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Gene Tunney Family Letters Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_2001
Scope and Contents This small collection of letters were mostly written by Gene Tunney to his friend Robert R. Gros. The collection also includes three letters written by Tunney to other correspondents, notably Hamilton Fish III, one telegram from Gros to Tunney, and five letters/postcards from Tunney’s wife, Mary Lauder "Polly" Tunney, to Gros written mostly after Tunney had died. The letters primarily involved family matters, coordinating visits, and sharing family news, with some mentions of politics,...
Dates: 1938-1980; Majority of material found within 1955-1961

Gene Tunney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 2013
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the personal papers of boxer Gene Tunney. Materials cover his boxing career in the 1920s until his retirement in 1928, his marriage and honeymoon in 1928-29, and his charity work with youth groups in the 1930s and 1940s, especially the American Youth Group, of which he was chairman in 1940. The collection includes both personal and business correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks of his career, personal account books and calendars, and various boxing-related...
Dates: 1858 - 1970; Majority of material found within 1918 - 1945

Gennady Barabtarlo: Correspondence with the Nabokov Family and with Alexander Asarkan

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0036
Scope and Contents

The Barabtarlo Collection consists of letters, postcards, emails, manuscripts, photographs, audiocassettes, and videocassettes. These items were collected by Gennady Barabtarlo over the course of his association with the Nabokov Family and with Alexander Asarkan.

Dates: 1979-2012

George Colin McKee Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0501
Abstract

Personal, professional, and political correspondence and other papers of the Mississippi lawyer, planter, and politician George Colin McKee (1837-1890). McKee was a "carpetbagger" and moderate Republican who represented the Vicksburg district in Congress during Reconstruction. Most of the material dates from the 20 years following the Civil War, though there are McKee family papers extending into the 20th century.

Dates: 1860-1934; Majority of material found in ( 1864-1883)

George F. Kennan-John Lukacs Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 5018
Abstract

The manuscript correspondence of U.S. diplomat, State Department official, and historian George F. Kennan and Hungarian-born American historian John Lukacs, ranging from 1952 to 2004. The collection includes some 360 letters.

Dates: 1952-2004

George Petrie Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1038
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a small group of correspondence sent to the Irish antiquarian George Petrie from a wide variety of fellow antiquarians and historians over the course of forty-two years. The collection comprises twenty-two handwritten letters primarily dealing with various antiquarian interests and one printed portrait of George Petrie.Notable items in the collection include Irish nationalist Charles Gavan Duffy’s letter to Petrie, written while Duffy was imprisoned at...
Dates: 1822 - 1864

George W. Crawford Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0500
Abstract

The collection consists primarily of manuscript letters directed to the Georgia Whig politician George W. Crawford during the 1840s and early 1850s.

Dates: 1784-1853; Majority of material found in 1843-1853

G.K. Chesterton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3817
Abstract

The collection consists of manuscripts, letters, articles by Chesterton, as well as articles about him, photographs, and drawings. In addition to the material described in this finding aid, the collection also includes over 2,000 books and periodicals that have been cataloged separately.

Dates: 1893 - 1977

Gomberg-Verzhbinskaia and Rabinowich Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0013
Abstract Eleonora Petrovna Gomberg-Verzhbinskaia was a well known art critic and historian of art, and the collection consists of documents, diaries, correspondence, written drafts, photographs, books, and slides. Gomberg's daughter, Nina Rabinowich, is a practicing artist, and her husband, Boris Rabinowich, was an important non-conformist artist. The family emigrated to Vienna, Austria, in 1977, and the collection includes catalogs, brochures, and posters for art exhibits of both Boris and Nina as...
Dates: 1900-2014; (bulk 1930s-1990s)

Grace Atkinson Oliver Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0514
Scope and Contents

This collection of papers consists of materials created by Grace Atkinson Oliver, a 19th century American author and advocate of women's rights. Notable topics discussed in the papers include the portrayal of women in literature, morality and the press, taxation and the conditions at Danvers Asylum in Massachusetts.

