Manuscripts
This collection primarily contains letters and some manuscripts concerning William Marshall Anderson and the Anderson family, mainly for the period of 1838-1938. It covers family affairs, legal practices and business affairs of William Marshall Anderson, including his involvement in the McArthur lawsuit; the Catholic Church and its financial involvement in Ohio; the northwest United States in 1830s, archeological mounds; Mexico in 1865, civil engineering, bounty land grants to Virginia revolutionary soldiers; Richard Clough Anderson and George Rogers Clark, also William Marshall Anderson's diaries, including his trips to the Rocky Mountains (1834), Mexico (1865), and Mississippi (1871); family and business correspondence of Robert Marshall Anderson, including letters re: construction of Robert M. Anderson's home in Circleville, Ohio, designed by Charles S. Keefe. Anderson family members represented in the collection include Larz Anderson, Charles Anderson, Robert Anderson, Thomas McArthur Anderson, Richard Clough Anderson, Robert Marshall Anderson, Ellen Columba Ryan Anderson, and Mary Anderson Olds.
Anderson, Charles, 1814-1895. As author: 10 pieces; as addressee: 4 pieces
Anderson, Ellen Columba Ryan. As author: 16 pieces (1858-1898); as addressee: 30 (1858-1891)
Anderson, Larz, 1803-1878. As author: 13 pieces (1856-1877); as addressee: none
Anderson, Richard Clough, 1829-1878. As author: 6 pieces (1864-1878); as addressee: none
Anderson, Robert, 1805-1871. As author: 8 pieces (1825-1871); as addressee: 2 pieces (1842-1843)
Anderson, Robert Marshall, 1862-1939. As author: 22 pieces (1872-1939); as addressee: 87 pieces (1879-1939)
Anderson, Thomas McArthur, 1836-1917. As author 5 pieces (1864-1901); as addressee 7 pieces (1876-1901)
Anderson, William Marshall, 1807-1881. As author: 53 pieces (1838-1880); as addressee: 115 pieces (1837-1880)
Clarke, Powhatan Henry, 1862-1893. As author: 6 pieces (1875-1893); as addressee: none
Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891. As author: 7 pieces (1843-1867); as addressee: none
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894. As author: 1 piece (1865); as addressee: none
Ellison, Robert Spurrier. As author: 11 pieces (1935-1939); as addressee: 22 pieces (1935-1941)
Juncker, Henry Damian, 1810-1868. As author: 1 piece (1855); as addressee: none
Longworth, Nicholas, 1782-1863. As author: 1 piece (1851); as addressee: none
McArthur, Duncan, 1772-1839. As author: 2 pieces; as addressee: 1817 and 1837
Magruder, John Bankhead, 1807-1871. As author: 1 piece (1866); as addressee: none
Olds, Joseph. As author: 12 pieces (1885-1901); as addressee: 8 pieces (1866-1903)
Olds, Mary Anderson, b. 1846. As author: 12 pieces (1877-1896); as addressee: 1 piece (1885)
Purcell, John Baptist, 1800-1883. As author: 4 pieces (1855-1868); as addressee: 1 piece (1868)
Piatt, Donn 1819-1892. As author: 5 pieces (1884-1891); as addressee: none
Sherman, Ellen Boyle Ewing, 1824-1888. As author: 1 piece (1872); as addressee: none
Thurman, Allen Granbery, 1813-1895. As author: 1 piece (1875); as addressee: 1 piece (1851)
The Rocky Mountain diary of William Marshall Anderson was published on various occasions in 1838-1967. His Mexican diary has been published in: An American in Maximilian's Mexico, 1865-1866: the diaries of William Marshall Anderson / edited by Ramon Eduardo Ruiz. (San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library, 1959).
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