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Scrapbook (150 pages) maintained by Chamberlin that documents her family history, and contains information on the various hotels run by Franklin Tenney. There are early legal documents for the Varnum family, as well as other documents for the Tenney and Chamberlin families. In addition, there are newspaper clippings, letters, broadsides, advertisements, photographs, and invitations. Many items have been laid or tipped in.
Includes a letter from C.C. Clay, Sr, to a "Capt George" regarding the disposition of the estate of someone named Beauchamp to their heirs specifically discusses enslaved people and how they, as "property" would be divided when considered of unequal value, and how they would not be emancipated.
Letters primarily of C.C. Clay, Sr., Susannah Clay, C.C. Clay, Jr., William Clay, between family members, including some from the Withers family (Susannah Clay's family). Also includes a diploma for Virginia Tunstall from the Female Academy of Nashville Tennessee, dated 1840.
Cornelius Bowman Campbell letters, incoming , 1831-1904 44 items items
The majority of the incoming letters were written by Campbell's friends made through the Oneida Institute. Topics include stargazing; faith issues; crops and harvests; slavery and abolition; temperance; politics, including activities of Whigs and Democrats; possibilities regarding settling in Vineland, New Jersey; and a few letters regarding women's suffrage activities. Includes letters from William G. Allen, Henry B. Blackwell, J. B. Grinnell, Laura C. Holloway, Francis Lawson, Thomas McClintock, Wendell Phillips, Ira Porter, and Parker Pillsbury. There is one letter (1904) that dates past Campbell's death; it is not addressed directly to Campbell.
Campbell family papers, 1812-1882 52 items
Includes letters primarily written to Cornelius Bowman Campbell's parents, Rebecca (Whitcomb) and Hezekiah, although a few other individuals are addressees. Topics include visits and visitors; news of friends and family members; announcements of births, deaths, and weddings; and descriptions of balls held. There are also several letters discussing genealogical information for the Campbell and Whitcomb families. Includes an indenture for Hezekiah to learn the shoemaking trade, a small account book with unidentified owner (1843-1844), and part of a dressmaker's pattern. Two letters contain fabric samples for a dress and a bonnet.
Family correspondence to Neill Brown and other relatives, including Hugh and Duncan Brown and John Gillespie, Neill Brown's son-in-law. Topics include family health, the family's migration from the Carolinas to Tennessee, "land got from Indians" and subsequent colonization and settlement by white slaveholding communities, and Presbyterian ministry efforts.
Includes a note written by an unnamed enslaved man to "master John" asking for the reason "you always preach to the white folks and keep your back to us." The letter writer continues, "If I should ask you what must I do to be saved perhaps you would tel me pray let the bible be your gide [.] this would do very well if we could read I do not think there is one in fifty that can read but I have been more fortunate than the most of the black people I can read and write in my way as to be understood I hopes. I have a weak mind about the duteys of religious people If God sent you to preach to siners did he direct you to keep your face to the white folks constantly or is it because these give you money if this is the cause we are the very persons that labored for this money but it is handed to you by our masters." This letter follows a letter from John Fort Jr., Wayne Co. South Carolina, to Hugh Brown, Robeson Co. N.C., dated 1821 June 26. There is a typescript of the note alongside the original in the collection.
William Brown materials, 1820s-1890s 2 folders
Contains original and photocopied materials documenting or relating to William H. Brown. Original items include accounts with Duncan McKay; some family letters; and tax receipts. Photocopied items include Confederate States of America (CSA) bonds; materials re: military service; and communication with Davidson College archivists re: Brown's scholarship there.
Letter from friend McCorvey reporting on his movement and living conditions in the Creek Nation. McCorvey discusses his employment contract with Dr. Hutchinson, markets in the area (including slave markets), religious and temperance movements, and family health and news. Includes a separate postscript asking Brown to makes sure that "Finlah to hire a Negro woman to be in the house with Mother" and commenting that "the Iindians [sic] are now selling there lands it puts me in mind of the Molatoes at old Billy's Mill taking the money off in small bag fulls."
Includes a range of deeds and estate distribution documents. File contains photocopies as well as original documents.
Includes oversize newspapers: issue Spirit of the Age (Vol. X no. 35, dated 1859 April 27) and issue of Richmond Christian Advocate (Vol. III no. 18, dated 1849 May 3).
