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Official and personal correspondence of David G. Farragut, primarily covering his Civil War career. Included are: Farragut's letters to his wife Virginia Loyall Farragut and son Loyall Farragut, his subordinates Thornton A. Jenkins and Henry Haywood Bell, and others; letters to Farragut from Nathaniel P. Banks, Gustavus V. Fox, Gideon Welles, and others. Also included are letters addressed to Mrs. Farragut, a few orders and other documents, and a typewritten manuscript. Subjects include: Farragut's activities during the Union blockade of the South, family affairs, including his children; personal business; naval politics; Farragut's efforts for promotion, and his conflict with Oliver Hazard Perry; Mexican War, visit to Haiti. Letters from David G. Farragut to members of his family: ALS, 4pp., 4to., Pensacola, June 22, 1838. U. S. Frigate Constellation. To his wife. ALS 4pp., 4to., U. S. S. Pennsylvania. Norfolk, July 23, 1845. To his sister, Mrs Clara A. Gurlie ALS 4pp., 4to., U. S. S. Saratoga, Sept. 19, 1849. To William Loyall, his father-in-law. ALS 4pp., 4to., U. S. S. Saratoga, Sacrificios, Dec. 16, 1847. To William Loyall, his father-in-law. ALS, 34pp., 4to. Mare Island Navy Yard. February 18, 1856. To William Loyall. ALS 1p., 4to., San Francisco, June 24 [1856] To his wife. Al initialled twice, but main signature cut out. 4pp., 4to., Norfolk, Dec. 3, 1858. To his brother, Dr. R. P. Ashe ALS 4pp., 4to., U. S. S. Brooklyn, Port au Prince, Feb. 29, 1859. To his wife. ALS, 1 p., 8vo., Mobile Bay, Sept. 5, 1859. To his wife. ALS 3pp., 8vo., New York, April 22, 1861. To Dr R. P. Ashe, his brother. ALS, pencil, 2pp., 8vo., Willards Hotel, Dec. 21, 1861. To his wife ALS 3pp., 8vo., Willards Hotel, Washington, Dec. 23, 1861. To his wife. ALS 3pp., 8vo., Willards Hotel, Jan. 5, 1862. To his wife. AL signature lacking. 2pp., 8vo., Hartford March 15 [1862] Pilot Town on the S. W. Pass of the Mississippi River. The first page of a letter to his wife. Last two pages, 4to., of an ALS [1862] to his wife. ALS, 2pp., 4to., New Orleans, Flagship Hartford, Apr. 25, 1862. To his wife and son. ALS 1 p., 4to., Flagship Hartford, New Orleans, April 29, 1862 To his wife. ALS 4pp., 8vo., Flagship Hartford, Below Vicksburg, July 22, 1862. To his wife and son. ALS 4pp., 8vo., Flagship Hartford, Pensacola Navy Yard, Sept. 9, 1862. To his wife and son. ALS, 8pp., 8vo., Flagship Hartford, Pensacola, Oct. 10, 1862. To his wife. AL, 2pp., 8vo., Flagship Hartford, New Orleans. Jan. 18, 1862. First two pages of a letter to his wife, completed by his son, Loyall Farragut, who mentions that his father's eyes have given out. ALS 4pp., 8v., Flagship Hartford, New Orleans, January 26 [1863] To his wife. ALS 4pp., 8vo., Flal ship Hartford, New Orleans, Feb. 1, 1863. To his wife. ALS 4pp., 8vo., Flagship Hartford, March 19, 1863. To his wife. ALS 2pp., 4to., U. S. Flagship Hartford, Below Vicksburg, March 27, 1863. To his son. ALS 2pp., 4to., U. S. Flagship Hartford, Above Port Hudson on Mississippi, April 25, 1863. To his wife. ALS 4pp., 4to., U. S. Flagship Hartford, Mouth of Red River, April 17, 1863. To his wife. ALS 4pp., 8vo., Flagship