Manuscripts

Correspondence relating to a book entitled Our ancestors the Stantons by William Henry Stanton

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Description: These letters concern the volume in the Huntington Library's General Collection: CS71.S81. The first letter is written by William Stanton from Pasadena, California to William A. Stanton living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In this autograph letter signed, William Stanton inquires about the publication of two Stanton families. The reply letter from William A. Stanton dated February 17, 1902, confirms the existence of the publication, which was produced by Munsell's Sons in Albany, New York in 1891. The last letter is written by Herbert T. Meakin from Los Angeles, California to Mrs. Oliver S. Picher (Emily Irish Picher), living in Hubbard Woods, Illinois. In this autograph letter signed, Meakin provides background information about the Stanton book. He offers the book to Mrs. Picher because she is William Stanton's daughter.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1902-1937.
Call number: mssHM 81547

William Stanton correspondence, (bulk 1841-1871)

Manuscripts

Personal and political correspondence of William Stanton, chiefly letters addressed to him. Correspondents include Benjamin Stanton, Edwin McMasters Stanton, Benjamin Franklin Wade, Edwin Lamson Stanton, Rutherford Hayes, and others. There are also a few pieces of correspondence between Benjamin Stanton and other family members, and a small group of letters of Brian Hellen, a Quaker of Beaufort, (N.C.), discussing a dispute over family inheritance, which included enslaved persons.

mssHM 37001-37046

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Rhees correspondence

Manuscripts

Includes Millard Fillmore autograph letter signed to William Jones Rhees, 1870 January 4 (RH 4342, 1 page); James A. Garfield autograph letter signed to Mr. and Mrs. Rhees, approximately 1867 March 11 (RH 4350, 1 page).

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Private letter books of T.H. Stanton, paymaster general, U.S.A

Manuscripts

Five letter books kept by Thaddeus Stanton while he served as paymaster general of the United States (1895-1899). The volumes include both handwritten and typed letters, signed by Stanton, most of which are labeled "unofficial" or "personal." The majority of the letters were written by Stanton to various military officers and friends, and the personal correspondence includes letters mentioning his time in the "far West," advice for obtaining supplies and elk hunting in Wyoming, and inquiries about family members and friends. The majority of the correspondence consists of letters of thanks for congratulations on his appointment as paymaster general, recommendations for other army officers and their families for government positions, and letters of introduction for various acquaintances (including Alice Underwood Hunt, the widow of former Colorado governor Alexander Hunt). Other correspondence focuses on the Spanish-American War ("I am looking for people to go to the Philippine Islands," he wrote in May 1898) and Stanton's plans to retire in 1899.

mssHM 75700-75704

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Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters) Stanton letter to Ogden Hoffman

Manuscripts

Stanton writes to Hoffman "in respect to the publication of your decision." He also hopes Hoffman will soon have time for leisure upon finishing current land cases, and away from Washington, D.C.: "I mean in New York which after all next to San Francisco is the only place on the continent for a gentleman of leisure."

mssHM 19008

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P.A. Stanton letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: list of Los Angeles properties for sale; copy of telegram from Huntington to Stanton, 1904 May 24; map of the Los Angeles Land Co.'s subdivision of the Keller Tract (printed) and printed list of lots; copy of letter from Huntington to Stanton, 1925 May 18. Subjects: California real estate.

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Ida Husted Harper papers

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The collection consists primarily of letters gathered by Ida Husted Harper relating to the women's suffrage movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of these letters are to suffragists Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton; senders include Frederick Douglass, Lucy Stone, Samuel May, Sallie Holley, Francis Jackson, William Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Tilton, Wendell Phillips, George F. Train, Mary Livermore, Victoria Woodhull, Clara Barton, Mary Booth, Wendell Phillips Garrison, Fanny Villard, Felix Adler, Julia Ward Howe, Annie Besant, Angelina Grimke Weld, Frances E. Willard, Kate Field, Jane Stanford, and Robert Dale Owen, among others. Other correspondents in the collection include Theodore Parker, Gerrit Smith, William T. Stead, Abigail Mott, and Lydia Mott. There is one letter from Susan B. Anthony to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1872 November 5 (HM 10549). In addition, there are a number of letters in the collection to Ida Husted Harper, most of them regarding her biography of Susan B. Anthony and the suffrage movement. Harper's correspondents include Eugene V. Debs, Frances E. Willard, Carrie Chapman Catt, Julia Ward Howe, Mary Livermore, Amalia Condert, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida Tarbell, Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (aka "Dorothy Dix"), Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alva E. Belmont, and Anna Howard Shaw. Materials created by US presidents in this collection include James A. Garfield autograph letter signed to Sara Andrews Spencer, 1880 January 19 (HM 10571); William McKinley typescript letter signed to Ida Husted Harper, 1898 February 27 (HM 10649); William H. Taft typescript letter signed to Ida Husted Harper, 1904 February 11 (HM 10704). The collection contains eight letters from Theodore Roosevelt to: Susan B. Anthony, 1898 December 12 (HM 10654) typescript letter signed with autograph corrections Ida Husted Harper, 1918 February 7 (HM 10723) typescript letter signed with autograph corrections Ida Husted Harper, 1918 May 22 (HM 10724) typescript letter signed with secretarial signature Ida Husted Harper, 1918 June 1 (HM 10725) typescript letter signed Ida Husted Harper, 1918 September 16 (HM 10727) typescript letter signed with autograph corrections, postscript; includes transcription of typescript Ida Husted Harper, 1918 October 31 (HM 10729) typescript letter signed Ida Husted Harper, 1919 January 3 (HM 10731) typescript letter signed; enclosure is TR letter to George H. Moses on same date; includes Harper note regarding letter George H. Moses, 1919 January 3 (HM 10570) typescript copy; enclosure of letter to Harper on same date

Correspondence relating to a book entitled Our ancestors the Stantons by William Henry Stanton

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