Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1827 - 1905
Lew Wallace (1827-1905), American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Carrington Family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 130
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, pamphlets, printed material, scrapbooks, sermons, and other papers relating to members of the Carrington family. Henry Beebee Carrington (1824-1912) and his grandfather, David Lewis Beebe (1763-1803), are two central figures in the papers. Material relating to David Lewis Beebe, including essays and sermons, documents his religious duties in Connecticut and family concerns in Ohio. Henry Beebee Carrington material includes correspondence, a diary, a...
Dates:
1749-1929
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Carrington Family papers
Letter : Boston, to Mr. Clark, n.y. Jun 18
Part of Collection — Box: 20, Folder: GROUP 426, F-4
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS regarding corrections to proofs of an unidentified work.
Dates:
n.y. Jun 18
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Letter : Crawfordsville, Indiana, to [Benn?] Pitman, 1863 [i.e. 1864] Jan 5
Part of Collection — Box: 20, Folder: GROUP 426, F-2
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS thanking the recipient for the way in which his poem "The Stolen Stars" was "gotten up" for the [Great Western Sanitary] Fair, and disagreeing with a correction made to the text; acknowledges Pitman's kindness during the work of the Buell Commission.
Dates:
1863 [i.e. 1864] Jan 5
Letter : Crawfordsville, Indiana, to Mr. L. A. Bartlett, New York, New York, 1886 June 17
Part of Collection — Box: 108, Folder: 5
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Autograph letter, signed, responding to Bartlett's letter and dicussing payment.
Dates:
1886 June 17
Letter : Lawrence Hotel, Adrian, Michigan, to Messrs Harper and Bros., 1887 Apr 25
Part of Collection — Box: 20, Folder: GROUP 426, F-3
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS originally forwarding a letter from Messrs Warner[?] & Co., and complaining that he will be lecturing through May 26, finishing an eight-month tour with a week in the South. Docketed by recipient recto and verso.
Dates:
1887 Apr 25
Letter and photograph, 1897, undated
Part of Collection — Box: 20, Folder: GROUP 426, F-5
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS from Wallace to H. M. Alden on literary matters and black-and-white portrait copy photograph.
Dates:
1897, undated
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Photographs of Lew Wallace in his study : Crawfordsville, Indiana
Photographs of Lew Wallace in his study : Crawfordsville, Indiana, 1899
Part of Collection — Box: 20, Folder: GROUP 426, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Two prints are the same. One print signed and dated by Wallace. With two explanatory notes and one signature by Wallace cut from [letter?].
Dates:
1899