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Browning, Irving, 1895-1961. Autograph Collection, 1678-1966.

Title: Autograph Collection, 1678-1966.

This is a collection of approximately 215 original manuscript documents, including 125 letters of New York City mayors and 28 signature cards of same and 51 letters and 13 signature cards of New York State governors. The outside dates of the collection are the late 18th century to the mid-20th century. Every important mayor and governor is represented in the collection. he major portion of the collection includes official documents such as bail bonds, deeds, sermons, testimony, bonds and correspondence. Some interesting individual items are a letter from James Duane to Philip Livingston in 1782 regarding appointments, Richard Varick's order to French sailors in 1793 to turn in their arms, and letters of Philip Hone, Fernando Wood, Robert Troup, William Gaynor, Fiorello LaGuardia, Robert Wagner, and John V. Lindsay among others. The governor's portion includes both official documents and correspondence. They include such items as ship oaths, Council of Revision orders by George Clinton, appointments, letters by Hamilton Fish, Horatio Seymour, Lord Cornbury, Morgan Lewis, Horatio Seymour, Edwin Morgan, Reuben Fenton, Alfred E. Smith, Averell Harriman, Nelson Rockefeller among others. Interesting is a letter of Pierre Van Cortlandt to the Assembly in 1780 concerning the provision of ammunition.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.25 cubic ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122629096 View

Wood, Fernando. Letter, 1863 October 30.

Title: Letter, 1863 October 30.

Letter to New York Governor Horatio Seymour requesting a commission as second lieutenant for a friend in Company C, 40th Regiment of New York State Volunteers. Written at New York, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145407078 View

Badeau, Adam, 1831-1895. Adam Badeau correspondence, 1864-1887.

Title: Adam Badeau correspondence, 1864-1887.

Correspondence relating to Ulysses S. Grant, whom Badeau served as military secretary (1864-1869), his writings about Grant, and Badeau's social engagements in London. Includes copies of letters (1864-1868) written by Grant. Correspondents include Orville E. Babcock, Rutherford B. Hayes, Andrew Johnson, Emory Upton, and Fernando Wood.

ArchivalResource: 175 items.1 container.0.4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123540231 View

Sage, Gardner A. Map of the lands required for and benefited by opening Eleventh Avenue from 59th Street to 107th Street / Gardner A. Sage.

Title: Map of the lands required for and benefited by opening Eleventh Avenue from 59th Street to 107th Street / Gardner A. Sage. 1854.

ArchivalResource: 1 map on 4 assembled sheets : ms., col. ; 31 x 238 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78869822 View

United States Custom House (New York, N.Y.). New York Custom House Records, 1792-1896, bulk (1802-1854).

Title: New York Custom House Records, 1792-1896, bulk (1802-1854).

The first series, 1792-1894, represents the bulk of the papers and consist of letters, certificates of registration for crews and vessels, returns of manifests, documents regarding imports and exports, petitions for various positions and contracts. The second series, 1833-1840, consists of vouchers and receipts that were generated from the construction of a custom house under Commissioners Samuel Swartwout, Walter Bourne and Elisha Tibbits. Positions in the custom houses were sought for their political and social influence. Within this collection, individuals who had an interest or were involved in the New York Custom House for the period 1794-1894 include Chester Alan Arthur, who was appointed in 1871 as a collector of the Port of New York by President Grant; Greene Carrier Bronson, appointed as collector for the years 1853-1854; Governors Washington Hunt and Horatio Seymour; and Tench Coxe, Samuel Swartwout, Fernando Wood, and James Madison.

ArchivalResource: .4 linear foot (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122346182 View

Lockman, DeWitt McClellan, 1870-1957,. [Map of the area later bounded by 77th and 84th Streets along Broadway, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)].

Title: [Map of the area later bounded by 77th and 84th Streets along Broadway, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)]. [ca. 1867]

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms., col. ; 24 x 108 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54992402 View

Smithsonian Archives. Alexander Dallas Bache Papers.

Title: Smithsonian Archives. Alexander Dallas Bache Papers.

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Wise, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1806-1876. Letters, 1841 and 1858-1860.

Title: Letters, 1841 and 1858-1860.

