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Edwin L. Knight papers

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Description: Contains correspondence of Edwin L. Knight and others, primarily regarding the U.S. Civil War; also present are 24 photographic portraits of Civil War soldiers.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1861-1864.
Call number: mssHM 32149-32164
Creator: Knight, Edwin L(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Dawson's Bookstore, February 1963.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Edwin Francis Gay papers

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A collection of 9,601 items from 1786 to 1973, which consists of professional and personal material related to Edwin Francis Gay's life and multifaceted career. The collection documents his career in the civil service, at Harvard University, the New York Evening Post, and the Huntington Library; there are also some papers related to the National Bureau of Economic Research. Subjects include European economic recovery after World War I; international economic relations after World War II; United States business; and Gay's voluminous research notes on European and American economic history. Also included are Gay's notes on the Temple family papers in the Stowe collection at the Huntington Library and correspondence and papers relative to Herbert Heaton's book Scholar in action : Edwin Francis Gay (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1952). The collection also includes business, family and personal correspondence, documents, genealogy, printed material, photographs, clippings, and ephemera. Also present is Woodrow Wilson telegram to Edwin Francis Gay, 1919 September 17 (GY 3292) in Box 124.

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Edwin A. Bowen papers

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A collection of material chiefly relating to Edwin A. Bowen's Civil War service and the 52nd Regiment's veterans' association. Included are a Civil War journal kept from November 1861 to February 29, 1864; regimental military records, including general and special orders, communications, dispatches, reports, muster rolls, and ordnance records; drafts and the fair copy of Bowen's "Historical Memoranda of the 52nd Regiment Illinois Infantry Volunteers," (1870s); and accounts of the Battle of Shiloh that Bowen submitted at the request of Shiloh Battlefield Commission (1895). Also included are Bowen's account of his service in New Mexico (1848), an article about slavery (approximately 1861), and the original manuscript, typescript and publication of his Pike's Peak journal (1859).

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Edwin Francis Gay papers, (bulk 1920-1946)

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Edwin Francis Gay papers, (bulk 1920-1946)

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Edwin Francis Gay papers, (bulk 1920-1946)

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Edwin Francis Gay papers, (bulk 1920-1946)

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