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Harper, Francis, 1886-1972. Francis Harper papers, 1902-1968 [manuscript].

Title: Francis Harper papers, 1902-1968 [manuscript].

"An Exchange of Letters, 1913-1915, with Will Henry Thompson," typescript, 16 pp., including transcriptions of four letters and Harper's extensive notes on Thompson, Thompson's brother, Maurice, and Okefenokee Swamp, Ga. Also included is an original letter, 1913, from W. H. Thompson to Harper, drafts of four letters from Harper to Thompson, a typed draft of "Deep in the Okefinokee Swamp," by W. H. Thompson, a photograph relating to Thompson, and other correspondence of Harper.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

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Thompson family. Papers.

Title: Papers.

(I) Family Bibles, with genealogical notes, 1795-1959 (a) Fulton family 1795-1891 (b) Thompson family, 1871-1959 (II) Legal documents (7) re land near Bathurst, N.S.W. 1842-1870 Mainly concern Fraser family (III) Correspondence 1825-1922, mainly letters to Henry Mathias Fulton from various members of Fulton and Fraser families (IV) Genealogical notes and miscellanea, 1795-1928 (V) Newspaper cuttings, 1899-1930 (a) 1910-1930 (b) 1899-1910, mainly re William Gilbert Thompson. Includes genealogical notes, 1829-1900.

ArchivalResource: 4 v., 1 folder.

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Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905. Papers, 1799-1923 (bulk 1846-1906).

Title: Papers, 1799-1923 (bulk 1846-1906).

Official and personal correspondence, notebooks, ms. of autobiography, drawings, clippings, scrapbooks, and other papers, relating to Wallace's activities as an army officer during the Mexican and Civil wars, governor of New Mexico territory (1878-1881), U.S. minister to Turkey (1881-1885), and author, and his efforts to obtain arms and men for Mexican rebels fighting the French (1865-1867), lecturing, business interests in Crawfordsville and Indianapolis, Ind., and New Mexico, his involvement in the court-martial of conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and in the trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison, Ga., and his membership on a committee to oversee counting disputed ballots in Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina, after the 1876 presidential election. Papers of Wallace's wife, Susan Elston Wallace (1830-1907), include family correspondence, letters (1881-1882) to her son from Europe, Turkey, and Egypt, and correspondence with publishers regarding her own writings. Letter books of Wallace's son and business agent, Henry Lane Wallace (1853-1926), relate to the family's business interests and a lawsuit involving a theatrical production of Ben-Hur. Papers of Wallace's father-in-law, Isaac C. Elston (1798-1867), of Crawfordsville, Ind., chiefly relate to his interests in developing Michigan City, Ind. (1830-1849). Elston family correspondence (chiefly 1864-1866) is from Crawfordsville, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Washington, D.C. Correspondents include Stephen Vincent Benét, Billy the Kid, James G. Blaine, Don Carlos Buell, Edward Canby, William Cannon, José M.J. Carvajal, William E. Chandler, Schuyler Colfax, Francis Marion Crawford, George W. Curtis, Caleb Cushing, Henry Winter Davis, Porfirio Díaz, William M. Evarts, Charles W. Fairbanks, Calvin Fletcher, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, John C. Frémont, James A. Garfield, Lucretia Garfield, Richard J. Gatling, Ulysses S. Grant, Henry W. Halleck, Murat Halstead, Marcus A. Hanna, Benjamin Harrison, Edward Hatch, Rutherford B. Hayes, William Randolph Hearst, William Hendricks, William R. Holloway, Alvin P. Hovey, José María Iglesias, Edmund Kirby-Smith, Frederick Knefler, Mary H. Krout, Henry S. Lane, Abraham Lincoln, Robert T. Lincoln, Benson J. Lossing, George W. McCrary, John A. Mclernand, Robert H. Milroy, George W. Morgan, Oliver P. Morton, Reuben D. Mussey, Edward F. Noyes, Robert Dale Owen, James B. Pond, Albert G. Porter, John Baptist Purcell, Whitelaw Reid, William S. Rosecrans, Carl Schurz, Winfield Scott, William H. Seward, William F. Shanks, John Sherman, William T. Sherman, Edwin M. Stanton, Herman Sturm, John M. Thayer, Maurice Thompson, Will Henry Thompson, Benjamin H. Ticknor, John Tipton, John George Walker, David Wallace, Albert S. White, and Henry Lane Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. and 36 boxes.

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