Dates: 1861-1897

Graves Family Shipping Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0506
Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of business letters and records retained by William Graves, Jr., in the course of managing his shipping interests after his retirement from the sea (1847). There are some 330 letters, 1850 to 1875, mostly directed to Graves (accompanied by a few retained copies of letters written by him). Much of this correspondence relates to the affairs of the ships George West, Castilian, and Josiah L. Hale. Many were written by the masters of these ships, who functioned...
Dates: 1812-1877; Majority of material found in 1850-1875

Green Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0508
Abstract

Family correspondence and other manuscript materials of the influential Green family of Worcester, Massachusetts, and New York. Of the 200-odd letters in the collection, the greater number were written by and to the ten children of Dr. John Green and Mary Ruggles in the 1790s, 1800s, and 1810s.

Dates: 1773-1937

Harlem Globetrotters Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BKP 670
Scope and Contents This collection consists chiefly of printed and graphic materials related to the Harlem Globetrotters professional basketball team, including programs, yearbooks, promotional material, and publicity photos. The programs document games between the Globetrotters and various professional basketball teams. The earliest program is from 1941 and the latest program is from 1969. The collection also includes programs from the World Series of Basketball, an annual series of games during the 1950s and...
Dates: 1941-1976

Harrison E. Randall Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5013
Abstract

77 Civil War letters of Harrison E. Randall of Fulton County, Ohio, written from the field as a member of Co. H, 100th Ohio Infantry. Most were written from Kentucky (September 1862 to August 1863), Georgia, during the Atlanta campaign (June to August 1864), Alabama and Tennessee, including letters from the Nashville campaign (October 1864 to January 1865) and North Carolina (March and April 1865).

Dates: 1862-1865

Hattie Aiken Robinson Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 5017
Abstract

A group of 33 letters recording the personal affairs of a Depression-era African-American family. The letters are directed to Mrs. Hattie Aiken Robinson of Texarkana, Arkansas, by family members in Arkansas, St. Louis, and Chicago.

Dates: 1934-1936

Henry H. Maley Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5023
Abstract

A group of 50 personal letters written during the Civil War by Union private Henry H. Maley, Co. K, 84th Illinois Infantry. Most of the letters date from 1864-65, when the regiment was attached to IV Corps, in the Army of the Cumberland.

Dates: 1862-1865; Majority of material found in 1864-1865

Henry Hall Fishing Line Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_7005
Content Description

A collection of mostly correspondence and business records of the Henry Hall fishing line company. Included are about 100 orders and invoices from customers and suppliers in the 1880s. The collection also includes about 75 pieces of correspondence written in 1900 by D. D. Anderson of the New York sales office to company president Alexander G. Hall at Highland Mills.

Dates: 1880-1939; Majority of material found within 1880-1900

Henry S. Figures Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5001
Scope and Contents Letter from Henry S. Figures, a young Alabama salesman, to his father. Much of the letter's content treats the military plans and aspirations of Figures' acquaintances, as the Confederacy hastened to mold existing state militias and fresh volunteers into a national army. Many of those mentioned would serve with Figures in the 4th Alabama: Clifton Walker, Samuel Moore, and Fielding Bradford all were privates in Company I, and William Fariss, like Figures, served in Company F. The regiment had...
Dates: 1861 May 9

Herbert Benezet Tyson Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5010
Abstract

A group of 5 letters written by naval lieutenant Herbert Benezet Tyson of the U.S.S. Connecticut, during that ship's cruise to and around the Caribbean in winter/spring 1865.

Dates: 1865

Hildegard Sekler Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 6408
Scope and Contents This collection contains the correspondence of Hildegard Sekler as well as Sekler family legal, professional and emigration documents and miscellanea. The core of the collection is personal correspondence to Hildegard Sekler in London, from her parents and Liatowisch, and letters concerning Hildegard's studies from Goller.Several themes of special note occur throughout the collection. These include discussions of conditions for Jewish people in Vienna in the late 1930s and early...
Dates: 1903 - 1972; Majority of material found within 1939 - 1945

Homer C. Selby Portsmouth Spartans Football Team Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_1006
Content Description This collection consists of 30 letters and telegrams to and from Homer Clifford Selby (1880-1959) about the National Football League's Portsmouth Spartans franchise located in Portsmouth, Ohio. Selby was a local shoe company executive, who in late 1931 assumed leadership of a local committee charged with rescuing the Portsmouth franchise from debt and insolvency. Selby remained involved through the end of the 1933 season, but the committee's work was unsuccessul and could not pay down the...
Dates: 1931-1934

Houghton Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 5036
Abstract

A group of 76 letters written by or to members of the William and Marilla Clay Houghton family of Vermont, Massachusetts, Alabama, and elsewhere, 1832-1850. Included are 43 letters directed to printer/publisher Henry Oscar Houghton, when the latter was in his teens and 20s.

