Compare Constellations

Ketchum, Rogers, and Bement. Ketchum, Rogers, and Bement letters received, 1844.

Title: Ketchum, Rogers, and Bement letters received, 1844.

Letter (24 Apr. 1844) written by Hervey Hall, and one (dated 26 Apr. 1844), by John A. Rockwell, to Ketchum, Rogers, and Bement, New York, concerning the water power obtainable at the two falls on the Quinebaug River, in Norwich, Conn., and the opportunity to establish mills there.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/163244745 View

Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, 1832-1902. Rockwell family papers, 1813-1927.

Title: Rockwell family papers, 1813-1927.

Primarily correspondence among members of a Norwich, Connecticut family, with a few bills and receipts. The correspondents include John Arnold Rockwell, Mary W. Rockwell, Alfred P. Rockwell,Katherine V. Rockwell, John A. Rockwell, Joseph P. Rockwell, Diana Sumner, Frances E. Godkin, Edwin L. Godkin and Lawrence Godkin. Also includes papers from extended family, namely the Foote, Perkins and Elliot families

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear feet (2 1/2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166907826 View

Alfred P. Rockwell Papers, 1846-1903

Title: Alfred P. Rockwell Papers 1846-1903

After receiving his PhB at Yale's Sheffield Scientific School in 1858, Alfred P. Rockwell continued his studies at the Museum of Practical Geology in London and the Bergakademie Freiberg, focused largely on mining engineering and coal geology. After service in the Civil War, he held positions at Yale and MIT before leaving academia in 1873 to pursue other opportunities. He later served as president of the Eastern Rail Road and Treasurer of the Great Falls Manufacturing Company, a textile firm in New Hampshire. The small collection of the papers of Alfred P. Rockwell document his interest in coal geology during the period of his postgraduate study at the Museum of Practical Geology and the Bergakademie, 1858-1859. Although the correspondence is slight, the collection includes a suite of notes on collieries, coal mining technology, and the economics of coal. Of particular note in the collection are the eight notebooks on mining engineering (some containing sketches), including two volumes of notes on John Percy's lectures at the Museum of Practical Geology, 1858, three volumes kept during his stay at the Bergakademie Freiberg, including one on a course on metallurgy taught by Bernhard von Cotta, 1858-1859, and one of an industrial tour through Germany and Belgium (June 1859). The other volumes include two on collieries in northern England, and one including of production records for the Great Falls Manufacturing Company, 1879-1886.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 Linear feet; Ca. 8 volumes; 60 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.R59p-ead.xml View

Thurber, Charles, 1803-1886. Letter, 1846 February 3, Norwich, Conn., to Messrs. Keller & Greenough, Washington, D.C.

Title: Letter, 1846 February 3, Norwich, Conn., to Messrs. Keller & Greenough, Washington, D.C.

Specimen chirographic letter specifying the type of room he would like help in locating while in Washington, D.C. to show his newly invented mechanical chirographer; states that congressional Representative John Rockwell volunteered to help find a room.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15479902 View

Dow, Neal, 1804-1897. Collection, 1847,1853.

Title: Collection, 1847,1853.

The collection includes two letters. One letter is written to Rev. E.W. Johnson from Dow in Detroit (Mich.), dated June 20, 1853. The letter reports on the prohibition campaign in Michigan and lists Dow's scheduled appearences there and in Canada. The second letter is to Alfred Rockwell from his father, Congressman John A. Rockwell, about Battle Creek (Mich.), dated June 6,1 847.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40420207 View

Rockwell, John A. (John Arnold), 1803-1861. Papers, 1798-1867.

Title: Papers, 1798-1867.

The materials in this collection represent the business papers of Rockwell with the majority of items pertaining to the Norwich & Worcester Railroad Company. Box 1 includes three folders of Rockwell's correspondence arranged in alphabetical order by writer. Most of the letters pertain to his business interests in railroads. Also, there are some legal documents and business records. Folder 4 has business papers of Rockwell and other family members including receipted bills and promissory notes, 1798-1866, and folder 5 has the personal papers of Rockwell and family members including correspondence to him from his brother pertaining to railroad business, 1825-1859. The last folder of Box 1 contains what appears to be Rockwell's manuscript copy of his 1860 pamphlet States versus Territories, A True Solution of the Territorial Question. Box 1 also includes a bound account book (67 leaves, most blank and many torn out) for the period c. 1805-c. 1830s. It has been attributed to Betsey Rockwell. In addition to records of personal expenses, it seems to include records in the earlier years for a small business of selling milk and butter. There are also brief diary entries, some of which mention the activities of John and Charles. It is possible that the volume was kept by more than one person. Box 2 and the first three folders of Box 3 contain business records of the Norwich & Worcester Railroad Company, 1832-1859, arranged in chronological order. Folder 4 of Box 3 has materials pertaining to proposals for various canals, most of them in the New England area, 1821-1839 (many items undated). Folder 5 of Box 3 has correspondence and business papers of the Norwich Steamboat Company, 1827-1832. There are bills and accounts for the Steamboat Victory, 1831-1832; and there is one letter pertaining to the Norwich & New London Steamboat Company, 1858. Folder 6 of Box 3 has miscellaneous materials pertaining to various railroads in the United States and England, 1832-1867. These materials include business records, printed materials, newsclippings, correspondence, legal documents, and a few printed maps.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/207167117 View

