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Source of acquisition--Jay, Mrs. Peter A. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1959. Accession number--M-59.
Mrs. Pierre Jay, 1959
Mrs. Dorothy Iselin Paschal, 1961
Abbot Low Moffat, 1961
Gift of Mrs. Arthur M. R. Hughes, 1962
Miss Frances Jay, 1962
Mrs. John Jay Pierrepont, 1962
Papers: Source of acquisition--293. Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--07/01/1991. Accession number--M-91-07-01.
Legal papers re. H.B. Dawson: Source of acquisition--Hopkins, Frances L. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--04/19/1996. Accession number--M-96-04-19.
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Jay family papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 07/--/1989.
Papers Processed HR 09/18/1991.
Legal papers re. H.B. Dawson Cataloged HR 02/28/1997.
Papers of the Jay family and of those families related to the Jay family, including Bruen, Butterworth, Chapman, Clarkson, Dawson, Du Bois, Field, Iselin, McVickar, Mortimer, O'Kill, Pellew, Pierrepont, Prime, Robinson, Schieffelin, Von Schweinitz, Sedgwick, and Wurts. In addition to family and personal matters, the correspondence deals with anti-slavery, New York State civil service, repeal of the Missouri Compromise, the Civil War, the Blair Bill, international affairs, and New York City and State politics and government. There are letters from numerous prominent persons including George Bancroft, F.A.P. Barnard, Bismarck, William Cullen Bryant, Aaron Burr, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hamilton Fish, Albert Gallatin, Horace Greeley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Washington Irving, Frances Anne Kemble, Jenny Lind, Henry W. Longfellow, Seth Low, James Russell Lowell, John Stuart Mill, Alice Duer Miller, Clement Clarke Moore, J.P. Morgan, Thomas Nast, Commodore Matthew Perry, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Carl Schurz, William H. Seward, William T. Sherman, Charles Sumner, and John Greenleaf Whittier.
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Includes photographs
Gift of Mrs. Peter A. Jay
Gift of Mrs. Peter A. Jay
Gift of Mrs. John Jay Pierrepont
Includes Constable, Hooker, Hay, Lefferts, Low, Pierrepont, Earldom of Salisbury, Reed, and White.
Unlisted, relating to the Pierrepont Family
Gift of Mrs. John Jay Pierrepont
Unlisted, from the libraries of Henry Evelyn Pierrepont and Anna Jay Pierrepont et al.
An incomplete subject guide to the contents of letters in the Jay Family papers, including personal, corporate, and topical headings and phrases. Correspondence is filed in Boxes 1-69. The guide is in the form of a card file. The card file contains copies of catalog cards for the cataloged correspondence from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library's card catalog with additional subject information handwritten on the cards. There are some additional handwritten index cards at the end of the card file.