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    C.M. Hawley letter to Schuyler Colfax

    Manuscripts

    Letter from Judge C.M. Hawley in Salt Lake City to Vice President Schuyler Colfax, alerting him that the people of Utah had "no confidence" in the ability of the Godbeite movement under E.L.T. Harrison and William S. Godbe to solve the "evils" in the territory, and that they looked to "Congress alone for...relief."

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    Hawley & Davis letter to Henry E. Huntington

    Manuscripts

    Subjects: Arabella Huntington's finances, Pennsylvania Company stock.

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    Henry E. Huntington letters to E. Hawley

    Manuscripts

    Subjects: fruit sent to Princess Clara von Hatzfeldt.

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    Edwin Hawley letter to Henry E. Huntington

    Manuscripts

    Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate.

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    HAWLEY, W. D

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists of letters (including 1 letter book), manuscripts (including 50 diaries), documents (including 55 account books, 12 cash books, and 5 miscellaneous volumes), and photographs related to the lives and activities of various Janin family members and the extended Janin-Blair-Jesup-Croghan families. Subject matter in the collection includes: politics and government in Washington, D.C., and Louisiana; society and customs in Washington, D.C., and New Orleans; Blair House (Washington, D.C.); land titles in Indiana Territory, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Missouri; the Ocean Canal and Transportation Company, which ran from Louisiana to St. Louis; the history of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, from the time of purchase by John Croghan in 1839 until 1932, when it became a national park (at which time Violet Blair Janin was the primary owner); and mining in Australia. Persons represented in the collection include: James Lawrence Blair, Mary Jesup Blair, Violet Blair Janin, John Croghan, William Croghan, Albert Covington Janin, Louis Janin, Julia Clark Jesup, Thomas Sidney Jesup, George M. Wheeler, and Lucy James Blair Wheeler. Organizations represented in the collection (with which Violet Blair Janin was affiliated) include: Daughters of the American Revolution, National Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage, National Cathedral Association, National Society of Children of the American Revolution, and the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.

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