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Episcopal Bishops collection 1778-1911 Episcopal Bishops collection

Title: Episcopal Bishops collection 1778-1911 Episcopal Bishops collection

This collection contains letters, biographical newspaper clippings, cartes de visite, and other material related to Episcopal bishops between the late 18th and early 20th centuries.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot

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Memorials, 1905-1934.

Title: Memorials, 1905-1934.

Memorial resolutions and biographies of deceased members of club for Episcopal clergymen. Those memorialized include Octavius Applegate, Charles H. Babcock, Joseph M. Blanchard, Charles William Edmond Body, George H. Bottome, Charles A. Briggs, George Frederick Flichtner, William M. Grosvenor, Thomas R. Harris, William M. Hughes, William R. Huntington, John Robert Moses, Louis S. Osborne, James Lewis Parks, Henry Codman Potter, Henry Yates Satterlee, Lawrence Henry Schwab, Cornelius Smith, Roland Cotton Smith, Caleb Stetson, Robert Norwood, Frank Crowder, Charles C. Tiffany, and Thomas S. Yocom.

ArchivalResource: .2 cubic ft.

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Scrapbook relating to Benjamin Hazard Field, 1837-1892.

Title: Scrapbook relating to Benjamin Hazard Field, 1837-1892.

Scrapbook containing manuscripts, photographs, correspondence, and printed ephemera relating chiefly to Benjamin Hazard Field. The scrapbook consists chiefly of manuscript and printed versions (clippings) of poems. There are manuscript drafts and copies of poems by Field, his daughter, Virginia Hazard Field, DeWitt Clinton Judah, and M. Cohen Stuart. There are printed versions of poems by Field, Clinton, and numerous other American and English writers of the mid to late nineteenth century, including William Cullen Bryant, John White Chadwick, Emily C. Judson, Augusta Larned, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mary Toles Peet, Charles Swain, and Martin Farquhar Tupper. There are four cartes-de-visite images of Field and five autograph signed letters, including two from Field, to Reverend Henry Yates Satterlee and "Mlle Le Prince," and one to Field from DeWitt Clinton Judah. Additional printed ephemera includes a reproduction of the presidents of the New-York Historical Society, including Field, and an invitation from the Home for Incurables (later St. Barnabas Hospital for Chronic Diseases), Field's principal New York area charity.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ([76] sheets) ; 32 cm.

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Brown, Alexander, 1843-1906,. Papers of the Rives, Sears and Rhinelander families [manuscript], 1829-1923.

Title: Papers of the Rives, Sears and Rhinelander families [manuscript], 1829-1923.

The papers contain correspondence, business and legal papers, genealogical papers, diary, photographs, clippings, and memorabilia of the Rives family and especially William Cabell Rives Sr., Judith Page Walker Rives, William Cabell Rives Jr., Grace Winthrop Sears Rives, and William Cabell Rives III. Correspondence discusses United States and Virginia politics, 1830-1860; the Civil War and post war desolation; the University of Virginia including the Jefferson Society, calithumps, and life on the East Range; German travels, 1851; the management of, alterations to, and life on a Cobham, Virginia, farm, 1853-1855. Of interest is an 1845 letter describing a plantation on a Louisiana bayou, and a slave-pulled tow boat; 1834 letters to William Cabell Rives re the United States Senatorial elections and the principles of instruction; copies of remarks made by him in Congress, 1827, 1836;and letters from him to his wife re politics in Washington in 1844; Also of interest are an 1851 letter describing Paris during Napoleon III's coup d'etat and the establishment of the 2nd Empire; two April 1865 letters re the murder trial of a man in Mosby's command; letters, 1872-1873, from William Cabell Rives as a student at Corpus Christi, Oxford; and correspondence re the construction of Cobham Park, designed by George Snell and built by E.S. McSparren; Also of interest are a diary, 1869-1894, containing brief entries and notes on family members, 1860-1909; and some manuscript histories of the Cabell family by Samuel Houston, and Alexander Brown. Correspondents include Lewis Minor Coleman, Edward Everett, Joseph Grinnell, George Long, E.S. McSparran, William Mahone, Einle George Money, Thomas Walker Page, Lyon Playfair, William Foushee Ritchie, Alfred Landon Rives, Ella Rives, Francis Robert Rives, George Rives, Mary F. Rhinelander Rives, David Sears, Ellen Sears, Frederick R. Sears, Kuyvett W. Sears, Amelie Louise Rives Sigourney, Amelie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy, and Cornelius Walker.

ArchivalResource: 278 items.

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