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

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Cataloged Correspondence



Box 1 A. Beckett, Thomas, Philadelphia, to G. Becks, November 9, 1889


Box 1 Affry, François d', Camp de St. Benedetto, to his son, Louis-Augustin-Auguste d'Affry, was appointed Captain of the Guards in 1734, August 30, 1734, a.l.s.


Box 1 Albertson, Charles Carroll, from various poets; primarly from poets published in The Anthology of Mystical Verse and in Lyra Mystica, 1924-1931; n.d.


Box 1 Aldington, Richard, Montpellier, France to Cronelius Greenway, October 2, 1955


Box 1 Alliluyeva, Svetlana, Locust Valley, NY, to Hugh Russell Fraser, May 2, 1967


Box 1 Antin, Julie-Françoise de Crussol de Montespan, Duchess d', Paris, France, to, March 5, 1725, ms.l.s.


Box 1 Auslander, Joseph, New York, to Cornelius Greenway, July 20, 1950


Box 1 Aveli d'Albany, B.[?], Paris, to Mafres Nonrio Aruriele[?], January 24, 1723


Box 1 Bacon, Leonard (1887-1954), Peace Dale, R.I., to Cornelius Greenway, January 16, 1952


Box 1 Badeau, Adam, Washington, D.C., to "My Dear General", April 25, 1865


Box 1 Baldwin, Faith, The Juniper Tree. Chapter Nine. [Norwalk, CT?], inscribed to William J. Luetje[?] on final page, 1952[?]


Box 1 Barlow, Francis Channing, New York, to Mr. O'Conor, June 3, 1875


Box 1 Besant, Annie Wood (1847-1933), Madras, India, to [Willie Wendt de Kerlor], October 16, 1913


Box 1 Biddle, A.J. Drexel, Philadelphia, Pa., to Charles C. Albertson, February 4, 1916


Box 1 Binyon, Laurence, [London], to "Dear Sir", June 24, 1931


Box 1 Binyon, Laurence., Streatley, Berks., UK, to [Cornelius Greenway], January 20, 1937


Box 1 Blair, Frank Preston, St. Louis, to Stillson Hutchins, December 2, 1973


Boissy D'Anglas, François-Antoine, et. al., Paris, to Commission de l'Organization et du Mouvement des Armees de Terre, March 22, 1795

Item is missing

Was shelved in Mapcase 14-M-9


Box 1 Bonnay, Charles-François, Marquis de (1750-1825), Warsaw, June 9, 1804


Box 1 Bradford, Gamaliel, Wellesley Hills, Ma., to Charles C. Albertson, March 11, 1930


Box 1 Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen (1842-1927), n.p.


Box 1 Bryce, James, Viscount Bryce (1838-1922), [London?], to John Seymour Wood, April 24, 1899


Box 1 Bynner, Witter, New York, to "Dear Sir", February 1, 1929


Box 1 Caffin, Jean Alexandre, Chemille, France, to Rene Savary, May 9, 1795


Box 1 Caldwell, Erskine, Mount Vernon, ME., to Edward Dahlberg, December 28, 1932


Box 1 Cambaceres, Jean Jacques Regis de (1753-1824) [Paris], to John Payne Todd, October 28, 1813


Box 1 Cambaceres, Jean Jacques Regis de (1753-1824) [Paris], to John Payne Todd, December 24, 1813


Box 1 Cambon, Pierre Joseph, et. al., Paris, to Commission des Reserves Nationaux, October 3, 1794


Box 1 Carroll, Paul Vincent, Glasgow, to Cornelius Greenway, September 8, 1939


Box 1 Chaplin, Ralph (1887-1961), Lombard, Il., to Cornelius Greenway, June 5, 1935


Box 1 Churchill, Winston (1871-1941), and Mrs. Churchill, London, to Cornelius Greenway, March 8, 1956, May 20, 1963



Mapcase 14-M-9 Couthon, Georges, et. al., Clermont-Ferrnad, France, to Gaultier, August 22, 1790, ms.l.s., 2 p.

