Bancroft-Bliss families papers, (Record no. 39324)
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | mm 75011700 |
| NUCMC control number | ms 60000771 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | dacs |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| Modifying agency | DLC |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | C |
| Source | lcmd |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Bancroft-Bliss families papers, |
| Inclusive dates | 1788-1928 |
| Bulk dates | (bulk 1815-1875). |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 5,800 |
| Type of unit | items. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 20 |
| Type of unit | containers plus |
| Extent | 3 |
| Type of unit | oversize. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 |
| Type of unit | microfilm reel. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 8.1 |
| Type of unit | linear feet. |
| 351 ## - ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF MATERIALS | |
| Organization | Arranged in 4 series. Series 1: Family Correspondence, 1810-1902; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1788-1928; Series 3: Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors, 1863-1864; and Series 4: Miscellany, 1820-1926. |
| 506 0# - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE | |
| Terms governing access | Open to research. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Correspondence, diary, speeches, writings, legal and financial records, printed matter, and other papers of members of the Bliss and Bancroft families. Persons represented include George Bancroft (1800-1891), historian, U.S. secretary of the navy, and U.S. minister to England and Germany, whose career is reflected in personal, official, and other papers, and includes an annotated galleys of his article on James K. Polk for Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography; his wife, Elizabeth Davis Bancroft (1803-1886), whose papers relate to conditions in England, France, and Germany during Bancroft's years abroad; her first husband, Alexander Bliss (1792-1827), lawyer and junior partner of Daniel Webster, who is represented by social and business correspondence (including 140 letters, 1816-1827, of Webster); and their son, Alexander Bliss (1827-1896), author, soldier, and secretary of the U.S. legation at Berlin, whose papers concern his service as an officer in the U.S. Quartermaster's Dept. during and after the Civil War and his observations of the social and economic conditions in the U.S. and Europe. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Includes papers of other family members relating to affairs in Europe, foreign travel, relief work in Italy after World War I, and the schoolwork of children in Latin schools, as well as letters to Alexander Bliss and John Pendleton Kennedy concerning the publication of their Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors (1864). Correspondents associated with Autograph Leaves include William C. Bryant, Ralph W. Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Henry D. Thoreau. Other correspondents include Joseph G. Crane, George William Curtis, Caroline B. Estcomb, George Hardwick, John Hay, Rufus Ingalls, Montgomery C. Meigs, Elizabeth P. Peabody, Charles Sumner, Angelica Van Buren, and Lydia Williams. |
| 530 ## - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM AVAILABLE NOTE | |
| Additional physical form available note | Microfilm edition of selections available, |
| Order number | no. 3,476 (13,231). |
| 533 ## - REPRODUCTION NOTE | |
| Type of reproduction | Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. |
| Place of reproduction | Washington, D.C. : |
| Agency responsible for reproduction | Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, |
| Date of reproduction | 1944. |
| 533 ## - REPRODUCTION NOTE | |
| Type of reproduction | In part, photocopies. |
| Place of reproduction | [S.l.]. |
| 544 ## - LOCATION OF OTHER ARCHIVAL MATERIALS NOTE | |
| Materials specified | Some photographs |
| Provenance | transferred to |
| Custodian | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. |
| 544 ## - LOCATION OF OTHER ARCHIVAL MATERIALS NOTE | |
| Materials specified | Some maps |
| Provenance | transferred to |
| Custodian | Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. |
| 544 ## - LOCATION OF OTHER ARCHIVAL MATERIALS NOTE | |
| Materials specified | Some books |
| Provenance | transferred to |
| Custodian | Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division. |
| 545 0# - BIOGRAPHICAL OR HISTORICAL DATA | |
| Biographical or historical data | Bancroft and Bliss family members including George Bancroft: historian, U.S. secretary of the navy, and U.S. minister to England and Germany; his wife, Elizabeth Davis Bancroft; her first husband, Alexander Bliss (1792-1827), lawyer and junior partner of Daniel Webster; and their son, Alexander Bliss (1827-1896), author, soldier, and secretary of the American legation at Berlin. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | Collection material in English. |
| 555 8# - CUMULATIVE INDEX/FINDING AIDS NOTE | |
| Cumulative index/finding aids note | Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011191">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011191</a> |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bryant, William Cullen, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1794-1878 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Crane, Joseph G. |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Curtis, George William, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1824-1892 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Emerson, Ralph Waldo, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1803-1882 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Estcomb, Caroline B. |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hardwick, George |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hawthorne, Nathaniel, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1804-1864 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hay, John, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1838-1905 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Ingalls, Rufus, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1818-1893 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Kennedy, John Pendleton, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1795-1870 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Meigs, Montgomery C. |
| Fuller form of name | (Montgomery Cunningham), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1816-1892 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Melville, Herman, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1819-1891 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1804-1894 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Polk, James K. |
| Fuller form of name | (James Knox), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1795-1849. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sumner, Charles, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1811-1874 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Thoreau, Henry David, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1817-1862 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Van Buren, Angelica Singleton, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1816-1877 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Webster, Daniel, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1782-1852 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Williams, Lydia |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 30 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bancroft family. |
| 600 30 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bliss family. |
| 610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | United States. |
| Subordinate unit | Army. |
| -- | Quartermaster's Department. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Private schools |
| Geographic subdivision | United States. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Europe |
| General subdivision | Social conditions. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | France |
| General subdivision | Social conditions. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Germany |
| General subdivision | Foreign relations |
| Geographic subdivision | United States. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Germany |
| General subdivision | Social conditions |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Great Britain |
| General subdivision | Foreign relations |
| Geographic subdivision | United States. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Great Britain |
| General subdivision | Social conditions. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Italy |
| General subdivision | Social conditions. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States |
| General subdivision | Biography |
| -- | Encyclopedias. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States |
| General subdivision | Foreign relations |
| Geographic subdivision | Germany. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States |
| General subdivision | Foreign relations |
| Geographic subdivision | Great Britain. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | Civil War, 1861-1865. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bancroft, Elizabeth Davis, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1803-1886. |
| Title of a work | Elizabeth Davis Bancroft papers. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bancroft, George, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1800-1891. |
| Title of a work | George Bancroft papers. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bliss, Alexander, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1792-1827. |
| Title of a work | Alexander Bliss papers. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bliss, Alexander, |
| Dates associated with a name | -1896. |
| Title of a work | Alexander Bliss papers. |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011191">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011191</a> |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid (PDF) |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011191.3">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011191.3</a> |
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