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Stuart, Alexander H. H. (Alexander Hugh Holmes), 1807-1891. Letter to Henry A. Wise [manuscript] 1839 Jan. 19.

Title: Letter to Henry A. Wise [manuscript] 1839 Jan. 19.

Stuart writes concerning congressional investigation of executive abuses in the Post Office Dept.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647956578 View

Stuart, Alexander H. H. (Alexander Hugh Holmes), 1807-1891. Letters from Alexander H.H. Stuart, 1839-1887.

Title: Letters from Alexander H.H. Stuart, 1839-1887.

Stuart, Staunton, Va., and the U.S. Department of the Interior, writes regarding: admittance of a patient to the Western Lunatic Asylum; a Whig political rally at a festival in [Winchester, Va.?]; the arrangement of the business of different circuits for the approaching 1847 session of the Court of Appeals and a request for case records; a political appointment in Mississippi for William M. Whitehurst; and an invitation to the Constitution Centennial celebration. Correspondents include Walker Brooke; William A. Harrison; Samuel Price; Joseph H. Sherrard; and John A. Kasson, Amos R. Little and Hampton L. Carson of the Constitutional Centennial Commission.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52598006 View

Coffin, James H. (James Henry), 1806-1873. James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

Title: James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

These papers consist of correspondence concerning temperature, wind, and weather reports of the Hudson Bay region, 1848; resolutions of condolence to Coffin's son, Seldon J. Coffin, from students and alumni of Lafayette College after Coffin's death, 1873; newspaper articles; an illustration of James H. Coffin; and the original manuscript of Winds of the Northern Hemisphere. Additional correspondence of James Henry Coffin exists elsewhere in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, especially in the Joseph Henry Collection, Record Unit 7001, and Meteorological Project Records, Record Unit 60.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)

https://sova.si.edu/record/SIA.FARU7060 View

William Hemsley Emory papers, 1823-1886

Title: William Hemsley Emory papers 1823-1886

The bulk of the collection documents William Emory's service on the Mexican boundary survey in the years 1848 to 1858. Series I contains correspondence with members of the boundary commission, the American and Mexican Survey parties, and government officials. Correspondence for 1849-50 describes California during the Gold Rush and Forty-Niners on the Gila route. There are also other military records. Series II contains letters and other records from Emory's service in Kansas and in the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 14; Other Storage Formats: Oversize portfolio , Linear Feet: 5.50

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.emory View

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852. Papers of Henry Clay [manuscript], 1798-1934.

Title: Papers of Henry Clay [manuscript], 1798-1934.

This collection consists of Henry Clay letters, documents, photographs and prints assembled from different collections in Special Collections. Correspondents include: John Agg, James Barbour, Nicholas Biddle, James Brown, Jacob Burnet, Matthew Carey, Langdon Cheves, James F. Conover, Susan Wheeler Decatur, Horace Greeley, Jabez D. Hammond, Thomas Jefferson, John L. Lawrence, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, James Madison, Brantz Mayer, James Monroe, James M. Morris, Hezekiah Niles, Peter B. Porter, Robert Selden Rose, Richard Rush, Nathan Sargent, Samuel Smith, Joseph Story, Alexander H.H. Stuart, Littleton Dennis Teackle, William Thornton, John Payne Todd, William Tompkins, Nicholas P. Trist, John Tyler, Joseph Vance, James Watson Webb, Daniel Webster, Conway D. Whittle.

ArchivalResource: 265 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647994209 View

Alden, Timothy, 1736-1828. American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench [manuscript] 1753-1952.

Title: American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench [manuscript] 1753-1952.

