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American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench, 1782-1966

Title: American and English Literary and Historical Papers Collected by Atcheson L. Hench 1782-1966.

Material collected by Hench, some as an autograph collection and others for use in his classes at the University of Virginia with examples of various periods. Modern autographs collected by Hench include letters by associates of Edgar Allan Poe; Civil War letters; papers relating to Virginia history; correspondence of writers and politicians, particularly from the Victorian era; and other miscellaneous correspondence with literary or histocial interest. John Randolph of Roanoke to Mr. Skinner on binding a paper, 1819, with a cut signature of Thomas Mann Randolph and to Stephen Van Rensselaer asking him to dinner with Harmanus Bleecker, n.y. Thomas Mann Randolph, Sr., to Cohen isaacs & Co. and others orders cotton and wool cards and other goods, sends a letter of introduction and discusses the settling of his debt. Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., to Robert Brent and Henry Remsen seeks military compensation and conveys good news about the opening of the University of Virginia and appraisers for his estate. Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie writes to Mr. and Mrs. James Thomas Fields and others introducing Avonia Jones, sending an autograph, changing arrangements, and signing an autograph. Amélie Rives discusses the slang word "gee" with W. T. Moore and voices concerns over errors in books to Mr. Walsh. Letters of William Cabell Rives (1793-1868) to a variety of correspondence including Thomas Aspinwall, Churchill C. Cambreleng, Corcoran & Riggs, Anna Payne Cutts, Philip Ricard Fendall, Henry S. Foote, Joseph Grinnell, Henry O. Houghton, Thomas Maury, Anna Payne, John Rutherfoord, Theodore Sedgwick, John C. Spencer, Henry St. George Tucker and Abel P. Upshur are chiefly routine notes of introduction, thanks, patronage and business. Topics of interest include his biography of James Madison, diplomacy and politics including his opinions on John Qunicy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay and the necessity for single presidential terms. Letters of Wiliam Cabell Rives (1825-1889) to Emma Savage Rogers discuss a University of Virginia commencement day address on her husband. Wiliam Barton Rogers writes to Luthern Stearns Cushing, augusts A. Gould, Washington C. Kerr, [Clarence King?],Henry D. Rogers, Henry E. Roscoe andThomas G. Wales on routine matters, a geological map of North Carolina, directorship of the U. S. Geological Survey, University of Virginia classes, and the composition of kaolin. Thomas L. Rosser writes to John Chester Buttre on an engraving plate, and to William Crane on inducing farmers to move to Virginia. Single items of interest include a brief note from Sir James Paget; a letter from Coventry Patmore declining an invitation; a long letter from Andrew Henry Patterson to William Lloyd Garrison discussing in great detail his views on the Negro race" in the South; George C. Peery to M. E. Gilfond enclosing a letter to Sol Bloom (not present); Bishop Thomas Percy to the Rev. John Blakeway expressing hope that Napoleon will not invade his part of Ireland; Wendell Phillips returns the Macaulay item to Edwin P. Whipple; John Pickering sends James Savage a proplsed preface to Eliot's Grammar; James Madison Porter thanks George Pearson for an honorary literary society membership. Also J. W. Porter, Charlottesville, to W. P. St. John, 1890, on economic hard times caused by cheap competition from India, foreign trade deficit and cheap silver; Bryan Waller Proctor to mary Russell Mitford promising poetry and his impression of Daniel Webster; Charles Reade to [Wilkie?] Collins declining to make an appointment; Maurice Regan, 2nd Regiment Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, to Dr. Pennock praising Thomas Leiper Kane and describing "desolation and destruction" in norther Virginia; Alfred Rives writes to Socrates Maupin to obtain a oxy-hydrogen blowpipe from the University of Virginia; A. Willis Robertson to Hench on the security along the Appalachian Trail; John Robinson to Col. W. G. Brent on clearing track in North Carolina, initialed by P.G.T. Beauregard; Alfred Roman to Roy Mason Hooe on special instructions issued by General Ruggles on conditions in New Orleans; Thomas H. Rosser telegraphs Daniel Ruggles reporting on Union troop movements and the location of John B. Villepigue at Ft. Pillow; and William M Rossetti on a subscription. The collection also contains four land grants, 1803, 1805, signed by Virginia governor John Page; a land grant to William May, Nelson County, signed by Beverly Randolph; a land grant to George Kailor, Rockingham County, signed by Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr.; receipts, Pittsburgh, for bateaus to Fort Washington (Cincinnati?) for military use, 1798; an appointment of Henry Massie to Deputy Postmaster, Charlottesville, signed by Alexander Williams Randall; a Mutual Assurance Society insurance policy signed by Edmund Randolph; an 1861 ordnance invoice signed by Daniel Ruggles; and a quarterly return of deceased solders of the 13th Maine volunteers, 1863, signed by Colonel Henry Rust, Jr.

