Manuscripts

Correspondence and manuscripts: Phelps-Zakrzewski

Description: Correspondence, manuscripts, miscellaneous material, and ephemera; locations: London, United States, Egypt, Berlin, and Jerusalem.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1800-1925
Call number: mssHM 27329-27485
Creator: Phelps, William Walter (1839-1894)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Mrs. Frances Phelps Penry, December, 1963.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Correspondence and manuscripts: Allison-Page

Manuscripts

Correspondence, manuscripts and documents; locations: United States, Egypt, Paris, and Berlin.

mssHM 27329-27485

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Berlin Conference on Samoan Affairs

Manuscripts

Drafts, correspondence, press dispatches, and reports; locations: United States and Berlin. Includes Benjamin Harrison and James G. Blaine signed appointment of William Walter Phelps as commissioner to Berlin Conference on Samoan Affairs, 1889 March 19 (HM 27450).

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William Walter Phelps papers

Manuscripts

A collection of political, business, diplomatic, social, and family correspondence of William Walter Phelps, chiefly letters addressed to him. The collection numbers 199 items, including items related to American politics and the Republican party, Phelps' diplomatic service, his family, social life and literary interests. Correspondents include, among others, Herbert Nikolaus von Bismarck, James Gillespie Blaine, Benjamin Harrison, Eugene Field, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, and Joseph Pulitzer. Also included is the correspondence of John Jay Phelps, a poem by Eugene Field dedicated to Phelps, an 1882 letter containing an eye-witness account of the battle of Battle of Chapultepec, Mexico (1847), ephemera, photographs, and newspapers clippings. The collection also contains papers related to John Chester Eno's embezzlement from the Second Bank of New York (of which Phelps was a director) and Phelps' negotiations with Eno's father, Amos Richard Phelps, to make good the loss (1884). Materials created by US presidents in this collection include: Rutherford B. Hayes autograph letters signed to William Walter Phelps, 1879 July and December (HM 27382-27383); James A. Garfield and James G. Blaine signed appointment of William Walter Phelps as minister to Austria Hungary, 1881 March 5 (HM 27376); Theodore Roosevelt autograph letter signed to William Walter Phelps, approximately 1888 April 10 (HM 27406); Benjamin Harrison and James G. Blaine signed appointment of William Walter Phelps as commissioner to Berlin Conference on Samoan Affairs, 1889 March 19 (HM 27450); Benjamin Harrison and James G. Blaine signed appointment of William Walter Phelps as minister to Germany, 1889 June and December (includes passport and letter of credit, HM 27484-27485); Benjamin Harrison letters to William Walter Phelps, 1888-1892 (HM 27480-27483); William H. Taft letter signed to Marian von Rottenburg Phelps, 1910 and 1911 (HM 27413-27414).

mssHM 27329-27485

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Second National Bank of New York

Manuscripts

Correspondence, diary extract, documents, and ephemera; location: New York, United States.

mssHM 27329-27485

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Correspondence and manuscripts

Manuscripts

Contains manuscripts and letters to and from H. Rider Haggard; written from London, South Africa, Dublin, Egypt, Edinburgh, Berlin, Rhodesia, Norfolk.

mssHM 43398-43700

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Correspondence, Manuscripts, Ephemera

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.

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