Bancroft-Bliss families papers, 1788-1928 (bulk 1815-1875).
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Mixed materialsDescription: 5,800 items; 20 containers plus 3 oversize; 1 microfilm reel; 8.1 linear feetSubject(s): - 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
- Microfilm edition of selections available, no. 3,476 (13,231).
Open to research.
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.
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.
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