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Creator
Storrs, Richard S. (Richard Salter), 1821-1900
Call number
MssCol 4634
Physical description
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Preferred Citation

Richard Salter Storrs, Jr. letters and sermon, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library

Repository
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Access to materials
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Collection consists chiefly of letters written by Reverend Richard Salter Storrs, Jr., of the Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, New York. Letters concern social engagements, lectures given and attended, sermons given, books read and borrowed, and libraries. Most letters are addressed to Samuel Austin Allibone; other recipients include William Chauncey Fowler, Emily Ellsworth Fowler Ford, Gordon L. Ford, and "Mr. Brown." A manuscript copy of an undated sermon on 1st Thessalonians is also present.

Scope and arrangement

Collection consists chiefly of letters written by Reverend Richard Salter Storrs, Jr., of the Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, New York. Letters concern social engagements, lectures given and attended, sermons given, books read and borrowed, and libraries. Most letters are addressed to Samuel Austin Allibone; other recipients include William Chauncey Fowler, Emily Ellsworth Fowler Ford, Gordon L. Ford, and "Mr. Brown." A manuscript copy of an undated sermon on 1st Thessalonians is also present.

Administrative information

Custodial history

Some material was originally received as part of the Ford and Sabin collections.

Source of acquisition

Donated by John Pierpont Morgan, 1899, Harry T. Friedman, 1986, with additional gifts and purchases.

Processing information

Compiled by Kit Messick, 2014

Related Material

Forms part of Sabin collection.

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