Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1801 - 1872
Biography
William Henry Seward (1801-1872), American politician.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Evarts family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 200
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, legal and financial material, congressional papers, family memorabilia, and other papers of various members of the Evarts family of Vermont, Boston, and New York. The principal figures, however, are Jeremiah Evarts (1781-1831), author, editor, lawyer, and philanthropist, and his son, William Maxwell Evarts (1818-1901), lawyer and statesman. The papers of Jeremiah Evarts relate to his work and writings on Congregational orthodoxy, his travels...
Dates:
1753-1960, bulk 1798-1901
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Evarts family papers
Edwards Pierrepont papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 400
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence correspondence, legal and financial documents, printed matter, and other papers of Edwards Pierrepont, attorney, judge, Attorney General of the United States, and minister to Great Britain. Some of the correspondence relates to such questions as Reconstruction, bimetallism, the "whiskey ring" controversy, the Hayes-Tilden election, and the Republican Party. Important correspondents include William Maxwell Evarts, Adelbert Ames, Hamilton Fish, Ulysses S....
Dates:
1813-1902
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Edwards Pierrepont papers
Sir Edward Thornton correspondence with the British Foreign Office
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 864
Abstract:
The papers are comprised of more than 2,500 original autograph manuscript letters and dispatches received by Sir Edward Thornton, and manuscript copies of Thornton's outgoing official and private correspondence and dispatches, in the period following the American Civil War. Thornton's correspondence was with several important figures in British foreign policy including foreign secretaries Edward Henry Stanley, George William Frederick Villiers, and George Leveson-Gower. Hundreds of other...
Dates:
1868-1875