Manuscripts

The manuscripts cover a wide span of Francis Lieber's professional career, with a small amount of personal and literary material; there are examples of some of his earliest writing as well as items written shortly before his death. Included in this series are articles, essays, memoirs, questionnaires, remarks, memorandum, and notes. Lieber was in the habit of making use of any paper that was available so he reused the versos of many letters and receipts written to him, as well as scraps and fragments of larger pieces of paper. He also pasted additions to manuscripts at the bottom or sides of pages, as well, he pasted newspaper articles down onto various manuscripts, which he annotated with titles or comments. Some of the manuscripts contain various penciled notes and locations, in unknown hands, possibly made by earlier Huntington catalogers. The manuscripts are written by Francis Lieber unless otherwise noted; the series also includes manuscripts by other authors, most notably, John Jay, Charles Sumner, Martin Russell Thayer, and Theodore Dwight Woolsey.