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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Papers, 1846-1886.

Title: Papers, 1846-1886.

The collection is primarily made up of versions of Sumner's speeches which he prepared specifically for publication. The first section contains original manuscripts and pages containing corrections and revisions of speeches published in his "Orations and Speeches" (1850), revised for publication in the first two volumes of his "Works" (1870), probably done from 1868-70. The second section contains Sumner's manuscripts and revisions of printed versions to be included in the later volumes of "Works." The third section contains manuscripts and galley pages which were published independently, including "Lafayette; the Faithful One" (Boston: 1870) and "The National Security and The National Faith; How to Protect the National Freedman and the National Creditor" (Boston: 1865). One box of materials contains his notes, manuscripts, galleys, etc. for his "Speech on the Cession of Russian America to the United States" (1867), also including notes by his secretary Charles Beaman of April 1867, known as the "Beaman Memorandum," documenting a meeting on the treaty. (cont'd) The papers also include a small amount of correspondence, a trial notebook of U.S. vs. Smith, two account books related to the administration of the estate of John Tappan, one volume of unidentified check stubs, and floor plans showing the arrangement of materials on Sumner's walls at the time of his death, perhaps for estate purposes.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes and 1 oversize container.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28348070 View

American Home Missionary Society. Archives. 1816-1936.

Title: Archives. 1816-1936.

Nineteenth-century, multi-denominational group supporting ministers on American frontier. Became increasingly Congregational. Correspondence and pamphlets describe individual schools located primarily in the Midwest and West, but including all of the states. Letters from missionaries in the Midwest, the society's secretary in New York and secretaries located in various regions, reflect frontier conditions, internal ecclesiastical conditions, education in various states, and economic, social and political problems. Topics include European immigrants, and denominationalism.

ArchivalResource: 268 linear ft. 525 Boxes and 83 Oversize Boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20405908 View

Inginac, B. Letter : to Jacob Peabody of Boston, 1824 June 25.

Title: Letter : to Jacob Peabody of Boston, 1824 June 25.

Autograph letter signed, written in Port-au-Prince by the secretary general for Jean Pierre Boyer, president of Haiti, and addressed to Jacob Peabody concerning the emigration of five black men to Haiti. With a manuscript document providing a guarantee of passage money for the five emigrants, signed by Boston citizens John Tappan, Thomas Tarbell, H. M. Hayes, among others.

ArchivalResource: 3 items ; 23-32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612785493 View

Woolsey family papers, 1750-1969 (bulk 1811-1921)

Title: Woolsey family papers, 1750-1976 (inclusive), 1811-1921 (bulk).

The papers document three generations of the Woolsey family. The most prominent figures in the collection are William Walton Woolsey (1766-1839), land owner and merchant in New York City; his son, Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801-1889), Greek scholar, political theorist and president of Yale College; and Theodore Salisbury Woolsey (1852-1929), professor of international law at Yale Law School, son of Theodore Dwight Woolsey. The papers of William Walton Woolsey contain extensive business correspondence, ledgers, legal papers, documents relating to land sales in New York and Ohio, as well as family and personal letters. Since he was engaged in the importation of sugar, cotton and hardware, some of his business correspondence is political with discussions of the Jay Treaty of 1794, the problems of piracy, American neutrality in the 1790s and the general politics of the period. Important correspondents are Chauncey Goodrich, Archibald Gracie, Eli Whitney, Noah Webster, Elihu and Nathaniel Chauncey, Oliver Wolcott, Benjamin Tallmadge, Jedidiah Morse, James Roosevelt, John A. Schuyler, Comfort Sands, John Broome, and Nicholas Bayard. The papers of Theodore Dwight Woolsey contain his writings on Greek language and literature, the Bible, international law and the texts of his sermons.

ArchivalResource: 52 Linear Feet (107 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4277859 View

Woolsey family papers, 1750-1969 (bulk 1811-1921)

Title: Woolsey family papers, 1750-1976 (inclusive), 1811-1921 (bulk).

The papers document three generations of the Woolsey family. The most prominent figures in the collection are William Walton Woolsey (1766-1839), land owner and merchant in New York City; his son, Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801-1889), Greek scholar, political theorist and president of Yale College; and Theodore Salisbury Woolsey (1852-1929), professor of international law at Yale Law School, son of Theodore Dwight Woolsey. The papers of William Walton Woolsey contain extensive business correspondence, ledgers, legal papers, documents relating to land sales in New York and Ohio, as well as family and personal letters. Since he was engaged in the importation of sugar, cotton and hardware, some of his business correspondence is political with discussions of the Jay Treaty of 1794, the problems of piracy, American neutrality in the 1790s and the general politics of the period. Important correspondents are Chauncey Goodrich, Archibald Gracie, Eli Whitney, Noah Webster, Elihu and Nathaniel Chauncey, Oliver Wolcott, Benjamin Tallmadge, Jedidiah Morse, James Roosevelt, John A. Schuyler, Comfort Sands, John Broome, and Nicholas Bayard. The papers of Theodore Dwight Woolsey contain his writings on Greek language and literature, the Bible, international law and the texts of his sermons.

ArchivalResource: 52 Linear Feet (107 boxes)

https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/12/resources/4439 View

Tappan, John, 1781-1871. Letter, 1865 March 31, Philadelphia, to A.D. Smith [n.p.].

Title: Letter, 1865 March 31, Philadelphia, to A.D. Smith [n.p.].

Makes subscription payable when the rest of the goal has been subscribed to.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3127170 View

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874

Title: Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Letters to Charles Sumner, lawyer, Republican senator from Massachusetts, and anti-slavery campaigner; with a smaller number of letters from Sumner to others.

ArchivalResource: 33 cartons (43.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00232/catalog View