Subseries VI: American Autographs, 1770 - 1865

Sub-Series

Staff Only

Dates

1770 - 1865

Access:

All series and subseries within this collection are open for research, with the exception of a few files within the Academia series that are restricted. The Academia series contains financial and sensitive institutional records from Wilkes College, and financial report records from Princeton University that will remain restricted for 80 years upon creation.

Extent

From the Collection: 17 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Subseries VI: American Autographs, 1720-1865

Subseries VI: American Autographs, 1720-1865, is a collection of short memos and clippings of autographs from different American figures ranging from the 18th to mid-19th century. Organized alphabetically by either the creator, this subseries provides a diverse insight into the exchange of autographs between various American individuals, organizations, and famous historical figures. There are autographs from the following people: Phineas T. Barnum, Bryan Blundell, William C. Bryant, Chang and Eng Bunker, Jacob Burnet, Ambrose Burnside, Aaron Burr, John Cadwalader, John C. Calhoun, Simon Cameron, George Chalmers, Lydia Maria Child, Sylvester Churchill, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Elihu Root, Charles James Wilson, Davy Crockett, Andrew G. Curtin, George William Curtis, John Long Davis, Stephen A. Douglas, Dan Drake, Charles H. Davis, John Gray Foster, Lyman J. Gage, Thomas R. Gray, John W. Griggs, Charles Henry Van Wyck, Sarah Josepha Hale, Halifax, James Hall, John Hancock, Winfield Scott Hancock, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Milton Hay, Ethan A. Hitchcock, Washington Irving, Jared Irwin, James Jackson, Thomas A. Janvier, Charles Kearns, Thaddeus Keeler, Lilian Kemble, Winthrop Welles Ketcham, Philander C. Knox, William H. Leavitt, Henry W. Longfellow, James R. Lowell, William H. Lytle, James Mackintosh, William C. Macready, Joshua Marshman, George McClellan, John McLean, James B. McPherson, Eliphalet Nott, Alfred Noyes, Robert Paine, George Peabody, Richard Peters, Zebulon Pike, Peter Pypers, James W. Ripley, John Singer Sargent, E.G. Squier, John Sherman, William T. Sherman, Emory Smith, Thomas Smith, Charles S. Stratton, George Stoneman, Peter Stuyvesant, George Turner, Octavia Walton Le Vert, Francis Wayland, John Wesley, Emma Willard, J.S. Wilson, David Wilmot, John E. Wool, and Harrison Wright. This subseries specifically highlights autographs ranging from the early eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century America. These entries range from clippings of specific autographs, letters exchanged between persons requesting autographs for their respective collections, and folders linking to autograph collections popularized in the twentieth century.

Processed By:

Processed by Garrett Berlin, Fall 2023 to Spring 2024, and Kaelin Hughes, Archives work-study, Spring 2024, with transcription and processing assistance from Jessica Van Orden, Archives Assistant. edited and supervised by Suzanna Calev, Archivist.