Call Number:

C0083

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 2 boxes
• 0.6 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Samuel J. Bayard Papers, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1830-1886 (inclusive)

Creator:

Bayard, Samuel J. (Samuel John), 1801-1878

Form:

Correspondence -- 19th century and Manuscripts -- 19th century.

Abstract:

Consists, for the most part, of autograph manuscripts in prose and verse of Bayard (Princeton Class of 1820) and correspondence of Bayard, the Bayard family, John B. Guthrie, and Bayard Guthrie.

Samuel J. Bayard was a nineteenth-century American jurist.

The collection consists, for the most part, of autograph manuscripts in prose and verse of Bayard (Princeton Class of 1820) and correspondence of Bayard, the Bayard family, John B. Guthrie, and Bayard Guthrie. Included is a signed, autograph manuscript of "The Life of General George Dashiell Bayard" (472 pp.), Bayard's biography of his son. Among the correspondents are Frederick Freylinghuysen, Rodman M. Price, Robert Field Stockton, Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, and others. A genealogical chart, deeds, documents, broadsides, and other related material are also included.