Correspondence, 1820-1920 and undated 11 folders — Approximately 600 items
About one third of the correspondence dates from the 1820s to 1865, and two-thirds dates from after the Civil War to the early 20th century. Included are 46 letters from the Civil War period to and from members of John and Susan Bullock's family, chiefly concerning their son Walter Bullock's service in the Confederate Army.
Topics in the correspondence typically include family matters such as schooling, illnesses, courtship and marriage, deaths in the family and in the community, farming, sales of agricultural crops, religious life, visitors and local events, and some business matters. There is also some mention of the Spanish-American War in later letters.
There are many letters from the daughters and sons of John and Susan Cobb, especially from William, James, Richard, Walter, Alfred, George, Sally, Lucy, and Beck. Grandchildren's letters and many letters from Beck to her mother Sally (Tarry) Hamilton make up the bulk of the late 19th and early 20th century letters.
Family names also appearing in the papers include: Boyd, Goode, Eaton, Farrar, Hamilton, Harrison, Tarry, Taylor, and Watkins. There are also frequent mention of Andersons, Grahams and Hendersons.
Place names associated with the Bullocks and their relatives are: Williamsborough (or -boro), Granville County, NC (now Vance County), the principal home place for the Bullocks; Wheatland, Tarboro, Warrenton and Rocky Mount, NC; Petersburg, Soudan, Boydton, and Skipwith, VA. There are some letters from Tennessee and Mississippi, where the Bullocks owned land. Other place names appearing include Grassy Creek and Oak Hill, Granville County.
The Civil War letters mostly were sent to and from Walter Bullock and his parents, but there are a few from his brothers, several of whom apparently also served for a time, and other people. They give details about camp life, food and diet, health issues, weather, furloughs, troop movements, and rumors about events. There are frequent requests for supplies from home. One letter bears a long description of the battle of Kinston, NC, 1862; another from an encampment "near Norfolk" dated March 1862 mentions a major naval engagement at the mouth of the James River. A letter from June 1862 brings the news that a Bullock son was taken prisoner. Another letter from John Bullock to a friend announces that Walter was taken prisoner in June 1864, probably when Captain George W. Kirk and Union cavalry overran Camp Vance (Burke Cty.). There is one letter from Walter writing from Johnson's Island, Ohio, September 1864; he then writes several letters from Kenansville, NC in early 1865, and describes the last months of the war. Camp Vance (Burke County), figures most prominently in Walter's letters, who seems to have been by then in the 68th Regiment, and Camp Holmes, near Raleigh. Other place names include Camp Mangum, NC; Camp Arrington, VA, 1862; "in the trenches," Petersburg, VA, November 29, 1864; and Kenansville, NC, December 1864. There are a few letters relating to Captain William Wallace White, who also appears at the head of a militia roll in the Other Papers series.
Financial Papers, 1808-1876 and undated 6 folders — Approximately 500 items and two volumes.
Two account books, and loose receipts, bills, promissory notes, estate papers, and other financial records concerning the Bullock family, particularly John Bullock's general store in Granville County (now Vance), and the 19th century farms and small plantations of the Bullocks and other relations. Of particular note are two 1836 documents concerning the purchase by John Bullock from the Torrey or Toney family of an African American woman, Kitty, and her three children, Martha Ann, Mordecai, and Sally.
Series contains legal papers mainly recorded in Granville County, including a handful of indentures and deeds for land, several summons initiated by John Bullock for non-payment, a record relating to William Anderson's estate, an estate trial for Dennis Royster with William Bullock as administrator, as well as a few records pertaining to community disputes.
Includes a folder of medical receipts and treatments by local doctors, 1834-1837, chiefly for family members but also mentions enslaved people and servants. Other papers of note in the series include a list of enslaved persons initialed by John Bullock, 1857; 19th century commodities price sheets from Virginia; and school grades and comportment reports, with a few antebellum from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the sons of John Bullock.
Folder houses an assortment of small items from the Bullock family papers outside the scope of the other series. Items of special interest: a sheet of paper initialed by John Bullock with several lists naming approximately 40 enslaved individuals, 1857; school grade and comportment reports from UNC (1850s); a militia roll, circa 1862, for the Nutbush, NC 37th regiment, with first and last names of 43 men from the area, led by Captain William Wallace White (1825-1911), with Richard Bullock, Jr. appearing as a private; and several published commodities price sheets from Virginia, 1857-1858.
Caleb Budlong physician's account books, 1817-1843, 1915 and undated 8 volumes and 1 folder
Manuscript map with color depicting land and shoreline of Lake Mattemuskeet, including a segment of land in dispute between the Parmer and Clayton property holders. A later clipping discusses the lake, which had by then been drained.
