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Mary Jackson Lee (1783-1860), the youngest daughter of Jonathan Jackson (1743-1810) and Hannah Tracy Jackson (1755-1797), was also the sister of Charles Jackson (1775-1855), Dr. James Jackson (1777-1867), and Patrick Tracy Jackson (1780-1847). She married, on 16 June 1809, Henry Lee (1782-1867), a merchant and economist. They had six children: Mary (1810-1811), Mary Cabot Lee Higginson (1811-1849), who married George Higginson (1804-1889) in 1832; Henry Lee (1817-1898?) who married Elizabeth Perkins Cabot Lee (1823- ); Elizabeth Cabot Lee Ware (1819- ), who married Dr. Charles Eliot Ware (1814-1887) in 1854; Francis L. Lee (1823-1886); and Harriet Jackson Lee Morse (1826-1911), who married Samuel Torrey Morse (1816-1890) in 1848. Mary Cabot Lee married George Higginson on 1 November 1832, and they had five children: George Higginson (1833-1901), who married Elizabeth Barker Higginson ( - ); Henry Lee Higginson (1834-1919), who married Ida Agassiz Higginson (1837-1935) in 1863; James Jackson Higginson (1836-1911), who married Margaret Bethune Gracie Higginson ( - ) in 1869; Mary Lee Higginson Blake (1838-1904), who married Samuel Parkman Blake ( - ) in 1868; and Francis Lee Higginson (1841- ), who married (1st) Julia Borland ( - ) in 1876, and (2nd) Anna Shattuck ( - ) in 1898. This collection consists, with a few exceptions, of the letters of Mary Jackson Lee to her daughter, Mary Cabot Lee Higginson, and Mary Cabot Lee Higginson's letters to her husband George. After their marriage, the young Higginsons moved to New York City where George was a commission merchant in partnership with his cousin Stephen Higginson. Most of the letters were written between 1832 and 1840 either in Boston or Waltham, Massachusetts, or New York. In 1837, George's business failed and the family returned to Boston. These letters from mother to daughter are affectionate in tone, gently didactic, and yet unequivocal regarding her ideas of what a wife's role should be. Even when, in June 1836, young George has the chicken pox, baby Henry has been exposed to it, and Mary Higginson is expecting her third child imminently, Mary Lee writes, "I hold you know that a woman is bound to make all things smooth and pleasant for her husband, when he returns home weary and oppressed with the more arduous duties of life."
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