[microform] Kelley Family Papers, 1681-1936

Summary Information

At a Glance

Arrangement

• Series I.1: Catalogued Correspondence
• Series I.2: Catalogued Documents
• Series II: Family Correspondence

Description

Summary

Correspondence, documents, and photographs of the Kelley family. The members of the family most prominent in the collection are Albert Kelley, Caroline B. Kelley, Florence Kelley (1859-1932), John Bartram Kelley, Margaret Dana Kelley, Nicholas Kelley, and William Darrah Kelley (1814-1890). There are letters to William D. Kelley from Andrew Carnegie, Rutherford B. Hayes, Lajos Kossuth, Abraham Lincoln, Thaddeus Stevens, and Gideon Welles. Also, a group of twenty letters to Florence Kelley from Jane Addams, dated 1900-1931.

• Series I.1: Catalogued Correspondence

• Series I.2: Catalogued Documents

• Series II: Family Correspondence

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Reproduction Note

Type of reproduction--Microfilm; Dates and / or sequential of issues reproduced--8 March 1983.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Microfilm: Date of acquisition--03/08/83. Accession number--M-83-03-08.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

First 5 of 7 boxes have been microfilmed

Microfilm Entered HR 05/07/92.

Revision Description

2020-12-01 Added a box and folder list containing edited and enhanced description. cml

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History / Biographical Note

Biographical / Historical

Family of Philadelphia, Pa. William D. Kelley served as judge of the court of common pleas in Philadelphia, 1847-1856, and as Congressman from the Fourth Pennsylvania District, 1860-1888. Florence Kelley, the daughter of William D. and Caroline Kelley, was active in the field of social legislation and was a resident at Hull House in Chicago, 1891-1899, and at the Henry Street Settlement in New York, 1899-1924.