Chiefly correspondence between Cox and both white supremacisists and Black separatists regarding racial separation and segregation. Also personal correspondence with his family, some relating to his travels and to his service in the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, and 19th century letters concerning his relatives in Tennessee. Arranged chronologically.
Correspondents include Marcus Garvey, Mittie Maude Lean Gordon, Benjamin Gibbons, William Langer, Wickliffe P. Draper, Madison Grant, S. A. Davis, W. A. Plecker, Willis A. Carto, and Amy Jacques Garvey, widow of Marcus Garvey, among others.
Includes deeds, contracts, wills, indentures, land surveys, and subpoenas, mostly dating from the 19th century and involving members of Cox's family who were located in Blount County, Tenn. Also several of Cox's wills, copyrights for several of his publications, and legal briefs relating to the arrest of Black separatist Mittie M. L. Gordon, and other miscellaneous items. Arranged chronologically.
Includes receipts, some concerning the sale of Cox's publications. Also loose papers and two volumes, dating from the 19th century and relating to the sale of agricultural products and other miscellaneous items. Arranged chronologically.
One 1832 letter written in Hungarian, possibly from Andrassy's father, Karoli, as well as a couple of newspaper articles that deal with the acceptance by Count Andrassy of the post of Prime Minister of Hungary, written in English in the 1870s. Items are located in Box 1 of the Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton Collection.
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This is the autograph and signed letter collection of Benjamin W. Austin. Many of the letters and autographs were obtained through Mr. Austin's written request, but older items appear to have come from the autograph collection of Henry Sheldon of Salisbury, Vermont. Although many items are older, most of Mr. Austin's active collecting was done in the 1880s and 1890s. The group includes items from Congressmen, Civil War heroes, literary figures, and educators. Of special note in the collection is a 1798 message from William Henry Harrison at Fort Washington. Many of the items are accompanied by biographical clippings and several are attached to photographs. Of particular interest are the vintage photographs of Commander Gilbert C. Wittse, naval engineer William H. Shock, and statesman and educator J. L. M. Curry.
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Stephen Row Bradley and his son William Czar Bradley were lawyers who, as residents of Westminster, Vermont, served in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives respectively. Later Stephen moved to Walpole, New Hampshire. Many prominent New Englanders corresponded with them about Federalist, Republican, and Democratic politics, patronage, and legal and personal matters. Stephen's son-in-law, Samuel Griswold Goodrich ("Peter Parley") was his most frequent correspondent. Other subjects of the correspondence include the Vermont militia, relations between the U.S. and Tripoli, attitudes toward the War of 1812, surveying of the northeastern boundary between the U.S. and Canada, General Lafayette's visit to Thomas Jefferson in 1824, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson.
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283 autographed letters collected by Cist, largely of military officers as well as writers and scientists.
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Collection consists mostly of correspondence concerning business dealings among Clawson's family members in Berkeley County, W. Va. Although most of the items in this collection concern the collection of old debts, several letters from Thomas Dunn outline the hardships of frontier medical life. A few letters are addressed to "Dr." Jacob H. Clawson at the Ebenezer Academy near Rock Hill, S. C.
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Correspondence and papers of Henry William De Saussure and of grandson Wilmot Gibbes De Saussure, South Carolina legislator and Confederate Army officer. Subjects include the establishment of South Carolina College (later the University of South Carolina), the Mexican War, conditions in the Confederacy, political phases of Reconstruction, an interview between Carl Schurz and Henry A. De Saussure, effect of the contested election of 1877, and the Charleston earthquake of August 31, 1886. Also included are documents concerning real estate transfers, and genealogical records of the Bacot, Burden, De Saussure, Gourdin, Hamilton, Mood, Pringle, and Swinton families. Among the correspondents and persons mentioned are P.G.T. Beauregard, Henry Alexander De Saussure, John M. De Saussure, Adam T. Millican, Benjamin Silliman, and Henry D.A. Ward. The 5 items collected by the Daltons were merged into this collection.
