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Trumbull, J. Hammond (James Hammond), 1821-1897. J. Hammond Trumbull correspondence, 1862 June 4.

Title: J. Hammond Trumbull correspondence, 1862 June 4.

ALS written by Trumbull to Henry B. Dawson in reply to Dawson's query about proceedings of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1774.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70980660 View

Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893. Letter, 1882 January 18.

Title: Letter, 1882 January 18.

Letter to Henry B. Dawson requesting him to send several volumes to Columbia College as a donation from Fish. Written from Stuyvesant Square.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122536826 View

Dawson, Henry B. (Henry Barton), 1821-1889. Letter, ca. 1870.

Title: Letter, ca. 1870.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145409053 View

Thornton, John Wingate, 1818-1878. Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Henry B. Dawson, 1858 Sept. 29.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Henry B. Dawson, 1858 Sept. 29.

Concerning The Battles of the United States by Sea and by Land, specimen sheets of which Dawson had sent to him.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270572417 View

Belknap, William W. (William Worth), 1829-1890. Letters, 1869-1887.

Title: Letters, 1869-1887.

Discussing matters relating to the War Department ranging from military records to rifles; concerning soldiers' claims and law suits, including ones involving Grenville M. Dodge; mentioning the jurisdiction of the West Point Military Academy.

ArchivalResource: 17 items (38 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233121016 View

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1865-1891

Title: Correspondence, 1865-1891

This record unit consists of outgoing correspondence from the Office of the Secretary during the tenures of Joseph, Henry, 1846-1878; Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1878-1887; and Samuel Pierpoint Langley, 1887-1906.

ArchivalResource: 46.06 cu. ft. (62 document boxes) (68 3x5 boxes) (243 microfilm reels)

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_216647 View

Dawson, Henry B. (Henry Barton), 1821-1889. Letters [microform], 1848-1889.

Title: Letters [microform], 1848-1889.

Letters, 1848; 1859-1889, and undated, to and from Henry B. Dawson, an American editor, historian and antiquarian bookseller, copied from several collections held by the New York Public Library. Source collections include the Henry B. Dawson Papers (94 pp.); David McNeely Stauffer Collection (3 pp.); Samuel J. Tilden Papers (7 pp.); Duyckinck Family Papers (9 pp.); and Bryant-Godwin Papers (5 pp.).

ArchivalResource: 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61725712 View

Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870. Papers of William Gilmore Simms [manuscript], 1839-1870.

Title: Papers of William Gilmore Simms [manuscript], 1839-1870.

The papers contain manuscripts of three poems by Simms : "The day after," "Dusk," and "Stanzas, written to a friend in despondency." Letters to publishers, authors and friends concern his writings and details of their publication, his home "Woodlands" at Midway, S.C., his life, and the works of others, including John Pendleton Kennedy, Peter Force, Charles Warren Stoddard, Elizabeth Ellet, George Munro, John Russell, and John Esten Cooke, and briefly Cornelius Mathews and Evert A. Duyckinck. Several letters introduce authors to publishers. Others are to autograph collectors. Letters discuss Simms' passion for the South and Southern literature as compared to the North and Northern literature. He offers both encouragement and criticism to writers and editors, and as the editor of several Southern periodicals he writes to obtain reviews and articles. Simms writes of his ill health, yellow fever in Charleston, S.C., his need for writing projects to support his family, and his efforts to publicize his books and the books of others including John Esten Cooke's "Wearing of the Gray." An autograph of Simms and three engravings are included.

ArchivalResource: 63 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647883960 View

Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893. Letter, 1881 April 9.

Title: Letter, 1881 April 9.

Letter to Henry B. Dawson regarding the sales of copies of Historical magazine. Written at Richmond Va.

ArchivalResource: 2 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122573590 View

Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893. Letters, 1870 January 26.

Title: Letters, 1870 January 26.

Letter to Henry B. Dawson on regarding the "Historical Magazine." Written at Washington D.C.

ArchivalResource: 2 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122434096 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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Henry Oscar Houghton papers, 1773-1932 (bulk 1833-1895)

Title: Henry Oscar Houghton papers

Papers of American printer and publisher Henry Oscar Houghton.

ArchivalResource: 16 boxes (8 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00492/catalog View

Valentine, D. T. (David Thomas), 1801-1869. Autograph letter signed : City Hall, N.Y., to Henry B. Dawson, 1858 Sept. 23.

Title: Autograph letter signed : City Hall, N.Y., to Henry B. Dawson, 1858 Sept. 23.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3/4 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270573986 View

Diary collection, 1835-1871.

Title: Diary collection, 1835-1871.

Diaries of Henry Barton Dawson (1821-1889), 1841-1843; diary of Miss Henriette H. Payne, 1866-1871; diary of Gilder S. Conklin (1839-1916), 1868; diary of Ezra P. Conklin, n.d.; typescript diaries of Henrietta Abigail Terry (1848-1935), Ezra P. Conklin (1850-1932), and Henrietta Conklin and Gilder Conklin, 1871.

ArchivalResource: .1 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155557122 View

Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893. Letter, 1885 February 18.

Title: Letter, 1885 February 18.

Letter to Henry B. Dawson acknwoledging the shipment of books. In this letter Fish muses over the death of one of his grandchildren. Written at New York, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 3 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122536814 View

Benson John Lossing Collection, 1843-1917

Title: Benson John Lossing Collection, 1843-1917

The Benson John Lossing Collection is an assortment of correspondence, drawings, writings, and memorabilia relating to the 19th century historian, illustrator, and editor of The American Historical Review (1813-1891). Predominantly correspondence, the collection centers around Lossing's information gathering for his popularizations of American history, while it also illuminates the early publishing industry in the United States.

ArchivalResource: 1.75 linear ft.

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/l/lossing_bj.htm View

Greene, George Washington, 1811-1883. Letter to Abram S. Eastlake [manuscript], 1873 April 12.

Title: Letter to Abram S. Eastlake [manuscript], 1873 April 12.

Greene writes that the historian Henry B. Dawson may be in possession of the papers of Mad Anthony Wayne and that Eastlake is welcome to use the few he has for his project.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647862441 View