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Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909,. Papers of Alice and Phoebe Cary, 1855-1870.

Title: Papers of Alice and Phoebe Cary, 1855-1870.

The collection contains manuscripts for : "Our spirits seem to me as wines..," March 1855, and "Adelied," n.d. by Alice Cary; and "Uncertainty" and "Alas," n.d., by Phoebe Cary. Letters written by Alice Cary and Phoebe Cary discuss health, writing, editing and publishing matters, and offer advice and encouragement to others. Frederick West Lander, Charles F. Deems, Thurlow Weed and John Greenleaf Whittier are mentioned. Correspondents include Charles F. Deems, Richard Watson Gilder, Emily Hartley, James Ripley Osgood, Richard Henry Stoddard. The collections also contains engravings of both sisters, and a photograph of Phoebe. A bound volume of clippings contains copies of their poetry, obituaries, and reminiscences of them, as well as the manuscript for "Alas."

ArchivalResource: 38 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50298700 View

Philip Case Lockwood memorial collection of Civil War portraits and autographs, 1862-ca. 1886.

Title: Philip Case Lockwood memorial collection of Civil War portraits and autographs, 1862-ca. 1886.

Scrapbook collection of Civil War photographs and autographs, assembled by Philip Case Lockwood.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (.38 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00542/catalog View

MS 23456, McKean, Theodore 1829-1897. Theodore McKean papers 1826-1902

Title: MS 23456, McKean, Theodore 1829-1897. Theodore McKean papers 1826-1902

ArchivalResource:

https://eadview.lds.org/findingaid/MS%2023456/ View

Collection of autographs, [ca. 1797 to ca. 1915]

Title: Collection of autographs, [ca. 1797 to ca. 1915]

Mostly autographs and signatures from disbound autograph albums; some separate autographs; and clipped signatures.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear foot.

http://josiah.brown.edu/record=b2499519~S7 View

Lander family. Lander family papers, 1848-1863.

Title: Lander family papers, 1848-1863.

Correspondence, documents, photographs, and political and military broadside and printed materials of Edward and Frederick Lander. Topics covered include exploration of Washington Territory and the Northwest Passage, the Civil War, proposal of the pacific railroad, and political activities in Washington Territory. Also includes some items pertianing to Louisa Lander.

ArchivalResource: 3 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122500125 View

Lander, F. W. (Frederick West), 1821-1862. Papers of F. W. Lander, 1836-1894 (bulk 1849-1862).

Title: Papers of F. W. Lander, 1836-1894 (bulk 1849-1862).

Correspondence, writings, military dispatches and telegrams, notes, maps, reports, scrapbooks, printed material, and other papers relating to Lander's activities surveying and exploring overland routes through the West, his advocacy of a western railroad system, his political activities in California, and his Civil War service in Virginia and Maryland under Generals George B. McClellan and Charles P. Stone. Correspondents include Simon Cameron, Jefferson Davis, John B. Floyd, John W. Garrett, Moses Kelly, Joseph Lane, George B. McClellan, James A. McDougall, William Starke Rosecrans, Winfield Scott, and Lansing Stout. Also includes correspondence and scrapbooks (1836-1894) of Lander's wife, Jean (Davenport) Lander (1829-1903) relating to her career (1837-1877) as an actress in Europe, North America, and the Caribbean. Her correspondents include Alexander Graham Bell, Edwin Booth, Dion Boucicault, Henry Clay, Millard Fillmore, John Hay, Joseph Jefferson, Harriet Lane, Thomas Keene, Julia Marlowe, Charles Reade, Whitelaw Reid, and Anna Cora Ritchie.

ArchivalResource: 1,250 items.12 containers.1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71062217 View

Wight, Jermy Benton. Final draft manuscript : Frederick W. Lander and the Lander Trail : typescript, 1993 / Jermy Wight.

Title: Final draft manuscript : Frederick W. Lander and the Lander Trail : typescript, 1993 / Jermy Wight.

ArchivalResource: unpaged : ill. maps ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42068394 View

Shepherd, Edward, fl. 1862-1864. Edward Shepherd letters to his wife [manuscript], 1862-1864.

Title: Edward Shepherd letters to his wife [manuscript], 1862-1864.

