EVARTS, WILLIAM MAXWELL

Gilded Age Collections

Collection ID: GA-3
Location: GA-3

(Description ID: 594248)

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums

William Maxwell Evarts

GA-3


Introduction
Biographical Sketch
Scope and Content
Inventory
Addenda

Introduction
The bulk of this collection was acquired by the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center between 1984 and 1986.  In addition to this collection, there is a William M. Evarts folder in the Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection.  This folder includes approximately 70 letters written by Evarts between November 9, 1833 and November 30, 1895. Evarts correspondence to President Hayes is part of the Rutherford B. Hayes Papers. Evarts correspondence also is included in the George W. McCrary and the E. W. Stoughton Collections.

Biographical Sketch
William Maxwell Evarts was born on February 6, 1818 in Boston, Massachusetts.  He was the son of Jeremiah and Mehetable (Sherman).  His maternal grandfather, Roger Sherman, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.  Evarts graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in 1837 and an M.A. in 1840.  He attended Dane Law

School at Harvard, and studied in the law office of Daniel Lord of New York City until he was admitted to the bar of New York on July 16, 1841. 

Evarts served as Attorney General of the United States from July 15, 1868 to March 1869.  In this position he took the leading role in the defense of President Andrew Johnson in the impeachment proceedings in 1868.  Rutherford B. Hayes appointed him as Secretary of State in 1877 and he served in this role until 1881.  On January 20, 1885, he was elected United States Senate from New York.  He became totally blind during his term, and rarely made public appearances after his Congressional term was over in 1891. 

Evarts married Helen Minerva on August 30, 1843 in Windsor, VT.  She was the daughter of Allen Wardner, a merchant.  Evarts and his wife had twelve children:  Charles Butler; Roger Sherman; Allen Wardner; William; Hettie Sherman; Mary; Helen Minerva; Elizabeth Hoar; Sherman; Prescott; Louisa Wardner, and Maxwell Evarts.  William M. Evarts died in New York City on February 28, 1901. 

Scope and Content
The collection, dating from 1872 to 1883, contains more than 1,000 pieces of correspondence, mostly incoming between William Maxwell Evarts and leading businessmen, diplomats, politicians, religious leaders, and other prominent individuals from the late 1870s and the early 1880s.  Included among the correspondents are: John J. Astor, Henry Ward Beecher, James G. Blaine, George William Curtis, Cyrus W. Field, Collis P. Huntington, John Jay, James Russell Lowell, Thomas A. Scott, Benjamin Silliman, Morrison R. Waite and Sam Ward.  Correspondence also exists between Evarts and members of his family, including his sons Allen, Charles, Maxwell and Prescott; nephews Daniel Crosby, J. Evarts and Roger Sherman Greene; sister Martha Sherman Tracy, brother-in-law Henry Wardner, and cousin Jeremiah Evarts. 

Eleven letters written by President Rutherford B. Hayes from the Executive Mansion and copies of other Hayes/Evarts correspondence are part of this collection. Also included are materials pertaining to the 1876 election and Evarts’ role with the Louisiana Commission.

The collection is arranged in two segments: individuals with three or more pieces of correspondence and files of those individuals with fewer than three letters.  The files in each segment are arranged alphabetically by the correspondent’s surname as it appears in the item-level descriptive inventory.  There is also an addenda which includes 129 letters to Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar dating from December 28, 1855 to February 14, 1894, as well as correspondence with other individuals by both W. M. Evarts and his son Sherman, dating from 1856-1917.  Also included are several school essays from Yale dating from the 1930s. 

Inventory
Ac. 4722, 4733, 4734, 4785, 4828, 4857
1 ¾ linear ft.

Box One

Alexander, H. M.
To WME dtd. New York, 8 May 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 27 April 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 8 Nov. 1878
To Alexander S. Martland dtd. New York, 27 Nov. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 9 March 1880

American Bar Association
Boardman, Andrew to WME dtd. New York, 20 Dec. 1877
Hinkley, Edward Otis to WME dtd. Baltimore, 20 Oct. 1879

Anonymous
To WME dtd. 23 June 1877
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 28 July 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 6 Aug. 1877

Astor, John Jacob [III]
To WME dtd. New York, 12 Apr. 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 13 Apr. 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 22 Nov. 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 23 Nov. 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 9 Nov. 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 23 Jan. 1880
To WME dtd. New York, 23 Apr. 1880

Astor, Charlotte Augusta [Mrs. John J. Astor, III]
To WME dtd. New York, 12 Jan. 1880
To WME dtd. New York, 24 March 1880

Bancroft, George
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 6 Feb. 1880

Barnett, T. J.
To WME n.d.
To WME dtd. New York, 8 Feb. 1877
To WME dtd. Jamestown, WV, 14 Sept. 1877
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 28 Oct, 1878
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 23 July 1879
To WME dtd. Albany, NY, 8 Aug. 1879
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 13 Aug. 1879
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 20 Aug. 1879
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 28 Aug. 1879
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 30 Aug. 1879
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 4 Sept. 1879
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 6 Sept. 1879
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 9 Sept. 1879
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 10 Sept. 1879
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 13 Sept. 1879
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 17 Sept. 1879
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 22 Sept. 1879
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 26 Sept. 1879
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 3 Oct. 1879
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 18 Oct. 1879
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 25 Oct. 1879
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 3 Nov. 1879
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 8 Nov. 1879
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 29 Nov. 1879
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 3 Feb. 1880
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 11 Feb. 1880
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 17 Feb. 1880
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 8 March 1880
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 11 March 1880
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 27 March 1880
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 30 March 1880
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 5 Apr. 1880
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 18 Apr. 1880
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 10 May 1880
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 2 June 1880
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 9 June 1880
To WME dtd. Ottawa, Canada, 9 June 1880

Beach, W. A. [William Austin]
To WME dtd. New York, 14 Oct. 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 11 Feb. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 11 May 1878

Beaman, Charles C., Jr.
To WME dtd. New York, 17 Apr. 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 17 March 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 8 May 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 10 May 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 15 May 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 16 May 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 23 May 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 19 Nov. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 3 Dec. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 25 Feb. 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 30 Apr. 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 26 Sept. 1879

Beecher, Henry Ward
To WME dtd. Brooklyn, NY, Feb. 1879
To WME dtd. Brooklyn, NY 26 Feb. 1879
To WME dtd. Brooklyn, NY 29 Dec. 1879

Beyland, J. C. F.
To WME dtd. New York, 15 Dec. 1877
English translation of William Evarts’ (son) obituary dtd. 2 May 1878

Blaine, James G.
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 6 Dec. 1877
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 28 Apr. 1878
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 25 Jan. 1879
To WME dtd. Washington DC, 19 Aug. 1879

Blatchford, Samuel
To WME dtd. New York, 23 Feb. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 26 Feb. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 1 March 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 12 July 1878

Bliss, Alexander
To WME dtd. Newprt, RI, 22 Oct. 1878
To WME dtd. 1 Nov. 1878
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 12 Nov. 1878

Brewster, Benjamin Harris
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 17 July 1877
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 30 Oct. 1878
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 31 Dec. 1879

Brown, Henry A.
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 26 Nov. 1876
To WME dtd. 23 Apr. 1877

Bryant Commemoration
E. C. Benedict to WME dtd. New York, 19 Dec. 1878

Bundy, J. M. [Jonas Mills]
To WME dtd. New York, 2 Nov. 1876
To WME dtd. New York, 28 May 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 27 Apr. 1878

Butler, Franklin
See Windsor Centennial

Butler, Richard
To WME dtd. New York, 12 Dec. 1879  RE: Statue of Liberty

Centennial Commission
Dorsey Gardner to WME dtd. Philadelphia, 18 Oct. 1878
Dorsey Gardner to WME dtd. Philadelphia, 26 Oct 1878

