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Burton Norvell Harrison Family Papers, 1812-1926, bulk: 1913-1921. Finding aid online: “Correspondence, diaries, reports, memoranda, MSS. of articles, speeches, and books, and other papers” of: Samuel Jordan Harrison (1771-1846), merchant. Letters from Thomas Jefferson; father of: Jesse Burton Harrison (1805-1841), lawyer and newspaper editor. Includes correspondence with William W. Norvell about national and Virginia politics during the Andrew Jackson administration, J. B. Harrison's travels in Europe, 1829-1831, and his notes on conversations with James Madison; father of: Burton Norvell Harrison* (1838-1904): Attended, 1854-55, Mississippi University; Yale, 1859; private secretary, 1862, Jefferson Davis; prisoner, 1865, Union Army; New York Bar, 1866; Secretary and Counsel, 1875, New York Rapid Transit Commission; eschewed politics after 1880; opposed William Jennings Bryan’s platforms. Papers include letters written as private secretary to Jefferson Davis, a prisoner, and later, as a lawyer in New York City; husband of: Mrs. Burton Harrison*, formerly Constance Cary* (1843-1920), resided and traveled in Europe, 1890s; adapted French plays for amateur performance; author of short stories and historical articles, especially about the South and New York City, in Scribner’s Monthly, Harper’s, and Century; author: Woman's Handiwork in Modern Homes (1881), The Well-bred Girl in Society (1898), and others. Papers, mainly concerning her literary career and the family's social prominence in New York City; mother of Fairfax and Francis Burton Harrison: Fairfax Harrison* (1869-1938), lawyer and president of the Southern Railway. Business papers; correspondence with his brother in the Philippines. Francis Burton Harrison* (1873-1957), Yale, 1895, New York Law School, 1895 and Bar, 1898; New York Volunteer Calvary, 1898; Captain, Assistant Adjutant General, U.S. Volunteers, 1898-99; U.S. Congress, 1903-05 and 1907-13, Democrat, New York; Governor General, 1913-21, Philippines; lived on estate in Scotland, 1921-34: Papers, mainly his advocacy of Philippine independence and diplomatic affairs during the Woodrow Wilson administration. “Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Matthew Arnold, G. T. Beauregard, James Gillespie Blaine, Andrew Carnegie, Salmon P. Chase, Henry Clay, Frances Folsom Cleveland, Grover Cleveland, Austin Craig, Charles A. Dana, Varina Davis, Chauncey M. Depew, Lord Byron and Lady Mary Falkland, Stephen Johnson Field, Lindley M. Garrison, Ralph Randolph Gurley, Joel Chandler Harris, Benjamin Harrison, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Dean Howells, Robert E. Lee, Camilo Osias, Sergio Osmeña, Gifford Pinchot, T. H. Pardo de Tavera, Manuel Luis Quezon, Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Jeb Stuart, Walt Whitman, and Woodrow Wilson.” Letters, 1896-1920 (about 17 boxes); cablegrams, 1913-21 (4 boxes); subject files, 1913-21 (8 boxes); printed material, 1899-21 (7 boxes). John Hay* (1838-1905), Papers of, 1783-1999, bulk: 1897-1905. John Milton Hay*: Illinois State University, Brown, M.A., 1858; studied law, 1859-60, Springfield IL; assistant private secretary, 1861-1864, to Abraham Lincoln; Assistant Adjutant General, 1864-65, U.S. Army; diplomatic posts: France, 1865-67; Austria, 1867-68; Spain, 1869-70; editorial writer, 1870-75, New York Tribune; married, 1874, moved to Cleveland OH, and oversaw father-in-law’s considerable assets; U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, 1879-81; editor, 1881, New York Tribune; world travels, writing, 1882-97; U.S. Ambassador, 1897-98, Great Britain; U.S. Secretary of State, 1898-1905; author: Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle, and Little Breeches (1871); co-editor: Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings (2 v., 1902), and others. “Correspondence and letterbooks, speeches, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, memorabilia, memoranda, and other papers relating chiefly to Hay's service in Great Britain, and in the State Department under William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Earlier papers deal with his work as a lawyer in Springfield IL, his poetry, the Tribune, and Abraham Lincoln. Also includes letters, 1882-1914, of his wife, Clara Louise Stone* (1849-1914), Correspondents include Brooks Adams, Alvey A. Adee, Joseph Hodges Choate, George