Rufus and Charles King family papers [microform], 1833-1903.

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Rufus and Charles King family papers [microform], 1833-1903.

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Correspondence and military and financial records of soldier, editor, and diplomat Rufus King; correspondence, diaries, newspaper clippings, and other items of his son, Charles, a soldier and novelist; school examinations and telegrams of his grandson, Rufus King III; and miscellaneous items relating to an 1841 European voyage of Captain and Mrs. York, the parents of Charles King's wife. The Rufus King materials are very fragmentary and correspondence is thorough only for the years 1835-1849, 1861-1864, 1867, and 1874. The correspondence provides information about Whig politics. A large segment of the papers consists of letters from Charles to his wife Adelaide and daughter Carolyn, in Europe between 1894 and 1901. The papers also contain a series of letters written by Charles to his father during the younger King's tour of duty on the Northern Plains (1874-1878), including participation in the Nez Perce War; two diaries written while he was Adjutant General of the Wisconsin National Guard; and some newspaper clippings about his military career in the Spanish American War, 1898-1900, and the Philippine Insurrection, 1899-1901. The collection also includes a number of drawings produced by Rufus while in the United States Army, Corps of Engineers in Albany, New York. Prominent correspondents include Charles L. Austin (concerning high society while traveling in Europe) and William Henry Seward.

1 reel of microfilm (35 mm)

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