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Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah, 1856-1928. Autograph letter signed (8) : Washington, DC, and New York, to editors at Harper & Brothers, 1890 Nov. 3-1895 Dec. 15.

Title: Autograph letter signed (8) : Washington, DC, and New York, to editors at Harper & Brothers, 1890 Nov. 3-1895 Dec. 15.

Concerning her articles and their illustration.

ArchivalResource: 8 items (19 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270633401 View

Henry L. Dawes Papers, 1833-1933, bulk 1833-1903

Title: Henry L. Dawes Papers 1833-1933 bulk 1833-1903

United States representative and senator from Massachusetts. Correspondence, memoranda, letterbooks, diaries, speeches, reports, notebooks, biographical material, family papers, photographs, citations, congressional commissions, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, and an incomplete biography of Dawes by his daughter, Anna Laurens Dawes. The collection documents mainly Dawes's career as a federal legislator and his work on issues relating to the American Indian, including his tenure as chairman of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes.

ArchivalResource: 22,000 items; 64 containers plus 2 oversize; 30 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011203 View

Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

Franklin MacVeagh Papers, 1799-1934, (bulk 1909-1913)

Title: Franklin MacVeagh Papers 1799-1934 (bulk 1909-1913)

Lawyer, businessman and U.S. secretary of the treasury. Correspondence, family papers, subject files, business, legal, and financial papers, speeches and writings, and miscellaneous material relating primarily to MacVeagh's service in the cabinet of William H. Taft and to the MacVeagh (McVey) and Eames families, Chicago social and civic affairs, the Franklin MacVeagh & Company wholesale grocery business, and other personal and business matters.

ArchivalResource: 19,000 items; 49 containers; 19.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013114 View

Hawley, Mary Oakley. Oakley-Hawley family papers, 1766-1951.

Title: Oakley-Hawley family papers, 1766-1951.

Papers relating to a lengthy genealogical study apparently initiated by William D. Hawley of Malden, Massachusetts, about 1870, and continued by Mary Oakley Hawley of Madison, Wis. Much of the correspondence consists of intra-family letters dealing with the collection of genealogical data on the Oakley, Hawley, Hough, Shriver, Scidmore, Queen, Benedict, Church, Atwood, Sherman, and other related families. Four volumes consist of final tabulations of the collected data. A few letters written by Eliza R. Scidmore, author of Jinrikisha Days in Japan and other works on the Far East, are included; also two diaries she kept during her travels in the Orient, 1900-01 and 1912-16, and the manuscript of an unpublished novel, "I, Anastasia." Early documents include a report of the tax assessors of Northampton, Massachusetts, 1766; deeds to land in Massachusetts and New York, 1789; promissory notes, receipts, a few family letters, and photostatic copies of vital statistics recorded in family Bibles. A volume dated 1805 contains the ritual of Free Masonry as recorded by J. Church. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above and described in the register. Additional accessions are described below.

ArchivalResource: 2.6 c.f. (6 archives boxes and 3 volumes); plusadditions of 425 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701810 View

Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah, 1856-1928. Autograph letter signed : Nagusaki, Japan, to J. Pierpont Morgan, 1909 Mar. 5.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Nagusaki, Japan, to J. Pierpont Morgan, 1909 Mar. 5.

Regarding a letter written to her by John Pierpont, and the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Pierpont in Washington during the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; (16mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270634058 View

Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah, 1856-1928. The Alaska boundary, 1896.

Title: The Alaska boundary, 1896.

Original signed manuscript of article "The Alaska Boundary Question," Century Magazine (v. 52, May 1896, p. 143-146).

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (15 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42071031 View