Dates: 1832-1850

Huddersfield Athletic Club Scrapbook

 Item — Box: MSSP10023
Identifier: MSSP_10023
Content Description One scrapbook documenting sporting events hosted by the Huddersfield Athletic Club, of Huddersfield, England, located between Manchester and Leeds. The majority of the items preserved in the scrapbook relate to one of two annual events. About half of the the material documents the annual indoor "Assault at Arms" competition held in the club gymnasium during the winter, which featured boxing, gymnastics, fencing, and Indian club exercises. The majority of the rest of the materials document...
Dates: 1867-1876

Huntly Carter Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MN 5000
Abstract

The personal papers and research materials of the English theater and art critic Huntly Carter (1862-1942). The greater part of the collection consists of correspondence, printed ephemera, and photographs, many collected by Carter in interwar Germany and Russia as part of his research on the fine arts.

Dates: 1918-circa 1938; Majority of material found in 1925-1938

IRA Army Council Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1100
Scope and Contents The IRA Army Council Correspondence comprises 18 folders of letters relating to the movements and decisions made by the Irish Republican Army Council. Correspondence covers topics including but not limited to Frank Ryan’s time in the U.S., strikes, the British Steamship Line boycott, resignations, planning and meetings, funding, An Phoblacht, raids and arrests, the death of Luke Dillon, movements of volunteers, U.S. members, rifles, and the publication and distribution of letters and...
Dates: 1924-1931

Irena S. Verblovskaia and Revolt I. Pimenov Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0018
Abstract

Personal correspondence between Irena S. Verblovskaia and her first husband Revolt I. Pimenov, who was one of the founders of the dissident movement in the Soviet Union, written during their imprisonment for "anti-Soviet" activities (1958-1963).

Dates: 1957-2014

Isaac Ira White Letter

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Identifier: MSN/CW 5031
Abstract

A personal letter written on 9 April 1864 by Confederate corporal Isaac Ira White, Co. H, 11th Virginia Cavalry, from camp in Rockbridge County, Virginia.

Dates: 1864

Jack Gamble Collection of Liam Miller and Dolmen Press

 Collection
Identifier: EPH 5010
Content Description The collection contains chapbooks, pamphlets, catalogues, and specimen pages, letters and other material related to the Dolmen Press. The collection was assembled by Jack Gamble of Belfast, and is largely composed of personal copies belonging to Liam Miller, founder and owner of the Dolmen Press. The collection includes finely-printed chapbooks and pamphlets published by the Dolmen Press as well as many catalogs and informational printed papers on the books of Dolmen Press and Cuala Press....
Dates: 1950-1986

Jack Pfefer Wrestling Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS/PFEFER
Scope and Contents The Jack Pfefer Wrestling Collection comprises more than 120 cubic feet of materials accumulated by Pfefer over a 45-year promotional and managerial career in professional wrestling, 1924-1969. Types of materials especially well represented include business and financial records; letters and telegrams; photographs; posters, handbills, and other publicity graphics; newspaper and magazine clippings; and wrestling programs and periodicals. Pfefer himself referred to these items, with...
Dates: Majority of material found in 1924-1969; 1913-1974, 1999-2000, 2018

Jackson Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5067
Abstract

A group of around 60 manuscript personal letters, almost all written by and/or to members of the Jackson family of Moore County, North Carolina before and during the Civil War. The collection includes letters of eleven Confederate States soldiers, serving in the 26th or 30th North Carolina Infantry or the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry.

