Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927. U.S. Board of Indian Commissioners files, 1912-1922.
3 cubic ft.
Correspondence, minutes, reports, memoranda, bulletins, 1912-1922, relating to Edward E. Ayer's work on the U.S. Board of Indian Commissioners. Ayer was a railroad tie manufacturer who donated his collection of materials on America and American Indians to the Newberry Library and served as a Newberry Trustee. Dating primarily from Ayer's period of active service, 1912-1917, there is both incoming and outgoing correspondence with commission members and officials.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 911
Collection Stack Location: Vault 25 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Babcock, Orville Elias, 1835-1884. Papers, 1792-1947, bulk 1865-1884.
8 cubic ft.
Orville E. Babcock, soldier and engineer, served as Ulysses S. Grant's aide-de-camp during the Civil War and as Grant's private secretary during his presidency. Collection includes correspondence, documents, photos, memorabilia, clippings, and maps dealing with Babcock's military service, service to Grant, the Santo Domingo annexation movement, the Whiskey Ring scandal of 1875-6, and the Babcock family.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Politics and Government
Call Number: Midwest MS Babcock (formerly Ba)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Catalog Cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Selected authors of letters: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Badger, Elvira Sheridan. Papers, 1859-ca. 1930, bulk 1859-1878.
1 cubic ft.
Three personal diaries and one diary fragment kept by Elvira Cecelia Sheridan Badger of Kentucky and Illinois, spanning the years 1859 through 1878. Also popular antebellum piano music compiled and bound for Badger before her marriage. Diary entries concern the daily lives of a well-to-do family, including their 1861 move to Chicago, Illinois. Sentiment in Kentucky regarding the approach of the Civil War, relations with and freeing of the family's slaves, and news of the war are also noted.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Badger
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Baur, Bertha Duppler. Diaries and appointment books, 1898-1939.
1 cubic ft.
Diaries (partly in shorthand) and appointment books of Bertha Duppler Baur, Chicago businesswoman, suffragette, lawyer, and politician. Business school and law school graduate, Bertha Duppler came to Chicago at age 17 as a stenographer and wielded considerable political power as the personal secretary to three postmasters. In 1909 she married millionaire Jacob Baur, founder of the Liquid Carbonic Corporation, and was actively involved in the management of the company after his 1912 death. Active in politics, Baur lobbied for women's suffrage, ran in a close race for Congress in 1926, and for 28 years was a Republican National Committewoman from Illinois.
Subjects: Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Baur
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 12
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943. Papers, 1886-1951, bulk 1900-1942.
26 cubic ft.
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, clippings, photos, memorabilia, and articles in manuscript and print of Edward Price Bell, covering the period of Bell's service as foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, roving correspondent for the Literary Digest, and contributor to the London Times and other publications. Correspondents include many world leaders and other prominent figures of the early twentieth century.
Subjects: Journalism; Politics and Government
Call Number: Midwest MS Bell (formerly Be)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 10-12
Finding Aids:
Articles: Newberry Library Bulletin, 2nd Ser. No. 1 (July 1948), p. 1-11; Newberry Library Bulletin, Vol. 4, No. 1 (November 1955), p. 24-27.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Blount, William, 1749-1800. Papers, 1794-1796.
0.2 cubic ft.
Sixteen letters, orders, and receipts (10 items) of William Blount, pertaining to his administration of Indian and military affairs in the Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio, 1794-1796. Correspondents include David Henley (agent of the War Dept.), John Pitchlynn (U.S. interpreter to the Choctaw), and militia and U.S. army officers.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 74
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Calhoun, Lucy Monroe, 1865-1950. Papers, 1909-1922 or 1923.
13 items.
Seven letters by Lucy Monroe Calhoun and three by her husband, William J. Calhoun (U. S. Minister to China, 1909-1913), regarding their experiences in China during the last years of the Qing Dynasty. The sixth letter by Mrs. Calhoun is dated 1919, and relates to her visit to the American Red Cross embarkation camp in Le Mans, France. The seventh letter relays information about the December 1, 1922 wedding of Emperor Puyi. Collection also includes a Chicago newspaper clipping from 1909 and a childhood photo of Emperor Puyi. Lucy Monroe Calhoun was the sister of poet and editor Harriet Monroe.