Childs, George W.
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 9 March 1877
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 12 March 1877
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 12 Apr. 1877
To WME dtd. Baltimore, 30 Oct. 1877
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 24 Sept. 1878
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 17 Dec. 1879

Choate, Joseph H.
To WME dtd. New York, 27 Sept. 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 27 Oct. 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 5 Jan. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 8 Jan. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 7 March 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 18 Nov. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 17 Dec. 1878
To WME dtd. Amsterdam, 3 Aug. 1879

Choate, William G.
To WME dtd. New York, 28 March 1881
To WME dtd. New York, 4 Apr. 1881

Coombs, James
To M.R. Waite dtd. Colebrook, Conn., 19 Jan. 1878
Enclr. to M.R. Waite to WME dtd. Washington, DC, 22 Jan. 1878

Cowdin, Elliot C.
To WME dtd. New Castle, NY, 12 Sept. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 31 Oct. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 26 Dec. 1878

Curtis, George William
To WME dtd. New York, 19 March 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 10 Apr. 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 21 May 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 28 May 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 11 June 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 29 July 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 15 Oct. 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 25 May 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 18 June 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 8 Sept. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 18 Nov. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 30 Nov. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 9 July 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 8 Aug. 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 10 Aug. 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 8 Nov. 1879

Cushing, Caleb
To WME dtd. Madrid (Spain), 14 March 1877

Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.
To WME dtd. 25 March 1877
To WME dtd. 25 June 1877
To WME dtd. Boston, 30 Apr. 1878
To WME dtd. Boston, 5 Aug. 1879
To WME dtd. Paris, 16 Nov. 1879
To WME dtd. Paris, 25 Jan. 1880

Dana, Richard Henry [III]
To WME dtd. Cambridge, Mass., 30 March 1877

Davis, J. C. Bancroft
To WME dtd. Berlin, 13 May 1877
To WME dtd. Berlin, 25 July, 1877
To WME dtd. 26 Feb. 1878. w/enclr. Sidney Webster to J. C. Bancroft Davis dtd. New York,
     25 Feb 1878
To WME dtd. 1 March 1878

Dix, John A.
To WME dtd. New York, 10 March 1877

Dodge, William E.
To WME dtd. New York, 3 Nov. 1876. w/enclr. George L. Prentiss to WME dtd. 2 Nov. 1876
To WME dtd. New York, 15 Dec. 1877

Doughty, William Howard
To George Wardner dtd. 7 Jan 1880. w/enclr. to George Wardner to WME dtd. 9 Jan. 1880

Dufferin, Lord
To WME dtd. New York, 19 Jan. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 29 Jan. 1878

Dulton, Elizabeth P.
To M.R. Waite dtd. 13 Dec. 1877. copy of enclr. to M. R. Waite to WME dtd. 14 Dec. 1877

Edge, Frederick M.
To WME dtd. 8 July 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 25 April 1880
To WME dtd. New York, 27 April 1880

Evarts, Allen Wardner (Son)
To WME dtd. New York, 20 March 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 5 July 1877

Evarts, Charles Butler (Son)
To WME dtd.Windsor, VT, 12 March 1877
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 21 March 1877. w/enclr. I. S. Hudson to WME dtd. 15 March 1877
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 4 Apr. 1877
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 12 June 1877
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 18 Jan. 1878
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 26 March 1878
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 25 Apr. 1878
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 17 June 1878
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 12 Jan. 1879
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 28 Apr. 1879
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 5 May 1879
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 8 June 1879
To Allen Evarts dtd. Windsor, VT, 15 June 1879
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 18 July 1879
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 21 July 1879
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 29 July 1879
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 13 Oct. 1879
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 1 Nov 1879
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 5 Dec. 1879
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 2 Feb. 1880
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 19 Apr. 1880
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 13 May 1880

Evarts, Jeremiah (Cousin)
To WME dtd. Yorkville, IL, 7 March 1877. Attached to letter dtd. 7 March 1877; together
     with 3rd letter dtd. 8 March 1877
To WME dtd. Yorkville, IL, 12 March 1877
To WME dtd. Yorkville, IL, 20 June 1877
To WME dtd. Yorkville, IL, 7 May 1879

Evarts, Maxwell (Son)
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 24 July 1879.
To Sam Ward dtd. Windsor, VT, 29 July 1879. Enclr. to S. Ward to WME dtd. 29 July 1879

Evarts, Prescott (Son)
To WME dtd. St. Paul’s School, 21 Apr. 1877
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 22 May 1878

Evarts, William Maxwell
Mss. notes for 1876 Campaign Speech
Mss. notes for speech “Southern Question”
Instructions to Louisiana Commission dtd. 2 Apr. 1877. w/envelope
To Dr. Potter dtd. Washington, DC, 26 Apr. 1879
To Charles H. Tweed dtd. Windsor, VT, 3 Sept, 1879
To J.R. Lowell dtd. Paris, 2 July 1881
Windsor, VT – accounts

Everett, H. Sidney
To WME dtd. Berlin, 2 Oct 1877
To WME dtd. Berlin, 29 Dec. 1878

Field, Cyrus W.
To WME dtd. New York, 25 Feb. 1879
To WME dtd. Newport, RI, 11 July 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 22 July 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 27 Oct. 1879. w/enclr. C. W. Field to T. B. Potter dtd. New York,
     27 Oct, 1879

Fish, Hamilton
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 12 March 1877
To WME dtd. Garrison, NY, 19 May 1877
To WME dtd. Garrison, NY, 12 June 1877
To WME dtd. Garrison, NY, 19 June 1877
To WME dtd. Garrison, NY, 14 Aug. 1877. w/enclr. S. Wetmore to H. Fish dtd. New York,
     21 July 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 25 Apr. 1878
To WME dtd. Garrison, NY, 25 Nov. 1878
To WME dtd. Garrison, NY, 16 June 1879

Foster, Dwight
Invitation dtd. Boston, 20 Jan. [no year]
To WME dtd. Boston, 19 May 1877. w/enclr. Wm. M. Hunt to D. Foster dtd. May 1877

Garfield, James A.
To Whitelaw Reid dtd. 10 Jan. 1877. Copy of enclr. to W. Reid to WME dtd. 12 Jan. 1877

Godkin, E. L. [Edwin Lawrence]
To WME dtd. Cambridge, 21 Apr. 1877

Gould, Jay
To WME dtd. (New York) 31 Oct. 1878

Gray, Horace
To WME dtd Boston, 9 Aug. 1877
To WME dtd Boston, 14 Aug. 1877

Greene, D. C. [Daniel Crosby] (nephew)
To WME dtd. 31 May, 1877

Greene, J. Evarts (nephew)
To WME dtd. 18 June 1877
To WME dtd. 16 May 1878

Greene, M. Augusta
To WME dtd. Madison, 28 Nov. 1878
To WME dtd. Madison, 19 Dec. 1879

Greene, R. S. [Roger Sherman] (nephew)
To WME dtd. Olympia, Washington Territory, 26 Apr. 1878
To WME dtd. Olympia, Washington Territory, 1 June 1878
To WME dtd. Olympia, Washington Territory, 16 Jan. 1879

H_________, W. H.
To S. Ward n.d. Copy of enclr. to S. Ward to WME dtd. 21 May 1877
To S. Ward n.d. Copy of enclr. to S. Ward to WME dtd. 4 Feb. 1879

Hale, Edward E.
To WME dtd. Boston, 2 June 1877
To WME dtd. Roxbury, Mass., 15 June 1878

Hart, W. H. H. [William Henry Harrison]
To WME dtd Washington, DC, 1 Jan. 1878. w/enclrs. E. M. Keils to WME dtd. 27 Dec.1877
     & Wm. P. Pierce to WME dtd 29 Dec. 1877
To WME dtd. 29 May 1878