Hartford, Off Red River, April 30, 1863. To his wife. ALS 4pp., 4to., U. S. Flagship, New Orleans, May 20, 1863. To his wife. ALS 4pp., 8vo., Flagship M. below Port Hudson, June 13, 1863. To his wife. ALS 4 pp., 8vo., Astor House, Jan. 4, 1864. To his son. ALS 3pp., 8vo., Flagship Hartford, Western Gunf Blockading Squadron. Off New Orleans, Jan. 30, 1864. To his son, Loyall Farragut. ALS 3pp., 8vo., Flagship Hartford, Off New Orleans, Feb. 1, 1864. To his wife. ALS 4pp., 8vo., Flagship Hartford, New Orleans, Feb. 4, 1864. To his wife. ALS 4pp., 8vo., Flagship Hartford, Off Ship Island, Feb. 19, 1864. To his son. ALS 4pp., 8vo., Flagship Hartford, Off Ship Island, Feb. 21, 1864. To his son. ALS 4pp., 8vo., Flagship Hartford, Pensacola, March 30, 1864. To his son. ALS 2pp., 4to., Flagship Tennessee, New Orleans, April 9, 1864. To his wife. ALS 2pp., 8vo., U. S. Flagship Hartford, Pensacola, May 7, 1864. To his wife. ALS 4pp., 8vo., Flagship Hartford, Off Mobile, May 30, 1864. To his wife. ALS 4pp., 8vo., Flagship Hartford, Off Mobile, June 3, 1864. To his wife. ALS 4pp., 8vo., U. S. Flagship Hartford, Off Mobile, July 6, 1864. To his wife. ALS 3pp., 8vo., U. S. Flagship Tennessee, Off Mobile, July 12, 1864 To his wife. ALS 2pp., 8vo., Flagship Hartford, Off Mobile, Aug. 4, 1864. To his wife. ALS 2pp., 8vo., U. S. Flagship Hartford, Mobile Bay, Nov. 10, 1864. To his son. Four pages of a long letter in Farragut's hand, probably to his father in-law. 4to., (pages 5[8) ALS, pencil, 2pp., 8vo., Washington 1865 [April 19] To his wife. ALS 3pp., 8vo., New York, No. 113 E. 36th St., Jan. 12, 1869. To his son. Letters from Farragut to individuals other than his family. ALS 4pp., 4to., Miss. above Port Hudson, April 22, 1863. To Admiral Theodorus Bailey. ALS 1 p., 8vo., Willards Hotel, Washington, Dec. 21, 1861. To Adm. H. H. Bell ALS 1 p., 8vo., Willards Hotel, Washington, Dec. 22, 1861. To H. H. Bell. ALS 1 p., 8vo., Willards Hotel, Washington, D. C., Dec. 30 [1861] To H. H. Bell. ALS 1 p., 8vo., Willards Hotel, Washington, Jan. 3, 1862. To H. H. Bell. ALS 2 pp., 4to., U. S. Flagship Hartford, Off New Orleans, March 5, 1863. To H. H. Bell. LS 2pp., 8vo., Hastings on the Hudson, Jan. 8, 1862. To H. H. Bell. LS 1 p., 4to., Hartford, Abofe Vicksburg, July 1, 1862. To H. H. Bell. LS 1 p., 4to., Hartford, Above Vicksburg, July 2, 1862. To H. H. Bell. LS 1 p., 4to., Hartford, Above Vicksburg, July 10, 1862. To H. H. Bell. LS 1 p., folio, Hartford, Above Vicksburg, July 10, 1862. To H. H. Bell. LS 1 p., 4to., Hartford, Off New Orleans, Aug. 5, 1862. To H. H. Bell. LS 1 p., folio, Hartford, Pensacola Bay, Aug. 11, 1862. To H. H. Bell. LS 1 p., folio, Hartford, Pensacola Bay, Oct. 5, 1862. To H. H. Bell. LS 1 p., 8vo., Hartford, Pensacola Bay, Oct. 17, 1862. To H. H. Bell. LS 1 p., 4to., Hartford, Pensacola Bay, Oct. 17, 1862. To H. H. Bell. With two news clips of Sept. 17 and 28, 1862 LS 1 p., 4to., Hartford, Pensacola Bay, Oct. 22, 1862. To H. H. Bell. LS 1 p., folio, Hartford, Pensacola Bay, Oct. 23, 1862. To H. H. Bell. LS 2 pp., 4to., Hartford, Oct. 24, 1862. To H. H. Bell. LS 1 p., 4to., Hartford, Pensacola Bay, Nov. 3, 1862. To H. H. Bell. LS 2 pp., 4to., Hartford, Pensacola