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Wales, Salem Howe, 1825-1902. Papers, 1837-1908.

Title: Papers, 1837-1908.

Consists of correspondence, corporate records, manuscripts, a scrapbook, a guest book, travel diaries, and photographs that reflect Wales' career in journalism and his interests in business, politics, civic and social affairs, urban reform, park development, and philanthropy. Correspondents include Chester A. Arthur, P.T. Barnum, Henry Ward Beecher, Andrew Carnegie, Schuyler Colfax, Roscoe Conkling, Cyrus W. Field, Hamilton Fish, Horace Greeley, William McKinley, Frederick Law Olmstead, Josiah Quincy, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, William H. Seward, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. In addition, he corresponded with California King Gold Mines Company, Fifth Avenue Bank of New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Bank of North America, New England Society, New York State Bar Association, South Yuba Water Company, Union League Club, and the Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery. The collection also contains a polyglot Bible dated 1844, an oversize photograph of Theodore Roosevelt that is autographed and dated 1900, the title page to Horace Greeley's Political Economy (1870) in his own handwriting, and a cartoon by Thomas Nast.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes and 2 folios.

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William B. Child letter to Ferris Greenslet with Elihu Vedder poems, circa 1867-1923

Title: William B. Child letter to Ferris Greenslet with Elihu Vedder poems circa 1867-1923

The letter and three sheets of poetry in this collection, which were originally laid in a copy of Elihu Vedder's book of poetry, all appear to bear some connection to Vedder. Miscellaneous Moods in Verse

ArchivalResource: 4 items (6 p.)

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Walter Hines Page letters from various correspondents, American period

Title: Walter Hines Page letters from various correspondents, American period

Letters from various correspondents to American editor and diplomat Walter Hines Page concerning his editorial work and his interest in education in the South.

ArchivalResource: 24 boxes (8 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01471/catalog View

Union League Club (New York, N.Y.). Institutional file.

Title: Institutional file.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/680652290 View

Putnam, George Palmer, 1814-1872. Papers of George Palmer Putnam [manuscript], 1814-1872.

Title: Papers of George Palmer Putnam [manuscript], 1814-1872.

The papers consist of letters written by Putnam to business associates and friends, particularly J. Lorimer Graham, Jr. Letters to Graham regard Union League Club meetings and introductions to English acquaintances. Letters pertaining to his publishing business discuss possible articles for Putnam's Monthly Magazine including a rejection of one by [Charles Carroll?] Everett, Pierre Munro Irving's biography of Washington Irving, Frank Moore's "Rebellion Record" and the stagnant book trade of 1861. There is also a letter, 1901, from George Haven Putnam to Gustavus Myers declining to publish his history of the great American fortunes as it would be objectionable to family members, particularly Helen Gould.

ArchivalResource: 19 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647828214 View

Union League Club (New York, N.Y.). [Minor publications.].

Title: [Minor publications.].

ArchivalResource: v. 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/701746036 View

[Collection of cards with song lyrics put out by the Union League Club in April, 1925].

Title: [Collection of cards with song lyrics put out by the Union League Club in April, 1925]. 1925.

ArchivalResource: 8 pieces ; 15 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58783344 View

Clarke, Thomas B. (Thomas Benedict), 1848-1931. Scrapbooks and register, 1872-1879, 1915-1916, 1921-1922.

Title: Scrapbooks and register, 1872-1879, 1915-1916, 1921-1922.

Consists of three volumes relating to Clarke's collecting activities. The first volume has the caption title "A Memorandum Book, description of a collection of oil paintings." It includes lists of paintings in Clarke's collection, paintings purchased for other collections, trades and sales from his collection, loans to galleries, and old porcelain. The third volume is a scrapbook kept by Clarke relating to exhibitions of Early American Portraits held by the Union League Club in 1921 and 1922. It contains letters written to and from Clarke about the exhibits, photographs of groups of paintings on display, captions description paintings (probably from exhibit catalogs), and newspaper clippings with reviews of the exhibits. The second volume is a scrapbook about an exhibition and sale of Clarkes collection of beautiful old textiles and antique plates of many nations which took place in January 1916. The scrapbook holds photos of the exhibition itself, pages from the catalog produced for the exhibit or the auction (probably served both functions), and newspaper articles about the exhibit and the sale. The articles about the sale include some prices and the names of some buyers, and one notes that a rug which sold for over $10,000 was used as a movie prop. Nothing indicates who created the scrapbook. The spine label reads T. B. Clarke, 1916, Old Plates and Textiles.

