E.B. O'Callaghan papers, 1830-1879 (bulk 1845-1860).

By: Material type: Mixed materialsMixed materialsLanguage: English, French Description: 2,000 items; 20 containers; 4.4 linear feetContained works:
  • O'Callaghan, E. B. 1797-1880. History of New Netherland. 1846-1848
Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: Correspondence, a draft of his History of New Netherland (1846-1848), biographical material, and other papers pertaining primarily to O'Callaghan's career as bibliographer, historian, and secretary-archivist in the New York (State) Secretary's Office. Also documents his career as an editor of the Montreal Vindicator and legislator in the Lower Canada Legislature. Subjects include New York State history, rare bibliographic Americana, editions of the Bible, and American history represented in European archives. Correspondents include Solomon Alofsen, Edward G. Allen, Edward Armstrong, George Bancroft, Elizabeth T. Porter Beach, Theodric Romeyn Beck, John Romeyn Brodhead, John Carter Brown, Charles Deane, Samuel Gardner Drake, Lyman Copeland Draper, Thomas Ewbank, Édouard Raymond Fabre, Hector Fabre, F.-X. Garneau, William Gowans, Thaddeus William Harris, Samuel F. Haven, Charles J. Hoadly, James Lenox, George Livermore, William Lyon MacKenzie, Benj. N. Martin, George Henry Moore, Henry Cruse Murphy, Louis Joseph Papineau, Francis Parkman, Louis Perrault, Charles Benjamin Richardson, John Gilmary Shea, Alpheus Todd, D.T. Valentine, Townsend Ward, and William A. Whitehead.
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Correspondence, a draft of his History of New Netherland (1846-1848), biographical material, and other papers pertaining primarily to O'Callaghan's career as bibliographer, historian, and secretary-archivist in the New York (State) Secretary's Office. Also documents his career as an editor of the Montreal Vindicator and legislator in the Lower Canada Legislature. Subjects include New York State history, rare bibliographic Americana, editions of the Bible, and American history represented in European archives. Correspondents include Solomon Alofsen, Edward G. Allen, Edward Armstrong, George Bancroft, Elizabeth T. Porter Beach, Theodric Romeyn Beck, John Romeyn Brodhead, John Carter Brown, Charles Deane, Samuel Gardner Drake, Lyman Copeland Draper, Thomas Ewbank, Édouard Raymond Fabre, Hector Fabre, F.-X. Garneau, William Gowans, Thaddeus William Harris, Samuel F. Haven, Charles J. Hoadly, James Lenox, George Livermore, William Lyon MacKenzie, Benj. N. Martin, George Henry Moore, Henry Cruse Murphy, Louis Joseph Papineau, Francis Parkman, Louis Perrault, Charles Benjamin Richardson, John Gilmary Shea, Alpheus Todd, D.T. Valentine, Townsend Ward, and William A. Whitehead.

Physician, historian, bibliographer, journalist, provincial legislator, and secretary-archivist.

Collection material in English and French.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012182

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