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Herndon, William Henry, 1818-1891. Letter, April 5, 1890.

Title: Letter, April 5, 1890.

Letter to Marie Swett, second wife and widow of Leonard Swett, about writing a biography of Swett.

ArchivalResource: 2 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/662739068 View

John G. Nicolay Papers, 1811-1943, (bulk 1860-1901)

Title: John G. Nicolay Papers 1811-1943 (bulk 1860-1901)

Presidential secretary and biographer. Correspondence, research notes, notebooks, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous material documenting Nicolay's public career, particularly his tenure as secretary to President Abraham Lincoln and his numerous literary activities, including his works on Lincoln.

ArchivalResource: 5,500 items; 18 containers plus 2 oversize; 7.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011009 View

Swett, Leonard, 1825-1889. Swett family correspondence, 1864-1897.

Title: Swett family correspondence, 1864-1897.

The collection consists chiefly of letters to and from Swett's wife Laura, and son, Leonard Herbert Swett. The early letters have passing references to Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Swett's dealings in the cotton trade during the Civil War. The later letters describe Leonard Herbert Swett's participation in the U.S. Geological Survey of the Utah Plateau Region under Captain Clarence E. Dutton in 1880 and his later work for the XIT Ranch in 1886 during the formative period of Western Texas. Because the Swetts were also friends of General and Mrs. George A. Custer, passing references to them appear throughout the collection.

ArchivalResource: 225 pieces.4 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86129706 View

Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Title: Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Letters to American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

ArchivalResource: 36 linear feet (73 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00355/catalog View

French, William H., 1850-1938. Letter, October 15, 1935.

Title: Letter, October 15, 1935.

Letter to Harry E. Hamilton discusses two Illinois books Hamilton had sent to French. Reminisces about people whom he knew in Griggsville and Pittsfield, Illinois while growing up, as well as a story about Abraham Lincoln and liquor.

ArchivalResource: 2 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/183640552 View

Davis, David, 1815-1886. Letter : Bloomington, Ill., to unknown person, n.p., 1860 Feb. 20.

Title: Letter : Bloomington, Ill., to unknown person, n.p., 1860 Feb. 20.

Autograph letter signed. Discusses likely presidential nominees and candidates for governor of Illinois.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54611843 View

Leonard H. Swett papers, 1867-1934

Title: Leonard H. Swett papers 1867-1934

The papers consist chiefly of family correspondence, photographs, and journals, and include a small amount of financial records. Family correspondence includes letters from Leonard H. Swett to his parents (Leonard Swett and Laura Quigg Swett) that document his travels in the American West in the 1880s, when he worked with the United States Geological Survey. He was stationed at, among other locations, Fort Wingate, New Mexico, BQ (Barbecue) Ranch, Indian Territory, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Other family papers include records of genealogical research. Personal papers include journals that document Swett's (and an unidentified author's, possibly Swett's) travels in the American West. Photographs, dating chiefly from the late 19th century, depict Leonard H. Swett and family members.

ArchivalResource: 2.3 linear feet (7 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.swett View

Swett, Leonard Herbert. Leonard Herbert Swett papers, 1875-1932, bulk 1875-1885.

Title: Leonard Herbert Swett papers, 1875-1932, bulk 1875-1885.

This collection consists of two sections acquired from two different sources. The Huntington also holds another relevant collection, the Swett Family Correspondence, 1864-1897, which contains letters written by and to Leonard Herbert Swett. Some of these letters deal with Berty Swett's time in Utah and on the XIT Ranch, topics which are not significantly addressed in the Leonard Herbert Swett Papers.

ArchivalResource: 47 pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228769400 View

Herndon-Weik Collection of Lincolniana, circa 1824-1933

Title: Herndon-Weik Collection of Lincolniana circa 1824-1933

Collection composed of the papers of Abraham Lincoln, United States president, United States representative from Illinois, and lawyer; William Henry Herndon, Lincoln's law partner, collector, and biographer from Springfield, Illinois; and Jesse William Weik, lawyer of Greencastle, Indiana, and coauthor of Herndon Includes records (1933) of the Weik Manuscript Corporation and miscellaneous material collected chiefly by Herndon and Weik for use in writing Herndon's (1889). Lincoln. Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life

ArchivalResource: 4,600 items; 36 containers; 10 linear feet; 15 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001002 View

Orme, William Ward, 1832-1866. Correspondence, 1862-1864.

Title: Correspondence, 1862-1864.

Letters mostly to Orme from David Davis, John M. Scott, and several others detail political patronage such as the attempts to have Orme promoted to brigadier general. Many comments about the 1862 election campaign in Illinois, especially the contest between Leonard Swett and John T. Stuart. Several letters include army activities.

