New York (State) -- Social life and customs.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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 public figures
Collection — Manuscript box 2 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239711]
Identifier: 285m
Scope and content
Routine letters: from John C. Spencer to Weare C. Little, written in Albany (New York), April 17, 1845, asking Little to ask the publisher to supply some pages missing from Spencer's copy of Peters' Digest of Cases in the Courts of the United States; from Amos Hall to Nathaniel Gorham in Canandaigua, June 30, 1793, about looking over a piece of land owned by Captain Taft; from Daniel S. Dickinson to W. B. Donlon (?), Albany, March 24, 1862, complying with Donlon's request for an autograph;...
Dates:
1793-1862.
Miscellaneous autographs, New York State
Collection
Identifier: 120
Abstract
Letters, legal documents, and other official communications, mainly concerning business transactions with signatures.
Dates:
1785-1907.
Political and social correspondence of prominent New Yorkers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065197034]
Identifier: 58
Scope and content
Approximately 400 items including olitical and social letters from James W. Wadsworth, R.H. Walworth, Christopher Morgan, Eli Perry, John V.L. Pruyn, W. McClay, Erastus Corning, G.M. Schuyler, W.E. Robinson, George Law, T.C. Platt, Charles Tracey, and many others.
Dates:
1822-1924.