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These 22 items are largely correspondence written in Washington, DC or sent to Washington, DC. Examples include a 1928 letter from Herbert Hoover to John Mullowney of Nashville, TN, a 1901 letter from Senator Orville H. Platt to Julius Brown, Esq., an 1884 letter from Secretary of the Interior, Henry M. Teller to U. S. Representative Richard Warner, an 1881 letter from Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan, an 1879 letter from then-U. S. Representative James A. Garfield to Joseph Carter of Missouri, an 1877 letter from Z. Chandler, Chairman of the National Republican Committee to George Carter of New Orleans, an 1863 and an 1866 letter from U. S. Representative Schuyler Colfax, and an 1865 letter written by Confederate veteran, George C. Watkins of Little Rock to Washington lawyer James Carlisle, regarding Watkins' legal post-war woes. This folder is in Box 3 of the Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton Collection.
Papers in this collection include letters, as well as financial and legal documents. The oldest item is a French marriage contract drawn in 1763, in the name of Louis Renee Adrien Dugas. Most of the material in the collection, however, pertains to Leon Frederick E. Dugas, who traveled extensively as a cotton merchant and general factor. Letters to Dugas discuss business and prices, as well as numerous lawsuits and disputes with importers. Several letters to Dugas from his brother-in-law and partner Paul Ronignol, are in French. A letterpress volume from 1845 records much of Dugas's correspondence from that year. Many of these letters are in French, and virtually all deal with matters of finance, cotton sales, or estate settlements. Of interest are documents representing Dugas's attempts to gain control of the Habersham Iron Works; papers relating to the sale of slaves to the family; and an inventory showing that in 1827, the Dugas family purchased most of the land, goods, and slaves of "Good-Rest," the Edgefield, S.C. home of Dr. Beauregard.
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Collection contains mainly legal items, such as deeds and land grants. The evolution of a tract of land in S.C., 1755, may be traced to the Civil War.
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Collection contains the business papers of Joseph Gales, Jr., and William W. Seaton, editors of the National Intelligencer. Correspondence pertains to subscriptions, advertising, announcements and letters to the editors. Some prominent names appear in the subscription correspondence. Of particular interest are fifty-six transcripts of Congressional speeches, resolutions, and motions. These were presented for publication and are marked for editing. Among the authors of the manuscripts are Henry Clay, James K. Polk, Martin Van Buren, and Daniel Webster. Many are signed. Part of the Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton Collection.
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Twelve items, miscellaneous in relation to one another, but all relate to Georgia. Items include a pledge of allegiance to the Union, signed by Andrew Young in 1865 and an 1806 pardon for Jedediah Seymore signed by Secretary of State Horatio Marbury. These items are located in Box 4 of the Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton Collection.
Primarily correspondence of various government departments and individuals.
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Three letters by Iredell addressed to John Branch, Secretary of the Navy; Gales and Seaton; and Willie P. Magnum and William A. Graham. The letter to branch recommends James H. Popelston for a midshipman's warrant. The letter to Gales and Seaton pertains to a subscription to the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER. To Magnum and Graham, Iredell writes in support of James H. Brazier for appointment as midshipman, and requests that they forward his letter to Secretary of the Navy, Abel P. Upshur. On the same page, Magnum and Graham write a note of transmittal to Upshur, stating that they concur heartily with Iredell's recommendation.
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Papers chiefly concern military and Indian affairs, including a fight with the British at Mobile, Ala., 1814; raids of the Creek and Seminole Indians; relations between the U. S. government and the Indians in Alabama; the use of U. S. troops to remove intruders from Cherokee lands; affairs of the military department of the South when Jackson was in command, 1816; construction of a military road from Nashville to New Orleans, 1816; and the Seminole War, 1835-1842. Several letters discuss politics during and after Jackson's presidency, including his relationships with John Rhea and John C. Calhoun. There is also material about military actions in Florida and Georgia during the War of 1812 and on government relations with the Creek Indians.
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This collection consists military and other papers of Gen. Thomas Sidney Jesup relating mainly to the War of 1812, The Seminole War, and the Mexican War. It contains correspondence between Jesup and Major Willson, Hugh McCall, William Linnard, James Brown, L. P. Heintzelman, William Schley, and William Ballard Preston, among others. Topics are mostly related to military matters and relations with the Creeks and Seminoles. A detailed memoir by Jesup entitled "Memoir of the Campaigne on the Niagara" complements a similar item in the Jacob Jennings Brown Papers. Combined, the two memoirs yield a stunning overview of the Niagara Campaign, and also point to interesting areas of disagreement. Also included in the collection are two items from Washington, D.C., dated 1831. One represents the sale of 21 slaves to Jesup, while the other is the official District of Columbia authorization for such a sale, which is on Department of State Letterhead, and is signed by Secretary of State Edward Livingston. Additionally, the collection contains an 1813 article of agreement between Jesup and Brintnel Robins of Penn., who contracted to supply 65 boats for the U.S. troops. The boats were intended for the expedition that later led to the Battle of the Chippewa.
