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Creator
Byrd family
Call number
MssCol 3987
Physical description
8 items (1 folder)
Preferred Citation
Bird family letters, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
Repository
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Access to materials
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Eight miscellaneous letters of the Bird family of East Walpole, Mass., including a letter from F.W. Bird (1809-1894) to his fiancée Rebecca H. Cooke, 1833, and two to Bird, 1847 and 1851, concerning local organizations; three letters to Charles S. Bird, 1910, 1914, and 1942, written from Mexico, Rhodesia and Istanbul, respectively, concerning personal affairs and current events, and one by him, 1917; and a brief letter to Charles Sumner Bird, 1967 from British historian Sir Arthur Bryant.

Biographical/historical information

The Bird family resided in East Walpole, Mass.

Scope and arrangement

Eight miscellaneous letters of the Bird family of East Walpole, Mass., including a letter from F.W. Bird (1809-1894) to his fiancée Rebecca H. Cooke, 1833, and two to Bird, 1847 and 1851, concerning local organizations; three letters to Charles S. Bird, 1910, 1914, and 1942, written from Mexico, Rhodesia and Istanbul, respectively, concerning personal affairs and current events, and one by him, 1917; and a brief letter to Charles Sumner Bird, 1967 from British historian Sir Arthur Bryant.

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

Gift of, Harry T. Friedman, 1985

Using the collection

Location

Manuscripts and Archives Division
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328