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Descriptive Summary of the Collection
Biography of the Barlow Family
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Inventory of the Barlow Family Papers, 1816-1851
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Margie Kollbocker, 2006. ©2006. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Creator | Barlow family |
| Title | Barlow Family Papers, |
| Dates | 1816-1851 |
| Extent | 17 items (1 portfolio in box) |
| Abstract | A small collection of material relating to two men, both named William Barlow, possibly father and son. Consists of letters, a poem, a notebook of a sermon and a draft of an address to the American Institute in Washington, D.C. by Reverend William Barlow; correspondence from William Barlow the younger to Matilda Richards Barlow, and an undated, unidentified cabinet photo of two women. |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Midwest MS 41 |
| Collection Stack Location | 3a 35 3 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
Barlow Family Papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Separated from the Mitchell Dawson Papers, a gift in 1988.
Processed by
Virginia Hay Smith, 2005.
Access
The Barlow Family Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Barlow Family Papers are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
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Biography of the Barlow Family
Details about the lives of the two William Barlows are unknown. William Barlow the elder was a minister from southern New York State. The profession of the younger William Barlow, also from New York, is not known, although his letters indicate that though ill, he hoped to find a post in a bank or to go into some trade.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
Letters and writings of two William Barlows, possibly father and son.
Collection includes two letters of the Reverend William Barlow relating to his wooing of Sally Canfield, a religious poem dedicated to his parishioner Mary Matilda Richards (who later married the younger William Barlow), and a notebook of a sermon apparently delivered several times over a twenty-year period. Also, the draft of an address to be delivered to the American Institute on the subject of the appropriate disposition of the funds given to establish the Smithsonian Institution. Also, eleven letters from William Barlow the younger, to his wife, Matilda Richards Barlow, 1842-1851. Barlow, unemployed at the time of the bulk of the correspondence, apparently had tuberculosis. The content of the letters is mostly about his poor health and his feelings about his uncertain future. Also, an undated cabinet photograph of two unidentified women.
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Arrangement
The papers are arranged by author and type of material.
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Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.
Names
- American Institute of the City of New York
- Barlow family
- Smithsonian Institution
Subjects
- Clergy - New York (State)
- Correspondence – 1816-1851
- Courtship – New York (State) – Correspondence
- Husband and wife – New York (State) –Correspondence
- Manuscripts, American
- Photographs – New York (State) – 1870-1880
- Poems – 1840
- Sermons – New York (State) – 1825-1847
- Tuberculosis – New York (State) – History – 19th century – Sources
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| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Barlow, Rev. William - Letters to Sally Canfield and Mr. J.C. Canfield, 1816-1817 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Barlow, Rev. William - Poem, 1840 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Barlow, Rev. William - Sermons, 1825-1847 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Barlow, Rev. William - Address to the American Institute, 1847 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Barlow, William (the younger) - Letters to his wife Matilda Richards Barlow, 1842-1851 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Photograph: two unidentified women, circa 1870 | |||||||||