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Austin Phelps : a memoir
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Letter from Francis Phelps in Waterford, Erie County, Pennsylvania, to his cousin Almon Phelps in East Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut. In the letter, Phelps writes that although "money is somewhat scarce," it is "a general time of health here." He responds to Almon's intimations that he might soon travel to the "Great West," noting that "people here have the same notion" but that he does not know whether "the country is good." Phelps predicts that Chicago is "to be the great theatre of the far West" and observes that "steam boats are daily conveying hundreds and thousands to the Promised Land." He notes that not many residents of Waterford have decided to emigrate, but that there has been a rush on purchasing local property by "emigrants" from Erie County, New York. Phelps writes of the effects emigration has had on the prices of local goods, and also notes that agriculture in the area is particularly promising.
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A collection of political, business, diplomatic, social, and family correspondence of William Walter Phelps, chiefly letters addressed to him. The collection numbers 199 items, including items related to American politics and the Republican party, Phelps' diplomatic service, his family, social life and literary interests. Correspondents include, among others, Herbert Nikolaus von Bismarck, James Gillespie Blaine, Benjamin Harrison, Eugene Field, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, and Joseph Pulitzer. Also included is the correspondence of John Jay Phelps, a poem by Eugene Field dedicated to Phelps, an 1882 letter containing an eye-witness account of the battle of Battle of Chapultepec, Mexico (1847), ephemera, photographs, and newspapers clippings. The collection also contains papers related to John Chester Eno's embezzlement from the Second Bank of New York (of which Phelps was a director) and Phelps' negotiations with Eno's father, Amos Richard Phelps, to make good the loss (1884). Materials created by US presidents in this collection include: Rutherford B. Hayes autograph letters signed to William Walter Phelps, 1879 July and December (HM 27382-27383); James A. Garfield and James G. Blaine signed appointment of William Walter Phelps as minister to Austria Hungary, 1881 March 5 (HM 27376); Theodore Roosevelt autograph letter signed to William Walter Phelps, approximately 1888 April 10 (HM 27406); Benjamin Harrison and James G. Blaine signed appointment of William Walter Phelps as commissioner to Berlin Conference on Samoan Affairs, 1889 March 19 (HM 27450); Benjamin Harrison and James G. Blaine signed appointment of William Walter Phelps as minister to Germany, 1889 June and December (includes passport and letter of credit, HM 27484-27485); Benjamin Harrison letters to William Walter Phelps, 1888-1892 (HM 27480-27483); William H. Taft letter signed to Marian von Rottenburg Phelps, 1910 and 1911 (HM 27413-27414).
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Correspondence, manuscripts, miscellaneous material, and ephemera; locations: London, United States, Egypt, Berlin, and Jerusalem.
mssHM 27329-27485
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Includes profiles of the Western [Erie] Canal and the Northern Canal. Various statistical tables and distances betWeen cities. Table shoWs totals for 1825, presumed publication date. Library also has a copy in a bound volume. Submaps: Profile of the Western Canal; Profile of the Northern Canal. Statistical table by county. Prime meridian: GM, Washington. Relief: no. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.
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