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Autographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Harry H. Ensign autograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1228
Abstract:

Miscellaneous autographs and letters of American political and cultural figures, among them John and John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Jefferson Davis, Horace Greeley, and Lydia Sigourney. Also included are eleven letters to James F. Babcock, editor of the New Haven Weekly Palladium, on politics (1840-1866) and seven letters (1866-1872) to R. P. Cowles in New Haven from prospective lecturers.

Dates: 1818-1880

William Smith Mason autograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 344
Abstract:

The collection consists of autograph manuscripts, documents and correspondence of people in public life. The collection contains correspondence of Theodore Roosevelt with Francis J. Heney and others and copies of letters of the Jonathan Knight family.

Dates: 1800-1929

Mary Ann Phelps Montgomery collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 801
Abstract:

A collection of autograph letters and manuscripts, many of leading American public figures, collected by Mary Ann Phelps Montgomery. Fifteen letters are addressed to her father, Governor John Smith Phelps (1814-1866) of Missouri, six were written by James G. Blaine (1830-1893), and five by Thomas C. Reynolds of Missouri. The collection includes items signed by four American presidents, several European heads of state, and prominent members of European nobility.

Dates: 1746-1939

Vann collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1182
Abstract:

A collection of autograph letters and facsimiles of which the largest number are letters to and from Daniel Webster. Also in the collection is a volume of drafts of letters, pamphlets, and speeches composed by Stephen Devalson Dillaye between 1864-1868 on current political issues. Dillaye was a Democrat who opposed radical abolitionism, but sided with the North in the Civil War.

Dates: 1778-1887, bulk 1822-1887