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Dartmouth College Office of the President. Records of the administration of Francis Brown, 1815-1820.

Title: Records of the administration of Francis Brown, 1815-1820.

Correspondence chiefly concerns the Dartmouth College case (Trustees of Dartmouth College v. William Woodward. Correspondents, whose letters primarily relate to the Dartmouth College case, include a number of Dartmouth College trustees including Nathaniel Niles, Israel W. Putnam, Seth Payson, Timothy Farrar, Elijah Paine, and Asa McFarland. Among those opposing the college trustees and supporting Dartmouth University, Brown received letters from Gov. William Plumer, Gov. John Taylor Gilman, William Henry Woodward, John Wheelock, and William Allen. Other correspondents include Joseph Hopkinson, Joseph Perry, Nathan Smith, Benjamin J. Gilbert, Joseph Annance, Alexander Ramsay, Jermiah Mason, Azel Backus, Jeremiah Day, R.D. Mussey, and Erastus Fairbanks. To a lesser extent the records concern fiscal matters of Moor's Charity School and the enrollment of boys from the Stockbridge Indians and the tribe at St. Francis. Other subjects include the loaning of a telescope to Dartmouth by William Thurston, and the leasing of college-owned land in Wheelock, VT. The records include Brown's inaugural address and some accounts.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.0 linear ft.)

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Fuller, B. A. G., 1879-1956. Autograph collection, 1620-1920

Title: B. A. G. Fuller autograph collection

Letters and autographs collected by Harvard University philosophy professor B.A.G. Fuller.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear feet (3 volumes and 1 box)

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Niles, Nathaniel, 1856-1913. Papers, 1881-1885.

Title: Papers, 1881-1885.

Letter to Niles from Professor Edward North of Hamilton College and letter to Niles' cousin W.H. Niles from S.N.D. North, recording secretary of the Oneida Historical Society, concerning Niles' appearance before the society to present a paper on Samson Occom.

ArchivalResource: 3 items ; 22 x 28 cm. and smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84330021 View

Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986,. Literary and historical letters and documents, [ca. 1661]-1976.

Title: Literary and historical letters and documents, [ca. 1661]-1976.

Letters written to Frank Topham, ca. 1879; letters from various 19th century artists including Wyke Bayliss, G. Bowers Edwards, and Carl Haag; letters to Jerome Milkman, 1925-1958; letters to Howes Norris, 1908-1930; letters from various 20th century artists including Sir D.Y. Cameron, Sir John Collier, and Sir Gerald Kelley; and letters and a few manuscripts and documents of various American and British authors. Also, a group of French documents and letters from immediately following the French Revolution, 1793-1812, mostly dealing with military and governmental matters. Correspondents and signers include Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, Jean Jacques Regis Cambacérès, Jean Etienne Championnet, and Jean Baptiste Michel Saladin. Letters, 1814-1832, written to United States ministers to France including William Harris Crawford, Albert Gallatin, William Cabell River, and Nathaniel Niles. The correspondents include Elie Decazes, Antoine René Charles Mathurin, comte de La Forest, and Armand Emmanuel du Plesis, duc de Richelieu. The letters deal with a variety of diplomatic matters such as the exchange of war prisoners and refuge for the ship DECATUR.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1,100 items (9 boxes)

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Davis, John W. Letters, 1930, Fairlee, Vt., to Harold G. Rugg, [Hanover, N.H.].

Title: Letters, 1930, Fairlee, Vt., to Harold G. Rugg, [Hanover, N.H.].

Information on the Niles family, Nathaniel Niles, and on the history of Fairlee and West Fairlee, Vt.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6203441 View

Niles, Nathaniel, 1741-1828. Papers. 1779-1834 (Bulk 1790-1803).

Title: Papers. 1779-1834 (Bulk 1790-1803).

Letter to a son on latter's decision to study for the ministry (at Dartmouth College?); letter from John Dane of Maine, fragments of essays or lectures; legal papers and accounts; deeds.

ArchivalResource: 16 pieces.

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Tyler, Moses Coit, 1835-1900. Moses Coit Tyler collection, 1779-1899 (bulk 1850-1899).

Title: Moses Coit Tyler collection, 1779-1899 (bulk 1850-1899).

Correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, clippings, and documents by, to or about Moses Coit Tyler, richly documenting his personal and family life, his religious and scholarly pursuits, and the reception of his scholarly work. Includes correspondence among many members of Tyler's family, ranging in date from 1779-1899; drafts of sermons, lectures, and speeches Tyler gave, including an 1871 speech, "Woman is a Person"; diaries Tyler kept from 1858-1859 and 1870-1899; manuscripts (mainly letters) of prominent Americans; and commonplace books in which Tyler recorded quotations, kept from 1853-1855 and 1857-1861. Also included are reviews of and personal letters about Tyler's books A History of American Literature During the Colonial Time, 1607-1765; The Literary History of the American Revolution, 1763-1783; Patrick Henry; Three Men of Letters; and Glimpses of England. Correspondence includes letters from Tyler to his wife Jeannette in which he records his and other people's reactions to the events of the Civil War. Correspondents include Charles Kendall Adams, J.B. Angell, M.D. Conway, Willard Fiske, S.S. Harris, Paul Hamilton Hayne, G.H. Putnam, H.W. Sage, Jacob Gould Schurman, Edmund Clarence Stedman, T. Tilton, and A.D. White. Family correspondents include Roland Greene, Mary Greene Tyler, Charles C. Tyler, John Tyler, Elisha Tyler, Olive Tyler, Rebecca Tyler, and Jeannette Tyler. Manuscripts collected by Tyler include letters by John Trumbull, Nathaniel Niles, and William Wirt Henry, with 2 letters by Daniel Webster and an autograph essay by Abbé Raynal, "Nouvelle Angleterre."

ArchivalResource: 9.5 linear ft.

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Niles, John Barron, 1808-1879. Letter, 3 November 1830, La Porte, Ind., to H.H. Niles, Post Mills, Vt.

Title: Letter, 3 November 1830, La Porte, Ind., to H.H. Niles, Post Mills, Vt.

Communicates news of death of his brother, Nathaniel Niles. Pages 2-3 addressed to his parents and contains news of his brother's death.

ArchivalResource: [3] p. on fold leaf. 40 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6046401 View