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James A. Loughead Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0526
Abstract

A group of 22 family letters written by or to the merchant seaman James A. Loughead from 1827 to 1850, including seven written by his father, Robert L. Loughead, as United States Consul at Londonderry, Ireland.

Dates: 1827-1850

James B. Jordan Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5000
Abstract

A Civil War letter written on 5 February 1865 by Confederate lieutenant James B. Jordan, 26th North Carolina Infantry, from the Federal prison camp at Johnson's Island, Ohio.

Dates: 5 February 1865

James Parkison Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5007
Scope and Contents

Consists of 11 letters (October 1864 to March 1866) written by the Newark, Ohio printer and pro-war Republican James Parkison. All are directed to his brother William, who for most of the correspondence was serving with the Union army in Tennessee.

Dates: 1864-1866

James S. Swearingen Letter Book

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSN/EA 5037
Abstract

A letter copy book containing about 125 pieces of outgoing military correspondence written by 1st Lt. James S. Swearingen of the U.S. Army, during service at the frontier post of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 1806 to November 1807.

Dates: 1806-1807

James Stephens Letter and Poem

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1012
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a single letter sent from James Stephens to a woman named Nan, as well as a poem, “Optimist,” by Stephens.

Dates: 1925

James Witter Nicholson Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 5002
Scope and Contents The collection contains two discrete series of letters. The larger and more significant consists of 51 letters sent to James Witter Nicholson in New Geneva, distributed rather evenly over the years 1804 to 1842. Thirty-nine of these were written by James's sister Maria Nicholson Montgomery, and nine more by his sisters Catharine Nicholson Few (7) and Jehoiadden Nicholson Chrystie (2). These are personal letters, written first and foremost to maintain contact with a distant brother who made...
Dates: 1804-1848

Jesús González Ortega Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0508
Abstract

A collection of letters and other papers belonging to Jesús González Ortega, an important political and military figure in mid-19th century Mexico. The papers mainly relate to González Ortega's stay in the United States in 1865-1867, the efforts of Benito Juárez's government in Mexico to remove him from political office while he was away, and his detainment by the U.S. government in November 1866.

Dates: 1857-1866; Majority of material found in 1865-1866

Jimmy DeForest Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10000
Content Description This collection contains manuscript material documenting boxing trainer Jimmy DeForest. The collection includes letters received by DeForest (mostly from 1926), personal effects like an address book, two date books, and business cards, and photographs related to his career in boxing and to his family. Several letters from Los Angeles-based boxing trainer Larney Lichtenstein in 1926 discuss the boxing scene, upcoming fights, and various boxers. Formats include letters, ephemera, and...
Dates: c. 1890-1926

J.J. O'Kelly (Sceilg) Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1030
Scope and Contents This collection primarily consists of the personal papers, letters, manuscripts, notes, and ephemera of John Joseph “J.J.” “Sceilg” O’Kelly in the years 1916-1948. Also included are Seán Óg O’Kelly’s notes and letters on various mid-century Irish labor disputes. Materials include letters, notes, speeches, drafts, manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks, booklets, short stories, ballads, poems, telegrams, letters of condolences, sympathy cards, mass cards, administrative minutes, administrative...
Dates: 1903 - 1971; Majority of material found within 1916 - 1948

John Carrington Cross Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10065
Scope and Contents The John Carrington Cross Papers consist of typescript plays and short stories created by Cross while a graduate student in the dramatic arts department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A prolific writer who kept a wide circle of friends, Cross wrote regularly to friends and former classmates, some of whom were serving in the military during World War II. The collection contains many letters, from both male and female service members, that discuss work and living...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1860-2000

John Dinsmore, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0503
Abstract

The personal papers and court records of the New Hampshire farmer, innkeeper, and justice of the peace John Dinsmore, Jr. (1759-1814). The greater part of the collection consists of Rockingham County court records.

Dates: 1782-circa 1920; Majority of material found within 1782-1822

John E. and Elizabeth Savage Brownlee Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0504
Abstract

Around 80 manuscripts retained by John E. and Elizabeth Savage Brownlee in the decades following their emigration from Ireland to the United States in 1851. The greater number are personal letters written by family members.

Dates: 1852-1898

John F. Delaney Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 5004
Abstract

A group of 38 manuscript personal letters of John F. Delaney, chronicling his experiences as a gold prospector in the Yukon and Alaska, 1898-1899.

Dates: 1898-1899

John H. Bracey, Jr. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10064
Scope and Contents The John H. Bracey, Jr. Collection comprises 27 boxes of materials containing professional files for John Bracey. Materials include but are not limited to professional papers, drafts, correspondence, publications, bulletins, reports, lecture notes, financial records, and administrative files. Additionally, Bracey collected ephemera and kept subject files on various topics throughout his career. Significant topics include Jesse Jackson’s Presidential campaign, the Caribbean, Malcolm X,...
Dates: 1816-2022

John Kelly Temperance Letter

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSN/EA 5042
Abstract

A single manuscript letter from John Kelly, a Catholic priest, to an unnamed Protestant clergyman and the Chairman of the local Clerical Meeting, 1837 or 1838. Kelly explains why Catholic clergy generally remain aloof from temperance societies.

