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Brown, Orville Chester, 1811-1904. Orville Chester Brown papers [microform], 1834-1904.

Title: Orville Chester Brown papers [microform], 1834-1904.

Correspondence, autobiography, and historical narratives pertaining to the slavery dispute in Kansas, 1854-61; town building in the Territory; national politics; the Civil War & his sons' service in it; efforts to secure his son's release following the latter's imprisonment as a Union spy; the effect of his son's execution; and his reminiscences about early Kansas, 1854-61. Correspondents include his wife, Mary Ann Cozzens Brown; Kansas U.S. Senator Samuel C. Pomeroy; Kansas Territorial Governors Wilson Shannon & Samuel Medary; Franklin G. Adams, secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society (Topeka); and his son, Spencer Kellogg Brown. Several documents written & annotated by and concerning Orville Chester Brown in other ms. collections and state archives records are included on this microfilm.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 290 items.Reproductions: 2 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49359613 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

Pomeroy, S. C. (Samuel Clarke), 1816-1891. Letter, March 2, 1864.

Title: Letter, March 2, 1864.

Signed letter to unknown recipient, to whom Pomeroy sent 10 copies of a circular and declares that they shall have a "speedy organization of the Chase elements at Phila."

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53882397 View

Thomas Ewing Family Papers, 1757-1941, (bulk 1815-1896)

Title: Thomas Ewing Family Papers 1757-1941 (bulk 1815-1896)

Correspondence, diaries, journals, legal files, military records, speeches and writings, reports, notes, autographs, scrapbooks, biographical material, commonplace books, financial records, genealogies, photographs, printed matter, and maps pertaining to members of the Ewing family including Thomas Ewing (1789-1871), senator from Ohio and cabinet member; Thomas Ewing (1829-1896), Union general during the Civil War and congressman from Ohio; Ellen Ewing Sherman and her husband, William T. Sherman, Civil War general; and Thomas Ewing (1862-1942), lawyer, writer, and patent commissioner.

ArchivalResource: 94,000 items; 303 containers plus 11 oversize; 123.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005009 View

Anna E. Dickinson Papers, 1859-1951, (bulk 1859-1911)

Title: Anna E. Dickinson Papers 1859-1951 (bulk 1859-1911)

Lecturer, reformer, actress, and author. Correspondence, speeches, writings, plays, legal files, financial papers, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and printed material relating to Dickinson's activities on behalf of abolition and women's rights and suffrage and to her career in the theater.

ArchivalResource: 10,000 items; 29 containers plus 2 oversize; 12.4 linear feet; 25 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006005 View

Smith, Caleb B. (Caleb Blood), 1808-1864. Papers, 1860-1869, 1932.

Title: Papers, 1860-1869, 1932.

Includes reports from Secretary of the Interior Caleb B. Smith to Abraham Lincoln detailing the advantages of Chiriqui compared with other possible colonization sites. Also correspondence to Ambrose W. Thompson of the Chiriqui Improvement Company.

ArchivalResource: 28 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/69399889 View

Adair, Samuel Lyle, 1811-1898. Samuel Lyle and Florella (Brown) Adair collection, 1831-1921 (bulk 1856-1865).

Title: Samuel Lyle and Florella (Brown) Adair collection, 1831-1921 (bulk 1856-1865).

Contains over 1600 letters and other records of Samuel Lyle Adair & his wife, Florella Brown Adair, and various members of each one's family. Includes correspondence, diaries, sermons, church records, and business records. Approx. 1/6 of the collection is correspondence (some Civil War) of son-in-law Jeremiah Berger Remington. One-sixth of the letters are 1831-1855, half are 1856-1865, 1/3 are from after the Civil War to 1921. Over 200 letters are from Adair's sisters and give a woman's point of view on this time period. There are also a few letters in John Brown's hand.

ArchivalResource: 3 ft. (8 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49356400 View

Gage, Matilda Joslyn, 1826-1898. Papers, 1840-1974 (inclusive) [microform].

Title: Papers, 1840-1974 (inclusive) [microform].

Collection consists of correspondence, writings, photographs, and published articles by or about Gage. The correspondence is divided into two parts: family and other. The latter deals mainly with Gage's speaking engagements, writing, and other suffrage work, and consists mainly of single letters from notable men and women, with a larger number from Susan B. Anthony. Family correspondence consists primarily of letters to Thomas Clarkson Gage and Helen Leslie Gage from their parents. The letters include descriptions of the mother's suffrage work, advice to Thomas upon his marriage in 1885, and lengthy discussions of financial affairs, particularly regarding Thomas's business dealings in South Dakota. Letters written in later years reflect Matilda Gage's growing interest in spiritualism, with advice based on astrological and spiritual considerations. Also included are manuscripts of stories and essays by Gage, most undated; published pamphlets and addresses by Gage or her colleagues in the suffrage movement; and photocopies of two scrapbooks: one, assembled by Gage, of clippings by or about her; the other, belonging to Maud Gage Baum, containing clippings about the death of her mother.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006607 View

Hyatt, Thaddeus. Thaddeus Hyatt papers [microform], 1843-1898.

