Manuscripts
Charles E. Goodspeed collection of autograph letters, (bulk 1710-1790)
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Group 86: Goodspeed, Charles (including Goodspeed's Book Shop)
Manuscripts
This collection contains of the business records of the Merrymount Press and the related papers of its founder Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941). The bulk of the collection consists of financial volumes; correspondence with customers, publishers, illustrators, craftsmen, and suppliers; bills; estimates; and scrapbooks with specimens of work. While the majority of the correspondence is comprised of letters, there are occasionally proofs, specimens, and cloth, paper, fabric samples, etc., found with the correspondence. The records reflect Updike's involvement with printing across the United States and in Europe, though much of his work was produced for clients in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York City. Some of the correspondence reflects Updike's personal interests including Rhode Island history and churches and charitable work with poor children as well as prison inmates.
mssMerrymount
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Charles P. Crawford notebook
Manuscripts
Notebook containing miscellaneous accounts and records kept by Charles P. Crawford between 1853 and 1869. Included are lists of slaves that Crawford and his younger brother Joel Terrell Crawford (1833-1862) bought from his father's estate in 1858. Also included is a "Memorandum for Lee County" containing lists of goods and property, including slaves, which Crawford intended to bring with him when the family moved there from Americus in 1859.
mssHM 71717
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Brock Collection: Papers of William Harvie Richardson, (bulk 1807-1862)
Manuscripts
Collection of miscellaneous papers and correspondence of William H. Richardson. The bulk of the collection consists of financial records -- bills, receipts, promissory notes, etc, including a few items that document sale of slaves. Also included are a few personal letters addressed to William H. Richardson that discuss political news, Washington Canal and Rhode Island State Lottery, bear hunting, and other subjects. Also included are a few documents issued by Richardson as Adjutant General of Virginia (1862), and a letter of his son, William H. Richardson, Jr. who served in the Confederate Army
mssBR Box 73 (2)
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Collection of autographs
Manuscripts
Collection of signatures and autographs assembled ca. 1888, probably by Lewis P. Child of New York. Included are clipped signatures of presidents, vice-presidents, congressmen, jurists, generals, clergymen, artists and other celebrities. Included are four brief notes from Abraham Lincoln to the Treasury Department (1864-1865) and letters from Daniel Stevens Dickinson to George W. Scranton (1853, May 16); Alfred B. Street to L. Odell (1860, Dec. 15); A.J. H. Duganne to A. J. Odell (1867, July 16); Edwards Pierrepont to "My Dear Mr. Taylor" (1874, July 10); Whitelaw Reid to Hugh Auchinloss (1874, Oct. 8); Henry Codman Potter to Lewis P. Child (1888, July 22), William Scharfernberg to "My Dear Madam," (n.d.); Samuel P. Warren to Lewis P. Child (n.d.) Also included is a collection of bills of exchange issued between 1806 and 1808 in Virginia, New York, and Barbados, including a draft issued to John Gough from William Claus, the acting trustee of the Six Nations (1808, Nov. 2).
mssHM 46553
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Cullen, William, 1710-1790. Institutions of medicine [student's copy], 1790
Manuscripts
Brock's collection of papers and manuscripts relating to political, military, economic, religious, social, and genealogical history of the state of Virginia. Included are papers of prominent Virginia families, business firms and businessmen, religious and fraternal organizations, government offices and departments, politicians, statesmen, and administrators.
BR 65
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Ephemera: Dearest Susie: A Civil War Infantrymen's Letters to His Sweetheart : [book] Edited by Carl E. Hatch. The book is autographed by Hatch. Item is on shelf with the rest of the collection
Manuscripts
The Correspondence series is arranged chronologically and contains letters from Frank to his family members, most notably his sisters and to Susan, about his experiences during the Civil War. Also included in the series are letters from Frank and Susan to their children when they traveled around Europe in 1892 visiting such cities as Rome, Glasgow, Oban, Dingwall, Edinburgh, London, Brussels, Berlin, Vienna, Venice, Florence, Naples, Interlacken, and Paris. There are also letters from their children, most notably their daughters Bertha, Grace, and Olive, as they traveled around the United States. The Manuscripts series is arranged alphabetically and contains a typed collection of letters written by Frank McGregor titled "Letters to the Folks at Home from Frank McGregor of the 83rd Regiment O.V.I. Army of the Mississippi." The letters date from 1862-1865 and span McGregor's time in the Civil War. Also included, is a short composition written by Susan B. McGregor recalling details about a story her mother, Olive W. Wilder liked to tell about going to a ball.
mssHM 72510-72606