Material collected by Hench, some as an autograph collection and others for use in his classes at the University of Virginia with examples of various periods. Modern autographs collected by Hench include letters by associates of Edgar Allan Poe; Civil War letters; papers relating to Virginia history; correspondence of writers and politicians, particularly from the Victorian era; and other miscellaneous correspondence with literary or histocial interest. Letters of Edmund Clarence Stedman to Louis Palma di Cesnola, Thomas D. English, Harrison Grey Fiske, Paul Hamilton Hayne, James R. Osgood & Co., Karl Knortz, William Henry Rideing, Charles Warren Stoddard and others include routine thanks and introductions and social notes and freqeuntly discuss literary matters. Alexander Hamilton Stephens writes to Paul Hamilton Hayne conveying personal news and critiquing two poems. Alexander H. H. Stuart writes to Lewis Jacob Cist, Henry R. Howland, the Rev. E. F. Strickland and others concerning routine matters and requests. Also shares some memories of Thomas Jefferson. John Reuben Thompson writes to Anna C. Lynch Botta, and Joseph Ripley Chandlerr on routine mattersand a lecture engagement. A sonnet is included. Henry Theodore Tuckerman writes to Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta, Francis James Child, James T. Fields, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Lea & Blanchard, Benson John Lossing, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Edwin Percy Whipple, Nathaniel Parker Willis and others on literary, publishing and social matters, particularly his work on George Washington portaits, the inauguration of Houdon's statue of Washington at which Virginia Governor Floyd revealed his ignorance of art, and the completion of the statues at the base of the equestrian statue of Washington by Randolph Rogers. With these are several poems by Tuckerman. Martin Farquhar Tupper accepts an invitation, declines to join an association and sends thanks for a note and speciment paper and warns the sender against disseminating infidel and immoral periodicals. Single items of interest include Homer Saint-Gaudens to Charles Elmer Rice agreeing to do his best; Camille Saint-Saëns declining an invitation; John Singer Sargent thanks Sir George Henschel for an invitation (copy). Catharine Maria Sedgwick to Mary Russell Mitford on the lack of culture in the United States; Walter W. Skeat writes concerning his work on "Piers Plowman" and an unidentified manuscript; a letter from Wiliam Henry Smith to Charles Dickens on a visit to the house "Greenland"; Stephen Spender to Herbert W. K. Fitzroy concerning a stint as writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia; Edward Stanly to Henry A. Wise on a challenge to duel; Frank R. Stockton sends Amelie Amélie Troubetzkoy apples from the Piedmont region. Also John Bannister Tabb to John Lane on publishing matters; John Taliaferro asks Tristam Burges to convey the principles of a claims commutation case to Muhlenberg; Littleton Waller Tazewell on a routine financial matter and an autograph request; Dr. James H. Thompson, 12th Maine surgeon reporting on medical cases; George Ticknor to Emma S. Robers enquiring after her father's health; Frances Trollope to mary Russell Mitford praising the "Our village" sketches and commenting on the London stage, the Kembles and Macready; Pierre Troubetzkoy writes concerning a painting of William Gladstone; and Lyon G. Tyler thanks Charles Elmer Rice for an offer of Tyler family information. The collection also contains four sermons on Old Testament texts, 1752-1778, at least one ty the Rev. Timothy Alden, Sr., of the Congregationalist church in Barnstable, Mass.; autographs of Dallas Lore Sharp, Jean Sibelius; a requisiton from J[erome?] J. Shedd, 1863, for lumber, nails and quicklime for the Union hospital at Acquia Creek; and a land grant signed by George W. Smith, 1811.

ArchivalResource: circa 85 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648014661 View

James Leffel & Co. Records 1845-1890.

Title: Records 1845-1890.

Records of a water-wheel company of Springfield, Ohio including a letter press book, notebook of hydraulic tables, and patents for water wheels and cooking stoves. Also contains a scrapbook of articles on Yosemite National Park and the Sandwich Islands, and scattered yachting certificates. Contact repository for more information.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 cubic foot.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5922353 View

Stuart, Alexander H. H. (Alexander Hugh Holmes), 1807-1891. Alexander H. Stuart papers, 1790-1868.

Title: Alexander H. Stuart papers, 1790-1868.

ArchivalResource: 33 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70980828 View

Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858. Papers of the Gooch family [manuscript] 1800-91.

Title: Papers of the Gooch family [manuscript] 1800-91.

Correspondence, medical notes, articles for "The Stethoscope," a journal founded and edited by Philip Claiborne Gooch (1825-1855), and other papers, chiefly of Claiborne Watts Gooch (1791-1844), co-editor and publisher of the Richmond enquirer, relating to Virginia politics, the Virginia Convention of 1829, national politics, states rights and nullification, the National Bank, presidential elections of 1824, 1832, and 1836, and contemporary political figures such as Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, John Calhoun, and John Tyler. Includes correspondence of Philip Claiborne Gooch describing his life at the University of Virginia, the revolutionary movement of 1848 in Europe, and the treatment of various diseases; papers of his brother, Arthur Fleming Gooch (1832-1898), relating to his teaching career and school in Lynchburg, Va.; and correspondence of a third brother, Richard Barnes Gooch (1820-1851?), editor of the Southern planter. The Gooch family resided in Henrico Co., and Richmond, Va. Correspondents include Thomas Hart Benton, Francis Preston Blair, Arthur Spicer Brockenbrough, Peter Vyvian Daniel, Robley Dunglison, Henry Alonzo Edmundson, John Floyd, Albert Gallatin, Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Amos Kendall, John Randolph, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Thomas Ritchie, Francis Robert Rives, William Cabell Rives, Edmund Ruffin, Benjamin Rush, Winfield Scott, Andrew Stevenson, Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, George Tucker, and Martin Van Buren.