Bay, Nov. 4 [1862] To H. H. Bell. LS 3 pp., 4to., Hartford, Off New Orleans, Nov. 13, 1862. To H. H. Bell. LS 1 p., 4to., Hartford, New Orleans, Nov. 21, 1862. To H. H. Bell. LS 2 pp., folio, Hartford, New Orleans, Dec. 16, 1862. To H. H. Bell. LS 2pp., folio, Hartford, Off New Orleans, Dec. 16, 1862. To H. H. Bell. LS 1 p., 4to., Hartford, New Orleans, New Orleans, Dec. 16, 1862. With ANS of H. H. Bell, to whom Farragut is writing, on same page. LS 1 p., folio, Flagship Hartford, Off New Orleans, Jan. 3, 1863. To H. H. Bell. LS 1 p., 4to., Hartford, off New Orleans, Jan. 3, 1863. To H. H. Bell. LS 2pp., folio, Hartford, Off New Orleans, Jan. 6, 1863. To H. H. Bell LS 1 p., 4to., Hartford, Off New Orleans, Jan. 7, 1863. To H. H. Bell LS 2 pp., 4to., Flagship Hartford, Off New Orleans, Jan. 12, 1863. To H. H. Bell. LS 3 pp., folio, Hartford, Off New Orleans, Jan. 17, 1863. To H. H. Bell LS 2 pp., folio, Hartford, New Orleans, jan. 20, 1863. To H. H. Bell LS 2 pp., 4to., Hartford, Pilot Town, Feb. 7, 1863. To H. H. Bell. LS 1 p., folio, Hartford, Off New Orleans, Feb. 17, 1863. To H. H. Bell. LS 1 p., folio, Hartford, New Orleans, Feb. 16, 1863. To H. H. Bell LS 2 pp., 4to., Off New Orleans, March 5, 1863. To H. H. Bell LS 3 pp., 4to., Flag Steamer Tennessee, New Orleans, July 13, 1863. To H. H. Bell LS 1 p., 4to., Flag Steamer Tennessee, Ship Island, July 27, 1863. To H. H. Bell LS 4pp., 4to., Flagship Tennesseee, New Orleans, July 29, 1863. To H. H. Bell LS 1 p., 4to., Hartford, New Orleans, Aug. 1, 1863. To H. H. Bell LS 4 pp., 4to., Hartford, N. Y., Oct. 15, 1863. To H. H. Bell LS 2 pp., 4to., Hartford, Off Mobile Bay, June 18, 1864. To Gen. James Brown. ALS 1 p., 4to., Dec. 25, 1864. Signed with initials. To Admiral Franklin Buchanan. With the following: 92a. Admiral Franklin Buchanan, ALS 1 p., folio. Fort Lafayette, New York, Dec. 25, 1864. To Farragut. ALS 2pp., 4to. [august, 1864] Signed with initials. To Gen. Benjamin F. Butler. LS 1 p., 4to., Hartford. Below Vicksburg, March 26, 1863. To his son, Loyall Farragut (official paper) LS 3pp., folio, New York, April 30, 1866. Copy of an original To James W. Grimes. LS 3 pp., 4to., Flagship Tennessee, New Orleans, July 22, 1863. To Commodore Henry W. Morris. LS 3 pp., 4to., Flagship Tennessee, New Orleans, July 22, 1863. To Commodore Henry W. Morris (copy of no. 96) ALS 1 p., folio [1863] Draft of an original letter. Signed with initials. To Admiral David D. Porter. LS 1 p., 4to., Hartford, Above Vicksburg, July 8, 1862. To Commodore D. D. Porter. LS 4pp., folio, New York, Feb. 20, 1848. Signed with initials. To John Y. Mason, Sec. of Navy LS 4pp., folio, Hartford, Off New Orleans. Dec. 30, 1863. To Commander W. B. Renshaw. ALS 3pp., 8vo. June 5 [1862] Signed with initials. To General Stone Two incomplete drafts, each four folio pages, of Farragut's report to the Secretary of the Navy on the Battle of New Orleans. The entire first page of the first draft is in the hand of Farragut. Rough draft, 4pp., 4to., of Farragut's letter to the Secretary of the Navy about duty at Mobile. With corrections in Farragut's hand. Not signed by him. DS 2pp., folio, Flagship Hartford, Below Vicksburg, June 25, 