Compare Constellations

Daniel Brent letter and patent, 1820-1837

Title: Daniel Brent letter and patent 1820-1837

Letter to Mr. Homans (March 21, 1820) and an affidavit for Brent's invention of paddle wheels (October 9, 1837).

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/7734 View

Everett, Alexander Hill, 1790-1847. Letters, 1810-1857

Title: Letters, 1810-1857.

Letterbooks and loose files containing copies of the official and personal correspondence of Alexander Hill Everett. Official correspondence covers the years of Everett's service as U.S. Chargé d'Affaires at the Hague, 1818-24; minister to Spain, 1825-29; and commissioner to China, 1847. Personal correspondence covers the years 1810-11 and 1819-47. The letters concern U.S. relations with Spain, the Netherlands, and most of the countries of Europe; Everett's service as assistant to John Quincy Adams at the U.S. embassy in St. Petersburg, Russia; and his editorship of the North American Review. Correspondents include Adams, Henry Clay, Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan, Daniel Brent, Nathan Hale, George Ticknor, William H. Prescott, Jared Sparks, Everett's sister Lucy Everett Durivage, his brother Edward Everett, his mother Lucy Hill Everett, and his wife Lucretia Orne Peabody Everett.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes and 14 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17780527 View

Brent, Daniel, 1774-1841. Letter book, 1833-1836.

Title: Letter book, 1833-1836.

Letter book with entries dating from 10 August 1833 to 1 April 1836, including letters to John Quincy Adams, President Andrew Jackson, Secretary of State Louis McLane, Secretary of State John Forsyth, Edward Stubbs of the State Dapartment, William Brent, Robert Walsh, Philip Kearny, Senator Peleg Sprague, George Law, William B. Taylor, Felix Cicognani (U.S. Consul at Rome), and John W. Parker (U.S. Consul at Amsterdam).

ArchivalResource: 1 linear inch.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23332027 View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIc, 1826-1836

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIc 1826-1836

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives.IIc-ead.xml View

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852. Papers of Henry Clay, 1825-1829.

Title: Papers of Henry Clay, 1825-1829.

Out-going letters of the Secretary of State and his Chief Clerk Daniel Brent. The correspondence concerns international trade and commerce; the foreign relations of the United States, particularly those with Great Britain, routine State Department matters, and letters to resident representatives of Great Britain, Russia, France, Brazil, Colombia, Spain, Sweden and Norway, Denmark, Mexico, the Netherlands, Sicily and the Papal States, Portugal, Prussia, Austria, Central America and Guatemala, and Saxony.

ArchivalResource: 425 pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122540412 View

Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

Title: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

A collection of images, manuscripts, and printed material, mostly relating to the Massachusetts soldiers and regiments in the American Civil War. Some material relates to other Union regiments and the Confederate States of America.

ArchivalResource: 47 linear feet (143 boxes, 2 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00124/catalog View

Lee, Charles Carter, 1798-1871. Papers of Charles Carter Lee and the Lee family [manuscript], 1768-1931 (bulk 1780-1871).

Title: Papers of Charles Carter Lee and the Lee family [manuscript], 1768-1931 (bulk 1780-1871).

