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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

Sanford, Henry Shelton, 1823-1891. Papers [microform] : correspondence, letter-books, drafts, etc.

Title: Papers [microform] : correspondence, letter-books, drafts, etc. [1845-1896]

ArchivalResource: reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49365095 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

Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, ca. 1852-ca. 2004

Title: Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits. ca.1852-ca.2004.

Photographs of individuals associated with Harvard University: faculty, students, administrators, staff, honorees, and habitués of Harvard Square. For those whose lives pre-date the era of photography, the contents of the folders are often photographic reproductions of other image types, such as etchings, paintings, or drawings. In a few cases, the images themselves may be original etchings or sketches.

ArchivalResource: 50 cubic ft.; 20,000 photographs; 10,000 folders.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua04006/catalog View

Anderson, Joseph Reid, 1813-1892,. Papers of the Rives family [manuscript] (1777) 1822-1945.

Title: Papers of the Rives family [manuscript] (1777) 1822-1945.

The collection contains correspondence, diaries, financial and legal papers, biographical material, photographs, clippings and memorabilia. The correspondence discusses genealogy, A.L. Rives' studies at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and his work for the Richmond and Danville Railroad Co., and Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy's 1914 London trip. The financial and legal papers contain a copy of the 1777 will of William Rives of Sussex County and bills from French tradesmen. Genealogical papers trace the Belling, Macmurdo, Page, Starke, Rivers, and Walker families, and biographical material contains information on W.C. Rives, A.L. Rives and Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy. Two childhood journals, 1874 and 1879 of Amélie Rives are present as are her marriage service book, 1896, horoscopes, and clippings regarding her two husbands and her literary career. Of interest is a petition to Napoleon III regarding the arbitration of claims against the American ship General Armstrong. The collection also contains calling cards, passports, invitations, and a poetry album. In the papers are copies and extracts of letters from Joseph Reid Anderson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Richard Stoddert Ewell, Thomas Jonathan Jackson, Robert Edward Lee, Robert McClelland, and Montgomery Cunningham Meigs. There are two telegraph messages from William Tecumseh Sherman and an autograph note of Marie Amelie de Bourbon. Other correspondents include Adair Pleasants Archer, John Mercer Brooke, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Bernard Morris Lee Ernst, William Buel Franklin, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Richard Hovey, Jean Julien Lemordant, Cornelia Paterson Van Rensselaer, Henry Shelton Sanford, William Glover Stanard, Roberta Wellford, and Jeremy Francis Gilmer.

ArchivalResource: ca. 500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647969690 View

John Coggeshall (Ship). Journal of a voyage to the Pacific Ocean on board the Ship John Coggeshall, Oct. 3,1835 - May 18,1836.

Title: Journal of a voyage to the Pacific Ocean on board the Ship John Coggeshall, Oct. 3,1835 - May 18,1836.

Logbook of whaling ship John Coggeshall out of Newport, RI, kept by Henry Sanford, recording winds, weather, courses, latitude observations, sighting and killing of whales, employment of hands and other ships sighted.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (appx 40 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56971251 View

Sanford, Henry Shelton, 1823-1891. Henry Sanford incoming correspondence, 1864-1867.

Title: Henry Sanford incoming correspondence, 1864-1867.

Correspondence with Aerts Freres & Co. regarding Sanford's interests in a patent for a box designed to lubricate railroad car axles with water instead of oil, and with M. Vangindertaelen & Co. regarding the safe shipment of distillery equipment. Some letters are addressed to Alex Trippel who was Sanford's partner in the area of patents.

ArchivalResource: 35 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166907780 View

LeConte, John L. (John Lawrence), 1825-1883. Papers, 1812-1897

Title: John L. (John Lawrence) LeConte papers, 1812-1897

This collection contains mostly entomological material, with much information on the description and identification of particular insects, entomological collections, and the study of entomology in Europe and the United States. In addition, there are materials on medicine and hospitals during the American Civil War, on the Corps of Topographical Engineers, the United States Army, on natural history in the United States, and on the LeConte's family. Some letters are written to President Rutherford B. Hayes and concern the Commissionership of Agriculture, for which LeConte was considered, but not appointed. Letters of John Eatton LeConte and Joseph LeConte are included.

ArchivalResource: 7.7 Linear feet, Ca. 1900 items

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Sanford, Henry Shelton, 1823-1891. Correspondence, 1878-1885.

Title: Correspondence, 1878-1885.

Letters of thanks from William Evarts, William Gilman Low, Amos A. Lawrence, Henry B. Anthony, et. al. for oranges grown on his Florida plantation; two letters to his wife concerning his financial struggles.