1862. General order. Signed twice by Farragut. DS 1p., 4to., Flagship Hartford, Above Vicksburg, Miss., July 3, 1862. General Orders. Some additional outgoing letters include: Nov. 18, 1844 - To: Charles Morris (1 letter) Feb. 16, May 8, May 25 and June 13, 1863 - To: Nathaniel P. Banks (4 letters) May 8, July 16, 1863 and Jan. 24, 1864 - To: David Dixon Porter and May 7, 1864 and Jan. 17, 1864 (3 letters) Fragment dated March 4, 1863 with reference to D. D. Porter (1 letter) To: Thornton Alexander Jenkins - Dated from July 3, 1863 through Jan. 15, 1870. (85 letters) To: Mrs. John M. Holmes - Dated Dec. 17, 1863 (1 letter) To: William R. Sherwood (military orders) Dated June 22, 1864. (1 letter) To: Engineers Kellogg, Hunt & Latch - Dated June 24, 1864 (1 letter) To: Samuel B. Wylie Mitchell - Feb. 16, 1866 (1 letter) To: Thomas Haines Dudley - Oct. 9, 1867 (London) (1 letter) To: Gideon Welles - Dec. 7, 1869 (1 letter) General Orders No. 11, and No. 13 - July 29, 1864 and Aug. 7, 1864. (2 items) Military Order of Loyal Legion of U.S. Pennsylvania Commandery Apr. 7, 1870 (1 item) Letters to Admiral Farragut BANKS, GEN. N. P., ALS 2pp., 8vo., New Orleans, Fe;ruary 23, 1863. ALS 1 p., 8vo., Steamer Sykes, April 30, 1863 ALS 3pp., 8vo., Alexandria, May 8, 8 a. m., 1863 ALS 1 p., 8vo., Alexandria, May 11, 1863 ALS 1 p., 8vo., Before Port Hudson, 6 a.m., July 8, [UNK] ALS 4pp., 8vo., Before Port Hudson, July 8, 1863 BORIE, A. E., LS, 3pp., folio, Navy Department, Washington, April 29, 1869. BROOKS, SIDNEY. ALS 4pp., 8vo., Newport, Nov. 20, 1868. BUTLER, GEN. BENJAMIN F., DS 2pp., 8vo., New Orleans, Dec. 8, 1862 CHOATE, JOSEPH H. ALS 2 pp., 8vo., New York, Dec. 20, 1864 DIX, GEN. JOHN A. ALS 3pp., 8vo., Paris, Jan. 6, 1868. Endorsed by Farragut. DOBBIN, F. C. LS 1p., 4to., N; vy Department, June 21, 1864. Endorsed by Farragut. DRAPER, HENRY. ALS 3pp., 8vo., Hastings, N. Y., Aug. 31, 1864 DRAPER, HENRY. ALS 7pp., 8vo., Hastings, N. Y., Aug. 29, 1864 DUPOINT, ADMIRAL S. F. ALS 4pp., 4to., Near Wilmington, April 3, 1850. FOX, GUSTAVUS V., LS 1p., 4to., Navy Dept. May 16, 1862. Endorsed by Farragut. LS 4pp., folio, Navy Dept., May 17, 1862 Endorsed by Farragut. ALS 4pp., 8vo., Washington, D. C., Oct. 20, 1863 LS 2pp., 4to., Navy Dept., Dec. 30, 1863. Endorsed by Farragut. ALS 4pp., 8vo., Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 18, 1864 Endorsed by Farragut. ALS 3pp., 8vo., Washington, Dec. 15, 1864 ALS 3pp., 8vo., Washington, Dec. 20, 1864 HOLMES, OLIVER W. ALS 2pp., 8vo., Boston, Jan. 13, 1865 JAY, JOHN. ALS 3pp., 8vo., New York, Dec. 3, 1868. LEE, GEN. FITZ HUGH. ALS 4pp., 8vo., Richland Mill P. Office, Stafford Co., Va., July 31, 1869. JOHNSON, PRESIDENT ANDREW. LS 1 p., 4to., Executive Mansion Feb. 17, 1866. MORGAN, GOVERNOR E. D. ALS 1p., 8vo., U. S. Senate Chamber, Washington, D. C., Dec. 20, 1864 MORRIS, COMMODORE CH. ALS 2pp., 4to., U. S. S. Delaware Mahon, Nov. 3, 1843. PEABODY, GEORGE. ALS 2pp., 8vo., Oct. 10, 1867. PORTER, COM. DAVID D. ALS 2pp., 4to, Key West, Mar. 3, 1862. ALS 3pp., 4to, Apr. 25, 1862. ALS 2pp., folio, Octorara, June 28, 1862[?] PORTER, MRS. EVE. ALS 3pp., 4to, Chester, Dec. 30, 1826. SHERMAN, GEN. WILLIAM T. ALS 2pp., 