Hayes, Rutherford B.
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, n.d.
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 26 March 1877
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 27 Aug. 1877
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 9 Oct. 1877
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 10 Oct. 1877
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 27 Dec. 1877
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 18 March 1878
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 31 May 1878
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 22 June 1878
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 18 July 1878
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 8 Aug. 1878
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 12 Aug. 1878
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 18 Aug. 1878
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 22 Aug. 1878
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 26 Aug. 1878
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 26 May 1879
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 14 June 1879
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 6 Aug. 1879
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 12 Aug. 1879
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 18 Aug. 1879
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 22 Aug. 1879
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 25 Aug. 1879
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 6 Sept. 1879
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 6 Dec. 1879
To WME dtd. Fremont, OH, 26 Feb. 1883
Pres. Hayes trip to New England, Aug. 1877

Jay, John
To WME dtd. New York, 12 Dec. 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 15 Dec. 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 26 Jan. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 28 Apr. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 27 May 1878

Keils, E. M.
To WME dtd. 27 Dec. 1877. Copy of enclr. to W. H. H. Hart to WME dtd. 1 Jan. 1878

Key, D. M. [David McKendree]
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 18 May 1877

Knight, Francis P.
To WME dtd. New York, 19 Nov. 1877
To WME dtd. Shanghai, 22 Aug. 1879

Long Island Historical Society
George Hannah to WME dtd. Brooklyn, NY, 5 May 1877

Lorne, Marquis of
To WME dtd. Quebec, 13 June 1879
To WME dtd. Quebec, July 1879
To WME dtd. Quebec, 10 July 1879
To WME dtd. Toronto, 9 Sept. 1879
To WME dtd. Ottawa, 26 Sept. 1879
To WME dtd. Quebec, 6 June 1880
To WME dtd. Quebec, 15 June 1880

Louisiana Commission 
Copies of Telegram messages
Manuscript Copy
To RBH dtd. New Orleans, 10 Apr. 1877. Signed J. R. Hawley
To W.K. Rogers dtd. New Orleans, 13 April 1877. Signed J. R. Hawley
To J.R. Hawley dtd. Washington, DC, 13 Apr. 1877. Signed W. K. Rogers
To J.R. Hawley dtd. Washington, DC, 13 Apr. 1877. Signed W. K. Rogers
To J.R. Hawley dtd. Washington, DC, 13 Apr. 1877. Signed W. K. Rogers
To J.R. Hawley dtd. Washington, DC, 14 Apr. 1877. Signed W. K. Rogers
To W.K. Rogers dtd. New Orleans, 13 Apr. 1877. Signed J. R. Hawley
To Adj. Gen. for RBH dtd. New Orleans, 18 Apr. 1877.  Signed by J. R. Hawley, C. B. Lawrence,
     J. C. Brown, W. MacVeagh, J. M. Harlan
To RBH dtd. New Orleans, 20 Apr. 1877. Signed by J. R. Hawley, C. B. Lawrence, J. C. Brown, W.
     MacVeagh, J. M. Harlan
To Adj. Gen. for RBH dtd. New Orleans, 12 Apr. 1877
To Adj. Gen for RBH dtd. New Orleans, 18 Apr. 1877
To W.K. Rogers dtd. New Orleans, 18 Apr. 1877
To RBH dtd. New Orleans, 19 Apr. 1877. Telegram includes in message letter from Francis T.
     Nicholls to Louisiana Comm.
To RBH dtd. New Orleans, 19 Apr. 1877. Signed J. R. Hawley
To W.K. Rogers dtd. New Orleans, 20 Apr. 1877. Signed J. R. Hawley
To RBH dtd. New Orleans, 21 Apr. 1877. Signed by C. B. Lawrence, J. R. Hawley, J. M. Harlan,
     J. C. Brown, W. MacVeagh

Lyman, C.S.
To WME dtd. Yale College, 5 March 1877
To WME dtd. Yale College 16 March 1877

MacVeagh, Wayne
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 6 July 1876
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 10 Feb. 1877
To WME dtd. March 1877
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 19 March 1877
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 30 May 1877
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 1 June 1877
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 12 Oct. 1877
To WME dtd. Philadelphia 19 Oct. 1877

Maynard, Horace
To WME dtd. Constantinople, 21 May 1878

McCormick, Richard C.
To WME dtd. Paris, 9 May 1878
To WME dtd. Paris, 28 June 1878

McCosh, James
To WME dtd. Princeton, NJ, 29 May 1880

Melville, R.D.
To H.M. Alexander dtd. London, 24 Apr. 1877. Enclr. to H. M. Alexander to WME dtd. 8 May 1877
To WME dtd. London, 24 Apr. 1877

Morgan E.D. [Edwin Dennison]
To WME dtd. New York, 14 Jan. 1879

Morgan, J. Pierpont
To WME dtd. New York, 19 Feb. 1878

Morton, Levi P.
To WME dtd. New York, 9 March 1877
To WME dtd. (New York), 23 Apr. 1877
To WME dtd. 4 May 1877
To WME dtd. Newport, R.I., 5 June 1877
To WME dtd. Newport, R.I., 14 July 1877
To WME dtd. 5 Sept. 1877
To WME dtd. London, 28 Sept. 1877
To WME dtd. London, 7 Nov. 1877
To WME dtd. London, 20 Feb. 1878.  w/enclr. A. F. Walter to L. P. Morton dtd. 18 Dec. 1877
To WME dtd. Hombourg, 15 July 1878
To WME dtd.  11 Nov. 1878
To WME dtd. 27 Feb. 1879
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 24 May 1879
To WME dtd. Newport, RI, 27 June 1879
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 2 Nov. 1879

New England Society
William Borden to WME dtd. New York, 7 Dec. 1877
D.E. Appleton to WME dtd. New York, 13 Dec. 1879

Orton, William
To WME dtd. New York, 26 May 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 2 March 1878

Payne, Abraham
To WME dtd. Providence, RI, 16 Apr. 1877
To WME dtd. Providence, RI, 17 Apr. 1877
To WME dtd. Providence, RI, 24 Apr. 1877

Perkins, Charles C.
To WME dtd. Newport, 13 Sept. 1879
To WME dtd. 24 Oct. 1879

Pierce, William P.
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 29 Dec. 1877. copy of enclr. to W. H. H.Hart to WME dtd.
     1 Jan. 1878

Pierrepont, William P.
To WME dtd. London, 26 Sept. 1876
To WME dtd. London, 7 Nov. 1876
To WME dtd. New York, 15 March 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 20 March 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 27 Apr. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 10 May 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 18 Sept. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 30 Sept. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 7 Nov. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 10 Nov. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 16 Jan. 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 27 Feb. 1879. w/envelope to WME dtd. 26 Feb. (1879)
To WME dtd. New York, 15 June 1879
To WME dtd. New York 19 June 1879

Porter, John K.
To WME dtd. New York, 26 May 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 10 Oct. 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 31 Oct. 1878

Porter, N. [Noah]
To WME dtd. Yale College, 22 March 1877
To WME dtd. Yale College, 26 Dec. 1877
To WME dtd. Yale College, 15 Apr. 1878
To WME dtd. Yale College, 15 March 1879
To WME dtd. Yale College, 1 Apr. 1880

Prentiss, George L.
See: Dodge, W.E. dtd. 2 Nov. 1876

Prichard, W.M.
To WME dtd. New York, 18 Oct. 1877
To MWE dtd. New York, 9 Jan. 1878. w/nominations for offices of the American Bar Association
To WME dtd. New York, 20 July 1878

Putnam, James O.
To WME dtd. Buffalo, 23 Feb. 1877
To WME dtd. Buffalo, 19 Aug. 1879

