Jay family papers, 1828-1943

Summary Information

At a Glance

Arrangement

Arrangement

Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged.

• Series I: Cataloged Correspondence
• Series II: Cataloged Documents
• Series III: Other Materials
• Incomplete Subject Guide

Description

Summary

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.

• Series I: Cataloged Correspondence

• Series II: Cataloged Documents

• Series III: Other Materials

• Incomplete Subject Guide

  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.

Using the Collection

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Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

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Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Jay family papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Jay, Mrs. Peter A. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1959. Accession number--M-59.

Mrs Pierre Jay, 1959

Mrs. Paschal, 1961

Abbot Low Moffat, 1961

Gift of Mrs. Arthur 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.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 07/--/1989.

Papers Processed HR 09/18/1991.

Legal papers re. H.B. Dawson Cataloged HR 02/28/1997.

Revision Description

2022-07-05 Container list created by CCR.

Subject Headings

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