Manuscripts
Charles E. Goodspeed collection of autograph letters, (bulk 1710-1790)
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Charles E. Goodspeed collection of autograph letters, (bulk 1710-1790)
Manuscripts
The collection consists of autographs, chiefly accounts, invoices, bills, and estate inventories relating to colonial and revolutionary Massachusetts, with individual items dealing with other New England states, New York, and Pennsylvania from 1660 to 1862. Included are cargo records of various merchant ships, bills of sale of enslaved persons, payments made by the Massachusetts colonial government to printers, scribes, tax collectors, and financial, legal, and other records relating to various companies of Massachusetts militia and the Continental Army, including enlistment records from 1776. Also included are a 1671 letter from a recent English settler in Virginia to his "deare love" back home, a few complaints filed in Groton, Con. against individuals who violated Sabbath by "necessary traveling" and "playing and laughing", sermons and devotional poetry, including individual pieces by Samuel Philips and Cotton Mather, a letter from Mary S. Parker to George Nixon Briggs forwarding the representative from Massachusetts "three petitions for the abolishing of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia signed by 225 wives and daughters of your constituents" from 1837, and other items. Also included are a few watercolors and prints, including a small watercolor portrait of a lady, by Thomas Birch, and a print of the view of the Fort Pulaski, Georgia in 1862.
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Charles E. Goodspeed collection of autograph letters
Manuscripts
The collection consists of autographs, chiefly accounts, invoices, bills, and estate inventories relating to colonial and revolutionary Massachusetts, with individual items dealing with other New England states, New York, and Pennsylvania from 1660 to 1862. Included are cargo records of various merchant ships, bills of sale of enslaved persons, payments made by the Massachusetts colonial government to printers, scribes, tax collectors, and financial, legal, and other records relating to various companies of Massachusetts militia and the Continental Army, including enlistment records from 1776. Also included are a 1671 letter from a recent English settler in Virginia to his "deare love" back home, a few complaints filed in Groton, Con. against individuals who violated Sabbath by "necessary traveling" and "playing and laughing", sermons and devotional poetry, including individual pieces by Samuel Philips and Cotton Mather, a letter from Mary S. Parker to George Nixon Briggs forwarding the representative from Massachusetts "three petitions for the abolishing of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia signed by 225 wives and daughters of your constituents" from 1837, and other items. Also included are a few watercolors and prints, including a small watercolor portrait of a lady, by Thomas Birch, and a print of the view of the Fort Pulaski, Georgia in 1862.
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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.
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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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1708/1709 February 4-1710 May 22
Manuscripts
A collection of 87 items from 1704 to 1710, it consists of papers relating to colonial affairs, accumulated by Sunderland during his tenure as Secretary of State. Included are letters, communications, and reports from the Board of Trade and colonial administration and legislative bodies, chiefly those of New Jersey and New York; with a few items from South Carolina, Virginia, and Massachusetts. Subjects included are Queen Anne's War; Lewis Morgan's conflict with New Jersey Governor Lord Cornbury; the Palatine settlements; colonial trade; and fisheries. Correspondents include Joseph Dudley, Lewis Morris, Edward Hyde (Lord Cornbury and later 3rd Earl of Clarendon), and others.
mssSunderland
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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)