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Lyman family. Lyman family papers, 1803-1886 (inclusive).

Title: Lyman family papers, 1803-1886 (inclusive).

The principal figure in these papers is Joseph Bardwell Lyman, a lawyer and journalist. The papers include his correspondence, diaries, business papers, account books, court books, and articles written between 1858-1865. His student career is documented with papers written while at Yale College (1845-1850) and at the University of Louisiana Law School.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft. (12 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702166747 View

Lyman Family papers, 1803-1886

Title: Lyman Family papers 1803-1886

The principal figure in these papers is Joseph Bardwell Lyman, a lawyer and journalist. The papers include his correspondence, diaries, business papers, account books, court books, and articles written between 1858-1865. His student career is documented with papers written while at Yale College (1845-1850) and at the University of Louisiana Law School. As a distant relative of the Dickinson family of Amherst, Massachusetts, he corresponded with Emily Dickinson, her brother, Austin, and her sister, Lavinia. One letter from Austin Dickinson is in the papers. Emily Dickinson and Lavinia are represented by "snatches" from their letters copied out by Lyman. Also in the papers is a two-year series of engagement letters written to Laura E. Baker between 1856 and 1858 when they were married. Other letters describe army life during the Civil War, the Battle of Shiloh, 1862, and Lyman's interest in journalism and agriculture. Laura Baker Lyman is represented in the papers by a journal and miscellaneous papers.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear feet (12 boxes, 1 folio)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0337 View

Landis, Charles H., 1833-1900,. Letters to Alfred Bennett Crandell [manuscript], 1864-1869, undated.

Title: Letters to Alfred Bennett Crandell [manuscript], 1864-1869, undated.

A certificate of non-liability, 1864 June 30, from the New Jersey Board of Enrollment, exempts Crandell from military duty as he has furnished a substitute. in a letter 1865 August 10, E.H. Crandell discusses leaving portraits of Abraham Lincoln with Fowler & Wells and mentions Joseph Bardwell Lyman and [Laura Elizabeth Baker Lyman?]. In a letter 1869 June 11, Charles H. Landis expresses appreciation for Crandell's article on the Vineland colony. In an undated letter fragment, Joseph B. Lyman discusses General John Watts DePeyster and a commission, as well as DePeyster's library and house; the Hudson and Tivoli line, Laura Elizabeth Baker Lyman; the changing scope of a Civil War book to avoid "following in the wake of William Swinton"; a Mr. Bacon and another publishing venture; and a beautiful Miss Dawson. An undated letter from an unknown correspondent discusses a Mr. Bromley and the corn fodder man. There are also six envelopes to Crandell which do not match any of the letters.

ArchivalResource: 11 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648002675 View

Dickinson Family. Dickinson family library. 1810-1943.

Title: Dickinson family library

Books that were collected by the poet Emily Dickinson and her family.

ArchivalResource: 50 linear feet (591 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00321/catalog View

Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Title: Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Letters to American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

ArchivalResource: 36 linear feet (73 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00355/catalog View