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Davis, Garrett, 1801-1872. Garrett Davis : miscellaneous papers, 1844-1868.

Title: Garrett Davis : miscellaneous papers, 1844-1868.

Papers include political correspondence of a routine nature, mainly recommendations for political appointments; a 14 February 1862 letter to General Don Carlos Buell enclosing a letter from W.W. Trimble and Dr. W.O. Smith dated 11 February 1862 protesting the granting of permission to prominent secession leaders of Harrison County and surrounding counties to return to their homes; and subscription lists for his speeches, 1862 and n.d.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49217330 View

Menefee family. Menefee family papers, 1826-1958.

Title: Menefee family papers, 1826-1958.

Papers consist of correspondence, primarily letters of Richard Jouett Menefee and Richard Hickman Menefee. Letters record family news; condolences upon the death of Richard Jouett Menefee, June 1893; and army life and news from Richard H. Menefee from camps in Lexington, Ky., Ga., and Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War. Correspondents include James B. Beck, Benjamin Bristow, Don Carlos Buell, Garrett Davis, Henry F. Farney, Joel T. Hart, J. Proctor Knott, Thomas Satterwhite Noble, William T. Sherman, and Thomas Speed. Also included is genealogical material of the Menefee and Jouett families; family record labeled : Matthew H. Jouett's Bible; diary, 1840-1841, of Richard Hickman Menefee; tributes and eulogies delivered upon the death of Richard Jouett Menefee, June 1893; and printed material of the Spanish-American War period.

ArchivalResource: 0.66 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49253056 View

Bruner, John B., 1825-1878. John B. Bruner : papers, 1848-1876.

Title: John B. Bruner : papers, 1848-1876.

Papers contain letters to Bruner relative to his legislative work in the House and later in the Senate and concerning the law practice of the firm Allen and Bruner; letters about his activities as a member of the Whig and American parties in state and national elections; applications for public office; education in Kentucky; support of the Union during the Civil War; recruiting of troops and movements for defense of the state; convention of the National Conservative Union Committee at Cincinnati, 3 December 1864; petitions for charters of railroads from Louisville to Cincinnati, 1866; routes of railroads through Kentucky; raising funds for the Central Committee of Union Democracy in 1867; receipts to Bruner and the firm of Allen and Bruner, 1856-1876; legal papers including cases before the Breckinridge Circuit Court, 1851-1871. Also includes papers on education; election returns, 1854-1873; military passes, 1861-1865; papers of the Hardinsburg and Cloveport Turnpike Road Co., 1860-1861; land papers, 1848, 1868; printed matter concerning U.S. politics; program of the Grand Musical and Dramatic Soiree; social invitations from governors of Kentucky; and newspaper clippings and a scrapbook of clippings on the presidential campaign of 1860. Bruner's correspondents include D. Hoover, Ben Edwards Grey, James Harlan, James Speed, George D. Prentice, Henry D. McHenry, Thomas M. Hunt, Samuel Haycraft, Ben Hardin Helm, General Jeremiah T. Boyle, Garrett, Davis, and Thomas B. Fairleigh.

ArchivalResource: 1.33 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46763816 View

Neil, Robert, 1796-1883. Family papers 1818-1933.

Title: Family papers 1818-1933.

Collection contains correspondence, accounts, land records, legal documents, and military certificates relating to politics and the Civil War, and other aspects of life in Columbus, Ohio. Includes material on the Whig Central Committee of Ohio, Moses Neil's service in the 1st O.V.I., and Neil's relatives in the South during the war. Contact repository for more information.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 cubic foot.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6898096 View

Buford, Charles, 1797-1866. Charles Buford papers, circa 1842-1865.

Title: Charles Buford papers, circa 1842-1865.

Chiefly family and personal correspondence commenting on political and social conditions prior to and during the Civil War, particularly slavery and its abolition and the effects of the war on civilians. Includes a letter from James W. Duke, a Confederate soldier in the Union prison at Rock Island, Ill., a satirical essay by Buford on the slavery question, and a biographical sketch of Buford. Other correspondents include T. H. Bradford, John C. Breckinridge, James F. Buckner, W. N. Budd, Garrett Davis, N. W. Duke, J. Henry (John Flournoy Henry), and George S. Williams.

