Form: Correspondence -- 19th century / Year: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1854">1854</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Mary A. Livermore Collection, 1768-1928 (inclusive) 1846-1905 (bulk)

Extent:: 9 boxes and 5.15 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of two collections of materials created by or related to American suffragette and reformer Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (1820-1905), including autograph notes, drafts, typescripts, and reprints of lectures, addresses, articles, and short stories by Livermore; correspondence; family documents and photographs; and clippings and printed materials, some of which were collected by Adelaide Witherington Boynton.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Marquis Astolphe de Custine Letters to Comtesse Merlin, 1836-1855 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of 273 letters, most of which are from French aristocrat, writer, and socialite Marquis Astolphe de Custine to his close friend, María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, comtesse de Merlin. Reflecting on a myriad of topics, Custine's letters offer insight into the political, intellectual, social, and cultural happenings in Europe during a time of great change while also providing insight into his own character.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Princeton University Library Collection of William Holman Hunt Materials, 1853-1926 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists primarily of selected correspondence of William Holman Hunt, the British painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

John A. Roebling's Sons Company Records, 1821-1936 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 1.4 linear feet
Abstract:: The John A. Roebling's Sons Company was a family-run wire rope manufacturing business based in Trenton, New Jersey, and established in 1848 by John Augustus Roebling (1806-1869), a German-born American civil engineer best known for his wire rope suspension bridge designs, particularly the Brooklyn Bridge. The records consist of 10 bound volumes of business records, correspondence, and clippings kept by the company during the 19th and early 20th centuries, including typescript copies of John A. Roebling's professional correspondence, a company address book and manufacturing specifications catalog for wire rope, Ferdinand W. Roebling, Jr.'s business ledger, a minute book for the Roebling Construction Company, a volume of John Ferreol Monnot's patents, and a two-volume scrapbook on the German civil engineer and bridge-builder Karl Bernhard.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Walter Savage Landor Correspondence, 1797-1887 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.20 linear feet
Abstract:: Walter Savage Landor was an English poet and prose writer. This correspondence includes some of his letters to family members and friends and a collection of transcribed letters to and from Landor.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Thomas Adams Papers, 1852-1859 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Thomas Adams (1830-1900) was a civil engineer, topographer, and surveyor who traveled west with Isaac Stevens (1818-1862), the newly-appointed governor of the Washington Territory. From 1853 to 1859, Adams served the party as meteorologist, topographer, sketch artist, and eventually, as assistant to Lieutenant John Mullan (1830-1909), who was in charge of the surveying. This collection consists of four journals and one letter book documenting Adams's life from 1852 to 1859. In addition to detailed descriptions of Adams's experiences, the journals also contain expertly drawn sketches of landscapes and forts, Native Americans, and animals, as well as home-made dictionaries of the Flathead language.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Edward Raymond Ames Family Collection, 1823-1855 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of diaries and family correspondence of itinerant clergyman Edward Raymond Ames.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Taylor Family Papers, 1865-1890 (bulk) 1850-1904 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet
Abstract:: Contains miscellaneous nineteenth-century papers of several members of the Taylor family.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

MacMartin Family Correspondence, 1827-1878 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists predominantly of nineteenth-century correspondence between members of the MacMartin family of New York and New Jersey.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

William Bell Scott Collection, 1837-1891 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence and obituaries of the nineteenth-century English poet, painter, and art critic William Bell Scott. He was a friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and was accepted by the Pre-Raphaelites.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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