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Clara Barton correspondence
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Clara Barton correspondence
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The collection consists of correspondence between members of the extended Barton family, almost half of which was written between 1863 and 1864, and some pieces of ephemera. Topics addressed within the correspondence include the Civil War and wartime medical conditions, Clara's humanitarian efforts and the Barton family's affairs. One of the letters mentions Abraham Lincoln, Stephan A. Douglas and the 1860 presidential election. Correspondents include Clara Barton, her brother, Stephen Barton, and his wife, Elizabeth Rich Barton; their son, Samuel Rich Barton, and his wife, Amelia Barton; and other relatives of the Barton family including Stephen Emery Barton, Leander T. Poor, Bernard Barton Vassall and Irving S. Vassall Barton.
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Albert Raymond Barton diaries
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Six diaries of Albert Raymond Barton of Rome, New York for the period from January 1, 1862 to December 31, 1870. The detailed, regular entries describe the social, political, and religious scene in Oneida and Schuyler Counties; Barton's trips to Vermont, Massachusetts, and New York City; his work and apprenticeship to local physicians; medical studies and practice; involvement in various religious and political societies, and his active participation in Republican electoral politics, including Abraham Lincoln's re-election in 1864 and Ulysses S. Grant's presidential campaign of 1868. Barton also recounts local and national news and rumors of the progress of the war, the Emancipation Proclamation, the "Copperheads," the draft and the New York draft riots, the New York State elections of 1863 and 1865, Lincoln's assassination, and the politics of Reconstruction.
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Clara B. Burdette letters to Roy B. Wheeler
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Includes letters from Robert J. Burdette written on the verso of Clara's letters.
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Clara Huntington correspondence
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The Clara Huntington correspondence is primarily between Huntington and George D. Hapgood, Henry E. Huntington's private secretary, dating from 1928 to 1935. In these letters, Huntington describes the financial difficulties of being a struggling artist. She asks for Hapgood's assistance with selling her belongings such as pearls, lace, linens, and a mink coat to finance her career. Included is an undated photograph of Youth, a marble high relief sculpture.
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Clara Huntington correspondence
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The Clara Huntington correspondence is primarily between Huntington and George D. Hapgood, Henry E. Huntington's private secretary, dating from 1928 to 1935. In these letters, Huntington describes the financial difficulties of being a struggling artist. She asks for Hapgood's assistance with selling her belongings such as pearls, lace, linens, and a mink coat to finance her career. Included is an undated photograph of Youth, a marble high relief sculpture.
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Margaret [-----] letter to Clara B. Burdette
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A collection of letters, telegrams, postcards, printed material, and clippings. The main part of the collection consists of letters from Clara Bradley Burdette to her son Roy B. Wheeler from the time he went away to boarding school in 1895 until his early death in 1923. After Roy's marriage in 1911, many of the letters are addressed to "Dear Children" and those that are addressed to him are often business-related as he oversaw much of Clara's business affairs while she traveled. The collection also contains letters from Robert Jones Burdette to Roy from 1898 until Burdette's death in 1914; and a small number of letters from friends and business associates addressed to Clara B. Burdette as well as Roy B. Wheeler. There is one manuscript, notes for a talk given by Clara B. Burdette, "Missions -- Cui Bono?" (1880). Clara traveled extensively throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico for business and pleasure and many of the letters are written during these travels; the letters describe her work, the meetings she attended, and the people she met, as well as describing the locations she visited. In 1910, she traveled with her husband to the Territory of Hawaii, Japan, and China; the journey lasted four months and she wrote long, detailed letters of her impressions of the places they visited.
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