Title: Thaddeus Hyatt papers [microform], 1843-1898.

The collection begins in 1843.

ArchivalResource: 2 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50208808 View

Adair, Samuel Lyle, 1811-1898. Samuel Lyle and Florella Brown Adair family collection [microform], 1831-1921 (bulk 1856-1865).

Title: Samuel Lyle and Florella Brown Adair family collection [microform], 1831-1921 (bulk 1856-1865).

Contains over 1600 letters and other records of Samuel Lyle Adair & his wife, Florella Brown Adair, and various members of each one's family. Includes correspondence, diaries, sermons, church records, and business records. Approx. 1/6 of the collection is correspondence (some Civil War) of son-in-law Jeremiah Berger Remington. One-sixth of the letters are 1831-1855, half are 1856-1865, 1/3 are from after the Civil War to 1921. Over 200 letters are from Adair's sisters and give a woman's point of view on this time period. There are also a few letters in John Brown's hand.

ArchivalResource: 3 ft. (8 boxes) on 8 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62271716 View

Ambrose W. Thompson Papers, 1847-1960, (bulk 1860-1882)

Title: Ambrose W. Thompson Papers 1847-1960 (bulk 1860-1882)

Businessman. Business and family correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, reports, statistical tables, patent papers, stocks and bonds, drawings, maps, and printed matter and miscellaneous material relating to Thompson's career as a businessman.

ArchivalResource: 12,000 items; 53 containers plus 2 oversize; 26 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012113 View

Ross, Edmund G. (Edmund Gibson), 1826-1907. Papers ; Hugh Cameron letters (1907), 1856-1933.

Title: Papers ; Hugh Cameron letters (1907), 1856-1933.

The Edmund G. Ross manuscript collection contains correspondence, biographical sketches, resolutions, and misc. papers. His Civil War letters, mostly to his wife, describe marches; locations; battles including Cane Hill & Prairie Grove; fighting at Cabin Creek, Indian Territory (present Oklahoma); and descriptions of Lawrence & Fort Scott, Kan. Correspondence while a U.S. senator relates to politics, appointments & officials, comments on President Andrew Johnson's impeachment & its aftermath, legislation, Ross's re-election, his legacy, and his book on the impeachment. Letters related to his appointment as territorial governor of New Mexico include material on his appointment & confirmation; trips to Washington, D.C.; and New Mexico political matters. Later letters concern farming, irrigation, and his tenure as secretary of the New Mexico Bureau of Immigration. Many of the letters and messages received support Ross's actions in the Senate and his appointment as governor. There are also clippings, pamphlets, and genealogical materials. Included as well are correspondence and papers relating to Hugh Cameron's pilgrimage to New Mexico in 1907 to see Ross. Other topics include Co. E, 11th Kansas Cavalry; James H. Lane; and the Wyandotte (Kan.) Constitutional Convention (1859). Correspondents include S.J. Crawford; Thomas Ewing, Jr.; Nelson A. Miles; Preston B. Plumb; Samuel C. Pomeroy; and Daniel Woodson.

ArchivalResource: 0.6 ft. (11 folders in 1 box + oversize items, 3 microfilm reels)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52839891 View

Autograph album: Abraham Lincoln, his cabinet, and senators, 1864 and undated.

Title: Autograph album: Abraham Lincoln, his cabinet, and senators, 1864 and undated.

Autograph album containing documents of President Abraham Lincoln,his cabinet members, senators, and others.

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

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01486/catalog View

May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871. Samuel J. May diary, 1870.

Title: Samuel J. May diary, 1870.

Diary of Samuel May gives account of daily life of a retired 19th century clergyman. A very active retiree, he continues to perform many ministerial duties along with writing, traveling, and attending meetings related to Temperance, Freedmen's aid, and Women's rights. He maintains a large correspondence, continues to write about the anti-slavery movement. In this year he resigns as president of the Syracuse Board of Education and goes to Washington in support of the Suffrage cause.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 16 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64694402 View

St. John, John Pierce, 1833-1916. John Pierce St. John papers, 1859-1917.

Title: John Pierce St. John papers, 1859-1917.

Personal and political correspondence and scrapbooks and a great deal of biographical material on John P. St. John and his family. The collection contains considerable material on Prohibition and activities of reform groups during the Progressive Era. Correspondents include Susan B. Anthony; U.S. President Chester A. Arthur; Kansas U.S. Senator S.C. Pomeroy; Reverend Levi Sternberg, patriarch to the famous fossil hunters of Kansas; and Francis E. Willard of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

ArchivalResource: 2 ft. (4 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228416486 View

Ambrose W. Thompson Papers, 1847-1960, (bulk 1860-1882)

Title: Ambrose W. Thompson Papers 1847-1960 (bulk 1860-1882)

Businessman. Business and family correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, reports, statistical tables, patent papers, stocks and bonds, drawings, maps, and printed matter and miscellaneous material relating to Thompson's career as a businessman.

ArchivalResource: 12,000 items; 53 containers plus 2 oversize; 26 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012113 View