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Hay family papers, (bulk 1862-1901)
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Houghton family papers
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A small group of Houghton family correspondence. Included are: two letters that Thomas Houghton wrote home from Andover, Mass. (1789, Apr. 21 and 1791, July 24); a letter to Houghton from his daughter Elizabeth (1790, Apr. 4, London); a document appointing Thomas Houghton, Jr. administrator of his father's estate (1797, July 12); citizenship certificate issued to John Harding, a papermaker, native of Great Marlow (Buckinghamshire) who had arrived to Andover from England in 1802 (1808, Apr. 28); three letters (1816-1829) addressed to Mary Agnes Houghton, including a letter of appreciation from the Salem East India Marine Society for her donation of "a medal of the Duke of York;" and a letter addressed to Abraham Marland regarding the estate of Thomas Houghton, Jr.
mssHM 70361-70371
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Francis B. Harris papers, (bulk 1862-1864)
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The small collection contains diaries, letters, documents, and a cabinet photograph of Francis B. and Margaret Harris, taken in Long Beach before 1908. Harris's diaries and letters, mostly to his wife, Margaret, cover the entire period of his military service in Maryland and Virginia, including accounts of the battles of Chancellorsville, Bristoe Station, Mine Run Campaign, and the 1864 Overland Virginia campaign, as well as his extended stay at Lincoln Hospital in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 1863. The documents include Harris's military and pension records, a certificate of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a list of soldiers in Upper Pittsgrove, New Jersey, written by Harris in June 1866. Accompanying the collection are some transcripts of parts of the collection, and related material, done by a national park service employee that had access to the original material.
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John Hay letters to editors
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Letters to editors of publisher The Century Company, primarily Richard Watson Gilder and Clarence Clough Buel, regarding the publication of Abraham Lincoln: A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay, 1890.
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John Milton Hay letter to James D. Hague
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In this letter, Hay is thanking Hague for sending him proofs from the biography of the geologist Clarence King entitled Clarence King memoirs: The helmet of Mambrino. The King Memorial Committee of the Century Association, of which James D. Hague was a member, published the biography in 1904. Although Hay returned the proofs to Hague, they are not with the letter.
mssHM 54454
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McNair family papers, (bulk 1835-1943)
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A collection of approximately 5000 items from 1760 to 1964, which is related to multiple generations of the McNair family of Pennsylvania and California. The collection consists of family correspondence, diaries, business records, legal papers, scrapbooks, estate papers, photographs, prints, and ephemera. Included in the collection is material for Thomas McNair, Thomas Speer McNair, and his children: Thomas Ferguson McNair, William Righter McNair, Jean Ferguson McNair, Rebecca Sharon McNair, and James Birtley McNair. Subjects covered in the collection include: Princeton University; University of California, Berkeley; Irish American families; Pennsylvania commerce, education, history, mining, and railroads; Freemasons; Southern California citrus industry, and history; World War I and World War II. Notable people in the collection include, among others: Simon Cameron, Ernest Dawson, and Charles Fletcher Lummis.
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Cook family papers, (bulk 1862-1863)
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The collection contains correspondence between James Clinton Cook and his family exchanged during his Civil War service from 1862 to 1863. Also includes Mary Cook's letter to Benjamin Trumbull Kneeland (1825-1903), her husband's regimental surgeon, and a letter from her relative, Luther Perkins, a ship carpenter in St. Louis, Missouri. Also included are family photographs, from the 1860s to the early 1900s, a portrait of Lemuel Cook made after a famous photograph taken of him in approximately 1864, and genealogical correspondence, genealogical charts, and other materials assembled by Flora Cordelia Cook in the 1950s.
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