Hamilton Fish letters, 1820-1917

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Series II: Materials and additions, 1820-1917

This series contains the rest of the items in this collection, that is, those that are not correspondence and those that were added later. This series includes notebooks, travel diaries, publications, etc. Other items in this series were part of the gifts from Hamilton Fish in 1973 and again in 1974.


Columbia College materials



Box 7 Folder 1 College notebooks, 1823-1827, 9 items

Notes on the history of algebra taken from lectures delivered by Professor Anderson in Columbia College, 1827; Political Economy; History of Literature; Cicero's De Oficiis; Pindar's Odes; and others.


Box 7 Folder 6 Notices from President Barnard re: Nicholas Fish, 1865-1866

Attendance record and deficiency in mathematics


Box 7 Folder 4 Columbia College printed materials, 1882-1890

Department of Architecture (under the School of Mines) announcement and Seth Low installation as President.


Box 7 Folder 3 Association of the Alumni of Columbia College materials, 1887-1891

Annual dinner and event invitations / announcements


Box 7 Folder 5 Columbia College Board of Trustees - University Bulletin, No. VII, 1894


Box 7 Folder 2 Diary of Hamilton Fish's travels through Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, England, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Scotland, Switzerland and Wales, 1857-1858, 2 Volumes

Volume 1: 1857 July 25-1858 January 31; Volume 2: 1858 February 1-1858 November 22.


Gift of Hamilton Fish, 1973



Box 8 Folder 1 Hamilton Fish, Jr. essays, 1862-1863


Box 8 Folder 2 Thomas B. Dibblee correspondence, 1843-1845


Box 8 Folder 3 Austin Barker Keep correspondence, 1911-1913


Box 8 Folder 4 Hamilton Fish materials: Passport, bankbooks, notebooks, 1820-1859

Notes on Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus; translation of Hesiod's Theogony; analogy of the Greek terminations; etc.


Box 8 Folder 5 John Bassett Moore correspondence, 1906-1944


Box 8 Folder 6 Receipts, 1820-1825


Box 8 Folder 7 Stuyvesant Fish materials, 1871-1917

Commencement 1871 program


Box 8 Folder 8 Mrs. Nicholas Fish (Elizabeth Stuyvesant) bankbook, 1838-1842


Box 8 Folder 9 Nicholas Fish materials, 1781-1828


Box 8 Folder 10 Correspondence, 1788-1869


Box 8 Folder 11 Hamilton Fish, Jr. notebooks and account books, 1863-1893


Gift of Hamilton Fish, 1974



Box 9 Folder 1 Fish to Ruggles (Daniel)., 1883 February 12

Gift of Donald N. Mott, 1991


Box 9 Folder 2 Sergreant (Aaron) to Fish., 1844 January 4


Box 9 Folder 3 Van Rensselaer (Jacob Rutsen) to Fish., 1844 February 10


Box 9 Folder 4 Van Rensselaer (Jacob Rutsen) to Fish., 1844 March 2


Box 9 Folder 5 Correspondence, 1843-1901, 9 items

Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration of George Washington, letters from the Estate of Hamilton Fish


Box 9 Folder 6 Photocopies of letters, 1793-1837


Box 9 Folder 7 Copies of will, inventory of estate, statement of special fund, 1892-1902


Box 9 Folder 8 "American Literature" essay by Hamilton Fish, Jr., undated


Box 9 Folder 9 Receipts, account of fund from estate, 1894-1913, 1 Volumes


Printed Materials



Box 10 Encyclopedia Americana (Philadelphia: Carey & Lea), volumes 1-6, 1830-1831

Presentation copy from Hamilton Fish to Garrison Reading Room



Box 11 Encyclopedia Americana (Philadelphia: Carey & Lea), volumes 8-13, 1831-1833

Presentation copy from Hamilton Fish to Garrison Reading Room



Box 12 Pamphlets, 1869-1890

Alabama claims; Washington Treaty


Box 12 Confidential Memorandum, 1871

Confidential memorandum for the use of the commissioners on the part of the United States in the American-British Joint High Commission, Washington, 1871, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1871, 154 p. Gift of Hamilton Fish, December 29, 1972.



Box 13 Scrapbook of clippings relating to Hamilton Fish, 1848-1864

Gift of Allan Nevins. Newspaper clippings some attached, some folded in the pages of the large scrapbook.



Box 12 Duplicates of original letters in the Hamilton Fish Papers, undated

Typescripts and handwritten copies.