ArchivalResource: 3 v. : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84666360 View

R. Guastavino Company. The Union League Club of the city of New York [graphic] : [detail drawings of circular stairs] / R. Guastavino Co.

Title: The Union League Club of the city of New York [graphic] : [detail drawings of circular stairs] / R. Guastavino Co. July 22, 1930-Aug. 16, 1930.

ArchivalResource: 3 drawings : graphite on tracing paper ; 67.6 x 104.1 cm. (26 5/8 x 41 in.) or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80408317 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

Wales, Edward Howe, 1856-1922. Papers, 1815-1816, 1845, 1874-1922.

Title: Papers, 1815-1816, 1845, 1874-1922.

Consists of correspondence, a letter book, diaries, genealogical materials, and photographs that reflect the family relationships, financial concerns, travel activities, and genealogical interests of Edward Howe Wales. Correspondents include: Bishop Cicero S. Hawks, Blair Gist, Henry Francis du Pont, Ruth Wales du Pont, John Hay, Thomas Nast, Frederic Remington, Elihu Root, Elihu Root, Jr., William K. Vanderbilt, Army and Navy Club of America, Columbia College, Fifth Avenue Bank of New York, Goldfield Deep Mines Company of Nevada, Hyde Park Ice Yacht Club, Larchmont Yacht Club, Metropolitan Club, New York Club, and the White Star Line. Also included are engineering and artistic drawings done by Wales and passenger lists for the White Star Liner, Germanic (1878), and the S.S. Minneapolis (1910). The collection also contains correspondence between Wales and Frederic Remington during Remington's visit to the Adirondack region of New York State, as well as an original drawing by Remington. Materials from the early 19th century include letters collected by Wales, such as those of English poet and author, James Henry Leigh Hunt.

ArchivalResource: 18 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84665565 View

[Collection of publications relating to the Union League Club].

Title: [Collection of publications relating to the Union League Club]. 1864.

ArchivalResource: 5 pieces ; 23-27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58783443 View

Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell, 1829-1906. Correspondence, 1829-1906.

Title: Correspondence, 1829-1906.

His correspondence, for the years 1872 to 1906, include letters from prominent people including Charles Haynes Haswell (1809-1907) and Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow (1826-1889), notes concerning Democratic Party meetings, several family letters, fishery commission business, club election news, thank-you notes, political endorsement requests, and references to moving against Tammany Hall. One call for a party meeting includes the signature of prominent state party members.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (61 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191259764 View

J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

Title: J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

J. B. Matthews (1894-1966) was a Methodist missionary, college professor, author, lecturer, and prominent conservative spokesman. Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, statements, speeches, reprints, clippings, broadsides, newsletters, press releases, petitions, and other printed material, chiefly 1930-1969. The principal focus of the collection relates to the work and research of Matthews and his associates in the area of anti-communism, particularly in connection with Matthews' role as Director of Research for the Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the U.S. House of Representatives (1938-1945), Executive Director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Government Operations of the U.S. Senate (1953), and a consultant for John A. Clements Associates. Many of the organizations, newspapers, periodicals, and persons represented in the collection have various leftist, socialist, communist, radical, or pacifist (especially anti-Vietnam War) connections.Individuals represented in the files include Ralph Abernathy, Bella Abzug, Roy Cohn, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Michael Harrington, Alger Hiss, J. Edgar Hoover, Jesse Jackson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Joseph Lash, Joseph McCarthy, Carl McIntire, Benjamin Mandel, Richard Nixon, Aristotle Onassis, Lee Harvey Oswald, Linus Pauling, Drew Pearson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Louis Untermeyer.

ArchivalResource: 479 Linear Feet; 307,000 Items

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/matthews/ View

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891. William T. Sherman letter, 1891 Feb. 2.

Title: William T. Sherman letter, 1891 Feb. 2.

A cordial letter to the actor, Lawrence Barrett, welcoming him as a member of the Union League Club of New York.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70203820 View

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874

Title: Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Letters to Charles Sumner, lawyer, Republican senator from Massachusetts, and anti-slavery campaigner; with a smaller number of letters from Sumner to others.

ArchivalResource: 33 cartons (43.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00232/catalog View

Hoppin, William Jones, 1813-1895. Autograph letter signed : "Legation of the United States," London, to Thomas C. Acton, Union League Club, New York, 1882 Dec. 28.

Title: Autograph letter signed : "Legation of the United States," London, to Thomas C. Acton, Union League Club, New York, 1882 Dec. 28.