These letters from Wise to Wood, and one from Wise to his wife, discuss political issues of the day.

ArchivalResource: 14 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145409535 View

Fernando Wood letters and documents, 1839-1871

Title: Fernando Wood letters and documents 1839-1871

Fernando Wood was an American Democratic politician who served as mayor of New York City; United States Representative; and Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means in both the 45th and 46th Congress. This collection consists predominantly of correspondence addressing personal, financial, and political matters. Letters concerning political matters relate both to Wood's tenure as mayor of New York City, and to his term in Congress, and include an 1859 letter from the Clerk of Common Council certifying his mayoral election; a letter from A. Oakey Hall which discusses the two men 'burying the hatchet,' and letters from R. M. Blatchford concerning the operation of Central Park. Other prominent correspondents include judges Charles P. Daly and George Shea; Augustus Schell, A. W. Randall, John T. Hoffman, Hamilton Fish, Royal Phelps, Robert B. Minturn, Jr., and the Archbishop of New York. Also included are miscellaneous autographs and franks, and documents signed by Wood.

ArchivalResource: .1 linear feet; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/4686 View

Maass, Richard, 1919-1998,. The Richard Maass collection of Westchester and New York State, 1645-1910 (bulk 1770-1783).

Title: The Richard Maass collection of Westchester and New York State, 1645-1910 (bulk 1770-1783).

Collection consists of over three hundred autograph letters, documents, and newspapers which chronicle the early history of New York State from its colonization by the Dutch to the mid-nineteenth century. The collection is, however, particularly rich in materials relating to the Revolutionary War and can provide researchers with multiple perspectives on significant events and individual military campaigns. For example, the Battle of White Plains is amply documented in the collection through correspondence from participants and observers, as well as in contemporary newspaper accounts. The arrangement of the collection, for the most part, has followed Maass's own organization. With a few exceptions, each item has been listed and described individually in the finding aid. Any additional information that has been provided by Maass regarding a specific document has been retained and placed in a folder which has been filed immediately behind the folder containing the document to which it relates. Almost every folder for each item in the collection contained a one to two page description of the document, as well as other ancillary materials such as transcriptions and/or translations of documents by Maass. These folders also occasionally contained provenance information. Any additions to the collection are to be processed as separate accretions. In addition to autograph letters and historical documents, the Maass Collection contained a small amount of printed materials. These chiefly consisted of over thirty different early American, British, and French newspapers, dating mainly from the eighteenth century, which have been organized as a separate series (Series V).

ArchivalResource: 12 linear ft. (20 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/476113644 View

Wood, Fernando, 1812-1881. Autograph letter signed : Washington, to G.L. Ford, 1864 Jun. 21.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Washington, to G.L. Ford, 1864 Jun. 21.

Saying he will forward a copy of McClellan's report when printed, but that Grant has not made one.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270583848 View

Hale, Augustin W., 1814-1902. Augustin W. Hale papers, 1775-1909 bulk (1830-1859).

Title: Augustin W. Hale papers, 1775-1909 bulk (1830-1859).

