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Letters written by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to various friends, colleagues, and publishers, including Lewis Pennell, Evert Augustus Duyckinck, James Thomas Fields, and Carey & Hart. Letters discuss publication of his work; books bought, borrowed, and read; Longfellow's translations of Jean Paul and others; as well as personal and social matters. Also present are a manuscript stanza from The Golden Legend; a letter to Longfellow from a young girl; and several autographs less

The Mercantile Collection, 1726-1950, is a synthetic collection documenting mercantile and other business activities from the early-17th to the mid-20th centuries, especially in the northeastern United States. It consists of papers and records created by persons, firms, and companies engaged chiefly in trade, finance, insurance, mining, railroad management, shipping, and whaling. A few items pertain to manufacturing and real estate. Transatlantic commerce in the colonial and early-national period, and the early railroad industry in America, are strongly represented. Notable material includes the assorted papers of New York City and Philadelphia merchants, among them members of the Pemberton family of Philadelphia; Vice-Admiralty court proceedings; and the incomplete ledger of an 18th-century New York City druggist. less

A register of the U.S. Army containing promotions to October, and corrections up to January 1, 1815, with manuscript emendations giving biographical data dated 1815 to 1829. The fly leaves contain Army records in manuscript from 1787 to 1823, and statistics of the War of 1812 less