Shepherd's letters discuss life in camp, news from home, mutual acquaintances and hopes for the war's end. He mentions (usually very briefly) General Lander's funeral, fighting the Merrimack, hospitalization, losing his Bible at Fair Oaks, the retreat from Harrison's Landing, taking a vase from a cemetery vault, rumors of a raid by [Roger Atkinson?] Pryor, sleigh riding during a snow storm, a fire in Norfolk, deserters from the regiment, Confederate seige of Suffolk, oyster harvesting, cigar making for the sutlers, an expedition up the Peninsula (March 64), heavy late winter snowstorm, duty as ambulance driver and post teamster, attending theatre to see "7 sisters," scouting expedition to Cape Henry, taken prisoner near Cape Henry while on ambulance duty, and soldiers snubbed by populace when attending churches.

ArchivalResource: 39 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647974179 View

Woodward, Ashbel, 1804-1885. Ashbel Woodward biography collection, undated.

Title: Ashbel Woodward biography collection, undated.

A collection of biographies of Civil War officers written and compiled by Ashbel Woodward of Hartford, Connecticut.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear foot (53 biographies).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/435639388 View

Abel, James F. Notes concerning the history of Humboldt County, Nevada, 1946.

Title: Notes concerning the history of Humboldt County, Nevada, 1946.

The notes deal with Frederick West Lander, the Pacific Wagon Road, and three place names in southern Oregon adjacent to Humboldt County-Denio, Pueblo, and White Horse Creek and Ranch, with biographical information about Aaron Denio.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25750928 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part III: The Civil War: The Union, 1804-1915.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part III: The Civil War: The Union, 1804-1915.

Autograph letters and documents of officers and statesmen associated with the Union in the Civil War collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01501/catalog View

Leland, Joy. Papers and research materials, 1979-1995.

Title: Papers and research materials, 1979-1995.

Contains grant funded research materials on alcoholism of urban Nevada female Indians and publications presented about the findings. Also research materials collected for the biography of Frederick West Lander, explorer and soldier who led or participated in five transcontinental surveys for transportation routes (1853-1860). Anna Lander West McDonnell Papers have been accessioned as a separate mansucript collection: 96-13.

ArchivalResource: 15 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57029854 View

Gray, Richard L. Richard L. Gray diary of his life at Johnson's Island Prison Camp [manuscript] 1862.

Title: Richard L. Gray diary of his life at Johnson's Island Prison Camp [manuscript] 1862.

Gray describes his life as a prisoner of war at Johnson's Island, and his trip by rail and steamer to Vicksburg to be exchanged. The diary contains a list of prisoners at the island including men from the 31st, 51st and 89th Virginia regiments captured at Bloomery Gap, W. Va., February 14, 1862 by forces of General Frederick West Lander; and a narrative of the war experiences of a Mrs.[Anne Evalina Hunter?] McGill of the lower Valley.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647943205 View

Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863. Thomas J. ("Stonewall") Jackson papers, undated.

Title: Thomas J. ("Stonewall") Jackson papers, undated.

Contains the following type of materials: letters. Contains information pertaining to the following war: Civil War. General description of the collection: The Thomas J. ("Stonewall") Jackson papers include photocopies of a letter from Thomas J. Jackson to General Joseph E. Johnston (Winchester, Virginia) dated February 17, 1862, giving intelligence as to location and possible operations of Brigadier General Frederick W. Lander's federal troops, recommending certain defensive dispositions for Confederate forces, and commenting in passing to the Loring affair during the Romney expedition.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50410994 View

Portrait file: Guide.

Title: Portrait file: Guide.

The Portrait File is an alphabetically arranged collection of portait images of individuals, groups of individuals, and views and miscellany, received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 15 boxes (5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01675/catalog View

Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

Title: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

A collection of images, manuscripts, and printed material, mostly relating to the Massachusetts soldiers and regiments in the American Civil War. Some material relates to other Union regiments and the Confederate States of America.

ArchivalResource: 47 linear feet (143 boxes, 2 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00124/catalog View

Shepherd, Edward, fl. 1862-1864. Letters to his wife [manuscript, 1862-1864.

Title: Letters to his wife [manuscript, 1862-1864.

