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Correspondence relating to a book entitled Our ancestors the Stantons by William Henry Stanton
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William Stanton correspondence, (bulk 1841-1871)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Henry Anderson Lafler correspondence
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The collection is composed primarily of love letters and poems between Henry Anderson Lafler, living in San Francisco, and poet Nora May French, who was living in Los Angeles at the time. The collection also includes one letter from American poet Edwin Markham.
mssHM 45912-45957