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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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Boardman family papers, 1770-1917

Title: Boardman family papers 1770-1917

Correspondence, diaries, account books, daybooks, legal papers, deeds, and land books of the Boardman family of New Haven and New Milford, Conn., which had extensive real estate holdings in Connecticut and the Western Reserve. Family members include William Whiting Boardman, (1794-1871) lawyer and probate judge of New Haven, Conn.; his father Elijah Boardman, (1760-1823) U.S. Senator from Connecticut who had holdings in the Connecticut Land Company and the three Ohio townships of Palmyra, Boardman, and Medina; his brother, George Sherman Boardman, (1799-1825) and his son, William Jarvis Boardman, (b.1832) attorney for the Valley Railroad Company, and holder of real estate in Cleveland, Ohio, New Haven, Conn., and Chattanooga, Tenn.

ArchivalResource: 27 linear feet

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Green, Augustus P. (Augustus Porter). Account book and autobiography, 1865, [1888?].

Title: Account book and autobiography, 1865, [1888?].

Account book kept by Green and a manuscript of his autobiography (1865 and 1888?). "Mess book" keeps account of commissary stores received by Green and their price from Jan.-Apr. 1865 while he was with the 13th N.Y. Vol. Cavalry. His autobiography focuses on his service in the Civil War and includes an account of his time before the war as a horse trader and whale oil gauger in New York City, his experiences as commander of the City Horse Guards in 1861, the departure of General Jos ́Antonio Paez of Venezuela and his disinternment in 1888, the first recruiting of cavalry for the war in New York, anti-Union sentiment in the city, his work inspecting horses for purchase by the government, the dishonesty of new York horse dealers, the training of the cavalry, his service with the 5th and 13th New York Cavalry, frequent mentions of Gen. Chester A. Arthur and Gen. Thomas B. Van Buren, comments on Gen. John Pope and Gen. Porter Hatch, the second Battle of Bull Run, and encounters with Col. John S. Mosby's "guerillas" and Gen. Lafayette C. Baker's "detectives" (340 p.). Inserted are a short account of how a young man conspired to get a commission without actually serving his time in the cavalry and copies of records concerning Green's petition for a pension in 1888.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

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Boardman family. Boardman family papers, 1770-1917 (inclusive).

Title: Boardman family papers, 1770-1917 (inclusive).

Correspondence, diaries, account books, daybooks, legal papers, deeds, and land books of the Boardman family of New Haven and New Milford, Conn., which had extensive real estate holdings in Connecticut and the Western Reserve.

ArchivalResource: 27 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702204420 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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Cummings, Walter C. Letters, 1882-1956.

Title: Letters, 1882-1956.

This collection contains three letters which concern the planting of bamboo in the United States. The 1882 letters are to G. H. Todd from T. B. Van Buren, U. S. Consul General at Kanagawa, Japan, and George B. Loving of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture concerning Todd's order and receipt of bamboo roots. The 1956 letter to Walter C. Cummings confirms that Todd's planting was the first in the U.S. and mentions the potential competition between bamboo and the Southern Pine. The correspondent is Donovan S. Correll of the U.S.D.A.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122558091 View