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Wright, Silas, 1795-1847. Letters, 1834-1835, 1846.

Title: Letters, 1834-1835, 1846.

Letters from Silas Wright, Jr. to General John Crawford, C. L. Rockwood, and Peter Saxe regarding the United States War Department where Wright was employed.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787276 View

Topical pamphlet collection, <1741>-<1996>.

Title: Topical pamphlet collection, <1741>-<1996>.

A long-established, artificial, still-growing collection consisting largely of printed pamphlets, with articles, reprints, some ephemera, typescripts, photocopied manuscript material, and one set of slides (to accompany a typescript item) also included. Some of the items within were bound during the 19th century, some are loose. Covering a broad range of topics relating to American (and particularly New England) history, life, and thought, the Topical Pamphlet Collection provides background and context for the more specifically Concord-related materials in the Concord Free Public Library Special Collections. The collection--not to be confused with the Concord Pamphlet Collection--includes <883> items, dating from <1741> to <1996>. Series I (Historical Topics) includes <352> items dating between <1741> and <1996>, Series II (Individuals, As Author or Subject) <300> items between <1761> and <1963>, Series III (Massachusetts Towns--History, Anniversaries, Description, etc.) <127> items between <1748> and <1991>, and Series IV (Pamphlet Materials on Multiple Topics, Organized by Form) <104> items between <1752> and <1940>. Some of the bound volumes include the occasional out-of-scope pamphlet. Moreover, there is some topical overlap of material in different subseries.

ArchivalResource: <883 > items<47 > containers

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/694087719 View

Autograph collection, 1633-1954.

Title: Autograph collection, 1633-1954.

Autographs and prints of portraits of some New York colonial governors and all state governors from George Clinton to Nelson Rockefeller on grants, appointments, military commissions, letters, proclamations, receipts, bonds, and other documents; letters are from Gerardus Beekman, George Clinton, James DeLancey, Robert Monckton, Peter R. Livingston, DeWitt Clinton, Silas Wright, and others. Also, autographs of some U.S. Presidents.

ArchivalResource: 1 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155500075 View

Parker, Ely Samuel, 1828-1895. Papers, 1846.

Title: Papers, 1846.

Papers include a petition addressed to Governor Silas Wright of New York, concerning the problem of non-Indian settlement on the Tonawanda Reservation. The petition was signed by several other chiefs and warriors of the reservation. Also included here is a story written by Ely Parker, regarding the separation of the Seneca and Wyandott Indian nations.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122611622 View

Dudley, Charles, 1780-1841. Papers, 1804-1852.

Title: Papers, 1804-1852.

The papers of Charles Edward Dudley have great research potential primarily because of his association with the Albany Regency, a political organization that became part of the present day Democratic Party, was an early champion of the spoils system as a means of maintaining party dicipline. By bestowing political appointments on friends, and turning enemies out of office the Albany Regency became one of the mostv powerful political organizations in New York State from the 1820's through 1840's. Leaders of the regency included Martin Van Buren, William L. Marcy, and Silas Wright all of whom corresponded with Charles Dudley, usually concerning matters of patronage. When in the Senate, Dudley recieved advice from the leaders regarding the Regency's stance on proposed legislation.

ArchivalResource: 35 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122583081 View

Silas Wright letters to Benjamin F. Butler, A. C. Flagg, and John Tyler, 1827-1846

Title: Silas Wright letters to Benjamin F. Butler, A. C. Flagg, and John Tyler 1827-1846

Letters to Benjamin F. Butler of New York, dated mostly from Washington. Relating to politics; Jersey City Revenue District Speaker of the House, 1839; President Jackson and Currency Bill; Jesse Hoyt and revenue discrepancies; Butler's relationship with Hoyt, and Congressional investigation efforts to nominate Van Buren, 1844; Wright declines nomination for Vice President; Gov. Wright declines to nominate General officers of New York. In all, 54 letters, including one letter to A.C. Flagg, two letters to President Tyler, and one letter to Wright.

ArchivalResource: .21 linear feet; 1 volume

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/3398 View

Foote Family. Papers, 1739-1972

Title: Papers,1739-1972

Family, political and medical correspondence, mainly of Elial Todd Foote; volume includes brief biographical notes on early physicians of Chautauqua County, New York.

ArchivalResource: 1 v., 1 box (ca. 169 items) ; 39 x 26 x 12 cm.

https://chs.waldo.kohalibrary.com/app/work/21820 View

Martin Van Buren Papers, 1787-1910, (bulk 1820-1850)

Title: Martin Van Buren Papers 1787-1910 (bulk 1820-1850)

United States president, vice president, secretary of state, and senator from New York. Correspondence, drafts of writings, speeches, and messages to Congress, autobiographical material, notes, legal record book, estate record book, and other papers pertaining to slavery and the antislavery movement, banking and the Second Bank of the United States, party politics in New York State and at the national level relating to the Federalist, National Republican, Whig, and Democratic parties, particularly during the Jackson and Van Buren administrations.

