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Union Defence Committee of the City of New York. Records, 1861-1885 (bulk 1861-1865).

Title: Records, 1861-1885 (bulk 1861-1865).

Records, 1861-1885 (bulk 1861-1867), dealing with the work of the Union Defence Committee. The collection includes approximately 1,000 letters, mostly from 1861, in one bound volume and two boxes, one of which also contains a printed summary of Comptroller's warrants; two requisitions books; two check books for the Committee's two accounts with the bank of Commerce in New-York, one dated 1861, the other 1861-1867; a small bank book from the same bank, dated 1861-1867; four large account books, dealing respectively with transactions with the U.S. Fund (almost blank), the City of New York, the Voluntary Fund (mostly listing payments to specific regiments), and relief of families (including a subscription list); a book detailing contributions by the citizens of New York for departing regiments; two volumes of claims for supplies to New York regiments; a volume giving summaries of claims; a ledger detailing payments to individual regiments; a volume recording suppliers' bills; minutes of the Committee, 1861-1862, and of the Executive Committee, 1861-1865; a book of telegrams, and a notebook detailing the Committee's account with the Astor Telegraph Company; a box of papers containing an unbound and unsewn copy of "The Union Defence Committee of the city of New York. Minutes, reports, and correspondence; with an historical introduction," by John Austin Stevens, and related letters and other printed and manuscript material.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft. (20 v., 3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/475810673 View

Thomas Corwin Correspondence, 1850-1853

Title: Thomas Corwin Correspondence 1850-1853

Lawyer, Ohio governor, U.S. representative and senator, and U.S. secretary of the treasury. Correspondence received during Corwin's tenure as secretary of the treasury. Subjects include appointments to and removals from office, Whig politics, and financial and commercial policies of Millard Fillmore's administration.

ArchivalResource: 3,000 items; 21 containers; 4 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009016 View

Jonas, Harold. Collection of Roscoe Conkling materials, 1822-1962.

Title: Collection of Roscoe Conkling materials, 1822-1962.

Correspondence (1849-1888) of Roscoe Conkling (1829-1888), U.S. senator and representative of New York and mayor of Utica, N.Y.; correspondence (1822-1874) of Roscoe's father, Alfred Conkling (1789-1874), U.S. representative and jurist; and correspondence (1861-1881) of Roscoe's brother, Frederick August Conkling (1816-1891), U.S. representative and Army officer. Also includes Jonas' records (1955-1962) for the acquisition of the collection and miscellaneous papers. Correspondents include Schuyler Colfax, Charles A. Dana, Simeon Draper, John Jay Knox, Millard Fillmore, William H. Seward, and William B. Sprague.

ArchivalResource: 150 items.1 containers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82223903 View

Draper, Simeon, 1806-1866. Scrapbook, 1857-1866.

Title: Scrapbook, 1857-1866.

Scrapbook kept by Draper (1857-1866) containing newspaper clippings, military passes, and commissions concerning his activities as Collector of the Port of New York and government cotton agent for the cotton in the captured city of Savannah, Georgia as well as local politics. Also includes a memorial letter to Mrs. Draper on the death of her husband.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (80 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58663676 View