The manuscripts consist of 1,112 items including business documents, legal documents, memoranda of letters written, stock certificates, receipts, and miscellaneous documents. The manuscripts document, in detail, the various business ventures of Augustin and his various business partners including Mark Hopkins. The manuscripts include business and financial records of the following companies: Magnetic Mining Company, New England Mining and Trading Company, San Joaquin Diving Bell Company, San Joaquin Railroad Company, Saucelito Water Company, Sierra Nevada Flour Mills, Stanislaus Central Bridge Company, and the Tuolumne Hydraulic Association. This group also contains material related to Trinity Church in San Francisco and Hale's voyage to California. The manuscripts also document Elisha Hale's business ventures, his inventions and patents. This material includes agreements, bills of lading, deeds, indentures, licenses, petitions, and powers of attorney. The manuscripts also deal with several lawsuits involving the Hale family and land ownership in New Jersey and New York. The collection contains 15 diaries, 11 of which are written by Augustin. His diaries illustrate his life and work from departure from New York in January 1849 to his mining and life in California in February 1851. Subjects in his diaries include his voyage to California, gold mining, gold discoveries, his encounters with Indians and his health conditions as well as Colonel Jonathan Stevenson, San Francisco, Sacramento, the New England Mining Trading Company, the Chinese in California, and the mining camps Shasta, Clear Creek and Mormon Island. The most significant of these diaries is the 217-page diary covering Augustin's departure from New York, his entire voyage, his experiences in Rio de Janeiro, and Callao and Lima, Peru, and his arrival in San Francisco. There are also two diaries by an unknown author who came overland to California in 1849 from Ohio. The author discusses the overland route to California, Hudspeth's Cutoff, William H. Warner, Peter Lassen and gold mining. The correspondence includes 3,102 items. About two-thirds of the correspondence relates to Elisha Hale and his business, inventions and patents. The remainder of the correspondence relates to Augustin and his life in California and Nevada from 1849 to 1894 (there are some letters from Augustin's life before his move to California). Subjects covered in the correspondence are: gold mining, including techniques and equipment; gold discoveries; conditions in the gold camps; fellow gold miners; the Episcopal Church and Trinity Church in San Francisco; Augustin's business ventures and financial problems; the Chinese in California; the San Francisco fire in May 1851; Vigilance Committees; the Comstock Lode; the American Civil War; and Abraham Lincoln. The correspondence also includes detailed descriptions of Big Bar, Chinese Camp, Clear Creek, Coloma, Grass Valley, Los Angeles, Michigan Bluff, Mormon Island, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Yankee Jim's, California as well as Gold Hill and Silver City, Nevada. There are also several pieces of correspondence from women living in California that discuss their experience living in mining towns. Notable participants include: John Carpenter Angell; August Belmont; Orville Hickman Browning; Nehemiah Bushnell; George Mifflin Dallas; Charles Goodyear; Lewis C. Gunn; Joseph Holt; John Henry Hopkins; Mark Hopkins; Douglass Houghton; D. Minor K. Johnson; James King; Bishop William Kip; John Marshall Krum; J. Pierpont Morgan; Antoine Perpigna; Isaac L. Requa; Lorenzo Sawyer; Origen S. Seymour; Reuben Sherwood; William Neely Thompson; Enos Thompson Throop; Robert Boyd Van Kleeck; Fernando Wood. The ephemera is made up of 1,011 items and includes business cards, miscellaneous printed items, broadsides, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, two albumen prints, receipts, an autograph album and recipes. Some of the ephemera relates to Augustin's voyage to California, his business and gold mining. There are 6 artifacts and 8 oversize items. These include maps, sketches, diagrams, a stamp of Augustin's name, a postal cancellation stamp invented by Augustin, a pictorial letter sheet depicting San Francisco, and Augustin's balance scale for weighing gold.

ArchivalResource: 5,256 items.29 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228769855 View

Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893. Papers, 1777-1945, (bulk: 1870-1892)

Title: James Gillespie Blaine Papers 1777-1945 (bulk 1870-1892)

United States secretary of state, United States representative and senator from Maine, and journalist. Family and general correspondence, speeches, writings, diaries, memoirs, notebooks, scrapbooks, and other papers documenting Blaine's public career.

ArchivalResource: 7,000 items; 48 containers; 20 linear feet; 21 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003039 View

Alexander, Peter Wellington, 1825-1886. Peter Wellington Alexander papers, 1835-1910.

Title: Peter Wellington Alexander papers, 1835-1910.

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, and newspapers. These include over four hundred letters to Alexander, as well as miscellaneous letters and telegrams; some of his manuscripts and notes; business records of his law firm; military documents of the western divisions of the Confederate Army; copybooks and letter books; and complete and partial newspapers and clippings from the various Southern newspapers (in particular THE SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN, the DAILY DISPATCH of Richmond, and the ADVERTISER AND REGISTER of Mobile) which carried Alexander's dispatches.

ArchivalResource: 30 linear ft. ( 18 boxes and 12 flat boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/265033290 View

Sherman, Isaac, 1818-1881. Papers of Isaac Sherman, 1832-1913 (bulk 1848-1881).

Title: Papers of Isaac Sherman, 1832-1913 (bulk 1848-1881).

