Found 25 collections related to Correspondence

The Joseph Mitchell papers (1838-2011) primarily relate to Mitchell's career as a journalist and New Yorker writer and his proclivity to document life in New York City. The collection is comprised of correspondence, writings, research material, notes, ephemera, and photographs. Posthumous material relating to Mitchell is included as well as nineteenth and early twentieth century records amassed by Mitchell. less

Alpheus Sherman (1779 or 1780-1866) was a New York City lawyer, judge, and politician. During the War of 1812 he served as a captain in the 41st U.S. Infantry Regiment under the command of Colonel Robert Bogardus, stationed at Sandy Hook, New Jersey and in Brooklyn, New York. The Alpheus Sherman papers, 1804-circa 1844, consist of a numbered series of correspondence and documents, including letters dating from his service in the War of 1812 during the years 1813-1815, and unnumbered documents pertaining to veterans' claims for military bounty lands, 1815-1817, with a printed speech given by Sherman in 1832. The bulk of the correspondence is personal, chiefly Sherman's letters to his wife Hester in New York City during his military service and his time in Albany as a State assemblyman and senator, mentioning his various activities. Correspondents include Cornelius S. Van Winkle, Congressman Silas Wright, Jr., Colonel Robert Bogardus, and other Sherman family members. less

Edward Livingston (1834-1906) was a member of a socially prominent New York family and a businessman involved in the importation and sale of railroad materials. The Edward Livingston papers (1850s-1920s) contain personal and business records from Livingston, his siblings, and his children. less

Geoffrey Ward is the author of A Disposition to Be Rich, a biography of his great-grandfather, Ferdinand Ward, who ran a fraudulent Wall Street investment firm from 1880 to 1884. The Geoffrey Ward collection on Ferdinand Ward and the Ward family (1825-2012) consists of material collected and created by Geoffrey Ward in preparation of the book. The collection documents the activities of Ferdinand Ward and his extended family from the 1810s to 1949 through original family correspondence, legal documents, newspaper articles, and Geoffrey Ward's research notes, among other materials. less

John Dod Ward (1795-1873) was an American marine engineer who lived and worked in New Jersey, Vermont, New York, and Montreal. His son, Charles Dod Ward (1838-1915), was a civil engineer who married Ada Davey, daughter of Henry Lewis Davis and Jane Moore Sprong of Oswego, New York. The John Dod Ward family papers date from 1800 to 1936 and document the activities and lineage of the Ward, Roburds, Davis, and Sprong families through correspondence, business papers, diaries, photographs, and genealogical research files. John Dod Ward and Charles Dod Ward are the best-represented individuals in the collection. less

Abram S. Hewitt (1822-1903) was a New York lawyer, politician, and iron manufacturer. These three letters were written in 1849 by Hewitt to industrialist Peter Cooper, while Hewitt was in Philadelphia; Bordentown, New Jersey; and Sandusky, Ohio. In these brief communications, Hewitt mentions coal and nail supplies (presumably for their Trenton Iron Company) and refers to the lack of cholera in Sandusky during the 1849 cholera epidemic. less

Louis D. Carman (1860-1936) was a medical examiner in the United States Bureau of Pensions and a collector of Lincolniana. His father, Ezra Ayer Carman, was a Civil War officer. The Louis D. Carman collection dates from 1828 to 1923 and consists of items accumulated by Louis D. Carman, specifically correspondence and autographs; a friendship album containing poetry; and handwritten excerpts transcribed from books about fishing. A variety of documents bear the signatures of politicians and federal government officials; military generals; and businessmen. Some of the letters reference the Civil War and government and politics during the Reconstruction period. Other correspondence pertains to the Cosmos Club in Washington D.C. less

Simon Gratz (1840-1925) was an American lawyer and philanthropist of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Simon Gratz collection of letters of prominent American physicians and surgeons comprises sixty autograph items, chiefly letters. Each name is represented by one item; an additional autograph item written by Samuel Bard is not found. Prominent letter writers include Jacob Bigelow, Silvester Gardiner, David Hosack, and Samuel L. Mitchill. Recipients are chiefly persons in the medical field, but clergymen, scientists and other professions are also represented. Among them are James H. Armsby, Amos Eaton, Jedidiah Morse, and William H. Seward. Autograph items include several death certificates, and part of a medical work by Edward Miller (1760-1812). less

These records of the Kentucky Militia, 1st Brigade, consist of correspondence and an orderly book. The orderly book, with entries dated March 19-August 25, 1813, is largely in the handwriting of Joseph H. Hawkins, aide de camp of Brigadier General Green Clay. The correspondence dates from March 20-December 30, 1813 and consists of letters addressed to Clay relating to politics, military, and personal matters less