Subjects: Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 126
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard, 1809-1870. Papers, 1858-1870.
0.1 cubic feet.
Collection contains 46 letters from U.S. naval officer and inventor of ordnance John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren to his sister, Martha Matilda ("Patty") Dahlgren, one letter to his son Ulrich (1842-1864), and a letter to "Mary." The collection also includes one letter from Ulrich to his Aunt Patty, and a letter from F. A. W. Davis to Dahlgren, regarding Dahlgren's nephew Bernard. Printed poem and newspaper clippings relating to Ulrich's death in an attempted raid on Richmond, Virginia are included as well.
Subjects: Family; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Case MS E5.D136
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Davis, Charles A., fl. 1900. Papers, 1854-1901.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Charles A. Davis left Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 22, 1900, to take a job as a court reporter in Manila after the Americans had taken control of the Philippines. His wife, Bess, joined him in Manila in 1901. This collection consists of letters and photographs that describe Mr. and Mrs. Davis' lives in Manila. It also includes a travel journal in Spanish from 1854, titled "Memorias sobre las Yslas Filipinas," that Mr. and Mrs. Davis acquired.
Subjects: Family; Photographs; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 1980.
Collection Stack Location: Vault 26 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Davis, Jefferson Columbus, 1828-1879. Papers, 1867-1878.
49 items (1 box).
Original journals, correspondence, photographs, engravings, newsclippings, together with some typed copies, documenting the career army officer's tenure as military governor of Alaska, 1867-1870, and his and his wife's tour of Mexico in 1878.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3057
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Dickinson, Daniel S. (Daniel Stevens), 1800-1866. Correspondence, 1799-1892.
164 items
Daniel S. Dickinson, lawyer, politician, and orator, served in the New York Senate (1837-1840), as Lieutenant Governor of New York (1842), and in the U. S. Senate (1844-1851). This collection contains 164 letters and documents related mostly to Dickinson's political activities. Correspondents include Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Dorothea Dix, James Buchanan, James K. Polk, Martin Van Buren, Horace Greeley, and Fernando Wood. Collection also features some letters written to Lydia Knapp Dickinson, Dickinson's wife, after his death. A few documents relating to John Tracy and James Clapp (1785-1854), father of Julia Clapp Newberry, are also included.
Subjects: Civil War; Politics and Government
Call Number: Midwest MS Dickinson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Catalog cards for selected items: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary and Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Selected authors of letters: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Midwest MS information file available.
Edwards, Ninian, 1775-1833. Letters, 1813-1814.
6 items (1 folder).
Collection includes six letters from Ninian Edwards, governor of Illinois territory, to Kentucky governor Isaac Shelby, regarding War of 1812-related Indian attacks in the Illinois Territory and the state of defenses there. Edwards was appointed governor of the new Illinois territory in 1809 and held office until 1818, when the territory became a state. He served as governor of the state of Illinois from 1826-1831, and died in 1833.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 401
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Faulk, Andrew Jackson, 1814-1898. Letters and speech, 1862-1870.
21 items (2 boxes).
Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1862-1870, of A.J. Faulk, written chiefly during his 1867-1869 governorship of the Dakota Territory concerning U.S. government's intention to stop a proposed expedition to explore and settle unceded Black Hills Indian lands, the Indian Peace Commission, the mustering of volunteer cavalry, appropriations for the relief of destitute upper Missouri tribes, etc. Also, Dec. 1867 annual address to the territorial legislature discussing, among many issues, the Black Hills, the Indian Peace Commission, and the future of the Indian.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3070 (formally Ayer MS 280a and 280b)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Gruenberg, Robert, 1922-1992. Papers, 1947-1990.
5 cubic ft.
Articles, notebooks, and correspondence of Robert Gruenberg, Chicago Daily News political and urban affairs journalist and Washington and foreign correspondent. Includes much significant material on newsworthy events of the 1950s to 1970s such as the Cuban revolution (at which Gruenberg was present), the Civil Rights marches in the South (also present), Vietnam War protests, and Watergate.
Subjects: Journalism; Politics; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Gruenberg
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Hammond, Charles Lyman, 1853-. Scrapbook, 1891-1895.
0.2 cubic ft. (1 volume)
Scrapbook containing autograph letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, etc., relating to the Lincoln monument, collected by C. L. Hammond, the letters being for the most part, written by or to him.
