Henry B. Dawson papers

1859-1892

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.