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George, John H. (John Hatch), 1824-1888. Correspondence, 1840-1873.

Title: Correspondence, 1840-1873.

Correspondence concerning Democratic Party politics, presidential possibilities, and state and national election campaigns, especially the nomination and election of Franklin Pierce in 1852 when George was chairman of the Democratic State Committee, and showing the decline of the Democratic Party in New Hampshire, defeat by Know-Nothing (American) Party in 1855, and by Republican Party in 1856 and 1860. Earlier family correspondence includes George's description of life at Dartmouth College (1840-1842) and, in letters of George's half-brother, Paul Rolfe George (1807-1864), who was quartermaster under Caleb Cushing in the Mexican War, material on St. Croix Falls, Wis.

ArchivalResource: 2 ft. (ca. 1600 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70961465 View

Bowers family. Bowers family papers, 1859-1910 (inclusive).

Title: Bowers family papers, 1859-1910 (inclusive).

The papers contain correspondence, notes, and reports on politics in Connecticut and New Hampshire during the Reconstruction Era, forestry and timber lands, and Yale alumni activities in Washington, D.C., plus a small collection of autograph letters and clipped signatures.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702166688 View

Franklin Pierce Papers, 1820-1869

Title: Franklin Pierce Papers 1820-1869

President of the United States, U.S. representative and senator from New Hampshire, and lawyer. Correspondence, diary kept by Pierce while serving in the Mexican war, writings including drafts of Pierce's messages to Congress, and an engraved portrait.

ArchivalResource: 2,350 items; 27 containers; 6.8 linear feet; 7 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009143 View

United States. Patent Office. Patent, 1847 May 8, Washington, D.C., to Ebenezer Cate, Boston, Mass.

Title: Patent, 1847 May 8, Washington, D.C., to Ebenezer Cate, Boston, Mass.

Patent for an improvement in window blinds, issued to Ebenezer Cate of Boston, signed by James Buchanan as Secretary of State, and by Edmund Burke, Commissioner of Patents.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf. 39 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7083708 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

Edmund Burke letters, 1844-1849

Title: Edmund Burke letters 1844-1849

New Hampshire Congress member and patents commissioner. Four items.

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/8014 View

James K. Polk Papers, 1775-1891, (bulk 1830-1849)

Title: James K. Polk Papers 1775-1891 (bulk 1830-1849)

United States president, Speaker of the House and representative from Tennessee, and governor of Tennessee. General correspondence, presidental letterbooks, diaries, account and memorandum books, drafts and copies of speeches and messages, family papers, financial and legal papers, and printed matter relating primarily to Polk's political career in Tennessee and on the national level.

ArchivalResource: 20,500 items; 183 containers; 39 linear feet; 67 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009178 View

Alden Partridge Papers, 1807-1959, (bulk 1817-1842)

Title: Alden Partridge Papers 1807-1959 (bulk 1817-1842)

U.S. Army officer, engineer, educator, and state legislator from Vermont. Principally letters (1817-1842) received by Partridge from students and their parents relating to educational matters at the United States Military Academy, the American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy, and other academies with which Partridge was associated from 1808-1850; letters and documents concerning military activities during the War of 1812, a dispute between Sylvanus Thayer and Partridge over the administration of the United States Military Academy and Partridge’s court martial; a library journal; student rolls; and letters or copies of letters written by Partridge, including several to James Monroe.

ArchivalResource: 650 items; 4 containers; 1.4 linear feet; 2 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009049 View