Minor Series

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{"value"=>"<p>Minor Series are Weems Notes, Notes and Memoranda, Writings, Student Notebooks, Personal and Family Papers, Skeel Family Papers, Genealogical Papers, Commonplace Books, Accounts and Account Books, and Maps. Weems Notes incorporate additions to the bibliography, editorial commentary, a few letters attached to notes, and an article about Weems by Waldo G. Leland. Notes and Memoranda consist of short communications along with other written ephemera, printed invitations and calling cards, and a few scholarly notes which are not part of a cohesive whole. Writings include printed works and manuscript drafts of Emily Skeel, Roswell Skeel, Jr., and members of the Ford family. A draft of Paul Leicester Ford's introduction to the Weems bibliography, a printed copy and part of the manuscript of Emily Fowler Ford's biographical work on Webster, and a draft by Roswell Skeel, Jr. re technical education are included. Among works by Emily Skeel are various addresses and a printed article \"Through the Chineses Provinces\". Student Notebooks consist chiefly of Skeel's French exercise books. Personal and Family Papers contain juvenilia, personal documents, short poems, and biographical sketches. Also included is an autograph album signed by friends and acquaintances, and typescripts of Webster family letters. Skeel family letters contain juvenilia of Roswell Skeel, Jr. and documents which pre-date his marriage, letters of Skeel relatives, and deeds re property of the Skeel family in Colorado. Other property deeds, mortgages, and contracts of Roswell and Emily Skeel are filed here. Genealogical Papers contain family trees, essays, and correspondence re te Ford-Fowler-Webster and Skeel-Reed-Burnap families. There are two notebooks (1882) of the genealogy of the descendants of William Greenleaf, copied by Emily Fowler Ford. Commonplace Books are those of Skeel, Annie Skeel Burnap, and Alice Dyke. The Account Books are three ledgers (c. 1903-1917) of Roswell Skeel, Jr. and two cash books (c. 1904-1917) which Emily Skeel kept as guardian for her nephew, Malcolm Webster Ford, Jr. The Accounts are a few further papers re Skeel's ward along with documents re the Estate of Gordon Lester Ford. Maps, both blueprints and amateur drawings, are of property in Colorado and New York City.</p>"}

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  1. Weems Notes
  2. Notes and Memoranda
  3. Writings
  4. Writings; Student Notebooks
  5. Personal and Family Papers
  6. Skeel Family Papers
  7. Genealogical Papers
  8. Commonplace Books
  9. Accounts and Account Books
  10. Accounts and Account Books; Maps