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Charles P.S. Wardwell papers, (bulk 1850-1870)
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Charles Penniman Daniell Papers
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The collection consists of letters and a few photographs related to Daniell's experiences and life in San Francisco (1850-53). Charles is the author of all the letters and the only addressees are his sister Lucetta, his mother Sarah, and his father Josiah. The letters, generally one to four pages in length, are arranged chronologically. Several of the letters are duplicated in typewritten format. Charles wrote the bulk of the letters from the city of San Francisco, but there are also letters from Boston, where he helped with his father's dry goods business and from the ship "Marcia Cleaves" as he sailed around the Horn to California. A seemingly amiable and optimistic young man, Charles appears to wrestle with the challenges of making his own way in the world and the longing for the familiar. The letters rarely go into great detail, but they allude to a great variety of topics such as home-sickness for his family and New England, the importance of "Steamer Day" when mail arrives, the weather, his health and well-being and that of his compatriots, the importance of social relationships to business success, the difficulty of business success without sufficient capital, the diversity of nationalities/ethnicities on ship and in town, party politics, the Vigilance Committee, church attendance, anecdotes about music, his food and lodging conditions, the outbreak of fires and cholera in town, and the occurrence of marriages at home in Massachusetts and in California. Photographic material includes a photograph of the Daniell family, four copy prints of daguerreotypes and four negatives of copy prints of Daniell family members, the family's house in Roxbury, and William standing next to his brother's grave in California. Subjects include: the ship Marcia Cleaves, Voyages "around the Horn", ocean travel, Valparaiso, (Chile), San Jose (California), life in San Francisco, and business enterprises there, the city's U.S. Custom House, city politics—especially the Vigilance committee, church attendance, the building of a Unitarian church, relationships between men and women, ethnic relations, anecdotes about music, and descriptions of fruit purchases.
mssHM 70463-70510
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C.E.S. Wood papers, (bulk 1870-1940)
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A collection of approximately 30,000 items which consists of letters, manuscripts, documents, diaries, sketches, photographs, printed material, and scrapbooks related to the lives and work of Charles Erskine Scott Wood and Sara Bard Field Wood. The collection includes material about William Maxwell Wood (1809-1880), C.E.S. Wood's father; papers from C. E. S. Wood's army career, including materials from West Point, Alaska, and the Indian campaigns in the Pacific Northwest; C. E. S. Wood's activities in the development of eastern Oregon (note: there are no papers belonging to Wood's law office); Sara Bard Field's reports on the McNamara case, her life in San Francisco and her associations with journalists, labor leaders, Soviet sympathizers, pacifists, and artists; materials related to Sara Bard Field's work for woman suffrage and women's rights; and C. E. S. Wood and Sara Bard Field Wood's cultural circle, including letters from other writers, critics, publishers, social reformers, artists, sculptors, theatrical figures and musicians. Persons represented in the collection include politicians, journalists, cultural leaders, artists, suffragists, authors, and musicians: Charles Altschul, Roger Nash Baldwin, Alva Belmont, Albert M. Bender, William Rose Beňt, Henriette de S. Blanding, Alfred Brennan, Maurice Browne, George De Forest Brush, Beniamino Bufano, Witter Bynner, Bennett Cerf, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Clarence Darrow, Kenneth Durant, Max Eastman, Gilson Gardner, Inez Haynes Gillmore, William Hanley, Walter Morris Hart, Childe Hassam, Nan Wood Honeyman, O.O. Howard, Robinson Jeffers, Willard Maas, Alexander Meiklejohn, Eugene Meyer, Josephine Miles, Harriet Monroe, Richard L. Neuberger, Frederick O'Brien, Mrs. Fremont Older, Fremont Older, Lemuel Parton, Alice Paul, Lute Pease, Louis Freeland Post, John Cowper Powys, Llewelyn Powys, Alexander Phimister Proctor, John W. Redington, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, Muriel Rukeyser, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Theodore Spiering, Lincoln Steffens, Walter Steilberg, Doris Stevens, Genevieve Taggard, Mark Van Doren, Mabel Vernon, Langdon Warner, Olin Levi Warner, Julian Alden Weir, Marie de L. Welch, George P. West, Frances G. Wickes, Ella Winter, Emma Wold, Erskine Wood, Art Young, and Ella Young.
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Charles James Lever papers, (bulk 1844-1872)
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The collection consists of 332 items covering 1835 to 1918; it includes one manuscript by Lever, an untitled political essay, a small number of Lever family letters, as well as a few letters dealing with Lever's political and civil service careers. The majority of the letters are from Lever to his wife, Kate Lever, and his oldest daughter, Julia Lever Nevill. Of these, Lever's letters written during his visits to London and Dublin are of the most interest as he tells of meeting Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, and Wilkie Collins; he also discusses his latest literary work and his dealings with his publishers. The family letters are principally concerned with the ill-health of Kate Lever, the state of the family's finances (usually bad) and living arrangements. Also, before the death of his son Charles in 1863, the family letters deal with the debts incurred by "Charley," his disreputable living and Lever's search for some sort of gainful employment for Charley. There is also one folder of ephemera containing clipped signatures, miscellaneous envelopes, clipped catalogue descriptions, cancelled checks, and a printed death notice; and one box containing five small notebooks and one post book, which include some personal information, literary notes, newspaper clippings of book reviews, and lists of letters sent.
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Charles Wolter papers, (bulk 1833-1881)
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A collection of 448 items from 1792 to 1970, which contains letters, five letter books, documents, two account books, 11 scrapbooks, and photographs related to the life of Charles Wolter and the Wolter family. There are materials related to Wolter's land and business interests in early California including Monterey, Rancho Los Tualrcitos, Rancho El Toro, and Rancho Lupyomi. Correspondents include William Antonio Richardson, David Spence, and Edward Vischer. There is also memorabilia related to Harry Meiggs Wolter as a baseball player and coach. He went with the U.S. baseball team to participate in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and the collection contains an album from the Olympic Games with autographs of various participants, including Jesse Owens. The collection also contains genealogical materials for the Wolter family, including many scrapbooks assembled by Irene Hogan Wolter, wife of Harry Meiggs Wolter.
mssHM 45506-40681
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Searing family papers, (bulk 1870-1890)
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A collection of 2,245 items from 1810 to 1941, it consists of correspondence, bills, receipts, banking documents, court papers, tax and school records. The vast majority of the papers pertain to William E. Valentine (1820-1896?) and his financial and real estate affairs; this material consists chiefly of bills, accounts, deeds, tax records, and banking papers. A few items concern other members of the Valentine and Searing families, including material on the U.S. Sanitary Commission. The collection also includes one map of building sites located in Long Island in 1872, and 26 family photographs.
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James M. Smith papers, (bulk 1850-1889)
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This collection consists primarily of correspondence and covers all aspects of James M. Smith's family and business life. As such there is considerable correspondence from fellow Buffalo lawyers seeking opinions on legal issues and regarding financial matters such as those dealing with banks, real property, and real estate investment. Among the family correspondence there is a great deal from Smith's father, Harvey Douglass Smith, as well as letters describing the family trip to Europe in 1878. Of particular interest are Smith's notes on the self-appointment of Samuel Cheever (1787-1874) as Albany district attorney in 1837. The breadth and detailed nature of the correspondence represented in this collection illuminates the social life and customs, as well as the church history of Erie County and Buffalo
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