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Henry W. Blodgett papers

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Description: The collection includes materials relating to Blodgetts's career including legal papers, copies of bills for the Illinois legislature, and correspondence. There are several items that were purportedly housed in a safe and survived the Chicago Fire of 1871. Correspondents include the abolitionists Owen Lovejoy and Wendell Phillips.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1843-1903.
Call number: mssBlodgett
Creator: Blodgett, Henry W (1821-1905)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Althea Warren, June 1937.
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William Henry Pettee papers

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The collection consists primarily of letters, some of which were written by William Henry Pettee from California (Yuba and Feather River areas and San Francisco, 1870-71), from Colorado (South Park Topographical Expedition, 1869), and from Freiberg while studying at the Royal Academy of Mining (1865-68). The main subjects are the California State Geological Survey; Josiah Dwight Whitney; Colorado; and Freiberg.A significant portion of the collection consists of correspondence addressed to Josiah Dwight Whitney from various persons (520 letters, including those from William Henry Pettee to Whitney).Correspondents represented in the collection include: William Henry Brewer, William More Gabb, Wendell Phillips Garrison, Watson Andrews Goodyear, Leo Lesquereux, Josiah Dwight Whitney, and William Dwight Whitney.The collection also contains some photographs of William Henry Pettee and other members of the Pettee family, members of the California State Geological Survey, and images of Europe during the years Pettee was studying in Freiberg.The collection falls into four main groupings: Notable individuals represented by 4 or more letters include William Henry Brewer, William More Gabb, Wendell Phillips Garrison, Watson Andrews Goodyear, Leo Lesquereux, Josiah Dwight Whitney, and William Dwight Whitney.

mssPettee papers

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Ulysses S. Grant, near Vicksburg, letter to Major General Henry W. Halleck :

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Grant reports on initial events and current status of the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi; offers predictions of length of siege. Includes added autograph note by Francis E. Lovejoy.

mssHM 21182

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Charles Henry Ray papers

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A collection of approximately 437 items from 1826 to 1950, it consists of the professional, political, and personal correspondence and papers of Charles Henry Ray; chiefly letters addressed to him. Included are letters discussing family news; Ray's studies of medicine in New York; the whaling voyage from 1841 to 1843 onboard the New Bedford whaler Newton; early medical practice in Illinois; business affairs; the Chicago Tribune; the Chicago Evening Post; his involvement in the trade with the South during the Civil War. Also, contemporary politics, including the Republican party, the Lincoln presidency and the Civil War. Correspondents include Levi Ray, Jane Yates Per Lee Ray, Julia Annah Clark Ray, Harvey Hubbard, William M. Fenton, Serranus Clinton Hastings, Tench S. Fairchild, Charles S. Hempstead, James Wilson Grimes, Joseph Medill, Henry Martyn Smith, Lyman Trumbull, Elihu Benjamin Washburne, Horace White, and others. Also included are newspaper clippings of the obituaries of Charles H. Ray, and photographs and portraits of Ray and his second wife. The collection also includes additional family and political letters and a manuscript of "Charles H. Ray and the Chicago Tribune."

mssRY

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Ida Husted Harper papers

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The collection consists primarily of letters gathered by Ida Husted Harper relating to the women's suffrage movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of these letters are to suffragists Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton; senders include Frederick Douglass, Lucy Stone, Samuel May, Sallie Holley, Francis Jackson, William Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Tilton, Wendell Phillips, George F. Train, Mary Livermore, Victoria Woodhull, Clara Barton, Mary Booth, Wendell Phillips Garrison, Fanny Villard, Felix Adler, Julia Ward Howe, Annie Besant, Angelina Grimke Weld, Frances E. Willard, Kate Field, Jane Stanford, and Robert Dale Owen, among others. Other correspondents in the collection include Theodore Parker, Gerrit Smith, William T. Stead, Abigail Mott, and Lydia Mott. There is one letter from Susan B. Anthony to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1872 November 5 (HM 10549). In addition, there are a number of letters in the collection to Ida Husted Harper, most of them regarding her biography of Susan B. Anthony and the suffrage movement. Harper's correspondents include Eugene V. Debs, Frances E. Willard, Carrie Chapman Catt, Julia Ward Howe, Mary Livermore, Amalia Condert, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida Tarbell, Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (aka "Dorothy Dix"), Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alva E. Belmont, and Anna Howard Shaw. Materials created by US presidents in this collection include James A. Garfield autograph letter signed to Sara Andrews Spencer, 1880 January 19 (HM 10571); William McKinley typescript letter signed to Ida Husted Harper, 1898 February 27 (HM 10649); William H. Taft typescript letter signed to Ida Husted Harper, 1904 February 11 (HM 10704). The collection contains eight letters from Theodore Roosevelt to: Susan B. Anthony, 1898 December 12 (HM 10654) typescript letter signed with autograph corrections Ida Husted Harper, 1918 February 7 (HM 10723) typescript letter signed with autograph corrections Ida Husted Harper, 1918 May 22 (HM 10724) typescript letter signed with secretarial signature Ida Husted Harper, 1918 June 1 (HM 10725) typescript letter signed Ida Husted Harper, 1918 September 16 (HM 10727) typescript letter signed with autograph corrections, postscript; includes transcription of typescript Ida Husted Harper, 1918 October 31 (HM 10729) typescript letter signed Ida Husted Harper, 1919 January 3 (HM 10731) typescript letter signed; enclosure is TR letter to George H. Moses on same date; includes Harper note regarding letter George H. Moses, 1919 January 3 (HM 10570) typescript copy; enclosure of letter to Harper on same date

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mssHM 10497-10731

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mssHM 10497-10731

Henry W. Blodgett papers

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