Gilbert A. Tracy autograph collection, 1862-1917.

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Gilbert A. Tracy autograph collection, 1862-1917.

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Autographs by authors, poets, journalists, politicians and military figures, collected by noted autograph collector Gilbert A. Tracy. A significant number of poems written, and many signed by, Elizabeth Akers are part of the collection, as is an epic poem about the Mayflower written by Theodore Tilton. Other significant names found in the letters, a number of which were addressed to Edward M. Stanton, were Mary Abigail Dodge, Frederick Douglass, John C. Fremont, Ulysses S. Grant, Hannibal Hamlin, Andrew Johnson, Robert E. Lee, William T. Sherman, Emma D.E.N. Southworth, Lewis Wallace, and Theodore Dwight Woolsey. Some letters were written between Generals and other officers during the Civil War.

0.25 linear foot (1/2 box).

Connecticut Historical Society

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