Shepherd's letters discuss life in camp, news from home, mutual acquaintances and hopes for the war's end. He mentions (usually very briefly) General Lander's funeral, fighting the Merrimack, hospitalization, losing his Bible at Fair Oaks, the retreat from Harrison's Landing, taking a vase from a cemetery vault, rumors of a raid by [Roger Atkinson?] Pryor, sleigh riding during a snow storm, a fire in Norfolk, deserters from the regiment, Confederate seige of Suffolk, oyster harvesting, cigar making for the sutlers, an expedition up the Peninsula (March 64), heavy late winter snowstorm, duty as ambulance driver and post teamster, attending theatre to see "7 sisters," scouting expedition to Cape Henry, taken prisoner near Cape Henry while on ambulance duty, and soldiers snubbed by populace when attending churches.

ArchivalResource: 39 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60820419 View

McDonnell, Anna Lander West, 1876-1966. Anna Lander West McDonnell papers, 1849-1964.

Title: Anna Lander West McDonnell papers, 1849-1964.

The Anna McDonnell series includes her correspondence; passports; identity cards; materials related to the American Committee for Devastated France and the National League for Woman's Service; will of Anna's sister, Louisa Lander Pullman; and documents from Cypress Lawn Cemetery in San Francisco. Lander family papers include correspondence to and from Edward Lander, Sr., Edward Lander, Jr., Frederick West Lander, and Charles Lander West (Anna's father); wills of Frederick West Lander, Judge Edward Lander, and maternal grandfather Nathaniel West; lists of securities held for the George Singer (Pittsburgh, PA?) estate; roster of the Pacific Mining and Trading Company, 1894, which included Charles Lander West; and biographical information on Frederick West Lander and the Lander family.

ArchivalResource: .25 cu. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43343556 View

McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885. Autograph letter signed : Washington, to Brig.-Genl. Lander, 1861?.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Washington, to Brig.-Genl. Lander, 1861?.

Sending him orders.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270607849 View

Tenney, Charles, fl. 1861-1863. Correspondence of Charles Tenney with Adelaide Case, 1861-1863.

Title: Correspondence of Charles Tenney with Adelaide Case, 1861-1863.

Tenney writes to Case of Mecca, Ohio, concerning the campaigns and battles in which he participated. On a personal level the letters reflect the growing romance between Tenney and Case. Several of the letters are written on patriotic stationary. Letters from 1861 describe life in camp, Abraham Sanders Piatt's Zouaves, the hanging of a saloon keeper in Charleston, He mentions the removal of Frémont and the military maneuvers of Generals McClellan, Halleck and Rosecrans. Letters from January through June, 1862 describe camp life including a Washington's birthday celebration, troop movement through the the Shenandoah Valley, the retreat from Romney, the battle of Kernstown. There are mentions of Generals Lander, Shields, Geary, and Tyler. Letters from July through December, 1862, describe camp life, winter accomodations, marches and the battles of Cedar Mountain, Antietam, and South Mountain There are mentions of Generals McClellan, Stevens, Kearney, Greene, Burnside and Pope and thoughts on U.S. and Ohio politics including the gubernatorial campaign of Vallandigham. A small sketch of his camp is included. With the letters are three photographs and a journal kept from January to May, 1862 which contains drawings, quotations and poetry as well as accounts of troop movements. Letters from Adelaide G. Case to Tenney gives news of family and friends in Mecca, Ohio, including her brother Hal, who is also in the service. She describes school teaching in East Claridon, Ohio; war work; ans opinions of battles and generals. There is a brief mention of the Knights of the Golden Circle in Mecca.

ArchivalResource: 150 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52128614 View

Nichols, Henry K. Private. Journal. Construction of Ft. Kearney, South Pass and Honey Lake Wagon Road /by Henry K. Nichols, 1857.

Title: Private. Journal. Construction of Ft. Kearney, South Pass and Honey Lake Wagon Road /by Henry K. Nichols, 1857.

The journal covers the trip from Philadelphia to Indedpendence, where the expedition started. For the period of the expedition, there are daily entries until they reached Fort Laramie where Henry Nichols left William Magraw's command and awaited instructions from F. W. Lander.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (94 p.) ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702128249 View

Hay, John, 1838-1905. Correspondence, 1854-1914.

Title: Correspondence, 1854-1914.

Includes letters to Hay and to members of his family.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 6,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122480578 View

Lander, Frederick W. : Biographical file.

Title: Lander, Frederick W. : Biographical file. [1900-9999]

May contain: Resumes, newspaper articles, magazine articles, invitations to exhibition openings, gallery hand-outs, check-lists of exhibitions, advertisements, obituaries, 35 mm. slides of the artist's work.

ArchivalResource: 1 envelope : manila ; 13 x 10 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52902308 View