Papers of William Walter Phelps, 1800-1925 (bulk 1876-1893).

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Papers of William Walter Phelps, 1800-1925 (bulk 1876-1893).

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Political, business, diplomatic, social, and family correspondence of William Walter Phelps, chiefly letters addressed to him. Included are items related to American politics and Republican party, Phelps' diplomatic service, his family, social life and literary interests. Correspondents include Herbert Nikolaus von Bismarck, James Gillespie Blaine, Benjamin Harrison, Eugene Field, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Joseph Pulitzer, and others. Also included correspondence of John Jay Phelps, a poem by Eugene Field dedicated to Phelps, an 1882 letter containing a witness account of the battle of Battle of Chapultepec (1847), ephemera, photographs, and newspapers clippings. The collection also contains papers related to John Chester Eno's embezzlement from the Second Bank of New York (of which Phelps was a director) and Phelps' negotiations with Eno's father, Amos Richard Phelps to make good the loss (1884).

199 pieces.2 boxes.

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