ArchivalResource: circa 75 items.

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Lord, Daniel, 1795-1868. Letters : New York, to Harmanus Bleecker, Albany, N.Y., 1829 Jan. 16, 1830 Jan. 11 and Feb. 5.

Title: Letters : New York, to Harmanus Bleecker, Albany, N.Y., 1829 Jan. 16, 1830 Jan. 11 and Feb. 5.

3 ALsS.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (together 5 p.) ; 26 x 21 cm. and smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28885772 View

Randolph, John, 1773-1833. Letter to Harmanus Bleecker (1779-1849) [manuscript] 1818.

Title: Letter to Harmanus Bleecker (1779-1849) [manuscript] 1818.

Copy, in unknown hand, made for a Miss Davenport.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647939812 View

War of 1812 mss., 1776-1879

Title: War of 1812 mss., 1776-1879

Consists of individual items acquired separately either as a gift or purchase from a variety of sources, relating to the War of 1812.

ArchivalResource: 3181 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAC1213 View

Romeyn, John B. (John Brodhead), 1777-1825. John B. Romeyn letter to Harmanus Bleecker, 1803.

Title: John B. Romeyn letter to Harmanus Bleecker, 1803.

Autograph letter, signed, from John B. Romeyn to Harmanus Bleecker, dated June 13, 1803,

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/727025807 View

Sedgwick, Theodore, 1811-1859. Theodore Sedgwick Letter, 1824.

Title: Theodore Sedgwick Letter, 1824.

The collection consists of a copy of a letter from Theodore Sedgwick in Norwich, VT, to Harmanus Bleecker in Albany, NY, 9 July 1824. The letter was published in The Nation on 5 May 1910 (Volume 90, No. 2340), pp. 455-456. In the letter, Sedgwick writes of the faculty and courses offered at the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy (Norwich University) and of a recent march of the cadets to Plattsburgh, NY.

ArchivalResource: 1 item

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/603670497 View

Bleecker, Harmanus, 1779-1849. Papers, 1801-1885.

Title: Papers, 1801-1885.

This collection contains the papers of Harmanus Bleecker and contains letters to and from him and documents and pamphlets collected by or relating to him. The papers concern Bleecker's career as a leading lawyer and citizen in Albany, N.Y., a state congressman and the United States Charge d' Affaires at the Hague. The papers also concern topics such as the Bleecker Family, the firm of Bleecker and Sadgwick, and the management and disposal of Bleecker's estate. The collection is organized numerically by item number and is indexed extensively by subject and correspondent.

ArchivalResource: 2500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122519898 View

Harmanus Bleecker letters, 1832-1844

Title: Harmanus Bleecker letters 1832-1844

American lawyer, diplomat, and member of Congress.Four letters including one from The Hague stating: "I hope I shall find it agreeable [here] but my tastes and opinions are exceedingly anti-European" (1839).

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/7436 View

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852. Letter, 1834 July 22, Boston, [Mass.], to Harmanus Bleeker, Albany, NY.

