Southern States -- Description and travel
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Nathaniel T. Allen collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1401
Abstract:
The collection contains correspondence, writings, and other papers of educator and social reformer Nathaniel T. Allen, and biographical and research materials about him. Manuscripts in each series are accompanied by additional photocopied materials, some annotated by an unidentified researcher; for most, locations of originals are unidentified.
Dates:
1834-2009, bulk 1843-1903
Bunnell family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1149
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, legal and financial records, writings, memorabilia, and pictorial material which document the activities of four generations of Bunnell and Sterling family members living primarily in Connecticut and New York. Correspondence, diaries, writings, and memorabilia document the Yale academic careers of Sterling Haight and Frank Scott Bunnell and John W. Sterling, the Civil War service of Rufus W. Bunnell and Henry T. Plant, and the travels of family...
Dates:
1772-1958
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Bunnell family papers
Nathaniel Hobart papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 999
Abstract:
Photostatic copies of letters written in the form of a diary by Nathaniel Hobart to members of his family on trips to the West and the South, 1837-1838. Principal cities described are New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and Niagara Falls. As a Swedenborgian, he also comments on religion and philosophy.
Dates:
1837-1838
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Nathaniel Hobart papers
Charles Jeffery Smith papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1372
Abstract:
Charles Jeffery Smith's papers consist of his writings and diaries, including "Some Minits: or a Brief Narrative of the Motions & Strivings of Gods Spirit with my Soul;" "Jejunationes," a devotional journal; and a four-part diary, 1763-1765, containing his religious thoughts and detailing his daily activities and travels. There are also daily transcriptions, made in 1908, which excise parts dealing with Smith's personal problems. The transcriptions also include marginal notes about place...
Dates:
1758-1908, bulk 1758-1765
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Charles Jeffery Smith papers
Bennett Upson papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 678
Abstract:
Correspondence between Bennett Upson of Wolcott, Connecticut, and his wife, Ursula Hotchkiss Upson, who, after her husband's death, became a spiritualist. There is also correspondence with other family members in addition to some business correspondence and miscellaneous papers. The correspondence is largely concerned with his work as an agent travelling through the South for Atkins, Allen & Co. of Bristol, Connecticut. There is much about his long absences from home and his business...
Dates:
1836-1858
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Bennett Upson papers
Wickham Family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 773
Abstract:
The papers contain correspondence, family papers, diaries, sermons, photoprints, and other materials documenting the personal lives and professional careers of Joseph Dresser Wickham, Elizabeth Cooke Merwin Wickham and several Wickham, Merwin, Porter, and Roe relatives. The Wickham family papers have extensive material on such family subjects as relationships between brothers and sisters and parents and children, courtship, death, marriage, and the difficulties endured by stepmothers and...
Dates:
1785-1958, bulk 1814-1901
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Wickham Family papers