Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to all researchers.

Conditions Governing Use

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred Citation

Caroline Minturn Hall Bride's Gift Book, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Acquisition Information

The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center on 12/15/2005.

Biographical Note

Caroline Minturn Hall was the daughter of Mrs. David Prescott Hall of Boston and the granddaughter of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe.  She married Rev. Hugh Birckhead in New York City in June 1909. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Caroline Minturn Hall ">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Caroline Minturn Hall </a>.

Scope and Contents

New York bride's book, 1909, kept by Caroline Mintern(or Minturn) Hall, granddaughter of Julia Ward Howe, who was married June 9,1909, to Rev. Hugh Birckhead. Book is published in New York, 1902 and called "The Book of the Bride Elect."  Has columns for listing gifts, those who gave them , date of acknowledgment and others.Many of the gifts received were monogramed, some made by Tiffany & Co. and some gifts were exchanged. Includes gifts from Julia Ward Howe, Attorney General and Mrs. Wickersham, Van Wyck, Gould, Harriman, Coolidge, Grosvenor and other luminaries of the New York Social Scene.  Includes letters from Caroline Hall's mother and from Frances T. Morgan(Mrs. JP Morgan) and a newspaper clipping of the wedding.

Index Terms

Genre/Form of Material:

• Marriage registers

Geographic Name:

• New York (State)--Social life and customs.

Personal Name:

• Birckhead, Hugh (Rev.)

Topical Term:

• Marriage customs and rites--United States.
• Weddings--1900-1910

Additional Information