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Van Buren, Angelica Singleton, 1816-1877. Album, 1831.

Title: Album, 1831.

Autograph album from 1831, containing poems, inscriptions and sketches by Angelica Singleton Van Buren's teachers and friends at Madame Grelaud's Seminary, Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: [ca. 88 leaves] : ill. ; 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37522255 View

Singleton Family Papers, 1758-1860, (bulk 1829-1855)

Title: Singleton Family Papers 1758-1860 (bulk 1829-1855)

Plantation owners in South Carolina. Family and general correspondence, legal papers, clippings, invitations, receipts, poetry, and miscellaneous items of various members of the Singleton and allied Van Buren and Deveaux (DeVoe) families.

ArchivalResource: 900 items; 5 containers; 2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012032 View

Van Buren, Angelica Singleton, 1816-1877. Angelica Singleton Van Buren papers, 1854-1855.

Title: Angelica Singleton Van Buren papers, 1854-1855.

Chiefly consisting of travel journals, 1854-1855, re a family trip to Europe including Abraham Van Buren, her sons Singleton, Martin, and Travis Coles Van Buren, and her niece, Mary Singleton McDuffie; both journals include botanical specimens from her journey. Two travel journals, 1854-1855, re travelling to New York, N.Y., from Charleston, S.C., and then to Europe, enrolling Singleton and Martin Van Buren in school in Vivay, France, learning to speak French, travels include Vivay, France, Ravena, Milan, Venice, Bologna, Florence, Rome, Sorrento, and Turin, Italy and Geneva, Switzerland. Entries, re descriptions of sea and rail voyages, chaperoning Mary McDuffie, visiting friends, attending church services, sightseeing, observations about European customs, and death of her brother; also including addresses and comments re various shops in Paris, France and poems written by Sir Charles Young, age 16.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41063079 View

Miscellaneous papers, 1809-1859, 1839-1859 (bulk)

Title: Miscellaneous papers, 1809-1859, 1839-1859 (bulk)

Letters of Martin Van Buren to his son Abraham and his daughter-in-law Angelica Van Buren concerning the Kinderhook house, its furnishings and gardens, their son Singleton's studies at West Point, and other family matters, 1841-1859; letters of his sons Smith Thompson Van Buren and Martin Van Buren, Jr., discussing Washington social life and traveling with their father while in office, 1839-1840; letters to and from Martin Van Buren concerning politics, 1844-1845; and miscellaneous items, 1809-1836.

ArchivalResource: 37 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155492545 View

Bancroft-Bliss Families Papers, 1788-1928, (bulk 1815-1875)

Title: Bancroft-Bliss Families Papers 1788-1928 (bulk 1815-1875)

Correspondence, diary, legal and financial papers, article and book galleys, invitations, and printed material of members of the Bliss and Bancroft families, including George Bancroft (1800-1891); his wife, Elizabeth Davis Bancroft (1803-1886), her first husband, Alexander Bliss (1792-1827); and their son, Alexander Bliss (1827-1896).

ArchivalResource: 5,800 items; 20 containers plus 3 oversize; 8.1 linear feet; 1 microfilm reel

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011191 View