Found 29 collections related to Historians

A small quantity of letters, notes, calling cards, autographs, and other items from American author, historian and Unitarian clergyman Edward Everett Hale. Several letters are to New York Public Library Director John Shaw Billings, and relate to books owned by James Lenox. Also included is an emended draft of an essay titled "Ministry", and a menu from a dinner at the Aldine Club held in Hale's honor less

Elizabeth Fries Ellet (1818-1877) was an American writer, historian and poet. She is remembered as the first writer to record the lives of women who contributed to the American Revolutionary War. The papers consist predominantly of letters written between 1838-1858, and additional undated letters. Letters are both personal and professional in nature, with many relating to her work on The Women of the American Revolution. Also included is a draft or alternate version of her poem Sodus Bay, and undated notes relating to publications less

John Gilmary Shea (1824-1892) was a writer, editor, and historian. The collection consists of letters from Shea to various recipients, mostly unnamed, relating mainly to his work for Frank Leslie's Publishing House and his research in American history and the history of the Catholic Church in the United States less

Collection consists mainly of letters from American historian, educator, and editor Jared Sparks to Virgil Maxcy, Gales &Seaton, Eliza Bard, J. K. Tefft, and others. Letters relate to editorial matters; books and periodicals sent and received; historical research; his search for letters, manuscripts, and autographs of notable historical figures; and his friendship with Eliza Bard, daughter of William Bard. Other material includes a list of books; and a manuscript draft, presumably of an article for the American Quarterly Review. less

Collection consists of correspondence and introduction written by García Icazbalceta. Correspondence includes letters to Wilberforce Eames primarily concerning bibliographies of Mexican history; and correspondence, 1891-1893, with Thomas Janvier. Also, unfinished introduction to Nueva Colección de Documentos para Historia de México, 1886-1892. less

Harman C. Westervelt was an American historian. Collection consists of Westervelt's essays on various features of New York City, miscellaneous papers and letters, and newsclippings. Essays concern churches, parks, prisons, fire department, the Dutch governors, and New City mayors from the Revolutionary War to 1835. less

Henry Adams (1838-1918) was an American historian, novelist, and critic. The collection consists of twenty-eight autograph letters signed by Henry Adams, 1871-1899; his undated autograph memoranda on the art of writing biography (4 p.); transcripts of letters to, from, and about Henry Adams made by Worthington C. Ford relating to his work The Letters of Henry Adams, 1867-1917; clippings and note concerning Henry Adams, 1938; and miscellaneous letters, including eight letters to Ford from various correspondents regarding Ford's book and Henry Adams, and one letter from Frances Adams to Mrs. Lowes, 1920-1937. The Henry Adams autograph letters, excepting letters to Samuel J. Tilden (9 Nov. 1871), and Mrs. Gordon Lester Ford (30 Mar. 1886), are written to Paul Leicester Ford and his brother Worthington Chauncey Ford, 1886-1899, the bulk to the latter in his capacity as Chief of the Bureau of Economic Statistics in Washington, D.C., discussing contemporary U.S. economic conditions. less

Henry Barton Dawson was an American editor, historian and antiquarian bookseller. Collection consists of correspondence, research papers, diary, and other papers of Dawson and his son. Includes correspondence, 1859-1889; papers relating to Dawson's investigation in 1862 of records pertaining to the period of British occupation of New York City during the American Revolution which were missing from the archives of the Finance Department of the New York City government; transcript of parts of Judge Thomas Jones' History of New York During the Revolutionary War, 1879, with editorial notes by Dawson; miscellaneous notes and transcripts; newspaper reviews of Dawson's writings; diary of Henry Barton Dawson, Jr., recording weather and his daily activities as a printer in his father's office in 1870; record of his personal expenses, 1872-1873; and other papers. less

Edward Smith was an historian. Scrapbook contains material relating to his biography of William Cobbett, including copies of Cobbett's correspondence, an autograph, clippings, and Smith's correspondence regarding Cobbett; also, clippings, etc., relating to Thomas Paine, Sir Joseph Banks, and Smith's published works. less

Samuel Gardner Drake (1798-1875) was an American historian, antiquarian, genealogist, and bookseller. He wrote about New England history, Indians and witchcraft. Collection consists of Drake's manuscript transcripts of documents, 1633-1792, relating to Indians, particularly Indians of New England. Also, letters, 1838-1857, relating to his bookselling business in Boston, the history of the Drake family, and other business and personal matters; a part of a manuscript relating to witchcraft; and miscellaneous notes, genealogical charts, writings, and printed materials. less

Albert Bushnell Hart (1854-1943), historian, was a professor of history at Harvard University. Collection consists of selected correspondence during the years of Hart's service on the faculty of Harvard University. Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, James B. Angell, Nicholas Murray Butler, Charles W. Eliot, William Cameron Forbes, Henry Cabot Lodge, John D. Long, A.T. Mahan, Walter Hines Page, Bliss Perry, James Ford Rhodes, and George Parker Winship. less

The papers of historian Alexander Clarence Flick consist of correspondence, research notes, and printed matter relating to his biography of Samuel J. Tilden. The correspondence contains letters of inquiry to other scholars, and 19th century letters referring to Tilden and political events from the 1870s to the 1890s. Research notes and printed matter, ca. 1838-1930, include manuscript fragments, historical materials, publications, and clippings relating to Tilden's political career. less

