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Sarah Stilson Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5061
Abstract

Letters written by and to Sarah Stilson, a teacher in New York State, during the Civil War. At the heart of the group is a lively correspondence of 25 letters between Stilson and Oliver Waldo West, a Union cavalry officer.

Dates: 1861-1865

Seymour Howard Stone Letters

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Identifier: MSN/MN 5016
Abstract

A group of nearly 200 personal letters from the 1880s and 90s written home to Delaware by a young man named Seymour Howard Stone. Many are from the San Luis Valley of south-central Colorado, where Stone was trying to establish a farm.

Dates: 1884-1895

Shipman Family Correspondence

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Identifier: MSN/CW 5043
Abstract

A Civil War family correspondence of 19 letters occasioned by the Confederate States military service of Jesse Albert Shipman, Co. G, 1st North Carolina Cavalry. The Shipmans were from Henderson County, in the North Carolina highlands.

Dates: 1861-1864

Shriver Family Correspondence

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Identifier: MSN/CW 5030
Abstract

A group of seven Civil War era letters and notes written by two members of the Shriver family of Owings Mills, Maryland. Much of the content relates to Thomas Herbert Shriver, who served at Gettysburg with the 1st Virginia Cavalry (CS) and subsequently attended the Virginia Military Institute.

Dates: 1860-1865

Sillers-Holmes Family Correspondence

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Identifier: MSN/CW 5025
Abstract

A group of 18 family letters, 14 of which were written in 1862-63 by Confederate Lt. Col. William W. Sillers of the 30th North Carolina Infantry. The letters are directed to Sillers' sister, Frances Sillers Holmes, in Sampson County, North Carolina.

Dates: 1859-1864; Majority of material found in 1862-1863

S.L. Kelsall Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3827
Scope and Contents

A letter written by British soldier S.L. Kelsall to his sister detailing his participation in WWI in September 1918. He describes the hygenic conditions of the Western Front and a battle against German forces.

Dates: 1918

Southy L. Savage Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5039
Abstract

A letter written on 3 May 1864 by Southy L. Savage, as a member of the Confederate States Signal Corps. Savage describes his activities over the previous months, when he was stationed along the Potomac in King George County, Virginia.

Dates: 1864

Stanley Weston Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 10062
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the personal and professional papers of Stanley Weston, sportswriter and owner of The Ring Magazine. The bulk of the collection is a series of subject files assembled by Weston on over two thousand boxers and boxing-related subjects. Also included is an incomplete run of clippings on boxers from the 1950s. Weston’s papers also include research files on various sports, articles he authored, and magazine covers he designed. Finally, also...
Dates: 1883 - 2003

Stephen and Peter T. Curran Correspondence

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Identifier: MSN/EA 10010
Scope and Contents This collection consists of six letters sent to Stephen Curran and his son, Peter T. Curran, in the seven decades following Stephen’s emigration from County Galway, Ireland to the United States. The correspondence consist of two letters to Stephen from his father, Peter Curran, and two from Stephen’s nieces, all sent from Kilkerrin, County Galway, Ireland. The final two letters are written to Stephen’s son, Peter T. Curran, in Kinsley, Kansas, from nieces in Chicago. Also included are a...
Dates: 1855 - 1916

Taylor Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5033
Abstract

Five letters written during the summer and fall of 1864 by the brothers (and Confederate cavalrymen) Jonathan Gibson Taylor and Robert Walker Taylor, of Daviess County, Kentucky. All were written from Federal prisoner of war camps, at Louisville, Rock Island, and Camp Douglas.

Dates: 1864

Thomas F. Mason Letters on the Cotton Trade

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Identifier: MSN/CW 5111
Abstract

Four manuscript letters addressed to New York investor Thomas F. Mason, discussing the cotton trade conducted by northern merchants with Confederate held areas along the Mississippi River during the American Civil War.

Dates: 1863-1864

Thomas Family Correspondence

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Identifier: MSN/CW 5014
Abstract

A family correspondence of 51 items whose principal authors are George Thomas and his wife, Minerva Everton Thomas, of Spencer County, Indiana. Most of the letters date from 1862-1863, during George Thomas's Civil War service as quartermaster of the 53rd Indiana Infantry.

Dates: 1862-1865; Majority of material found in 1862-1863

Tom O'Flaherty Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1082
Abstract

A collection of papers of Tom O'Flaherty including manuscript and typescript fiction and autobiography, and letters, all apparently written from 1933 to 1935.