Dates: 1837 or 1838

John Lukacs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10033
Scope and Contents This collection consists of 82 boxes containing the professional papers of historian John Lukacs. Lukacs’ professional materials include samples from each stage of his writing process, including research files; article, essay, and poetry drafts; proofs; and published pieces in periodicals and clippings. The collection also contains contracts, financial records and lecture notes from his various teaching positions. Also included is Lukacs’ correspondence. Significant topics include 20th...
Dates: 1799 - 2019; Majority of material found within 1940 - 2019

John M. Jackson Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5017
Scope and Contents This collection consists of 44 letters from John M. Jackson to his family during the Civil War. With one exception, the letters in this group were addressed to members of Jackson's immediate family — most commonly, to his mother or sisters. The four earliest (September and October 1862) were written from Camp Abraham Lincoln in Portland, Maine, where the 23rd Maine was organized. There follow 12 letters (11 dated from October 1862 to April 1863, and one without date) written from the Potomac...
Dates: 1862-1864

John Thelwall Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3811
Abstract

The bulk of this collection is a group of eight manuscript letters from John Thelwall, British poet and reformer (1764-1834), to Thomas Hardy, one of the main proponents for parliamentary reform (1752-1832).

Dates: 1796-1799, 1803, 1805, 1821

Jorge Luis Borges Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0003
Scope and Contents This collection documents the activities of Jorge Luis Borges an Argentine writer and poet. It contains ephemera and records related to Borges’ professional career, including newspaper articles, a cigarette holder, interviews, poetry, unpublished manuscripts, and scholarly articles written about Borges and published in various magazines, including the Avant Garde magazine Martín Fierro (1924-1927). Significant topics represented in these files are poetry and Latin American literature and...
Dates: 1924-2003

Julia P. Brown Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3825
Abstract

A collection of letters addressed to Julia Pomeroy Brown from three women: Constance L., Emily Drummond, and Elizabeth Spooner. Letters detail life during WWI, the sinking of the Lusitania, and the death of a British soldier.

Dates: 1914-1918

Jutta Schütt Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3826
Abstract

A series of documents and letters from Jutta Schütt, Rose Elvira Grandinetti, Nicholas Emerson Dante Russo, and others, beginning in July 1916 and ending in July 1939.

Dates: 1916 - 1939

Karl-Werner Gümpel Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSN/MN 10043
Scope and Contents

The collection contains paper files from the later decades of Gümpel's career, including correspondence (notably, correspondence with Michel Huglo), transcriptions of medieval treatises, as well as notes, notebooks and index cards on various manuscripts. Near the end of his life, Gümpel was working on an edition of the anonymous 12-13th century treatise Diologus de musica, and there are many items related to this work in progress.

Dates: 1969 - 2010

Lawrence A. Bucynski Baseball Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10141
Content Description

Lawrence A. Bucynski Baseball Correspondence includes nine pieces of correspondence from the summer of 1949 between baseball player Lawrence Bucynski, George Trautman, the President of the National Association of Professional Baseball Clubs, and the Abbeville (Louisiana) Athletics of the minor Evangeline League. The letters discuss a salary dispute between Bucynski and the Abbeville baseball team. Formats include letters and telegrams.

Dates: May 25, 1949 - August 20, 1949

Lawrence Shields Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 5021
Abstract

More than 300 personal letters written by Dr. Lawrence Shields (1872-1946), mostly as a member of the American expatriate community in Mexico City, 1898 to 1902. The letters are directed to Shields's future wife, Clara Kinney, of Xenia, Ohio.

Dates: 1898-1903

Le Rossignol Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3821
Abstract

A collection of personal letters written by Arthur Le Rossignol to his sister, Ethel, while he served in the British Motor Machine Gun Corps on the Western Front during World War I. Also included are letters written by Ethel, her colleague Pierre Pulinekse, and others.

Dates: 1914-1919

Lenore Mooney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0500
Abstract

The correspondence and other papers of the American Lenore Mooney (1859-1941), dating especially from her time as a relief worker in Paris during World War I. There are many letters to Mooney from French soldiers and others victimized by the war, as well as a substantial correspondence with nephew Charles E. Bayly, Jr., an ambulance driver with the American Field Service who subsequently served as sous-lieutenant in the French army.

Dates: 1887-1938; Majority of material found in ( 1917-1919)

Leonard Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 1000
Abstract

Manuscripts and other materials relating to the Confederate army service of the brothers Henry, Martin, Robert, and Joseph Leonard, of Iredell County, North Carolina, including records of Co. C, 48th North Carolina Infantry.

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

Leonard Williams Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5068
Scope and Contents Of the 127 letters in the collection, 115 were written by Leonard Williams to his wife Anna Laval Williams during the Civil War. These letters range in date from 18-19 July 1861 to 11 February 1865, and provide a literate, lengthy, and relatively continuous epistolary narrative of Williams's wartime experiences. The letters also stand as one side of an ongoing dialogue with Anna on managing the Greenville household and farm, including the slaves. (During the war the mercantile store was...
Dates: 1861-1865

Leslie Pollard Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_1008
Content Description The Leslie Pollard Letters consists of four letters pertaining to Leslie Pollard, African American athlete, football player, football coach, and journalist. Pollard wrote three of the letters to his wife Eleanor Pitts Pollard while serving as the Head Coach of the Lincoln University football team in the fall of 1914. Pollard addressed the letters with various nicknames for his wife and discussed several topics including the 1914 Lincoln University football season, events at the ...
Dates: 1913-1914

Letters to Joe Jackson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 0019
Scope and Contents This collection consists of 127 pieces of fan mail written to baseball player Joe “Shoeless Joe” Jackson in the years after his retirement. The correspondence was in the form of letters and postal cards and nearly all of the letters include the original mailing envelopes. Most of the letters are fan requests for autographs. Some of the autograph requests reference an article about Jackson that appeared in the October 1949 issue of Sport magazine, titled "This Is...
Dates: 1932-2004; Majority of material found within 1932-1957

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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