ArchivalResource: 6,000 items; 72 containers plus 1 oversize; 18 linear feet; 37 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001044 View

Lewis Cass papers (1774-1924)

Title: Lewis Cass papers (1774-1924)

The Lewis Cass papers contain the political and governmental letters and writings of Lewis Cass, American army officer in the War of 1812, governor and senator from Michigan, American diplomat to France, secretary of war in the Andrew Jackson administration, secretary of state under James Buchanan, and Democratic candidate for President. These papers span Cass' entire career and include letters, speeches, financial documents, memoranda, literary manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and a travel diary. In addition to documenting his political and governmental career, the collection contains material concerning relations between the United States and Native Americans, and Cass' role in presidential politics.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-372cas?rgn=main;view=text View

Eaton, Amos, 1776-1842. Papers, 1824-1841.

Title: Papers, 1824-1841.

Includes originals and typed transcripts of an 1821 deed to the Old Bank Building, which was the original home of the Rensselaer School; correspondence between Eaton and Lewis C. Beck, William Aiken, Silas Wright, Oliver Steele, William Marcy, and others, 1824-1838; and an undated sketch and comments on women's fashions. Also, Eaton's geological notebook, with notes and newspaper clippings, 1830-1836; his herbarium, 1830; and a geological notebook published by Eaton for his 1841 Rensselaer class.

ArchivalResource: .4 linear ft. (2 half manuscript boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43358248 View

James K. Polk Papers, 1775-1891, (bulk 1830-1849)

Title: James K. Polk Papers 1775-1891 (bulk 1830-1849)

United States president, Speaker of the House and representative from Tennessee, and governor of Tennessee. General correspondence, presidental letterbooks, diaries, account and memorandum books, drafts and copies of speeches and messages, family papers, financial and legal papers, and printed matter relating primarily to Polk's political career in Tennessee and on the national level.

ArchivalResource: 20,500 items; 183 containers; 39 linear feet; 67 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009178 View

Papers, 1800-1983, 1800-1847 (bulk)

Title: Papers, 1800-1983, 1800-1847 (bulk)

Correspondence, business and legal papers, family papers, and biographical materials. Business correspondence with William L. Marcy, Martin Van Buren, Erastus Corning, John Leslie Russell, Orville Hungerford, and others concerns militia affairs, appointments, financial matters, political situation in Schenectady County, national issues such as tariffs and nullification, campaigns and elections, and other political issues, 1816-1847; personal correspondence with his parents, siblings, and friends, 1820-1847, concerns politics, his brother Pliny's mental illness and treatment at the Hartford Asylum, business affairs, local news of Weybridge, Vt., and other personal affairs. Business and legal papers include deeds, receipts, agreements, certificates, vouchers, and petitions, some relating to Silas Wright, Sr., 1808-1858, and account book of Silas Wright, Sr., 1800-1831.

ArchivalResource: 4 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155472289 View

Linen campaign flag for 1844 election, [1844].

Title: Linen campaign flag for 1844 election, [1844].

Linen campaign flag, printed in color on one side, with 24 stars in upper right corner, and black lettering on the white stripes: Polk & Dallas. Wright & Gardiner. Pardee & Hine. Texas & Oregon.

ArchivalResource: 1 item ; 61 x 72 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83919108 View

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878. Papers, 1758-1814.

Title: Papers, 1758-1814.

Personal and political correspondence including three letterbooks, 1861-1862, kept while Welles was Secretary of the Navy and two diaries, 1822-1823; correspondents include Francis Blair, Montgomery Blair, William Buckingham and Silas Wright.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes ; 39 x 26 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42706356 View

Lewis Cass papers (1774-1924)

Title: Lewis Cass papers (1774-1924)

The Lewis Cass papers contain the political and governmental letters and writings of Lewis Cass, American army officer in the War of 1812, governor and senator from Michigan, American diplomat to France, secretary of war in the Andrew Jackson administration, secretary of state under James Buchanan, and Democratic candidate for President. These papers span Cass' entire career and include letters, speeches, financial documents, memoranda, literary manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and a travel diary. In addition to documenting his political and governmental career, the collection contains material concerning relations between the United States and Native Americans, and Cass' role in presidential politics.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-372cas?rgn=main;view=text View

