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Goodrich family. Goodrich family papers, 1732-1905 (inclusive), 1787-1860 (bulk).

Title: Goodrich family papers, 1732-1905 (inclusive), 1787-1860 (bulk).

The papers consist of correspondence, business and legal documents, sermons, lectures, and other writings of the Goodrich family, descendants of Elizur Goodrich (1734-1797), and members of related Webster, Coe, Ellsworth, and Fowler families. The bulk of the correspondence concerns Chauncey Allen Goodrich's publication and copyright of an abridgement and revision of Webster's dictionary and the resulting disagreements among the heirs of Noah Webster. The papers also highlight Elizur Goodrich's (1761-1849) investments in land; family courtships, including that of Noah Webster and Rebecca Greenleaf; the ministerial careers of Elizur Goodrich (1734-1797), Noah Coe, Chauncey Goodrich (1817-1868), and William Henry Goodrich; Chauncey Allen Goodrich's teaching at Yale; Henry L. Ellsworth's purchases of land in Indiana; and the domestic affairs of several family households.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702206129 View

Goodrich, Chauncey Allen, 1790-1860. Autograph letter signed : New Haven, to Norman White, 1855 Oct. 27.

Title: Autograph letter signed : New Haven, to Norman White, 1855 Oct. 27.

Concerning a new edition of Webster's Dictionary.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269577165 View

G. & C. Merriam Company archive, 1797-1978, 1830-1892

Title: G. & C. Merriam Company archive 1797-1978 1830-1892

The archive consists of correspondence, documents, writings, printed material, and photographs documenting the history of the G. & C. Merriam Company. The papers provide insight into the business practices of the nineteenth century publishing and bookselling trade, particularly in Massachusetts, and contain much material on lexicography, the development of American English, and the publishing history of Webster's Dictionary. Principal correspondents include Merriam Company editors Chauncey Goodrich, Noah Porter, William G. Webster, William A. Wheeler, and printers H.O. Houghton & Co. There are both legal and financial records, including contracts with agents and publishers, and opinions of lawyers on copyright issues. There are sixty-five letterpress copybooks, as well as numerous account books, daybooks, merchants books, order books, and inventories, documenting the firm's business affairs. Twelve scrapbooks carry examples of the firm's stationery, circulars, advertisements, and clippings.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 155 (including 40 oversize boxes); Other Storage Formats: 4 broadsides; Linear Feet: 119.49

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

Noah Webster collection, 1788-1886.

Title: Noah Webster collection, 1788-1886.

The Noah Webster collection is an assembled collection of Webster-related items acquired over the years by The Henry Ford from a variety of sources. Included is correspondence of Noah Webster from 1788 to 1837 and a number of certificates for shares in the Union school, begun by Webster in 1802 in New Haven, Connecticut. The collection also includes letters of Webster's son-in-law Chauncey A. Goodrich and one of his daughter Eliza Webster Jones.

ArchivalResource: 0.16 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/747275413 View

Warren, Israel P. (Israel Perkins), 1814-1892. Notebooks, 1839-1841.

Title: Notebooks, 1839-1841.

This collection consists of two volumes of notes that Warren kept while a student at Yale Divinity School from 1839 to 1841. It includes five of Nathaniel Taylor's lectures: Mental Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Moral Government, Moral Theology, and Revealed Theology. Each of these lectures has a synopsis, though the synopsis for Revealed Theology is incomplete. Volume I is indexed. There are also lectures by other Divinity School professors, including Eleazar Thompson Fitch (1791-1871), Chauncey Allen Goodrich (1790-1860), and Josiah Willard Gibbs (1790-1861). Furthermore, there is a lecture by Edward Meyrick Goulburn (1818-1897), an English theologian, and an abstract of an article entitled "A Classification of the Religions of the World." The lectures were apparently copied in Warren's notebook at a later date.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. ; octavo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/207177047 View

National and local historic figures, 1638-1980.

Title: National and local historic figures, 1638-1980.