Title: Letter, 1834 July 22, Boston, [Mass.], to Harmanus Bleeker, Albany, NY.

Introducing Henry Willis Kinsman to Harmanus Bleeker.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. (1 leaf) ; 25 x 40 cm. folded to 9 x 14 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/242905175 View

Papers, 1819-1852.

Title: Papers, 1819-1852.

Papers of American Unitarian minister William Ellery Channing.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01265/catalog View

Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910,. American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench [manuscript] 1300-1926.

Title: American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench [manuscript] 1300-1926.

Material collected by Hench, some as an autograph collection and others for use in his classes at the University of Virginia with examples of various periods. Modern autographs collected by Hench include letters by associates of Edgar Allan Poe; Civil War letters; papers relating to Virginia history; correspondence of writers and politicians, particularly from the Victorian era; and other miscellaneous correspondence with literary or histocial interest. Letters of James Barbour concern financial matters including an account for destitute seamen, and the southern boundary of Cherokee lands. Letters of John Bright to Sir John Jaffray, Dr. J. P. Litchfield, Dr. Henry Thomas and others discuss English politics. Individual letters include Alexander Agassiz on lack of funding for a Museum of Comparative Zoology; Mark Alexander on his political service; Christopher Anstey on White family illness; Samuel Chapman Armstrong to Dr. Peabody on a "colored" preacher; and the progress of Hampton Institute; Philip James Bailey on an acquaintance; Joanna Baillie on her refusal to contribute to annuals; George Bancroft on Hart's life of Robert Morris; Clara Barton on a nephew's illness (copy); James Beattie sending thanks; Charles Bell to Sir John Richardson on a trip through England (copy); Park Benjamin on a speaking date; Cyrus Billartin to Charles Henry Van Wyck on Civil War letters; George Henry Boker to Paul Hamilton Hayne on literary matters; Joseph Bosworth to W. Jerdan on literary matters; John Minor Botts to William Ogden Niles on Whigs and the election of 1840; John Breckenridge on a clerkship; Max Bruch on a concerto; Peter Buchan on publishing Robert Burns; and Hezekiah Butterworth on William Dean Howells. There are also bank drafts drawn by Philip Pendleton Barbour; a document stating that Joel Barlow was a U. S. plenipotentiary to France; autographs or brief notes of Kate Bateman, Gamaliel Bradford, W. LeRoy Broun; poems by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta;

ArchivalResource: circa 45 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647946364 View

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859. Papers of Washington Irving [manuscript], 1804-1936 (bulk 1804-1859).

Title: Papers of Washington Irving [manuscript], 1804-1936 (bulk 1804-1859).

The collection contains the original manuscripts and/or notes for and portions of "Abbotsford," "Astoria," "Bracebridge Hall," several editions of "Life and voyages of Christopher Columbus," "Chronicle of Don Garcia Fernandez," "Conquest of Granada," "English and French character," "Fernan Gonazales," "Fernando the Saint," "The legend of Pelayo," "Life of George Washington," "Paris at the Restoration," legend about a Spanish feud," "The Tagus," "The vindication of Christmas," "Voyages and discoveries of the companions of Columbus," The collection also contains a notebook, 1823, of quotations from English authors, an address of his return from Europe, 1832, Peter Irving's notebook of Arthurian legends, and "Irving's power of idealization," by Oliver Wendell Holmes. The collection also contains engravings and drawings of Irving and several miscellaneous items including documents and clippings. Recipients of irving's letters include D. Appleton and Co., Thomas Aspinwall, George Bancroft, James Bandinal, Richard Bentley, Hermanus Bleecker, Henry Brevoort, Thomas Campbell, Henry Carey, Frrederic S. Cozzens, Alexander H. Everett, Edward Everett, Emily Foster, William Freeman, Alexander Gallatin, James Hillhouse, John Hopkinson, Sir Robert H. Inglis, Peter irving, John Pendleton Kennedy, Eliza[beth] Leslie, John Littell, Daniel Lord, Dolley Madison, John Murray, Sir William Gore Ouseley, John Howard Payne, Thomas Picton, Benjamin Poore, William H. Prescott, George Palmer Putnam, Thomas Spring Rice, William H. Seward, Charles Warren Stoddard, George Ticknor, Osmond Tiffany, Joseph Tuttle, Wiliam [Peter?] Van Ness, George Washington Warren, Daniel Webster, John P. Wetherrell, and George Wilkes.

