Herbert and Dorothy Metzger, collectors, family papers, 1814-1883.

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Herbert and Dorothy Metzger, collectors, family papers, 1814-1883.

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http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM01822.xml

Abstract

Business and personal papers of the North and related families of Walton and Unadilla, New York; included are correspondence and accounts of Mary North (1814-66) and her first husband, Roswell Wright (1816-30); estate and guardianship papers; and personal correspondence (1833-56). Papers of Dr. Henry E. Bartlett, Mary North's second husband, a physician and Democratic politician, include letters, resolutions, and reports concerning his chairmanship of the New York State Senate railroad committee; correspondence, notices, reports, monthly statements, landing permits, immigrants' bonds, quarantine instructions, and other papers relating to his appointment as Health Officer of the Port of New York (1854-55); reminiscences of Bartlett's early life in Massachusetts and Stanstead, Quebec, and his early years of medical study; his notes of Dr. Valentine Mott's medical lectures (1826); papers concerning business ventures in which the Wrights or Bartletts were interested; and numerous bills, accounts, and related items.

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eng,

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Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6400581

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