Subjects: Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Case MS E 5 .L63375
Collection Stack Location: Vault 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1860-1953. Papers, 1637-1953, bulk 1840-1950.
11.25 cubic ft.
Correspondence, writings, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia relating to five-time Chicago Mayor Carter Henry Harrison IV (1860-1953) and his family, particularly his wife, Edith Ogden Harrison, and his father, Chicago Mayor Carter Henry Harrison III (1825-1893). The collection also includes a number of letters, autographs, and miscellaneous other documents from famous people that were not originally directed to Harrison or his family, but which Harrison kept as collectibles.
Subjects: Family; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Harrison (formerly Ha)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 1-2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online catalog and NUCMC (80-159).
Inventory: Online.
Harrison, Gabriel, 1818-1902. Letters, 1873-1883.
10 items (1 folder).
Brooklyn, N.Y., theatrical manager, actor, painter, and author of an 1875 work about John Howard Payne, who was himself an actor, playwright, defender of the Cherokee Indians, and U.S. consul at Tunis. Collection contains letters regarding Payne to Harrison from three current and former U.S. consuls to Tunis.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 3038
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816. Letters, 1797-1812.
0.1 cubic ft.
Collection of 8 letters by Benjamin Hawkins, Creek Indian agent, concerning southern Indian affairs between 1797 and 1812. Correspondents include Col. David Henley, Georgia governor James Jackson, and prominent Mobile resident Harry Toumlin.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 368
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Heaton, Harold R. Political cartoons, 1909-ca. 1913.
2 cubic ft. (3 flat boxes)
Sixty-one original political and editorial cartoons by Harold R. Heaton for the Chicago newspaper Inter-Ocean, drawn between 1909 and circa 1913. Most of the drawings are commentaries on corrupt Chicago politics of the period.
Subjects: Arts, Journalism; Politics and Government; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Heaton
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Judson, Clay, 1892-1960. Papers, 1800-1963.
2 cubic ft.
Correspondence, writings, photographs and memorabilia of Chicago lawyer Clay Judson. There is World War I correspondence with Judson's mother, his wife-to-be, the artist Sylvia Shaw, his father, William Voorhees Judson, and son, Clay Judson Jr. Also speeches and articles relating to Judson's law practice and his active involvement with the America First Committee and the Brookfield Zoo; photographs of family and of France and Germany during World War; and materials relating to family genealogy.
Subjects: Family, Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Judson C
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Judson, William V. (William Voorhees), 1865-1923. Papers, 1888-1947.
4 cubic ft.
Correspondence, manuscript works, documents, drafts, reprints, maps, charts, and photographs relating to William Voorhees Judson, military officer, army engineer, political writer and speaker, and military attaché in Russia in 1917. Collection contains material concerning the Russian Revolution, most of which has been published in Russia in War and Revolution: General William V. Judson's Accounts from Petrograd, 1917-1918, edited by Neil V. Salzman, Kent State University Press, 1998.
Subjects: Politics and Government
Call Number: Midwest MS Judson (formerly Ju)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Article: Newberry Library Bulletin, No. 3 (1945), p. 8-12.
Mabley, Jack. Papers, 1937-2003.
10 cubic ft. (17 boxes, 1 oversize box)
Correspondence with colleagues, congratulatory letters, inter-office memos; works including newspaper clippings, subject files dealing with important stories including the 1968 Democratic Convention, the Richard Cain case, racketeering, police corruption, and vice in Chicago, miscellaneous articles and columns; biographical clippings, publicity, and interviews, and photographs of Mabley himself and with public figures such as Hugh Hefner and Richard Nixon. Mabley was a reporter and columnist for the Chicago Daily News.
Subjects: Journalism; Politics
Call Number: Midwest MS Mabley
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
MacDougall, Curtis Daniel, 1903-. Papers, 1940-1984.
37 cubic ft.
Journalist and professor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism who wrote one of the definitive textbooks of American journalism. An activist in civic affairs, McDougall ran for Congress as a Democrat in Illinois' 10th District, for the U.S. Senate as a Progressive Party candidate, and as a Peace Party candidate for the 13th Congressional District. His papers include correspondence, subject files concerning his many interests and activities, photographs, etc.
