Manuscripts

John Jacob Astor letter

Description: New York, New York. Followed by: draft of a letter from Lieber to John Jacob Astor, Jan. 4, 1841.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1840 December 26
Call number: LI 698
Creator: Lieber, Francis (1800-1872)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Mary Lieber, 1927.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Associated people: Allibone, S. Austin (1816-1889.); Bache, A. D. (1806-1867.); Bates, Edward, (1793-1869.); Binney, Horace, (1780-1875.); Bridgman, Laura Dewey, (1829-1889.); Choate, Rufus, (1799-1859.); Dix, Dorothea Lynde, (1802-1887.); Everett, Edward, (1794-1865.); Fish, Hamilton, (1808-1893.); Garfield, James A. (1831-1881.); Gilman, Daniel C. (1831-1908.); Grant, Ulysses S. (1822-1885.); Greenleaf, Simon, (1783-1853.); Halleck, H. W. (1815-1872.); Hillard, George Stillman, (1808-1879.); Howe, S. G. (1801-1876.); Laboulaye, Édouard, (1811-1883.); Lieber, G. Norman (1837-1923); Lieber, Mathilde, (1805-1890.); Longfellow, Fanny Appleton, (1817-1861.); Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, (1807-1882.); Lossing, Benson J. (1813-1891.); Mittermaier, Carl Joseph Anton, (1787-1867.); Niebuhr, Barthold Georg, (1776-1831.); Preston, William C. (1794-1860.); Rolin-Jaequemyns, Gustave, (1835-1902.); Story, Joseph, (1779-1845.); Sumner, Charles, (1811-1874.); Thayer, M. Russell (1819-1906.); Ticknor, Anna, (1800-1885.); Tocqueville, Alexis de, (1805-1859.); White, Andrew Dickson, (1832-1918.); Winthrop, Robert C. (1809-1894.); Woolsey, Theodore Dwight, (1801-1889.)
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John Jacob Astor letter

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