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- Call number
- MssCol 830
- Physical description
- .1 linear feet (1 folder)
- Preferred Citation
- Doty-Dubois family papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Collection consists of correspondence of the Reverend Elihu Doty and his daughter, Amelia C. Doty-Dubois. Includes many letters describing life and service as a missionary in Amoy, China; letters to the Reverend John Dubois, who adopted Amelia Doty; letters, 1864-1865, to Amelia Doty-Dubois at Wurtsboro, N.Y., from her cousin Robert at and near Memphis, Tenn., discussing conditions near the end of the Civil War; and log, 1861, of daily distances made by the ship Kathay from New York to Shanghai, China.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Gift, Brown, Anita D, 1956Using the collection
Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328