B. Cortelyou, Charles William Eliot, Henry James, Clarence King, Henry Cabot Lodge, William McKinley, Baron Julian Pauncefote, William Woodville Rockhill, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Sir Cecil Spring Rice, and Mark Twain.” Finding aid online: Diaries, 1904, 1905 (1 box); letterbooks, 1898-1905 (1 box); Hay letters sent and family letters, 1896-1914 (5 boxes); special letters received, arranged alphabetically by correspondent, 1896-1905 (ca. 5 boxes); general letters, 1898-1905 (15 boxes); scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, arranged alphabetically by subject, mainly Spanish American War and diplomacy, 1896-1905 (46 v.). John Lowe* (1838-1930), Papers of, 1860-1945, bulk: 1870-1898 (1/3). Born Liverpool, England; studied engineering; emigrated and joined, 1861, 2d Ohio Infantry, then U.S. Navy; as Captain and Chief Engineer, 1898, personally tested and recommended purchase of its first submarine, U.S.S. Holland and, 1901, personally demonstrated that a crew could survive fifteen hours of submersion. “Private journals; orders to duty; scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, typewritten copies of articles, holograph notes, and reprints of articles by Lowe; and miscellaneous material. The journals, some of which have been edited by Lowe's daughter, Edith Blinston Lowe, contain personal entries, entries pertaining to various ships, autograph letters, copies of letters, general orders, circulars, newspaper clippings, diagrams, photographs, and printed matter. Correspondents include Daniel Ammen and Aniceto G. Menocal in the journals kept on the U.S.S. Despatch; Samuel S. Cox, William H. Emory, and Edwin Thacher in the journal kept on the U.S.S. Dolphin and the U.S.S. Thetis; Philip Hichborn in the journal kept on the U.S.S. New York; and John D. Long in the journal kept on the submarine Holland.” Elizabeth Burt*, Papers of, 1797-1917, 200 items (1/2). Elizabeth Reynolds Burt* (b. 1839) and husband, Andrew Sheridan Burt* (1839-1915): Captain, U.S. Army, Civil War; served at several frontier posts during Indian Wars in West; general officer, Philippines, 1902. “Letters to her daughter, Edith Burt, discussing family matters and describing the routines of military post life at Fort Bidwell, Calif., Forts Bridger, Laramie, D.A. Russell, Sanders, and Washakie, Wyo., Forts Missoula and C.F. Smith, Mont., Forts Omaha and Robinson, Neb., and elsewhere. Includes material on relations with the Indians, particularly Shoshone Chief Washakie, and social events and meetings with prominent figures such as Mark Twain and Owen Wister. Includes correspondence, diaries, and other papers of her husband, Andrew S. Burt*, her father-in-law Andrew Gano Burt, 1810-1875, and Andrew Burt, 1771?-1817.” Typescript autobiography, “An Army Wife’s Forty Years in the Service, 1862-1902”: Philippine Islands, last 60 pages. Samuel W. Dike* (1839-1913), Papers of, 1870-1913 (10/28). Samuel Warren Dike*: Williams College, 1863; Andover, Congregational minister, 1866; pastorates in Vermont; helped form, 1881, and became Secretary, the New England Divorce Reform League, the nucleus of a national movement; moved, 1882, to Auburndale MA, and devoted full time to efforts to enact more restrictive and uniform divorce laws in all states. “Correspondence with members of the National Divorce Reform League (later National League for the Protection of the Family) and others, relating to business matters and social and family problems; annual reports and other publications of the League, including articles contributed by Dike; U.S. Commissioner of Labor, Report on Marriage and Divorce in the United States, 1867-86 (1889); and material on temperance published by the Committee of Fifty for the Investigation of the Liquor Problem. Also includes family papers; speeches; unfinished autobiography; proposed divorce reform laws; notes on divorce statistics; notes and outlines for correspondence courses; news clippings relating to divorce, Mormons and polygamy, home study movement in the Congregational Church, and the elections of 1884, 1888, and l892; and articles written by and about Dike. Correspondents include Herbert Baxter Adams, Newton D. Baker, Francis G. Peabody, and Carroll D. Wright.” Letters, 1896-1913 (7 boxes). Forbes Family Papers, 1732-1931*, microfilm (52 reels). Originals held by Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston MA. Frances Blackwell