ArchivalResource: 5 ft.

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Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850. William James Rucker autograph collection [manuscript], 1812-1881.

Title: William James Rucker autograph collection [manuscript], 1812-1881.

Chiefly letters of prominent 19th century Virginians: John Randolph (1812); Andrew Jackson (1830); John Marshall (1831); E. Landseer (1845); J. C. Calhoun (1849); E. Landseer (1851); Charles Dickens (1858); William Cabell Rives (1861); John Letcher Comm. (1862); Jefferson Davis (1864); J. E. B. Stuart (1864); Alex. H. H. Stuart (1866); John Letcher (1866); Gilbert C. Walker Comm. (1872); Joseph E. Johnston (1881); Fred W. M. Holliday Comm. (1881).

ArchivalResource: 16 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647892487 View

Hogshead, Richard, Mrs.,. Business records of the Hogshead-Smiley mill, 1808-1901 [manuscript].

Title: Business records of the Hogshead-Smiley mill, 1808-1901 [manuscript].

The collection contains deeds for land around the mill and other legal documents of the Smiley family; ledgers and journals, 1846-1901, of the Hogshead-Smiley Mill; other grist mill accounts; special accounts of tolls on William Smiley's and J.B. Schultz's grain; and tables showing tolls received and wheat sowed and harvested. Alexander H.H. Stuart is mentioned as are members of the Brubeck, Buchanan, Cale, Echard, Hite, Hull, McChesney, McClung, Miller, Paine, and Wilson families.

ArchivalResource: 44 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647826867 View

Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915,. Papers : of Briscoe Gerard Baldwin and Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, 1786-1862.

Title: Papers : of Briscoe Gerard Baldwin and Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, 1786-1862.

The collection contains letters, 1840s, to Judge Baldwin from his wife Martha S. Baldwin and daughter Frances C. Baldwin Stuart concerning family matters in Staunton, Va. Letters, 1853-1882, to Stuart on a variety of political topics including secession, reconstruction, the "Negro problem" and Fillmore's cabinet. Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Charles W. Button, C.C. Baldwin, Joseph G. Baldwin, Robert Conrad, James H. Dooley, L.M. Powell, and George C. Whiting. Of interest is a letter from Thomas Hall to Archibald Stuart mentioning the last military expedition of George Rogers Clark, the desire of Kentucky to separate from Virginia, and local politicians Joseph Crockett and John Fowler, as well as his personal drinking problem.

ArchivalResource: 36 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30793357 View

Secretary Of The Interior.

Title: Secretary Of The Interior.

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/377 View

U.S. Congress, Senate Documents. [Contact repository for more information].

Title: U.S. Congress, Senate Documents. [Contact repository for more information].

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Stuart, Eleanor Briscoe, 1768-1858. Scrapbook, 1839-1852.

Title: Scrapbook, 1839-1852.

Scrapbook, 1839-1852, of [Eleanor Briscoe Stuart, mother of Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart], Staunton, Va. which includes newspaper clippings relating to the appointment of Alexander H.H. Stuart as Secretary of the Interior.

ArchivalResource: 22 p. : bound v. ; 35 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24505767 View

Steele family. Papers of the Steele family [manuscript], 1789-1966.

Title: Papers of the Steele family [manuscript], 1789-1966.

Include correspondence, legal and financial papers of the Steeles Tavern, Augusta County, Va., family and the related Smith, Massie, Moon, Moore, Calvert and Searson families. The correspondence chiefly concerns family news and genealogy. Topics include land purchases, estate settlements, horse trades, cattle raising, hard times after the panic of 1837, family members who emigrated to Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri and California. Of interest are mention of McCormick's reaper, 1833, the whipping to death of a slave, 1842, Tippecanoe Clubs, 1840, the Virginia secession convention, 1861, John Tyler's death, 1862, and a religious revival, 1867. Legal and financial papers contain bills, promissory notes, receipts, deeds, a will, accounts, indentures, surveys, appointments, an 1814 state license, and an 1861 military exemption certificate. Correspondents include Leander James McCormick and Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart.

ArchivalResource: 310 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647821263 View

John Marshall Harlan Papers, 1810-1971, (bulk 1861-1911)

Title: John Marshall Harlan Papers 1810-1971 (bulk 1861-1911)

Associate justice of the United States Supreme Court and lawyer and politician of Kentucky. Correspondence, legal and financial records, and other material relating to Harlan's career in law, politics, and the judiciary.