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Collection of miscellaneous items from Kentucky, including a 1795 Commonwealth of Ky. land grant of 9,728 acres in Nelson Co. to Joseph Lewis, among other deed transferrals. Additional items include a letter of recommendation from George Bibb; a letter dated 3 August 1816, from R. Whiting in New York to James Prentiss in Lexington, Ky., concerning the failure of acceptance of bank drafts on the Mechanics Bank and other banks in Philadelphia and New York; and various business letters.
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The Daltons gifted 27 items which help make up the Lee papers.
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Correspondence, legal and financial papers, photographs, printed material, writings, clippings, and volumes relating chiefly to the Leech family, but also to relations in the Dewey, Warner, and Duryea families. Correspondence topics include: nineteenth-century American politics; reform movements; lectures and lyceums in New York; late nineteenth-century courtship; and school activities at the Stone School and Williams College. One series of letters from 1841 refer to the American poet Walt Whitman. Another series of letters from the Dewey family, beginning in the 1840s, originate from Ohio. Also included in this collection are papers concerning the Jamaica Lyceum, of which Abraham Paul Leech was secretary pro tem in the 1840s.
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Correspondence, legal papers, and financial papers of the Lucas family of Raleigh, N.C. Early letters (1813-1816) were written by Alexander Lucas to his wife Mary while he visited Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. Legal papers pertain to a lawsuit involving William Lucas, Henderson Lucas, and Margaret Lucas and concerning the estate and Revolutionary War military bounty of their grandfather, Thomas Lucas. A letter written to William Lucas from N. Davidson (1857) on an advertising sheet contains descriptions of inventions of 1857, including a counterfeit preventing machine for the printing of banknotes, a windmill, a pump, and a letter-copying press. Also included in the collection are letters (1861-1862) from Henderson Lucas of the 34th Regiment of N.C. Troops, Company G, to his sister Margaret. Lucas wrote from Camp Fisher near High Point, N.C., from Camp Davis near Wilmington, and from Hamilton's Crossing. Clippings include one describing Henderson Lucas' heroism at the battle of Gettysburg. Collection also includes a small account book (1821) in which Mary Lucas made a few brief entries.
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Collection of miscellaneous items from Maryland. Includes correspondence and an indenture. This folder is located in Box 6 of the Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton Collection.
Collection contains three items. The first is the bill (1833), creating the Medical College from the old Institute. It is signed by Governor Lumpkin and endows the college with funds, land, and trustees. The second item is an 1858 graduation statement, listing graduates and discussing briefly the fact that enrollment is down due to the local economy. A third letter (1859), is from F. Campbell at the college, informing an unknown addressee that he has been appointed to the Board of Trustees.
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These are miscellaneous items gifted by Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton. Included are deeds and correspondence, including a letter from Jonathan Trumbull, an 1865 oath of allegiance signed by James Stump, a ticket to the trial of Tilton vs. Beecher in 1874, and a rough draft of a letter [1877] to Lucy Hayes. This folder is located in Box 6 of the Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton Collection.
Miscellaneous items related to New York, largely correspondence. This folder is located in Box 6 of the Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton Collection.
This collection contains miscellaneous items related to North Carolina. Largely correspondence, included is a speech on women, written by North Carolina's first governor, Richard Caswell. This folder is located in Box 6 of the Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton Collection.
Miscellaneous correspondence written in Pennsylvania. Items are located in Box 7 of the Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton Collection.
Twenty-three items of correspondence in this collection mainly concern political matters after 1832, when Pickens became openly active in the nullification controversy. Several letters from 1833 deal with Colonel Pickens' efforts to promote the state oath of allegiance and to raise and provision a contingent of his Edgefield constituents. Of particular interest is a letter detailing the types and amounts of military supplies available to various local volunteer groups. The finest items in the collection are three lengthy letters from James Hammond to Pickens in 1839-1840. Some correspondence is personal. Also included are some legal documents and miscellany items. The collection is housed in Box 7 of the Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton Collection.