ArchivalResource: 312 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647976654 View

Bleecker, Harmanus, 1779-1849. Papers, 1801-1885.

Title: Papers, 1801-1885.

A collection of letters, most to Bleecker, and his business associate Theodore Sedgwick. The letters discuss a wide variety of business, personal and diplomatic affairs. The papers discuss topics such as obtaining credentials for visiting Americans, business contracts, land dealings, personal matters such as travel and health and a number of other topics. Correspondents include Sterling Goodenow, William Jay, Edward G. Ludlow, Josiah Quincy, and Benjamin F. Butler. The collection also includes a copy of Bleecker's last will and testament.

ArchivalResource: 87 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122611139 View

Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1802-1918, 1802-1842 (bulk)

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1802-1918, 1802-1842 (bulk)

Letters, deeds, statements, and agreements pertaining to land deals and legal cases, 1802-1848; includes letters to Harmanus Bleecker from Isaac Hamilton, Peter Ousterhout, Richard Hudson, Elisha Williams, and Daniel Cady, 1802-1834; letters to H.H. Martin of Albany from Horatio Seymour, 1834, and John Van Buren, 1842; statements, agreements, and letters concerning Auburn, N.Y. lands owned by Erastus Corning, Enos T. Throop, and Martin Van Buren, 1842-1843; and correspondence between J. Rider Cady and Amasa J. Parker concerning the Van Buren materials, 1918.

ArchivalResource: 25 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155491745 View

Randolph, John, 1773-1833. Correspondence of John Randolph of Roanoke with Harmanus Bleecker, 1812-1825.

Title: Correspondence of John Randolph of Roanoke with Harmanus Bleecker, 1812-1825.

Randolph writes regarding both politics and his personal life. Specific topics include military camps in the War of 1812, the Hartford Convention, elections, and the national bank controversy. He mentions Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John Calhoun, James Madison, James Monroe, and Henry Clay. Also Washington and Virginia social life and personalities, his health, family and plantation affairs including his adopted son, his insane nephew, his dogs, horses, and crops, the burning of Bizarre in 1812, Virginia hospitality and his descent from John Rolfe and Pocahontas.

ArchivalResource: 46 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48840449 View

Rice, Harriet Langdon Pruyn. Collection, 1924.

Title: Collection, 1924.

Contents include an autograph signed letter of Harmanus Bleecker, written at The Hague, Netherlands dated 7 May 1841, that was addressed to S. Pleasonton in regards to their previous correspondence. Also, a letter written by Harriet C.T. Pruyn, the first wife of J.V.L. Pruyn, dated July 1, 1852, that concerns personal and family matters; and emphemera relating to hte First Reformed Church of Albany.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122459120 View

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Papers, 1776-1865

Title: Jared Sparks papers, 1776-1865.

Letters (1825-1865, undated) written by Sparks to Hermanus Bleecker, George W. Cullum, William Gowans, Charles Carter Lee, E. Magrath, William M. Meredith, Nathaniel Niles, Benjamin Silliman, George Corbin Washington, and others; publisher's agent's record book (undated) of subscriptions for Sparks's works; maps of Hudson River fortifications in New York state; and a print from an engraved portrait of Sparks.

ArchivalResource: 17 items.

https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79005565 View

Autograph File, B, ca.1500-1982

Title: Autograph File, B, ca.1500-1982

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: 18.5 linear feet (37 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01425/catalog View