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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.

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Great Fire, New York (N.Y.), 1835. 1
War widows -- United States. 1