Manuscripts

Albert Gallatin Riddle material

Description: Letters addressed to Albert Gallatin Riddle; HM 25579-25609
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1842 April-approximately 1870
Call number: mssHM 25466-25675
Creator: Janes, Edwin B (1901-1943)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edwin B. Janes, in memory of his wife Isabelle Kelley Janes, 1942 and 1943.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Edwin B. Janes collection

Manuscripts

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).

mssHM 25466-25675

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Andrew J. Williams material

Manuscripts

Includes correspondence and ephemera; HM 25610-25675.

mssHM 25466-25675

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Albert Gallatin, New York, letter to Alexander Yearley & Sons, Baltimore

Manuscripts

Autograph letter signed. Regarding real estate payments. Note reads: Deed in fee From Albert Gallatin, to Francis DeVille, Mabelle? DeVille. (1 page and addressed cover)

mssShapiro

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Miscellaneous correspondence and manuscripts

Manuscripts

HM 25466-25578

mssHM 25466-25675

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A.E. (Albert Eugene) Gallatin letter to Robert O. Schad

Manuscripts

Also included with letter is a carbon copy of the reply from Leslie E. Bliss, Huntington Librarian, to A.E. Gallatin, April 21, 1943.

mssHM 63169

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Amos White, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, memorial to Thomas Jefferson

Manuscripts

Autograph document signed; endorsed by Jefferson. Includes autograph note initialed from Albert Gallatin to Jefferson, Jefferson's initialed response, and a second initialed note by Gallatin. See also Abraham Bishop to Albert Gallatin, 1808 October 31 (HM 9020). (3 pages)

HM 9019

Albert Gallatin Riddle material

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