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Lord, Eleazar, 1788-1871. Autobiography of Eleazar Lord, LL. D.

Title: Autobiography of Eleazar Lord, LL. D. 1870.

Describes his visit to Europe in 1817; discusses balance of trade, banking, theories of risk insurance and the establishment of the New York and Erie Railroad; volume includes engraved portrait and photograph of his home, Cedar Grove in Piermont, New York, also a United States passport issued in 1817, signed by James Monroe, Sec. of State.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. : ill. ; 26 cm.

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Papers, 1807-1961

Title: Papers, 1807-1961

Correspondence, legal and business documents, writings, and ephemera related to and produced by Eleazar Lord and his descendants.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00183/catalog View

Coffin, James H. (James Henry), 1806-1873. James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

Title: James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

These papers consist of correspondence concerning temperature, wind, and weather reports of the Hudson Bay region, 1848; resolutions of condolence to Coffin's son, Seldon J. Coffin, from students and alumni of Lafayette College after Coffin's death, 1873; newspaper articles; an illustration of James H. Coffin; and the original manuscript of Winds of the Northern Hemisphere. Additional correspondence of James Henry Coffin exists elsewhere in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, especially in the Joseph Henry Collection, Record Unit 7001, and Meteorological Project Records, Record Unit 60.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)

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, 1819-1869.

Title: 1819-1869.

Eli Smith was a missionary in the Middle East and translator of the Bible intoArabic, 1826-1857. The papers include missionary and family correspondence andscholarly papers chiefly on philology and geography.

ArchivalResource: 3 cartons (3.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00061/catalog View

Robbins, Thomas, 1777-1856. Thomas Robbins collection, 1792-1852.

Title: Thomas Robbins collection, 1792-1852.

Personal papers of a Connecticut minister, book collector, and librarian at the Connecticut Historical Society. Includes letters from his family while Thomas was a student at Yale College; a long letter home from his travels in Vermont, 1801; letters home while he served in the Western Reserve of Ohio as a missionary for the Missionary Society of Connecticut, 1803-1806; minutes of Society meetings at East Windsor, Connecticut, where he was minister beginning in 1809; notes for sermons as well as complete sermons; letters from his sister Sarah Battel; sermon reviews, 1810-1814; correspondence and bills and receipts from book dealers; records of his donations to the American Board of Foreign Missions and his activities in the Temperance movement; invitations to preach at various churches in Connecticut and Massachusetts; and correspondence with Chauncey A. Goodrich, Benjamin Ely, Eleazar Lord, William Stebbins, Milo L. North, and Peter Starr. Also includes 13 volumes of his diary. Materials are arranged chronologically. Also a collection of "school papers" consisting of school visitor reports for Augustus Washington's school and the First and Second Colored Schools; correspondence about the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut; and data on and about various schools in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 9.0 linear feet (16 boxes, 13 volumes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276839544 View

Papers, 1798-1909.

Title: Papers, 1798-1909.

Papers largely concern the Ramapo Iron Works owned by Jeremiah H. Pierson and include stock receipts, shipping receipts, accounts, and land papers, 1798-1909; letters received concerning shipping lumber and purchasing goods, 1811; letter from Eleazar Lord concerning railroad affairs, 1840; and Pierson's letters to Robert Morris concerning land in the Spencer-Muller Patent that he wanted for the Iron Works, 1807-1808. Other items include school tax roll from District No. 2, Town of Ramapo, 1862, and other miscellaneous school records, 1862-1892.

ArchivalResource: .3 cubic ft.

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Lord Family. Papers, 1807-1908.

Title: Papers, 1807-1908.

Materials related to and produced by Eleazar Lord and his descendants. The Lord family papers include correspondence, legal and business documents, writings, and ephemera.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64139804 View

Papers, 1831-1860.

Title: Papers, 1831-1860.

Papers pertain to the New York and Erie Railroad and include deeds, mortgages, bonds, title abstracts, quit claims, agreements, and letters patent concerning property acquired by the railroad, 1833-1860; reports and pamphlets, 1844-1852, and a printed letter soliciting stock and land, 1833; two letters from DeWitt Clinton to Lord encouraging the Erie Railroad project, getting government support, and Clinton's possible appointment as engineer, 1831-1832; letter from Lord to James G. King urging that work on eastern section be done before that on Delaware section, 1836; original draft of the New York and Erie Railroad charter, 1832; drafts of business letters concerning railroad property, 1847; report by H.A. Seymour on Piermont, N.Y. as the eastern terminus of the railroad, 1836; reports by Lord concerning coal and wood consumption, organization of the road, routes, and bridges, 1840; and engravings of Tappan Landing, 1836, and Eleazar Lord, undated.

ArchivalResource: .4 cubic ft.

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Papers, 1807-1961

Title: Papers, 1807-1961

Correspondence, legal and business documents, writings, and ephemera related to and produced by Eleazar Lord and his descendants.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00183/catalog View