Explaining why he cannot attend the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Club, hoping the Club will take a more energetic interest in public affairs especially the subordination in politics of the public good to private advantage, and explaining why Mr. Bright will also be unable to come to America.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269528860 View

Benedict, William Leonard, 1860-1935. Papers, 1914-1915 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1914-1915 (inclusive).

Correspondence and clippings re: Benedict's position in favor of woman suffrage.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232007520 View

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885. Ulysses S. Grant letter to David Milliken, Jr., 1883 January 29.

Title: Ulysses S. Grant letter to David Milliken, Jr., 1883 January 29.

Holograph letter written from New York City, declining an invitation to attend the twentieth anniversary of the Union League Club.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/747838000 View

Union League Club (New York, N.Y.). Correspondence to George H. Boker, 1869.

Title: Correspondence to George H. Boker, 1869.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244442408 View

Wales, Salem Howe, 1825-1902. Papers, 1837-1908.

Title: Papers, 1837-1908.

Consists of correspondence, corporate records, manuscripts, a scrapbook, a guest book, travel diaries, and photographs that reflect Wales' career in journalism and his interests in business, politics, civic and social affairs, urban reform, park development, and philanthropy. Correspondents include Chester A. Arthur, P.T. Barnum, Henry Ward Beecher, Andrew Carnegie, Schuyler Colfax, Roscoe Conkling, Cyrus W. Field, Hamilton Fish, Horace Greeley, William McKinley, Frederick Law Olmstead, Josiah Quincy, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, William H. Seward, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. In addition, he corresponded with representatives of the California King Gold Mines Company, Fifth Avenue Bank of New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Bank of North America, New England Society, New York State Bar Association, South Yuba Water Company, Union League Club, and the Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery. The collection also contains a polyglot Bible dated 1844, an oversize photograph of Theodore Roosevelt that is autographed and dated 1900, the title page to Horace Greeley's Political Economy (1870) in his own handwriting, and a cartoon by Thomas Nast.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes and 2 folios.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84665535 View

Union League Club records

Title: Union League Club records

REEL N68-13: Exhibition catalogs and announcements; correspondence; various lists; and the Franklin Tuttle drawings of members of the club.

ArchivalResource:

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Thomas Benedict Clarke scrapbooks

Title: Thomas Benedict Clarke scrapbooks

The scrapbooks of Thomas Benedict Clarke measure 3.6 linear feet and date from 1879-1930. Twelve scrapbooks contain mostly newspaper clippings, but also include correspondence, invitations, exhibition catalogs, programs, magazine articles, art auction catalogs, and other material relating to Clarke's personal art collection and general art patronage. The scrapbooks also include clippings and miscellany relating to the Clarke family and influential society clubs, such as the Union League, Lambs, and New York Athletic clubs.

ArchivalResource: 3.6 Linear feet

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Bergh, Henry, 1811-1888. Letter : to Rev[erend] J. Dewitt Miller, n.d.

Title: Letter : to Rev[erend] J. Dewitt Miller, n.d.

Regrets he is unable to arrange membership in the Union League Club as there are no vacant memberships and a long waiting list of those wishing to join.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27158978 View

Wales, Edward Howe, 1856-1922. Papers, 1815-1816, 1845, 1874-1922.

Title: Papers, 1815-1816, 1845, 1874-1922.

Consists of correspondence, a letter book, diaries, genealogical materials, and photographs that reflect the family relationships, financial concerns, travel activities, and genealogical interests of Edward Howe Wales. Correspondents include: Bishop Cicero S. Hawks, Blair Gist, Henry Francis du Pont, Ruth Wales du Pont, John Hay, Thomas Nast, Frederic Remington, Elihu Root, Elihu Root, Jr., William K. Vanderbilt, Army and Navy Club of America, Columbia College, Fifth Avenue Bank of New York, Goldfield Deep Mines Company of Nevada, Hyde Park Ice Yacht Club, Larchmont Yacht Club, Metropolitan Club, New York Club, and the White Star Line. Also included are engineering and artistic drawings done by Wales and passenger lists for the White Star Liner, Germanic (1878), and the S.S. Minneapolis (1910). The collection also contains correspondence between Wales and Frederic Remington during Remington's visit to the Adirondack region of New York State, as well as an original drawing by Remington. Materials from the early 19th century include letters collected by Wales, such as those of English poet and author, James Henry Leigh Hunt.