Personal papers of Isaac Sherman, including his correspondence, legal, financial, and political papers. The correspondence, chiefly letters received, discusses political campaigns, state and national politics, business, and family affairs. Included are items discussing the 1848 presidential campaign; congressional elections in New York; Free Soil Party; Wilmot proviso, Kansas-Nebraska bill; Republican National Convention (1856); Fremont's run for President, including the publicity campaign; Kansas controversy; Catholic question, especially in connection with Fremont's candidacy; Know-Nothings; Abraham Lincoln; the Civil War (especially operations in Missouri and military leadership of Fremont and Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, war politics and finances, New York regiments, and European opinions); Johnson's presidency and Reconstruction; national economic policies; tax policies and Anti-Income Tax Association; railroads, especially in the South, etc. The collection also contains financial records Cornelia Sherman Martin and her husband Bradley Martin (1841-1913), including records pertaining to expenses of their New York City mansion.

ArchivalResource: Appprox. 5000 pieces.24 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228738324 View

Franklin Pierce letters and documents, 1823-1857

Title: Franklin Pierce letters and documents 1823-1857

This is a small collection of letters and documents relating to Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president of the United States. Material includes correspondence; miscellaneous documents signed by Pierce; autographs; and an annotated 1853 statement by an unknown author relating to a published attack by the New York Tribune on the ostensibly pro-Pierce New York Post. Correspondence includes letters to Pierce's father, Benjamin Pierce, from both Franklin and other family members; and a letter from New York City mayor Fernando Wood.

ArchivalResource: .1 linear feet; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/17911 View

Richard Maass Collection of Westchester and New York State, Bulk, 1645-1910, 1645-1995 (Bulk: 1645-1910)

Title: Richard Maass Collection of Westchester and New York State Bulk, 1645-1910 1645-1995 (Bulk: 1645-1910)

Richard Maass, a Westchester County resident, NYU alumnus and highly successful investment banker, was active in the political and educational affairs of New York and Westchester (Mayor of White Plains in 1974 and Westchester County Historian, 1974-1981). Maass amassed this unique collection of historical documents over a fifty-year period. It contains more than three hundred items relating to the early history of New York State, with a particular focus on the American Revolutionary War.

ArchivalResource: 12.0 Linear feet; (21 boxes)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/maass/maass.html View

Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902. Caricatures by Thomas Nast [manuscript], 1866.

Title: Caricatures by Thomas Nast [manuscript], 1866.

Glass plate negatives of caricatures from the New York studio of Mathew Brady. The caricatures were painted by Nast for a charity masquerade ball by Max Maretzek held at the Academy of Music, New York City. Subjects include Nathaniel Banks, Sidney F. Bateman, Henry Ward Beecher, James Gordon Bennett, William Cullen Bryant, Benjamin F. Butler, Peter Cooper, Jefferson Davis, David G. Farragut, Count Garouski, Ulysses Grant, Horace Greeley, John T. Hoffman, Joseph Hooker, Andrew Johnson, and Clara Louise Kellogg. Subjects also include Max Maretzek, George G. Meade, Henry F. Raymond, Winfield Scott, Raphael Semmes, William Seward, Franz Siegel, Charles Sumner, George H. Thomas, and Fernando Wood, as well as the Alabama, slavery and "the bone of contention."

ArchivalResource: 57 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647821223 View

Campbell, Lewis D. (Lewis Davis), 1811-1882. Papers 1850-1877.

Title: Papers 1850-1877.

Lawyer and U.S. Representative from Ohio. Letters relating mostly to national and Ohio politics while Campbell was in Congress, 1849-58. Contact repository for more information.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5976290 View

Wood, Fernando, 1812-1881. Autograph letter signed : New York, to an unidentified recipient, 1867 Nov. 30.

Title: Autograph letter signed : New York, to an unidentified recipient, 1867 Nov. 30.

Enclosing ballots for the election next Tuesday.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270583855 View

Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893. Papers, 1777-1945, (bulk: 1870-1892)

Title: James Gillespie Blaine Papers 1777-1945 (bulk 1870-1892)

United States secretary of state, United States representative and senator from Maine, and journalist. Family and general correspondence, speeches, writings, diaries, memoirs, notebooks, scrapbooks, and other papers documenting Blaine's public career.