Dates: 1932 - 1935

Upton Sinclair Letters to Melville Kress

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Identifier: MSN/MN 3014
Abstract

Fifty-five letters written by American novelist, playwright, and essayist Upton Sinclair to Melville L. Kress, dated between 1933 and 1958.

Dates: 1933-1958; Majority of material found in 1938-1948

Vladimir Lifshits, Asya Genkina, and Lev Loseff Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0016
Abstract

The papers consist of letters, manuscripts, and phototgraphs, as well as book and journal publications, related to Lifshits, Genkina, and Loseff. The collection also includes material of Irina Kichanova-Lifshits, Boris Semenov, and Mikahil Eremin.

Dates: 1890s-2009; Majority of material found within ( 1940-1990)

Walter de la Mare Letters to Lord Dunsany

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Identifier: MSE/IR 1003
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of eight letters sent from English poet Walter de la Mare to Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany.

Dates: 1923 - 1951

West Philadelphia Base Ball Club Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 0002
Scope and Contents This collection consists primarily of letters addressed to the West Philadelphia Base Ball Club during the season of 1867 with a few letters from 1866. Many items are challenge letters or letters otherwise scheduling matches. There is also a 6-page letter from the Excelsior Base Ball Club of Milford, Delaware, inquiring about a player named Fisher, who pitched for the West Philadelphia Base Ball Club and another team during the 1867 season. Most of the correspondents are from the...
Dates: 1866-09-01 - 1867-09-07

Wicker Buydden Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10034
Scope and Contents This collection centers on the familial correspondence of Clifford Wicker Buydden, Wade James Buydden, Rachel Reno Wicker, and other members of the Wicker and Buydden families in the early twentieth century. Over a third of the collection is devoted to courtship correspondence between Clifford Wicker Buydden and Wade James Buydden. Of particular note within the collection are Clifford’s manuscript on health and food, Wade’s college application materials, Wade’s letters from Masonic...
Dates: 1898 - 1919; Majority of material found within 1901 - 1909

Willa Cather Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 3001
Abstract

Two unrelated letters written by the major American author Willa Cather (1873-1947). The first is to a "Mr. Towne" and is dated 17 November [1922]. The second is written to Brother Emil Mohr, CSC, and is dated 7 May 1937.

Dates: 1922, 1937

William Allingham Letters

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Identifier: MSE/IR 1014
Abstract

Letters from William Allingham of Ballyshannon to his brother John Allingham of Dublin.

Dates: 1829-1865

William Beatty, Jr. Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/COL 8500
Abstract

Five manuscript personal letters written in 1777-78 by William Beatty, Jr., an officer in the Maryland Line of Continental Troops.

Dates: 1777-1778

William Combs Letters

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Identifier: MSN/CW 5011
Abstract

9 Civil War letters written by Union private William Combs, during his service in Co. C, 14th New Hampshire Infantry. Also present is a ferrotype portrait of Combs in uniform.

Dates: 1862-1865

William H. Anderson Letters

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Identifier: MSN/EA 5038
Abstract

A collection of about 50 manuscript personal letters directed to the Lowell, Massachusetts law student William H. Anderson. Many are written from friends around Natchez, Mississippi, during the secession crisis of 1860-61.

Dates: 1859-1862

William Harris Crawford Papers

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Identifier: MSN/EA 0511
Abstract

Political correspondence, family letters, and miscellaneous personal papers of William Harris Crawford, Republican of Georgia, who from 1807 to 1825 served as U. S. senator, U. S. minister to France, secretary of war, and secretary of the treasury. Crawford was also a candidate in the contentious presidential campaign of 1824. The collection includes around 175 manuscript letters, 1806-1868, and around 35 additional manuscripts.

Dates: 1804-1868

William Judson Howe Papers

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Identifier: MSN/CW 1015
Abstract

The Civil War letters, wartime manuscripts and postwar family papers of William Judson Howe (1838-1925) of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, who served in Company C of the 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry from 1862 to 1865.

Dates: 1857-1993; Majority of material found in 1861-1865

William Pickering Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/COL 0500
Abstract

A collection of documents relating to the commercial interests of William Pickering, a Salem, Massachusetts shipmaster and trader of the early eighteenth century.

Dates: 1703-1713

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