Letter from the American army officer to A.G. Moore, Esq. Accompanied by sales slip and letter documenting its purchase by Charles Devens Osborne in 1950.

Letters of the American jurist and founder of Washington University and its law school. "A rich and amusing description of life and adventures in the Genesee Valley in the late 1830's, and a good character sketch of its author."

Five letters written by the English novelist. Recipients include Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, others; one regards the education of children.

Assorted material relating to the temperance movement in Central New York. Includes petitions from various groups to the New York state legislature, poem, more.

Letter from William Wood of Manchester, England, to Peter Macy of Nantucket, Massachusetts, regarding the African American evangelist Zilpha Elaw.

Papers of the American admiral and Office of the Budget official. Correspondence, journal, miscellanea.

Papers of the American professor, biographer. Correspondence, writings, notes, and FitzGerald memorabilia brought together by Terhune to support his ongoing research which culminated in the publication of the four-volume The Letters of Edward FitzGerald (1830-1883), an effort begun by Terhune and completed after his death by his wife Annabelle Burdick Terhune. In addition to FitzGerald, the collection is representative of the interests of a number of individuals (Henry B. Lister, Waldo Maas, Terhune) and organizations (most notably the Omar Khayyam Club), and spans nearly a century of collecting tastes and history. It is therefore also a resource for other notable 19th century British writers and scholars including Bernard Barton, Francis Capper Brooke, E.B. Cowell, George Crabbe, Joseph Fletcher, A.P. Moor, Bernard Quaritch, Alfred Tennyson, and William Makepeace Thackeray. It also provides much information about Suffolk, England and its environs as well as insights into the character of the Victorian period.

Letter from the American abolitionist to Henry and Thomas Davis of Syracuse, New York.

American lawyer and statesman.

Lawyer for Walt Whitman and his secretary, Horace Traubell. Collection contains manuscripts, correspondence, printed material, clippings and photographs.

Correspondence, photographs, and diaries related to Louise Tubbs and her family of Cayuga County, New York.

Papers of the American stage actor, director, poet. Incoming correspondence (1875, 1909-1961), letter books, Bennett's subject file, theater programs, photographs, manuscript poems, and clippings. Includes correspondence of Charles E. Herring, Archibald Rutledge, Sybil Thorndike, and Estelle Winwood, and others.

German art and cultural historian. Collection contains items both by and about Burckhardt, including correspondence, clippings, printed material, typescripts, photographs, and more.

Letter from Thomas Yates of Factoryville, New York to Dr. William Knapp of the same town, regarding his feelings for Knapp's daughter Emily.

Letter from Isaac Blanchard, Millerite, to Mary Elizabeth Chase of Hopkinton, New Hampshire, regarding the biblical basis for the second coming of Christ in approximately 1843.

Manuscript letter concerning a trip from New Hampshire to Palmyra partly on the railroad and partly on the Erie Canal.

12 incoming letters sent to Theodore P. Cady of Plattsburgh, New York from business associates and friends.

Personal letters with mention of

Letters from Lemon Thomson, during and after his time as a student at Union College in Schenectady, New York. Most are to his father, Charles C. Thomson, and to Abby Sherman who later became his wife.

American author, biographer; correspondence received by Abell in response to his mail canvassing for subscribers to his Life of John Tyler (1843)

Two letters concerning New York canal issues

Account book, one volume, of what appears to be a lumber and hardware business, probably located in East Corinth, Vermont. There are also a few loose papers and one letter.

Papers of the American statesman, legislator, New York State governor, 1848. Outgoing letters (104), and photocopies of letters of Hamilton Fish; outgoing and incoming photcopies of letters of Sarah Baker, Julia Kean Fish, and Stuyvesant Fish, and a single item of outgoing correspondence of Hamilton Fish (1849-1936). Also, 1 account book (1844-1851).

The Benson John Lossing Collection is an assortment of correspondence, drawings, writings, and memorabilia relating to the 19th century historian, illustrator, and editor of The American Historical Review (1813-1891). Predominantly correspondence, the collection centers around Lossing's information gathering for his popularizations of American history, while it also illuminates the early publishing industry in the United States.

The Charles N. Sims Collection contains personal and professional correspondence, photographs, sermons, lectures and other items relating to Sims' time as Chancellor of Syracuse University.

Papers of the American politician from New York. Collection relates primarily to the 1967 New York State Constitutional Convention.

