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Hinton R. Helper letter to Harper & Row, Publishers
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Chase, Salmon Portland to Hinton R. Helper
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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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Ida Husted Harper papers
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The collection consists primarily of letters gathered by Ida Husted Harper relating to the women's suffrage movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of these letters are to suffragists Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton; senders include Frederick Douglass, Lucy Stone, Samuel May, Sallie Holley, Francis Jackson, William Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Tilton, Wendell Phillips, George F. Train, Mary Livermore, Victoria Woodhull, Clara Barton, Mary Booth, Wendell Phillips Garrison, Fanny Villard, Felix Adler, Julia Ward Howe, Annie Besant, Angelina Grimke Weld, Frances E. Willard, Kate Field, Jane Stanford, and Robert Dale Owen, among others. Other correspondents in the collection include Theodore Parker, Gerrit Smith, William T. Stead, Abigail Mott, and Lydia Mott. There is one letter from Susan B. Anthony to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1872 November 5 (HM 10549). In addition, there are a number of letters in the collection to Ida Husted Harper, most of them regarding her biography of Susan B. Anthony and the suffrage movement. Harper's correspondents include Eugene V. Debs, Frances E. Willard, Carrie Chapman Catt, Julia Ward Howe, Mary Livermore, Amalia Condert, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida Tarbell, Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (aka "Dorothy Dix"), Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alva E. Belmont, and Anna Howard Shaw. Materials created by US presidents in this collection include James A. Garfield autograph letter signed to Sara Andrews Spencer, 1880 January 19 (HM 10571); William McKinley typescript letter signed to Ida Husted Harper, 1898 February 27 (HM 10649); William H. Taft typescript letter signed to Ida Husted Harper, 1904 February 11 (HM 10704). The collection contains eight letters from Theodore Roosevelt to: Susan B. Anthony, 1898 December 12 (HM 10654) typescript letter signed with autograph corrections Ida Husted Harper, 1918 February 7 (HM 10723) typescript letter signed with autograph corrections Ida Husted Harper, 1918 May 22 (HM 10724) typescript letter signed with secretarial signature Ida Husted Harper, 1918 June 1 (HM 10725) typescript letter signed Ida Husted Harper, 1918 September 16 (HM 10727) typescript letter signed with autograph corrections, postscript; includes transcription of typescript Ida Husted Harper, 1918 October 31 (HM 10729) typescript letter signed Ida Husted Harper, 1919 January 3 (HM 10731) typescript letter signed; enclosure is TR letter to George H. Moses on same date; includes Harper note regarding letter George H. Moses, 1919 January 3 (HM 10570) typescript copy; enclosure of letter to Harper on same date
mssHM 10497-10731
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Butler, Octavia E. To Harper & Row, Publishers
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Carb. copy (L.S., typewritten: 1p.); 28cm. Los Angeles, Calif. With an address label and incomplete letter on the verso. Formerly enclosed in Mind of my Mind white binder.
OEB 4018
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Donald Harper letters to Charles E. Graham
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Also: list of agricultural implements belonging to Huntington at Chateau Beauregard; copy of letter from Graham to Harper, and letter from Graham to Huntington, 1923 April 20; copy of letter from Huntington to Harper, 1923 October 15; translation of report related to the buildings at Chateau Beauregard, 1923 November 8; letter from Graham to Huntington, 1924 June 2, and letter from Huntington to Graham, 1924 June 7.
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William H. Taft, Washington, D.C., telegram to Jacob Chandler Harper, Cincinnati, Ohio :
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Taft instructs Harper to not publish his letter regarding the referendum. Folder also includes addressed envelope to Harper and a printed copy of a joint resolution proposing the submission of amendments to the Constitution of Ohio for direct legislation.
mssHM 41538
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Rowland Hunter letter to "Dear Sir,"
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Autograph letter (draft) from Rowland Hunter to "Dear Sir," December 21, 1814. In this draft, Hunter explains and proposes why he should continue publishing Maria Edgeworth's works, after what appears to be dissolution between the two.
mssHM 80444