Manuscripts, American
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Gabriel Harrison letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-3038
Abstract
Letters regarding John Howard Payne to Gabriel Harrison from three current and former U.S. consuls to Tunis, William Penn Chandler of Philadelphia, George Whitfield Fish of Tunis and Flint, Mich., and Amos Perry of Providence, R.I. Also one letter, also about Payne, from Fish to Thomas J. McKee, a New York lawyer and friend of Harrison's. The letters, which were probably responses to a correspondence initiated by Harrison during the revision of his 1875 work, concern the circumstances of...
Dates:
1873-1883
John Howard Payne Papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-689
Abstract
Material collected in the 1830s and 1840s by actor, playwright and editor John Howard Payne, relating to American Indians, primarily concerning the Cherokees for Payne's intended history of the Cherokee Nation. Collection consists of fourteen volumes of correspondence, manuscript notes, transcriptions, extensive historical research, memoranda, and published and unpublished documents.
Dates:
1794-1842; Majority of material found within 1825 - 1842