Text in unknown hand. Also signed by Sebastien de Laporte and Bourdillou



Box 1 Cowl, Jane, New York, to Charles C. Albertson, 1945-1948


Box 1 Dane, Clemence, Devon, UK., to Miss Moseley, [1928?]


Box 1 Dekrassow, W.[?], Vienna, to Comte Pighetti di Ricasso, December 30, 1733


Box 1 Deland, Margaret, Kennebunkport, ME, to Charles C. Albertson, May 6, 1930



Mapcase 14-M-9 Denieé, Paris; Laporte, Sebastian de, et. al., Paris, April 14, 1794, a.l.s., 3 p. and a.n.s., 1 p. (on the third page of the a.l.s.)



Box 1 Depew, May, [Washington, D.C.], to Charles C. Albertson, May 16, n.y.


Box 1 Depew, May, New York, to Mrs. Lindridge, October 12, n.y.


Box 1 De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859), [Edinburgh], to Robert Blackwood, July 23, [1839?]


Box 1 Doublet, Jean-François (1655-1728), Paris, August 22, 1716


Box 1 Drillea[?], L.A., n.p., August 20, 1674


Box 1 Drinkwater, John (1882-1937), Birmingham, UK., to Elkin Mathews, May 15, 1917


Box 1 Dubo & Demante de Millot, Cap [Haitien], to France de Vaugency, April 14, 1780


Box 1 Du Lude, Margueritte Louise de Bethune de Gramont de Daillon, Duchess (1643?-1726), Paris, to Comte de Piguetty, August 14, 1718


Box 1 Du Lude, Margueritte Louise de Bethune de Gramont de Daillon, Duchess (1643?-1726), Paris, to Comte de Piguetty, November 5, 1718


Box 1 Du Lude, Margueritte Louise de Bethune de Gramont de Daillon, Duchess (1643?-1726), Paris, to Comte de Piguetty, October 17, 1719


Box 1 Dunn, Evelene, n.p., to Charles C. Albertson


Box 1 Durant, Will and Ariel, Los Angeles, to Cornelius Greenway, November 12, 1963


Box 1 Durville, Jacques Henri, Paris, to Membres du Comite Civil; Dorat-Cubieres, Pierre-Louis, Paris; Caron, Paris, April 3, 1794; April 5, 1794; April 7, 1794


Box 1 Everett, Alexander Hill (1790-1847]) Madrid & Boston, to Marc Antoine Jullien (1775-1848), 1825-1833


Box 1 Fast, Howard, New York, to Cornelius Greenway, March 8, 1957


Box 1 Field, Rachel, New York, to Virgil Y. Russell, May 17, 1934


Box 1 Fletcher, John Gould, Kansas City, Mo., to Cornelius Greenway, November 28, 1937


Box 1 Foote, Shelby, Memphis, TN, to Cornelius Greenway, November 30-December 9, 1958


Box 1 Fowles, John, London, to Cornelius Greenway, August 22, [1963]


Box 1 France, Anatole (1844-1924), Gironde, to Laurent Tailhade, October 20, [1902]


Box 1 Frazer, Sir James George (1854-1938), Paris, to Sir Michael Sadler, January 28, 1930


Box 1 Fuller, Henry Blake, Chicago, to Gotham Book Mart, October 21, 1921


Box 1 Gesimar, Maxwell, Harrison, NY, to Cornelius Greenway, October 12, 1963


Box 1 Gilman, Charlotte P., Norwichton, CN, to Charles C. Albertson, March 8, 1930


Box 1 Ginsberg, Louis, Paterson, NJ, to Cornelius Greenway; "Peace" [Paterson, NJ], (poem; inscribed to Cornelius Greenway); "Fetters" [Paterson, NJ], (poem; "From 'The Commonweal'"), February 15-19, 1931; February 19, 1931; circa February 19, 1931


Box 1 Gladding, Thomas C., Providence, RI, to Messrs. Andrus & Langdon, July 10, 1846


Box 1 Godefroy, Maximilian (fl.1806-1824) [New York], to John Payne Todd, January 12, n.y.


