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War of 1812 mss., 1776-1879

Title: War of 1812 mss., 1776-1879

Consists of individual items acquired separately either as a gift or purchase from a variety of sources, relating to the War of 1812.

ArchivalResource: 3181 items

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Exmouth, Edward Pellew, Viscount, 1757-1833. Autograph letter signed : "Impetueux at Sea", to Sir John Borlase Warren, 1800 Aug. 30.

Title: Autograph letter signed : "Impetueux at Sea", to Sir John Borlase Warren, 1800 Aug. 30.

Concerning payment for a gunboat.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (fol.)

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William L. Clements Library. War of 1812 collection, 1806-1860.

Title: War of 1812 collection, 1806-1860.

The War of 1812 collection is a miscellaneous collection of approximately 300 single items relating to the War of 1812. The papers cover many aspect of the war on both the American and British sides, including naval and military operations, regimental matters, trade issues, and state and national politics relating to the war.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet.

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Warren, John Borlase, Sir, 1753-1822. Autograph letters signed (2) and letters signed (5) : Quiberon, Ferral, and at sea, to Sir James Murray-Pulteney, 1800 Aug. 19-Sept. 11.

Title: Autograph letters signed (2) and letters signed (5) : Quiberon, Ferral, and at sea, to Sir James Murray-Pulteney, 1800 Aug. 19-Sept. 11.

Concerning arrangements for embarking troops, fetching forage, etc.

ArchivalResource: 7 items (10 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270659631 View

Dwight, Theodore Frelinghuysen, 1846-1917. Papers II, 1734-1869, bulk: 1800-1864.

Title: Papers II, 1734-1869, bulk: 1800-1864.

Miscellaneous papers and autographs collected by Theodore F. Dwight, librarian and literary secretary to Henry Adams. Correspondents include Jacob De la Montagnie, a New York State legislator; and Reverend Samuel and Caroline Gilman, who as writers and editors had frequent contact with contemporary religious and secular writers. Other papers include: a letter from Lyman Beecher professing the importance of his writing to his ministry; reformer Elihu Burritt's plan to bring unemployed laborers and landless farmers from Britain to the U.S.; Virgil Maxcy's description of a meeting with Admiral John Warren, commander of the British fleet in the War of 1812; and a letter from Josiah Quincy decrying the factionalization of politics. (Cont) Also a cover letter from Gulian Verplanck to newspaper publishers explaining his stance against the proposed tariff of 1825. Other letters that Dwight collected are written by Lord Jeffrey Amherst, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, Joseph Hume, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, George Francis Train, Daniel Webster, and Noah Webster.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

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War of 1812 collection 1806-1860 War of 1812 collection

Title: War of 1812 collection 1806-1860 War of 1812 collection

The War of 1812 collection is a miscellaneous collection of approximately 300 single items relating to the War of 1812. The papers cover many aspect of the war on both the American and British sides, including naval and military operations, regimental matters, trade issues, and state and national politics relating to the war.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet

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Coxe, Tench, 1755-1824,. James Madison, Dolley Madison, and James Monroe letters, 1804-1840.

Title: James Madison, Dolley Madison, and James Monroe letters, 1804-1840.

Dolley writes chiefly to her sister Anna Payne Cutts and her cousins Mrs. Van Zandt and Mrs. L. Henry Cutts, as well as Mrs. Richard Smith and Mrs. Thornton. Dolley writes primarily concerning family matters. Topics include wigs; bad roads and swollen rivers; a letter from Thomas Jefferson about the death of Maria Jefferson Eppes; James Madison's poor health; her problems with her knee, rheumatism and her eyes; and her "ancient terror" of the Society of Friends. Also Thomas Jefferson's migraines; Aaron Burr on his way to Richmond for trial; the marriage of Lucy Payne Washington and Thomas Todd; Fedralists refusal to enter the Madisons' doors; her sister's childbirth; "curls and silk"; and her son Payne and his financial troubles. James Madison writes to Richard Cutts regarding plans to leave for Rockfish Gap and a package of Talavera wheat. He asks Joseph Delaplaine to send him some manuscripts to review for inaccuracies and two pamphlets, and thanks him for a volume of poetry. As rector of the the University of Virginia he thanks C.D. Cleveland for a copy of "Epitome of Grecian Antiquities" for the University library. James Monroe cannot meet withTench Coxe but informs him that changes considered for the Treasury Department have been stricken out. Monroe writes to General John Mason that it was impossible to make any other financial arrangements to pay him other than to authorize his agent, Major James Lewis, to sell some property above Charlottesville and a large tract in Kentucky. In a letter to an unidentified recipient he refuses to sanction the dedication of a book to him by Sir John Sinclair. In a letter to Sir John Borlase Warren Monroe discusses the exchange of prisoners of war between Great Britain and the United States and complaints regarding the conduct of the British government towards American seamen. In a letter to Mr. Agg, Monroe informs him that he has made some changes in a document before publishing in the "Whig."

