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Archives related to: Bancroft, John Chandler, 1835-1901
| title | Correspondence associated with: Bancroft, John Chandler | repository | Online Edition of Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler |
| description | John Bancroft was the recipient, sender or subject of 58 documents, dated between 1889-1896, associated with Whistler and his work. They are available online in either digital form or by transcript, and in some cases both. The individual documents are located in the following repositories: Glasgow University Library New York Public Library The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York |
| extent | 58 Documents |
| formats | Correspondence Electronic Resource |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/ |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:30:05 |
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| title | Autograph letters signed (4) : Boston, to George Du Maurier, 1894 Aug. 29-1895 Apr. 29. | repository | Pierpont Morgan Library Archives |
| description | Referring at length to the portrait of Whistler in Trilby and Whistler's reaction to the book, mentioning Tom Armstrong, and suggesting a lecture tour in the U.S. Biographical Note American art collector. Location: Literary and Historical Manuscripts (LHMS) Call Number: Misc American Record ID: 129416 Accession Number: MA 4452 |
| extent | 4 items (20 p.) ; (12mo & 8vo) |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://corsair.themorgan.org/ |
| acquisition information | Purchase, Fellows Fund; 1969. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:12 |
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| title | Samuel Gray Ward and Anna Hazard Barker Ward papers, 1823-1934 (inclusive) 1837-1900 (bulk). | repository | Houghton Library |
| description | Papers of Samual Baker Ward and his wife Anna Hazard Barker Ward, friends of Ralph Waldo Emerson and associates of the Transcendentalists. Chiefly letters to the Wards from relatives, friends, and business associates; also some letters by them, a few poems by Samuel Ward, and a diary, 1845-1852, and commonplace book of Anna Ward. The chief correspondent represented is Ralph Waldo Emerson. Others include Joshua Bates, John Murray Forbes, Margaret Fuller, Otto and Jenny Lind Goldschmidt, Augustine Heard, Henry James (the father), Fanny Kemble, Charles Eliot Norton, Elizabeth Peabody, Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Charles Sedgwick, Elizabeth Buckminster Dwight Sedgwick, Celia Laighton Thaxter, and Sarah Butler Wister. Biographical Note: Ward (1817-1907), a banker in Boston and New York, was a friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson and an associate of the Transcendentalists. Anna Hazard Barker Ward was his wife. Preferred Citation for Publication: Samuel Gray Ward and Anna Hazard Barker Ward Papers (MS Am 1465). Houghton Library, Harvard University. Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University Location: b Call No.: MS Am 1465 |
| extent | 2.3 linear ft |
| formats | Correspondence Writings |
| access | There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. |
| record source | http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00309 |
| finding aid | Online and in repository |
| acquisition information | *42M-2088 and *45M-343. Gift of Mrs. William C. Endicott and Mrs. Charles Bruen Perkins; received: 1942, 1944, and 6 March 1946. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:12 |
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| title | George Bancroft papers, 1811-1901. | repository | Cornell University Libraries |
| description | Family and personal papers include correspondence between George Bancroft and his first wife, Sarah Dwight (d.1837), his second wife, Elizabeth Davis Bliss, his father, Aaron Bancroft, his sister, Eliza Bancroft Davis, her husband John Davis, Governor of Massachusetts, his sister, Lucretia Bancroft Farnum, his two sons, George Bancroft, Jr., and John Chandler Bancroft during their school days and their travels abroad; other family letters are from other sisters and brothers, members of the Dwight family, Bancroft's two stepsons, Alexander and William Bliss, nieces, nephews, and other relatives; early deeds, other legal documents, papers pertaining to the settlement of various estates, and considerable genealogical material. Business and professional correspondence includes letters describing his involvement in Dwight family business interests, his stock holdings, and his work for the Bank of Michigan and other private banking ventures; letters and contracts with Little, Brown & Company detail his publication problems; and correspondence with his brokers and with his sons documents his later financial affairs, especially the income from his writings. There are some rough notes for his books and notes from personal interviews with Louis Philippe and Bismark. His political and diplomatic interests are documented by correspondence describing life in Washington, D.C., his career as Collector of the Port of Boston, and his advent as a cabinet official under Polk, as well as the Civil War and Reconstruction. Correspondence documents his appointments as Minister to Great Britain in 1849 and Minister to Berlin, 1849-1867. There is also a series of letters to his wife in 1847 discussing French politics in detail as well as his reaction to French historians and philosophers. In addition, the collection contains a large number of autographed letters from persons prominent in public affairs and the literary world in Europe and America, 1817-1886; albums of photographs of the German royal family and others; bronze plaque honoring Bancroft; 90th birthday scrapbook; guest book, 1894-1899; and two letters, 1941, to Wilder D. Bancroft from the U.S. Navy regarding the launching of a ship named for George Bancroft. Included is correspondence by or about Ann Bancroft, Mary Bancroft, Sarah Bancroft, Thomas Bancroft, Alexander Bliss, William Bliss, T. Hartley Crawford, Jonathan Dwight, Jane Putnam Bancroft Gherardi, D. Goodwin, William Murphy, Henry Schoolcraft, Charles C. Trowbridge, Baxter Witter, and Levi Woodbury. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Historian, diplomat. Collection Number: 1262 Cite As: George Bancroft papers, #1262. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. |
| extent | 7 linear ft. |
| formats | Personal Papers Correspondence Legal Papers Estate Papers Writings |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/pdf_guides/RMM01262.pdf |
| record source | http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/EADresolver?id=RMM01262 |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:12 |
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