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  John P. Nicholson letter to James Grant Wilson

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  A carbon copy, typewritten letter, with typed signature, from John P. Nicholson to James G. Wilson concerning a request from Mrs. Lambert for information about her husband William H. Lambert. The letter is written on the letterhead of "Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States" from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. William H. Lambert (1842-1912) was the manager of the New York Mutual Life Insurance Company as well as the first president of the Lincoln Fellowship and an avid Abraham Lincoln collector. The letter is accompanied by three items: a typewritten list of the societies and institutions of which William H. Lambert was a member; a typewritten list of books and other publications written by Lambert; and a printed pamphlet of a letter from Lambert giving an account of the damage to his Lincoln collection that resulted from a fire at his residence.

  mssHM 84105

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  Miscellaneous material relating to William Beaumont collected by C.N.B. Camac

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  This small group includes 5 printed items used in the William Beaumont exhibition at the New York Academy of Medicine (1933), one handwritten note and one typescript letter to C.N.B. Camac about these items.

  mssHM 82469 (a-g)

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  [Thackeray, William Makepeace]. [The Roundabout Papers: No. 1, On a lazy idle bay, 1860]

  Manuscripts

  The collections consist primarily of letters from various American and British authors to James Fields, mostly relating to publication of their manuscripts by his firm Ticknor and Fields and in The Atlantic monthly. The collection, and especially the addenda, also includes letters to Annie Fields concerning literary matters. There are also poems, manuscripts, and correspondence by and about the following individuals: Thomas Aldrich, Charlotte Cushman, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jessie Benton Frémont, Edward Everett Hale, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Julia Ward Howe, Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Lucy Larcom, Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott (better known by her pen name Grace Greenwood), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Helena Modjeska, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Celia Thaxter, Booker T. Washington and John Greenleaf Whittier. The collection also contains essays, notes, speeches, notebooks, photographs, and articles. The collections chiefly deal with the activities of Ticknor and Fields, as well as Fields' and his wife's own literary efforts. The following authors are subjects in the collections: Robert Burns, Lord Byron, John Milton and Percy Shelley. Presidential items in this collection include John Adams autograph bill for legal services to Thomas Pratt, 1767 October 14 (FI 5102) and two autograph letters signed from William H. Taft to Annie Adams Fields, 1914 February? and 1914 March 10 (FI 4098, FI 4099).

  FAC 1015

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  McCabe, William Gordon, 1841-1920. William Makepeace Thackeray tribute, 1864

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  Brock's collection of papers and manuscripts relating to political, military, economic, religious, social, and genealogical history of the state of Virginia. Included are papers of prominent Virginia families, business firms and businessmen, religious and fraternal organizations, government offices and departments, politicians, statesmen, and administrators.

  BR 640

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  Materials relating to Christian William Wente

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  This small group of materials relating to Christian William Wente consists of two books in German, a certificate of apprenticeship, marriage, and naturalization. There are three items of correspondence, an extract from a church record, order of appointment from the Freemasons, Wente's military discharge document, two passports, Olive M. Wente's school schedule, a deed, and a commonplace book.

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  Plan of the fortified camp at Fort William Henry, 1756 [cartographic material]

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  Manuscript plan of Fort William Henry, New York depicting the camp shortly after its construction was begun under the orders of Sir William Johnson in September 1755. The fortifications to the south-east end are still incomplete in the plan. The fort was destroyed by French forces in August 1757.

  mssHM 15406