ArchivalResource: 38 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70980287 View

Nelson, William, 1824-1862. William Nelson : military papers, 1861-1862.

Title: William Nelson : military papers, 1861-1862.

Military papers of Major General William Nelson include routine correspondence discussing supplies, fortifications, and the defense of Louisville in 1862; telegrams, 16-18 July 1862, from Don Carlos Buell and others regarding John Hunt Morgan's raid in Ky.; account for lease of a farm for Camp Kenton; and a map of the area around Pittsburg Landing, Tenn.

ArchivalResource: 38 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49306706 View

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911. Thomas W. Higginson papers [manuscript], 1864-1901.

Title: Thomas W. Higginson papers [manuscript], 1864-1901.

Higginson writes to C. Scribners & Sons, 1888 December 29, thanking them for a book. A letter to "Dear Madam," 1900 October 10, discusses his fees for lectures. A letter, 1901 February 18, to [Elizabeth Stuart Phelps? Ward] discusses meetings and elections of the Boston Authors' Club." With the letters is a printed government resolution offered by Sen. Garrett Davis, 1864 March 14, establishing a committee investigating Higginson's connection with the rescue of fugitive slave Anthony Burns.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276999244 View

Duncan family. Duncan family papers, 1803-1862, 1855-1859 (bulk dates).

Title: Duncan family papers, 1803-1862, 1855-1859 (bulk dates).

The bulk of the collection consists of letters written by friends and various members of the family to Henry Timberlake Duncan, Jr. while he was a student at Harvard from 1855 to 1859.

ArchivalResource: .6 cu. ft. (716 pieces in 2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13297640 View

Beatty-Quisenberry family. Beaty-Quisenberry familty papers, 1798-1962.

Title: Beaty-Quisenberry familty papers, 1798-1962.

Papers of Adam Beatty and his descendants in the Beatty and Quisenberry families. The papers of Adam Beatty include correspondence, legal papers, and business papers detailing agriculture, politics, slavery, the Episcopal Church, and other aspects of life in Kentucky from the turn of the nineteenth century through Beatty's death in 1858. Correspondents include Robert J. Breckinridge, Leslie Combs, John J. Crittenden, Garrett Davis, Richard Hawes, Richard M. Johnson, Thomas Metcalfe, B. B. Smith, Thomas B. Stevenson, J. R. Underwood, Charles A. Wickliffe, Robert Wickliffe, and numerous other prominent political and religious figures. Letters from family members in California, Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas discuss life in those states. Also included are letters written to Beatty's wife, Sarah, mostly concerning daily life. A small group of Ormond Beatty's papers contain material related to the Civil War, Centre College, the Caldwell Institute, and real estate in Danville, Kentucky. Letters from Ormond Beatty are included in the papers of his parents. Ormond Beatty's daughter, Pattie, grew up in Danville, following the Civil War. Her papers mostly concern social life in postbellum Kentucky, although they also include references to politics and major events. Correspondence to and from Pattie Beatty describes traveling and vacationing in numerous parts of the eastern United States. She was also involved with Presbyterian missionary groups and some related material is included in the collection. In 1882, she married John A. Quisenberry. His papers relate to agriculture, politics, social life, business, and real estate in Kentucky and Texas. Thomas E. Quisenberry, the son of John A. and Pattie Quisenberry, moved to Evanston, Illinois. His papers reflect business, politics, social life, and other aspects of life in Illinois in the mid-twentieth century. Included are copies of his letters to politicians, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, offering Quisenberry's opinions on various issues. The correspondence of his wife Quinlan Hanna Quisenberry (nee Agnes Quinlan Hanna) details social life and travel.

ArchivalResource: 6 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/613421262 View

Waller, Henry, b. 1810. Papers of Henry Waller, 1809-1943 (bulk 1826-1880).

