Barnard Family Papers, 1807-1969, bulk 1850-1911

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Series V: Other Barnard family members, 1807-1969

Series V contains materials belonging to other members of the extended Barnard family. It includes early family correspondence dating from 1807 through the 1840s, mostly belonging to Robert Foster Barnard and his wife, Augusta Porter Barnard. A folder of undated speeches and writings, possibly dating from Robert Foster Barnard's tenure in the Massachusetts Senate, are also included. The remainder the series is composed of correspondence and personal materials belonging to John Hall Barnard, Jennie Barnard, and Anna "Nannie" McHenry Barnard O'Connor—children of John G. and Anna Eliza Barnard—and their families.



Box 30 Augusta Barnard letters and bill, 1807, 1826, undated


Box 30 Charlotte Ramsay and Henry Hall letters, 1819-1820


Box 30 Sarah Gross Barnard letters, 1822-1823



Box 33 Robert Foster Barnard letters to Sarah Gross Barnard, 1822-1824



Box 30 Joshua Porter letter to Peter B. Porter, 1830



Box 33 Robert Foster Barnard letter to Augusta Barnard and children, 1832 January 29



Box 30 Robert Foster Barnard letter to Augustus S. Porter, 1840 February 22



Box 33 J. B. H. Smith letter to J. L. Smith, 1840 March 6



Box 30 News clippings collected by Robert Foster Barnard, 1843-1844, undated


Box 30 Robert Foster Barnard letters, 1843-1844


Box 30 Robert Foster Barnard family correspondence, 1846, 1849


Box 30 Robert Foster Barnard will, 1850


Box 30 Harrison Blackmer warranty deed to Eliza M. Mansfield, 1850

Witnessed by Robert Foster Barnard.


Box 30 Berkshire Bar resolution in memory of Robert Foster Barnard, 1851


Box 30 Joseph Barnard headstone drawing, undated


Box 30 Sophia McHenry Brand will, 1870, 1901


Box 30 William F. Brand will, 1893


Box 30 John Hall Barnard sketchbook, 1878


Box 30 Photograph of John Hall Barnard, 1889


Box 30 John Hall Barnard correspondence, 1911, 1931, 1935, undated


Box 30 "Judge Augustus Porter and the 'Niagara Frontier'" manuscript by John Hall Barnard, 1924


Box 30 "Judge Augustus Porter and the 'Niagara Frontier'" by John Hall Barnard, 1924


Box 30 Jennie Barnard correspondence, 1881


Box 30 Pastel drawing of B. F. O'Connor with fencing foil, circa 1889


Box 30 "Held Up" short story manuscript by B. F. O'Connor, undated


Box 30 Anna Barnard O'Connor correspondence, 1894-1933, undated


Box 30 O'Connor family correspondence, 1915-1925, 1933


Box 30 Photographs and postcards of Worcestershire, 1926


Box 30 Photographs, undated


Box 30 Lee/Barnard clock photographs, 1967

Photographs of a clock owned by John G. Barnard and Robert E. Lee during their respective terms as Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.


Box 30 "Seeds in Good Ground," centennial history of Christ Church, Sheffield, Massachusetts, 1969