Capen, Nahum, 1804-1886.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Business letters
Collection — Manuscript box 22 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065243663]
Identifier: 288m
Scope and content
Printed form letter from the U.S. Treasury Department (March 22, 1843) to the New York City Commissioners, signed by J.C. Spencer, settling a claim by J. & W. Kelly & Co. for compensation for damage caused by the Great Fire of New York in 1835. Also, a letter from W. (?) L. Macey to Nahum Capen (May 20, 1852), giving a recommendation for Capen's History of Democracy in the United States, sight unseen. Third, a letter from John A. Dix to M. (?) Conrad, head of the War Department...
Dates:
1843-1852.
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.