William L. Marcy papers, 1806-1930

Title: William L. Marcy papers, 1806-1930

Correspondence, commonplace book, diary (1831-1857), draft of an autobiography, drafts of diplomatic dispatches, drafts in Marcy's handwriting of presidential messages to Congress (1854-1856), and other papers relating to Marcy which were collected and compiled by Henry Barrett Learned. Materials cover such topics as Marcy's career as a member of the cabinets of presidents James K. Polk and Franklin Pierce; New York state and national Democratic politics (circa 1830-1860); and international relations including the Martin Koszta case, negotiations concerning the Black Warrior affair with Spain, the Gadsden Purchase, proper attire for American diplomats abroad, and Pierre Soulé's conduct in Spain. Includes a commonplace book for Marcy's senior year at Brown University (1808). Correspondents include W.R. Andrews, Benjamin Franklin Angel, George Bancroft, August Belmont, James G. Berret, James Buchanan, Archibald Campbell, Lewis Cass, George Mifflin Dallas, Charles Augustus Davis, Charles Eames, James Gadsden, Timothy Jenkins, Simon B. Jewett, John Livingstone, John Y. Mason, Samuel Marcy, William Porcher Miles, George W. Newell, Horatio J. Perry, Franklin Pierce, James K. Polk, Herman J. Redfield, Winfield Scott, Horatio Seymour, Zachary Taylor, John Addison Thomas, Samuel J. Tilden, Martin Van Buren, Prosper Montgomery Wetmore, Gorham A. Worth, and Silas Wright.

ArchivalResource: 3,100 items.88 containers.19.2 linear feet.

https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013135 View

Wright, Silas, 1795-1847. Autograph letter signed : Albany, to the publishers of The New York Evening Post, 1845 Dec. 11.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Albany, to the publishers of The New York Evening Post, 1845 Dec. 11.

Requesting the bill for his subscription.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270584326 View

Linen campaign flag for 1844 election, [1844].

Title: Linen campaign flag for 1844 election, [1844].

Linen campaign flag, printed in color on one side, with 24 stars in upper right corner, and black lettering on the white stripes: Polk & Dallas. Wright & Gardiner. Pardee & Hine. Texas & Oregon.

ArchivalResource: 1 item ; 61 x 72 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702161946 View

Photograph collection, [ca. 1850]-1986.

Title: Photograph collection, [ca. 1850]-1986.

Postcards, stereopticon cards, lantern slides, glass plate negatives, daguerreotypes, tintypes, photographs, and 35mm slides of St. Lawrence County individuals, groups, and places; family collections include the Kip, Brownlow and Loucks families; also includes photographs and slides of renovation of the Silas Wright house, museum collections, and programs of the St. Lawrence County Historical Association, 1974-1986.

ArchivalResource: 20 linear ft., 18 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155472145 View

Verplanck, Gulian C. (Gulian Crommelin), 1786-1870. Letters of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck [manuscript], 1825-1831.

Title: Letters of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck [manuscript], 1825-1831.

Collection includes letter of introduction for Mr. Dunlap, who is en route to Washington where his paintings are being exhibited, dated January 16, 1825; letter to Silas Wright, dated November 26, 1831, which accompanied a tax payment for lands owned by D.C. Verplanck, heir of Samuel Verplanck; and an undated letter requesting the correspondent to meet an unidentified individual.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647880211 View

United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 1st (1846-1848). Records, 1846-1848.

Title: Records, 1846-1848.

Records, 1846-1848, consisting of Colonel Stevenson's letter book and two orderly books. The letter book contains copies of official letters to and from Stevenson, dealing with such matters as the transportation of the regiment to California by ship, a short stay in Rio de Janeiro, problems with Mission property, rumors of hostile actions and impending outbreaks, problems of administering the district under his command (Southern Militiary District, California Territory, with headquarters at Los Angeles), army administrative matters, miltary discipline, relations with the Indians, etc. Much of his correspondence was with Secretary of War William L. Marcy, General Stephen Watts Kearny, Colonel Richard Barnes Mason, Colonel Henry Stanton, Silas Wright, Lieutenant William Tecumseh Sherman, and General Robert E. Temple. One of the orderly books contains general orders of Colonel Richard Barnes Mason, governor of California Territory, issued from headquarters, 10th Military District, Monterey, usually through 1st Lieutenant William Tecumseh Sherman. It includes many reports of courts martial. The other is a regimental orderly book, containing Colonel Stevenson's orders issued at Fort Columbus, New York, on board the transport Thomas H. Perkins, and at San Francisco, Monterey, and Los Angeles. A few miscellaneous special orders on loose sheets of paper are laid into this volume. Accompanied by a typewritten transcript of selected letters.

ArchivalResource: 3 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58775792 View

Bancroft, George, 1800-1891. George Bancroft papers, 1823-1890.

Title: George Bancroft papers, 1823-1890.

Collection consists of correspondence, dispatches, writings by Bancroft and others, legal papers and accounts, clippings, notes, photographs, and research materials.

ArchivalResource: 29 linear feet (42 boxes, 37 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122571095 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Autograph letters and documents of American political and military leaders collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes (14 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01499/catalog View

Tracy, Albert Haller, 1793-1859. Papers, 1815-1874; bulk, 1821-1844.

