Scope and Contents note
The Horatio Hyde Parker Papers consist of diaries, letters, and other documents concerning the family of Horatio Hyde Parker and Charlotte Boykin Parker.
The papers include letters of Alfred Parker, Horatio’s father, a bookseller in Manchester, and letters of Horatio’s brothers and sisters, his children, and various friends. Among the letters are series from Richard H. Thornton, and Charles Erskine Scott Wood.
The diaries and journals in the collection are by Alfred Parker, Horatio Parker, and Horatio’s son, Jamieson. The journal of Alfred Parker describes a walking tour from Manchester to London, and from Manchester to Scotland, 1845, 1847, and 1848. One of Horatio Parker’s early diaries describes traveling from Manchester to Rouen, France, and a return, in 1867. His American diaries depict conditions in the South from 1870 to 1875. The Jamieson Parker diaries, 1916-1918, describe social life in New York during World War I, and the beginnings of the architectural career of Jamieson Parker.
One of the letter series is the so-called “Seaview Letters.” It represents a series from 1888 to 1914, written from Seaview, Washington, where the Parker family maintained a summer home. The letters describe a mode of vacationing popular at the time.
The Horatio Hyde Parker Papers consist of 26 volumes of diaries, copybooks, and similar volumes, and 821 letters, 1844-1917. In addition to the Parker family records, there is material, largely genealogical, concerning the Boykin-Scott-Bibb families of Alabama.
Dates
- 1850-1924
Creator
- Parker, Horatio Hyde, 1850- (Person)
Conditions Governing Access note
Collection is open to the public. Collection must be used in Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room. Collection or parts of collection may be stored offsite. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives in advance of your visit to allow for transportation time.
Conditions Governing Use note
Property rights reside with Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish collection materials must be submitted to Special Collections and University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Biographical/Historical note
Horatio Hyde Parker was born in England in 1850, and migrated to America in 1869. He clerked in stores and law offices in Georgia, Florida, and Alabama, read law, was admitted to the bar, and came to Portland, Oregon in 1887. In Oregon, he was employed in the law firm of Williams and Wood. In 1882, he married Charlotte Boykin of Tilden, Alabama.
Extent
3.5 linear feet (7 containers)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Horatio Hyde Parker was born in England in 1850, and migrated to America in 1869. He moved to Portland, Oregon in 1887, where he was employed in the law firm of Williams and Wood. The Horatio Hyde Parker papers consist of diaries, letters, and other documents concerning the family of Horatio Hyde Parker and his wife, Charlotte Boykin Parker.
Arrangement note
Collection is organized into the following ten series: Series I. Horatio H. Parker Diaries; Series II. Horatio H. Parker Letters Received; Series III. Horatio Parker Letters Sent; Series IV. Horatio H. Parker "Seaview Letters;" Series V. Alfred Parker Journals; Series VI. Miscellaneous; Series VII. Parker Family Genealogical Documents; Series VIII. Scott-Bibb-Boykin Families Genealogical Documents; Series IX. Books; Series X. Miscellaneous.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of the estate of Van W. Anderson in 1963.
General Physical Description note
7 containers
Processing Information
Collection processed by staff.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Alabama -- Genealogy Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Bib family
- Boykin family
- City and Town Life Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Diaries Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- France -- Description and travel Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oregon Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Parker family
- Parker, Alfred
- Parker, Charlotte Boykin
- Parker, Horatio Hyde, 1850-
- Parker, Jamieson
- Scott family
- Southern States -- Social conditions, 1865-1945 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Vacation homes -- Washington (State) -- Seaview Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1852-1944
- Title
- Guide to the Horatio Hyde Parker Papers
- Status
- Complete Description
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Vida Germano
- Date
- ©2004
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Repository
