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Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872.

 Person

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Letters and card from New York State politicians

 Collection — Manuscript box 21 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065243325]
Identifier: 108m
Scope and content

Routine short letters from prominent politicians who hailed from New York State, including Washington Hunt, Horatio Seymour, William Henry Seward, and Frederick William Seward. Also, a card signed by F.W. Seward, subscribing for a copy of the book Fifty years among authors, books and publishers, by J.C. Derby.

Dates: 1860-1884.

Letters and note from William Henry Seward and Horatio Seymour

 Collection — Manuscript box 21 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065243341]
Identifier: 112m
Scope and content

Short, routine letters from William Henry Seward and Horatio Seymour. The letter from Seymour (1871), addressed to Nahum Capen, makes a brief comment on the Democratic Party. Also, a note from Seward paying his compliments and arranging to call on the recipient; and an undated letter from W.L. Money, conveying some other autographs he had detached from his files to his fellow autograph collector W.B. Sprague.

Dates: 1858-1871.

Letters and notes from prominent New Yorkers

 Collection — Manuscript box 1 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239372]
Identifier: 161m
Scope and content

Routine letters and notes on business and social matters from prominent people who hailed from New York State, including William Henry Seward (writing to painter Jocelyn Nathaniel), Oliver Phelps, Gideon Granger (writing to Justin Ely, a former representative to the Massachusetts General Court), Antoinette L. Brown, and Moses Coit Tyler.

Dates: 1794-1897.

Letters from New York State politicians

 Collection — Manuscript box 21 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065243317]
Identifier: 104m
Scope and content

Routine notes and short letters from prominent politicians who hailed from New York State, including William Henry Seward, Oliver Phelps, and William C. Bouck. The letter from Bouck is addressed to A.C. Flagg, who was the New York State comptroller at the time (1837).

Dates: 1837-1865.

Letters, notes, and fragments from New York State luminaries

 Collection — Manuscript box 21 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065243358]
Identifier: 115m
Scope and content Routine letters and notes signed by famous New Yorkers, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Stone Blackwell, William Henry Seward, Russell Sage, Moses Coit Tyler, Jacob Gould Schurman, and Edward Eggleston. The letter from Stanton and one of the notes from Schurman is a fragment. Stanton's letter expresses her reaction to the tributes received on her 70th birthday. The letter from Seward (1864), written on Department of State letterhead, is addressed to Charles Sumner, Chairman of the...
Dates: circa 1851-1902.

Letters of William Henry Seward and Samuel J. Tilden

 Collection — Manuscript box 22 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065243630]
Identifier: 248m
Scope and content

Letter from Seward to E.A. Stansbury of Burlington, Vermont, dated November 14, 1844, bemoaning the defeat of Henry Clay (the Whig candidate) in the presidential election. Also, a letter from Samuel J. Tilden, dated February 19, 1853, to auditor G.W. Nevill, concerning the ability to make changes to New York's Canal Debt Sinking Fund.

Dates: 1844-1853.

Social issues pamphlet collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1220
Abstract Pamphlets on social issues at the local, state, and national levels in the United States, with local and state pamphlets focused mainly but not exclusively on New York State or its localities. Topics include education, religion and moral issues, politics (especially surrounding the issue of slavery and the Civil War), temperance, agriculture, and railroads. Also included are pamphlets relating to libraries, historical societies, and history, as well as literary pamphlets (literary essays,...
Dates: 1806-1960-(bulk 1840-1880).

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New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865. 2
New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 19th century. 2
Agricultural exhibitions -- New York (State) -- Oneida County. 1
Agricultural exhibitions -- New York (State) -- Queens County. 1
Agriculture -- United States. 1