Papers collected by Charles Carter Lee include papers of General Light-Horse-Harry Lee, Major Henry Lee, Charles Carter Lee, and John Penn Lee. Light-Horse-Harry Lee's papers consist mainly of correspondence pertinent to his "Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States." Other topics include anti-Federalism, travel to the West Indies and advice to a son. Light-Horse-Harry Lee's correspondents include William Goddard, Christopher R. Greene, Nathanael Greene (copies), Andrew Jackson (copy), Lafayette (copy), Ann Hill Carter Lee, James Madison (copies), Nathaniel Pendleton, and George Washington (copy). Major Henry Lee's papers consist primarily of correspondence written during his residence in Europe in the 1830s. Topics of interest include James Wilkinson's defeat before Montreal, Jacksonian era politics, David Porter in the Mediterranean, Lee's biography of Napoleon and proposed biography of Andrew Jackson, Lee's financial and legal troubles, Lee's literary efforts. Prominent people discussed include James Buchanan, Henry Clay, John H. Eaton, Thomas Jefferson, Amos Kendall, Gales and Seaton, Henry St. George Tucker, and Daniel Webster. There is fairly extensive correspondence with Charles Carter Lee, Major William B. Lewis and Duff Green. Other correspondents include John Armstrong, James Biddle, Charles L. Bonaparate, Daniel Brent, John Carroll Brent, James L. Cathcart, Edward Vernon Childe, John Browne Cutting, Andrew Jackson Donelson, George William Featherstonhaugh, and Robert Selden Garnett. Also Francis Walker Gilmer, James A. Hamilton, William B. Hodgson, Sam Houston, Rachel Jackson, Peter Augustus Jay, Anne R. Lee, Charles Carter Lee, Hugh S. Legaré, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, John McLean, James Madison, John Marshall, John Moore of Paris, Nathaniel Niles, Barry O'Meara, Thomas Ritchie, Meritt M. Robinson, Gilbert C. Russell, Andrew Stevenson, John Taliaferro, Martin Van Buren, William Conway Whittle, and James Wilkinson. The papers of Charles Carter Lee constitute the bulk of the collection and contain manuscripts of his literary works and speeches, correspondence, and legal and financial papers. Topics include his student days at Harvard; a reply to George Henry Moore's "Mr. Lee's plan--March 29, 1777. The treason of Charles Lee"; scattered political commentary including remarks on William Cabell Rives; and a description of the capture of General William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, 1863. Correspondents include William S. Archer, Henry Carey Baird, Nathaniel Burwell, George H. Calvert, David Campbell, Bernard M. Carter, J. H. Chamberlayne, Jr., Robert Young Conrad, E. S. Davis, Frederic De Peyster, Lyman C. Draper, Benjamin Rush Floyd, Letitia Floyd, David Graham, Robert Greenhow, William Wirt Henry, Francis Kinloch, and Benjamin H. Latrobe. Also George Washington Custis Lee, Richard Henry Lee, James Lyons, A. W. McDonald, Louis McLane, James Madison (copy), Hugh Nelson, Beverley Randolph, Charles H. Randolph, Robert E. Scott, Andrew Stevenson, Norborne M. Taliaferro, Martin Van Buren, Peter Van Winkle, Daniel Webster (copy), John Wickham, and William F. Wickham. John Penn Lee papers, consist of miscellaneous printed matter, routinme legall papers and business papers of the law firm of Dillard and Lee, Rocky Mount, Va.

ArchivalResource: 1917 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647915474 View

Autograph File, B, ca.1500-1982

Title: Autograph File, B, ca.1500-1982

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 18.5 linear feet (37 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01425/catalog View

Greer, Joseph, 1754-1831. Joseph Greer family papers, 1782-1868.

Title: Joseph Greer family papers, 1782-1868.

Accounts, correspondence, and legal documents of Joseph Greer and his family. Most correspondence is incoming, from Willie Blount, Abraham Bradley, Daniel Brent, William Lyle, Joseph Moor, Isaac Pitchlynn, D.J. Puckett, and George Wilson. There is one letter written by Joseph Greer to Congressman John Rhea. Account books list transactions in Knoxville, Tenn., Iredell County, N.C., and Lincoln County, Tenn. Most legal documents deal with the sale of land or slaves.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28189949 View

Brent, Daniel, 1774-1841. Letter, 1827.

Title: Letter, 1827.

Letter to William Gilmore regarding a possible land sale.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70953013 View

Brent, John Carroll, 1814-1876. John Carroll Brent letterbook, 1841-1850 (bulk 1841-1845).

Title: John Carroll Brent letterbook, 1841-1850 (bulk 1841-1845).

Letterbook containing Brent's outgoing letters from Washington, D.C., Paris, France, Rose Hall, Scotland, and Baltimore, Md., relating to family and business matters, his claims on the office of librarian at the Smithsonian Institution, and his editing of Daniel Brent's biography of Abp. John Carroll (1843). Family correspondents include John Carroll Brent's father, William Brent, his brothers, Henry Johnson Brent and Thomas William Brent, and his cousin, Catharine Rye Douglas. Also includes letters to Robert E. Lee and Brent's business accounts.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71132667 View

Tingey, Thomas, 1750-1829. Deed, 1810 July 19.

