Hinton R. Helper letter to Harper & Row, Publishers

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  Chase, Salmon Portland to Hinton R. Helper

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  Hiram Barney's political, business, legal, and family papers concern a wide variety of subjects including real estate, primarily in Iowa, and New York; court cases (often pertaining to debt collection) and other legal services; politics generally, but especially patronage distribution; family affairs, business transactions concerning the Erie and other canals; small railroads (largely in the Lake Plains region); Mexico and Mexican-American relations; the Civil War; U.S. Customs Service. Barney's correspondence contains numerous references to the anti-enslavement movement in the North, the Civil War, Republican Party politics, and Barney's friendship with Abraham Lincoln. Also found throughout this portion of the collection are transportation papers dealing with Barney's interest in connection with the opening up of waterways, the railroad, and the telegraph from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. Among the correspondents are William C. Bryant, William A. Butler, Salmon P. Chase, Charles P. Clinch, Erastus Corning, Edward C. Delavan, William P. Fessenden, John Jay, David W. Kilbourne, Eugene Kozlay, Abraham Lincoln, Edward L. Pierce, Matias Romero, Horatio Seymour, William T. Sherman, Edward D. Smith, Breese J. Stevens, Lewis Tappan, William D. Waterman. Real estate papers concern mostly the Half-Breed Tract between the Mississippi and Des Moines rivers. Which includes signed documents of land indentures by specific Indigenous tribal members of the Sak and Fox (Meskwaki) Nation with papers pertaining to the first Anglo proprietors and settlers. Related to Barney's real estate documents are Francis Scott Key's papers. Legal papers extend from 1825 to 1888 and includes articles of partnership, court cases, powers of attorney, and notes for collection. New York Custom House papers cover the general operations, patronage, and personnel of the Custom House, as well as records of the fraud investigations conducted by the U.S. Treasury Department.

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  Butler, Octavia E. To Harper & Row, Publishers

  Manuscripts

  Carb. copy (L.S., typewritten: 1p.); 28cm. Los Angeles, Calif. With an address label and incomplete letter on the verso. Formerly enclosed in Mind of my Mind white binder.

  OEB 4018

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  Donald Harper letters to Charles E. Graham

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  Also: list of agricultural implements belonging to Huntington at Chateau Beauregard; copy of letter from Graham to Harper, and letter from Graham to Huntington, 1923 April 20; copy of letter from Huntington to Harper, 1923 October 15; translation of report related to the buildings at Chateau Beauregard, 1923 November 8; letter from Graham to Huntington, 1924 June 2, and letter from Huntington to Graham, 1924 June 7.

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  Rowland Hunter letter to "Dear Sir,"

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  Autograph letter (draft) from Rowland Hunter to "Dear Sir," December 21, 1814. In this draft, Hunter explains and proposes why he should continue publishing Maria Edgeworth's works, after what appears to be dissolution between the two.

  mssHM 80444

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  William H. Taft, Washington, D.C., telegram to Jacob Chandler Harper, Cincinnati, Ohio :

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  Taft instructs Harper to not publish his letter regarding the referendum. Folder also includes addressed envelope to Harper and a printed copy of a joint resolution proposing the submission of amendments to the Constitution of Ohio for direct legislation.

  mssHM 41538

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  Silverberg, Robert. 34 letters (1957-1981) to Harper & Row, Publishers

  Manuscripts

  The Manuscripts series is arranged alphabetically by author and title. The manuscripts include a selection of Silverberg's literary works, mostly dating from 1973-1995. Included in this series are: novels, anthologies, short stories, novellas, essays, articles, book reviews, interviews, pilot scripts, galley proofs, page proofs, and confirmation proofs. Most of the manuscripts in this series are typed and appear to be close too, if not, the final revision. Some of Silverberg's works found within this series include: Born with the dead, Capricorn games, Galactic dreamers, Gilgamesh the king, How they pass the time in Pelpel, The Nebula awards, New dimensions 2, 6, 7, and 8, Nightwings, Revolt on Alpha C, Sundance and other science fiction stories, and Time gate volume two: Dangerous interfaces. This series also includes manuscripts by other authors, most notably Isaac Asimov, A.A. Attanasio, Gregory Benford, Orson Scott Card, C.J. Cherryh, Ellen Datlow, Tom DeHaven, Samuel R. Delany, Gordon R. Dickson, L. Ron Hubbard, Wolfgang Jeschke, Marc Laidlaw, H.P. Lovecraft, Janet Morris, Larry Niven, Kim Stanley Robinson, Charles Sheffield, S.P. Somtow, Bruce Sterling, Theodore Sturgeon, Harry Turtledove, Jack Vance, and Dave Wolverton. There is also a biography of Philip K. Dick and a copy of his last interview. Some of the manuscripts are too large to be stored with this series and have been placed in oversize boxes 80-89.

  SIL 1514-1547