MAN. Manuscript Collections

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The collection consists of fragments of records from railroads in the Western Maryland Railway Company between 1857-1961.

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This collection contains correspondence, deeds, wills, and other ephemera of the Wetherall and related families.

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This collection includes deeds, mortgages, leases, and land warrants for property in Baltimore City, Anne Arundel County, and North Carolina. Included are land warrants for land in Iowa and Missouri rewarding military service in the War of 1812 and these are signed by Presidents James Buchanan and Millard Filmore. There is also a list of all deeds once held by the White family. One Virginia land warrant is signed by James Monroe.

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This collection deals with the law practice of William A. Stewart. The materials in this collection are dated between 1812 and 1893.

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This collection contains correspondence, genealogical, topographical and historical research material, and items of a more personal nature such as financial data, travel journals, and wills of William Bose Marye (1886-1979). Marye was a prominent authority on Maryland history, genealogy, topography, and Indian archaeology.

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In this travel journal, William E. Bartlett, Jr. describes his 1847 trip to Paris, France as well as to other European cities including Amsterdam, Cologne, Dusseldorf, and Le Havre.

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This collection contains military papers and correspondence of General William H. Winder (1775-1824). The materials relate to his activities during the War of 1812 and subsequent court martial after the defeat at Bladensburg, Maryland. Posthumous material consists of his son’s correspondence concerning his father.

Abstract Summary: This collection is the personal and business papers of William J. Ward, 1808-1892, consisting of: business and family correspondence; indentures, deeds depositions, land plats, and other legal documents; receipts, lists, and other financial documents; printed materials; and a garden journal. Some correspondence in the collection mentions Civil War Reconstruction issues from the perspective of a Southern Sympathizer. Of particular interest is a sermon by William J. Ward, published in...

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This collection contains documents relating to William Madsen Andersen’s service in the Quartermaster Corps during World War I.

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William Matthew Marine, 1843-1904, was a Baltimore attorney, the collector of the Port of Baltimore during the 1890's, and an amateur writer. This collection contains 32 boxes comprised of his legal and political correspondence, notes, and clippings from 1808-1904.