An archive of approximately 1,258 autograph letters, 4,423 pages, plus over 200 ephemeral items, related to the varied career of this polymath: author, editor, classicist, insurance attorney, prison reformer,  Charlton Thomas Lewis and his family. While dated between 1797 to 1915 the…
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Collection of 14 letters, mainly quarto, 51 pp., written to his parents and business associates The collection also contains a group of 38 additional letters, receipts and documents dating from the 1860's - 1870's, concerning Clapp's real estate investments sent to Clapp's…
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Manuscript archive consisting of approximately 90 letters, over 170 pages, plus 70 manuscript and printed documents.
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The archive includes approximately 51 letters (59 mss pages) and 44 documents (53 pages) either hand written, or partially printed and completed in manuscript. Also includes 4 hand drawn plat maps. The outgoing correspondence consists mainly of retained copies of the originals,…
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Small Collection of manuscript materials including field notebooks, diaries, drawings, et cetera, pertaining to Byers's work in Virginia, particularly the James River and Kanawha Canal during the 1850's. The collection contains the following:
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Large archive comprised of manuscript diaries, incoming business and family correspondence, memorandum books, notebooks, friendship albums, photographs, and ephemeral items. The collection totals over 2000 manuscript pages, and hundreds of individual items.
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Archive of incoming and outgoing correspondence of John McLean, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, appointed by Andrew Jackson in 1829. The collection consists of letters to and from family members, including his first wife, children, and other relations as well as…
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Archive of 45 letters, 97 pages, mainly folio and quarto, in very good, clean and legible condition.
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Collection of manuscript material including correspondence and manuscript drafts of speeches (20 items, 54 mss pp.) all pertaining to Benjamin Loder's involvement with the New York & Erie railroad as its tenth president, 1845-1853.
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Archive of manuscript correspondence consisting of 47 letters, approximately 125 manuscript pages, plus an additional 11 pages of poetry, and eight ephemeral items. A number of the letters have tears along folds, some holes where postal cancellations were cut away, as well…
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