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Sedgwick, Theodore, 1811-1859. A memoir of the life of William Livingston, Chapter five [Manuscript draft], 1832.

Title: A memoir of the life of William Livingston, Chapter five [Manuscript draft], 1832.

Manuscript draft of the 5th chapter of "A Memoir of the Life of William Livingston," by Theodore Sedgwick of Stockbridge, Mass, 6 Aug. 1832, with corrections and notes in the margins. The memoir was published in 1833.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55589805 View

Sedgwick, Theodore, 1811-1859. Theodore Sedgwick Letter, 1824.

Title: Theodore Sedgwick Letter, 1824.

The collection consists of a copy of a letter from Theodore Sedgwick in Norwich, VT, to Harmanus Bleecker in Albany, NY, 9 July 1824. The letter was published in The Nation on 5 May 1910 (Volume 90, No. 2340), pp. 455-456. In the letter, Sedgwick writes of the faculty and courses offered at the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy (Norwich University) and of a recent march of the cadets to Plattsburgh, NY.

ArchivalResource: 1 item

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/603670497 View

Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871. Selected correspondence, 1827-1871.

Title: Selected correspondence, 1827-1871.

Mentioned in these letters are personal affairs, experiments, Babbage's calculating machine, and his "Bridgewater Treatise," second edition.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17270536 View

The New York Crystal Palace Records, 1840-1858

Title: The New York Crystal Palace Records 1840-1858

The Crystal Palace, constructed in 1853 in New York City, was a glass and iron exhibit building built for the World's Fair of the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations. The New York City Crystal Palace papers contain the correspondence, financial, and organizational papers of Theodore Sedgwick (1811-1859), who was president of the Association between 1852-1854.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 Linear feet; (3 boxes)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/nyccrystalpalace/nyccrystalpalace.html View

Sedgwick family. Sedgwick family papers, 1717-1946

Title: Sedgwick family papers, 1717-1946

Collection contains the papers of the Sedgwick family of western Massachusetts and New York City, specifically those of Theodore Sedgwick (1746-1813), a Federalist legislator and judge; his wife Pamela Dwight Sedgwick (1753-1807); five of their children - Theodore Sedgwick II (1780-1839), Henry Dwight Sedgwick (1789-1831), Robert Sedgwick (1787-1841), Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867) and Charles Sedgwick (1791-1856); and their children's spouses and descendants, including Theodore Sedgwick III (1811-1859), Jane Minot Sedgwick (1795-1859), Jane Minot Sedgwick II (1821-1889), Henry Dwight Sedgwick II (1824-1903), Elizabeth Ellery Sedgwick (1799-1862), Henrietta Ellery Sedgwick (1829-1902), Katherine Sedgwick Minot (1820-1880) and Alexander Sedgwick (1867-1929). The collection consists of family correspondence, personal and professional papers, literary and political writings, journals, commonplace-books, scrapbooks, and account books. Judge Theodore Sedgwick's papers document his career as an agent for the Continental Army, representative to the Continental Congress, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and Federalist leader. Other topics include family events, the social and political scenes in Stockbridge and Boston, the mental illness and treatment of Pamela Dwight Sedgwick (1753-1807) and her son Henry Dwight Sedgwick (1789-1831), the literary career of author Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867), travel of various family members to France and Italy, papers relating to the conversion of Jane Minot Sedgwick (1821-1889) to Catholicism, and New York lawyer Henry Dwight Sedgwick's (1824-1903) work with the New York Underground Railway Company from 1871 to 1892. Also within the collection are the papers of families related to the Sedgwicks by marriage, including the papers of Boston lawyer William Minot (1783-1873), his wife, Louisa Davis Minot (1788-1858), William's father, historian George Richards Minot (1758-1802) and Louisa's uncle, Rev. James Freeman (1759-1835.) Collection also contains papers of the Davis, Dwight, Freeman, Pomeroy, Sergeant, Watts and Williams families, as well as letters of Fanny Kemble Butler (1809-1893). Historical documents acquired by Theodore Sedgwick (1811-1859) include papers of Danish sea captain and inventor John Morke (d.1755), New York Collector of Customs Archibald Kennedy (1685-1763), and British Royal Navy officer Archibald Kennedy (ca. 1723-1794) who commanded the blockade of New York harbor during the Stamp Act crisis of 1765. Also here are papers of New York Attorney General John Tabor Kempe (1735-1792), and Continental Congress President Elias Baudinot (1740-1841), as well as a 1759 orderly book from the Siege of Quebec and papers relating to Shays' Rebellion.