Rockwell Family. Papers, 1831-1889.

Title: Papers, 1831-1889.

Letters, mostly from Alfred P. Rockwell to his wife Kate, deal with visits to and investments in mines, his views on current events, including the Beecher-Tilton scandal, the Battle of Little Bighorn and railroad accidents; business papers deal with land transactions, mostly in Evansville, Indiana and Cleveland, Ohio.

ArchivalResource: 1 box ; 39 x 26 x 6 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18940605 View

Letters sent to Watson G. Haynes on the initiative to change regulations in the United States Navy, 1846-1852.

Title: Letters sent to Watson G. Haynes on the initiative to change regulations inthe United States Navy, 1846-1852.

Letters sent to Watson B. Haynes in response to his initiative to change the regulations of the United States Navy concerning flogging and alcohol rations.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01483/catalog View

Victory (Steamboat). Documents in the case of Nevens and French v. The Steamboat Victory, 1833.

Title: Documents in the case of Nevens and French v. The Steamboat Victory, 1833.

Depositions, legal memoranda, accounts of debts, drafts, letters and other materials (some copies) related to this civil suit of admiralty jurisdiction, brought for failure to make payments on debts owed. Included are depositions of libelees Joseph Leonard, and Daniel Richards heard before George W. Morton, a commissioner appointed by the Circuit Court of the U.S. for the Southern District of New York (2nd Circuit), and deposition of libellant Moses French, given before William Simmons, justice of the Boston police court and the Justices Court for Suffolk County (Massachusetts). Augustus Peabody was attorney for the libelants; Hubbard Watts was attorney for the libelees. Several documents are in the hand of attorney John A. Rockwell.

ArchivalResource: 22 sheets (40 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/235094729 View

Rockwell, John A. (John Arnold), 1803-1861. Letter, Nov. 14, 1861.

Title: Letter, Nov. 14, 1861.

Letter to Abraham Lincoln regarding South Carolina's impending secession and Lincoln's views on "some matters connected with slavery."

ArchivalResource: 7 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54101920 View

Pruyn, John VanSchaick Lansing, 1811-1877. Correspondence of John V.L. Pruyn and John A. Rockwell, 1833-1834.

Title: Correspondence of John V.L. Pruyn and John A. Rockwell, 1833-1834.

Correspondence concerns litigation over debts incurred in connection with the steamship "Victory". Collection consists of 10 letters from Pruyn to Rockwell and one letter from Rockwell to Pruyn. Pruyn wrote on behalf of clients Lancelot Fidler and Daniel Richards.

ArchivalResource: 12 folded sheets (42 p.) ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/234338331 View

Rockwell, John A. (John Arnold), 1803-1861. John A. Rockwell papers, 1791-1871.

Title: John A. Rockwell papers, 1791-1871.

Personal and professional papers of John Arnold Rockwell, chiefly his incoming and outgoing correspondence. The papers document Rockwell's legal career; the development of the U.S. Court of Claims; politics and the Constitutional Union Party of 1860; land development, (particularly in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan), transportation, (including land grants in aid of canals and railroads such as the Illinois Central and the projected Pacific Railroads), mining, and banking. Correspondents include John William Allen; Reverdy Johnson, Charles William Rockwell, Dixwell Latrhop, a member of the Rockwell Land Company and one of the founders of Rockwell Colony in La Salle, Ill., and others. Also included are a letterbook, plats, Dixwell Lathrop's notebooks, newspaper clippings, and the legal brief in the case of the United States, appellants vs. Charles Fossatt, regarding the New Almaden Quicksilver Mines (1857). consists mainly of the incoming correspondence of John A. Rockwell's youngest son Alfred Perkins Rockwell, a Yale graduate, mining engineer, Civil War veteran, and businessman. Also included the correspondence of the Perkins and Tisdale families, including Rockwell's father-in-law Joseph Perkins (d. 1832), a Revolutionary war soldier, Major of Connecticut militia, physician, and businessman, Simon Perkins, John Tisdale, Elkahan Tisdale, and others. The correspondence deals chiefly with the properties in Connecticut and the Western Reserve.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 3,000 pieces, including ephemera.38 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228769766 View

Rockwell, John A. (John Arnold), 1803-1861. Letter, June 6, 1847.