Letter to C.P. (or G.P.) Williams, requesting information on behalf of Sir James Ross, about the area known as Cape Circoncision in the Antarctic.

Business and personal correspondence of the lecturer and temperance reformer.

Papers of the American historian, diplomat. Bancroft served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy under James K. Polk, and later as U.S. minister to Great Britain (1846-1849), to Prussia (1867-1871), and to the German Empire (1871-1874). Consists of correspondence, chiefly outgoing; includes recommendations for appointments, letters of introduction, responses to social invitations, and acknowledgements of receipt of books, historical documents, and various other items. Correspondents include A.D. Bache, John H. Campbell, G.W. Childs, Joel Munsell, Ambrose Sevier, Edward H. Wright, and Hendrick B. Wright.

The collection consists mostly of correspondence of the Roberts family and to a smaller extent of the Wentworth family. The majority of the letters was written during the Civil War by William Jay Roberts to his sister and mother and by George B. Wentworth to his wife. There are also letters written by Roberts' sister Jennette as well as by Wentworth's son and daughter-in-law. In addition to the correspondence there are also a few items of memorabilia, including William Jay Roberts' diary for 1861 and a record book of Company I of the 8th Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteers containing entries by several officers as well as letters and field orders and other miscellaneous military documents related to William Jay Roberts.

Papers of the Admiral in the U.S. Navy. Collection consists of thirty-two outgoing letters (1902-1907) to John W. Crawford, as well as incoming letters from William E. Chandler, John Schuyler Crosby, Loyall Farragut, Marcus A. Hanna, and Hilary A. Herbert.

American Civil War general. Collection contains correspondence and memorabilia.

Collection includes correspondence and writings of the American author, including Iron Eye's Family and A Forgotten Chapter in American Education, as well as her childhood books and books by early American educator Jane Andrews.

American economist and statesman, Secretary of the Treasury. Incoming correspondence concerning customs, duties, and other matters. Two letters relate to incidents stemming from Texas' recent admission into the Union.

Letters, mostly incoming, of the British clergyman and academic.

Papers of the American sculptor. Correspondence to and from Volk family members; photographs of a bust of Volk by David Richards, works by Volk, family members, and the areas around Pittsfield, Massachusetts and Wells, New York; and material relating to the acquisition of the collection by Edward Deming Andrews, grand-nephew of Volk.

Papers of the American Methodist minister, ecumenical leader (1889-1967). Collection contains correspondence (1907-1967); book manuscript, articles, book reviews, clippings, pamphlets; and memorabilia, including awards, photographs, and a scrapbook of sermons by Nelson's father and others.

Central New York family. Collection contains correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, genealogical records, legal documents, printed material and other items.

Letter from Reverend W. W. Fisher of Palmyra, New York, to E. B. Walsworth, giving details of a brutal attack on a local mixed-race couple by one Schuyler Parshall and several accomplices.

Correspondence to the editor(s) of The Protestant Churchman, a 19th century weekly publication

Letters from Ms. Wilson in Syracuse to her friend Caroline Stewart. The first letter mentions having heard a sermon from Rev. Samuel J. May.

Letters between several members of the Johnson family of Oregon, including Charles Johnson, Hiram A. Johnson, John Charles Johnson, Rachel Johnson, and W. W. Johnson.

Three letters of the Scottish essayist and historian. Recipients are Charles B. Darwin, F. B. Currey, and an unknown "Dear Sir."

Union soldier during the Civil War. Letters addressed to "Amanda" from "M" (1847-1848), and from Maseker to his wife Margaret while he was a soldier in the 1st Long Island Regiment (1861-1862).

New York regional railroad. Collection includes financial records, legal records and correspondence; also some non-railroad related papers of Henry L Davis, the secretary of the Lake Ontario Shore Railroad.

Photocopy of an undated letter sent by the English novelist Thomas Hardy to illustrator Alfred Parsons.

Assistant Collector of the Port of New York for 38 years. One letter, to Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence, Collector of the Port.

Letter written by the French statesman and historian during his exile in England.

Papers of the American physicist, Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, 1843-1867. Grandson of Benjamin Franklin. Eight outgoing letters, including five to explorer and physicist I.I. Hayes; with one each to explorer Charles Wilkes and politician Millard Fillmore.

Papers of the U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, orator, author. Collection consists of one outgoing letter each to James A. Dix (1861) and Henry Dilworth Gilpin (1848), and one undated incoming letter from Benjamin Perley Poore.