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Smith, Francis O. J. (Francis Ormand Jonathan), 1806-1876. Papers, 1827-1838.

Title: Papers, 1827-1838.

Correspondence discussing Martin Van Buren as Andrew Jackson's choice for presidential candidate in 1836; the interest of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John McLean in the nomination; the prospects of B.W. Leigh and William C. Rives for re-election in Virginia; the impending appointment of Andrew Stevenson as minister to England; the Second Bank of the U.S.; and the administration of the U.S. Post Office by W.T. Barry.

ArchivalResource: 11 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20314759 View

Brackett family. Deeds and legal documents, 1787-1862.

Title: Deeds and legal documents, 1787-1862.

Chiefly copies of deeds, petitions for land divisions, and documents of a court case involving John Brackett for land division, including arguments by F.O.J. Smith in the case.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70974604 View

Autograph File, S, 1556-1996.

Title: Autograph File, S, 1556-1996.

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 15.5 boxes (7.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01442/catalog View

Cumberland and Oxford Canal collection, 1859-1877.

Title: Cumberland and Oxford Canal collection, 1859-1877.

Collection of papers and letters relating to the Cumberland and Oxford Canal.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191955430 View

York and Cumberland Railroad Company manuscripts, 1840-1854.

Title: York and Cumberland Railroad Company manuscripts, 1840-1854.

Manuscript items regarding the York and Cumberland Railroad enterprise.

ArchivalResource: 11 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/773206959 View

Smith, Francis O. J. (Francis Ormond Jonathan), 1806-1876. Francis O.J. Smith correspondence, 1835-1871.

Title: Francis O.J. Smith correspondence, 1835-1871.

Correspondence of Smith, Portland, Me., consisting of letters from Moses Mason, David Bronson, Hezekiah Williams, John Ruggles, John M. Wood, Freeman J. Morse, Mark H. Dunnell, Elbridge Gerry, and Lorenzo de Medici Sweat; together with letters of Smith to Seba Smith and Sterling Dow.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/234235233 View

Francis O.J. Smith correspondence, 1828-1870

Title: Francis O.J. Smith correspondence 1828-1870

Francis Ormond Jonathan Smith (1806-1876) was a lawyer, businessman and United States Congressman from Maine, 1833-1839. Smith assisted Samuel F.B. Morse in introducing the electric telegraph. Collection consists of Smith's correspondence with Amos Kendall, Ezra Cornell, Eliphalet Case, J.J. Speed, Jr., and others, but not including Morse, relating primarily to political matters. Some letters deal with the introduction of the electric telegraph.

ArchivalResource: .2 linear foot (12 folders)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2784 View

Smith's Home for Aged Indigent Mothers (Westbrook, Me.). Smith's Home for Aged Indigent Mothers record book, 1864-1938.

Title: Smith's Home for Aged Indigent Mothers record book, 1864-1938.

Manuscript record book (39 p. used out of 560 p.).

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/471881882 View

Smith, Francis O. J. (Francis Ormond Jonathan), 1806-1876. Francis O. J. Smith autograph letter signed, 1852 Oct. 18.

Title: Francis O. J. Smith autograph letter signed, 1852 Oct. 18.

ALS, Portland, Me., to R. A. L. Codman, Portland.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/271515951 View

Smith, Francis O. J. (Francis Ormond Jonathan), 1806-1876. Francis O.J. Smith papers, ca. 1849-1860.

Title: Francis O.J. Smith papers, ca. 1849-1860.

Miscellaneous papers including bills and receipts; a lease (ca. 1849) from Smith to Joseph Proctor (of the Portland Museum), and messages of J.T. Smith and J.J. Speed to F.O.J. Smith.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225532533 View

Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1835-1890.

Eighty-five A.L.S. to various correspondents including Burns, Childs, Estabrook, Hilgard, Landon, Morgan, and Smith, 9 autograph signatures, 2 A. checks S., 5 D.S. including several concerned with the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.

ArchivalResource: 101 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10166366 View

Smith, Francis O. J. (Francis Ormond Jonathan), 1806-1876. Quotations, [undated].

Title: Quotations, [undated].

Book of quotations, undated.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70973399 View

Woodman, Jabez C. (Jabez Cushman), 1804-1869. Miscellaneous correspondence of Jabez C. Woodman, 1866.

Title: Miscellaneous correspondence of Jabez C. Woodman, 1866.

