Bonaparte, Elizabeth Patterson, 1785-1879

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The collection contains books from the personal libraries of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte and other Bonaparte family members. Many of the volumes contain autographs and annotations.

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The Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte papers consist of correspondence, account books, newspaper clippings and scrapbooks. Topics range from her life in Baltimore, her marriage to Jerome Bonaparte and exile from France, and her struggle to secure her son's inheritance. The collection is comprised of 20 boxes.

Abstract Papers (originals and copies, chiefly correspondence) of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, Sr. (1805-70), plus some correspondence of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte Jr. (1830-93). Contains numerous letters from members of the Bonaparte family, including Napoleon III, Joseph Bonaparte (Count of Survilliers), Jerome Bonaparte, Achille Murat (American author) etc. Correspondents (some of one letter only) also include Robert E. Lee, Winfield Scott, General John A. Dix (extensive), Franklin Pierce, Lew...

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This collection includes portraits of Patterson and Bonaparte family members, relatives and descendants of Betsy Patterson Bonaparte and/or Jerome Bonaparte.

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This collection consists of four typescripts of family history of the ancestors of Robert Lyon Mayall. The information in the typescripts was compiled from primary sources in the Maryland Historical Society.

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This collection contains correspondence of William Patterson, chiefly in regard to his daughter Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, but also in regards to business and politics.