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Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. Letters of John Esten Cooke [manuscript], 1870-1881.

Title: Letters of John Esten Cooke [manuscript], 1870-1881.

In a letter, ante 1870 Cooke tries to find a particular book for Dr. W. G. Barney and requests some C.S.A. reports from him for a life of Lee he is writing. He writes a letter of sympathy, 1880 Dec. 5 to J. C. Derby. In a letter, 1881 May 8, to King and Baird, he sends corrected proof and reluctantly accedes to their request to print without his reading further proof.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Western Literary Messenger. Miller, Orton & Mulligan notice, 1854 Feb.

Title: Miller, Orton & Mulligan notice, 1854 Feb.

ADS, copy of notice of name change of firm of Buffalo and Auburn, N.Y. publishers and booksellers.

ArchivalResource: (0.1 linear ft.)

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Hay, John, 1838-1905. Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Curtis" to "Devens".

Title: Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Curtis" to "Devens".

Includes letters to Hay and to members of his family.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 6,000 items.

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Hunt, Washington, 1811-1867. Letters and card from New York State politicians, 1860-1884.

Title: Letters and card from New York State politicians, 1860-1884.

Routine short letters from prominent politicians who hailed from New York State, including Washington Hunt, Horatio Seymour, William Henry Seward, and Frederick William Seward. Also, a card signed by F.W. Seward, subscribing for a copy of the book Fifty years among authors, books and publishers, by J.C. Derby.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

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Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901. Letter, December 11, 1886.

Title: Letter, December 11, 1886.

Letter to J. C. Derby mentions Derby's book, Nicolay and Hay's Lincoln chapters, and Nicolay's poor eyesight, requiring an amanuensis.

ArchivalResource: 2 p.

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Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. Letter to [J. C.? ] Derby [manuscript], 1886 October 20.

Title: Letter to [J. C.? ] Derby [manuscript], 1886 October 20.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Jeffrey, Rosa Vertner, 1828-1894. Rosa Vertner Jeffrey Papers, 1855-1892.

Title: Rosa Vertner Jeffrey Papers, 1855-1892.

Included is correspondence; poems (including poems dedicated to Mrs. Jeffrey as well as those written by her); copyright certificate, 1857, for her poems; accounts of the sales, 1857-1881, of her writings; a release, 1862, of claim against Mrs. Jeffrey for sale of an African American woman who proved to be unsound; powers of attorney; statement of cotton captured at Vicksburg, Miss., in 1864 from Mrs. Jeffrey's plantation, "Canton Place"; claim against the U.S. for damage to the residence of Mrs. Elizabeth Vertner during the Civil War; insurance policies, 1884; tax receipts, 1864-1892; and a scrapbook containing clippings of Mrs. Jeffrey's poems. The correspondence, chiefly literary, contains some family letters, including those of her husband, Alexander Jeffrey, describing Lexington, Ky., during the Civil War. Correspondents include David Bates, Charles Augustus Davis, James Cephas Derby, the firm of Derby and Jackson, Julia Deane Freeman, William Jeffrey, Emily V. Mason, Dr. Thomas S. Powell, Orville James Victor, P.L. Wickes, and Robert W. Woolley.

ArchivalResource: 0.33 cubic ft.

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Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records, 1832-1944.

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records

Records of Houghton Mifflin Company and its predecessors, containing papers relating to both the printing and publishing branches of the business.

ArchivalResource: 64 linear feet (165 boxes)

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Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. Papers of John Esten Cooke [manuscript], 1811-1860 and n.d.

Title: Papers of John Esten Cooke [manuscript], 1811-1860 and n.d.

Papers of John Esten Cooke including manuscripts, letters, photographs and prints, and miscellaneous items. Correspondents include George W. Childs, J. C. Derby, Evert A. Duyckinck, Thomas Dunn English, R. W. Griswold, Paul Hamilton Hayne, and John Letcher.

ArchivalResource: 49 items.

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Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. Papers of John Esten Cooke [manuscript], 1849-1899.

Title: Papers of John Esten Cooke [manuscript], 1849-1899.

John Esten Cooke papers containing two commonplace books, a scrap book, and printed and manuscript items. Manuscripts include notes on Chancellorsville as related by Alexander Pendleton; and accounts of the wounding of Stonewall Jackson by Wilbourne and James K. Smith.

ArchivalResource: ca. 44 items.

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Holmes, Mary Jane, 1825-1907. Letters of Mary Jane Holmes [manuscript], 1884-1894.

Title: Letters of Mary Jane Holmes [manuscript], 1884-1894.

Holmes answers requests for autographs, photographs and her religious views; discusses her story, "The Hepburn line or the missing link" and its possible syndication; and describes her approach to writing. Correspondents include "Lippincott's Magazine," Joseph Marshall Stoddart, James Cephas Derby, W. R. Darlon, Mrs. Holloway, R. Stanley Brainard and Harry C. Roehers.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647812331 View