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William Marshall Swayne papers

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Description: William Marshall Swayne was a self-taught Pennsylvania artist known for his sculptures of Abraham LIncoln, Salmon P. Chase, Edwin M. Stanton, WIlliam H. Seward, and others. He also served in the Department of the Treasury during the Civil War. Collection includes excerpts from Swayne's letters to his wife Mary, written between 1859 and 1867 while he was away in Washington D.C., and compiled by him in a separate letterbook. Letters discuss Swayne's work with his portrait subjects, including Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Joshua Gidding, and others; Lincon's first inauguration, public affairs in Washington D.C. during the Civil War, Lincoln's assassination, and reactions to the arrest of Jefferson Davis. Collection also includes manuscript and typescript copies of Swayne's reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, family photographs, correspondence between Swayne's children and the Smithsonian regarding the family's donation of a plaster bust of Lincoln, and some clippings and research related to Lincoln.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1859-1940.
Call number: mssSwayne

Noah Haynes Swayne letter to Ogden Hoffman

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Letter from Noah Haynes Swayne to Odgen Hoffman, sent from Washington, D.C. Swayne thanks Hoffman for sending him a letter and pamphlet, and remarks on "the Roland case."

mssHM 19023

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Annie G. Dudley Davis diary

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The diary kept by Annie G. Dudley in Washington documents political and social life in Washington, D.C. in 1861-68, including accounts of the Civil War news, sessions of House of Representatives and Senate, hospitals, and assassination of Abraham Lincoln

mssHM 58019

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William Borrowe papers

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Business correspondence of William Borrowe and his family, including Borrowe's military commission signed by Abraham Lincoln (1862, Feb. 2), photographs, family portraits (6 pieces), and ephemera.

mss Borrowe

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Justin George Turner Papers

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This small collection chiefly relates to the Civil War Centennial Commission and all of its related activities especially in California. There are also pieces related to the Civil War Round Table, a national organization; the California Heritage Preservation Association; the Confederate Research Club; and the Pen Club, an organization headed by Allan Nevins and which celebrated both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln with annual luncheons attended by prominent historians such as Nevins and Ray Billington. There are seven letters from Edmund Gerald Brown, former governor of California, addressed to Justin Turner and other letters from historians. All are related to the Civil War Centennial. There are 624 letters of which 339 of these letters are written by Turner. In addition to this there is a group of form letters, printed announcements, memos, and drafts that number 217 pieces. There are 23 copies of speeches and memos and 56 pieces of ephemera. There are nine items regarding the Washington/Lincoln luncheons. There are several items that pertain to the history of Jewish people in the United States and the American Jewish Historical Society. Prominent participants include: Ronald Reagan, Robert F. Kennedy, Gage Merrell, Bruce Catton, and Moshe Davis. The subjects include: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, the Civil War, American history, the Huntington Library and the American Jewish Historical Society. The great majority of letters are carbon copies. There is a photograph of Merrell Gage, sculpture famous for his "Face of Lincoln," and a photograph of William L. Shaw, a chairman of the Civil War Centennial Commission of California.

mssTurnerj

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James Hillhouse papers

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Correspondence by James Hillhouse, mostly to his wife Rebecca, but also his sons James Abraham Hillhouse, and August L. Hillhouse. In the letters, Hillhouse talks about George Washington, including his death in 1799, and the new American government. Letters are written from New Haven, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.

mssHM 52171-52190

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BULLITT, William Marshall

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The collection consists of letters (including 1 letter book), manuscripts (including 50 diaries), documents (including 55 account books, 12 cash books, and 5 miscellaneous volumes), and photographs related to the lives and activities of various Janin family members and the extended Janin-Blair-Jesup-Croghan families. Subject matter in the collection includes: politics and government in Washington, D.C., and Louisiana; society and customs in Washington, D.C., and New Orleans; Blair House (Washington, D.C.); land titles in Indiana Territory, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Missouri; the Ocean Canal and Transportation Company, which ran from Louisiana to St. Louis; the history of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, from the time of purchase by John Croghan in 1839 until 1932, when it became a national park (at which time Violet Blair Janin was the primary owner); and mining in Australia. Persons represented in the collection include: James Lawrence Blair, Mary Jesup Blair, Violet Blair Janin, John Croghan, William Croghan, Albert Covington Janin, Louis Janin, Julia Clark Jesup, Thomas Sidney Jesup, George M. Wheeler, and Lucy James Blair Wheeler. Organizations represented in the collection (with which Violet Blair Janin was affiliated) include: Daughters of the American Revolution, National Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage, National Cathedral Association, National Society of Children of the American Revolution, and the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.

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