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Peale-Sellers family collection, 1686-1963

Title: Peale-Sellers Family Collection, 1686-1963

The collection, divided into seven series, represents the careers and interests of the members of the Peale-Sellers family from the 1670s to 1960s. More than half is correspondence among various members of the families. The Peale family is best known as a family of artists; however, family interests and activities were much more wide-ranging. The best known Peale is Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827, APS 1786), who produced more than one thousand paintings, including hundreds of portraits of leading Americans during the colonial and early national periods. Peale was married three times, to Rachel Brewster (1744-1790), Elizabeth de Peyster (1765-1804), and Hannah More (1755-1821). He had eighteen children, eleven of whom reached adulthood. Three of Charles Willson Peale’s sons became artists: Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825), Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), and Rubens Peale (1784-1865). A fourth son, Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885, APS 1833), was a naturalist (who made drawings on the exploring expeditions he accompanied) and pioneer in photography, and another son, Benjamin Franklin Peale (1795-1870), became a naturalist and paleontologist. Peale’s daughter Sophonisba Angusciola was married to Coleman Sellers (1781-1834), an inventor and manufacturer of machinery, including locomotives. Two of their sons, George Escol Sellers (1808-1899) and Coleman Sellers (1827-1907, APS 1872), were inventors and engineers. The latter served as director of the construction of the hydro-electric power development at Niagara Falls. He was married to Cornelia Wells Sellers (1831-1909). One of their grandsons was Charles Coleman Sellers (1903-1980, APS 1979), a librarian and historian and the author of several studies of the Peale family, including a Charles Willson Peale biography.

ArchivalResource: 19.0 Linear feet; 38 Boxes; 147 Volumes

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Theodore Roosevelt Collection: Books, pamphlets, periodicals, 18-- - <ongoing>

Title: Theodore Roosevelt Collection: Books, pamphlets, periodicals, 18-- - <ongoing>

Publications are primarily contained in the Roosevelt class, a classified sequence of books, pamphlets, contemporary periodical and later scholarly journal articles (clippings or offprints), theses and dissertations, broadsides, newsclippings, and other formats as noted below. Some ms. items. Works by Theodore Roosevelt: Collected sets, individual editions and reprints, reviews, translations. Collected and individual letters, diaries, speeches (including extracts and commentaries), proclamations, and official messages. Contributions (including prefaces, introductions, and forewords) in works by others, to magazines and society publications, book reviews, works of joint authorship, editorials. Anthologies. Editions for the blind. Works about Theodore Roosevelt: Bibliographies. Biographies and other general works. Anecdotes, reminiscences of contemporaries, and other works with TR references. TR as a religious man, naturalist, man of letters (also books belonging to TR, largely Harvard texts, and to other family), outdoorsman. Works dedicated to TR. Ancestry, family, works by family members, homes. Career by special periods and events, each segment including all formats, campaign literature, honorary degrees and citations received. Memorials: addresses, resolutions, anniversaries, sites, organizations. Pictures and cartoons (see: Theodore Roosevelt Collection : visual materials (008177700); Theodore Roosevelt Collection : political cartoons (008177701)). Satirical and comic works. Poetry, drama, fiction, juvenile biographies. Biographies and writings of contemporaries. General U.S. history, local history, political parties (including Progressive periodicals; see also special periods). Files of contemporary periodicals, newspapers; newspaper indexes, biographies of journalists. General newsclippings: mounted and unmounted series, scrapbooks (see: Theodore Roosevelt Collection: ephemera (000602382)) For further details see: Guide to the Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library, available onsite, under: Roosevelt class.

ArchivalResource: Ca. 12,000 volumes

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Merritt, Jesse S. Jesse S. Merritt and Jesse L. Stenick letter : San Francisco, [Calif.], to Jesse and Sally, [Perryville?] Mo. : ALS, 1852 Oct. 14.

Title: Jesse S. Merritt and Jesse L. Stenick letter : San Francisco, [Calif.], to Jesse and Sally, [Perryville?] Mo. : ALS, 1852 Oct. 14.

Letter from Merritt to his young son, Jesse, in which he expresses his regret at being so far from him, especially since his mother has passed away. He also offers advice and promises to write every fifteen days. Attached is a letter from Merritt's cousin, Stenick, to his cousin, Sally, who is looking after young Jesse. After one failed business venture, he is currently clerking for P.A. Chagal of New York for $175 per month. He writes that he could stay and make money, but would prefer to be with his friends and plans to return home, mentioning other people there who would do the same. Also, he states that San Francisco is an awful place for modest females, but that there are some of the fastest females there in the world. In addition, he describes the Chinese as odd, but that some are very shrewd in their business transactions.

ArchivalResource: 4 p.

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Papers, 1782-1946.

Title: Papers, 1782-1946.

Genealogy notes on the Weeks and related families, ca. 1945; letter from Jesse Merritt on the genealogy of the Willets family, 1946; copies of wills from the Underhill family, 1782-1799; prayer, appointment, and extract of minutes from Friends meetings, 1794-1830; marriage certificate of Silas Weeks and Sarah J. Underhill, 1816; three family letters, 1805-1847; and agreement and two letters of the Long Island Railroad Company concerning the line from Hempstead to Glen Cove, 1859.

ArchivalResource: .3 cubic ft.

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Jesse Merritt, 1889-1957. Family papers, 1838-1949.

Title: Family papers, 1838-1949.

This collection contains the papers of Jesse Merritt including biographical and genealogical material, correspondence, writing, legal papers, and memorabilia. In addition to the information on Nassau County, N.Y., of particular note is a letter collected by Jesse Merritt from Isaac T. Hopper concerning a young female former prisoner who was looking for work.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes ; 1 linear ft.

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Winston Churchill letter to Jesse Merritt, 1943

Title: Winston Churchill letter to Jesse Merritt 1943

ArchivalResource: 0.01 Linear feet; in one folder.

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Correspondence, 1929-1957.

Title: Correspondence, 1929-1957.

Correspondence of Meade C. Dobson with Leonard W. Hall, U.S. Congressman, Robert L. Bacon, U.S. Congressman, Elvin N. Edwards, District Attorney of Nassau County, N.Y., W. Kingsland Macy, Suffolk County (N.Y.) Republican Committee, S. Wentworth Horton, Stuyvesant Wainwright, Perry Duryea, Jr., Congressman Ernest Greenwood, Ward Melville, and Jesse Merritt concerning Congressional issues and bills affecting Long Island, especially from the Rivers and Harbors Committee, business affairs of the Long Island Association, formation of the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, and local history issues.

ArchivalResource: .5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155554030 View