ArchivalResource: 13 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/706817368 View

The Congressional campaign of 1862 in central Illinois : Leonard Swett v. John T. Stuart.

Title: The Congressional campaign of 1862 in central Illinois : Leonard Swett v. John T. Stuart. [1950?]

ArchivalResource: 13 leaves ; 30 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9872745 View

Davis, David, 1815-1886. David Davis papers, 1815-1964 (bulk 1815-1886).

Title: David Davis papers, 1815-1964 (bulk 1815-1886).

Primarily copies of correspondence, legal documents, speeches, pamphlets, and newsclippings relating to Davis family matters or to Davis's career as a lawyer; a judge in the Eighth Judicial Circuit of Illinois, 1848-1862; Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager; Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1862-1877; and U.S. Senator, 1877-1883. Most materials were collected by Willard L. King while writing a biography of Davis. Also present are a few original Davis items plus correspondence, prepublication manuscript, and reviews relating to King's book, 1950s-1964. Topics of the Davis materials include social and economic conditions in Illinois; life in Bloomington, Ill., and family affairs; political parties, especially the Whig and Republican parties, nationally and in Illinois; presidential campaigns and elections (1856-1876); Mormons in Illinois; the Mexican War; Davis's circuit-riding relationship with Lincoln, his riding partner; the antislavery movement; the rivalry between Norman B. Judd and John Wentworth; the Lincoln-Douglas debates; newspaper activities in Missouri and Chicago during the 1860s; the Civil War and particularly Missouri during the war; Davis as the administrator of Lincoln's estate; and the selection of a successor to Chief Justice Chase. Correspondents include Davis's wife Sarah Walker Davis and his son George Perrin Davis, Orville Browning, Ambrose E. Burnside, Simon Cameron, Aaron Lucius Chapin, Salmon P. Chase, Henry Clay, Grover Cleveland, Henry Winter Davis, Theophilus Lyle Dickey, Stephen A. Douglas, Ninian Edwards, Jesse W. Fell, John C. Fremont, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, John J. Hardin, James Harlan, Ozias M. Hatch, Rutherford B. Hayes, John F. Henry, William H. Herndon, Joseph Holt, Robert G. Ingersoll, Norman B. Judd, Ward Hill Lamon, Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, Robert Todd Lincoln, Thomas Lincoln, Stephen T. Logan, J.E. McClure, Joseph Medill, Lambdin P. Milligan, Richard J. Oglesby, William W. Orme, Ebenezer Peck, Julius Rockwell, Winfield Scott, William H. Seward, Caleb Smith, Edwin M. Stanton, John T. Stuart, Noah H. Swayne, Leonard Swett, Samuel J. Tilden, Samuel H. Treat, Lyman Trumbull, John P. Usher, Clement L. Vallandigham, Elihu B. Washburne, Thurlow Weed, Gideon Welles, John Wentworth, Horace White, Henry Clay Whitney, and Richard Yates. Correspondence about an autobiography by Davis is filed in box 1, but a copy of the autobiography is not present. This autobiography was owned by J. Grant Burke of Washington, D.C. ca. 1975.

ArchivalResource: 1 oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/712673728 View

Davis, David, 1815-1886. Correspondence, 1855-1886.

Title: Correspondence, 1855-1886.

Mostly letters from Davis to Oliver L. Davis of Danville, Illinois, discuss judicial matters and personal friends; also two letters to John M. Scott and a letter of sympathy to the widow of John T. Stuart. One letter describes hearing William G. (Parson) Brownlow give a speech.

ArchivalResource: 11 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/706817852 View

Orme, William Ward, 1832-1866. William Ward Orme papers, 1810-1865.

Title: William Ward Orme papers, 1810-1865.

Contains correspondence, particularly with fellow officers and the administration of occupied Tennessee (the U.S. Army Dept. of the Tennessee); papers relating to Orme's law firm with Leonard Swett (Swett & Orme), and the contents of Orme's field desk, consisting of books and copies of general orders.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232337045 View

Davis, David, 1815-1886. Letter : Bloomington, Ill., to unknown person, n.p., 1860 Feb. 20.

Title: Letter : Bloomington, Ill., to unknown person, n.p., 1860 Feb. 20.

Autograph letter signed. Discusses likely presidential nominees and candidates for governor of Illinois.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154329595 View

Orme, William, 1832-1864. Letters, 1862 Sept. 27 to Nov. 18.

Title: Letters, 1862 Sept. 27 to Nov. 18.

Transcript (typewritten).

ArchivalResource: 12 items ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9567150 View