Miscellaneous correspondence consisting of letters to Woodman from Signey Perham, Thomas A. Jenckes, John Lynch, and F. O. J. Smith, chiefly concerned with U.S. bankruptcy laws and the reorganization of the Androscoggin and Leeds and Farmington Railroads.

ArchivalResource: 48 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166428868 View

Smith, Francis, fl. 1806. Autograph letters signed (2) : Stony Hill, Jamaica, to Sir James Murray-Pulteney, 1806 June 18-1806 July 12.

Title: Autograph letters signed (2) : Stony Hill, Jamaica, to Sir James Murray-Pulteney, 1806 June 18-1806 July 12.

Concerning the state of the Royal Irish Regiment, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (7 p.) ; (fol.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270664282 View

Rives, William C. (William Cabell), 1793-1868. Papers of William Cabell Rives, 1824-1842.

Title: Papers of William Cabell Rives, 1824-1842.

The collection consists chiefly of letters to Rives from constituents, friends and family members. Most of the correspondence was written while Rives was serving as U.S. Senator from Virginia and discusses political matters. Specific topics in letters to Rives include Lewis Cass, Duff Green; William Henry Harrison; Andrew Jackson; John Tyler; Abel P. Upshur; "instruction" of Senators; a national bank; the currency question; the public debt; taxes and tariffs; politics in Virginia, Maine and New York; the Loco-focos; the Whigs; diplomacy and the Quintuple and Webster-Ashburton Treaties in regards to the slave trade; the U.S. Navy; the American Colonization Society; agriculture in Albemarle County;and the University of Virginia Board of Visitors. Correspondents include John S. Barbour, William M. Burwell, Virginia R. Cary, Edward Coles, Charles Augustus Davis, Charles Duncombe, Robley Dunglison, Samuel Dyer, James M. Garnett, John Thornton Gilmer, Thomas W. Gilmer, Isaac Hull, John Letcher, Nathaniel Niles, Jr., Richard Pollard, Francis O.J. Smith, and James Tallmadge. Topics in the general family correspondence include Dolley Madison; William Branch Giles' gubernatorial chances; the elections of 1828 and 1844; the Whigs; John Tyler; Henry Clay; the National Bank; and politics in Albemarle County and in Virginia. Of interest is a typescript copy of a letter from Judith Page Rives describing her impression of Charles Dickens. The papers also contain political essays, hymns, newspaper clippings of a series of articles on the slavery question by Judge S. Wilkeson, and some legal and financial documents including a petition to the House of Representatives on the Bankrupt Law from 50 citizens of New York City, mostly tradesmen, 1842. Essay topics include indirect taxes;a fiscal agent of the United States government (national bank); national revenue from tariffs vs public land sales and the compromise of 1833 (amendments to resolutions by Henry Clay); and Thomas Jefferson's letter to Peter Carr on travel.

ArchivalResource: 190 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53004443 View

Lamson Studio (Portland, Me.). Lamson Studio collection of glass plate negatives, 1800s-ca. 1900.

Title: Lamson Studio collection of glass plate negatives, 1800s-ca. 1900.

Glass plate negatives of Maine people, many of them well-known such as: Robert Browning, Herman Kotzschmar, George S. Fessenden, John Neal, Thomas Brackett Reed, James Augustine Healy, Daniel Longfellow, James Phinney Baxter, Samuel Fessenden, Edward P. Payson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jacob McLellan, Francis Ormond Jonathan Smith, Seba Smith, Lillian Marilla Nickerson Stevens, William Willis, James Augustine Healy, and Nathan Webb.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft. (6 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70979386 View

York and Cumberland Railroad Company collection, 1840.

Title: York and Cumberland Railroad Company collection, 1840.

Manuscript items dealing with the York and Cumberland Railroad enterprise.

ArchivalResource: 11 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/768421838 View

Smith, Francis O. J. (Francis Ormond Jonathan), 1806-1876. Papers, 1818-1876.

Title: Papers, 1818-1876.

Correspondence (chiefly legal and political), legal papers, scrapbooks, pamphlets, and other papers.

ArchivalResource: 12 linear ft. (6000 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71014280 View

Francis O.J. Smith correspondence, 1828-1870.

Title: Francis O.J. Smith correspondence, 1828-1870.

Collection consists of Smith's correspondence with Amos Kendall, Ezra Cornell, Eliphalet Case, J.J. Speed, Jr., and others, but not including Morse, relating primarily to political matters.

ArchivalResource: .2 linear foot (12 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122517437 View

Smith, Francis O. J. (Francis Ormond Jonathan), 1806-1876. Correspondence, 1829-1866.

