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Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 285 Collections and/or Records:

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

Reverend William F. Brand letter books

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0122
Abstract

This collection consists of copies of a series of letters between Reverend William F. Brand and Rt. Reverend William R. Whittingham, 4th bishop of Maryland, concerning duties of the clergy as citizens of a divided state and nation.

Dates: undated

Revolutionary War collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1814
Abstract

This is an artificial collection and includes items such as personal letters, muster rolls, military communication and orders, government administrative records, and petitions.

Dates: 1728-1962

Riach-Wade papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3271
Abstract This collection contains papers belonging to Mrs. John Douglass Wade (Louisa Gilmor Riach) of Montgomery County, Maryland. The collection includes the correspondence of her parents, Alexander Fridge Riach and Louisa Gilmor Hoffman, as well as correspondence from her husband, John Douglas Wade, prior to his death in World War I. Also included is a travel journal written by Benjamin Chew Howard, describing his walking tour of Scotland in 1817. The journal contains narrative descriptions of the...
Dates: 1817 - 1952

Richard Mareen Duvall papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0315
Abstract This collection contains correspondence, notes, and writings on the Duvall family by the prominent Maryland lawyer Richard Mareen Duvall. It also includes papers of the Society of Mareen Duvall Descendants and papers of Dr. Wirt A. Duvall, a former president of the Society. Additionally, the collection contains some manuscript items of Charles Duvall, William Duvall, Truman Duvall, Margaret Goldsborough, and Mary C. Goldsborough as well as information on other various Maryland families such...
Dates: 1810-1941

Ridgely family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1127
Abstract

This collection consists of the papers pertaining to the Ridgely family of Hampden in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1757 to 1949.

Dates: 1757-1949