TY  - GEN
AU  - Bancroft,Elizabeth Davis
AU  - Bancroft,George
AU  - Bliss,Alexander
AU  - Bliss,Alexander
TI  - Bancroft-Bliss families papers,
KW  - Bryant, William Cullen,
KW  - Crane, Joseph G.
KW  - Curtis, George William,
KW  - Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
KW  - Estcomb, Caroline B.
KW  - Hardwick, George
KW  - Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
KW  - Hay, John,
KW  - Ingalls, Rufus,
KW  - Kennedy, John Pendleton,
KW  - Meigs, Montgomery C.
KW  - Melville, Herman,
KW  - Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer,
KW  - Polk, James K.
KW  - Sumner, Charles,
KW  - Thoreau, Henry David,
KW  - Van Buren, Angelica Singleton,
KW  - Webster, Daniel,
KW  - Williams, Lydia
KW  - Bancroft family.
KW  - Bliss family.
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Quartermaster's Department
KW  - Private schools
KW  - Europe
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - France
KW  - Germany
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Italy
KW  - Biography
KW  - Encyclopedias
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
N1  - 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.]
N2  - 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
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011191
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011191.3
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