Read, John M.
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 2 Nov. 1876
To WME dtd. Athens (Greece), 10 May 1877
To WME dtd. Athens, (Greece), 10 June 1877
To WME dtd. Athens, (Greece), 15 June 1877
To WME dtd. Athens, (Greece), 17 June 1877
To WME dtd. Corfu, Greece, 19 July 1877
To WME dtd. Athens, (Greece), 15 Dec. 1877
To WME dtd. Athens, (Greece), 26 Jan. 1878
To WME dtd. Athens, (Greece), 2 Feb. 1878
To WME dtd. Athens, (Greece), 5 Feb. 1878
To WME dtd. Athens, (Greece), 8 May 1878
To WME dtd. Athens, (Greece), 6 June 1878
To WME dtd. Athens, (Greece), 12 July 1878
To WME dtd. Paris, 16 Aug. 1878
To WME dtd. Paris, 11 Sept. 1878
To WME dtd. London, 20 Nov. 1878
To WME dtd. Paris, 3 Jan. 1879
To WME dtd. Paris, 24 Jan. 1879
To WME dtd. Paris, 24 Jan. 1879
To WME dtd. Paris, 4 Aug. 1879
To WME dtd. Lousanne (Switzerland), 9 Oct. 1879

Reid, Whitelaw
To WME dtd. New York, 12 Jan. 1877. w/enclr. J. A. Garfield to W. Reid dtd. 10 Jan. 1877
To WME dtd. (New York), 8 Jan. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 29 March 1878
To WMe dtd. New York, 31 March 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 22 Aug. 1878
To WME dtd. Saratoga Springs, NY, 31 Aug. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 6 Apr. 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 29 May 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 6 Nov. 1879
To WME dtd. (New York), 21 Dec. 1879

Rice, A. Thorndike
To WME dtd. New York, 2 July 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 6 Nov. 1878

Rice, William G.
To S. Ward dtd. Florence, Italy, 15 June, 1879. copy of enclr. to S. Ward to WME
    dtd. New York, 11 July 1879

Sage, Russell
To WME dtd. New York, 23 Apr. 1879

St. Gaudens, Augustus
M. Gibbs to WME dtd. Rome, 6 Apr. 1872
To WME dtd. New York, 21 May 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 25 May 1877
To WME dtd. Paris, 7 July 1877

Sanford, Henry Shelton
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, March 1877
To WME dtd. Brussels, 9 July 1877
To WME dtd. Brussels, 27 July 1877
To WME dtd. Brussels, 30 July 1877
To WME dtd. Brussels, 3 Aug. 1877
To WME dtd. Brussels, 9 Aug. 1877
To WME dtd. Spa (Belgium), 21 Sept. 1877
To WME dtd. Spa (Belgium), 5 Oct. 1877
To WME dtd. Brussels, 17 Oct. 1877
To WME dtd. Paris, 30 Nov. 1877
To WME dtd. Brussels, 14 Dec. 1877
To WME dtd. Brussels, 21 Dec. 1877
To WME dtd. Brussels, 20 Jan. 1878
To WME dtd. Brussels, 4 Feb. 1878
To WME dtd. Brussels, 13 Feb. 1878
To WME dtd. Spa (Belgium), 4 Sept. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 2 March 1879
To WME dtd. Brussels, 23 Apr. 1879
To WME dtd. London, 11 Dec. 1879
To WME dtd. Brussels, 9 Jan. 1880

Scott, Thomas A.
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 7 July 1877

Severance, Mark Sibley
To WME dtd. 3 Apr. 1878
To WME dtd. Los Angeles, 27 Apr. (1878)
To WME dtd. Los Angeles, 2 May (1878)

Seward, F.W. [Frederick William]
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 28 Aug. 1877
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 28 Aug. (1877)
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 19 Aug. 1878
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 30 Aug. 1878
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 18 Sept. 1878

Shepard, Elliot F.
To WME dtd. New York, 23 March 1878
To WME dtd. London, 6 Aug. 1879

Sherman, John
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 7 Nov. 1878
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 30 Nov. 1878
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 4 June 1879
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 15 Oct. 1879
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 17 May 1880

Sickles, Daniel E.
To WME dtd. New York, 16 March 1880

Silliman, Benjamin D.
To WME dtd. New Haven, 5 July 1876
To WME dtd. New Haven, 18 May 1877
To WME dtd. New Haven, 26 May 1877
To WME dtd. New Haven, 1 June 1877
To WME dtd. New Haven, 3 June 1877
To WME dtd. New Haven, 16 June 1877
To WME dtd. New Haven, 11 July 1877
To WME dtd. New Haven, 30 Oct. 1877
To WME dtd. New Haven, 24 Jan. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 23 Feb. 1878
To WME dtd. New Haven, 13 March 1878
To WME dtd. New Haven, 24 March 1878
To WME dtd. New Haven, 1 May 1878
To WME dtd. 6 May 1878
To WME dtd. New Haven, 13 May 1878
To WME dtd. New Haven, 20 May 1878. w/enclr. R. D. Hubburd to “Professor” (B. Silliman)
     dtd. Hartford, 20 May 1878
To WME dtd. New Haven, (28 May 1878). Copy Yale Class of 1837 letter
To WME dtd. New York, 2 Nov. 1878

Smith, Goldwin
To WME dtd. Toronto, 14 Apr. 1879
To WME dtd. Toronto, 1 May 1879

Snead, Austine
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 23 March 1878

Southmayd, Charles F.
To WME dtd. New York, 25 Oct. 1877
To WME dtd. Stockbridge, 5 Sept. 1878
To WME dtd. Stockbridge, 25 Sept. 1878

Spofford, R.S.
To WME dtd. San Antonio, TX, 31 May 1877

Stephens, Alexander Hamilton
To WME dtd. Crawfordville, GA, 6 July 1878

Stevens, Simon
To WME dtd. Havanna, Cuba, 21 Apr. 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 5 Apr. 1879

Stone, A.L.
To WME dtd. San Francisco, 7 March 1877
To WME dtd. San Francisco, 19 Dec. 1878

Stoughton, E.W. [Edwin Wallace]
To WME dtd. London, 17 June 1878
To WME dtd. St. Petersburg, 14 Sept. 1878
To WME dtd. St. Petersburg, 8 Nov. 1878
To WME dtd. St. Petersburg, 14 Dec. 1878
To WME dtd. St. Petersburg, 30 Dec. 1878
To WME dtd. Paris, 27 Apr. 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 12 Nov. 1879

Strong, Demas
To WME dtd. Brooklyn, 15 Dec. 1877
To WME. Dtd. Connecticut, 13 Aug. 1879

Stuart, W.
To Sam Ward dtd. (Oct. 1878). copy of enclr. to S. Ward to WME dtd. 28 Oct. 1878

Thacher, Thomas A.
To WME dtd. New Haven, 5 Sept. 1877
To WME dtd. New Haven, 23 Dec. 1878

Thomson, J.
To WME dtd. New York, 28 Sept. 1877
To WME dtd. New Orleans, 4 March 1880

Tracy, Charles W. (nephew)
To WME dtd. Minneapolis, 8 Aug. 1877
To WME dtd. Minneapolis, 4 May 1878

Tracy, Jeremiah Evarts (nephew, law partner)
To WME dtd. New York, 24 Jan. 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 31 Jan. 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 3 Feb. 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 7 Feb. 1879

Tracy, Martha Sherman (Evarts) (sister)
To WME dtd. Plainsfield, 17 March 1877
To WME dtd. Plainsfield, 29 March 1877
To WME dtd. Plainsfield, 13 May 1878

Unidentified
To WME dtd. New York, 2 Nov. 1876
To WME dtd. Buffalo, 3 Nov. 1876
To WME dtd. Jamestown, 3 Nov. 1876
To WME dtd. New Haven, 30 Jan. 1879
To WME dtd. 28 June 1879

Vanderbilt, William H.
To WME dtd. 25 Feb. 1877
To WME dtd. 14 Apr. 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 13 June 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 7 Nov. 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 18 Apr. 1878

Waite, Morrison R.
To WME dtd. Avon, NY, 11 Sept. 1876
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 7 Jan. 1877
To WME dtd. (14 Dec. 1877). w/enclr. Elizabeth P. Dulton to M. R. Waite dtd. 13 Dec. 1877
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 22 Jan. 1878. w/enclr. James Combs to M. R. Waite dtd.
     Colebrook, Conn., 19 Jan. 1878
To WME dtd. Lyme, Conn., 13 July 1878

