Found 2 collections related to Actions and defenses

Playwright, novelist and editor of Life (1922-1924), Louis Evan Shipman's most sucessful play was probably D'ARCY OF THE GUARDS (1901). Other titles include THE CRISIS, THE CROSSING, ON PAROLE, THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH, FOOLS ERRANT, and POOR RICHARD. Shipman was born in Brooklyn, NY, educated at Brooklyn Polytechnic and Columbia and Harvard Universities, lived for a number of years in New Hampshire and spent his last years in France. The collection is almost entirely letters by Shipman to his lawyers, George C. Hazelton, Jr. and John H. Hazelton, regarding his claim against Mr. Braden, the manager, at least for a time, of Shipman's play ON PAROLE and later letters accompanying his payments to his lawyers. Also includes one letter by the lawyers to Shipman and one personal letter by Shipman to a friend. less

The progenitor of the Van Norden family in America was Pieter Casparszen Van Naerden who first appeared in the historical record in 1621 with other Huguenots and Walloons petitioning the British ambassador at the Hague for permission to emigrate to Virginia. Collection contains genealogical notes, history and sketches, mostly typescript, on members of the Van Norden and related families by Warner Van Norden, copies of wills, and a few marriage and death certificates, and personal papers of Warner's son Theodore L. Van Norden, mostly concerning a family financial scandal. The papers of Theodore Van Norden consist of manuscripts, correspondence, legal and financial papers and clippings pertaining to lawsuits against his brother and his wife as well as drawings, paper dolls, poems, stories by children, and a letter and telegram from Theodore Roosevelt. less