Box 1 Godefroy, Maximilian (fl.1806-1824) Baltimore, to James Madison, President of the United States, January 12, 1806


Box 1 Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885), n.p., to James William Wallck (1818-1873) & Edward Loomis Davenport (1815-1877), January 17, 1868


Box 1 Gray, Asa, Cambridge, MA, to "My Dear Sir", April 15, 1872


Box 1 Greely, Adolphus W., Washington, D.C., to Stillson Hutchins, March 6, 1896


Box 1 Guthrie, Alfred Bertram, Jr., Great Falls, MT, to Cornelius Greenway, September 12, 1955


Box 1 Hagedorn, Hermann, New York, to Cornelius Greenway, September 17-October 3, 1936


Box 1 Hale, William Bayard, Philadelphia, to Charles C. Albertson, April 4, 1904


Box 1 Handlin, Oscar, Cambridge, MA, to Cornelius Greenway, March 29, 1957


Box 1 Harrison, William Jr., member of Continental Congree, Brooklyn, NY, to Thomas Smyth, April 25, 1776


Box 1 Hart, Albert Bushnell, Cambridge, MA, to Frank G. Moorhead, September 24, 1923


Box 1 Holdrege, Sarah L., Nantes, France, to [Sarah Holdrege] (Mrs. Henry Babcock Noyes?), April 4, 1832


Box 1 Holland, Josiah Gilbert, Alexandria Bay, NY, to "Dear Sir", June 22, 1878



Box Schaefler Vault Hugo, Victor Marie, comte (1802-1885), n.p., to "messieurs", March 1, [1841?], a.l.s., 2 p.


Box Schaefler Vault Hugo, Victor Marie, comte (1802-1885), n.p., to "Mon cher Collegue…", circa 1841?, a.l.s., 1 p.


Box Schaefler Vault Hugo, Victor (1802-1885), comte [Paris], to [Peupin]; Contour, Paris, to Peupin, August 1848; August 7, 1848, a.l.s., 1 p. and a.l.s., 2 p.

The second letter is asking for government help with his business problems; the first was added to the second in support of the writer


Box Schaefler Vault Hugo, Victor Marie, comte (1802-1885), [Guernsey], to the Director of the Banking Company, September 1871

a.l.s., 1 p. (with 2 p.d., filled out in ms., drafts for Hugo's payment to Dargaud, April 11, 1870 and August 1871)



Box 1 Huntington, Samuel (1731-1796), Hartford, CT, to Oliver Wolcott, Jr.; Hartford, to Ralph Pomeroy, July 29, 1788; November 16, 1789



Box Schaefler Vault [Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)?], n.p., to [Robert Livingston (1746-1813) ?], [1804]

Draft, with corrections and additions, of a letter of insturctions for the negotiations of James Monroe in Spain for the eastern boundary of the Louisiana Puchase



Box 1 Keyes, Frances Parkinson, Washington, DC, to Charles C. Albertson, December 9, 1947


Box 1 Kittredge, Walter (1834-1905), Reeds Ferry, NH, August 16, 1897


Box 1 Kock, Charles Paul de (1794-1871), n.p., to Mon Cher Collegue, October 27, 1847


Box 1 La Farge, Oliver, Santa Fe, NM, to Cornelius Greenway, August 9, 1955


Box 1 Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roche Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de, La Grange, France to [James Fenimore Cooper?], September 27, 1832

Edited transcription of Lafayette's 27 September 1832 letter to Samuel F. B. Morse (original letter in Morse Papers, Library of Congress) in an unknown hand. The transcription follows the version published the New York Observer, the New York Journal of Commerce, the [DC] National Intelligencer of 28 November 1832 and the 1 December issue of the national publication known as Niles Weekly Register (pp. 217-218), among others.


