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Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 278 Collections and/or Records:

Philpot-Randall family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2816
Abstract

This collection consists of manuscript items, legal documents, and correspondence belonging to the Philpot and Randall families, 1726-1936.

Dates: 1726-1936; Majority of material found within 1850-1900

Randall-Brune-Philpot family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2824
Abstract

This collection documents the Randall-Brune-Philpot families from 1760-1983.

Dates: 1760 - 1983

Randall papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0648
Abstract

This collection primarily contains the papers of Daniel R. Randall (1864-1936), a lawyer and historian based in Baltimore and Annapolis. His papers include a scrapbook with illustrations clipped from Harper's Magazine; an account book listing estates handled; essays, notes, speeches; and correspondence concerning efforts to locate the grave of Governor Robert Eden. Material from other Randall family members is also included in the collection.

Dates: 1780-1939

Ranft collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3008
Abstract

The papers in the Ranft Collection span the years 1943 to 1976, with the bulk of the collection falling between the years 1948-1962. The collection consists of letters, news articles, financial records, travel information, interviews, and over a hundred photographs. The collection has been arranged around Joseph and Adele Ranft.

Dates: 1943-1976; Majority of material found within 1948-1962

Rebecca Lloyd Nicholson Post Shippen collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3144
Abstract

The collection primarily contains letters written to Rebecca Shippen as well as ephemera saved by the Shippen family, such as church sermons.

Dates: 1889-1924

Redwood collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0676
Abstract

This collection contains primarily letters from Lt. George Buchanan Redwood (1888-1918) to his mother Mary Buchanan Coale Redwood (1861-1940) as well as the sympathy letters she received after he was killed in action on May 28, 1918 during World War I. Also included in the collection is the correspondence of William E. Coale (1816-1865) and George Buchanan Coale (1819-1887) and a volume of poems entitled "Random Rhymes at Truant Times" belonging to John Greene Proud, Jr. (1813-1883).

Dates: 1828-1919

Redwood collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1530.1
Abstract

The papers in this collection belonged to Mary Buchanan Coale Redwood, and consist of some of her personal letters, letters to George B. Coale and Charles Bradenbaugh, four loose-leaf binders of copied letters and records about her son, George B. Redwood, transcribed papers of the Hopkinson, Duche, Dorsey, Coale and other families, and copies of essays and poems.

Dates: 1766-1938

Reuben E. Stivers personal and naval correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2890
Abstract

The Stivers collection consists of twenty boxes of personal and navy correspondence written by Stivers, his colleagues, and family between 1913 and 1998. The Navy correspondence centers around Stivers' past service record and efforts made on the behalf of the Shenandoah Council. Personal correspondence includes annual Christmas letters, biographical information about Stivers, his friends, travel accounts, newspaper clippings, and correspondence concerning Stivers' publishing negotiations.

Dates: 1913-1998

Reverend John Hersey collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1016.3
Abstract

This collection consists of the the personal papers, namely correspondence, belonging to Reverend John Hersey, a Methodist Episcopal minister who came to Baltimore in 1835 as a missionary preacher. The material was collected by the Reverend Fletcher E. Marine during the period 1870-1889 while he was in the course of writing Hersey's biography.

Dates: 1829-1889

Reverend John Lusby Pitts papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3266
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence addressed to Reverend John Lusby Pitts, an itinerant Methodist minister in Maryland and Virginia, between 1798-1821. The majority of the letters are penned by other Methodist ministers and discuss camp meetings, revivals, conferences, politics, as well as daily life.

Dates: 1787 February 16-1826 January 17; Majority of material found within 1798 - 1821