Call Number:

C0035

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 5 items

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Alfred Goddard Kay Autograph Collection, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1753-1875 (inclusive)

Creator:

Kay, Alfred Goddard, 1899-1973

Form:

Newspapers -- 18th century., Autographs., and Broadsides -- United States --1769.

Abstract:

The Alfred Goddard Kay Autograph Collection consists of letters, documents, and other miscellanea signed by significant 18th and 19th century American and French figures collected by American stock broker Alfred Goddard Kay (Princeton Class of 1912).

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.