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Blair Family Papers, 1755-1968, (bulk 1829-1892)

Title: Blair Family Papers 1755-1968 (bulk 1829-1892)

Prominent family in nineteenth century national politics. Correspondence, speeches and writings, legal files, financial records, historical research files, printed matter, and estate records documenting principally the careers of Francis Preston Blair, journalist and presidential advisor, Frank P. Blair, soldier and politician, and Montgomery Blair, lawyer and cabinet officer.

ArchivalResource: 19,050 items; 73 containers plus 1 oversize; 29.5 linear feet; 49 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998026 View

Morris, George Pope, 1802-1864. George Pope Morris collection of papers, 1830-1859.

Title: George Pope Morris collection of papers, 1830-1859.

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and correspondence by the author.

ArchivalResource: 19 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122607231 View

Autograph File, S, 1556-1996.

Title: Autograph File, S, 1556-1996.

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: 15.5 boxes (7.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01442/catalog View

George Pope Morris collection of papers, 1830-1863

Title: George Pope Morris collection of papers 1830-1863

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 33 items

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19318 View

Blair Family Papers, 1755-1968, (bulk 1829-1892)

Title: Blair Family Papers 1755-1968 (bulk 1829-1892)

Prominent family in nineteenth century national politics. Correspondence, speeches and writings, legal files, financial records, historical research files, printed matter, and estate records documenting principally the careers of Francis Preston Blair, journalist and presidential advisor, Frank P. Blair, soldier and politician, and Montgomery Blair, lawyer and cabinet officer.

ArchivalResource: 19,050 items; 73 containers plus 1 oversize; 29.5 linear feet; 49 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998026 View

Morris, George Pope, 1802-1864. Papers of George Pope Morris [manuscript] 1830-1860.

Title: Papers of George Pope Morris [manuscript] 1830-1860.

The collection contains the poems "Woodman spare that tree," "Deliver us from evil," "The land of Washington," and "Up the Hudson," and one beginning "In the 'upper circle' moves a famous man." In his correspondence Morris thanks George Virtue for a literary notice and requests some books. He urges Fanny Elssl to contribute her services to a benefit, comments to P. T. Barnum on a quarrel of the latter with Lola Montez's agent, advises Richard Henry Stoddard to ignore the criticism of Robert Shelton Mackenzie, fulfills a request from James Parton, invites Brantz Mayer to visit, thanks William G. Bryan, arranges to meet Thomas Bailey Aldrich and complements Jane Marsh Parker on her poetry. There are also miniature portraits of Morris and his wife, engravings of "Our contributors", an illustration for Woodman, and the frontispiece for the 1853 edition of his poetry. The engraving plate for the latter is also present [4 items].

ArchivalResource: 25 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647947638 View

John Edward Gray papers, 1783-1884, 1783-1884

Title: John Edward Gray papers, 1783-1884 1783-1884

These are primarily letters to Gray on various aspects of natural history, with many references to collections at the British Museum of Natural History. There are numerous letters from British scientists and from European colleagues. There are letters from Americans too, such as those from Agassiz which relate to his Florida expeditions and the creation of natural history collections.

ArchivalResource: 5.0 Linear feet, Ca. 500 items.

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.G784-ead.xml View

United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives, 1861-1870

Title: United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives 1861-1870

The United States Sanitary Commission established the Army and Navy Claim Agency (ANCA) in Washington, D.C. on April 1, 1864 to serve as the USSC’s central office to assist Union soldiers, sailors, and their families in prosecuting claims on the federal government for pensions, back pay, bounty, commutation of rations, prize money, and other benefits, without cost. The Army and Navy Claim Agency Archives comprise the records of the Army and Navy Claim Agency; the records of the Pension Agency, its predecessor organization; the registers and cash books of its subsidiary local agencies; and the records of two quasi-independent USSC claim agencies whose origins predate the establishment of the Army and Navy Claim Agency: the Protective War Claim Association of the State of New York, located in New York City, and the Protective War Claim and Pension Agency, located in Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 506.37 linear feet; 1190 boxes, 46 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18809 View