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Chiefly correspondence of the Saye family. Early letters trace James Saye's progress through the Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga. Other correspondence details his pastorships in Henry County, Ga., in Unionville and Fairforest, S.C., then in Chester County, S.C. Several letters are from fellow ministers, and discuss Presbyterian Church matters and national politics. Later correspondence is chiefly between the six Saye daughters and their mother, Rebecca Saye (McJunkins), and concern domestic issues and Reconstruction in the South. A letter by Rebecca details the genealogies of the Saye and McJunkins families. One letter (1883) addressed to James Saye from a professor at Davidson College recounts college affairs. Other documents include legal papers, including one Freedmen's Bureau document of 1866 which indentures an orphaned African-American boy to Rev. Saye for fourteen years.
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Correspondence to Edmund Schriver from two West Point fellow graduates, Robert Selden Garnett and William Wallace Smith Bliss. Topics deal in great detail with army life in general, including politics, scandals, and events; the Cherokee War; the war with Mexixo, including the battles of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Monterey, and Buena Vista; Bliss' role as chief-of-staff to General Zachary Taylor, and, later, as private secretary to President Taylor in Washington; and the reaction to Taylor's election in 1848.
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This collection includes miscellaneous items related to South Carolina. Correspondence makes up the bulk of the collection and correspondents include Strom Thurmond and Arthur P. Hayne. Also included are financial documents such as receipts and printed material such as pamphlets for The Crosby Military Institute in Feasterville, S.C. and reports regarding S.C. government. The material is housed in Box 8 of the Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton Collection.
Correspondence, financial records, legal documents, clippings, account books, commissions, addresses and speeches, and a diploma. Correspondence concerns chiefly cotton growing, trade and prices; slaves who worked in cotton fields; financial matters; Washington, D.C. politics, with references to Henry Clay and John Calhoun; state and national politics; descriptions of newly settled areas of Mississippi and California; and a cholera outbreak in Charleston (1832). Civil War letters detail problems at Fort Sumter (1861), and often refer to economic difficulties and shortages in South Carolina. Other Civil War letters are also written from Manassas, Alabama, and Mississippi. One letter from Mississippi details the desperation of women left alone and unable to flee before the advancing Union Army. Post-war letters reveal the problems of Reconstruction in South Carolina. Many of the letters are to Sims' wife Jane Emily Sims (Farnandis). Includes an autobiographical letter from J. K. Paulding, author and statesman, and an essay by the same, entitled "The history of Uncle Sam and his boys." Some of Sims' addresses and one of the legal documents concern Nullification, which Sims' strongly supported. Other documents include an obituary for Franklin H. Elmore, plantation and general account books, and some material on Sims' student days at South Carolina College (ca. 1817-1819), which includes a letter to his brother in 1819 "in defence of General Jackson," and his "treatment of the Indians."
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Correspondence, financial papers, and legal documents, concerning William Sims' extensive plantation holdings in South Carolina. Includes two account books. Correspondence is primarily related to business matters, including cotton trade and prices; the price and availability of slaves; and the beginnings of a textile industry on the plantation. Local and state politicians in South Carolina are often mentioned, as is the general economic plight of the Southern planter in the period (ca. 1819-1830), and currency problems in the state (ca. 1826-1830). One personal letter effusively describes newly settled land in Mississippi and the quality of the cotton grown there. Detailed financial papers form the bulk of the collection, and concern the cotton trade (including weights, bale numbers, shipping, prices, and sales), and household and plantation expenses. Legal papers are confined to deeds, documents of land litigation, military commissions, and documents relating to slaves, such as indentures and lists of slaves on the plantation. Also includes genealogical information on the Sims family.Cotton grower in Union County, South Carolina.
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Signed holograph copy of four verses of "America," written by Samuel Francis Smith, and a pamphlet published by American Autograph Shop, containing a facsimile of the first and last verses of "America"; a copy of the entire hymn as printed for the celebration by the Boston Sabbath School Union of Independence Day in 1931; printed copies of two other hymns; a copy of an address to the children by the Rev. Wisner; and a facsimile of notes made by a Dr. Jenks during the celebration.
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Papers pertaining to President John Tyler and his family. Petition, 1834, from prominent residents of King and Queen County, Va., asking Tyler to endorse their candidate for the U.S. Senate; letter of recommendation (1841) from Burke Washington concerning a naval candidate, Alexander Jones; letter from John Tyler, Jr. (?) in reply to H. C. Corbin; letter written by Julia (Gardiner) Tyler (1881) in reply to an autograph collector.
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This collection of correspondence, directed to the Secretaries of the U. S. Navy, consists largely of recommendations for young men desiring appointments to the Naval Academy and other Naval positions. Other contents include incidental messages on Navy finance, notes and letters on legislation affecting the Navy, reports on Naval operations in Gibraltar and elsewhere, on sailors' conduct and on provisioning.
