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Nathan T. Porter, Jr. Collection of Bookplates by Edwin Davis French, 1893-1906

Title: Nathan T. Porter, Jr. Collection of Bookplates byEdwin Davis French 1893-1906

The collection comprises close to 200 bookplatesdesigned by Edwin Davis French, which were collected by Nathan T. Porter,Jr.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 linear feet (2boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/arts.bkp.0065 View

Lefferts, Marshall C. (Marshall Clifford), 1848-1928. TLS : New York, to Francis Rawle, 1910 May 3.

Title: TLS : New York, to Francis Rawle, 1910 May 3.

Concerns a business claim against one Mills. Also sending him a copy of the catalogue of the collection of Pope works which he has sold.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122610906 View

Duveen Brothers. Duveen Brothers stock book, 1877 October 18 and 1878 January 24.

Title: Duveen Brothers stock book, 1877 October 18 and 1878 January 24.

Mauscript record of the holdings of antique and art dealers' first American trading efforts while located at 42 Maiden Lane, New York. Possibly in the hand of Henry J. Duveen who ran the New York office. With a tipped-in letter (1881 February 18) from Marshall C. Lefferts concerning clocks.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (.08 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612793728 View

Lefferts family. Papers, c.1849-1925.

Title: Papers, c.1849-1925.

Papers, correspondence, account books, genealogical material and printed matter of various members of the Lefferts family of New York City and Long Island. In particular, the papers relate to Marshall Lefferts, his wife, Mary Allen Lefferts, their sons, Marshall Clifford and William Henry Lefferts, and William Henry's wife, Edith Crane Lefferts, and their son Barent Lefferts. The papers of Marshall Lefferts contain material relating to his involvement with the telegraph and the English telegrapher, Alexander Bain (1850s); his interest in the Peekskill (N.Y.) Plow Works and in Mount Florence, the Peekskill estate of Daniel H. Craig (1860s-1870s); and papers pertaining to his part in obtaining an British patent for Thomas A. Edison's "Electric Pen and Duplicating Press," including several letters of Edison (1876). There are also papers reflecting Lefferts' interest in the Equitable Gas Light & Construction Co. of N.Y.C. and in umbrella tip fasteners invented by Robert Lublinski of Great Britain. In addition there are letters, 1870s, to William Henry Lefferts from family and business associates in N.Y.C. while he was in China & Japan; papers relating to the estates of William Henry & Edith Crane Lefferts; genealogical material on the Lefferts, Crane and Cozine families ; and papers of the Wetherill family of Pennsylvania, especially material relating to the Civil War service of the Rev. Joseph Wetherill as well as several letters to him from Morgan Dix.

ArchivalResource: c. 1,000 items and 20 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/476439785 View