ArchivalResource: 7,000 items; 48 containers; 20 linear feet; 21 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003039 View

Sage, Gardner A. [Map of the area later bounded by 79th and 81st Streets, Amsterdam Avenue and the Hudson River, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)].

Title: [Map of the area later bounded by 79th and 81st Streets, Amsterdam Avenue and the Hudson River, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)]. [ca. 1860]

ArchivalResource: 1 map on 2 assembled sheets : ms., col. ; 105 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54762063 View

Wood, Fernando, 1812-1881. Fernando Wood correspondence, 1859 December 1.

Title: Fernando Wood correspondence, 1859 December 1.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70981412 View

New York Custom House Records, 1792-1896, 1802-1854

Title: New York Custom House Records 1792-1896 1802-1854

The first series, 1792-1894, represents the bulk of the papers and consist of letters, certificates of registration for crews and vessels, returns of manifests, documents regarding imports and exports, petitions for various positions and contracts. The second series, 1833-1840, consists of vouchers and receipts that were generated from the construction of a custom house under Commissioners Samuel Swartwout, Walter Bourne and Elisha Tibbits.

ArchivalResource: .4 linear foot (1 box)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/3092 View

Hubbard, Frederick. Copy of engineers private journal [on] Harlem Bridge 1857-1861.

Title: Copy of engineers private journal [on] Harlem Bridge 1857-1861. 1857-1861.

This journal appears to be a unique record of daily on site observations and construction processes of the building of a second Harlem River bridge at the site of Third Avenue, County of New York (Manhattan). It contains copied documents such as the New York State Legislature's document Chapter 774 dated April 17, 1857 authorizing the building of a new bridge at the site, as well as the design requirements for the new bridge, removal of the previous bridge and the official appointment and acceptance letters of the chief engineer, William J. McAlpine and assistant engineer, Frederick Hubbard.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 35 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/319715134 View

Nelson, William, 1847-1914. Manuscript collection, 1690-1875

Title: Manuscript Group 23 William Nelson (1847-1914), Lawyer and historian Manuscript Collection, 1690-1875

Letters and documents purchased at the auction of the William Nelson manuscript collection; typescripts of interviews with residents of Paterson, New Jersey and its environs, made and transcribed between 1873 and 1885.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 linear feet

https://jerseyhistory.org/0023-2 View

John Van Loan autograph album, 1879-1902.

Title: John Van Loan autograph album, 1879-1902.

Autograph album assembled by John Van Loan.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (.12 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00367/catalog View

A nest of Copperheads [graphic].

Title: A nest of Copperheads [graphic]. 1863.

Subject: A carte de visite photograph of a caricature of prominent Copperhead leaders. Photographic portraits of Copperhead leaders are mounted on drawn bodies of snakes coiled among blades of grass. Left to right they are: Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America; George B. McClellan, Union general and presidential candidate; Horatio Seymour, Governor of New York; James Buchanan, former president of the United States; Fernando Wood, mayor of New York; an unidentified man; Clement L. Vallandigham, Congressman from Ohio and leader of the Copperhead movement; and an unidentified man, possibly Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury.

ArchivalResource: 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen, b&w ; print 6 x 9 cm., mount 7 x 11 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/733273636 View

Lockman, DeWitt McClellan, 1870-1957,. [Map of the area later bounded by 59th and 65th Streets along Broadway, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)].

Title: [Map of the area later bounded by 59th and 65th Streets along Broadway, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)]. [ca. 1867]

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms., col. ; 24 x 108 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54992399 View

Lockman, DeWitt McClellan, 1870-1957,. [Map of the area later bounded by 71st and 77th Streets along Broadway, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)].

Title: [Map of the area later bounded by 71st and 77th Streets along Broadway, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)]. [ca. 1867]

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms., col. ; 24 x 108 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54992401 View

Miller, John Franklin, 1831-1886. John Franklin Miller papers, 1848-1886.

Title: John Franklin Miller papers, 1848-1886.

