Papers of the Griswold, Nevins, Perkins, and Shaw families of Connecticut [manuscript] 1731-1964.

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Papers of the Griswold, Nevins, Perkins, and Shaw families of Connecticut [manuscript] 1731-1964.

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Letters, 1794-1807, Roger Griswold to his wife, Fanny Rogers Griswold while he was a member of the Connecticut legislature and the U.S. Congress. Other correspondents of this period include Roger Wolcott, Royal governor of Conn., Elias Perkins, Henry Nevins, David H. Nevins, Lucretia M. Nevins, and Lucretia Nevins Woodbridge. Also includes bills of sale, land appraisals, surveys, deeds, etc.--Letters to Louisa S.N. Perkins from Felix Adler, Chester Alan Arthur, James Ramsay MacDonald, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson, primarily concerning speaking engagements [7 items. hand and type written]--A melancholy of my own, 1912-26 by L.S.N. Perkins about her life and family [1 v. (unpaged) 28 cm. typewritten].

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