ArchivalResource: 9 items ; 21 x 13 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15479925 View

Sanford, Henry Shelton, 1823-1891. Selected papers [microform], 1873-1892.

Title: Selected papers [microform], 1873-1892.

Selections from the papers of Henry Shelton Sanford, Minister to Belgium, African colonizer and trader, and founder of Sanford, Florida, containing the section of his papers organized as "Business Records-Special Projects-Africa," consisting of accounts, correspondence, and memos dealing with his expeditions.

ArchivalResource: 5 reels of microfilm (35mm)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122465719 View

Shaw, Roderick K. R.K. Shaw collection, 1851-1884.

Title: R.K. Shaw collection, 1851-1884.

Mortgages, certificates, correspondence, receipts, deeds, forms, legal documents, business papers, maps, photograph and related papers.

ArchivalResource: 44 items (99 pieces)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50680949 View

Sanford, Henry Shelton, 1823-1891. Letters : Paris, France and Brussels, Belgium, to Samuel Sullivan Cox, 1861-1885.

Title: Letters : Paris, France and Brussels, Belgium, to Samuel Sullivan Cox, 1861-1885.

Offers his opinions on taxation, emanicipation, General McClellan, Garibaldi, and related diplomatic issues. Discusses Cox's personal and professional activities; wishes him good luck in Constantinople.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122480588 View

Dow, John Melmoth, 1827-1892. John Melmoth Dow papers, 1798-1918.

Title: John Melmoth Dow papers, 1798-1918.

Personal and professional papers of John M. Dow include shipping and trading contracts with Central American governments; administrative records, cargo and freight (primarily coffee and indigo) statements; and financial and commercial records, annual reports, logs, schedules, and telegraph code. Also included are letters and newspaper clippings concerning political events in Central America in the second half of the nineteenth century; correspondence with Central American politicians such as General Barrios, Rafael Zaldívar and Enrico Palacio regarding United States policy toward attempts to unify the Central American countries into a single federation. Also included is Dow's correspondence as arbitrator in the settlement between the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique and the American Contracting and Dredging Company, 1887. Dow also pursued his interests as a naturalist, exploring the Central American coast to collect marine flora and fauna and carrying on an extensive correspondence with Professor Spencer Baird of the Smithsonian Institution and Osbert Salvin and P. L. Sclater of the Zoological Society of London concerning the collection and transportation of specimens native to Central America. Papers also contain several letters to his wife, Elizabeth Allen Dow, which provide daily accounts of his life on board ship and in port. Among other correspondents are William Henry Aspinwall, John Cassin, Alexander Center, William Pancoast Clyde, Charles Dorat, John Charles Frémont, Joseph I. Henry, David Hoadley, J. B. Houston, J. Jacquier, Joseph F. Joy, W. H. Lane, George Newbold, James Orton, Henry Shelton Sanford, George Ure Skinner, Henry Bartholomew Slaven and Jeffries Wyman. Eight diaries kept by Dow provide comments on his daily life, and two notebooks give descriptions of the coast of Central America. Photographs include Dow and several Central American scenes. An album contains portraits of Dow's family, relatives and acquaintances, and well-known persons. There are two albums of caricatures and a book of "Ocean Mosses" (pressed specimens) given to Elizabeth Allen "from her friend Capt'n John M. Dow." Remaining items include a significant group of nineteenth century maps, membership certificates, inventories of property, bills, bank books, insurance policies, memoranda, passenger lists, menus, invitations, and printed matter pertaining primarily to natural history.

ArchivalResource: 6.4 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63939177 View

Old Settlers' Association of Minnesota. Association records, 1857-1917.

Title: Association records, 1857-1917.

Act of incorporation, minutes, correspondence, clippings, lists, and financial records of this organization established in 1857 to give financial aid to old settlers and to collect and disseminate information on Minnesota history.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 cu ft. (1 box, incl. 3 v.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122424998 View

Henry Shelton Sanford Memorial Library (Sanford, Fla.). Register, Henry Shelton Sanford papers.

Title: Register, Henry Shelton Sanford papers.

Finding aid to the Henry Sanford papers originally located at the Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford, Conn., but now housed at the Sanford Museum in Sanford, Fla.

ArchivalResource: 73 p. ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38883250 View

Sanford, Henry Shelton, 1823-1891. Henry Shelton Sanford papers, 1845-1890 (inclusive), [microform].

Title: Henry Shelton Sanford papers, 1845-1890 (inclusive), [microform].

