Manuscripts

John Fanning Watson correspondence

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Description: Personal correspondence John Fanning Watson, chiefly letters addressed to him. Correspondents include members of the Adams, Barron, Fanning, Watson, and other prominent Pennsylvania and New York families. Included are letters from the children of Azel Backus, a Congregational clergyman and first president of Hamilton College, Edmund Fanning (1769-1841), and James Barron (1768-1851)
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1805-1845.
Call number: mssWatson
Creator: Watson, John F (1779-1860)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from the Book Den, December 1965.
Associated people: Backus (Family) (1769-1851.); Barron, James, (1769-1841.); Fanning, Edmund,; Watson (Family)

Watson family correspondence

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Three of the letters discuss the shipwreck of the steamer Independence, February 16, 1853, off the coast of Baja California Sur. One of these letters is an 18-page letter by Mary R. Watson, a survivor of the wreck, in which she tells the story of the shipwreck, her son's drowning, and how the survivors made their way to a small island three miles from the ship. The survivors were on the island for three days before another ship saved them. One of the letters, written by Ella Watson Mizner, gives details regarding the San Francisco earthquake of 1906

mssHM 63711-63716

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Fanning, Lawrence

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Two letters of correspondence between Lawrence Fanning and James Bellows.

mssLAT

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Richard Watson Gilder correspondence

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The Richard Watson Gilder correspondence consists of letters mainly from Richard Gilder addressed to Brigham Johnson, editor of the Cedar Rapids Republican and later Iowa State Librarian, from 1887 to 1931. Subjects discussed in the letters include literary matters, political issues (particularly Grover Cleveland and the Republican Party), David Bennett Hill, the Gilder family and Gilder's wife, Helena de Kay Gilder. After Richard Gilder's death in 1909, Brigham continued to correspond with Helena de Kay Gilder and the Gilders' daughter, Rosamond Gilder.

mssHM 45005-45048

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Charles Watson-Wentworth letters

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Charles Watson-Wentworth letters and item by Mary Walpole, wife of Robert Walpole. With engravings of Wentworth and Walpole.

mssHM 410-414

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Isaac F. Shepard correspondence regarding the purchase of Mount Vernon

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Correspondence between Shepard and John Augustine Washington (1841-1851), George Washington's grandnephew and the last owner of Mount Vernon, discussing a plan to purchase the estate. Other correspondents include John A. Linton, Edward Everett, and Abbot Lawrence.

mssHM 78236-78242

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Ella Watson Mizner letter to "My dear Sisters"

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Letter serves as a personal narrative of Ella Watson Mizner's experiences during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire and its aftermath.

mssHM 63716

John Fanning Watson correspondence

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