General manuscripts, 1789-2013
41 linear feetThe General Manuscript Collection is an artificial collection of correspondence, diaries, lecture notes, class work, essays, administrative documents, minutes, and other documents collected by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Single items or very small collections are generally classified as part of the general manuscript collection rather than assigned an individual manuscript number. Additionally, small additions to existing RBML manuscript collections may be classified as part of the General Manuscript Collection.
Jay family papers, 1828-1943
38.5 linear feetPapers of the Jay family and of those families related to the Jay family, including Bruen, Butterworth, Chapman, Clarkson, Dawson, Du Bois, Field, Iselin, McVickar, Mortimer, O'Kill, Pellew, Pierrepont, Prime, Robinson, Schieffelin, Von Schweinitz, Sedgwick, and Wurts. In addition to family and personal matters, the correspondence deals with anti-slavery, New York State civil service, repeal of the Missouri Compromise, the Civil War, the Blair Bill, international affairs, and New York City and State politics and government. There are letters from numerous prominent persons including George Bancroft, F.A.P. Barnard, Bismarck, William Cullen Bryant, Aaron Burr, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hamilton Fish, Albert Gallatin, Horace Greeley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Washington Irving, Frances Anne Kemble, Jenny Lind, Henry W. Longfellow, Seth Low, James Russell Lowell, John Stuart Mill, Alice Duer Miller, Clement Clarke Moore, J.P. Morgan, Thomas Nast, Commodore Matthew Perry, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Carl Schurz, William H. Seward, William T. Sherman, Charles Sumner, and John Greenleaf Whittier.
Samuel J. Tilden papers, 1794-1886, 1835-1876
42.78 linear feetSydney Howard Gay papers, 1748-1931
43 linear feetLetters written to Gay from political and literary contemporaries such as Horace Greeley, Charles Sumner, and William Bryant; reports in letter form from his reporters at the front during the Civil War; and personal correspondence including many letters from his wife, Elizabeth Neall Gay. Letters written to Mrs. Gay from family friends and business associates including many from her husband. Correspondence of other members of the Gay family including Walter Gay, Sarah Gay, and Allan Gay. Diaries, notebooks, and journals of Sydney Howard Gay.
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- Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878✖[remove]5
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- Greeley, Horace, 1811-18723
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-18923
- Barnard, Frederick A. P (Frederick Augustus Porter), 1809-18892
- Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-18512
- Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-19112
- Irving, Washington, 1783-18592
- Mill, John Stuart, 1806-18732
- Sumner, Charles, 1811-18742
- New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- To 18982
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-18652
- Delaware and Hudson Canal (N.Y. and Pa.)1
- New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1775-18651
- New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1865-19501
- New York (State) -- Social life and customs1
- United States -- Foreign relations1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives1
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