8vo, St. Louis, Dec. 2, 1868. ALS 3pp., 8vo, St. Louis, Dec. 23, 1868. TERRY, D.L. ALS 2pp., 8vo, Sacramento, Aug. 11, 1856. WEED, THURLOW. ALS 4pp., 8vo, N.Y., Nov. 2, 1864. ALS, 8vo, New York, Sept. 30. WELLES, GIDEON. ALS 2pp., 8vo, Washington, July 30, 1862. ALS 6pp., 8vo, Navy Dept., Washington, Oct. 5, 1863 ALS 2pp., 8vo, Washington, Aug. 22, 1866. ALS 3pp., 8vo, Washington, Oct. 2, 1866. ALS 4pp., 8vo, Washington, D.C., Nov. 10, 1868. LS 2pp., folio, Navy Dept., Feb. 10, 1862. Endorsed by Farragut. LS 2pp., folio, Navy Dept., Feb. 25, 1862. Endorsed by Farragut. LS 2pp., 4to, Navy Dept., May 19, 1862. Endorsed by Farragut. LS 2pp., 4to, Navy Dept., May 19, 1862. Endorsed by Farragut. LS 3pp., folio, Navy Dept., Aug. 19, 1862. Endorsed by Farragut. LS 2pp., 4to, Navy Dept., Feb. 16, 1863. Endorsed by Farragut. WELLES, GIDEON. LS 1p., 4to, Navy Dept., June 2, 1863. Endorsed by Farragut. LS 2pp., folio, Navy Dept., June 15, 1863. Endorsed by Farragut. LS 3pp., folio, Navy Dept., June 15, 1863. Endorsed by Farragut. LS 1p., 4to, Navy Dept., Washington, Oct. 7, 1863. Endorsed by Farragut. LS 1p., 4to, Navy Dept., Apr. 26, 1864. LS 4pp., folio, Navy Dept., Washington, Sept. 5, 1864. Marked Confidential. LS 2pp., folio, Navy Dept., Sept. 6, 1864. LS 3pp., folio, Navy Dept., Sept. 5, 1864. LS 2pp., folio, Navy Dept., Washington, June 6, 1867. WINTHROP, ROBERT C. ALS 3pp., 8vo, Brookline, Mass., Jan. 3, 1870. Letters to Virginia Loyall Farragut CISCO, JOHN J. ALS 1p., 8vo, N.Y., Mar. 7, 1868. DALY, CHARLES P. ALS 4pp., 8vo, New York, Sept. 22, 1870. DRAYTON, CAPTAIN PERCIVAL. ALS 4pp., 4to, Flagship Hartford, Off Mobile Bay, Oct. 20, 1864. FOX, GUSTAVUS V. ALS 1p. 8vo, Washington D.C. Nov. 7, 1864. HENRY, JOSEPH. ALS, [UNK] p., 8vo., Smithsonian Institution, May 6, 1863. SHERMAN, GEN. WILLIAM T. ALS 3pp., 8vo., Headquarters Army of the United States, Washington, D. C., August 4, 1874. Letters to Loyal Farragut DEWEY, ADMIRAL GEORGE. ALS 3pp., 8vo., Washington, Feb. 12, 1900 ALS 4pp., 8vo., Washington, Oct. 6, 1908 HIGGINSON, FRANCIS J. ALS 2pp., 8vo., New York, Dec. 12, 1909 PALMER, JAMES C. ALS 6pp., 8vo., Washington, D. C., May 2, 1879. UPSHURE, JOHN H. ALS 2pp., 8vo., Washington, Dec. 8, 1893. Notable miscellaneous items Printed register of the Vessels and Officers of the Western Gulf Blockading Squadron. 4to., wrappers. Dated off Mobile, June 15, 1864, and signed by Admiral Farragut three times. His personal copy. ADS 3pp., 4to., of Henry Howard Brownell. About the fight off Mobile Bay. ALS 3pp., 8vo., New York, Nov. 20, 1874, of J. A. A. Ward. To Secretary of the Navy George M. Robeson Typewritten manuscript, author unknown, 104 pp., 4to. Copy of a letter sent by Farragut to Charles T. Chase, July 13, 1863 In addition, there is also a typewritten copy of letter from Farragut to Richard P. Ashe - in Wm.G. Cohen's Scrapbooks; 7 letters Letters to D.G. Farragut from Gideon Welles, U.S. Grant, T.A. Jenkins, J.S. Shedden; 4 letters from Loyall Farragut to T.A. Jenkins (1865-1880); and 1 letter from L.C. Smith to Helen Huntting - Aug. 10-17, 1855 re: Virginia (Loyall) Farragut.