Subjects: Journalism, Politics and Government
Call Number: Midwest MS MacDougall
Collection Stack Location: 3a 58 9
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
McCormick, Chauncey, 1884-1954. Papers, 1888-1954.
6 cubic ft. (10 boxes)
Letters, souvenirs, photographs, clippings, and a few cartoons of Chicagoan Chauncey McCormick, president of the Art Institute, founder and chairman of the art exhibit at the Century of Progress, philanthropist active in child welfare groups and organizations for the blind, and Republican Party activist during the 1930's to 1950's. Correspondence concerns business, civic, philanthropic, and political activities, and there are extensive files relating to McCormick's World War I service with the American Expeditionary Force in France and his direction of Polish food relief under Herbert Hoover.
Subjects: Arts; Politics and Government; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS McCormick (formerly Mc)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 10
Finding Aids:
Selected catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Mitchell, David Brydie, 1766-1837. Papers, 1777-1843, bulk 1807-1822.
147 items (4 boxes).
Incoming and outgoing correspondence dated mainly 1807-1822, covering David Brydie Mitchell's tenure as Georgia governor and Creek Indian agent, concerning foreign affairs, national and local politics, state defenses, East Florida, the 1817-1818 Seminole War, Creek Indian affairs, and African slave smuggling accusations. The collection also includes documents relating to Mitchell's agency duties, and other miscellaneous papers.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 606
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
New York (State). Treaties between the State of New York and the Oneida Nation, 1788-1811.
7 items.
Collection includes five treaties and two supporting documents, one indenture and one agreement, between New York State and the Oneida Nation for the cession of certain tribal lands, executed between 1788 and 1811. In these treaties the Oneida Indians eventually sold much of their reservation lands primarily held in Madison and Oneida counties, N.Y.
Microfilm copy also available at the Newberry Library, #2510.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: artifact cage Ayer MS 428
Collection Stack Location: Artifact Cage
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Newberry, Walter Loomis, 1804-1868. Letters, 1833-1838.
19 items
Eighteen letters from businessman Walter L. Newberry to Lucius Lyon, the
Michigan Territory's Delegate to Congress (and later, Michigan's Senator), regarding local and national politics, property values in Chicago and Detroit, the prospects of Michigan statehood, and other issues. Collection also includes a $20 check on the Bank of Michigan, Detroit, dated Oct. 15, 1827, from Lyon to Newberry.
Subjects: Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Case MS E5.N422
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Parker, Ely Samuel, 1828-1895. Scrapbooks, 1828-1894, bulk 1870-1894.
2 cubic ft. (12 volumes).
Twelve scrapbooks, containing newspaper clippings and illustrations regarding Indian affairs, presumably kept by Ely Samuel Parker, who was U.S. Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1869-1871. Also contains a few letters and reproductions of photos in the clippings.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Parker
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 1
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Parker, Ely Samuel, 1828-1895. Papers, ca. 1850-1885.
6 items (6 folders).
Speeches, lecture notes, and correspondence, ca. 1850-1885, of Ely Samuel Parker, U.S. Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1869-1871, regarding Indian customs and traits, the Indian policies of government and religious bodies, and his own background.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 674
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852. Papers, 1794-1841, bulk 1814-1841.
ca. 2,900 items (14 volumes)
This extensive collection, compiled by the actor, editor, and diplomat John Howard Payne, contains fourteen volumes of manuscript notes, memoranda, incoming correspondence, and unpublished works. The subject matter includes among others the political and social history of the Cherokee nation, accounts of religious customs, myths, and legends, and government relations and treaties with the United States.
Microfilm copy, CD-Rom copy and transcripts of the Payne Papers available at the Library.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 689
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 1-2; VAULT 50 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Seymour, Horatio Winslow. Papers, 1867-1948, bulk 1903-1918.
2 cubic ft.
Correspondence, writings, clippings and memorabilia of Horatio Winslow Seymour, editor and editorial writer for the Chicago Times, Chicago Herald, Chicago Chronicle, and New York World. An active Democrat, Seymour wrote editorials attacking the protectionist policies of the Republican Party and a book promoting free trade and democracy. Notable correspondents include John P. Altgeld, Booker T. Washington, George M. Pullman, Ralph Pulitzer, C.B. Goodyear, and Marshall Field.
