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Rochester, George
Manuscripts
Approx. 12 items: LAT news copy, 5/21/1936, "Rochester to be Fitts opponent...former state senator enters primary race for office of district attorney" ; LAT news copy, 5/18/1938, "Gambling ship raid ruled legal by Webb" ; LAT news copy, 1/4/1965, "Study group suggests ways to speed justice," reads in part, "the blue-ribbon commission of 12 judges and lawyers [is] headed by attorney George W. Rochester..." ; more.
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Portrait album of 19th century figures associated with Abraham Lincoln
Visual Materials
An album with 35 cabinet card portraits of prominent figures associated with United States President Abraham Lincoln, chiefly consisting of American politicians and judges, with a focus on individuals from Illinois. Includes photographs of Myra Bradwell, Shabbona, Thomas Drummond, Henry Pinckney Walker, William K. McAllister, John Marshall Harlan, James R. Doolittle, Sidney Breese, Anthony Thornton, John M. Scott, John Mattocks, John Crerar, Lyman Trumbull, Melville Weston Fuller, Charles V. Dyer, Charles B. Lawrence, J. D. Harvey, Amos. B. Coon, Grant Goodrich, Amos Adams, Henry C. Reed, Lewis H. Davis, Clark W. Upton, Lucius M. Boltwood, Fernando Jones, C.R. Steele, L.C.P. Freer, Wm. H. Bradley, and Augustus H. Burley.
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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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George Jacob Abbot papers
Manuscripts
This collection includes the papers of five New England families related by marriage: the Abbot, Emery, Gilman, Nicholas, and Throop families. Included are correspondence, family photographs, a volume of printer's proofs, and newspaper clippings relating to Daniel Webster. There are not many letters of the Throops, Nicholases, or Emerys. However, the family materials of the Abbots and the family of John Taylor Gilman are more heavily represented. Gilman was a staunch Federalist who engaged in pre- and post-Revolutionary activities. Twice he served as Governor of New Hampshire. George Jacob Abbot's correspondence reflects his friendships with Daniel Webster and Edward Everett Hale. The correspondence between Abbot and Hale covers a wide range of current events, including discussion of Daniel Webster and John Taylor Gilman (1753-1828). There are some incomplete manuscripts, sermons, family photographs included as well as newspaper clippings relating to Daniel Webster. Also present is Franklin Pierce autograph letter signed to Samuel F. Abbot, 1856 April 14 (1 page).
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Portrait of Stephen
Manuscripts
The collection, which is made up of approximately 1,110 items, consists of manuscripts and correspondence related to the life and writings of Norreys Jephson O'Conor. The letters are addressed to O'Conor from a number of literary figures, most of them dating from O'Conor's stay in California between 1940 and 1958. There are a sizable number of carbon copies of O'Conor's letters, thus forming in many cases a complete correspondence. The manuscripts are mostly by O'Conor, including notes, autograph and typewritten copies of many of his poems and essays. Correspondents in the collection include: Conrad Potter Aiken, William Rose Benet, Elizabeth Bowen, Van Wyck Brooks, Arthur Bryant, Pearl S. Buck, Charles Bruce Catton, T.S. Eliot, John Gould Fletch, Maxwell Struthers Burt, Robert Frost, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Walter Lippmann, Christopher Morley, John Hall Wheelock, Howard Moss, Rolfe Humphries, Robert Linscott, Compton Mackenzie, Kenneth Roberts, Garrett Mattingly, Samuel Eliot Morison, Howard Nemerov, Allan Nevins, Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols, Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Emily Hilda Young. There are also some watercolors done by O'Conor.
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Legal: [Legal Opinion regarding an Inheritance of Stock]
Manuscripts
The collection consists of personal letters among the Townshend family members, business correspondence, land papers and deeds, financial accounts, bonds, receipts, Government and political material, legal briefs and court opinions, literary material including epitaphs, poems, prayers and travel accounts, military material, wills, marriage settlements, family account books and diaries. Significant correspondents include George III, George IV, William IV and Victoria, as well as many members of the Royal family. Political correspondents include 1st Earl of Chatham, W.E. Gladstone, George Grenville, Lord Palmerston, Sir Robert Peel, Spencer Perceval, William Pitt, the Duke of Wellington, and John Wilkes. Important note: although this material includes the years 1769-1865 there is only one letter which refers slightly to the American Revolutionary War and no letters or other material deal with the American Civil War.
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