Correspondence, diaries, and business and personal papers, of 139 individuals associated with the history of New Haven, or national figures represented by items relating to New Haven, including Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Coit Gilman, George Washington, and Eli Whitney. Other persons represented by twenty or more items include Reuben Allen (1815-1874), Hezekiah Augur (1791-1858), Leonard Bacon (1802-1881), Dr. Lucius N. Beardsley (1814-1880), Isaac Beers (1742?-1813), Dwight Bowers (1866-1907), Eli Bradley (1781?-1816), William Campbell (d. 1779), Frederick Croswell (1813-1863), Rev. Soloman J. Douglas (1834-1921), Aaron Forbes (1760-1831), Caleb Gilbert (1733-1801), Chauncey Allen Goodrich (1790-1860), Elizur Goodrich (1761-1849), Daniel Greene (1765-1817) and family, Dennis Kimberly (1790-1862), Dr. James Gates Percival (1795-1856), Lucius A. Thomas (1806-1879), Gilbert Totten (1760 or 61-1839), and Charles W. Whittlesey.

ArchivalResource: 4 ft. (2,000 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/774715864 View

Webster family. Webster family papers, 1764-1909 (inclusive), 1831-1873 (bulk).

Title: Webster family papers, 1764-1909 (inclusive), 1831-1873 (bulk).

Principal figures in these papers are Noah Webster, the lexicographer, and his son William Greenleaf Webster. Also included are papers pertaining to the G. C. Merriam Company and the publication of Noah Webster's dictionaries and grammars. Family correspondence includes twenty-two letters written by Noah Webster to his son between 1835 and 1843 while the latter was in Cincinnati, Ohio, and La Fayette, Indiana selling his father's books. The papers of William Greenleaf Webster make up two-thirds of the papers and include extensive correspondence during the Civil War on the death of his sons and his subsequent divorce. The letters of both these sons to their father before the war describes their beginning careers: Eugene as a civil engineer in Maryland and Stuart attempting land speculation and other occupations in Minneapolis. Both sons were killed while serving in the Civil War, Eugene fighting for the Confederacy and Stuart for the Union. The sixty-five letters of Wiliam Greenleaf Webster's second wife, Sara Appleton Webster to Judge Bristol, who was the executor of William G. Webster's estate, describe her attempts to earn a living by copying paintings in Germany (1870-1873). Also in the papers are financial documents, estate papers, a memoir of Noah Webster by Chauncey Allen Goodrich, an essay by William Eugene Webster and newspaper clippings.

ArchivalResource: 4.21 linear feet (7 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702167593 View

Robbins, Thomas, 1777-1856. Thomas Robbins collection, 1792-1852.

Title: Thomas Robbins collection, 1792-1852.

Personal papers of a Connecticut minister, book collector, and librarian at the Connecticut Historical Society. Includes letters from his family while Thomas was a student at Yale College; a long letter home from his travels in Vermont, 1801; letters home while he served in the Western Reserve of Ohio as a missionary for the Missionary Society of Connecticut, 1803-1806; minutes of Society meetings at East Windsor, Connecticut, where he was minister beginning in 1809; notes for sermons as well as complete sermons; letters from his sister Sarah Battel; sermon reviews, 1810-1814; correspondence and bills and receipts from book dealers; records of his donations to the American Board of Foreign Missions and his activities in the Temperance movement; invitations to preach at various churches in Connecticut and Massachusetts; and correspondence with Chauncey A. Goodrich, Benjamin Ely, Eleazar Lord, William Stebbins, Milo L. North, and Peter Starr. Also includes 13 volumes of his diary. Materials are arranged chronologically. Also a collection of "school papers" consisting of school visitor reports for Augustus Washington's school and the First and Second Colored Schools; correspondence about the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut; and data on and about various schools in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 9.0 linear feet (16 boxes, 13 volumes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276839544 View

Chauncey family-Fowler family papers, 1669-1880

Title: Chauncey family-Fowler family papers 1669-1880

The papers consist of correspondence, account books, Yale College diplomas, and miscellaneous documents related to Nathaniel Chauncey, and his son Elnathan Chauncey and great-grandson William Chauncey Fowler. The collection contains more than 5,000 letters exchanged by members of the Chauncey, Ellsworth, Fowler, Goodrich, Hand, March, Wadsworth, and Webster families, in particular Rebecca and Noah Webster, as well as various prominent friends in New England. Also present are more than 100 sermons, and folders of material related to the Susquehannah Company, a group of Connecticut investors in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania.

