Edwin B. Janes collection

A collection of 238 items which consists of manuscripts and letters assembled by Edwin B. Janes. The first series of miscellaneous manuscripts contains individual letters by American political, military, and literary figures of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Included in this material is a leaf from the docket of the court in Painesville, Ohio, detailing the conviction of Joseph Smith, Jr., of assault and battery of his brother-in-law Calvin W. Stoddard (April 21, 1835), also documents relating to slavery and abolitionism, a small group of correspondence of John Stuart Skinner, and a group of letters and military records related to the Civil War in Ohio. The second series, arranged alphabetically by author, is the professional and political correspondence of Albert Gallatin Riddle, chiefly letters addressed to him from 1847 to 1870. The third series, arranged chronologically, contains personal, professional, and political correspondence of Andrew J. Williams (1852-1900).