Title: Correspondence, 1829-1866.

Correspondence to F.O.J. Smith pertaining to Maine politics and personal affairs.

ArchivalResource: 17 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70976923 View

Smith, Seba, 1792-1868. Collection: 1838-1851.

Title: Collection: 1838-1851.

The papers contain a satirical manuscript in the form of a Major Jack Downing letter to the editor of the Leveller, 1851 Feb., relating all the news from Downingville including the latest fuss over "Wimmens rites" which destroyed a local romance. In the correspondence, there is 1 letter from Smith to George Rex Graham, 1843 Jul 6, where Smith submits an article to Graham's Magazine and mentions another article, A race for a sweetheart; another letter recommends George W. Chase, a young lawyer moving west; and another From Smith to Francis O. J. Smith, 1845 Oct 27, discusses the indebtedness of Francis O. J. Smith of Portland, Maine, which he agrees to settle for three hundred dollars.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122318723 View

Pierce, George W. (George Washington). Correspondence, 1832-1834.

Title: Correspondence, 1832-1834.

Fifteen political letters to George W. Pierce of Portland, from Nathan Clifford, Edmund Mann, John D. McCrate, and Francis O.J. Smith.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70976916 View

Alden, Hiram Orlando, 1800-1862. Papers, 1781-1893.

Title: Papers, 1781-1893.

Correspondence, legal, and other papers, relating to Alden's political and professional activities; correspondence of others relating to local affairs and politics during the Jacksonian period; and other business and legal papers.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70972158 View

Pierce, George Washington. Correspondence of George Washington Pierce and his brother Josiah Pierce. 1829-1836.

Title: Correspondence of George Washington Pierce and his brother Josiah Pierce

Includes correspondence and letters of John Anderson, Jonathan Cilley, Nathan Clifford, Robert P. Dunlap, John Fairfield, Simon Greenleaf, Hannibal Hamlin, John Ruggles, F.O.J. Smith, Seba Smith, Ezekial Whitman, Levi Woodbury, and others; correspondence concerns political affairs.

ArchivalResource: 64 items.

https://minerva.maine.edu/search~S24?/aPierce+family./apierce+family/-3%2C-1%2C0%2CB/frameset&FF=apierce+family&2%2C%2C4 View

Vail, Alfred, 1807-1859. [Collection of materials concerning Samuel F.B. Morse's patent for the telegraph ].

Title: [Collection of materials concerning Samuel F.B. Morse's patent for the telegraph ]. 1848-1853.

A compilation of affidavits, depositions, and other publications relating to challenges to S.F.B. Morse's patent for the electric telegraph. Most directly concern the suit brought by Henry O'Reilly (or O'Rielly) et al. Concerns cases heard in U.S. Circuit Court and the U.S. Supreme Court.

ArchivalResource: 13 pieces ; 21-22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60248754 View

Choate, Rufus, 1799-1859. Correspondence, 1854-1856.

Title: Correspondence, 1854-1856.

Correspondence to F.O.J. Smith from Choate concerning the York and Cumberland Railroad.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70978547 View

Smith, Seba, 1792-1868. Papers of Seba Smith [manuscript], 1838-1851.

Title: Papers of Seba Smith [manuscript], 1838-1851.

The papers contain a satirical manuscript in the form of a Major Jack Downing letter to the editor of the "Leveller." In letters Smith submits an article to "Graham's Magazine," and mentions another article, "A race for a sweetheart"; recommends George W. Chase, a young lawyer moving west; and discusses the indebtedness of Francis O. J. Smith of Portland, Maine, which he agrees to settle for three hundred dollars. Correspondents include George Rex Graham and Francis O. J. Smith.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647814555 View

Smith, Francis O. J. (Francis Ormond Jonathan), 1806-1876. Digest of congressional reports, 1844.

Title: Digest of congressional reports, 1844.

A digest of the reports of committees of the United States Congress, 1st to the 28th.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.9 containers.3.6 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77998327 View

Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869. ALS, 1863 Sept. 8.

Title: ALS, 1863 Sept. 8.

ALS from former Pres. Franklin Pierce to F.O.J. Smith, in Portland, Me.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70976921 View

Francis O. J. Smith Digest of Congressional Reports, 1844

Title: Francis O. J. Smith Digest of Congressional Reports 1844

U.S. representative from Maine. A digest of the reports of committees of the United States Congress, First to Twenty-eighth Congress, compiled by Smith.

ArchivalResource: 1 item; 9 containers; 3.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012150 View