ArchivalResource: 13.5 linear feet (18 boxes)

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

Yale Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection, 1701-2007, 1701-1987

Title: Yale Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection 1701-2007 1701-1987

An artificial collection of correspondence, writings, diaries, and memorabilia relating to Yale University, its officials and employees, faculty, students, and related topics.

ArchivalResource: 32.5 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1258 View

Yale course lectures collection, circa 1720-1986

Title: Yale course lectures collection circa 1720-1986

The collection consist of notes on course lectures taken by Yale students.

ArchivalResource: 51.75 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ru.0159 View

Wightman, Stillman King, 1803-1899. Stillman King Wightman papers, 1817-1837 (inclusive).

Title: Stillman King Wightman papers, 1817-1837 (inclusive).

The papers consist of correspondence, lecture notes, financial papers, and writings relating to Wightman's student years at Yale University and his early legal practice. Correspondents include Joshua Belden, Abijah Cathin, Selden Ely, William R. Hayes, Thomas Mather, Thomas Staughton Savage, Richard Smith, and Frederick and Mary Wightman. Lecture notes from Mathew Rice Dutton, Chauncey Allen Goodrich, James Luce Kingsley, and Benjamin Silliman are also included.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702166620 View

Fowler collection, 1662-1874 (inclusive), [microform].

Title: Fowler collection, 1662-1874 (inclusive), [microform].

The papers consist of correspondence of several members of the Chauncey, Fowler, Goodrich, and Webster families of Durham, Connecticut, and several other communities. Also included are Durham records; the logbook of the Adventure, 1779; correspondence of Nathaniel Shaw, 1765-1776; a eulogy on Noah Webster; and a variety of other papers. The chief correspondents are William Chauncey Fowler, a graduate of Yale and professor at Middlebury and Amherst Colleges; his wife, Harriet Webster Cobb Fowler, a daughter of Noah Webster and Rebecca Greenleaf Webster; and several of Harriet Fowler's sisters and brothers-in-law, including Emily Webster Ellsworth, Chauncey Allen Goodrich, Eliza S. Webster Jones, and Henry Jones. Other prominent correspondents are Elihu Chauncey, Elnathan Chauncey, and Chauncey Goodrich. Several major correspondents were graduates and officers of Yale.

ArchivalResource: 10 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122501511 View

G. & C. Merriam Company. G. & C. Merriam Co. records and correspondence, 1833-1871.

Title: G. & C. Merriam Co. records and correspondence, 1833-1871.

Primarily correspondence between a Springfield, Massachusetts, publishing company and the individuals who helped revise and update Noah Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language. The firm was founded by George and Charles Merriam. Significant participants in the revisions of the dictionary included Chauncey Allen Goodrich, husband of Frances Juliana Webster, Chauncey Goodrich, William Webster, William Wolcott Ellsworth, Noah Porter, Chester Smith Lyman, and William A. Wheeler. The collection also includes a few family letters, memo books, financial records, legal documents, including those related to several publishing disputes, proof sheets and documents relating specifically to revisions of the dictionaries.

ArchivalResource: 2.75 linear feet (5 1/2 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/312761227 View

Goodrich, William H. (William Henry), 1823-1874. Family Correspondence, 1855,1888.

Title: Family Correspondence, 1855,1888.

Two volumes of family letters, Vol. 1 dated Jan. 14, 1855-May 16, 1869 and Vol. 2 dated May 28-Oct. 6, 1873, 1874 (no months), and Nov. 1, 1887-July 1, 1888. The letters were written by Goodrich and his wife, Mary, his parents, Prof. and Mrs. Chauncey Allen Goodrich, and his brother, Chauncey N. Goodrich and his wife, Eleanor. The letters detail the daily life of a clergyman in Binghamton, New York, and Cleveland, Ohio. There are brief accounts of Goodrich's travels in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Vol. 2 has letters by Chanucey N. and recollections of Goodrich, 1873-1874, about his grandparents, Noah and Mrs. Webster, and Goodrich's diary notes, May 28-Oct. 6, 1873.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36825762 View

Sawyer, Leicester A. (Leicester Ambrose), 1807-1898. Autograph album, 1840-1876.

