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Saltonstall, William Gurdon, 1831-. Autobiography and reminiscences, 1886.

Title: Autobiography and reminiscences, 1886.

Autobiography and reminiscences of William G. Saltonstall of Salem, Mass. include a preface on the Saltonstall family ancestry, a 32-page autobiography, and typewritten reminiscences of his experience as a volunteer in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War. Saltonstall was in the Battle of Big Bethel in 1861, witnessed the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack, participated in the siege of Washington, N.C. (Pamlico River) and commanded various vessels including steamers and a gunboat, until his resignation from the Navy in Sept. 1865. Saltonstall later was involved in shipping cotton from the South to the North, an Australian shipping business, and in 1873 was elected Treasurer of the York Manufacturing Co. of Saco, Maine, with offices in Boston.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19357924 View

Dering family papers, 1666-1828.

Title: Dering family papers, 1666-1828.

Four volumes of family, business, and political correspondence of the Dering family of Boston, Mass., Middletown, Conn., and Shelter Island, N.Y., 1709-1828. Correspondents are Roland Cotton, Charles Monk, William Saltonstall and Joseph Belknap of Boston, John Mifflin of Philadelphia, Lane and Booth of London, England, Thomas Hutchinson, John Lloyd, David Gelton, E. Sages, and Long Island families such as the Gardiner, Floyd, Tallmadge, Smith, Browne, Buell, L'Hommedieu, and Huntting. Several are from Camp Continental Village in 1781. One volume of wills, quit claims, inventories, ships cargoes, establishment of Committee of Correspondence for the Town of Southold and Representatives to Congress (1776), letter to Sir Guy Carlton, military appointments, receipts, bonds, diploma from Yale University, bounty certificate for 320 acres in Illinois, and signatures of famous Americans, 1666-1818.

ArchivalResource: 5 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155545280 View

Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, ca. 1852-ca. 2004

Title: Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits. ca.1852-ca.2004.

Photographs of individuals associated with Harvard University: faculty, students, administrators, staff, honorees, and habitués of Harvard Square. For those whose lives pre-date the era of photography, the contents of the folders are often photographic reproductions of other image types, such as etchings, paintings, or drawings. In a few cases, the images themselves may be original etchings or sketches.

ArchivalResource: 50 cubic ft.; 20,000 photographs; 10,000 folders.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua04006/catalog View

Phillips Exeter Academy. Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1955.

Title: Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1955.

Item is a note concerning the possible admission of Brooks's grandson, Peter, to the school. This item was authored by Principal William G. Saltonstall, a nephew of Gladys Brooks.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/182939621 View

Saltonstall, Dudley, 1738-1796. Dudley Saltonstall papers, 1760-1791.

Title: Dudley Saltonstall papers, 1760-1791.

Correspondence, orders, reports, and other papers, chiefly relating to business affairs and some family matters.

ArchivalResource: 16 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76784617 View