Personal and military correspondence, business, financial and legal papers dealing with Miller's early legal career and military service. Material covers his service in Tennessee during the Civil War, business and political activities in California after the war, and the Alaska Commercial Company. Letters (1880-1886) relate to Miller's term as U.S. Senator from California and his position as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Correspondents include Andrew Johnson, Hugh McCulloch, Mrs. James Polk, and General William Starke Rosecrans.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122510675 View

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874

Title: Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Letters to Charles Sumner, lawyer, Republican senator from Massachusetts, and anti-slavery campaigner; with a smaller number of letters from Sumner to others.

ArchivalResource: 33 cartons (43.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00232/catalog View

Lockman, DeWitt McClellan, 1870-1957,. [Map of the area later bounded by 65th and 71st Streets along Broadway, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)].

Title: [Map of the area later bounded by 65th and 71st Streets along Broadway, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)]. [ca. 1867]

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms., col. ; 24 x 108 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54992400 View

Peter Wellington Alexander Papers, 1855-1863

Title: Peter Wellington Alexander Papers, 1855-1863,

ArchivalResource: 10 linear feet (18 document boxes and 12 flat boxes).; 16 reels of microfilm (8 positive reels-2 copies of reels 1-3 & 5-7); 8 master negative reels).

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079103 View

Wood, Fernando, 1812-1881. Letter to Henry Alexander Wise [manuscript], 1859 March 13.

Title: Letter to Henry Alexander Wise [manuscript], 1859 March 13.

In the letter Wood advises Wise against taking a stand on certain issues, a move which might cause dissension within the Democratic Party.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647912208 View

Hay, John, 1838-1905. Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Willard" to "Yorke".

Title: Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Willard" to "Yorke".

Includes letters to Hay and to members of his family.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 6,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122599292 View

James Gordon Bennett Papers, 1845-1934, (bulk 1861-1864)

Title: James Gordon Bennett Papers 1845-1934 (bulk 1861-1864)

Newspaper publisher. Correspondence, clippings, drafts of articles, and printed material reflecting Bennett’s career as publisher of the New York . Herald

ArchivalResource: 225 items; 1 container; .4 linear feet; 1 microfilm reel

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007004 View

Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

Title: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

A collection of images, manuscripts, and printed material, mostly relating to the Massachusetts soldiers and regiments in the American Civil War. Some material relates to other Union regiments and the Confederate States of America.

ArchivalResource: 47 linear feet (143 boxes, 2 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00124/catalog View

Hillyer, William Silliman, 1831-1874. Papers of William Silliman Hillyer, 1822 (1861-1874) 1931, [manuscript].

Title: Papers of William Silliman Hillyer, 1822 (1861-1874) 1931, [manuscript].

Correspondence, military papers, speeches, photographs, printed material and memorabilia. Military papers of Hillyer include district provost marshall reports; special and general orders of Grant, Sherman, Hillyer and others, especially one of congratulations on Port Gibson; passes; accounts; oaths of allegiance; and a receipt for Ulric Dahlgren's ring. Correspondence of Hillyer, his parents, children, and Grant chiefly pertains to the Civil War. There are discussions of the secession riots in St. Louis, and Grant's "Jew Order" of Dec. 17, 1862; a denial of Grant's drunkeness at Ft. Donelson; references to various services by blacks; and descriptions of the battles of Iuka, Holly Springs, Campbell's Station and Chickamauga, and of the Chattanooga campaign. Of unusual interest are a signed copy of Grant's letter to Simon B. Buckner demanding unconditional surrender at Ft. Donelson; a draft of a letter from Grant to Henry Halleck asking either relief from Command or full restoration to it; a letter of Grant's discussing his plans for the Vicksburg campaign; and a photocopy of Robert E. Lee's April 9, 1865, letter asking for a suspension of hostilities with a forwarding note by E.O.C. Ord mentioning Sheridan. Other Civil War papers concern a Union Army scout; a claim from a spy near Richmond who supplied information for Hugh Kilpatrick's Rappahannock raid; the military service of John H.H. Ward; the Senate investigation of George K. Leet; Hillyer's connection with Mann's Accoutrement Manufacturing Company; and a reunion of the Army of the Tennessee. Hillyer family letters include considerable correspondence between Anna Rankin Hillyer and Julia Dent Grant; and correspondence of Hillyer's father from Henderson, Ky., 1825-1833. There are impressions of a Mississippi voyage to New Orleans, 1834; Lafayette College, 1842; a temperance speech by Richard Johnson, 1842; Washington, D.C., 1868-1869, including Grant's inauguration, and visits to Johnson, Grant, and Hancock; and Sewanee and the University of the South, 1873. Additional items of interest include an 1870 letter from Horace Greeley mentioning Hillyer's Congressional nomination; a lampoon of Lew Wallace; and an account of how New York Daily News reporter Benjamin Wood scooped the news of Andrew Johnson's acquittal.

