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Melville DeLancey Landon ("Eli Perkins") Collection, 1873-1895

Title: Melville DeLancey Landon ("Eli Perkins") Collection 1873-1895

ArchivalResource:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00300.xml View

Correspondence and other papers, 1831-1891.

Title: Correspondence and other papers, 1831-1891.

Correspondence of American author and biographer James Parton withfamily members, professional associates, and personal friends as well as financialaccounts, photographs, genealogies, and printed material.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01317/catalog View

Charles F. Wingate papers, 1879-ca.1902

Title: Charles F. Wingate papers 1879-ca.1902

Includes his typescript essay, "The Truth about the Boer War.".

ArchivalResource: 1 box

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/3358 View

Landon, Melville D. (Melville De Lancey), 1839-1910. Papers of Melville DeLancey Landon [manuscript], 1873-1893 and n. d.

Title: Papers of Melville DeLancey Landon [manuscript], 1873-1893 and n. d.

The Landon Collection consists of: a manuscript of a definition of a "bore," letters, photographs and miscellaneous item. Topics in his letters include writing on his travels in the Orient and women in the Orient, especially articles designed for women readers; property purchase at Sullivan County Club; writing about free coinage; opinion of Horace Greeley; mention of T. DeWitt Talmage and Thomas Nast; his lectures; travel; McClure's syndicate; a recipe for a hot rum drink; and a friend's drinking problem. A portion of a letter mentins an autograph collection. The papers also contain a humorous "season ticket" to Eli Perkins lectures, a newsclipping regarding profits made through American literature with Mark Twain and Eli Perkins as examples, and two photographs. Correspondents include S. S. McClure, Ulysses S. Grant, and Charles Frederick Wingate.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647898971 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)

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Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917. F.B. Sanborn letter to My dear Wingate, 1880 Aug. 26.

Title: F.B. Sanborn letter to My dear Wingate, 1880 Aug. 26.

Sanborn writes to Wingate, 26 Aug. 1880, about attendance at Saratoga, possibly in reference to the first Social Sciences convention.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57659875 View

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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Charles F. Wingate Civil War scrapbooks, 1861-1865

Title: Charles F. Wingate Civil War scrapbooks 1861-1865

Four scrapbooks compiled by Brooklyn resident and sanitary engineer Charles F. Wingate, containing clippings on the events of the American Civil War. Coverage relates to events occurring throughout the United States.

ArchivalResource: 1.67 Linear feet; in four manuscript boxes.

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/bhs/arc_132_wingate/arc_132_wingate.html View

Charles F. Wingate to Walt Whitman, 19 May 1867

Title: Charles F. Wingate to Walt Whitman, 19 May 1867

DigitalArchivalResource:

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/loc.02001.html View