Forbes* (1839-1908): Bimetallist, investor in China and France, including Serrell Automatic Silk Reeling Company, Paris. Diaries, letters, business papers and letters, 1850-1908 (12 reels). Otherwise, “Diaries, correspondence, ships' logs, and business papers of James Murray Forbes (1845-1937), Robert Bennet Forbes (1804-1889), . . . and other family members. Relates to interests of the Forbes family including the China trade, English settlement in East Florida in the 18th century, Chinese botany, railroad building in the Midwest, consular service in Europe, and diplomatic service in Argentina in the 1820's.” 1840+ Christian A. Fleetwood* (1840-1914); Papers of, 1797-1945, bulk: 1860-1907. Christian Abraham Fleetwood*: Maryland Colonization Society Office, Baltimore, and Ashmun Institute (later, Lincoln University), Oxford PA; Union Army, 1863-66, Sergeant Major, Awarded Congressional Medal of Honor; Major and commander, 1887-91, 6th Battalion, D.C. National Guard; clerk, 1881-1914, U.S. War Department; choirmaster of churches in Washington DC. Sara Iredell Fleetwood* (1811-1908): Superintendent of Nurses, Freedman’s Hospital, Washington DC. “Correspondence, diaries, legal documents, scrapbook, printed material, memorabilia, and photographs pertaining chiefly to Fleetwood's activities as a Union soldier during the Civil War and as a leading African-American citizen of Washington, D.C. Subjects include education, nursing, slavery, and other civic and social concerns of the African American community in the District of Columbia where Fleetwood held various government and business positions.” Includes papers relating to his wife’s career and letters of family members. A.T. Mahan* (1840-1914), Papers of, 1779-1970, bulk 1890-1914. Son of Dennis Hart Mahan, Professor, U.S. Military Academy. Alfred Thayer Mahan*: Columbia University, U.S. Naval Academy, 1859; Union Navy, 1861-65; duty aboard the U.S.S. Iroquois Asiatic Squadron; commanded U.S.S. Wachusett, South Pacific Squadron; and, 1893, U.S.S. Chicago, European Station; President, 1886-89, 1892-93, Naval War College, and retired, 1896; member, 1897, Naval War Board; member, 1899, U.S. Delegation, Hague Conference; member, 1908, Commission on Documentary Historical Publications of U.S. Government; author: Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783 (1890), The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793–1812 (2 v., 1892), and others; memoir: From Sail to Steam (1907). “Correspondence, family papers, subject file, speeches and writings, scrapbooks, biographical file, printed material, and other papers relating to Mahan's naval education and career, publication of and reaction to his books on sea power; and personal and family life. Other topics include the Hague Conference and Mahan's views on armament, international arbitration, and shipbuilding. Persons represented prominently either through correspondence or subject material include Samuel Ashe, Henry Erben, John Hay, Hilary Herbert, Frederick Holls, William Kirkland, Henry Cabot Lodge, David Long, Seth Low, Stephen B. Luce, William McAdoo, John Bassett Moore, Joseph Pulitzer, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, and Winfield Schley.” Special letters, 1896-1915 (4 boxes); letters, 1896-1914, publishers (2 boxes); subject file, 1892-1914 (1 box); William D. Puleston, biographer’s research materials (3 boxes); clippings, 1898-1914 (3 boxes). A.T. Mahan, Papers of, 1861-1913. “Four letters, 1911-1913, by Mahan to Carter H. Fitz-Hugh concerning U.S. defense policy, the Panama Canal, and Germany's territorial conditions; letter by Mahan, 1861 Oct. 10, to C. S. Newcome from the sloop Pocahontas; photocopy of a report, 1906, by Mahan on the Naval War Board of 1898 with attachments that include copies of letters to and from Admiral George Dewey and Navy Secretary Charles J. Bonaparte; and photocopies of excerpts from two published works on Mahan referring to the report.” Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich* (1841-1915), Papers of, 1762-1930 (80/143). U.S. Senate, 1881-1911, Rhode Island, Republican; Chair, National Monetary Commission, 1908-12. “Correspondence, journal, 1906, relating to the Hepburn bill, appointment books, 1906-1909, drafts of speeches with related notes and memoranda, personal bank accounts, bills, receipts, and other financial papers, tariff schedules (1880-1894), documents, reports, bills, scrapbooks, clippings, pamphlets and other printed material, chiefly relating to Aldrich's career in congress. Includes diaries, 1904 and 1912, kept by Aldrich's wife, Abby Chapman Aldrich; biographical material concerning Aldrich and his family, dating from 1762; and a group of biographer's papers, 1924-1930, containing correspondence and notes of Nathaniel W. Stephenson and Jeannette P. Nichols. Correspondents include Henry B. Anthony, Johnson Newlon Camden, Henry White Cannon, Jonathan Chace, Charles Francis Choate, Winthrop Murray Crane, Eugene Hale, Henry Cabot Lodge, William Thomas Nicholson, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and William Whitman.” General letters, 1892-1915 (35 boxes); financial periodicals, 1885-1915 (8 boxes). Silas Casey* (1841-1931), Papers of, 1771-1941, bulk: 1862-1903 (1/6). Silas Casey III*: U.S. Naval Academy, 1856; commanded, 1897-1900, League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia,; Rear Admiral, 1899; Commander-in-Chief of Pacific Fleet, U.S.S. Wisconsin, 1901-03; participated in Panamanian Revolution and retired, 1903. “Correspondence, journal, daybook, bills, receipts, commissions, and other papers relating to Casey's naval service in Japan, the Civil War, the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, Kanghoa Island (Kanghwa-gun), Korea, Samoan Islands, Panama Bay, and the United States. Ships represented include the Colorado, Niagara, Portsmouth, Quinnebaug, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.” Oliver Wendell Holmes* (1841-1935), Papers of, microfilm (72 reels). Son of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-94), physician, poet, author. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.*: Harvard, 1861; Captain, 20th Massachusetts Infantry “Harvard Regiment,” and Brevet Colonel, Union Army; Harvard Law and Massachusetts Bar, 1867; practiced, 1867-82, Boston; constitutional law professor, 1882, Harvard and Justice, 1882-99, Massachusetts Supreme Court; Chief Justice, 1899-1902; Associate Justice, 1902-32, U.S. Supreme Court; author: The Common Law (1881), and others. Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection, 1862-1935 (1/3). “Chiefly letters, February 21, 1903-September 21, 1932 from Holmes to American diplomat Lewis Einstein*. Also, notes on the Holmes-Einstein correspondence, letters, 1908-1920, from Holmes to Dorothy and T. Wayland Vaughan*, clippings, and miscellany.” Letters, 1921-33, of John C. H. Wu*, microfilm (1 reel). Ching-hsiung Wu* (1899- ) Originals held privately. James Sullivan Clarkson* (1842-1918), Papers of, 1851-1917 (2/4). Editor of newspaper, Iowa State Register; delegate, 1876-1896, to the Republican national conventions; member, 1880-1896, Republican National Committee; president, 1891-1893, Republican League of the U.S.; First Assistant Postmaster General under Benjamin Harrison; Surveyor of Customs, Port of New York; railroad and other commercial interests. “Correspondence, speeches, articles, newspaper clippings, and printed matter, relating chiefly to Clarkson's” political activities and his “connection with the Iowa Republican State committee,” . . . and to his railway and other commercial interests. . . . Correspondents include William B. Allison, Grenville M. Dodge, Jonathan P. Dolliver, Samuel Fessenden, Joseph B. Foraker, Leigh S. J. Hunt, William E. Mason, Thomas C. Platt, James F. Wilson, and George G. Wright.” Letters, arranged chronologically, 1893-1917 (2 boxes). Henry Clark Corbin (1842-1909), Papers of, 1864-1980, bulk: 1898-1909 (16/22). Studied law, 1860-61; volunteer, 1862, Second Lieutenant, 83rd Ohio Infantry; Colonel and breveted Brigadier General, 1865, U.S. Colored Troops; entered 1866, Regular Army; detailed, 1877, to White House; was with James A. Garfield in Washington DC, 1881, both when the President was shot and when he later died in Elberon NJ; Lieutenant General and retired, 1906. “Correspondence, memoranda, reports, speeches, writings including an autobiography, autograph albums, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers concerning Corbin's military career and his life in Washington, D.C. Subjects include the Spanish American War; administration of the Philippines, 1900-1906; the China Relief Expedition, 1900-1901; the presidential inaugurations of James A. Garfield, 1881, and William McKinley, 1901; the social and political affairs of Corbin's family, a prominent family in