Subjects: Journalism; Politics and Government
Call Number: Midwest MS Seymour
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Stockbridge and Munsee Tribe of Indians. Records, 1789-1858.
23 items (1 box).
Tribe of the Mohican Confederacy, known as the Stockbridge Indians, which relocated in the mid-1780's to New Stockbridge, N.Y., and again in 1833 to Wisconsin near Green Bay. Collection contains tribal documents, 1789-1858, including petitions, memorials, arguments, powers of attorney, appointments, agreements, correspondence, financial reports, promissory notes, and requests for payment.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 836
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Strauss, Herbert R., 1899-1974. Herbert R. Strauss collection of autograph letters, 1775-1840.
13 letters, 2 engravings.
Includes letters by Alexander Hamilton, George Wythe, William Wirt, General de Lafayette, George Washington, Paul Revere, John Hancock, Benjamin Rush, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Richard Peters, Andrew Jackson, and Levi Lincoln, plus two engravings of Henry Clay.
Subjects: Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 6A 82
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 47 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Catalog cards for selected items: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Strauss, Herbert R., 1899-1974. Herbert R. Strauss collection of Adams family letters, 1763-1829.
17 items.
Collection contains autograph letters by John Adams (11), Abigail Adams (3), John Quincy Adams (2) and Samuel Adams (1).
Subjects: Family; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 6A 81
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 47 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Selected authors of letters: Database of Names in Manuscript Collection Notebooks.
Strauss, Herbert R., 1899-1974. Herbert R. Strauss collection of Thomas Jefferson letters, 1780-1823.
43 items (2 vol.)
41 letters in Jefferson's hand, 1 printed item, and a copy of a Jefferson letter in his daughter's hand. Collection includes an 1789 letter from Jefferson to John Jay, largely in code (Item #1), a personal letter to his daughter Patsy (Item #3), Jefferson's memorandum on wines (Item #12). One Jefferson letter includes an autograph reply in French by General Thaddeus Kosciuszko. Transcriptions of some letters are available in the Newberry Library exhibit catalog, Thomas Jefferson: A Life With Letters (Call # Ref E332.795 N4 1993b).
Subjects: Family; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 6A 80 and VAULT Case MS 79
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 36 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog VAULT Case MS 6A 80 and VAULT Case MS 79.
Catalog cards for selected items: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Tanner, Helen Hornbeck. Papers, ca. 1970-2001
14 cubic ft.
Senior research fellow at the Newberry Library, who directed the Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History Project, was acting director of the Newberry's D'Arcy McNickle Center, and served as an expert witness and historical consultant for a number of Indian tribes.
Papers include personal and professional correspondence, research notes, research notebooks, card files, Potawatomi (1997) and Caddo court case materials, and research files and data for maps in Settling of North America (1995).
Subjects: Indians and the West; Newberry Library; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Tanner
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 12
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Tree, Lambert, 1832-1910. Papers, 1821-1947, bulk 1877-1909.
7.5 cubic ft.
Correspondence, speeches, drafts, documents, photographs, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings relating to Lambert Tree, Cook County lawyer, judge, politician, philanthropist, and U.S. diplomat in Belgium and Russia. The collection contains some Tree family material, commentary on the state of the Democratic Party under Grover Cleveland and William Jennings Bryan, and numerous items related to Tree's social, political, philanthropic, and diplomatic activities.
Subjects: Family; Politics and Government
Call Number: Midwest MS Tree (formerly Tr)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 43 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog and NUCMC (60-988).
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Selected authors of letters: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Article: Newberry Library Bulletin, No. 8 (December 1947), p. 3-8.
Currently in process: contact Curator for access.
United States. Army.
0.1 cubic ft.
Letters between U.S. Grant and Robert E. Lee during April 7-9, 1865, negotiating Lee's surrender, transcribed in the hand of Ely Samuel Parker, Grant's secretary. Also Parker's notes.
Subjects: Civil War; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Case MS F8340.905
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Oliver Wolcott letters, 1795-1800.
13 items.
Thirteen letters, dated Mar. 11, 1795 - Dec. 11, 1800, written by Oliver Wolcott, secretary of the treasury, to David Henley, general agent for the War Dept. in the Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio. The letters contain rules and regulations regarding the administration of contracts, numerous directives regarding the choice of contractors supplying both the region and the Tellico Blockhouse, and accusations of fraud against contractor "Robert Searcey."