Dates: 1852-ca.1866

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greeting cards 4
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flyers (printed matter) 3
military commissions 3
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Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 8th 2
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005 2
Dunsany, Lord, 1878-1957 2
Ginzburg, Arina Sergeevna, 1937-2021 2
Lukacs, John, 1924-2019 2
National Football League 2
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 2
Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) 2
Tunney, Gene (James Joseph), 1897-1978 2
Abbeville Athletics (Baseball team) 1
Abbey Theatre 1
Abbott, Leonard Dalton, 1878-1953 1
Achill Missionary Herald and Western Witness 1
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
Ahern, M. E. (Mary Eileen), 1860-1938 1
Aksenov, Vasilii, 1932-2009 1
Albrecht VI, Duke of Bavaria, 1584-1666 1
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1
Alekseeva, Liudmila Mikhailovna, 1927-2018 1
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League 1
Allingham, William, 1789-1866 1
Amadeus Victor, Duke of Savoy, I, 1587-1637 1
Amadeus Victor, King of Sardinia, I, 1666-1732 1
American Football League 1
Amorim, Esther Haldo de 1
Andersen, Eric 1
Anderson, Leroy Hammond, 1814-1863 1
Anderson, William H., 1836-1902 1
Anselm, Kasimir, Archbishop of Mainz, 1583-1647 1
Aosdána (Organization) 1
Archibald, Edward Mortimer, 1810-1884 1
Arnold, Dennis H., 1819-1892 1
Arnold, Mary E., 1826-1883 1
Asarkan, Alexander, 1930-2004 1
Ashe, Nora, 1882–1970 1
Ashe, Thomas, 1885-1917 1
Asociación Pro-Derechos de la Mujer 1
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 1
Axenova, Antonina 1
Bakhchani︠a︡n, Vagrich 1
Baldwin, Albert J. (Albert Jehiel), 1839-1912 1
Barabtarlo, Gennady, 1949- 1
Barker, Cicero R., 1848-1917 1
Barrès, Maurice, 1862-1923 1
Barrier, Rufus A. (Rufus Alexander), 1836-1876 1
Barrier, William L. (William Lafayette), 1834-1864 1
Battle Creek Belles (Baseball team) 1
Beatty, William, 1739-circa 1804 1
Beatty, William, Jr., 1758-1781 1
Begun, Yosif, 1932- 1
Behan, Brendan 1
Belinaye, Maurice-René, Viscount de la, 1739-1794 1
Bell, Bert, 1894-1959 1
Bellamy, Amanda M., circa 1810-1845 1
Beláustegui Rodríguez, Melchor, 1811-1885 1
Beláustegui-Bustamante Family 1
Benjamin, René, 1885-1948 1
Bettle, Mary, 1833-1912 1
Big Time Wrestling (Boston, Mass.) 1
Birmingham Black Barons (Baseball team) 1
Blanchard, Abel, Jr., 1798-1867 1
Blanchard, Barnes, 1807-1878 1
Blanchard, Benjamin, 1786-1869 1
Blanchard, Lewis, 1788-1847 1
Blanchard, Mark, 1790-1839 1
Boardman, Elijah, 1760-1823 1
Boardman, Mabel Thorp, 1860-1946 1
Boardman, Mary Anna Whiting, 1767-1848 1
Boesch, Paul 1
Booth Family 1
Booth, Franklin, 1874-1948 1
Booth, Hanson 1
Boston Chess Club (1857-1981) 1
Boston University 1
Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation 1
Bracey, John H., Jr., 1941-2023 1
Bronk, William 1
Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) 1
Brown University 1
Brown, Julia Pomeroy, 1849-1926 1
Brown, Reggie (Reginald Woodman Plummer), 1876-1961 1
Brownlee Family 1
Brownlee, Elizabeth Savage, 1827-1883 1
Brownlee, John E., 1827-1900 1
Brownlee, Robert, 1805-1885 1
Bryn Mawr College 1
Bucynski, Lawrence A. (Lawrence Anthony), 1921-1996 1
Bunting, Edward, 1773-1843 1
Bustamante Beláustegui, Juana, 1864-1948 1
Butcher boy (Motion picture : 1997) 1
Button, Dick (Richard Totten), 1929-2025 1
Buydden Family 1