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Edward Wortley Montagu papers, 1717-1780
1 boxManuscripts and letters pertaining to Edward Wortley Montagu, husband of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The letters to Montagu, dating from 1723 to 1760, include correspondence with his father-in-law, Evelyn Pierrepont, John Montagu, the Earl of Sandwich, Chief Justice Peter King, and Lady Elizabeth Hamilton. There is also correspondence concerning Parliamentary elections, a bill in Parliament (1718), his son's reputation, and property matters. The manuscripts cover a range of personal matters, among the "Expenses at Bath" a record of his weight, estimates of his personal estate and debts, an expense account for his tour as ambassador to Turkey, a prescription for the treatment of gout, and the use of wine for health purposes.
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Wiltwyck School for Boys records, 1942-1981, bulk 1964-1982
20.58 linear feetThis collection contains the administrative records of the Wiltwyck School for Boys, a residential treatment center for troubled boys and adolescents from the New York City area.
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New York Juvenile Asylum records (Children's Village), 1853-1954
117 linear feetThe collection is composed primarily of ledgers used in the operation of the New York Juvenile Asylum, a reception center, home, and placement agency for orphaned, abandoned, and impoverished children. The Asylum operated in Manhattan from 1853 until 1905 when it moved to a rural campus in Dobbs Ferry, New York. In 1920 the Asylum was renamed Children's Village. The collection provides copious information about the experience of poor and orphaned children, children sent West on "orphan trains," social work, and the home life and living arrangements of poor and immigrant New Yorkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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