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A detailed list of a cavalry troop; a letter from Tenn. governor Willie Blount to Capt. James Cowan of the U.S. Rangers, concerning the Creek Wars in Tenn.; a letter from Mass. governor Caleb Strong to Adj. Gen. John Brooks referring to appointments to the War Dept.; four letters of recommendation, two of these directed to Joel R. Poinsett, then Secretary of War; a property document (1865) from the Freedmen's Bureau; and a grant of military bounty lands to a Mrs. Sarah Woolley.
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Miscellaneous items related to the Commonwealth of Virginia. Collection includes mainly land grants and correspondence. This material is located in Box 9 of the Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton Collection.
Facsimilies of Washington correspondence and several engravings of both Washington and his wife Martha. These items are located in Box 9 of the Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton Collection.
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Gentleman's pocket book, bound in suede with flap. Scanty accounts fill only a small portion of the book. "Thos. Whiteside--His book" is written on the front, and the name is mentioned several times inside. Book appears to have originally been owned by Jesse Broomfield whose initials appear above Whiteside's on the cover and the earliest entries bear his name. Broomfield was one of the original sponsors of the Ebenezer Academy (1834) near Rock Hill, SC.
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Correspondence of members of the Wilkes family, consisting primarily of letters to Charles Wilkes (1798-1877), naval admiral, and of many letters that he wrote. Letters from prominent scientists such as James Renwick, Asa Gray, James D. Dana, and Jean L. R. Agassiz also appear in the papers, as does correspondence of naval officers, Congressmen, diplomats, and cabinet secretaries, especially Secretaries of the Navy. Included among the numerous subjects mentioned in the papers is the exploring expedition that Wilkes commanded to the Antarctic continent, islands of the Pacific Ocean, and the American Northwest coast from 1838-1842. There is a lot of family correspondence from various members of the Wilkes family which include two wives of Charles Wilkes. Other types of material in the collection are legal papers, financial records, printed material, writings, account books, a science notebook written by Wilkes' son Edmund in 1847, and a volume entitled, "Notes Relative to the Fijii [sic] Islands," written by Charles Wilkes. These items make up part of the Charles Wilkes Papers.
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Most of the collection deals with Willard's ownership of the famous Willard Hotel. Extensive correspondence documents the comings and goings of clients at the hotel, as well as repair and financial matters there. Legal and financial papers are concerned with the hotel, as well as with Willard's other interests as founder of the National Safe Deposit, Savings and Trust, Co., as a member of the D.C. Board of Public Works, and as chairman of the Board of Trustees for the District of Columbia Reform School in the 1870s and 1880s. Willard received appointments signed by the President every three years. Thus, the signatures of Grant, Hayes and Cleveland appear here. A few personal items are included, such as an icy exchange between Henry and his brother Joseph C. Willard. Of interest is a long document to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia which details the feud between the two brothers.
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Collection consists of correspondence, notebooks, and miscellaneous papers of Colonel William Augustus Williams of Wilmington and Charlotte, N.C. Correspondence includes letters from Henderson C. Lucas, Williams's nephew, who was wounded at Gettysburg while serving in the 11th Regiment of the N.C. Infantry; and letters related to Williams's efforts to bring the wounded Lucas to Charlotte. Other correspondence is primarily of a financial nature. A letter from William Henry Heyward describes the effects of reconstruction on South Carolina Coastal planters. A letter from Rev. Aldert Smedes mentions the financial hardships suffered by St. Mary's School in Raleigh, N.C. and is written on stationery describing the school's tuition and curriculum. Notebook dated 1827 contains exercises in penmanship and renderings of famous poems, while one dated 1825 is an arithmetic practice book. Also included are papers related to the Raleigh City Guards.
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Papers of William Wirt and of Elizabeth Washington (Gamble) Wirt, including letters concerning William's law practice; a letter relating an anecdote concerning William Wirt, Henry Clay, and a General Parker; fragmentary letter, 1833, from Wirt to a law student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, discussing education; and a fragment of Wirt's draft of his biography of Patrick Henry. Correspondence of Elizabeth Washington (Gamble) Wirt, wife of William, and two sons, Dabney Carr and William C., concerns the purchase and sale of land, a debt incurred by Wirt for land he planned to develop in Florida, the widow's financial affairs, the erection of a monument to her husband, and other family matters.