ArchivalResource: 117 boxes, 52 volumes, and 3 oversize boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46357764 View

Kemble, Charles, 1775-1854,. Autograph letters signed and unsigned from Charles Kemble to various recipients [manuscript], 1818-1854.

Title: Autograph letters signed and unsigned from Charles Kemble to various recipients [manuscript], 1818-1854.

Correspondents: H.S. Arnold, William Bartholomew, J. Bridgman, Tom Cribb, Thomas F.D. Croker, [Barbara Hofland], Edmund Kean, [Fanny Kemble], Richard Lane, William Mudford, Thomas Robson, Harriot Coutts, Duchess of St. Albans, Theodore Sedgwick, Sir George Smart, William Warren, [Samuel?] Cartwright, [William?] Harness, Richard Jones, [J.W.] Marston and others. (8), January 21, 1829, concerns Kean's contract with Covent Garden theatre from which he was given leave until 1831 to prepare new roles. On the back is a sworn statement that this was exhibited in the Chancery suit of Kemble and others vs. Kean. J.P. Collier has identified the signature of (27).

ArchivalResource: 35 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/462076720 View

Charles Babbage selected correspondence, 1827-1871, 1827-1871

Title: Charles Babbage selected correspondence, 1827-1871 1827-1871

Mentioned in these letters are personal affairs, experiments, Babbage's calculating machine, and his "Bridgewater Treatise," second edition.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Microfilm reel(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.H.S.Film.15-ead.xml View

American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench, 1782-1966

Title: American and English Literary and Historical Papers Collected by Atcheson L. Hench 1782-1966.

Material collected by Hench, some as an autograph collection and others for use in his classes at the University of Virginia with examples of various periods. Modern autographs collected by Hench include letters by associates of Edgar Allan Poe; Civil War letters; papers relating to Virginia history; correspondence of writers and politicians, particularly from the Victorian era; and other miscellaneous correspondence with literary or histocial interest. John Randolph of Roanoke to Mr. Skinner on binding a paper, 1819, with a cut signature of Thomas Mann Randolph and to Stephen Van Rensselaer asking him to dinner with Harmanus Bleecker, n.y. Thomas Mann Randolph, Sr., to Cohen isaacs & Co. and others orders cotton and wool cards and other goods, sends a letter of introduction and discusses the settling of his debt. Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., to Robert Brent and Henry Remsen seeks military compensation and conveys good news about the opening of the University of Virginia and appraisers for his estate. Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie writes to Mr. and Mrs. James Thomas Fields and others introducing Avonia Jones, sending an autograph, changing arrangements, and signing an autograph. Amélie Rives discusses the slang word "gee" with W. T. Moore and voices concerns over errors in books to Mr. Walsh. Letters of William Cabell Rives (1793-1868) to a variety of correspondence including Thomas Aspinwall, Churchill C. Cambreleng, Corcoran & Riggs, Anna Payne Cutts, Philip Ricard Fendall, Henry S. Foote, Joseph Grinnell, Henry O. Houghton, Thomas Maury, Anna Payne, John Rutherfoord, Theodore Sedgwick, John C. Spencer, Henry St. George Tucker and Abel P. Upshur are chiefly routine notes of introduction, thanks, patronage and business. Topics of interest include his biography of James Madison, diplomacy and politics including his opinions on John Qunicy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay and the necessity for single presidential terms. Letters of Wiliam Cabell Rives (1825-1889) to Emma Savage Rogers discuss a University of Virginia commencement day address on her husband. Wiliam Barton Rogers writes to Luthern Stearns Cushing, augusts A. Gould, Washington C. Kerr, [Clarence King?],Henry D. Rogers, Henry E. Roscoe andThomas G. Wales on routine matters, a geological map of North Carolina, directorship of the U. S. Geological Survey, University of Virginia classes, and the composition of kaolin. Thomas L. Rosser writes to John Chester Buttre on an engraving plate, and to William Crane on inducing farmers to move to Virginia. Single items of interest include a brief note from Sir James Paget; a letter from Coventry Patmore declining an invitation; a long letter from Andrew Henry Patterson to William Lloyd Garrison discussing in great detail his views on the Negro race" in the South; George C. Peery to M. E. Gilfond enclosing a letter to Sol Bloom (not present); Bishop Thomas Percy to the Rev. John Blakeway expressing hope that Napoleon will not invade his part of Ireland; Wendell Phillips returns the Macaulay item to Edwin P. Whipple; John Pickering sends James Savage a proplsed preface to Eliot's Grammar; James Madison Porter thanks George Pearson for an honorary literary society membership. Also J. W. Porter, Charlottesville, to W. P. St. John, 1890, on economic hard times caused by cheap competition from India, foreign trade deficit and cheap silver; Bryan Waller Proctor to mary Russell Mitford promising poetry and his impression of Daniel Webster; Charles Reade to [Wilkie?] Collins declining to make an appointment; Maurice Regan, 2nd Regiment Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, to Dr. Pennock praising Thomas Leiper Kane and describing "desolation and destruction" in norther Virginia; Alfred Rives writes to Socrates Maupin to obtain a oxy-hydrogen blowpipe from the University of Virginia; A. Willis Robertson to Hench on the security along the Appalachian Trail; John Robinson to Col. W. G. Brent on clearing track in North Carolina, initialed by P.G.T. Beauregard; Alfred Roman to Roy Mason Hooe on special instructions issued by General Ruggles on conditions in New Orleans; Thomas H. Rosser telegraphs Daniel Ruggles reporting on Union troop movements and the location of John B. Villepigue at Ft. Pillow; and William M Rossetti on a subscription. The collection also contains four land grants, 1803, 1805, signed by Virginia governor John Page; a land grant to William May, Nelson County, signed by Beverly Randolph; a land grant to George Kailor, Rockingham County, signed by Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr.; receipts, Pittsburgh, for bateaus to Fort Washington (Cincinnati?) for military use, 1798; an appointment of Henry Massie to Deputy Postmaster, Charlottesville, signed by Alexander Williams Randall; a Mutual Assurance Society insurance policy signed by Edmund Randolph; an 1861 ordnance invoice signed by Daniel Ruggles; and a quarterly return of deceased solders of the 13th Maine volunteers, 1863, signed by Colonel Henry Rust, Jr.

