Howe family.

Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe (1801-1876) was director of the Perkins Institute for the Blind, Boston; his wife Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) was the author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic and other works and a women's suffrage and club leader and lecturer; their daughters were authors Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards and Maud Howe Elliott (and others). Their granddaughter was Rosalind Richards (the donor).

From the guide to the Howe family papers, 1819-1910., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University)