Sam Schaefler historical and literary letters and documents, 1674-1970s

Summary Information

At a Glance

Arrangement

Arrangement

Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged. Box 1: Cataloged correspondence; Box 2: Cataloged manuscripts; Box 3: Cataloged documents, Cataloged photographs, Arranged correspondence, manuscripts& documents; Box 4: Cataloged photographs by Lee David Hamilton.

• Cataloged Correspondence
• Cataloged Manuscripts
• Cataloged Documents
• Cataloged Photographs
• Arranged correspondence, manuscripts & documents
• Cataloged photographs by Lee David Hamilton

Description

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, documents and manuscripts from late seventeenth and eighteenth century France, especially from the French Revolution, collected by Sam Schaefler. Authors include J.B. Colbert Torcy and the Duchesse Du Lude. Many of the items from the French Revolution represent the work of the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security. French Revolutionary leaders represented in the collection include François-Antoine Boissy D'Anglas, Jean-Baptiste-Noel Bouchotte, Pierre Joseph Cambon, Lazare Carnot, Jean-Marie Collot D'Herbois, l'Abbʹe de Fauchet, Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai, Jean Victor Moreau. C.A. Prieur-Duvernois, and Antoine Joseph Santerre. In addition, the collection includes a letter from the Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted to Sir John Herschel, a letter by the French poet Romain Rolland, a document of the Philadelphia Artists' Fund Society of 1846 with signatures of its officers, and an autograph letter and a photograph of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

1986 ADDITION: One letter from James Monroe and two from Theodore Roosevelt.

1987 ADDITION: Correspondence, documents, manuscripts, and photographs dealing with American and English literature, and American and French history during the era of the Revolutions. Included are letters from Erskine Caldwell, Will Durant, Howard Fast, Rachel Field, Emil Ludwig. Edwin Markham, Christopher Morley, and John Howard Payne; manuscripts of John Drinkwater, Felicia Hemans, Romain Rolland, Louis Untermeyer, and Tennessee Williams; and documents of James Duane, Joseph Hopkinson, and Sir Walter Scott.

1988 ADDITION: Correspondence and documents dealing with American and English history during the 18th and 19th centuries. There are letters from Dubo and Demante de Millot (about the French fleet in Haiti in 1780), U.S. Grant, Victor Hugo, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Robespierre, W.H. Seward, and Daniel Waldo; and documents of the Sultan of Borneo and James Madison. There are also photographs taken by Lee David Hamilton of Central Park and of Polaris submarines.

1989 ADDITION: Correspondence, manuscripts, and documents on American history and literature, from the 17th through the 20th centuries. There are letters and some manuscripts to the editor of ANTHOLOGY OF MYSTICAL VERSE and LYRA MYSTICA dating from the 1920s and the 1930s; letters and autographs of early 20th century Americans and New York and Connecticut colonial documents signed by Isaac Huntington, Jacob Remer, and Thomas Dongon. Also included are photographs of foreign travels in a Packard motorcar, 1903-1904, and a photographic travelogue (photographs taken by Henry C. Rem) of the first European motorcar tour by Americans in a Packard, 1907-1910.

1990 ADDITION: Documents dealing with finance and land sales in New York from 1789 to 1879. There are land deeds resulting from the dispersal of the assets of John Lamb at the end of the 1790s, mortgage bonds, insurance policies, and papers about the insurance claims of Ebenezer Stevens for shipping seized by France in 1808. There is also a letter in rebus form, written in 1734.

1992 ADDITION: Three letters from Richard Le Gallienne to Margot Holmes, his photograph signed and inscribed to her, and a Berenice Abbott photograph have been added.

1997 ADDITION: Naval commission of Richard Morice as Commander of H.M.S. Tarrier.

• Cataloged Correspondence

• Cataloged Manuscripts

• Cataloged Documents

• Cataloged Photographs

• Arranged correspondence, manuscripts & documents

• Cataloged photographs by Lee David Hamilton

Using the Collection

Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located on-site.

Oversize material in map case 14-M-9 (formerly 14-13-9).

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Single photocopies 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.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Sam Schaefler historical and literary letters and documents; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Related Materials

See also the Gordon Ray Collection and the David Eugene Smith Historical Collection

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Historical and literary letters and documents: Source of acquisition--Schaefler, Sam. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1984.

Addition: Source of acquisition--Schaefler, Sam and Katalin. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1985.

Documents: Source of acquisition--Schaefler, Sam & Katalin. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--12/03/1990. Accession number--M-90-12-03.

4 Le Gallienne items & 1 Berenice Abbott photo: Source of acquisition--Schaefler, Sam & Katalin. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--07/27/1992. Accession number--M-92-07-27.

Morice Commission: Source of acquisition--Schaefler, Sam. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--12/10/1997. Accession number--M-97-12-10.

Gift of Sam Schaefler, 1984.

Gift of Sam and Katalin Schaefler, 1985 to date.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Historical and literary letters and documents Processed TCV/JL-W 05/--/1985.

Addition Processed TC/JL-W 05/--/1985.

Documents Processed HR 03/25/1991.

4 Le Gallienne items & 1 Berenice Abbott photo Cataloged HR 09/23/1992.

Morice Commission Cataloged HR 06/23/2000.

Revision Description

2022-10-14 Container list revised by CCR.

Subject Headings

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