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Letters

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

Aiken letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0185
Abstract

Letters to Aiken while a student at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and Dartmouth College. Mostly family and personal friends, 1865-1872. The collection also consists of term reports and accounts of Aiken at Andover, as well as some personal letters while a member of the Massachusetts State Legislature, to 1883.

Dates: 1865 - 1888

Alice W. Hood collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1318
Abstract

This collection consists of the biographical and genealogical material concerning the Hood family of Maryland. Also included are the personal letters of Alice Watkins Hood, as well as business records and correspondence of her father, John Mifflin Hood, president of the Western Maryland Railroad Company.

Dates: 1873-1951

Banks family manuscript collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3109
Abstract Contains notes on the Banks family genealogy and associated families. This includes letters between family members, print outs and photocopies from various genealogical resources, and marriage announcements and obituaries from newspapers in Maryland and Virginia. Extensive research was conducted on Colonel Julius Heileman and Alexander Wilson. A limited amount of original documents also comprise the collection, including the deeds to family home in Reisterstown, “Chatsworth,” wedding...
Dates: 1768 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1830 - 2004

Barroll family letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0108
Abstract

Miscellaneous group of family correspondence including Civil War letters of Kent County; family genealogical data is included.

Dates: 1845 - 1953

Battle Monument papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1198
Abstract

This collection contains the correspondence and accounts of expenditures by the committee in charge of the erection of the Battle Monument in Baltimore, Maryland.

Dates: 1814-1820

Bordley-Calvert collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0082
Abstract

Portion of the "Shippen Papers". Letters and documents (41) of members of the Calvert family, notably Benedict Leonard Calvert (1700-1732), who was Governor of Maryland from 1727-1732. Also papers of Thomas Hearne, English antiquarian, and John Beale Bordley and family.

Dates: 1612 - 1804

Bowie family collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0086
Abstract

This collection contains the business papers and letters of the Bowie family of Maryland 1898-1936. Handwritten copies of Bowie genealogical data and data of related families dating back to 1500s are also included.

Dates: 1898 - 1936

Brune-Randall family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2004
Abstract

The Brune-Randall Family Papers includes papers relating to 68 members of this extensive Baltimore family. The bulk of the papers are those of 6 individuals: Frederick W. Brune (1813-78), his wife Emily [Barton] Brune (1826-1908); their daughter Susan Katharine [Brune] Randall (1860-1937), her husband Blanchard Randall (1856-1942), their daughter Elizabeth Blanchard [Randall] Slack (b. 1892) and her husband Harry Richmond Slack (1888-1957). The papers span the period 1782 to 1972.

Dates: 1782-1972

Elbert Kenneth Saxmann manuscript collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3101
Abstract

This collection contains documents and ephemera relating to the life of Corporal Elbert K. Saxmann, focusing primarily upon World War II.

Dates: 1926 - 1963

Glenn papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1017
Abstract

The collection is comprised primarily of correspondence as well as legal documents, deeds, wills and indentures, and some of Judge John Glenn's and his son William Wilkins Glenn’s personal correspondence, including letters from Reverdy Johnson, Daniel Webster, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Maryland Governor Thomas Pratt, General Henry Heth, General Louis Wigfall.

Dates: 1706-1939