Papers, 1634-1932.

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Papers, 1634-1932.

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This collection contains a variety of items concerning Sampson Vryling Stoddard Wilder, 1634-1932. Included are early legal documents (e.g., land deeds) belonging to his ancestors, letters written by him to his daughters concerning family events, such as his golden wedding anniversary, and several typed accounts of life in the Wilder Mansion in Bolton, recalled and prepared by his grandson, Francis Stoddard Haines ( - ) in 1932. Of special note are three letters pertaining to Wilder's experiences in France during the Napoleonic period. There is a letter of introduction witten by Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826) to Talleyrand in 1804, an eight-page letter written by Wilder to his wife describing conditions in Paris on the eve of Napoleon's surrender in 1815, and a letter written to him in French by Baron de Staël-Holstein (1790-1827), which had been accompanied by a gift of the works of his mother, Madame de Staël (1766-1817).

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Wilder family.

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Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826

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Congregational clergyman and geographer of Connecticut and Massachusetts. From the description of Papers, 1783-1826. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58770513 From the description of Account book, 1816-1820. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58770209 Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826), a Congregational clergyman, was known as "the father of geography". His lectures on geography included Geography Made Easy (1784), the fir...

Staël-Holstein, Auguste-Louis, baron de, 1790-1827

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Haines, Francis Stoddard, 1857-

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Wilder, Sampson Vryling Stoddard, 1780-1865

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Sampson Vryling Stoddard Wilder (1780-1865) was born in Lancaster, Mass., and became a successful merchant during the early part of the nineteenth century. He operated his own trade company in Boston and between 1803 and 1823 traveled to France twenty times to oversee trade with that nation as a representative of Richards, Taylor and Wilder of New York. Wilder commissioned the building of a summer mansion in Bolton, Mass., where he entertained the Marquis de Lafayette in 1824. He founded the Eva...

Wilder, Electa Barrell, d. 1878.

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