Title: Deed, 1810 July 19.

Deed from Tingey to Daniel Brent, William Brent, and David Shoemaker, trustees of the Washington Building Company, for property in Square 490 in the District of Columbia.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70953120 View

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852. Papers of Henry Clay, 1825-1829.

Title: Papers of Henry Clay, 1825-1829.

Out-going letters of the Secretary of State and his Chief Clerk Daniel Brent. The correspondence concerns international trade and commerce; the foreign relations of the United States, particularly those with Great Britain, routine State Department matters, and letters to resident representatives of Great Britain, Russia, France, Brazil, Colombia, Spain, Sweden and Norway, Denmark, Mexico, the Netherlands, Sicily and the Papal States, Portugal, Prussia, Austria, Central America and Guatemala, and Saxony.

ArchivalResource: 425 pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122540412 View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIb, 1807-1825

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIb 1807-1825

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives.IIb-ead.xml View

Brent, Daniel, 1774-1841. Daniel Brent papers, 1819-1841.

Title: Daniel Brent papers, 1819-1841.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79452217 View

Brent, Daniel, 1774-1841. Stafford County, Va., account books, 1804-1876.

Title: Stafford County, Va., account books, 1804-1876.

The account books consist of : a ledger of plantation and personal acounts, 1811-1834, of Col. Hugh Tenant Weedon Mercer of "Sentry Box," Fredericksburg; a ledger of store and mill accounts, 1804-1806, of Daniel Carroll Brent, Richland, Aquia Creek, Stafford County; a ledger of store and mill accounts, 1804-1806, of Swan and Brent; a legal account book, 1850-1854, of George Henry Clay Rowe of Stafford County; and an acount book, 1853-1876, of George Phillips King of "Sunnyside, " Stafford County, Va. The "Sunnyside" accounts include records for a soap and candle factory, a list of items lost in the bombardment of Fredericksburg, December 1862, and a fragament of an account of the dissention in the Baptist Church of Fredericksburg. The ledgers also contain genealogical notes on their owners by George H.S. King.

ArchivalResource: 5 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48583070 View

Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Baltimore (Md.). Collection, 1717-1960 (bulk 1800-1899).

Title: Collection, 1717-1960 (bulk 1800-1899).

Correspondence and copies of correspondence, including three autographs of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, several autographs of Archbishop John Carroll, and correspondence of Bishop John Cheverus of Boston, Bishop Michael Egan of Philadelphia, Daniel Brent, John Carroll Brent, and Howes Goldborough of Easton, Mayland; diary of Archbishop Ambrose Maréchal, 1818-1827; diary and account book of Archbishop James Whitfield, 1827-1828; clippings and related material. Also microfilm of the correspondence of Archbishops John Carroll, Leonard Neale, Ambrose Maréchal, James Whitfield, Samuel Eccleston, Francis Patrick Kenrick, Martin John Spalding, James Roosevelt Bayley, and James Cardinal Gibbons; with letters from Stephen T. Badin, Peter Joseph Lavialle, William George McCloskey, Charles Nerinckx, and John Baptist David.

ArchivalResource: 42 reels of microfilm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24950219 View

Brent, John Carroll, 1814-1876. Papers, 1841-1850 (bulk 1841-1845).

Title: Papers, 1841-1850 (bulk 1841-1845).

Letter book containing Brent's outgoing letters from Washington, D.C., Paris, France, Rose Hall, Scotland, and Baltimore, Md., relating to family and business matters, his editing of Daniel Brent's biography of Abp. John Carroll (1843), and his claims on the office of librarian at the Smithsonian Institution. Includes an incoming letter from his brother, Thomas W. Brent, and business accounts. Other correspondents include his father, William Brent, his brother, Henry Brent, and his cousin, Catharine Rye Douglas.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34576580 View