Title: Autograph album, 1840-1876.

Printed volume titled The Sacred Wreath (Philadelphia: Thomas T. Ash, [1840?]), containing printed poems and illustrations, with autographs, notes, essays, and quotations added in manuscript by friends and family of Sawyer, 1840-1876. Contributors include Noah Webster, Benjamin Silliman, Chauncey Goodrich, Leonard Bacon, Josiah Gibbs, Jeremiah Day, James Luce Kingsley, David Wilcoxson, and Lorenzo Sawyer. The album was presented to Sawyer on his departure from New Haven, Connecticut, in 1840.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 150 p.) ; 30 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702152981 View

Mussey, June Barrows, 1910-1985. Papers of June Barrows Mussey [manuscript], 1813-1989.

Title: Papers of June Barrows Mussey [manuscript], 1813-1989.

The collection pertains to Mussey's research on Samuel Griswold Goodrich (Peter Parley) and contains two original Goodrich letters; electrostatic copies from other depositories of his correspondence, consular dispatches, articles and books; and June Barrows Mussey's correspondence and research material re Goodrich, including photographs. With these are biographical materials on June Barrows Mussey including photographs, and Merrythought Book Labels from his private press. The collection also contains publishers and booksellers contracts and receipts, 1836-1863, of William James Hamersley including a contract with Chauncey Allen Goodrich and a handwritten 1833 "newspaper" "The Yorkshire Gazette & Bennis-Ayres Journal."

ArchivalResource: 960 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647826902 View

Webster family papers, Circa 1764-1909, 1831-1873

Title: Webster family papers Circa 1764-1909 1831-1873

Principal figures in these papers are Noah Webster, the lexicographer, and his son William Greenleaf Webster. Also included are papers pertaining to the G. C. Merriam Company and the publication of Noah Webster's dictionaries and grammars. Family correspondence includes twenty-two letters written by Noah Webster to his son between 1835 and 1843 while the latter was in Cincinnati, Ohio, and La Fayette, Indiana, selling his father's books. The papers of William Greenleaf Webster make up two-thirds of the papers and include extensive correspondence during the Civil War on the death of his sons and his subsequent divorce. The letters of both these sons to their father before the war describes their beginning careers: Eugene as a civil engineer in Maryland and Stuart attempting land speculation and other occupations in Minneapolis. Both sons were killed while serving in the Civil War, Eugene fighting for the Confederacy and Stuart for the Union. The sixty-five letters of William Greenleaf Webster's second wife, Sara Appleton Webster to Judge Bristol, who was the executor of William G. Webster's estate, describe her attempts to earn a living by copying paintings in Germany (1870-1873). Also in the papers are financial documents, estate papers, a memoir of Noah Webster by Chauncey Allen Goodrich, an essay by William Eugene Webster, and newspaper clippings.

ArchivalResource: 4.46 linear feet (8 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0527 View

Goodrich Family Papers, 1732-1905

Title: Goodrich Family Papers 1732-1905

The papers consist of correspondence, business and legal documents, sermons, lectures, and other writings of the Goodrich family, descendants of Elizur Goodrich (1734-1797), and members of related Webster, Coe, Ellsworth, and Fowler families. The bulk of the correspondence concerns Chauncey Allen Goodrich's publication and copyright of an abridgement and revision of Webster's dictionary and the resulting disagreements among the heirs of Noah Webster. The papers also highlight Elizur Goodrich's (1761-1849) investments in land; family courtships, including that of Noah Webster and Rebecca Greenleaf; the ministerial careers of Elizur Goodrich (1734-1797), Noah Coe, Chauncey Goodrich (1817-1868), and William Henry Goodrich; Chauncey Allen Goodrich's teaching at Yale; Henry L. Ellsworth's purchases of land in Indiana; and the domestic affairs of several family households.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0242 View

Henry William Ellsworth Papers, 1796-1886, (bulk 1845-1849)

Title: Henry William Ellsworth Papers 1796-1886 (bulk 1845-1849)

Diplomat. Primarily correspondence and duplicates of diplomatic dispatches received and sent while Ellsworth was chargé d'affaires for the United States in Stockhom, Sweden, and Norway, 1845-1849.