Title: Papers, 1815-1874; bulk, 1821-1844.

The collection consists chiefly of letters addressed to Albert H. Tracy from 1815 to 1857, concerning economic conditions and matters of politics and government in New York State and the United States. In particular, many of these letters relate to Tracy's own career in the United States House of Representatives and the New York State Senate. There are also a number of letters concerning Tracy's involvement in the national conventions of Anti-Mason and Whig Parties and the presidential election campaigns. Tracy's correspondents included a number of prominent political figures of the time period: Millard Fillmore, Martin Van Buren, Nicholas Biddle, William Henry Seward, Thurlow Weed, Silas Wright, DeWitt Clinton, William L. Marcy, Lewis Cass, Francis Granger, and John C. Spencer.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (1.0 cubic ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122487900 View

Wright, Silas, 1795-1847. Letter : Washington, D.C., to John L. Russell, Canton, N.Y., 1844 Mar. 20.

Title: Letter : Washington, D.C., to John L. Russell, Canton, N.Y., 1844 Mar. 20.

Autograph letter signed. Folded letter sheet with address.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52248889 View

New York (State). Comptroller's Office. Canal records, 1823-1856.

Title: Canal records, 1823-1856.

Collection consists of correspondence and documents concerning the financial administration of New York State canals.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear foot (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122687116 View

Wright, Silas, 1760-1843. Silas Wright, Sr., letters, 1810-1843.

Title: Silas Wright, Sr., letters, 1810-1843.

Chiefly letters from Silas Wright, Sr., of Weybridge, Vt., mostly to his son Silas Wright, Jr., of Canton, N.Y., with a few to other family members and three (letters of confession) written to the Weybridge Congregational Church. The letters tell of family health and news, weather and work on the farm, sometimes mentioning prices of butter and other farm produce; one (1821 June 2) mentions that daughter Crucy Wright was staying with neighbors "weaving for two of three weeks". A number of letters (1820-1821) relate to the division of the farm between sons Samuel and Daniel Leonard (called Leonard) and the establishment of monetary inheritance for the other sons and daughters. Later letters reflect the concern for his youngest son Pliny Wright who appears to be suffering from some form of mental illness. Includes one letter from Silas Wright, Jr., to Samuel O. Wright, son of Silas's brother Samuel.

ArchivalResource: .2 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/761928244 View

Foster, William, 1772-1863. William Foster papers, 1734-1879.

Title: William Foster papers, 1734-1879.

Collection contains letters sent between William Foster Jr. and William's father, siblings and their spouses, neices and nephews, and children. Correspondents include brother-in-law Harrison Gray Otis, Andrew Ritchie, daughter and son-in-law James E. and Virginia (Foster) Coppinger, daughter Jeanne Francoise "Fanny" (Foster) Tudor, brother Leonard Foster, sisters Grace (Foster) Apthorp and Mary (Foster) Apthorp, and Nathan Spear Jr. William also received personal letters from friends in Cadiz, Spain and his wife's relatives in France. The political correspondence includes letters and treatises written for publication in newspapers and pamphlets as well as copies of letters sent to prominent political figures by William Foster Jr and their replies. William wrote to all the leading figures of the day, especially Anti-Masons and Democrats. Correspondents include John Quincy Adams, John A. Andrew, Thomas Hart Benton, Lewis Cass, Caleb Cushing, James C. Dobbin, Alexander Hill Everett, Edward Everett, Levi Lincoln, Marcus Morton, Franklin Pierce, John Randolph, Charles Sumner, John P. Van Ness, Daniel Webster, and Silas Wright. William's many schemes for public improvement led him to correspond with Peter Cooper and with men involved in forming the Smithsonian Institution. There are legal documents, both in English and French, membership certificates and some brief reminiscences relating to William Foster Jr. The collection also includes letters written by Harrison G. and Sally (Foster) Otis, Grace Jeanne Melite Foster, Virginia (Foster) Coppinger, William Leonard Foster, Charles Chauncy Foster, Francis Charles Foster, and William Leonard Foster to various family members besides William Foster Jr. There are papers concerning the family real estate holdings, held in common, that centered on Spear's Wharf (North End) and Foster's Wharf (foot of Fort Hill). The Fosters also had interest in land on Fort Hill and the South Cove areas of Boston. The material includes ledgers from scattered years concerning Foster's Wharf receipts, and a great deal on various municipal land takings for improving markets and widening streets. There are plot plans and maps for areas of Boston in which the Fosters had an interest. In addition to the correspondence, the collection contains ten scattered years of William Foster Sr's diary, patents by Leonard Foster, portrait miniatures, and photographs including daguerreotypes and ambrotypes.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70879605 View