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This collection contains 50 mammoth plate, albumen photographs made in 1861 and 1863 by Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916), depicting Yosemite, the New Almaden Quicksilver Mine, and Mendocino, California. The prints are all signed by Watkins and were originally bound in two volumes, now disbound. The first volume begins with a title page dated 1863 and a dedication page reading: "To Ernest Frignet / His California Friends / April 1864." Ernest Frignet (b. 1823), dedicatee, wrote several books and articles on California and the West that published in France, most notably "La Californie, histoire, organisation politique et administrative, législation, description physique et géologique. Agriculture—industrie—commerce," (Paris, 1866). The "California Friends" who presented him with the photographs are unidentified. The title pages are in decorative calligraphy by Fulgenzio Seregni, a native of Milan, Italy who came to California in 1858. He established himself in San Francisco, where he taught drawing and writing in public schools and colleges, and later became a well-known designer of marble monuments. In addition to Watkins' signature, each print has a handwritten title in the style of calligrapher Seregni, on the mount below the print. The top corners of the prints are rounded or "dome-topped," a practice used to eliminate darkened corners caused by early camera lenses. The volumes were bound by noted French bookbinder Léon Gruel (1841-1923), who operated a renowned bindery in Paris. The first leaf of each volume is stamped "GRUEL."
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A collection of approximately 489 items from 1846 to 1949, it consists of personal and family papers of William James Potter, accumulated by Elizabeth Babcock Potter. The collection includes journals, correspondence, a letter book, commonplace book, poems, manuscripts, and ephemera. William James Potter's journals document his early career, preceding his New Bedford ministry; the chaplain's notebook that he kept in 1863 contains records of inspections of hospitals and military prisons, names, cases, and addresses of the inmates. Correspondence includes the letters exchanged between William J. Potter and Elizabeth Potter written between 1860 and 1870. There is also Elizabeth Potter's 1859-1860 letter book and letters from Elizabeth Potter to her mother Lydia Delano Babcock written during her visit to Algonac, the Delano estate, near Newburg, in Orange County, New York, in the summer and fall of 1856; as well as letters written during her stay with William James Potter at Camp Distribution, near Alexandria, Virginia, from November 1863 through May 1864. Also included are the Potters' correspondence with his sisters Mary Ann Potter Howland, Ruth Potter Almy, and Ruby H. Potter Tillinghast. William James Potter's correspondence with his friends, includes correspondents John Albee, Henry W. Brown, and George W. Bartlett (the latter discusses Maine Civil War politics), and letters from Elizabeth's numerous friends and colleagues. Also included is a group of letters from Elizabeth's brother, James Delano Babcock who was engaged in the shipping business and China trade, written from San