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Loring, Charles G. (Charles Greely), 1794-1867. Papers, 1768-1866

Title: Charles G. Loring papers, 1768-1866

Papers of Boston lawyer and state senator Charles Greely Loring primarily relating to the American Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes (5.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01452/catalog View

Artemas Hale correspondence 1809-1881 1839-1867 Hale, Artemas correspondence

Title: Artemas Hale correspondence 1809-1881 1839-1867 Hale, Artemas correspondence

This collection contains approximately 430 items, nearly all of which are incoming letters addressed to Artemas Hale, a cotton gin manufacturer and politician from Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Hale received correspondence from acquaintances and political contacts throughout southeastern Massachusetts, as well as from politicians serving in Washington, D. C., and from family members who resided in Mississippi. Most letters concern mid-19th century politics on both national and local levels, and writers address issues such as the Whig Party, education, the Mexican War, and slavery. Approximately 10 items are letters by Artemas Hale, invitations, and a manuscript poem.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-1607hal?rgn=main;view=text View

Hillard, George Stillman, 1808-1879. George Stillman Hillard letters, 1840-1866.

Title: George Stillman Hillard letters, 1840-1866.

Four autograph letters, signed, from George Stillman Hillard, all dated Boston, 1840-1866, discussing politics, literature, lecturing and professional engagements, and the state of the book trade.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (4 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/711612596 View

Letters from various correspondents, 1850-1895 (inclusive), 1852-1878 (bulk).

Title: Letters from various correspondents, 1850-1895 (inclusive),1852-1878 (bulk).

Letters from various correspondents to American lawyer and politician Edward LilliePierce.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01271/catalog View

Allen, Jonathan. [Letter] 1835 July 4, Pittsfield, [Mass.] : [to] Julius Rockwell, Pittsfield / [from] Jon'n Allen.

Title: [Letter] 1835 July 4, Pittsfield, [Mass.] : [to] Julius Rockwell, Pittsfield / [from] Jon'n Allen.

Rockwell served as secretary of the Berkshire Agricultural Society, and Allen writes that he wishes to enter his kitchen garden for a premium and also his two acres of corn. In a postscript he says "also mulberry trees, silk worms & silk." Accompanied by a report of an address given by Prof. Mark Hopkins of Williams College to the Society in 1835, and a notice of a meeting of the Society to be held Jan. 7, 1902, sent to F.W. Rockwell. These items were found loose in a bound volume (now in the Museum library) of printed addresses, transactions of annual meetings and essays (1820-1882) of the Berkshire Agricultural Society collected by Frank W. Rockwell. Also tipped into that volume are several letters, 1882-1883, to Rockwell in reply to his requests for copies of various speeches given.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 19 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51561300 View

Davis, David, 1815-1886. David Davis papers, 1844-1882 (bulk 1863-1864).

Title: David Davis papers, 1844-1882 (bulk 1863-1864).

Correspondence of Davis addressed to his brother-in-law, Julius Rockwell, relating to political and social issues of the period. Davis discusses subjects such as Abraham Lincoln, African American social and political rights, the Civil War, Andrew Johnson and the impeachment proceedings, Reconstruction, and slavery. Other subjects include elections, national politics, issues before Congress, matters under consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court, and family affairs including travels in the South.

ArchivalResource: 35 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/152581831 View

Rockwell, Julius, 1805-1888. Letter of Julius Rockwell, 1845.

Title: Letter of Julius Rockwell, 1845.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79449574 View

Pickard-Whittier papers, 1815-1915.

Title: Pickard-Whittier papers, 1815-1915.

Correspondence and manuscripts of American writer and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier and his American biographer Samuel Thomas Pickard.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes (5.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00386/catalog 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

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

Brainard, Charles Henry, 1817-1885. Papers, 1795-1884 and undated

Title: Charles Henry Brainard papers, 1795-1884 and undated

Autograph album (1858-1884), a letter book (1855-1883), and a scrapbook of letters and autographs (1795-1857 and undated) of American print dealer, publisher, and historian, Charles Henry Brainard.

ArchivalResource: 4 volumes (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01547/catalog View

Merrimack Card Clothing Company. [Business records].

Title: [Business records]. 1923-1949.

Contains general business correspondence, 1923-1949, including invoices, bills and correspondence from suppliers of raw materials, machinery and services necessary for production; orders and correspondence from American and foreign customers; salesmen's expense sheets; correspondence with government agencies and industrial associations, particularly the Card Clothing Manufacturers Association; and advertising folders. Also contains a notebook discussing the history and methods of woolen and worsted manufacture, including the processes of scouring, carding, backwashing, gilling and drawing, with a discussion of wool and yarn grading, the characteristics of various natural and man-made fibers, and leather tanning. There is also a financial statement from 1935.

ArchivalResource: 9 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49358465 View

Davis, David, 1815-1886. David Davis papers, 1815-1964 (bulk 1815-1886).

Title: David Davis papers, 1815-1964 (bulk 1815-1886).

Primarily copies of correspondence, legal documents, speeches, pamphlets, and newsclippings relating to Davis family matters or to Davis's career as a lawyer; a judge in the Eighth Judicial Circuit of Illinois, 1848-1862; Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager; Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1862-1877; and U.S. Senator, 1877-1883. Most materials were collected by Willard L. King while writing a biography of Davis. Also present are a few original Davis items plus correspondence, prepublication manuscript, and reviews relating to King's book, 1950s-1964. Topics of the Davis materials include social and economic conditions in Illinois; life in Bloomington, Ill., and family affairs; political parties, especially the Whig and Republican parties, nationally and in Illinois; presidential campaigns and elections (1856-1876); Mormons in Illinois; the Mexican War; Davis's circuit-riding relationship with Lincoln, his riding partner; the antislavery movement; the rivalry between Norman B. Judd and John Wentworth; the Lincoln-Douglas debates; newspaper activities in Missouri and Chicago during the 1860s; the Civil War and particularly Missouri during the war; Davis as the administrator of Lincoln's estate; and the selection of a successor to Chief Justice Chase. Correspondents include Davis's wife Sarah Walker Davis and his son George Perrin Davis, Orville Browning, Ambrose E. Burnside, Simon Cameron, Aaron Lucius Chapin, Salmon P. Chase, Henry Clay, Grover Cleveland, Henry Winter Davis, Theophilus Lyle Dickey, Stephen A. Douglas, Ninian Edwards, Jesse W. Fell, John C. Fremont, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, John J. Hardin, James Harlan, Ozias M. Hatch, Rutherford B. Hayes, John F. Henry, William H. Herndon, Joseph Holt, Robert G. Ingersoll, Norman B. Judd, Ward Hill Lamon, Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, Robert Todd Lincoln, Thomas Lincoln, Stephen T. Logan, J.E. McClure, Joseph Medill, Lambdin P. Milligan, Richard J. Oglesby, William W. Orme, Ebenezer Peck, Julius Rockwell, Winfield Scott, William H. Seward, Caleb Smith, Edwin M. Stanton, John T. Stuart, Noah H. Swayne, Leonard Swett, Samuel J. Tilden, Samuel H. Treat, Lyman Trumbull, John P. Usher, Clement L. Vallandigham, Elihu B. Washburne, Thurlow Weed, Gideon Welles, John Wentworth, Horace White, Henry Clay Whitney, and Richard Yates. Correspondence about an autobiography by Davis is filed in box 1, but a copy of the autobiography is not present. This autobiography was owned by J. Grant Burke of Washington, D.C. ca. 1975.

ArchivalResource: 1 oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/712673728 View