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Historical manuscripts, 1636-1935.

Title: Historical manuscripts, 1636-1935.

Historical documents collected by Roosevelt and related to political, social, mercantile, and military life in the United States. Only three items are from the 17th century, two legal documents and a receipt. Other documents include business correspondence, personal letters, bills, receipts, bonds, contracts, notes, wills and testaments, deeds and land grants, apprenticeship papers, licenses, military papers and certificates, customs declarations, and public office appointments. Subjects include the Mayor's Court of New York City, ships and shipping, sale of slaves, Revolutionary War service, privateering, smuggling, defense of the United States, and military conditions in the field during the Civil War. Persons represented include John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, Major General Charles Lee, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Governor Horatio Sharpe of Maryland, Ben Stoddert, George Washington, George Bancroft, Aaron Burr, John C. Calhoun, Simon Cameron, Lewis Cass, Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, Lord Cornwallis, William H. Crawford, Oliver Cromwell, Jefferson Davis, James Guthrie, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Samuel Houston, General Robert E. Lee, James Russell Lowell, James K. Paulding, William Pitt, Dr. Benjamin Rush, William H. Seward, General William T. Sherman, Daniel Webster, and Emile Zola.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft. (415 items)

https://www.fdrlibrary.org/documents/356632/390886/findingaid_roos_histmanuscripts.pdf/0441b005-9026-4849-811a-dc3b2a68f42d View

Guthrie, James, Sir, 1859-1930. Autograph letter signed : London, to Joseph Crawhall, 1881 May 29.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Joseph Crawhall, 1881 May 29.

Discussing a Van Dyck portrait he saw at the Louvre; enclosing a sketch based on the portrait.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) : ill. ; 17.8 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/460713857 View

Crawhall, Joseph, 1821-1896. Joseph Crawhall album : London, assembled 1890.

Title: Joseph Crawhall album : London, assembled 1890.

An album of pen-and-ink and watercolor drawings, engravings, photographs, bookplates, clippings, pamphlets, printed programs, and autograph letters and documents by Crawhall and others. The drawings, photographs, letters, and most engravings are described in individual records (MA 4981.1-78). Highlights of the album include a bookplate by Thomas Bewick; a bookplate of Bilibald Pirckheimer designed by Albrecht Dürer; watercolor sketches of a cow and a sheep by Crawhall; pen sketches by James Guthrie; a watercolor sketch by Edward Arthur Walton of a shepherd playing a flute and sheep on brown paper; a woodcut of a lobster by Robert Elliot Bewick; photographs of Jane and Isabella Bewick, William Makepeace Thackeray, Mark Lemon, John Leech, Charles S. Keene, John Collingwood Bruce, and others; and autograph letters from such artists, writers, publishers, and engravers as Charles M. Adamson, Jane Bewick, Robert Chambers, William Chappell, Myles Birket Foster, James Guthrie, George James Howard, Charles S. Keene, William Bell Scott, Andrew Tuer, and others.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (ca. 140 p.), bound : ill. ; 37cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270870190 View