TY  - GEN
TI  - Denby family papers,
KW  - Denby, Charles,
KW  - Denby, Edwin,
KW  - Denby, Graham
KW  - Denby, Harriet
KW  - Denby, Martha Fitch
KW  - Denby, Thomas Garvin
KW  - Denby, Wythe
KW  - Fitch, Graham N.
KW  - Fitch, Harriet Satterlee
KW  - Denby family.
KW  - China
KW  - Hai guan zong shui wu si shu
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Indiana Infantry Regiment, 42nd (1861-1865)
KW  - Indiana Infantry Regiment, 80th (1862-1865)
KW  - Congress
KW  - Department of State
KW  - Philippine Commission (1899-1900)
KW  - War Department
KW  - College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.)
KW  - Hellmuth Ladies' College (London, Ont.)
KW  - Yosemite (Cruiser)
KW  - Customs administration
KW  - Diplomatic and consular service, American
KW  - Beijing
KW  - Mining engineering
KW  - Alaska
KW  - Arizona
KW  - Utah
KW  - Practice of law
KW  - Indiana
KW  - Evansville
KW  - Spanish-American War, 1898
KW  - Universities and colleges
KW  - New Jersey
KW  - Princeton
KW  - Ontario
KW  - London
KW  - Alabama
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Europe
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Evansville (Ind.)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Kentucky
KW  - Logansport (Ind.)
KW  - Philippines
KW  - Tennessee
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Chiefly correspondence and related material exchanged among Denby family members.  The bulk of the letters are between Charles Denby (1830-1904), his wife Martha Fitch Denby, and their children Graham, Charles (1861-1938), Harriet, Wythe, Edwin, and Thomas Garvin.  Also includes letters from Martha's mother Harriet Satterlee Fitch and father Graham Newell Fitch; Includes courtship correspondence (1850s) between Charles Denby, a lawyer in Evansville, Ind., and Martha of Logansport, Ind., and Washington, D.C.  Includes Civil War correspondence of Charles written while serving with the Forty-second Indiana Volunteers and the Eightieth Indiana Volunteers in Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee.  Letters speak of life at home and in camp.  Correspondence (1860s-1870s) documents family life, local and national events, and Charles's work as a lawyer.  Includes letters from Denby's son Charles while he attended the College of New Jersey, Princeton, N.J., and from their daughter Harriet while she attended Hellmuth Ladies' College, London, Ont; Correspondence (1885-1905) pertains to the elder Charles Denby's post as minister to China, the official, social, and domestic lives of the diplomatic community in Beijing, and the life of other Denby family members in China and the U.S.  Includes material relating to son Charles's work in diplomatic service and business in China and Edwin's service in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service (Hai guan zong shui wu si shu).  Documents the Spanish-American War in relation to Edwin's and son-in-law Gilbert Wilkes's service aboard the cruiser Yosemite in 1898 and father Charles's service on a commission investigating the conduct of the U.S. War Dept. during the war and on the U.S. Philippine Commission.  Includes a journal Martha kept on a trip with the commission to the Philippines; Correspondence (1890s-1911) document Wythe's work as a mining engineer in Alaska, Arizona, and Utah; Edwin's election to Congress, his early days in Washington, D.C., and a trip to Europe; and son Charles's work in the State Department
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007015
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007015.3
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