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...thousand manuscripts from the James family were given by Henry James '99 and Mrs. Andrew Hepburn left on deposit with the library the manuscripts of her grandmother, Caroline Tappan. Pamphlets concerning the history of American missionaries were also received and seven important books of William Blake belonging to the late Edward W. Hooper '59, from his four daughters...
...Paul Tappan '09, 123 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
...Massachusetts' green and social Berkshire hills, a pioneer landowner in 1849 was William Aspinwall Tappan, Boston merchant and banker. He purchased 210 acres between Lenox and Stockbridge, called it "Tanglewood," built a Victorian mansion on it. He also built a small red cottage which he rented to Author Nathaniel Hawthorne. There Hawthorne wrote his Tanglewood Tales for children and began his The House of the Seven Gables. Nothing very important had since happened at sedate Tanglewood until last week. From the nearby Berkshire Hunt and Country Club, where he and his wife had been put up in the best...
...Festival to begin to talk of "an American Salzburg" and impelled the stately Boston maestro to urge that the number of summer concerts be increased and the Festival obtain a permanent home. Result was that the present owners of Tanglewood, Mrs. Gorham Brooks and Miss Mary Aspinwall Tappan of Brookline, turned their estate over to the Festival committee, which raised $16,000 in pledges for an orchestra pavilion to be designed by famed Finnish-born Architect Eliel Saarinen...
...Custom again struck the unflinching, unbending Robert Gibsons a rude blow last week. They are a middle-aged couple who live at Tappan, N. Y., a New York village atop the Hudson River Palisades, just north of the New Jersey boundary...