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Houghton Library. Houghton Library printed book provenance file, L-Q. 1942.

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, L-Q.

Index to ownership/provenance information primarily from printed books at Houghton Library.

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Bayard, William, 1729-1804. Papers relating to the partition of the Secaucus Common, Bergen County, New Jersey, 1764-1798.

Title: Papers relating to the partition of the Secaucus Common, Bergen County, New Jersey, 1764-1798.

Legal and official documents and related correspondence, 1764-1798, relating to the partition of the Secaucus Common, Bergen, New Jersey, and William Bayard's claim to part of the land. Included are letters, petitions, deeds, bonds, indentures, concessions, court documents, etc.; many of them official drafts and copies, with related materials as early as 1647. Included are letters and documents by William Donaldson, Richard Hartshorne, William Livingston, and David Ogden; as well as letters written by Bayard to his son, William Bayard, and various documents pertaining to Stephen Bayard's Weehawken estate.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (96 items)

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Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1863-1879

Title: SIA RU000026, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, Correspondence, 1863-1879

This series consists mostly of correspondence addressed to Joseph Henry, much of which received his personal attention; also included are some copies of Henry letters, occasional returned original Henry letters, and a considerable number of letters to Spencer Fullerton Baird.

ArchivalResource: 59.56 cubic feet

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Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843

Title: Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843.

The Sparks collection consists of original and transcribed historical documents and correspondence, chiefly concerning the American colonies and the original thirteen states, collected or transcribed beginning in 1819 by Jared Sparks. The collection includes the papers of Sir Francis Bernard and George Chalmers, letters of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette, and George Washington, the journals of Thomas Ainslie, the Board of Trade, the New York Provincial Congress and Conventions, as well as the papers and records from state public offices, among many others. The Sparks collection also contains his own historical essays and compositions, published articles, letter books, diaries, account books related to his college days, professional research, and material documenting his tenure as College president.

ArchivalResource: 252 volumes, 10 env., 2 folders, 3 cases, 57 boxes (31.6 linear ft.)

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