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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Betts, Sinclair, and Stafford families papers, 1846-1945</title>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <abstract>Sinclair and Stafford families papers contain correspondence, military orders, military insignia, and other papers of Union Army officer William S. Sinclair, Confederate Army officer William Maner Stafford, and other Sinclair family members serving in the military in later years.  Betts family papers consist of two diaries, a notebook, baptismal certificates, obituaries, and a photograph.  The diaries document the daily duties of John Herbert Betts, an Episcopal priest in various parishes in Connecticut and New York (1846-1888).  Also includes a letter (1846 August 29) from Samuel Finley Breese Morse to Louis (?) concerning Louis's work as a telegraph operator.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Sinclair, Stafford, and Betts families.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Morse, Samuel Finley Breese</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1791-1872</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Betts family</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sinclair family</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stafford family</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Episcopal Church</namePart>
    </name>
    <geographic>Connecticut</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Episcopal Church</namePart>
    </name>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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    <titleInfo>
      <title>John Herbert Betts diaries</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Betts, John Herbert,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1820-1888</namePart>
    </name>
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  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>William S. Sinclair papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sinclair, William S.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>William Maner Stafford papers</title>
    </titleInfo>
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stafford, William Maner.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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