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Harvard University. Autograph File, G. 1641-2009.

Title: Autograph File, G

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear feet (10 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01430/catalog View

Townsend, E. D. (Edward Davis), 1817-1893. Papers, 1863-1867.

Title: Papers, 1863-1867.

Order, May 21, 1863, assigning Captain Adam Badeau to General Grant's staff. Telegram, April 21, 1864, to Dr. John P. Gray in Utica, asking if Gray can act as commissioner to investigate the sanity of Lorenzo Stewart. Note on back signed by Gray stating that he will do so. Letter to Dr. John P. Gray, April 26, 1864, stating he has enclosed the commission from the President to investigate the case of Private Lorenzo Stewart. Letter, Sept. 4, 1867, to Andrew Boyd in New York City, states he is sending copies of orders issued by the Adj. Gen. Office re: Lincoln's funeral, as requested.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55941355 View

Holt, Joseph, 1807-1894. Letter : Washington, D.C., to John R. [i.e. P.] Gray, 1864 Dec. 29.

Title: Letter : Washington, D.C., to John R. [i.e. P.] Gray, 1864 Dec. 29.

Grants permission to Gray to write about the Stuart [Lorenzo Stewart] case, who was charged with poisoning soldiers.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33973592 View

United States American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission records, 1862-1864.

Title: United States American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission records, 1862-1864.

Records compiled by Samuel Gridley Howe as a Commissioner of the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2.0 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00201/catalog View

Carmichael, James, 1771-1831. Papers of Dr. James Carmichael, 1816-1834, and n.d.

Title: Papers of Dr. James Carmichael, 1816-1834, and n.d.

This collection contains letters to Dr. Carmichael, 1819-1834, requesting medical treatment, prescriptions, and visits. There are also a few accounts and receipts, some dealing with the purchase of reference books and medical supplies, often from a Philadelphia firm run by Thomas and Judah Dobson. Dr. Carmichael's day book, 1816-1817, completes the collection. James Barbour, Edmund Berkeley, St. Ledger Landon Carter, Burr Harrison, Fontaine Maury, Hugh Mercer, Hubbard T. Minor, Mann Page, and Bushrod Washington are among the correspondents requesting treatment as are members of the Alexander, Alsop, Banks, Battaile, Brooke, Herndon, Hooe, Maury, Pratt, Selden, Stanard, Straughan, and Taliaferro families. Letters of special interest include one from Robert Carter from Sabine Hall, 1828, concerning the dispositions of slaves in whom Mrs. Carter had a life share and from J[ohn?] Gray at the University of Virginia, March 1825, who agrees to comply with a [subpoena?].

ArchivalResource: 675 (ca.) pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53004307 View

Earle, Pliny, 1809-1892. Papers, 1806-1897.

Title: Papers, 1806-1897.

Business and professional correspondence of Pliny Earle, Sr., (1762-1832), inventor and cotton textiles manufacturer, and of Pliny, (1809-1892), physician and alienist, including a few personal letters to Miss Earle. Correspondence addressed to Earle, Sr., touches on politics, patent rights and carding machines. Correspondence addressed to Earle relates to mental illness and the institutional care of the mentally ill. He received letters from physicians, institutional administrators, and philanthropists, including a number of letters of introduction. Items, mostly ALS and 10 addressed envelopes, are arranged in roughly chronological order.

ArchivalResource: 71 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154271532 View

Earle, Pliny, 1809-1892. Papers, 1806-1897.

Title: Papers, 1806-1897.

Business and professional correspondence of Pliny Earle, Sr., (1762-1832), inventor and cotton textiles manufacturer, and of Pliny, (1809-1892), physician and alienist, including a few personal letters to Miss Earle. Correspondence addressed to Earle, Sr., touches on politics, patent rights and carding machines. Correspondence addressed to Earle relates to mental illness and the institutional care of the mentally ill. He received letters from physicians, institutional administrators, and philanthropists, including a number of letters of introduction. Items, mostly ALS and 10 addressed envelopes, are arranged in roughly chronological order.

ArchivalResource: 71 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35149599 View

Valentine, Harry C. Poems, and letter from John P. Gray, 1850-1931.

Title: Poems, and letter from John P. Gray, 1850-1931.

The collection contains poems, some about Bellefonte, Pa. and its residents, written by Harry C. Valentine to his sister Rebecca Valentine Pugh; one poem by Jack Benet, one by May Barrett; and a portion of a letter, 20 April 1851, from John P. Gray expressing his condolences on the death of the recipient's father.

ArchivalResource: 34 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35168709 View