ArchivalResource: ca. 640 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647821186 View

Du Pont, Samuel Francis, 1803-1865. Papers, 1812-1865.

Title: Papers, 1812-1865.

The Samuel Francis Du Pont Papers include correspondence with more than 1,500 individuals. There is a good deal of official and semi-official correspondence describing naval practices and policies as well as Du Pont's career. Of particular interest are letters from British diplomats and naval officers during the 1840s and 50s describing the operations of the British Navy. Letters received from William B. Reed, American minister to China, document the negotiations leading up to the Treaty of Tientsin which opened up China to western trade. Letters from American missionaries Samuel Wells and William and Edward Syle describe the missionary movement in China and efforts to eradicate the opium trade. The files also contain correspondence reflecting Du Pont's role in the Naval Efficiency Board and the reform movement which sought to modernize the navy as it moved into the age of steam.

ArchivalResource: 50 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122503472 View

Burke, Edmund, 1809-1882. Edmund Burke papers, 1821-1881.

Title: Edmund Burke papers, 1821-1881.

Correspondence, drafts of newspaper editorials, speeches, committee reports, resolutions, commissions, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings, pertaining to Burke's career as a newspaper editor in New Hampshire and as a congressman. Chiefly incoming correspondence, relating primarily to the U.S. Patent Office and to the Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island (1842), and including fifty letters from President Franklin Pierce. Other correspondents include James Buchanan, Lewis Cass, Nathan Clifford, Samuel Sullivan Cox, Daniel S. Dickinson, Thomas W. Dorr, John W. Forney, Henry Hubbard, James K. Polk, Thomas Ritchie, Gideon Welles, Fernando Wood, and Levi Woodbury.

ArchivalResource: 400 items.5 containers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81993513 View

Union Defence Committee of the City of New York. Records, 1861-1885 (bulk 1861-1865).

Title: Records, 1861-1885 (bulk 1861-1865).

Records, 1861-1885 (bulk 1861-1867), dealing with the work of the Union Defence Committee. The collection includes approximately 1,000 letters, mostly from 1861, in one bound volume and two boxes, one of which also contains a printed summary of Comptroller's warrants; two requisitions books; two check books for the Committee's two accounts with the bank of Commerce in New-York, one dated 1861, the other 1861-1867; a small bank book from the same bank, dated 1861-1867; four large account books, dealing respectively with transactions with the U.S. Fund (almost blank), the City of New York, the Voluntary Fund (mostly listing payments to specific regiments), and relief of families (including a subscription list); a book detailing contributions by the citizens of New York for departing regiments; two volumes of claims for supplies to New York regiments; a volume giving summaries of claims; a ledger detailing payments to individual regiments; a volume recording suppliers' bills; minutes of the Committee, 1861-1862, and of the Executive Committee, 1861-1865; a book of telegrams, and a notebook detailing the Committee's account with the Astor Telegraph Company; a box of papers containing an unbound and unsewn copy of "The Union Defence Committee of the city of New York. Minutes, reports, and correspondence; with an historical introduction," by John Austin Stevens, and related letters and other printed and manuscript material.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft. (20 v., 3 boxes)

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Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893. Autograph letter signed : Fort Monroe, Virginia, to Horace Greeley, 1863 Nov. 30.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Fort Monroe, Virginia, to Horace Greeley, 1863 Nov. 30.

Sending him a letter concerning Mayor Wood, which had been captured from Governor Wise.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (12mo)

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