MAN. Manuscript Collections

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This collection contains the James Howard McHenry papers, dated 1810-1885. The vast majority of the collection is composed of family and business correspondence, but there are also scrapbooks, clippings, and ledgers.

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This collection contains one original letter, manuscript copies of letters, and typed copies of letters from James McHenry and various other political and military leaders during the Revolutionary War. Also included is the diary of Captain Wilson Mile Cary, C.S.A., 1862-1864.

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This collection spans the years 1651-1917 and is mostly an autograph collection consisting chiefly of letters written between 1768-1913 by contemporary and historical persons, usually elected MD officials as well as Revolutionary War dignitaries, Civil War combatants, U. S. Presidents, and many prominent men of the time.

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This collection contains the personal papers of Jameson Parker (1909-1972) and includes material on his time as a student at Johns Hopkins University; his involvement with the family steel firm in Baltimore; his work as an investment analyst with Trail and Middendorf as well as with the Maryland Public Expenditure Council; and his experience in the US Naval Reserve.

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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Collection of papers relating to the firm of Jesse Tyson & Sons, Baltimore flour merchants. The firm also dealt in grain, tobacco, textiles, wood etc. with South America, the West Indies, Africa, England, Mexico, and United States ports, including Philadelphia, New York, Charleston, Alexandria, and Norfolk.

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This collection contains the papers of the Jessop Family, farmers and landowners of Baltimore County, mostly concerning property, legal and financial matters.

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This collection consists of personal histories, ephemera, and photographs of the members of the 2nd Division, 1st Battalion, 5th Naval District, U.S. Naval Reserve, who served in the Panama and the Pacific theater of World War II.

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Letterbook containing a draft of an essay entitled "Sambo Mistakes" written by abolitionist John Brown (1800-1859).

Abstract The John Campbell White papers are a collection of correspondence, legal documents, financial documents, the Second Bank of the United States documents, John Campbell White & Sons Distillery papers, genealogical material related to the White, Buckler, Dorsey, Eichelberger, and Lyde families, a travel journal, poetry, copies of medical articles, maps and charts, printed ephemera, scrapbooks and scrapbook material, and commonplace books. The entire collection is arranged chronologically,...