Box 1 Latude, Jean Henri Masers de (1725-1805), [Paris], to Louis XV, King of France, August 15, 1762


Box 1 La Gallienne, Richard (1866-1947), New York, to [Margot Holmes], circa 1903


Box 1 La Gallienne, Richard (1866-1947), n.p., to [Margot Holmes], January 1, 1903


Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865), Washington, D.C., to Henry Wager Halleck (1815-1872), January 1, 1863

This item was separated and is housed in Box 1 of the Abraham Lincoln Collection.


Box 1 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Cambridge, Mass., April 26, 1862


Box 1 Ludwig, Emil (1881-1948), Ascona, Switzerland, February 18, 1939


Box 1 Macaulay, Rose, London, to Cornelius Greenway, December 12, 1957


Box 1 McClintock, John, New Brunswick, NJ, to Norman Allison Calkins, November 29, 1852


Box 1 MacKaye, Percy Wallace, Windsor, NY, to William Stanley Braithwaite, August 9, 1914


Box 1 Markham, Edwin, Brooklyn, to John Swinton, December 28, 1900


Box 1 Markham, Edwin, Landing, NJ, to Charles Ferguson, August 18, 1907


Box 1 Markham, Edwin, West New Brighton, NY, to Mrs. Annie Russell Marble, January 3, 1917


Box 1 Markham, Edwin, Washington, DC, to James Cox, June 4, 1924


Box 1 Markham, Edwin, West New Brighton, NY, to Max Reynolds, May 29, 1932


Box 1 Masefield, John [Stroud, Glos., UK], to Cornelius Greenway, February 28, 1939


Box 1 Masefield, John, Abingdon, UK, to Cornelius Greenway, April 1948[?]


Box 1 Mattocks, John (1777-1847), Peacham, VT, to "Dear Sir", 183-


Box 1 Meagher, Thomas Francis, New York, to "Dear Sir", December 16, 1856


Box 1 Miles, Nelson A., n.p., to Stilson Hutchins


Box 1 Milet de Mureau, Louis-Marie-Antoine Destouff, Baron (1756-1825), Paris, to [Empress Josephine], June 14, 1799


Box 1 Mirabeau, Andre Boniface Louis Riquetti, viscomte de (1754-1792), Paris, to Antoine Hyacinthe Anne de Chastenet, comte de Puysegur (1752-1809), April 30, 1789


Box 1 Monmayou, [Hugues-Guillaume-Bernard-Joseph], Paris, to Andre Demour, April 22, 1795


Box 1 Monroe, James (1758-1831), [New York?], to Dr. [James Augustus?] Washington (1803-1847), circa 1831


Box 1 Monsarrat, Nicholas John Turney, Ottawa, to Cornelius Greenway, September 29, 1955


Box 1 Moore, Marianne (Miss.), Northeast Harbor, ME, to Cornelius Greenway, August 23, 1955


Box 1 Moreau, [Jean-Victor], Paris, October 5, 1793


Box 1 Morgan, Angela, Philadelphia, to Charles C. Albertson, March 11, 1933


Box 1 Morley, Christopher, New York, to Will H. Solle, April 16, 1935


Box 1 Morton, David, Amherst, MA, to Mrs. Markham, January 8, 1931


Box 1 Morton, David, Amherst, MA, to Cornelius Greenway, April 14, 1905


Box 1 Morton, David, Amherst, MA, to Charles C. Albertson, March 16, 1932


Box 1 Mumford, Lewis, Amenia, NY, to Cornelius Greenway, September 2, 1955


Box 1 Mumford, Lewis, Amenia, NY, to Cornelius Greenway, September 18, 1963


Box 1 Munni, Paul, n.p., May 12, 1942


Box 1 Munroe, Kirk, Cocoanut Grove, FL, to John, September 26, 1904


Box 1 Murry, John Middleton, Diss, Norfolk, UK, to Cornelius Greenway, January 23, 1956


Box 1 Newbolt, Henry, Salisburg, [UK], to Charles C. Albertson, July 13, 1931


Box 1 Newbolt, Sir Henry John (1862-1938), London, Cornelius Greenway, February 25, 1935


Box 1 Newton, Joseph Fort, Overbrook, Pa., to Charles C. Albertson, February 28, 1929


Box 1 Noyes, Daniel Rogers (1793-1877), Lyme, CT, to Henry Babcock Noyes (1814-1889), July 13, 1844


Box 1 Noyes, Nancy Phelps (Mrs. James Wells), Stonington, CT, to Thomas Noyes (1786-1860), March 13, n.y.


