Pace, Robert S.,. Papers of Robert S. Pace [manuscript], 1669-1993 (bulk 1830-1965).
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Papers of Robert S. Pace [manuscript], 1669-1993 (bulk 1830-1965).
The collection contains correspondence, papers, clippings and other printed material pertaining to the Blair and Woodbury families together with pamphlets collected by Woodbury Blair; a Virginiana and Americana autograph collection; correspondence, 1946-1961, of Judith and Arthur Hart Burling; correspondence, 1908-1944, of the Marlow Coal Company, Washington, D.C.; correspondence and other papers of Robert S. Pace; and some World War II Japanese propaganda. Family papers also contain a copy of a book on John Woodbury by Charles L. Woodbury and a collection of signed pamphlets including "The law of blockade" by A. Maurice Low, "The West Point Military Academy" by J.P. Sanger, "The presidents and the national capital" and "Americanize Washington as a wise measure of war-preparedness" by Theodore W. Noyes, a speech in favor of woman suffrage by Thomas E. Noell, a speech on "Personal government or executive officers before Congress" by Perry Belmont, remarks on the retirement of Archibald Hopkins as chief clerk of the United States Court of Claims, and three sermons by the Rev. John Haynes Holmes. The autograph collection includes letters or other papers of Joseph H. Bradley, David Paul Brown, Ted W. Brown, William V. Cox, Richard Coxe, Jefferson Davis in the hand of Varina Davis, Thomas Day, Henry W. De Saussure, Hubert Humphrey, Blair Lee, Abraham Lincoln (with an engraving of Lincoln), James Madison, Louis Pasteur (photocopy), Gifford Pinchot, James Polk, James McPherson Proctor, Harry Truman, and George Washington. Of interest in the autograph collection are Polk's appointment of Levi Woodbury as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by Polk, and Washington's response to John Hancock's congratulations on his election to the Presidency. There is also an indenture for land in Virginia, 1669, between Henry Chicheley, John Jefferies and Thomas Colclough. Transcripts of the indenture and of a letter from Lord Macaulay to Henry S. Randall are present. Correspondence of Judith and Arthur Hart Burling chiefly concerns their book "Chinese art" and an article "What you haven't been told about China." There are brief, routine, cordial letters from Louis Bromfield, Pearl Buck, William Bullitt, William J. Donovan, Joseph C. Grew, Walter H. Judd, Estes Kefauver, Edward Martin, James Michener, Walter S. Robertson, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Correspondence of the Marlow Coal Company of Washington D.C., 1908-1944, contains very brief business letters concerning coal delivery and payments from Thomas F. Bayard, Frank Clark, W.L. DeVries, Paul F. Douglass, E.M. Gallaudet, S.G. Grovitch, John Hays Hammond, Ringgold Hart, Joseph Himmel, John B. Larner, John R. McLean, Robert E. Mattingly, Frank B. Noyes, David Dixon Porter, John M. Robison, S.D. Rockenbach, William T. Schulte, David Foote Sellers, G. Howland Shaw, F.L. Siddons, Howard Sutherland, and John M. Wilson. Miscellaneous correspondence of Robert S. Pace contains brief business letters from William J. Barrow on document restoration. The collection also contains a "Life and works of Arthur Fickenscher American Composer" by William W. Jones in collaboration with Robert S. Pace and two land grants, 1787, for the Ohio Military District.
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