Park Benjamin papers, 1645-1925

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#1512
Bib ID:
4079146 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Benjamin, Park, 1809-1864
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
9.24 linear feet (22 document boxes)
Language(s):
English .
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.

The following boxes are located off-site: 7-22. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. This collection is located on-site.

This collection has no restrictions.

Description

Summary

Correspondence, manuscripts of poems, and manuscripts of lectures by Benjamin. The correspondence consists of original letters of Benjamin, typescript and photostatic copies of Benjamin letters in other libraries, and letters to Benjamin from some of his literary contemporaries including Paul Hamilton Hayne, Willis Gaylord Clark, John Lothrop Motley, and Fitz-Greene Halleck. Many of the letters relate to Park Benjamin's lecture tours. There are other family letters and many documents relating to the Benjamin family,and two letterbooks of John Lothrop Motley. Also, a large amount of genealogical material of the Benjamin family, and its related families from the 16th century to the present day. There are also financial records, monographs, clippings, and photographs.

Arrangement

Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged. Box 1-4: Cataloged correspondence; Box 5-6: Cataloged manuscripts & documents; Box 7-8: Poems; Box 9: Lectures; Box 10-11: Genealogical materials; Box 12: Demerara accounts; Box 13: Photographs & sheet music; Box 13-15: Printed materials; Box 16: Benjamin family items; Box 17-22: Merle Hoover notes.

Using the Collection

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.

The following boxes are located off-site: 7-22. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. This collection is located on-site.

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Reproductions 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); Benjamin Park papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of William E. Benjamin, 1937; added to by gifts from his family.

Bequest of Dallas Pratt, 1994.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Benjamin, W. E. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--03/--/1937. Accession number--M37-03.

Letterbook of J.L. Motley: Source of acquisition--5285B (NYState). Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--01/26/1994. Accession number--M-94-01-26.

A. Lincoln letter: Source of acquisition--Pratt, Dallas. Method of acquisition--Bequest; Date of acquisition--05/20/1994. Accession number--M-94-05-20.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 04/04/1989.

Letterbook of J.L. Motley Cataloged HR 04/04/1994.

A. Lincoln letter Cataloged HR 12/04/1996.

Revision Description

2009-07-07 File created.

2012-10-09 XML document instance created by Catherine C. Ricciardi

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

2021-10-08 Corrected off-by-one error in box number in Series II. kws

Subject Headings

The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, and through ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.

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Genre/Form
Account books CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Accounts CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Advertising CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Albums (books) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bills of sale CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Biographies (literary works) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bonds (legal records) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Certificates CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Commissions CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Diaries CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Drafts (negotiable instruments) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Drawings (visual works) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Essays CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Estate inventories CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Financial records CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Genealogies (histories) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Indentures CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Inventories CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Invoices CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lectures CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Letter books CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lists (document genres) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Mortgages CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Notebooks CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Notes (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Payrolls CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Pen and ink drawings CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Photographs CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Poems CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Receipts (financial records) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Resolutions (administrative records) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Scores (documents for music) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sketches CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Stock certificates CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Tickets CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Wills CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Name
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Argyll, George Douglas Campbell, Duke of, 1823-1900 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Arthur, T. S (Timothy Shay), 1809-1885 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Barnard, Henry, 1811-1900 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Beeton, Samuel Orchart, 1831-1877 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Benjamin, John, 1598-1645 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Berington, Joseph, 1746-1827 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bright, John, 1811-1889 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Brooks, N. C (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Caruso, Enrico, 1873-1921 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Chester, Joseph Lemuel, 1821-1882 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Clark, Lewis Gaylord, 1808-1873 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Clark, Willis Gaylord, 1808-1841 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Clemens, Olivia Langdon, 1845-1904 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Curtis, George William, 1824-1892 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Dix, John Ross, 1800?-1865 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Ferris, Mary Lanman Douw, 1855-1932 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Forster, W. E (William Edward), 1818-1886 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Foster, Lafayette S (Lafayette Sabine), 1806-1880 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Gramont, Antoine Alfred Agénor de, Duc de Gramont & de Guiche, 1819-1880 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Greenwood, Grace, 1823-1904 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Grinnell, Moses Hicks, 1803-1877 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Griswold, Rufus W (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Guizot, François, 1787-1874 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 1790-1867 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 1830-1886 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1879 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hildreth, Richard, 1807-1865 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hillard, George Stillman, 1808-1879 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Judson, Emily C (Emily Chubbuck), 1817-1854 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Knowles, James Sheridan, 1784-1862 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Körner, Gustav Philipp, 1809-1896 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lanman, James, 1767-1841 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of, 1831-1891 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Madison, James, 1751-1836 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Marsh, George P (George Perkins), 1801-1882 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Mitchill, Samuel L (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Morris, George Pope, 1802-1864 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Motley, John Lothrop, 1814-1877 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Motley, Thomas CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Neal, John, 1793-1876 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Otis, George A (George Alexander), 1830-1881 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Park, Moses, 1738-1828 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Quincy, Josiah, 1802-1882 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Randall, Samuel, 1778-1864 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Raymond, Henry J (Henry Jarvis), 1820-1869 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Routledge, George, 1812-1888 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sargent, Epes, 1813-1880 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Savage, James, 1784-1873 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Savage, William, 1779-1851 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Senior, Nassau William, 1790-1864 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Seward, William H (William Henry), 1801-1872 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sheridan, Mary Motley CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sherwood, M. E. W (Mary Elizabeth Wilson), 1826-1903 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sigourney, L. H (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Spencer, John C (John Canfield), 1788-1855 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Stanton, Edwin M (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 1833-1908 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Stephens, Ann S (Ann Sophia), 1810-1886 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Studley, S. C (Sarah Cushing), 1815-1850 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Stuyvesant, Peter, 1592-1672 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sutherland, Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Howard Leveson-Gower, Duchess of, 1808-1868 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Trumbull, Jonathan, 1844-1919 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Verplanck, Gulian C (Gulian Crommelin), 1786-1870 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Washington, George, 1732-1799 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Whipple, Edwin Percy, 1819-1886 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Wright, Frances, 1795-1852 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Place
Demerara CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Norwich (Conn.) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Foreign public opinion, Austrian, [British, French, etc.] CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Subject
African Americans -- History -- 19th century CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
American literature -- 19th century CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Authors, American -- 19th century CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Deeds CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Diplomatic and consular service, American -- 19th century CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Diplomats CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Historians CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Journalists CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Plantation owners CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Plantations -- Guyana -- 19th century CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Poets CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Portraits CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Powers of attorney CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Publishers and publishing -- 19th century CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Scrapbooks CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Slaveholders CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID