Diaries
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Berry family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 810
Scope and content
Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, genealogy, essays, photographs, accounts, church records, and other papers concerning the activities of the related Berry, Nearing, and Osborn families of Onondaga and Livingston Counties, New York. Includes correspondence relating to a smallpox epidemic, temperance meetings, prices of crops, farming conditions, the establishment of a barbed wire factory, politics, and emigration from New York to the Minnesota Territory. Also includes diaries of Mary...
Dates:
1812-1917.
Romeyn Berry family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2531
Abstract
Correspondence includes personal and business correspondence; Berry's letters from Kenneth Roberts, E.B. White, and Allison Danzig; one letter from Major William B. Miles concerning the activities of the Seventh Regiment, New York National Guard; correspondence of Berry's second wife, Hester Bancroft Berry, her father, Wilder D. Bancroft, and other members of the Bancroft family. Writings include copy and clippings from his "Talk of the Town" columns in The New Yorker; articles from the...
Dates:
1636-1960.