Lew Wallace collection, 1882-1926.

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Lew Wallace collection, 1882-1926.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37434984

Summary: Collection consists primarily of letters concerning Lew Wallace and donations of various items for display in the Lew Wallace Room at the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe. Includes three letters from Wallace to Santa Fe attorney Eugene A. Fiske (1882, 1897, 1900), and a 1909 letter from Wallace to A.J. Wissler confirming parts of "Ben Hur" were written at the Palace of the Governors. Other letters are from Catherine Wallace, Henry Wallace, and Paul A.F. Walter to officials at the Palace of the Governors concerning the donation and display of Lew Wallace materials. Collection also includes "The Home of Ben-Hur," a biographical book on Wallace by Thomas B. Nicholson (Crawfordsville, Ind.: Lacey and Nicholson, 1900).

.1 linear feet.

Museum of New Mexico Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7393171

Museum of New Mexico Library

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Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905

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Lewis "Lew" Wallace was born on April 10, 1827, in Brookville, Indiana. He was the second of four sons born to Esther French Wallace (née Test) and David Wallace. Lew's father, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, left the military in 1822 and moved to Brookville, where he established a law practice and entered Indiana politics. David served in the Indiana General Assembly and later as the state's lieutenant governor, and governor, and as a member of Congress. Lew Wal...

Walter, Paul A. F.

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Walter was a prominent New Mexican who served as Secretary of the School of American Archaeology and later the School of American Research, Associate Director of the Museum of New Mexico, and President of the Historical Society of New Mexico. From the description of Paul A. F. Walter papers, 1913-1941. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37435013 Paul A.F. Walter came to Santa Fe in 1899 at which time he started as a reporter for the local newspa...

Nicholson, Thomas, b. 1791?

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Fiske, Eugene A.

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Fiske was a Santa Fe attorney who handled many land grant cases in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From the description of Eugene A. Fiske papers, 1840-1968 (bulk, 1840-1909). (Santa Fe Public Library). WorldCat record id: 37693534 Fiske was a prominent attorney in Santa Fe, New Mexico. From the description of Eugene A. Fiske collection, 1909. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37518542 ...

Wallace, Henry Lane, 1853-1926

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Wallace, Catherine Jane

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