Francisco, Singapore, Yokohama, and Sitka (Alaska) between 1856 and 1876. Elizabeth Babcock Potter's manuscripts include her commonplace book from 1858 to 1865, a 1851 autograph book, her poetry, mostly religious, and a notebook where she recorded stories of her children from 1869 to 1875. There is also a small group of fragments containing a collection of excerpts from sermons of Andrew Preston Peabody; various notes for sermons, religious poetry, some by Elizabeth Babcock Potter, fragments of letters to her and her parents, including a description of a trip to Scotland (probably by her brother James) and a vivid account of Morgan's first raid to Kentucky in July 1862 and Perryville campaign, written by a friend of Elizabeth's, a Kentucky teacher.
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A collection of approximately 489 items from 1846 to 1949, it consists of personal and family papers of William James Potter, accumulated by Elizabeth Babcock Potter. The collection includes journals, correspondence, a letter book, commonplace book, poems, manuscripts, and ephemera. William James Potter's journals document his early career, preceding his New Bedford ministry; the chaplain's notebook that he kept in 1863 contains records of inspections of hospitals and military prisons, names, cases, and addresses of the inmates. Correspondence includes the letters exchanged between William J. Potter and Elizabeth Potter written between 1860 and 1870. There is also Elizabeth Potter's 1859-1860 letter book and letters from Elizabeth Potter to her mother Lydia Delano Babcock written during her visit to Algonac, the Delano estate, near Newburg, in Orange County, New York, in the summer and fall of 1856; as well as letters written during her stay with William James Potter at Camp Distribution, near Alexandria, Virginia, from November 1863 through May 1864. Also included are the Potters' correspondence with his sisters Mary Ann Potter Howland, Ruth Potter Almy, and Ruby H. Potter Tillinghast. William James Potter's correspondence with his friends, includes correspondents John Albee, Henry W. Brown, and George W. Bartlett (the latter discusses Maine Civil War politics), and letters from Elizabeth's numerous friends and colleagues. Also included is a group of letters from Elizabeth's brother, James Delano Babcock who was engaged in the shipping business and China trade, written from San Francisco, Singapore, Yokohama, and Sitka (Alaska) between 1856 and 1876. Elizabeth Babcock Potter's manuscripts include her commonplace book from 1858 to 1865, a 1851 autograph book, her poetry, mostly religious, and a notebook where she recorded stories of her children from 1869 to 1875. There is also a small group of fragments containing a collection of excerpts from sermons of Andrew Preston Peabody; various notes for sermons, religious poetry, some by Elizabeth Babcock Potter, fragments of letters to her and her parents, including a description of a trip to Scotland (probably by her brother James) and a vivid account of Morgan's first raid to Kentucky in July 1862 and Perryville campaign, written by a friend of Elizabeth's, a Kentucky teacher.
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