Title: Papers of Henry Waller, 1809-1943 (bulk 1826-1880).

Correspondence of several generations of the Waller family centering on Henry Waller, his parents, siblings, wife, children, friends, and business associates. The bulk of the collection consists of the correspondence between Henry Waller and his wife Sarah Bell Langhorne Waller and their children. The detailed letters describe their life in Kentucky and Chicago and discuss family matters, social news, their feelings for each other, their religious reflections (the Wallers were devout Presbyterians), parenting, schools, political affairs, legal practice, business, etc. Also included are a few pieces of the political and legal correspondence, including individual letters by John Marshall (1755-1835), Garret Davis, and John J. Crittenden. The collection also contains letters addressed to Sarah Bell Langhorne Waller, including those from the Confederate prisoners and their families. Also included are items related to the arrest and imprisonment of William S. Waller, Jr., letters from Maurice Waller, John Duke Waller, Henry Waller, Jr., and other children to their parents, a group of military records documenting Edward C. Waller's service in the Spanish American War, and genealogical materials. There is also a small group of private and professional correspondence of Henry Waller's father, William Smith Waller (1785-1855) who for more than forty years served as cashier of the Bank of Kentucky, including are two letters by George Madison (1763-1816) describing the War of 1812 in Kentucky. Other correspondents include Henry Waller's sister Catherine Waller Carson and her husband James Green Carson (1815-1863), a planter who owned and operated Canebrake Plantation in Mississippi, and then Airlie Plantation in East Carroll Parish, La. Their letters describe life on the cotton plantations, including discussion of slaves. There are also letters written by members of other branches of the Waller family as well as the related families of Langhorne, Breckenridge, Marshall, and others.

ArchivalResource: Approx. 5000 pieces.28 boxes, also, an oversized folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122443920 View

Autograph album: Abraham Lincoln, his cabinet, and senators, 1864 and undated.

Title: Autograph album: Abraham Lincoln, his cabinet, and senators, 1864 and undated.

Autograph album containing documents of President Abraham Lincoln,his cabinet members, senators, and others.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01486/catalog View

Veasey, James Alexander. General Historical Manuscripts, Documents, and Photographs 1500-1980.

Title: General Historical Manuscripts, Documents, and Photographs 1500-1980.

Provenance, when known, is noted in the inventory.

ArchivalResource: 9 document boxes; 1 overside box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/226994035 View

Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

Title: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

A collection of images, manuscripts, and printed material, mostly relating to the Massachusetts soldiers and regiments in the American Civil War. Some material relates to other Union regiments and the Confederate States of America.

ArchivalResource: 47 linear feet (143 boxes, 2 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00124/catalog View

Moseley, Thomas W. H. (Thomas William Henry), 1813-1880. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1835-1874.

Public servant and inventor, Columbus and Cincinnati; Ohio Adjutant General, 1844-1851. Collection consists of correspondence, a volume, and miscellaneous items highlighting Moseley's political involvement and daily experiences, primarily during the 1840s when he was Ohio Adjutant General.

ArchivalResource: ca. 30 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13340715 View

Veasey, James Alexander. General Historical Manuscripts, Documents, and Photographs 1500-1980.

Title: General Historical Manuscripts, Documents, and Photographs 1500-1980.

Provenance, when known, is noted in the inventory.

ArchivalResource: 9 document boxes; 1 overside box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/226994034 View

Buckner, Benjamin Forsythe, 1836-1901. Benjamin Forsythe Buckner papers, 1785-1918.

Title: Benjamin Forsythe Buckner papers, 1785-1918.

These papers are comprised of personal and business correspondence, legal documents and other business records, reflecting Buckner's activity as an attorney and judge in Central Kentucky.

ArchivalResource: 48M39 3 v.48M39 6616 pieces.53M17 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13196113 View

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874

Title: Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Letters to Charles Sumner, lawyer, Republican senator from Massachusetts, and anti-slavery campaigner; with a smaller number of letters from Sumner to others.

ArchivalResource: 33 cartons (43.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00232/catalog View