ArchivalResource: 28 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48936342 View

John Borlase Warren: Journal of a Tour in France, 1728

Title: John Borlase Warren: Journal of a Tour in France 1728

ArchivalResource: 1 volume

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Barksdale, Narcissa L. Smith, d. 1875. Papers of the Janney family, 1695-1981 (bulk 1755-1944).

Title: Papers of the Janney family, 1695-1981 (bulk 1755-1944).

Papers of the Janney and allied families of Gilmour and Pollock consisting of personal and political correspondence, financial and legal papers, genealogical material and photographs, particularly of John Janney of Loudoun County, Va. The papers cover Janney's legal practice, his career as a Whig politician, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and president of Virginia's secession convention. His correspondents include Arthur Ingram Borreman; John Minor Botts; Henry Clay; J.J. Crittenden; Charles J. Faulkner; Philip R. Fendall; Joshua F. Fisher; Willis Green; John W. Mallet; R.C.L. Moncure; Jeremiah Morton; Richard William Noland; Francis H. Pierpoint; William Cabell Rives; Wyndham Robertson; Valentine Wood Southall; James F. Strother; Alexander H.H. Stuart; and George Summers. Major topics include the Whig Party and the elections of 1840, 1844, 1848 and 1860; the tariff; the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company; the Loco-Focos; slavery and the new territories; the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850; the University of Virginia; the Constitutional Union Party; the Virginia Convention of 1861; a re-union of Virginia and West Virginia and debt readjustment. Of interest is an 1861 electoral ticket for Jefferson Davis. People discussed in the correspondence include J.S. Barbour, John C. Calhoun, Joseph Johnson; Robert E. Lee; "Extra Billy" Smith; Alexander H. Stephens; Zachary Taylor; and Daniel Webster. Of interest in Janney's financial and legal papers are a letter from Abbott Lawrence to John S. Pendleton on the machine shop at Lowell, Mass.; correspondence regarding the building of the Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad; papers conderning the Mutual Assurance Society; and a slave bill of sale for one Harriet Jackson. Papers of Solomon Parsons, 1810-1830, concern business in Alexandria, Gloucester and Occoquan, and include letters on the War of 1812 and British Admiral J.B. Warren; and an 1829 letter from a slave to "Dear Master." Civil War and Reconstruction papers include passes; a letter to J.E. Johnston regarding Janney's slave "George"; a list of sick soldiers nursed by Mrs. Janney; letters, 1862, 1866, from Narcissa L. Smith Barksdale regarding the Civil War in Louisiana and the death of her husband at Gettysburg; letters from Joseph E. Segar regarding reconstruction; and two memoranda by Alcinda S. Marmaduke Janney, 1862 and 1863, relating details of the war in Leesburg and Loudoun County, including the arrest of John Janney, Federal occupation and outrages, Confederate procurement, and second hand news about personalities and battles. The collection also contains letters and a portrait of World War II American pilot, Robert Stevenson Janney. Topics include student life at Princeton, travel in Europe and Japan in the 1930s including a 1937 Nazi festival, and World War II experiences in training, in North Africa and in Italy. Topics of interest in the miscellaneous Gilmour, Janney and Pollock family papers include the early ministry of W.H. Milton; slavery; St. Louis, Missouri, in the 1830s and 40s; foreign travel; Pantops Academy of Charlottesville; V.M.I. in the 1890s; U. Va. in the 1850s and 1890s; medical missionary work in China and Japan in the 1930s; social life in Virginia in the 1930s; the great depression; the Leesburg, Va., Presbyterian church; Virginia governor Almond and Massive Resistance; and life in Pioche, Nevada and Pasadena, Calif. Correspondents include W. Sinclair Bowen, Lily H.D. Dabney, William E. Dodd; Edward Griffith Dodson;and the Rev. James Shannon Montgomery. In addition there are photographs, scrapbooks and travel journals.

ArchivalResource: 2750 (c.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57123190 View