ArchivalResource: 20,400 items; 49 containers plus 3 oversize; 21.2 linear feet; 34 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009290 View

Letcher, John, 1813-1884. Papers, 1845-1873.

Title: Papers, 1845-1873.

Includes a letter, December 12, 1845, to Virginia Congressman William Taylor concerning a federal appointment; a letter from Alexander H.H. Stuart, August 13, 1861; document, September 26, 1863, signed by Letcher exempting a slave from public works for the Confederate government; 3 letters to J. Hinholzer, November 3, 1864, December 3, 1864, and May 15, 1865; subscription list of a testimonial to Charles A. Davidson for service on behalf of the Conservative ticket.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53308265 View

The Stuart family [manuscript].

Title: The Stuart family [manuscript].

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647946153 View

Stuart, Alexander Hugh Holmes. Letters, 1872-1876.

Title: Letters, 1872-1876.

Correspondence from Stuart concerning his family genealogy, his property along the Shenandoah River, Va., his relief that slavery has been eliminated, and commenting on voluntary emigration of African-Americans to San Domingo or Central America. Also includes handbill announcing Stuart's candidacy for the Va. House of Delegates.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33203502 View

Lanman, Charles, 1819-1895. Papers of Charles Lanman, 1858.

Title: Papers of Charles Lanman, 1858.

Lanman solicited biographies from his subjects and their friends and relations. The collection contains sketches of William Archer, Joseph Eggleston, Muscoe R.H. Garnett, Shelton F. Leake, Roger A. Pryor, William Cabell Rives and Alexander H.H. Stuart. Correspondents are Charles Cocke, Muscoe R.H. Garnett, Shelton F. Leake, J. Savage, William Cabell Rives, and Alexander H.H. Stuart.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32136384 View

Stuart family. Papers, 1811-1877.

Title: Papers, 1811-1877.

Collection contains correspondence, 1842-1846, of Dr. Chapman Johnson Stuart (1819-1846?) of Charles Town, Va. (now W. Va.), land records, 1845-1846, and other personal papers primarily concerning land in Richmond, Va., and St. Louis, Mo.; an account book, 1835-1844, and loose accounts with his agent in Missouri, Edward Hall; and correspondence, 1846- 1858, and other papers of Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart (1807-1891) of Staunton, Va., as executor of the estate of Chapman Johnson Stuart. Also, includes personal and family correspondence, 1860-1873, of Frances Cornelia (Baldwin) Stuart (1815-1885) and correspondence, 1855-1873, of Frances Peyton (Stuart) Atkinson (1841-1875) of Staunton, in part concerning the education of female relatives; and scattered materials of other members of the Stuart family.

ArchivalResource: 318 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34140420 View

Stuart, Alexander H. H. (Alexander Hugh Holmes), 1807-1891. Papers of Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart [manuscript] 1791-1928.

Title: Papers of Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart [manuscript] 1791-1928.

Correspondence and other papers. Includes Stuart's letters to his parents from William and Mary College and the University of Virginia, material illustrating his associations with the Dept. of the Interior, the Whig and American parties, the University of Virginia, and the Reconstruction decade, and letters of Archibald Stuart and other relatives. Other correspondents include Benjamin Johnson Barbour, Judah Philip Benjamin, Thomas Hart Benton, Gerard Briscoe, Henry Clay, William Wilson Corcoran, Millard Fillmore, Horace Greeley, Hugh Blair Grigsby, Rutherford B. Hayes, John H. Latané, Robert E. Lee, Leander J. McCormick, John Barbee Minor, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Alexander Rives, Conway Robinson, William Starke Rosecrans, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Eleanor Briscoe Stuart, J.E.B. Stuart, Thomas J. Stuart, John Tyler, William Henry Vanderbilt, and Robert Charles Winthrop. The material is related to the library's Stuart-Baldwin collection. (228, 549, 596).

ArchivalResource: 500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647950545 View

Emory, William H. (William Hemsley), 1811-1887. William Hemsley Emory papers, 1823-1886.

Title: William Hemsley Emory papers, 1823-1886.

The bulk of the collection documents William Emory's service on the Mexican boundary survey in the years 1848 to 1858. Series I contains correspondence with members of the boundary commission, the American and Mexican Survey parties, and government officials. Correspondence for 1849-50 describes California during the Gold Rush and Forty-Niners on the Gila route. There are also other military records. Series II contains letters and other records from Emory's service in Kansas and in the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 5.5 linear ft. (14 boxes + 1 portfolio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702128554 View