ArchivalResource: circa 75 items.

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Pepperrell, William, Sir, 1696-1759. ALS : Springfield, Mass., to Thomas Pownall, 1757 Aug. 15.

Title: ALS : Springfield, Mass., to Thomas Pownall, 1757 Aug. 15.

Reports that the French and Indians are withdrawing and he believes he is no longer needed in Springfield.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122525210 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

Lewis Cass papers (1774-1924)

Title: Lewis Cass papers (1774-1924)

The Lewis Cass papers contain the political and governmental letters and writings of Lewis Cass, American army officer in the War of 1812, governor and senator from Michigan, American diplomat to France, secretary of war in the Andrew Jackson administration, secretary of state under James Buchanan, and Democratic candidate for President. These papers span Cass' entire career and include letters, speeches, financial documents, memoranda, literary manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and a travel diary. In addition to documenting his political and governmental career, the collection contains material concerning relations between the United States and Native Americans, and Cass' role in presidential politics.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-372cas?rgn=main;view=text View

Batchelder, John M. Papers relating to the Crystal Palace Exhibition, N.Y., 1853-1876.

Title: Papers relating to the Crystal Palace Exhibition, N.Y., 1853-1876.

Batchelder served as engineer and secretary to the superintendents of the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, the first international exposition held in the U.S. The collection consists of letters received, concerning the design and construction of the four acre hall built on 6th Ave., exhibits and exhibitors, awards and juries and other matters, from S.F. DuPont, Henry Greenough, Samuel F.B. Morse, Benjamin Silliman, Jr., P.T. Barnum, John H. White, and others. With reports from Bachelder to Theodore Sedgwick, a ms. floorplan of the hall, newspaper clippings, engraved views, catalogues, tickets, awards, and other printed ephemera. The collection vividly describes the advancements made in science and technology during the Industrial Revolution.

ArchivalResource: ca. 200 items in 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16320408 View

Sedgwick family. Sedgwick family papers, 1812-1899.

Title: Sedgwick family papers, 1812-1899.

Collection consists of letters, writings, photographs, and printed matter.

