Papers of Max Farrand, 1816-1947.

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Papers of Max Farrand, 1816-1947.

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Letters, manuscripts, documents, and 1 scrapbook. Academic correspondence from and to historians and other scholars, Wesleyan, Stanford, Cornell, and Yale Universities, Commonwealth Fund (1918-1927); Huntington Library (1927-1941), American Historical Society, American Philosophical Society, etc. Primary source material for research in American history, particularly in politics of the revolutionary and early federal periods. Material relating to Mary Cadwalader Jones, Farrand's mother-in-law and the author of Lantern slides (Boston, 1937).

3,470 pieces.21 boxes.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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