Walter, A.F.
To L.P. Morton dtd. 18 Dec. 1877. copy of enclr. to L. P. Morton to WME dtd. 20 Feb. 1878

Ward, Sam
To WME dtd. (New York), 2 Oct. 1876
To WME dtd. (New York), 20 May 1877
To WME dtd. (New York), 21 May 1877. w/enclr. W. H. H. to Sam Ward dtd. Sunday (May 1877)
To WME dtd. New York, 5 Aug. 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 28 Sept. 1877
To WME dtd. 31 Oct. 1877
To WME dtd. (New York), 2 Nov. 1877. w/card “Col. Lawrence Kip”
To WME dtd. (New York), 4 Nov. 1877
To WME dtd. (New York), 9 Dec. 1877
To WME dtd. (New York), 27 Feb. 1878
To WME dtd. (New York), 16 May 1878
To WME dtd. (New York), 3 July 1878
To WME dtd. 16 Aug. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 11 Sept. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 16 Oct. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 18 Oct. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 28 Oct. 1878. w/enclr. W. Stuart to S. Ward dtd. (Oct. 1878)
To WME dtd. 6 Nov. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 8 Nov. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 5 Dec. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 28 Dec. 1878
To WME dtd. 28 Jan. 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 4 Feb. 1879. w/enclr. W. H. H. to Same Ward dtd. (Feb. 1879)
To WME dtd. New York, 3 March 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 27 March 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 11 Apr. 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 21 May 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 24 May 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 4 July 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 11 July 1879. w/enclr. Wm. G. Rice to S. Ward dtd. Florence, Italy,
     15 June 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 29 July 1879. w/enclr. Max Evarts to S. Ward dtd. Windsor, VT.,
     July 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 22 Aug. 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 24 Aug. 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 24 Aug. 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 25 Aug. 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 26 Aug. 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 4 Sept. 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 15 Oct. 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 19 Oct. 1879
To WME dtd. New York, 31 March 1880
To WME dtd. New York, 13 Apr. 1880
To WME dtd. New York, 10 June 1880

Wardner, George (brother-in-law)
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 17 Jan. 1879
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 11 Aug. 1879. w/enclr. George Wardner to WME dtd. 5 Apr. 1879
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 9 Jan. 1880. w/enclr. Wm. Howard Doughty to G. Wardner
     dtd. 7 Jan. 1880

Wardner, Henry (brother-in-law)
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 7 March 1877
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 14 July 1877
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 7 June 1878
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 23 July 1878
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 9 Jan. 1879
To WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 19 May 1879

Washburne, Elihu B.
To WME dtd. Paris, 3 May 1877. w/enclr. John Russell Young  to E. B. Washburne dtd.
     Paris, 29 March 1877
To WME dtd. Paris, 5 May 1877
To WME dtd. Chicago, 5 Dec. 1877

Webb, J. Watson
Envelope dtd. Feb. 1869
To WME dtd. New York, 21 Feb. 1869
To WME dtd. New York, 14 March 1873
To WME dtd. New York, 26 Sept. 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 27 Apr. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 13 Nov. 1878

Webster, Sidney
To J.C.B. Davis dtd. New York, 25 Feb. (1878). copy of enclr. to J. C. B. Davis to WME dtd.
     26 Feb. 1878

Welsh, John
To WME dtd. London, 18 Dec. 1877
To WME dtd. London, 11 May 1878
To WME dtd. London, 12 July 1878. w/2 newspaper columns.
To WME dtd. London, 9 Nov. 1878
To WME dtd. London, 21 Dec. 1878
To WME dtd. London, 28 Dec. 1878
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 5 Sept. 1879
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 18 Sept. 1879
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 19 Sept. 1879

Wetmore, S.
To H. Fish dtd. New York, 21 July 1877. copy of enclr. to H. Fish to WME dtd. 14 Aug. 1877

Whipple, Henry Benjamin
To WME dtd. 21 Feb. 1877
To WME dtd. 4 Dec. 1877
To WME dtd. 22 Jan. 1878
To WME dtd. 10 May 1880

Windsor Centennial
Franklin Butler to WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 10 May 1877
Franklin Butler to WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 26 May 1877
Franklin Butler to WME dtd. Windsor, VT, 5 June 1877

Winthrop, Robert C.
To WME dtd. Boston, 15 May 1877
To WME dtd. Brookline, Mass., 30 June 1877
To WME dtd. Brookline, Mass., 3 Nov. 1877
To WME dtd. Brookline, Mass., 20 Nov. 1877
To WME dtd. Brookline, Mass., 25 Sept. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 27 Apr. 1879
To WME dtd. Boston, 2 Feb. 1880
To WME dtd. Boston, 31 March 1880

Wood, Fernando
To WME dtd. New York, 31 May 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 29 July 1878

Yerkes, Stephen
To WME dtd. Danville, KY, 3 March 1877
To WME dtd. Danville, KY, 7 June 1877

Young, John Russell
To E.B. Washburne dtd. Paris, 29 March 1877. copy of enclr. to E. B. Washburne to WME
     dtd. 3 May 1877
To WME dtd. Athens, 14 March 1878

Box Two

Acland, Dr.
To WME dtd. Baltimore, 21 Sept. 1879
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 24 Sept. 1879

Alexander, William
To WME dtd. Austin, TX, 8 Nov. 1876

Allison, William B.
To WME dtd. Dubuque, Iowa, 3 Aug. 1879

Anderson, M.B. [Martin Brewer]
P.S. to letter. n.d.

Appleton, D. & Co. [Daniel Sidney]
To WME dtd. New York, 29 Dec. 1877

Appleton, Nathan
To WME dtd. Massachusetts, 20 Sept. 1879

Army of the Cumberland, Society
To WME dtd. St. Louis, 10 Apr. 1877

Arnold, O.B.
To WME dtd. Meriden, Conn., 29 Apr. 1878

Aspinwall, Lloyd
To WME dtd. New York, 3 July 1877

Ayres, W.O.
To WME dtd. New Haven, 14 Apr. 1880

Babcock, J.D.
To WME dtd. New York, 8 May, 1877

Bacon, W.T.
To WME dtd. Birmingham, Conn., 1 June 1877

Badeau, Adam
To WME dtd. London, 9 Feb. 1878

Barlow, Samuel L.M.
To WME dtd. New York, 23 May 1877

Bartlett, S. [Samuel Colcord]
To WME dtd. Boston, 28 Oct. 1877
To WME dtd. Boston, 22 July 1878

Bates, Mrs. Janine
To WME dtd. (5 May 1877)

Bayard, T.F.
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 8 Jan. 1878 (1879)

Belden, H.A.
To WME dtd. Muscotah, Kansas, 25 May 1878

Blackmore, William
To WME dtd. London, 16 Aug. 1877

Blanc, Baron
To WME dtd. (16 July 1879)

Brady, John R.
To WME dtd. New York, 13 March 1877

Bremer, Carl (of Sweden)
To WME dtd. Cambridge, Mass., 25 July 1877

Brooks, Edward P.
To WME dtd. Cork, Ireland, 18 Apr. 1880

Brown, S.G. [Samuel Grant]
To WME dtd. Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, 4 Nov. 1876

Butler, Charles E.
To WME dtd. 7 June 1878

Butler Prescott Hall (partner)
To WME dtd. New York, 23 March 1877

Cadwalader, John L.
To WME dtd. Peking, 19 Sept. 1877

Campbell, D. Forbes
To WME dtd. London, 18 May 1877

Cannon, Le G. B.
To WME dtd. Florence (Italy), 10 March 1879

Carmeik, E. H.
To WME dtd. New York, 11 Jan. 1878

Chadwick, Mrs. Adeline
To WME dtd. Nice (France), 31 Jan. 1878

Champlin, E. H.
To WME dtd. Cornwall on Hudson, 22 Oct. 1877

Chandler, William E.
To WME dtd. Warner, NH, 1 July 1877

Chester, A. [Alden]
To WME dtd. New York, 27 March, 1878

Chittenden, S. E.
To WME dtd. New York, 27 March 1878

Clark, Col. Emmons
To WME dtd. New York, 15 Oct. 1877. w/newspaper clipping.
To WME dtd. New York, 16 Oct. 1877

