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Nathaniel Tracy Sheafe papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 884

Scope and content

Includes board, term, livery, tailor, and other bills rendered to N.T. Sheafe during his years at Dartmouth (1831-35); a series of essays and speeches (1833-37) by Sheafe on subjects as "The Habits of Mind Cultivated by the Study of History," and "The American Revolutionary Eloquence"; a series of letters (1837) from Margarette Sheafe to her brother Nathaniel commenting on the faculty, the curriculum, examinations, and the social life at Canandaigua Academy, Ontario County, New York; papers and letters relating to a dispute over the will of Edmund Sheafe (1839); a notebook (1853-54) containing recipes for cures and remedies; and papers relating to Sheafe's appointment as a court auditor for Orleans County, Vermont (1876).

Dates

  • 1813-1876.

Creator

Extent

.4 cubic feet. (.4 cubic feet.)

Language of Materials

English

Description rules
Appm
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

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