Box 1 Noyes, Thomas (1786-1860), Rochester, NY, to Hannah Babcock Phelps (Mrs. Joseph D.), December 4, 1826


Box 1 Oersted, Hans Christian, Copenhagen, to John Herschel, October 16, 1838


Box 1 Oppenheim, James, New York, to Charles C. Albertson, February 5, 1931


Box 1 O'Reilly, John Boyle, [Boston?], to Miss Wachschlagen


Box 1 Osborne, John, [London?], to Cornelius Greenway, January 31, 1962


Box 1 Oudot, Charles-François, et. al., Paris, to Commission du Mouvement de Armees de Terre, September 13, 1794


Box 1 Pasquel, Jean Baptiste, Paris, to Comite de Salut Public, [1795?]


Box 1 Payne, John Howard, Washington, to John Lorimer Graham, April 20, 1840


Box 1 Payne, John Howard, Tunis, to Horace H. Day, June 3, 1845


Box 1 Phelps, William Lyon, New Haven, CT, to Mr. May, June 19, 1928


Box 1 Pierrugues, Le Chevalier, engineer, Bordeux, France, to James Madison, President of the United States, October 2, 1815


Box 1 Pighetti, Comte de, Madrid, from unidentified correspondent, April 17, 1717


Box 1 Pighetti, Lemary? [Comte de?], Milan, from unidentified correspondent, March 1, 1734


Box 1 Pike, Nicholas, Newbury Port, MA, to Jedidiah Morse, September 3, 1799


Box 1 Porter, Fitz-John, New York, to "Dear Sir", February 24, n.y.


Box 1 Pupin, Michael T., Norfolk, CN, to Christine Smith Kerr, October 28, 1931


Box 1 Rainer, Louise, New York, to Charles C. Albertson, November 3, 1939


Box 1 Rebus, n.p., January, 1734


Box 1 Richter, Conrad, Pine Grove, Pa., to Cornelius Greenway, 1955-08-19


Box 1 Roberts, Cecil, New York, March 3, 1929



Box Schaefler Vault Robespierre, Maximilien, François Marie Isidore de, (1758-1794), [Paris], [179-], a.l.s., 1 p.

re: the proper role of the tribunal



Box 1 Robinson, Edwin Arlington, New York, to Charles C. Albertson, December 11, 1930


Box 1 Rolland, Romain, Paris, January 1, 1911


Box 1 Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919), New York, to Henry Woodhouse, July 26, 1917


Box 1 Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919), New York, to Henry Woodhouse, May 18, 1918


Box 1 Rosiere, Countess (wife of Count Louis Clement de), Paris, to [Bank of England], circa 1825


Box 1 Sabbatier, T., Paris, to [Lazare Carnot]; Carnot, Lazare, Paris, to [Jean-Baptiste-Noel Bouchotte?], February 1, 1796; February 10, 1796


Box 1 Saltus, Edgar, New York, to Mr. Dixon, January 3, 1890


Box 1 Santerre, Antoine-Joseph, et. al., Versailles, to Mounier, September 23, 1789


Box 1 Scollard, Clinton, Washington, DC, to Charles C. Albertson, January 8, n.y.


Box 1 Sebastiani, Horace (1772-1851), Paris, to Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roches Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, October 24, 1830


Box 1 Sedgwick, Anne Douglas (1873-1935), Kingham, Oxon., UK, to Cornelius Greenway, August 12, [1925?]