Cochrane, John
To WME dtd. New York, 30 July 1877

Coit, Henry A.
To WME dtd. Boston, 21 Aug. [1877]

Collier, E. L.
To WME dtd. Coxsackie, NY, 4 Jan. 1879

Comstock, George F.
To WME dtd. Syracuse, 12 March 1877

Congar, H. N.
To WME dtd. Newark, NJ, 7 March 1877

Cox, Chris C.
To WME dtd. 4 May 1878

Coxe, Bishop [Arthur Cleveland]
To WME dtd. Buffalo, 31 Dec. 1877

Craven, A. W.
To WME dtd. New York, 14 Oct. 1877

Crew, Anna M.
To WME dtd. Barnesville, OH, 20 Jan. 1878

Cunningham, Edmund
To WME dtd. East Milton, Mass., 23 May 1877

Dall, C. H. A. [Charles Henry Appleton]
To WME dtd. India, 17 June 1878

Daly, Charles J.
To WME dtd. New York, 26 Oct. 1878. w/invitation dtd. 2 Nov. 1878

Day, Carry Webster
To WME dtd. Marshfield, Mass., 7 March 1877

Day, George E.
To WME dtd. New Haven, Conn., 12 June 1878

DeAhna, Henry C.
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 21 Sept. 1878

Dean, Fred A.
To WME dtd. Nashville, Michigan, 14 Feb. 1879

De Kay, Sidney
To WME dtd. New York, 6 July 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 12 Nov. 1878

Delaplane, Charles J.
To WME dtd. Circleville, OH, 26 Jan. 1878

Doane, Bishop William Coswell
To WME dtd. Albany, NY, (March 1878)
To WME dtd. 20 May 1878

DePeyster, J. W. [John Watts]
To WME dtd. Tivoli, NY, 8 July 1878

DiCesnola, Luigi Palma
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 7 May 1878

Dickerson, Edward N.
To WME dtd. New York, 2 Nov. 1876

Downing, Peter W.
To WME dtd. New York, 2 Nov. 1876

Dudley, J. G.
To WME dtd. New York, 9 May 1878. w/pamphlet by Dr. Willard Parker

Duganne, A. J. H. [Augustine Joseph Hickey]
To WME dtd. New York, 18 Dec. 1877

Eberhart, James Gerry
To WME dtd. Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, 16 May 1877

Edmunds, George F.
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 13 March 1878
To WME dtd. 12 Jan. 1880

Eliot, Charles W.
To WME dtd. Harvard, Cambridge, Mass. 21 June 1879

Everett, Horace
To WME dtd. Council Bluffs, Iowa, 19 July 1878

Everett, William
To WME dtd. Cambridge, Mass., 1 March 1878

Fiske, John
To WME dtd. Washington, 22 Feb. 1880. w/enclr. S. B. Ruggles to J. Fiske dtd. 17 Feb.
     1880

Fitzgerald, Harrington
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 27 May (1879)

Fletcher, W. W.
To WME dtd. Rochester, NY, 22 Apr. 1877

Forbes, H. B.
To WME dtd. Shanghai, 20 Dec. 1877

Forbes, J. M.
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 3 June 1877
To WME dtd. Hot Springs, VA, 21 June 1877

Forney, John W.
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 28 Jan. 1879

Frankensten, John
To WME dtd. East New York, Kings Co. NY, 5 Apr. 1880

Frelinghuysen, Frederick T.
To WME dtd. Newark, 2 Nov. 1876

Fuller, Mary Greene
To WME dtd. Paw Paw, IL, 10 Feb. 1879

Furniss, William
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 13 May 1878

Godwin, Parke
To WME dtd. 20 March 1878

Goodloe, William Cassim
To WME dtd. Brussels, 8 May 1878

Gould, R. De Tracy
To WME dtd. London, 8 Nov. 1877

Grinnell, W. F.
To WME dtd. U.S. Consulate Breman, 9 March, 1880. w/enclr. Timothy Pickering dtd.
     8 Apr. 1797

Gustin, Samuel I.
To WME dtd. M_________, GA/ 2 Apr 1877

Halstead, Murat
To WME dtd. Cincinnati, OH, 9 Sept. 1877

Hamilton, Alexander
To WME dtd. 13 July 1877

Hamilton, John C.
To WME dtd. New York, 7 Dec. 1878

Hancock, W. S. [Winfield Scott]
To WME dtd. Governeor’s Island, NY, 28 Feb. 1879

Hardy, Alpheus
To WME dtd. Boston, 12 Sept. 1877

Harrison, Burton N.
To Mr. Ward dtd. [New York], 19 Jan. 1878

Hertz, Henry
To WME dtd. New York, 27 Apr. 1878

Hewett, Dr. S. C.
To R. B. Hayes dtd. Boston, 23 July 1877

Hine, Rev. O. D.
To WME dtd. Lebanon, Conn., 3 Apr. 1878
To WME dtd. Lebanon, Conn., 2 Dec. 1879

Hitz, John
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 6 May 1878

Hoffman, Wickham
To WME dtd. London, 18 July 1877

Holland, H. T.
To WME dtd. (London), 25 July 1877

Huey, Samuel B.
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 3 Nov. 1876

Hunt, William M.
To D. Foster dtd. Boston, May 1877. w/enclr. to Dwight Foster to WME dtd. 19 May 1877

Hurlbert, W. H.
To WME dtd. (4 Nov. 1878)

Irwin, Annie E.
To WME dtd. Brooklyn, NY, 28 Sept. 1878

James, S. L.
To WME dtd. Columbus, OH, 5 Sept. 1878

Jennings, Isaac
To WME dtd Bennington Center, VT, 27 Jan. 1877. w/enclrs. “The law passed…”; Vermont’s
     Centennial

Jerome, Lawrence R.
To WME dtd. New York, 20 Feb. 1879

Joannes, George The Count
To WME dtd. New York, 19 March 1877

Kimpton, H. H.
To N. Porter dtd. Montreal, 9 Apr. 1878

Langston, John Mercer
To WME dtd. Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 10 May 1878

Lathrop, F. S.
To WME dtd. New York, 26 Dec. 1877

Law, William Fabian
To WME dtd. Savannah, GA, 18 Oct. 1877

Lewis, Henry H.
To WME dtd. Keiserville ?, NY, 25 Jan. 1879

Lincoln, A. L., Jr.
To WME dtd. Boston, (May 1878)
To WME dtd. Boston, 28 June 1878

Lord, George DeForest
To WME dtd. 7 March 1878

Lothrop, Thornton K.
To WME dtd. Paris, 4 Apr. 1877

Ludlum, James
To WME dtd. Pompton, NJ, 26 Feb. 1878

Lull, Louis R.
To WME dtd. San Francisco, 31 July 1877

Magruder, B. D. [Benjamin Drake]
To WME dtd. Chicago, 16 July 1877

Martin, B. N.
To WME dtd. New York, 27 Sept. 1877

Matteson, O. B.
To WME dtd. Utica, 9 Apr. 1880

McCook, John J.
To WME dtd. New York, 23 March 1877

McKay, Gordon
To WME dtd. Boston, 30 June 1878

Melton, Samuel W.
To WME dtd. Columbia, SC, 30 Jan. 1880

Metcalfe, John T.
To WME dtd. 16 Apr. 1877

Moore, Frank
To WME dtd. New York, 2 Nov. 1878

Morgan, P. H. [Philip Hickey]
To WME dtd. 4 May 1877
To WME dtd. Cairo (Egypt), 3 July 1877

