Public Faces, Private Lives
Text from Improper Bostonians


Leverett Saltonstall

Leverett Saltonstall (1825-1895, right) sitting next to his Harvard classmate Charles William Dabney, Jr. and an unidentified friend, c. 1850. Saltonstall traveled with Dabney after graduation and generally had a difficult time settling down; it was said that he was forced by his mother, against his will, to marry.