This collection contains correspondence of the firm Cadell & Davies, booksellers and publishers in London, England. Letters date from 1778 through 1831 and are primarily from British individuals, often historians, theologians, and authors of works about travels less

This collection consists of William N. Brady's correspondence regarding the sale of his book, entitled "The kedge-anchor or, Young sailors' assistant: appertaining to the practical evolutions of modern seamanship, rigging, knotting, splicing, blocks, purchases, running-rigging, and other miscellaneous matters, applicable to ships of war and others." Included are letters from officers of the United States Navy, as well as booksellers in the United States and England less

Manuscript letter from Dublin dated June 7, 1828, written to the Rev. Mr. Murphy, "who had sometime before read his recantation in Christ Church. . ." including the announcement in the public papers of the retraction of the Rev. Mr. Murphy, "who abjured his errors in John St. Catholic Church," with remarks by W.J. Battersby. Also includes "The Third Reformation in Ireland" in a manuscript letter to the Most Rev. Dr. [William] Magee, Protestant Archbishop of Dublin by Battersby, published in England and Ireland, 1828 less

Albert Aloysius Bieber was a book dealer located successively in New York City, West Hoboken, Jersey City, and Manasquan, New Jersey. These papers include letters from customers (including bibliographers, collectors, authors, college professors, librarians, and members of the Order of Bookfellows) written between 1915 and 1934, as well as a collection Bieber assembled of verses of "minor" American poets in New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, dated 1768-1933 less

Collection consists of documents pertaining to many aspects of New York State history, including military and court documents, land indentures and deeds, maps, family papers, letters, certificates, seals, official government resolutions, petitions, and other records. less

Samuel Adams Wells (1787-1840) was a merchant and insurance-company executive who wrote a manuscript biography of his grandfather, the Revolutionary-Era politician Samuel Adams (1722-1803). The collection contains Samuel Adams Wells' autograph draft letter dated Boston, 1826 January 9, to the Honorable Jos. [Joseph] Allen, an American politician and nephew of Samuel Adams, at Worcester, Massachusetts (4 pages); also, Wells' undated copy of the 1694 will of Joseph Adams Sr. of Braintree (4 pages), initialled and endorsed by Wells. Wells transcribed the will from a copy once kept by John Adams, bearing his comment praising Samuel Adams. Wells' letter to Allen asks questions regarding Samuel Adams' ancestry and his participation in political events less

David G. (David Greene) Hubbard (1773-1825), a New York City merchant, was born in Norwich, Connecticut to William Hubbard and his first wife, Lydia Coit. He was established in business in Manhattan by the mid-1790s. In 1825 he also became a director of the New-York City Insurance Company, headed by Elisha Coit. In 1799 David G. Hubbard married Lucy Manwaring (1778-1868) of New London, Connecticut; they had ten children surviving infancy. He died on December 29, 1825. The David G. Hubbard letter book (1 volume, with index) contains Hubbard's copied outgoing business letters and some personal letters dated January 3, 1822 to November 30, 1825, recording wholesale dealings in commodities such as coffee, tea, molasses, sugar, rice, indigo and cotton; the buying and selling of stocks, chiefly shares in American banks; trading in currency; and other investments. Hubbard wrote frequently to Charles E. Dudley of Albany, merchant and politician; Gardiner Greene, a Boston merchant; and the firms Macdonald & Ridgely of Baltimore, and J.D. & M. Williams and Munson & Bernard of Boston, giving detailed reports on prices and current economic conditions. Also included are letters to Coit and Hubbard family members and friends, notably his half-brother, jurist Samuel Hubbard (1785-1847), of Boston. Some concern business matters, but most are written to or about Hubbard's children and his wards, the children of Daniel Jepson, regarding their activities and upbringing. His son and assistant David M. Hubbard (1804-1884) wrote letters on his father's behalf during the City's Yellow Fever epidemic in 1822, and after his own return from a voyage to South America in 1823-1824 as a supercargo. David G. Hubbard's correspondence in the latter part of 1825 reported increasing local business failures and money scarcity, reflecting financial crisis in London, and the impending Panic of 1826. The rear loose endpaper contains a brief note, dated June 1825, recording C. E. Dudley and H. D. Sedgwick's recommendation of Joseph Cogswell and George Bancroft as teachers. less

The Wilmerding family papers date from 1568 to 1951 (bulk dates: 1860-1900) and consist of correspondence, ephemera, invitations, business records, clippings, genealogical research, poetry, wills, and auction catalogs related to the Wilmerding family. Items are in English and German. less