Morris, I. N.
To WME dtd. 6 May 1878

Morse, George B.
To WME dtd. Chicago, 10 Sept. 1877
To WME dtd. Chicago, 9 Nov. 1877

Munn, William H.
To WME dtd. New York, 15 Nov. 1877

Nash, S. P. [Stephen Payne]
To WME dtd. New York, 24 Oct. 1877
To WME dtd. New York, 11 Feb. 1878

Northam, Robert E.
To WME dtd. Providence, 23 Apr. 1877

O’Reilly, Father B.
To WME dtd. New York, 4 Apr. 1877

O’Sullivan, J. L. [John Louis]
To WME dtd. New York, 19 Feb. 1879

Owen, Mary A.
To WME dtd. (May 1877)

Packard, S. B.
To WME dtd. Liverpool, 9 Nov. 1878

Parker, C.
To WME dtd. Newark, 3 May 1878

Parton, James
To WME dtd. Newburyport, Mass., 12 June 1879

Peabody, Charles, A.
To WME dtd. New York, 10 March 1877

Peaslee, E. R. [Edmund Randolph]
To WME dtd. Hanover, NH, 20 Aug. 1877

Peckham, Wheeler H.
To WME dtd. New York, 14 March 1877

Peixotto, B. Franklin
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 23 Oct. 1877

Phelps, E. J. [Edward John]
To WME dtd. New York, 5 March 1877

Phelps, William Walter
To WME dtd. New York, 25 Dec. 1878
To WME dtd. New York, 25 Jan. 1879

Poland, L. P.  [Luke Potter]
To WME dtd. St. Johnsbury, VT, 6 May 1878

Potter, Thomas B.
To WME dtd. Toronto, 14 Sept, 1879

Prescott, Mary R.
To WME dtd. New Haven, 6 June 1877

Putnam, F. C.
To WME dtd. Bergen (NY), 2 Nov. 1876

Randall, Samuel J.
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 20 Feb. 1879

Risley, H. A.
To WME dtd. Colorado Springs, CO, 17 July 1877

Robinson, E. R.
To WME dtd. (New York), 19 Oct. 1879

Ropes, Ripley
To WME dtd. Brooklyn, 8 Oct. 1877

Rothery, W. J.
To WME dtd. (London), 29 Nov. 1879

Ruggles, Samuel B.
To J. Fiske dtd. New York, 28 Apr. 1878. enclr. to J. Fiske to WME dtd. 22 Feb. 1880

Russel, William C.
To WME dtd. Ithaca, NY, 20 Dec. 1877

Russell, C. H., Jr. [Charles Howland]
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 2 Nov. 1879

Russell, J. Scott
To WME dtd. London, 21 Nov. 1879

Russell, William
To WME dtd. Ponce, Puerto Rico, 17 May 1878

S________, T. L.
To WME dtd. (24 Sept. 1878)

Salisbury, Edward, E.
To WME dtd. Lyme, Conn., 14 Nov. 1878. w/enclr. E. E. Salisbury to Yale Class of 1832
     dtd. Aug. 1878

Sanford, Mrs. Gertrude
To WME n.d.

Schuller, Mrs. R. G.
To WME dtd. Norristown, PA, 24 Jan. 1878

Searle, Alonzo T.
To WME dtd. Boston, 22 July 1878

Selborne, Lord
To WME dtd. London, 2 Apr. 1880

Sharkey, L.
To WME dtd. Brooklyn, 24 Sept. 1878

Shea, George
To WME dtd. New York, 5 May 1877

Shearman, Thomas G.
To WME dtd. New York, 20 Oct. 1877

Sherman, George (cousin)
To WME dtd. New Haven, Conn., 12 Feb. 1878

Simpson, M.
To WME dtd. South Kensington (London), 12 July (1879)

Stevens, B. F. [Benjamin Franklin]
To WME dtd. London, 3 Jan. 1878

Swift, Augustus M.
To WME dtd. Syracuse, NY, 19 Aug. 1877

Tear, John H.
To WME dtd. Normal, IL, 28 Oct. 1878

Tenterden, Lord
To WME dtd. (London), 5 July 1879

Terwilliger, James
To WME dtd. New York, 27 Sept. 1877

Thornton, Sir Edward
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, British Legation, 29 Jan. 1880

Trescot, William Henry
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 18 Oct. 1878

Villard, H. [Henry]
To WME dtd. New York, 12 Jan. 1880

Ward, George Cabot
To WME dtd. New York, 12 Jan. 1880

Webster, W. E.
To WME dtd. Boston, 7 Dec. 1878

Wharton, Joseph
To WME dtd. Philadelphia, 6 Feb. 1878. w/enclr. J. Wharton to The North American
      dtd. 6 Feb. 1878.

White, A. D. [Andrew Dickson]
To WME dtd. American Legation, Berlin, 8 Dec. 1879

Whitney, W. C. [William Collins]
To WME dtd. New York, 27 Dec. 1879

Wiley, Franklin B.
To WME dtd. Plainsfield, NJ, 5 Oct. 1878

Williams, I. T.
To WME dtd. Westchester Co., NY, 11 March 1877

Wilson, George
To WME dtd. New York, 21 May, 1877

Wilson, James Grant
To WME dtd. New York, 26 May, 1879

Yoshida
To WME dtd. Foreign Office, Tokyo, 10 Apr. 1879

Addenda

Bancroft, George
To WME dtd. 1623 H St. Washington, DC, Apr. 1878
To WME dtd. Newport, RI, 2 Aug. 1878
To WME dtd. n.p., 3 Aug. 1878
To WME dtd. Newport, RI, 18 Oct. 1878
To WME dtd. n.p., 12 Apr. (1879)

Evarts, Sherman (son)
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 4 Aug. 1891