ArchivalResource: 350 items; 2 containers; .8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011213 View

Ellsworth, William Wolcott, 1791-1868. Papers, 1844-1869.

Title: Papers, 1844-1869.

Letters to lawyer in Hartford, Conn.; correspondents include Chauncey Goodrich, Henry Jones, G. & C. Merriam, Henry Trowbridge and W. G. Webster.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes ; 39 x 26 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42652971 View

Sawyer, Leicester A. (Leicester Ambrose), 1807-1898. Autograph album, 1840-1876.

Title: Autograph album, 1840-1876.

Printed volume titled The Sacred Wreath (Philadelphia: Thomas T. Ash, [1840?]), containing printed poems and illustrations, with autographs, notes, essays, and quotations added in manuscript by friends and family of Sawyer, 1840-1876. Contributors include Noah Webster, Benjamin Silliman, Chauncey Goodrich, Leonard Bacon, Josiah Gibbs, Jeremiah Day, James Luce Kingsley, David Wilcoxson, and Lorenzo Sawyer. The album was presented to Sawyer on his departure from New Haven, Connecticut, in 1840.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 150 p.) ; 30 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80218521 View

Goodrich, Chauncey A. (Chauncey Allen), 1790-1860. Chauncey A. Goodrich letter to Judge [Jacob] Burnet [manuscript], 1835 June 15.

Title: Chauncey A. Goodrich letter to Judge [Jacob] Burnet [manuscript], 1835 June 15.

Goodrich writes concerning a partnership his brother-in-law, Mr. Webster, made with Carey and Fairbank. He notes that the judge's advice was followed and describes the finances of the firm, questioning whether Webster has any responsibilities concerning the debts of the predecessor firm.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/639578571 View

William Greenleaf Webster papers, 1820-1865

Title: William Greenleaf Webster papers 1820-1865

William Greenleaf Webster (1805-1869), an American editor and publisher, was the son of lexicographer Noah Webster. He participated in the editing, publication and sale of his father's dictionaries and other books. Collection consists of correspondence, business papers, diaries, writings, legal documents, family papers, photograph, and printed matter. Correspondence, 1820-1865, concerns family and personal matters, Noah Webster's estate, and the copyright, production and sale of his books. Business papers, 1833-1863, include legal agreements with publishers, account books and other materials documenting William G. Webster's role in promoting his father's works. Also, travel diaries, writings, autograph book, and genealogical items, including some correspondence and papers of his son C. Stuart Webster.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear feet (9 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/3259 View

Goodrich, Chauncey A. (Chauncey Allen), 1790-1860. Chauncey Allen Goodrich lecture notes, undated.

Title: Chauncey Allen Goodrich lecture notes, undated.

Class notes from Professor Goodrich's lectures on oratory.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/669944633 View

Webster, William G. (William Greenleaf), 1805-1869. William Greenleaf Webster papers, 1820-1865.

Title: William Greenleaf Webster papers, 1820-1865.

Collection consists of correspondence, business papers, diaries, writings, legal documents, family papers, photograph, and printed matter.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear feet (9 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122466647 View

Stillman King Wightman papers, 1817-1837

Title: Stillman King Wightman papers 1817-1837

The papers consist of correspondence, lecture notes, financial papers, and writings relating to Wightman's student years at Yale University and his early legal practice. Correspondents include Joshua Belden, Abijah Cathin, Selden Ely, William R. Hayes, Thomas Mather, Thomas Staughton Savage, Richard Smith, and Frederick and Mary Wightman. Lecture notes from Mathew Rice Dutton, Chauncey Allen Goodrich, James Luce Kingsley, and Benjamin Silliman are also included.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear foot (1 box)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1079 View

Chauncey family. Chauncey family papers, 1675-1928 (inclusive).

