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Lane, Ebenezer, 1793-1866. Lane collection, [17--]-[19--].

Title: Lane collection, [17--]-[19--].

Chiefly correspondence (including letters to Ebenezer Lane from Charles Griswold), estate papers, biographical materials, legal papers, and other documents, collected by Lane's descendants William Griswold and Wolcott Griswold Lane, of/or relating to members of the Lane and Griswold families, of Ohio and Connecticut (many family members from Old Lyme), and other Connecticut politicians.

ArchivalResource: 151 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70954190 View

Barber, Noyes, 1781-1844. Hoadley fund autograph collection, 1788-1929.

Title: Hoadley fund autograph collection, 1788-1929.

Collection of autographs primarily from Connecticut congressmen and senators, mostly in the form of letters. Correspondents include: Noyes Barber, William H. Barnum, Nathan Belcher, Walter Booth, Herbert W. Bowen, Henry Channing, Daniel Crocker, Sidney Dean, James Dixon, William W. Eaton, William W. Ellsworth, Samuel Fessenden, Calvin Goddard, Chauncey Goodrich, Edwin W. Higgins, Charles T. Hillyer, R. R. Hinman, Orrin Holt, Julius Hotchkiss, C. M. Ingersoll, Ralph I. Ingersoll, Samuel Inham, Ebenezer Jackson, Jr., Samuel W. Johnson, Andrew T. Judson, Everett J. Lake, Jonathan Law, Lyman Law, John Lawrence, P.D. Oakey, Thomas B. Osborne, James Phelps, Lancelot Phelps, S. Dryden Phelps, O. H. Platt, John Russ, Charles A. Russell, Origen S. Seymour, William E. Simonds, Nathaniel Smith, Truman Smith, Isaac Spencer, N. D. Sperry, H. H. Starkweather, Griffin Stedman, William L. Storrs, Julius L. Strong, Lewis B. Sturges, Frederic C. Walcott, and John Woodruff. Also includes a letter from Harriet Hawley, wife of Senator Joseph R. Hawley, written to Rev. Jacob Eaton during the Civil War. Contains a document relating to the Connecticut Delaware First Company. Collection has been arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

ArchivalResource: 1 envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/428809509 View

Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859. Papers of William Hickling Prescott [manuscript], 1836-1858.

Title: Papers of William Hickling Prescott [manuscript], 1836-1858.

The papers are comprised chiefly of letters to Theodore Dwight, Henry Hart Milman, and American and European publishing firms. Subjects discussed include books by Dwight, Milman, George Bancroft and Thomas Babington Macauley, business relations with Richard Bentley, the anti-Catholic uprising in England, 1850, the U.S. presidential campaign of 1852, family matters, and the writing and publication of several of Prescott's books. Other topics include Prescott's trip to England, his British and American friends, and access to manuscript materials in Italian libraries and the archives of the Spanish legation. Fourteen engravings of Prescott are included.

ArchivalResource: 85 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647833980 View

Brainard, Jeremiah Gates, 1759-1830. Jeremiah Gates Brainard papers, 1760-1889.

Title: Jeremiah Gates Brainard papers, 1760-1889.

Letters to and from Brainard; two drawings of John G.C. Brainard in pencil, artist unknown and charcoal drawing of a family dog; random notes on family genealogy; commission; two small notebooks kept by Lucretia Brainard; poems, one entitled The Mermaid; story by J.G.C. Brainard entitled The House on Fire; and other papers.

ArchivalResource: ca. 45 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/222304070 View

Memorandum of agreement, 1816 February 12.

Title: Memorandum of agreement, 1816 February 12.

Copy of an agreement among William C. Gilman of Boston, Abraham Lott and Edward Seaman of New York City, William Williams of Stonington, Connecticut, and William Williams Jr. and Calvin Goddard of Norwich, Connecticut. The several parties have agreed to establish at Norwich, Connecticut, a factory for the cutting and heading nails using water power. The company was to be called Norwich Nail Manufacturing Company. The company was capitalized at $12,000.00.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 pages).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/757167732 View