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This collection contains correspondence, primarily containing observations of a social and political nature regarding the period in South Carolina before, during and immediately following the Civil War. Much of the subject matter deals with viewpoints of the women. Correspondants include: her mother, Mrs. Louisa Roberts; her brother, Samuel C. Roberts; and her best friend, Countess Aniela N. Pinkind, as well as Charles F. A. Holst, her future husband.
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Items relating to a variety of subjects, including architecture, automobiles, fashion, political cartoons and caricatures, and military conflicts, particularly the American Civil War but also the Revolutionary, Spanish-American, and World Wars.
Visual materials from a wide range of geographic locations separated into subseries by American state/territory or foreign country. More than half of the subseries and materials are of various U.S. states, mostly on the Eastern seaboard. The majority of the U.S. material comes from the assorted subseries of the southern states, the largest of which are Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Much of the North Carolina subseries features historical images of Durham.
Most of these pictures of historical or geographic locales do not include people, but there are a significant number of street scenes and the like with many unidentified individuals. Images in this series are mostly photographs and engravings , though there are lithographs, paper prints, clippings, albums, and postcards as well.
The People Series contains images of individuals and groups from many historical periods. The majority of the images depict prominent American and European (mostly British) white men, such as political and military leaders, clergymen, and nobility. A large portion of the American individuals portrayed in this series are Civil War officers, both Union and Confederate.
Individual portraits make up the vast majority of items in this series. While most are posed studio portraits, there is a significant number of informal images as well as large gatherings of unidentified people. Photographs and engravings make up the largest group of formats in the series, though there are also lithographs, clippings and other printed illustrations, tintypes, handbills, broadsides, sketches, and postcards.
The images in this series are listed alphabetically by name or assigned title. Physical files may retain original (and no longer used) labels such as "Negro" and "Indian."
Originally part of the Socialist Party Records, this series was added to the Picture File in the 1980s and remains intellectually distinct from the other series in the collection. It has two subseries: General and People. The General Subseries consists of images depicting a variety of subjects, ranging from Civil Rights protests in the U.S. to news photographs of the Nazi military buildup in the early 1930s. This subseries also contains images of Socialist Party headquarters, parades, and strikes. The People Subseries contains portraits of various socialist leaders throughout the party's history (both national and regional), with a large amount of material focusing on the life of five-time U.S. presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs. Also included in this subseries are groups of socialist legislators as well as assembled socialist conventions and delegations. The vast majority of the images in this series portray various events and individuals in Socialist Party history; however, there are also a few items which depict places of socialist interest, such as the city of Vienna or the party headquarters in Chicago. Images in this series are chiefly photographic; other formats include handbills, clippings, sketches, black-and-white illustrations, a viewbook, and postcards.
Picture File, 1700s-1980s, bulk 1814-1950 50 Linear Feet — Approximately 6050 items
The Picture File is a large and diverse collection of visual materials ranging from the 17th through the 20th centuries. The bulk of the images in the collection date from the early 1800s through the 1950s. The dominant formats are engravings and photographs. Specific formats include: cartes de visite, cabinet cards, and other albumen prints; tintypes and daguerreotypes (cased and uncased); engravings, lithographs, and other mechanical prints; caricatures and cartoons; watercolors; sketches; postcards; stereographs; small souvenir albums; leaflets; and small broadsides. There are a few cyanotypes and negatives.
The images offer views from most of the southern United States, especially North and South Carolina and Virginia. Many images are from Europe, with a smaller number from Japan and China; a large variety of other countries and locations are represented by a few images. The history of Durham is also well-represented, in addition to other Southern cities and towns, including Raleigh N.C. Many political and military leaders and notable personages, primarily from the U.S. and Europe are present in portraits and caricatures; there are numerous images of Eugene Debs, U.S. Socialist Party leader, and members of the Duke family of Durham, N.C. A significant number of individuals in the People Series are African Americans, ranging from individual studio portraits to groups of individuals and racist caricatures and cartoons; a smaller number are of Native Americans.
The Subjects Series is eclectic, including advertising, cartoons, tobacco, ships, and images from conflicts: Civil War images are abundant, offering views of battles and devastation both rural and urban. There are also scenes from the American Revolutionary War, Spanish-American War, and both World Wars. Finally, the Picture File is home to collections of many engravings and lithographs produced by the 19th century American companies Currier and Ives, L. Prang and Co., and Kurz and Allison; many of them commemorate military leaders or events.