Title: Letter, June 6, 1847.

Connecticut lawyer, state senator, and Congressman, 1845-1849. Letter written from Battle Creek, Michigan, to his son Alfred describing the city, his accommodations, and the number of Quakers he had encountered.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12278589 View

Rockwell, John A. (John Arnold), 1803-1861. New Almaden Mine papers, 1850-1859.

Title: New Almaden Mine papers, 1850-1859.

The papers document the legal efforts of Baron, Forbes & Company to protect their claim to the New Almaden mine. The collection consists primarily of correspondence from 1850 to 1859 between John Rockwell, the firm's counsel in Washington, D.C., and the firm's legal advisors in New York City, Goohue & Company and later Reverdy Johnson. The papers include correspondence with Secretary of State Lewis Cass, the President of the United States, and John S. Black, United States Consul in Mexico, concerning the lawsuit, Andres Castillero v. United States, in which the federal government tried to gain title to the mine. There are two Mexican newspapers for December 6, 1859 in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft. (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702132389 View

Grant, James. Letter to John A. Rockwell : Washington, D.C. : ALS, 1852 Mar. 25.

Title: Letter to John A. Rockwell : Washington, D.C. : ALS, 1852 Mar. 25.

Writing as acting director, Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, offering compensation to the Congressman for assistance in obtaining some land in Illinois for the railroad. With note by Rockwell assigning one half of the compensation to A.C. Corbert, Mar. 26, 1852.

ArchivalResource: [1] leaf ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122454168 View

Letters, 1837.

Title: Letters, 1837.

Letters for Haley from "a friend," telling him of a conspiracy to nominate Charles Douglas for Congress; from John Deshon, about his letter to the Secretary of the Treasury; from John A. Rockwell of Norwich, Conn., about a Congressional candidate; and from George H. Moore of Concord, N.Y., requesting a copy of his autograph.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155564054 View

Jones, Caleb, fl. 1852. Letter : Richmond, Va., to John A. Rockwell, 1852 July 21.

Title: Letter : Richmond, Va., to John A. Rockwell, 1852 July 21.

Jones denies Rockwell's claim for services rendered in the passage of the "Act for the relief of the Virginia Woollen Company."

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30793733 View

Parsons, Theophilus, 1797-1882. Correspondence, 1849-1869

Title: Correspondence of Theophilus Parsons, 1849-1869.

Correspondence includes letters of recommendation, introduction, and condolence. Nineteen items comprise correspondence, etc., to and from Parsons regarding the publication of Deus-Homo (Chicago: E. B. Myers and Chandler, 1867).

ArchivalResource: 25 items (54 p.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990021013040203941/catalog View

Everett, Edward, 1794-1865. Letter : Cambridge, Mass., to J.A. Rockwell, Norwich, Conn., 1849 Oct. 18.

Title: Letter : Cambridge, Mass., to J.A. Rockwell, Norwich, Conn., 1849 Oct. 18.

Autograph letter signed. Folded letter sheet with address. Everett thanks Rockwell for sending him his report on the canal and railroad routes from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78387763 View

Rockwell, John A. (John Arnold), 1803-1861. Incoming correspondence, 1846-1861.

Title: Incoming correspondence, 1846-1861.

Letters seeking the Representative's advice and opinion on military pensions, a proposed tax on coffee and tea, railroads and land ownership in Connecticut and Ohio. One constituent wants to share his ideas on issues important to the Commissioners of the General Land Office and theCommissioners of Claims. Also includes Rockwell's account with an individual who manages his land in Ohio.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57615941 View

Rockwell, John A. (John Arnold), 1803-1861. Tax receipt, 1838 Jan. 18.

Title: Tax receipt, 1838 Jan. 18.

Tax receipt of John Rockwell for land owned in Cleveland, Ohio.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42288957 View

Jones, Caleb, fl. 1852. Letter to John A. Rockwell [manuscript], 1852 July 21.

Title: Letter to John A. Rockwell [manuscript], 1852 July 21.

Jones denies Rockwell's claim for services rendered in the passage of the "Act for the relief of the Virginia Woollen Company."

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647837050 View