Washington, D.C., at the turn of the century; and Corbin's wife, Edythe Agnes Patten Corbin” (1869-1959), whom he married in 1901, and “other Patten (Patton) family members. Correspondents include Adna Romanza Chaffee, George B. Cortelyou, Charles Henry Grosvenor, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, William Loeb, William Ludlom, John James McCook, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Schwan, William Rufus Shafter, William H. Taft, and Leonard Wood.” General letters (1 box); special letters (6 boxes); subject files (3 boxes); scrapbooks (7 boxes). Anna E. Dickinson* (1842-1932), Papers of, 1859-1951, bulk: 1859-1911. Anna Elizabeth Dickinson*: Active speaker after 1863 for the Republican Party; actress and playwright, 1876, and some Shakespearean roles; social reformer. “Correspondence, speeches, writings, plays, legal files, financial papers, newspaper clippings, itineraries, scrapbooks, obituaries, and printed material relating to Dickinson's activities on behalf of abolition, women's rights, and suffrage and to her career in the theater. Also includes the research notes for Giraud Chester’s Embattled Maiden (1951). Topics include . . . her travel throughout the U.S. while on lecture and campaign circuits, . . .her 1891 confinement at the State Hospital for the Insane, Danville PA and her lawsuits for damages incurred by the confinement. . . . Correspondents include her mother Mary, her sister Susan, other members of the Dickinson family, William B. Allison, Susan B. Anthony, Henry Ward Beecher, Samuel Bowles, Noah Brooks, Benjamin F. Butler, Fanny Davenport, Frederick Douglass, Ellen Everett, William Lloyd Garrison, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Wendell Phillips, Samuel C. Pomeroy, Whitelaw Reid, Carl Schurz, Theodore Tilton, Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, and John Greenleaf Whittier.” General letters, 1860-1910, arranged alphabetically (10 boxes). Charles Monroe Dickinson* (1842-1924), Papers of, 1897-1923 (3/4). New York Bar, ca. 1866; manager, editor, 1878, and owner, 1880, Binghampton NY Republic; U. S. diplomatic representative, 1897-1908, Turkey and Bulgaria. “Correspondence, writings, biographical material, clippings, passports, photographs, and reviews of Dickinson's book, The Children, and Other Verses (1889). Much of the material relates to Dickinson's activities” as a diplomat, “particularly concerning Ellen Stone, a missionary abducted by brigands in Macedonia in 1901; and investigations of Thomas H. Norton and Selah Merrill, U.S. consuls in Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey, and Jerusalem, respectively. Also includes material relating to Dickinson's law practice” in Binghampton NY. Letterbook, 1901-03 (342 pp.); letters, 1901-08 (2 boxes). Georgiana Klingle Holmes* (1842 ?-1940), Papers of, 1887-1935. Conservationist; poet, sometimes published under George Klingle*; author: Perdita: a Book of Verses (1894), A Page of Dreams (1914), and others. “Correspondence, poetry manuscripts, and clippings.” Charles Stanhope Cotton* (1843-1909), Papers of, 1860-1921 (2/3). Charles Cotton*: U.S. Naval Academy, 1858, Ensign, 1862; commanded U.S.S. Harvard, 1898, off Martinique, W.I. and Cuba during the Spanish-American War; Commander-in-Chief, 1903, of the U.S. Fleet until retirement, 1904. “Includes several letters from the Civil War period. Correspondents include William S. Cowles, Charles H. Darling, Edwin Denby, David G. Farragut, William E. Harvey, and William H. Moody.” Official Letters, 1862-1908 (1 box); newspaper clippings (1 box).   Joseph Dutton Collection, 1919-21 (18 items).
Born Ira Barnes Dutton* (1843-1931): Volunteered, 1861, Private, 13th Wisconsin Infantry; discharged, 1865, First Lieutenant, Quartermaster; thereafter, a lay missionary: Brother Joseph Dutton; author: The Story of Forty-four Years of Service Among the Lepers of Molokai, Hawaii, Honolulu (1931). Letters, photographs, 1919-21, relating to the leper settlement (1 v.). Bernard R. Green* (1843-1914), Papers of, 1885-1911. Directory: documents documents -> Concept stage documents -> Concept stage documents -> The great global switch-off documents -> Nonprofit grant application documents -> The Truth about the Rwandan Genocide documents -> Annual InStructional unit plan documents -> Chaos equipment included Download 0.75 Mb. Share with your friends:
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