ArchivalResource: .4 linear foot (1 box and 2 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122466620 View

Lewis Cass papers (1774-1924)

Title: Lewis Cass papers (1774-1924)

The Lewis Cass papers contain the political and governmental letters and writings of Lewis Cass, American army officer in the War of 1812, governor and senator from Michigan, American diplomat to France, secretary of war in the Andrew Jackson administration, secretary of state under James Buchanan, and Democratic candidate for President. These papers span Cass' entire career and include letters, speeches, financial documents, memoranda, literary manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and a travel diary. In addition to documenting his political and governmental career, the collection contains material concerning relations between the United States and Native Americans, and Cass' role in presidential politics.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-372cas?rgn=main;view=text View

Sedgwick family papers, 1812-1899

Title: Sedgwick family papers 1812-1899

The Sedgwick family lived in Stockbridge, Mass. Collection consists of letters, writings, photographs, and printed matter. Letters, 1849-1855, are from Theodore Sedgwick to his son, Arthur G. Sedgwick. Writings include album of poetry, 1812-1847, by Susan Sedgwick; memoir of Theodore Sedgwick, 1865; Libby Prison (Richmond, Va.) Civil War diary, 1864, and account of journey to Caracas, Venezuela, in 1885, both kept by Arthur G. Sedgwick; and reviews and articles, ca. 1869-1899, he wrote. Also, photographs of family and of trip to Caracas.

ArchivalResource: .4 linear foot (1 box and 2 v.)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2715 View

Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893. Fanny Kemble papers, 1829-1874.

Title: Fanny Kemble papers, 1829-1874.

Correspondence, chiefly with Joshua Francis Fisher, relating to Kemble's divorce in 1849 from Pierce Butler; legal and financial papers relating to the divorce settlement; two volumes of a journal consisting of material used in Kemble's Journal of a Residence in America (1835) which was critical of American social life and customs; and a manuscript copy of the play "An English Tragedy." Correspondents include Pierce Butler, C.H. Fisher, Theodore Sedgwick, and Samuel Gray Ward.

ArchivalResource: 75 items.1 container.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79162205 View

Association for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations. New York Crystal Palace records, 1852-1854.

Title: New York Crystal Palace records, 1852-1854.

Correspondence and papers, 1852-1854, of Theodore Sedgwick, while president of the Association for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations. The letters and papers, including clippings, circulars, telegrams and ephemera, deal with the building of the Crystal Palace and the organization of the exhibition. The collection includes groups of letters to and from Charles Buschek (Manager in Europe), C.E. Detmold (Engineer), B. Gerhard, William Whetten (Secretary), George Sumner, C.H. Davis, Colonel George W. Hughes, N.M. Beckwith (in Paris; some of his letters contain perceptive accounts of politics and society in France and England), Laban C. Stewart, Samuel Dunn, and Commander Samuel F. Du Pont. Papers include resolves, petitions, reports, agreements, etc. The collection also includes two unrelated letters about the Crystal Palace: one, dated December 1, 1854, from "Uncle Lewis" to his niece Abby, describes a visit to the exhibition the day before; the other, written by George S. Badger on October 7, 1858, describes seeing the Crystal Palace burn down two days earlier.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 linear feet (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58782777 View

Dunham, Caroline. Letters to Theodore and Robert Sedgwick, 1834-1849.

Title: Letters to Theodore and Robert Sedgwick, 1834-1849.

Letters regarding legal matters received by New York lawyer Theodore Sedgwick, 1836-49, including a letter from social reformer William Jay regarding a legal case of a slave taken from New York illegally, 3 Dec. 1836, and a letter from railroad executive William Butler Ogden regarding land purchases. The collection also contains letters received by Theodore's uncle Robert Sedgwick, also a New York lawyer, regarding legal matters including letters from Caroline Dunham regarding her divorce, 1834-35.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51521475 View

Sedgwick, Theodore, 1811-1859. Autograph letters signed (7) and letter signed (1) : New York, etc., to Harper & Brothers, 1856 Feb.-1858 Sept 16.

Title: Autograph letters signed (7) and letter signed (1) : New York, etc., to Harper & Brothers, 1856 Feb.-1858 Sept 16.

Concerning the publication by them of Tocqueville's L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution in the United States, and other legal and publishing matters.

ArchivalResource: 8 items (16 p.) ; (12mo and 8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270664403 View

Du Pont, Francis Victor, 1894-1962. Francis Victor du Pont family papers, 1804-1961 [bulk, 1915-1960].

Title: Francis Victor du Pont family papers, 1804-1961 [bulk, 1915-1960].