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 921
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
United States. War Dept. Timothy Pickering letters, 1795-1798, bulk 1795.
23 items
Correspondence of the secretary of war, Timothy Pickering, regarding Indian and militia affairs in what is now Tennessee. The primary addressee is David Henley, War Dept. agent in the Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio, but the collection also includes letters to David Campbell, governor William Blount, and John McNairy. Two of the letters are written together with Oliver Wolcott, secretary of the treasury.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 926
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Van Schaack, Henry, 1733-1823. Papers, 1734-1896, bulk 1756-1809.
257 items.
Mainly correspondence regarding Van Schaack's Indian trade operations, Seven Years' War service, Revolutionary War banishment, connection to Shay's rebellion, concern with loyalist emigration, advocacy of the U. S. Constitution, anti-church tax campaign, and party politics. Correspondents include friends, relatives, N.Y. and Mass. political, military, and church officials, rebels and loyalists, Federalist journalists, etc.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT oversize Ayer MS 3193
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 50 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Ward, Estelle Francis. Letters and book manuscript, 1923-1927.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Four-part manuscript entitled "The Fourth Estate and the Young Republic," together with correspondence regarding the publication of the work, with agent Paul Reynolds, G.P. Putnam's Sons, and Dixon Ryan Fox of Columbia University.
Subjects: Journalism; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Modern MS Ward
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Watkins, Erwin C., 1839-1911. Erwin Watkins-Simeon Whiteley papers, 1863-1920, bulk 1863-1878.
ca. 250 items (3 oversize and 2 regular size boxes).
Erwin Watkins and Simeon Whiteley worked for the Office of Indian Affairs in the 1870's and 1860's, respectively. While the Watkins papers contain mainly official government reports and correspondence, the Whiteley papers consist of mostly personal correspondence accompanied by several photographs, three maps, and two issues of a Wyoming newspaper.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3024 (formerly Ayer MS 964a)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 2; VAULT 50 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Wax, Murray Lionel, 1922-. Papers, 1944-1989, bulk 1962-1969.
15 cubic ft. (39 boxes).
Fieldwork and correspondence of anthropologist-sociologist Murray L. Wax, primarily between 1962 and 1969. Also copies of published articles and unpublished papers by other anthropologists, newspaper clips, and serials pertaining to Native Americans; field notes of Rosalie Hankey (later Rosalie Wax) from Japanese relocation camp at Tule Lake, 1944-45.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Wax
Collection Stack Location: 3 59 9-10; 3 59 12
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Wilkinson, James, 1757-1825. Letters, 1792-1818.
19 items (19 folders).
Correspondence and a few orders relating to Indian affairs and military operations in the Northwest Territory during the 1790's written by James Wilkinson, military officer, western land speculator, and governor of Louisiana.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 982
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Williamson, Charles, 1757-1808. Papers, 1775-1946.
7 cubic ft. (12 boxes, 1 oversize box, and 1 v.)
British officer, land promoter, secret agent, and advisor to the British government. Correspondence, journals, etc. relating to Williamson's early activities, 1775-1791, his colonizing efforts in New York State, 1791-1803, and his later relations with statesmen. Early papers (mainly family correspondence) discuss Williamson's army service, capture and imprisonment, farm management, and Constantinople mission. Correspondence, 1791-1803, with family, Robert Morris, Sir William Pulteney, Robert Troup, Patrick Colquhoun, John Johnstone, and colonists, and others documents Williamson's opening of the Genesee lands to settlers and promotion of internal improvements there.
Subjects: Business; Family; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 1006
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Wright, Paul Randall, 1876-1965. Papers, 1899-1965.
2.5 cubic ft.
Writings and correspondence of Chicago journalist and foreign correspondent Paul Randall Wright, particularly newspaper stories reported from Siberia in 1918-1919, and Manchuria, China, Japan, and the Philippines from 1926-1930. The collection also includes diaries and a number of photographs relating to the periods in which Wright was stationed abroad.
Subjects: Journalism; Politics and Government
Call Number: Midwest MS Wright
Collection Stack Location: 3a 23 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.