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Alfred Goddard Kay Autograph Collection
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Alfred Goddard Kay (Princeton Class of 1912) was an American stock broker and collector.
The collection consists primarily of letters and documents of American and French historical figures of the Revolutionary War period. The collection also contains an autograph album of 19th century American politicians and writers, as well as several English manuscripts. Included are two autograph letters (1781) by George Washington to the Marquis de Chastellux, written at the start of the Yorktown campaign; an autograph letter (1778) by Silas Deane from Paris, with documents listing his accounts charged to the United States for services and supplies purchased on its behalf; an autograph letter (1851) by Charles Dickens to an American friend recalling a previous visit to the United States; and 53 letters (1867-1871) by Burr Kellogg, an American working with an English theatrical touring company, while on a trip around the world with stops in such places as Australia, India, Italy, and Japan. Printed items consist of a Quaker broadside (1769), a copy of The Providence Gazette (1783) regarding Count de Grasse, a copy of Gazette de France (1779), and a circular letter (1875) with a photograph regarding the kidnapping of four-year-old Charles Brewster Ross.
Given in memory of Alfred Goddard Kay (Princeton Class of 1912) by his wife.
This collection was processed by Ran Tao in 2004. Finding aid written by Ran Tao in 2004.
No appraisal information is available.
Subject
- Politicians -- United States -- 19th century
- Presidents -- United States -- 18th century
- Theater -- Great Britain -- 19th century
- Voyages around the world -- 19th century
Place
- Southeast Asia -- Description and travel.
- Australia -- Description and travel -- 19th century.
- England -- Description and travel -- 19th century.
- India -- Description and travel -- 19th century.
- Italy -- Description and travel -- 19th century.
- Japan -- Description and travel -- 19th century.
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources.
- Yorktown (Va.) -- History -- Siege, 1781 -- Sources.
- Publisher
- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Author
- Ran Tao
- Finding Aid Date
- 2004
- Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research use.
- Use Restrictions
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Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
Collection Inventory
Consists of correspondence of individuals such as Charles Dickens, Millard Fillmore, King George II of Great Britain, Ulysses S. Grant, John Hancock, Martin Van Buren, and George Washington.
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See Dickinson, John
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See Stokley, W. S.
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Consists of papers such as the "Gazette de France," the "Loyalist Report" and "The Providence Gazette."
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[Printed on board a French vessel in Newport Harbor by the same press that made the 24 copies of Chastellux Journal Promissory note.]
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Contains signatures of Abraham Lincoln, John George Nicolay, Hohn Milton Hay, Henry W. Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, and other Civil War autographs, both written and pasted in.
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