The collection, a portion of the papers of Henry Shelton Sanford, contains correspondence, business records, memoranda, and other material concerning Sanford's activities in the Belgian Congo, his plantations in Louisiana and South Carolina, and politics and government in Florida. The Belgian Congo papers concern the African International Association; the Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference; the Sanford exploring expedition, 1886-1887; and contain a copy of Henry M. Stanley's manuscript, "From Black River to Stanley Pool." The bulk of the papers relate to Barnwell Island plantation, South Carolina; Oakley Sugar Plantation, Iberville, Louisiana, and Florida politics, 1872-1885.

ArchivalResource: 6 reels (Reels 17, 30-33, 92)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122568713 View

John Melmoth Dow papers, 1798-1918.

Title: John Melmoth Dow papers, 1798-1918.

Personal and professional papers of John M. Dow. Also included are letters and newspaper clippings concerning political events in Central America in the second half of the nineteenth century. Dow also pursued his interests as a naturalist, exploring the Central American coast to collect marine flora and fauna.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM02765.xml View

Chase, Sydney Octavius, 1860-1941. Papers, 1870-1941.

Title: Papers, 1870-1941.

Papers and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23230095 View

Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George), 1821-1888. The papers of Ephraim George Squier, 1841-1848.

Title: The papers of Ephraim George Squier, 1841-1848.

Correspondence, business records, manuscripts, a bibliography of Squier's writings (1876), and other papers relating to his diplomatic career, particularly in Honduras, and his interest in archeology and ethnology. Includes material concerning the Honduras Legation at Washington, D.C. (chiefly 1860-63); Squier's service as Honduran consul general (1863-73); the Honduras Interoceanic Railway, Ltd. (1853-70); his diplomatic posts as chargé d'affaires to Central America (1849-58) and U.S. Commissioner to Peru (1863-65); the American Ethnological Society; the New York Anthropological Society; and his numerous writings in the anthropological and ethnological field; together with manuscripts and drafts of articles, chapters from a book on Nicaragua, and his book, "Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley" (1848). Correspondents include León Alvarado, Henry Bowen Anthony, John Russell Bartlett, Samuel Birch, Joseph Barnard Davis, George Robins Gliddon, Joseph Henry, José de Marcoleta, Brantz Mayer, Charles Eliot Norton, Josiah Clarke Nott, Henry Shelton Sanford, Buckingham Smith, John Cresson Trautwine, William Wadden Turner, and Thomas Wright.

ArchivalResource: ca. 2500 items (4.8 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214955710 View

E.G. Squier papers, 1809-1888

Title: E.G. Squier papers, 1809-1888

Archaeologist, diplomat, author, editor, and businessman. Correspondence, business records, diplomatic records, articles, lectures, and other writings, reference and bibliographic notes, drawings, maps, scrapbooks of clippings, and other papers relating to Squier's diplomatic career as U.S. chargé d'affairs in Central America (1849-1858), U.S. commissioner to Peru (1863-1865), and Honduran consul general in New York, N.Y. (1863-1873), and Squier's studies and writings in archaeology and ethnology.

ArchivalResource: 2,500 items ; 11 containers plus 1 oversize ; 4.8 linear feet ; 14 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000008 View

Chase Collection, Circa 1750-1984, 1884-1984

Title: Chase Collection Circa 1750-1984 1884-1984

Business records of Chase and Company and affiliates, as well as the personal correspondence of members of the Chase Family and family genealogical records.

ArchivalResource: 97 Linear feet; 228 boxes and 24 volumes

http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm View

Sanford, Henry Shelton, 1823-1891. Autograph letter signed : Brussels, to Mr. Morse, [186-] May 4.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Brussels, to Mr. Morse, [186-] May 4.

Concerning vessels loading for the south in European ports.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270633591 View

Hay, John, 1838-1905. Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Robinson" to "Saxton".

Title: Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Robinson" to "Saxton".

Includes letters to Hay and to members of his family.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 6,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122623430 View

E.G. Squier papers, 1809-1888

Title: E.G. Squier papers, 1809-1888

Archaeologist, diplomat, author, editor, and businessman. Correspondence, business records, diplomatic records, articles, lectures, and other writings, reference and bibliographic notes, drawings, maps, scrapbooks of clippings, and other papers relating to Squier's diplomatic career as U.S. chargé d'affairs in Central America (1849-1858), U.S. commissioner to Peru (1863-1865), and Honduran consul general in New York, N.Y. (1863-1873), and Squier's studies and writings in archaeology and ethnology.

ArchivalResource: 2,500 items ; 11 containers plus 1 oversize ; 4.8 linear feet ; 14 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000008 View