Box 1 Service, Robert William (1874-1958), France, to Cornelius Greenway, July 15, 1936


Box 1 Seward, William Henry 1801-1872], Washington, DC, to Eugene Rouher [1814-1884], December 10, 1867


Box 1 Shillaber, Benjamin Penhallow (1814-1890), Chelsea, to Sylvanus H. Cobb (1823-1887), March 7, 1883


Box 1 Sickles, Daniel E., New York, to W.L. Wilson, June 6, 1892


Box 1 Smith, William Farrar, Wilmington, DE, to Stillson Hutchins, June 12, 1886


Box 1 Sothern, Edward Askew, Philadelphia, February 8, circa 1858


Box 1 Spyri, Johanne (Heusser) (1827-1901), Zurich, March 8, 1896


Box 1 Stegner, Wallace, Stanford, CA, to Cornelius Greenway, September 2, 1955


Box 1 Swinnerton, Frank Arthur, Cranleigh, Surrey, UK, to Cornelius Greenway, September 29, 1955


Box 1 Symons, Arthur, London, to Julian Magnus, March 4, 1906


Box 1 Tallmadge, Benjamin (1754-1836), Wethersfield, CT, to [Peter?] Colt (1744-1824), July 24, 1781



Mapcase 14-M-9 Tauchintz, Karl Christian Phillipp (1798-1884), Leipzig, to Romeo Elton, February 22, 1848, a.l.s., 3 p.



Box 1 Thesur[?], l'abbe de, Paris, December 4, 1717


Box 1 Thierry, Augustin (1795-1856), Washington, to James Madison, President of the United States, January 12, 1817


Box 1 Todd, John Payne, Ghent, Letters to Todd, December 1814


Box 1 Todd, John Payne, [Washington], to Mr. Roth, February 9, 1817


Box 1 Torcy [J.-B. Colbert?], Paris, October 29, 1734


Box 1 Torrence, Ridgely, New York and Oxford, to Corenlius Greenway, October 23, 1938-December 5, 1941


Box 1 Towne, Charles Hanson, New York, to Charles C. Albertson, March 10, 1931


Box 1 Toynbee, Arnold Joseph, London, to Cornelius Greenway, June 27, 1962


Box 1 Trevor-Roper, Hugh Redwald (1914-1988), Oxford, to Cornelius Greenway, July 26, 1956


Box 1 Trevor-Roper, Hugh Redwald (1914-1988), Oxford, to Cornelius Greenway, August 24, 1956


Box 1 Tuchman, Barbara Wetheim (Mrs. Lester R.), New York, to Cornelius Greenway, September 18, [1963?]


Box 1 Van Doren, Mark, [Falls Village, CT], to Cornelius Greenway, November 28, 1955


Box 1 Van Loon, Hendrik William, Old Greenwich, CT, October 28, 1937


Box 1 Vienne, Louis Pierre, marquis de [1746-], Paris, to J[?] M. Destouet, October 1, 1816


Box 1 Waldo, Daniel, n.p., April 5, 1860


Box 1 Watson, William, Peacehaven, [U.K.], to [Charles C. Albertson], January 29, 1932


Box 1 Weems, Mason Locke (1759-1825), [Augusta, GA?], to [Gerard T.?] Hopkins, March 15, [1822]


Box 1 Willis, Nathaniel Parker, n.p., to "Dear Sir"


Box 1 Wilson, Sloan, West Newton, MA, to Cornelius Greenway, October 26 [i.e. September], 1955


Box 1 Woollcott, Alexander, [New York?], to Miss Roberts, August 26, 1935


Box 1 Work, Henry Clay (1832-1884), Hartford, to William Weston Patton (1821-1889), March 1850


Box 1 Wouk, Herman, New York, to Cornelius Greenway, November 7, 1955


Box 1 Yutang, Lin, n.p.


Box 1 Zaturenska, Maya (Mrs. Horace Gregory), Long Island, NY, to Charles C. Albertson, 1931-03-16