Correspondence

Content Description

This collection is organized into two series - the Samuel Talcott papers and the Henry Newberry papers. The Samuel Talcott papers include correspondence with family and businessmen, various estate papers related to estates for which Talcott served as the executor, accounts of Samuel Talcott's property, and various bills and receipts. The Henry Newberry papers include correspondence with family and business colleagues, as well as records related to the execution of Henry Newberry's estate.

Abstract

Personal and professional papers of Hall Slack, a wheelwright from Chester County, Pennsylvania and Cecil County, Maryland.

Scope and Contents Almost exclusively business letters, including orders, complaints, bills, payments, inquiries, and the like, from November 1865-March 1866, mostly for felt and wadding. Machinery is discussed in some letters. Includes a few pieces of legal correspondence and personal letters. An item of particular note: a letter from Bacon's son Alonzo, dated 26 November [1865?], asking him to "present me with your gold fob seal that you used to wear when I first gave evidence that I was a nuisance .......

Scope and Contents This collection consists of two groups of papers.  This first (acc. 81x470) contains Zukowsky’s correspondence from 1978 to1981 with various individuals about his book Hudson River Houses, including the artist Dan Flavin and Zukowsky’s publisher at North River Press.  A few of the letters make references to Edwin Whitefield and his sketchbook, a facsimile reproduction of which appears in Hudson River Houses; Zukowsky wrote the introduction for the book and captions for the sketches.  The...

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Letter written on illustrated bamboo paper, from a soldier stationed in Hawaii to a woman in the continental United States, dated February 13, 1927. The first name of the writer is James, but the surname is illegible. The letter discusses sexual relationships with native Hawaiians, the writer's age, and the woman's request for a photograph of him.

Content Description This collection contains documents and textiles related to the work of Lucinda Dukes Edinberg. In particular, the collection is linked to three projects that Edinberg was directly involved with. The first was the “Stitch in Time” exhibit, of which she was the chair, at the Timonium Fair Grounds to celebrate a documentation project by the Maryland Homemakers Council in 1990. The second was a project that she worked on with Barbara Kirkconnell, William Seale, and Poss Tarpley. This project...

Content Description This collection consists primarily of photocopies and transcriptions of archival material, including an account book, related to the pewter manufacturing firm Boardman & Hart of Hartford, Connecticut and New York, New York, all then held by the Connecticut State Library. Also included in this collection is correspondence between Evans and the Connecticut State Library, regarding the loan of the Boardman & Hart material to the Winterthur Museum for the purposes of...