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Frances Power Cobbe correspondence
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Frances Power Cobbe correspondence
Manuscripts
Letters addressed to Frances Power Cobbe cover women's suffrage and rights; antivivisection, her work in Bristol and her moral and religious writings; comments on her books and articles.
mssCB 1-854
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Frances Power Cobbe letters
Manuscripts
Thirty-one of these letters were written by Cobbe. The letters relate to a variety of topics including: Cobbe's work with the anti-vivisection movement, literature, politics, Mary Somerville, the Ethnological Society of London, and other personal subjects. She mentions her partner Mary Lloyd several times (Mary is also the addressee of one letter). Addressees include author Sarah Sharp Heaton Hamer (Phyllis Browne); British novelist James Payn (letter mentions Sir Leslie Stephen); English surgeon and pathologist Sir James Paget; Lady Deborah Bowring; Dr. Reinhold Rost; surgeon Dr. Robert Dunn; Reverend Henry Allon; Archdeacon F. W. Farrar; and fellow suffragette Helen Taylor. There are also two letters by English religious philosopher James Martineau (one to Frances and one to Mary) and one letter by British scholar Francis William Newman to Frances.
mssHM 77966-77999
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Family correspondence and other correspondence
Manuscripts
This box contains family correspondence for 1971, as well as other correspondence (Folder 4). The other correspondence consists of a small group of letters purchased from Dawson's Book Shop in April 1953, has been added to the Louise Ward Watkins Papers. They contain the following letters to Louise Ward Watkins: Ballin, Hugo (1932, July 14) Blanding, Don [c. 1933?] Bond, Carrie Jacobs (1933) 2 letters Buff, Conrad and Mary (1932, July 20) Carr, Harry (1931-1935) 3 letters Durant, William James (1933, February 7) Forester, Arnold (1932, Oct. 26) Foley, James William ([c. 1933] Apr. 12) Gann, Dolly Curtis (1931, Nov. 23) Hyland, Adela Rogers [c. 1933] Johnson, Frank Tenney (1933, Nov. 5) Matthison, Edith Wynne (1931, Nov. 5) McGroarty, John Steven (1933-1939) 10 letters with 11 replies from Louise Ward Watkins Nagel, Conrad (1932, Aug. 4) McIntosh, Burr William (1938) 3 letters MacLean, R.D. (1939, Aug. 8) Norris, Kathleen (1938, June 28) Stevens, Etheman [c. 1933] Warde, Frederick (1929-1933) 5 letters Yaw, Ellen Beach (1932) 2 letters with 1 reply letter from Louise Ward Watkins
mssWatkins papers
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Foster, Fred. W. A list of works on sword play
Rare Books
Kirkpatrick reference: 1466 Description: 5 issues Periodical title: Notes and queries: a medium of intercommunication for literary men, general readers, etc. Issue No.: Series 5, vol. 4, nos. 89, 91-92, 94, 96 (Sept.-Oct. 1875) Imprint: London Notes: Foster's "List of works ..." contained within 5 issues of Notes and queries.
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W -- Miscellaneous
Manuscripts
Margaret Walker (3); Waltham Watch Co. (2); K. P. Walton (3); Louise Ware (1); Arthur Howard Warner [re E= meeting] (3); Earle Horace Warner (5); Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. (1); David Warshaw [includes correspondence with John Adam Fleming] (5); Harold Weaver (1); B. Westermann Co., Inc. (1); Western Electric Co. [re Lewis B. Browder] (2); The Western Union Telegraph Co. (2); Walter Ticknor Whitney (2); John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2); Robley Cook Williams (1); Virginia Lucille Williams (2); George Winchester (2); Leonard William Wing (2); Wisconsin Department of Agriculture (1); Rev. W. Rees Wright (4); Oliver Reynolds Wulf (2); James V. Wyber (1)
mssPettit papers
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Cameron-Cobb correspondence
Manuscripts
Hiram Barney's political, business, legal, and family papers concern a wide variety of subjects including real estate, primarily in Iowa, and New York; court cases (often pertaining to debt collection) and other legal services; politics generally, but especially patronage distribution; family affairs, business transactions concerning the Erie and other canals; small railroads (largely in the Lake Plains region); Mexico and Mexican-American relations; the Civil War; U.S. Customs Service. Barney's correspondence contains numerous references to the anti-enslavement movement in the North, the Civil War, Republican Party politics, and Barney's friendship with Abraham Lincoln. Also found throughout this portion of the collection are transportation papers dealing with Barney's interest in connection with the opening up of waterways, the railroad, and the telegraph from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. Among the correspondents are William C. Bryant, William A. Butler, Salmon P. Chase, Charles P. Clinch, Erastus Corning, Edward C. Delavan, William P. Fessenden, John Jay, David W. Kilbourne, Eugene Kozlay, Abraham Lincoln, Edward L. Pierce, Matias Romero, Horatio Seymour, William T. Sherman, Edward D. Smith, Breese J. Stevens, Lewis Tappan, William D. Waterman. Real estate papers concern mostly the Half-Breed Tract between the Mississippi and Des Moines rivers. Which includes signed documents of land indentures by specific Indigenous tribal members of the Sak and Fox (Meskwaki) Nation with papers pertaining to the first Anglo proprietors and settlers. Related to Barney's real estate documents are Francis Scott Key's papers. Legal papers extend from 1825 to 1888 and includes articles of partnership, court cases, powers of attorney, and notes for collection. New York Custom House papers cover the general operations, patronage, and personnel of the Custom House, as well as records of the fraud investigations conducted by the U.S. Treasury Department.
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