ArchivalResource: 18 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/164035768 View

Harold Brown papers, Brown (Harold) papers, (bulk 1884-1900), 1878-1920

Title: Harold Brown papers Brown (Harold) papers (bulk 1884-1900) 1878-1920

The Harold Brown papers, dated from 1878 to 1920, include legal and business documents, personal and business correspondence, two unpublished manuscripts, miscellaneous bills paid, two cashbooks and an inventory of Harold Brown's estate.

ArchivalResource: 4.75 Linear feet

http://library.brown.edu/riamco/render.php?eadid=US-RPB-ms2007.006&view=title View

Weda Club (New York, N.Y.). WEDA Collection, 1871-1955 (bulk 1886-1953).

Title: WEDA Collection, 1871-1955 (bulk 1886-1953).

The collection contains administrative material, scrapbooks and photographs, 1871-1955. It is not clear whether the Club continued its activites after 1955. The administrative material consists of lists of members; scrapbooks of correspondence and bills, with a few notes on the protocol of dinners; a Report of the Secretary dated 1871, by William D. Robinson, and a copy of the published Report of the Secretary for 1902, prepared by Henry S. Hoyt. Scrapbooks contain menus for the monthly dinners, with cost, location, and lists of members attending. The dinners were held at New York clubs such as the Knickerbocker Club, the Union League Club, the Metropolitan Club, and the New York Yacht Club. Photographs are all formal individual portraits of Weda members, some with indications that they were to be used for a 1929 members book.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet (3 boxes, 3 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58770980 View

Schomer, Howard, 1915-2001. Papers, 1928-2001.

Title: Schomer, Howard, 1915-2001. Papers, 1928-2001.

Biographical files; sermons, lectures, speeches, writings and other materialsdocumenting Howard Schomer's career as a minister, human rights advocate, pacifist,and business consultant.

ArchivalResource: 53 boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00551/catalog View

Fry, Horace B. Autograph letters signed from Horace B. Fry, The Union League Club, New York, to William Winter [manuscript], 1894.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Horace B. Fry, The Union League Club, New York, to William Winter [manuscript], 1894.

(1) applauds Winter's criticism of Hamlet.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/230423821 View

WEDA (Wyckoff Economical Dining Association) Records, 1871-1955 (Bulk 1886-1953)

Title: WEDA (Wyckoff Economical Dining Association) Records 1871-1955 (Bulk 1886-1953)

The WEDA (Wyckoff Economical Dining Association) Records contain documentation of a New York City men's club that met for dinner once a month for 118 years. The bulk of the material is scrapbooks which include menus and lists of members in attendance. Other materials include photographs, correspondence, and reports of the secretary.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 Linear feet; (3 boxes and 3 volumes)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/weda/weda.html View

Thomas Benedict Clarke scrapbooks

Title: Thomas Benedict Clarke scrapbooks

The scrapbooks of Thomas Benedict Clarke measure 3.6 linear feet and date from 1879-1930. Twelve scrapbooks contain mostly newspaper clippings, but also include correspondence, invitations, exhibition catalogs, programs, magazine articles, art auction catalogs, and other material relating to Clarke's personal art collection and general art patronage. The scrapbooks also include clippings and miscellany relating to the Clarke family and influential society clubs, such as the Union League, Lambs, and New York Athletic clubs.

ArchivalResource: 3.6 Linear feet

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw92536a00c-2365-4c57-a77b-277080741854 View

Harbord, James G. (James Guthrie), 1866-1947. Papers, [ca. 1902]-1949.

Title: Papers, [ca. 1902]-1949.

Primarily correspondence received and carbon copies of correspondence sent, but also reports, speeches, telegrams, memorandum, pamphlets, maps, photographs, diaries, citations, commendations, recommendations, clippings, bills, and other documents related to Harbord, especially his service during the First World War, his interest in many charitable foundations, and his activities related to his work for RCA (ca. 1902-1949).

ArchivalResource: 63 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/476915030 View

Fisk family. Papers, 1883-1901.

Title: Papers, 1883-1901.

The Fisk family papers are a fragment combining both business and personal papers.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79178525 View

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891. W. T. Sherman letters to David Milliken, Jr., 1886.

Title: W. T. Sherman letters to David Milliken, Jr., 1886.

Two holograph letters to David Milliken, Jr., Secretary of the Union League Club in New York City. Sherman declines two social invitations, including a reception for the inauguration of the Statue of Liberty.

ArchivalResource: 2 item (2 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/746214036 View