{"value"=>"<p>This series contains material related to Joseph Beale Davis that includes some letters to J. B. Davis (1895-1937), mostly personal, with some correspondence referring to his father. The miscellaneous papers relating to (J. B. Davis) concerns his work, art, travel, and a daybook with notes about historical events. There are photographs including some of Llewellyn Park and Eagle Rock Quarry, and newspaper clippings about Davis and his architectural designs. The material relating to Nicholson, Beale, and Byrd families is mostly correspondence, some contracts, and other legal papers. A manuscript copy of the <em>Index to the illustrations in manuals of the corporation of the City of New York, 1841-1870</em>, popularly called <em>Valentine Manuals</em> is annotated by J. B. Davis with process, artist, and engraver when known. Eighty of the eight hundred illustrations for the manual were taken from Alexander Jackson Davis' drawings. The compilations of biographical notes on Ithiel Town (architect and Davis' partner), James Eddy (engraver), Nathan Warren of Mount Ida (musician and author), and John Allen (collector), gathered by J. B. Davis includes clippings, engravings, drawings, and biographical information. Letters to Davis are scattered throughout. The material on Ithiel Town includes an agreement between Town and Davis, auction catalogs of Town's library and of his print collection, and pamphlets on Town. In the materials on John Allen, there is a pamphlet, <em>Memorial of John Allen</em> by Evert A. Duyckinck. The material on James Eddy includes engravings by Eddy, some based on Davis' drawings.</p>"}