Collection consists of correspondence, writings, notes and transcripts, student notes and notebooks, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs, miscellaneous papers, and printed matter. General correspondence, 1862-1938, is between Ford and historians, librarians, scholars, writers, publishers, booksellers, and lawyers, including extensive correspondence with Charles Francis Adams, Henry Cabot Lodge, James Ford Rhodes, and John Franklin Jameson. Family correspondence, 1870-1935, is chiefly incoming letters from many members of Ford's family. Most of the writings are drafts or hand-written manuscripts for works which Ford authored or edited and are concerned with American history and economics. Notes and transcripts are comprised of numerous transcripts of historical letters and other documents with research notes, annotated printed matter, and notebooks (some from Ford's student days.) Diaries, 1873-1918, contain brief entries concerning Ford's activities, and scrapbooks, ca. 1898-1931, consist mostly of clippings and other materials on a particular subject. Photographs are of Ford family members and of various personal and public subjects. Miscellaneous papers include personal papers, writings by individuals other than Ford, records of organizations with which he was affiliated, genealogical documents and biographical sketches of the Fowler and Chauncey families, financial accounts, and ephemera. less

Constance Lindsay Skinner (1882-1939) was a Canadian-born author, critic, historian, and playwright. Her writings included poetry, novels, plays, literary and music criticism, historical works, and adventure stories for children. She wrote histories of the American southwest, Canadian northwest and Indian tribes of British Columbia. Collection contains correspondence, writings, photographs, movie stills, drawings, printed matter, and additional personal papers of Skinner and her parents. Correspondence, 1899-1939, is with authors, artists, editors, publishers, theatrical people, explorers, scholars, and journalists. Writings include typescripts of Skinner's short stories, articles, novels, poetry, children's stories, and criticism. Photographs are of family and friends, Indians of North America, and views of British Columbia and remote areas of the Canadian northwest. Also, drawings and illustrations, movie stills, clippings of criticism of her books and stories, and newsclippings relating to World War I. Other papers consist of her personal accounts, literary notebooks, cookbooks, address books, as well as letters and papers, 1876-1891, of her parents, Robert James Skinner and Annie Lindsay Skinner. less

Collection consists of correspondence, dispatches, writings by Bancroft and others, legal papers and accounts, clippings, notes, photographs, and research materials. General correspondence, 1823-1890, contains Bancroft's correspondence, 1847-1849, as U.S. Minister to Great Britain with Cave Johnson, Postmaster-General of the U.S., concerning postal communications and postal treaties with Great Britain; correspondence, 1863-1889, of Bancroft and J. Dickinson Logan, with the librarian and historian, George Moore, on historiographical matters; correspondence, 1887, with J.G. Harris relating to the presidency of James K. Polk; and general correspondence with other political figures. There are also dispatches of the U.S. legations at London, 1847-1849, and Berlin, 1867-1870, reflecting Bancroft's tenure as U.S. Minister to Great Britain and Germany. The bulk of the other papers concerns Bancroft's writings and includes some poetry, articles, addresses and notes, drafts, proofs, and various printed editions of History of the United States and writings about John Adams and Martin Van Buren. There are also a few photographs, clippings, book catalogs and lists, lists of source material in European archives, some legal papers and accounts, notes taken at Göttingen University, transcriptions of rare books, and materials relating to the San Juan water boundary dispute between the U.S. and Great Britain in 1872. less

George Henry Moore (1823-1892) was an American librarian, historian and bibliographer. He was librarian at the New York Historical Society from 1850 to 1876. He also was elected superintendent and trustee for the Lenox Library in 1872 and became administrator for the library in 1876. As a historian he concentrated on the colonial and revolutionary periods of American history. Collection consists of correspondence, writings and printed matter mainly concerning American history during the colonial and revolutionary periods. General correspondence, 1851-1891, pertains to Moore's tenure as librarian of the New York Historical Society and the Lenox Library. Subject correspondence, 1865-1885, relates to monographs on Native American languages in the Lenox Library and Moore's acquisition of 18th century Massachusetts government journals. Writings are primarily Moore's notes on the history of printing in New York and transcripts copied from historical documents relating to 17th and 18th century New York. less

Lyman Copeland Draper (1815-1891) was an American historian and librarian. The letters, written between 1857 and 1888, are mainly to the New York Tribune company, relating to the purchase of newspapers and offprints for the Wisconsin Historical Society. Some letters relate to the purchase of manuscript material less

Benson John Lossing (1813-1891) was a historian, wood engraver and editor. Collection consists of correspondence, drawings, manuscripts of writings, and miscellaneous papers, many from printers and publishers relating to Lossing's writings. Includes draft of his article "The Shakers" (1857). less

The Authors Club of New York was founded in 1882. Members included Robert Louis Stevenson, Stephen Crane, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, and Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The club was disbanded and its assets were turned over to the New York Public Library in 1973. Collection consists of negative photostats of materials collected by the Authors Club of New York. Papers include correspondence, poems, speeches, essays, documents, and photographs of American and European (mostly British) authors, historians and public figures. less

Bernard Sobel (1887-1964) was an American author and theatrical press agent. His papers include drafts, notes, research materials, and other unidentified papers relating to Sobel's writing; correspondence; photographs; notebooks; a diary; and other personal items. less