mixed material monographic eng 5,800 20 3 1 8.1 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. 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. Open to research. Microfilm edition of selections available, no. 3,476 (13,231). Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1944. In part, photocopies. [S.l.]. Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Some maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. Some books transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division. 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. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011191 Bryant, William Cullen 1794-1878 Correspondence Crane, Joseph G Correspondence Curtis, George William 1824-1892 Correspondence Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882 Correspondence Estcomb, Caroline B Correspondence Hardwick, George Correspondence Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-1864 Correspondence Hay, John 1838-1905 Correspondence Ingalls, Rufus 1818-1893 Correspondence Kennedy, John Pendleton 1795-1870 Correspondence Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham) 1816-1892 Correspondence Melville, Herman 1819-1891 Correspondence Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer 1804-1894 Correspondence Polk, James K. (James Knox) 1795-1849 Sumner, Charles 1811-1874 Correspondence Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862 Correspondence Van Buren, Angelica Singleton 1816-1877 Correspondence Webster, Daniel 1782-1852 Correspondence Williams, Lydia Correspondence Bancroft family Bliss family United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department. Private schools United States Europe Social conditions France Social conditions Germany Foreign relations United States Germany Social conditions Great Britain Foreign relations United States Great Britain Social conditions Italy Social conditions United States Biography Encyclopedias United States Foreign relations Germany United States Foreign relations Great Britain United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Bancroft, Elizabeth Davis, 1803-1886 Bancroft, George, 1800-1891 Bliss, Alexander, 1792-1827 Bliss, Alexander, -1896 mm 75011700 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011191 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011191.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011191 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011191.3 Open to research. DLC 750314 20260227111615.0 mm 75011700 eng