This collection combines papers and memorabilia of Francis Victor du Pont and those of his parents and ancestors. Francis Victor du Pont's own papers focus primarily on his role as an engineer promoting better highways, his roles in Delaware Republican Party affairs including his term as finance chairman. In the former category are papers relating to Coleman du Pont Road, Inc., which his father created to improve the present U.S. Route 13 as a gift to the state the State Highway department, the Bureau of Public Roads, the American Road Builders' Association, and two items on the building and dedication of the Delaware Memorial Bridge. The second are focused on the period 1949-60, particularly the first Eisenhower-Nixon presidential campaign, with items on the reactions to Nixon's famous "Checkers" speech. Personal papers contain information on personal investments, family relationships, diplomas, clippings and biographical notes. Papers of T. Coleman du Pont deal primarily with two events, Coleman's sale of his DuPont Company stock to Pierre S. du Pont through the medium of the Du Pont Securities Company and the extensive litigation brought by other family stockholders to block the sale and divide Coleman's interest proportionately, and his building of the Coleman du Pont Boulevard, later Coleman du Pont Highway. Among the latter is a large presentation book from the people of Delaware containing signatures and speeches commemorating the gift of the highway to the state in 1924. Family miscellany consists of random pieces from other extended du Pont family members dating back to 1804, including letters of Nicholas Van Dyke, Samuel Francis Du Pont, family reminiscences relating to Admiral and Mrs. Samuel Francis Du Pont, Mary Van Dyke du Pont, and others, including a copy of the New York American of October 12, 1824 concerning the visit of Lafayette to Victor du Pont.

ArchivalResource: 5.6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/775008334 View

Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893. Papers of Fanny Kemble, 1848-1849 [manuscript].

Title: Papers of Fanny Kemble, 1848-1849 [manuscript].

The papers contain the autograph manuscripts of the poems: "The black wall flower," "Dream land," "Is the picture of a lady," "A lover to his mistress," and "A rejected lover to his mistress"; seven letters from Kemble chiefly re her house in Lenox, Massachusetts, her daughters, and her social engagements; and a letter, 1849 June 28, from George Mifflin Dallas to Theodore Sedgwick re the divorce settlement between Kemble and Pierce Butler, particularly whether or not the daughters will be able to stay with her during the summer. There is also a photograph of Kemble with a facsimile autograph. Correspondents include S.C. Bugbee and Susan Stevenson.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647810664 View

Sedgwick, Theodore, 1811-1859. Autograph letter signed : New York, to Henry Wheaton, 1845 Jan. 12.

Title: Autograph letter signed : New York, to Henry Wheaton, 1845 Jan. 12.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270883395 View

Botta, Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lynch), 1815-1891. Anne Lynch Botta correspondence, 1835-1855.

Title: Anne Lynch Botta correspondence, 1835-1855.

Two letters written to Anne Lynch Botta by Theodore Sedgwick (1852) and Lizzie Sherwood (1855), and one letter from Botta to Miss Anna Platt of Albany, N.Y. (1835). All three were written before her marriage to Vincenzo Botta; letters from Sherwood and Sedgwick are addressed to "Miss Lynch," and the letter to Anna Platt is signed A.C.L. In the 1855 letter Sherwood sends her congratulations to both Anne and "Professor Botta" on their marriage.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (3 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713564548 View

Sedgwick, Theodore, 1811-1859. Letter : to Fletcher Harper of Harper Bros, 1856 Dec. 27.

Title: Letter : to Fletcher Harper of Harper Bros, 1856 Dec. 27.

Returns a prospectus for Harper's Weekly and gives advice on its wording, the sub-title, proposed paper, and type for the upcoming publication.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122530581 View

Sedgwick family. Sedgwick-Minot family papers, 1776-1908; bulk: 1823-1908.

Title: Sedgwick-Minot family papers, 1776-1908; bulk: 1823-1908.

Collection consists primarily of correspondence between various members of the Sedgwick, Dwight, and Minot families, n.d., 1823-1908, including among others, letters sent from Jane Minot Sedgwick to Julia, Louisa Davis, Mary, and William Minot (1783-1873); and letters sent by Theodore (1811-1859) and Henry D. Sedgwick (1785-1831) to various family members. Also includes a typescript of a letter sent by Theodore Sedgwick (1746-1813), 1776; poetry about various Sedgwick family members by an unknown author; two sketchbooks kept by Louisa Davis Minot, ca. 1828; and Sedgwick family genealogical information, including a manuscript by William Minot (1817-1894).

ArchivalResource: 1 box and 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46357974 View

Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893,. Release signed by Fanny Kemble of trusts of settlement with Theodore Sedgwick of the city of New York [manuscript], 1856 January 3.

Title: Release signed by Fanny Kemble of trusts of settlement with Theodore Sedgwick of the city of New York [manuscript], 1856 January 3.

Concerning shares of stock and their sale, left by Charles Kemble to his daughter Frances Anne Kemble of Savill Row, Middlesex.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/230414241 View