Title: Chauncey family papers, 1675-1928 (inclusive).

The papers consist of correspondence, account books, financial records, diaries, journals, and other papers relating to the personal lives and professional careers of the Chauncey family of Connecticut. Material relating to the American Revolution and the colonial period includes the correspondence, legal papers, and financial records of Charles Chauncey (1747-1823). The legal papers of Charles Chauncey (1777-1849) document his work in Philadelphia. The European travel diaries for Nathaniel Chauncey (1824-1826) and Durham, Connecticut town records relating to Worthington Gallup Chauncey's municipal duties are also included in the papers.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft. (19 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153373 View

James B. Gibbs lecture notebooks 1846 Gibbs, James B. lecture notebooks

Title: James B. Gibbs lecture notebooks 1846 Gibbs, James B. lecture notebooks

This collection consists of two volumes of lecture notes that James B. Gibbs compiled while he was a resident student at Yale Divinity School in 1846. The lectures, delivered by Yale professors Nathaniel W. Taylor, Chauncey Allen Goodrich, and J. Gibbs, concern a range of theological and philosophical topics, including the history and practices of Christianity, information about other religions, and contemporary philosophical thought regarding ethics and government.

ArchivalResource: 2 volumes

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-1854gib?rgn=main;view=text View

Goodrich, Chauncey S., 1787-1860. Chauncey S. Goodrich papers, 1831-1909.

Title: Chauncey S. Goodrich papers, 1831-1909.

Correspondence concerning business and social affairs and pertaining to the activities of the militia; and 1835 militia commission from Governor Stevens T. Mason.

ArchivalResource: ca. 60 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34418435 View

Jackson, John Peter, 1805-1861. John P. Jackson papers, 1821-1887 1830-1860.

Title: John P. Jackson papers, 1821-1887 1830-1860.

The papers consist largely of letters received by John P. Jackson, and date from 1821-1887, with bulk dates of 1830-1860. The correspondence mostly pertains to John P. Jackson's business matters and contains complaints concerning the various railroads Jackson oversaw; requests for free tickets or passes; information regarding the railroad company's stock; discussion of New Jersey and United States politics; invitations to dinners, meetings, lectures, and visits; and inquiries into money owed. Correspondents include Samuel Bayard, John J. Chetwood, John Davis, William L. Dayton, Edward Everett, Richard Stockton Field, Theodore Frelinghuysen, Charles Gayarré, Chauncey A. Goodrich, Dudley S. Gregory, Joseph C. Hornblower, Peter Jackson, Jacob W. Miller, J. Phillips Phoenix, Robert Schuyler, George Sheldon, Samuel L. Southard, Richard Stockton, Robert Field Stockton, John R. Thomson, Peter D. Vroom, Asa Whitehead, and William A. Whitehead. There are a few letters from family members, including one from John P. Jackson's brother, James Jackson, describing the state of the slaves at Mount Vernon. There are also a number of letters discussing the various organizations and societies that Jackson was involved in, including the New Jersey Colonization Society, the Essex County Bible Society, Princeton University, South Park Church, and an unspecified temperance society. The papers also contain editorials; a small number of receipts and bills; court documents; one Newark land deed; and a few letters to other people, including John Darcy Stevens, the President of the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear feet (1 small manuscript box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52262943 View

Goodrich, Chauncey A. (Chauncey Allen), 1790-1860. Memorial album, 1860.

Title: Memorial album, 1860.

Summary, Etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191312434 View

Yale University. Autographs, 1856.

Title: Autographs, 1856.

An album of autographs, photographs and engravings of Yale University students, class of 1856, and the president, chaplain and professors of Yale. Sentiments are dedicated to W.T. Kittredge of the 1856 class. 105 autographs. Some engravings of Yale buildings.

ArchivalResource: album 1 volume (ca. 250 pages) : bound in leather 29.5 x 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18334350 View

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.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01965/catalog View