyd and William Demarest Lloyd

Box 9

Material on Socialist Party activities in Illinois, 1900s-1910s, collected by William Bross Lloyd