Hoar, Ebenezer
WME to, dtd. NY, 28 Dec. 1855
WME to, dtd. NY, 20 Mar. 1856
WME to, dtd. NY, 1 May 1856
WME to, dtd. NY, 3 May 1856
WME to, dtd. NY, 1 June 1856
WME to, dtd. NY, 8 June 1856
WME to, dtd. NY, 28 June 1856
WME to, dtd. NY, 30 June 1856
WME to, dtd. NY, 10 July 1856
WME to, dtd. NY, 14 July 1856
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 23 July 1856
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 28 July 1856
WME to, dtd. NY, 20 Nov. 1856
WME to, dtd. NY, 11 Dec. 1856
WME to, dtd. NY, 23 Dec. 1856
WME to, dtd. NY, 25 Aug. 1857
WME to, dtd. NY, 15 Oct. 1857
WME to, dtd. NY, 28 Aug. 1859
WME to, dtd. NY, 4 Nov. 1859
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 24 Aug. 1860
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 17 July 1861
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 28 Aug. 1862
WME to, dtd. NY, 10 Sept. 1862
WME to, dtd. NY, 15 Apr. 1863
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 2 Aug. 1863
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 18 Aug. 1863
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 23 Sept. 1863
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 2 Oct. 1863
WME to, dtd. NY, 24 Nov. 1863
WME to, dtd. NY, 24 Dec. 1863
WME to, dtd. NY, 29 Dec. 1863
WME to, dtd. NY, 22 June 1864
WME to, dtd. Boston, 21 Sept. 1864
WME to, dtd. NY, 17 Oct. 1864
WME to, dtd. NY, 2 Nov. 1864
WME to, dtd. NY, 15 Nov. 1864
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 4 Sept. 1865
WME to, dtd. NY, 24 Nov. 1865
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 6 Aug. 1866
WME to, dtd. Washington, DC, 6 May 1869
WME to, dtd. NY, 10 May 1869
WME to, dtd. NY, 14 May 1869
WME to, dtd. NY, 15 June 1869
WME to, dtd. NY, 26 Nov. 1869
WME to, dtd. NY, 27 Nov. 1869
WME to, dtd. NY, 27 Nov. 1869
WME to, dtd. NY, 5 Dec. 1869
WME to, dtd. NY, 11 Dec. 1869
WME to, dtd. NY, 30 Dec. 1869
WME to, dtd. NY, 14 Jan. 1879
WME to, dtd. NY, 17 Jan. 1870
WME to, dtd. NY, 1 Feb. 1870
WME to, dtd. NY, 12 Feb. 1870
WME to, dtd. NY, 24 Mar. 1870
WME to, dtd. NY, 2 Apr. 1870
WME to, dtd. NY, 28 Apr. 1870
WME to, dtd. NY, 28 Apr. 1870
WME to, dtd. NY, 29 Apr. 1870
WME to, dtd. NY, 4 May 1870
WME to, dtd. NY, 9 June 1870
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 18 Aug. 1870
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 3 Sept. 1870
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 14 Sept. 1870
WME to, dtd. NY, 29 Sept. 1870
WME to, dtd. NY, 10 Oct. 1870
WME to, dtd. NY, 29 Oct. 1870
WME to, dtd. NY, 19 Nov. 1870
WME to, dtd. NY, 14 Feb. 1871
WME to, dtd. NY, 23 Feb. 1871
WME to, dtd. NY, 10 Mar. 1871
WME to, dtd. NY, 18 Mar. 1871
WME to, dtd. NY, 25 Mar. 1871
WME to, dtd. NY, 4 Apr. 1871
WME to, dtd. NY, 5 Apr. 1871
WME to, dtd. NY, 7 Apr. 1871
WME to, dtd. NY, 11 June 1871
WME to, dtd. London, 12 Aug. 1871
WME to, dtd. NY, 29 Oct. 1871
WME to, dtd. NY, 3 Nov. 1872
WME to, dtd. NY, 23 Feb. 1873
WME to, dtd. NY, 29 Mar. 1873
WME to, dtd. NY, 10 Apr. 1873
WME to, dtd. NY, 1 July 1873
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 21 July 1873
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 21 Aug. 1873
WME to, dtd. NY, 30 Nov. 1873
WME to, dtd. NY, 3 Dec. 1873
WME to, dtd. NY, 16 Jan. 1874
WME to, dtd. NY, 13 Feb. 1874
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 25 Jan. 1874
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 18 July 1874
WME to, dtd. NY, 23 Jan. 1875
WME to, dtd. NY, 31 Jan. 1875
WME to, dtd. NY, 2 Jan. 1876
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 2 June 1876
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 6 June 1876
WME to, dtd. NY, 29 June 1876
WME to, dtd. NY, 10 July 1876
WME to, dtd. NY, 26 Nov. 1876
WME to, dtd. NY, 27 Jan. 1877
WME to, dtd. Washington, DC, 26 Dec. 1878
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 14 Aug. 1879
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 6 July 1880
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 23 Aug. 1880
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 14 Sept. 1881
WME to, dtd. NY, 19 June 1882
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 6 July 1882
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 25 July 1882
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 3 Oct. 1883
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 4 June 1884
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 8 Feb. 1884
WME to, dtd. NY, 11 Oct. 1884
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 31 July 1885
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 9 Sept. 1885
WME to, dtd. NY, 26 June 1885
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 13 Feb. 1886
WME to, dtd. NY, 1 June 1886
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 23 July 1887
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 3 Aug. 1887
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 12 Aug. 1887
WME to, dtd. n.p., 15 Apr. 1891
WME to, dtd. NY, 21 may 1891
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 29 May 1891
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 11 July 1891
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 4 Aug. 1891
WME to, dtd. NY, 5 May 1893
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 19 July 1893
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 24 Aug. 1893
WME to, dtd. NY, 14 Feb. 1894

Hoar, George F.
To E.R. Hoar, dtd. Worcester, Mass., 3 Dec. 1891
To WME, dtd. Worcester, Mass., 7 Nov. 1892

Horton, S. D. [Samuel Dana]
To WME dtd. Washington, DC, 28 Nov. 1879

Perkins, Charles C.
To WME dtd. Newport, RI, 24 Sept. 1879

Phelps, Wm. Walter
To WME dtd. 26 Exchange Place, NY, 6 Aug. 1879

Schenck, R. C.
To WME dtd. North Bennington, VT, 12 Aug. 1879

Seward, Frederick Wm.
To WME dtd. Montrose, NY, 14 Nov. 1879

U.S. Dept. of State
Envelope to WME 52 Wall St. New York, NY, dtd. 25 Jan. 1885. encl./newsclipping
    “Mr. Evarts and the Panama Canal”

Ward, Sam
To WME dtd. Brevoort House, NY, 1 Oct. 1879

Welsh, John
To WME dtd. 304 Walnut St., 5 Nov. 1879

Pierrepont, Edwards
To WME dtd. Dept. of Justice, Washington, Mar. 15, 1876
To WME dtd. 103 Fifth Avenue (NY, NY)

Anderson, R.
WME to, dtd. n.p. (Dec. 1862)

Anonymous [Union League Club, NY]
WME to, dtd. NY, 6 Dec. 1872

Armstrong, Samuel T.
WME to, dtd. NY, 25 Sept. 1841. See also:  Geo. U. Crocker to Sherman Evarts dtd. Jan. 4
          and 10, 1917

[Brosman], Jas.
WME to, dtd. NY, 1 Mar. 1853

Bryant, WM. C., Kennedy, Robert, and others
To WME dtd. Union League Club, NY, 27 Nov. 1872. See also:  WME to Union League
     Club, NY, (anonymous) dtd. Dec. 6, 1872

Butler, Geo. R.
To WME dtd A. T. Stewart & Co., NY, 29 Nov. 1872. See also:  WME to Anonymous
     [Union League Club, NY] dtd. Dec. 6, 1872
To WME dtd. A. T. Stewart & Co., NY, 4 Dec. 1872. See also: k WME to Anonymous
     [Union League Club, NY] dtd. Dec. 6, 1872

Crocker, George U.
To Sherman Evarts dtd. Law Offices, Boston, 4 Jan. 1917. See also:  WME to Saml. T. Armstrong
     dtd. Sept. 25, 1841
To Sherman Evarts dtd. Law Offices, Boston , 10 Jan. 1917. See also:  WME to Saml. T. Armstrong
     dtd. Sept. 25, 1841

Curtis, [George Wm.]
WME to, dtd. NY, 19 Aug. 1876

Gilman, Chas. J.
WME to, dtd. NY, 24 Oct. 1860

[Gould], Chas.
WME to, dtd. Windsor, VT, 15 July 1862

King, Gov. [John A.]
WME to, dtd. NY, 9 Sept. 1858.
WME to, dtd. NY, 10 Sept. 1858

Merriam, Mssrs. G. and C.
WME to, dtd. NY, 15 Dec. 1856

Moses, Rich. C.
WME to, dtd. 24W. 17 St., (NY), 23 June 1856

Owens, [W. W.]
To WME dtd. Mayor’s Office, Baltimore, MD, 6 Mar. 1869

Phelps, Wm. Walter
To (H. S. Wales) dtd. 26 Exchange Place, NY, 3 Dec. 1872.  enclr. To (H. S. Wales) to WME
     dtd. 6 Dec. 1872. 
See also:  WME to Anonymous [Union League Club, NY] dtd. 6 Dec. 1872

Ricketts, Mrs. James
WME to, dtd. Wash., 6 Mar. 1888

Teft, William H.
WME to, dtd NY, 23 Jan. 1874

Wales, H. S.
To WME dtd. Hanover Fire Insurance Co., NY, 6 Dec. 1872. W/env. and enclr.: Wm.
     Walter Phelps to (H. S. Wales) dtd. 26 Exchange Place, NY, 3 Dec. 1872. 
See also:  WME to Anonymous [Union League Club, NY] dtd. 6 Dec. 1872

School Essays from Yale College

“Philosophy in its influence of on Revolutions,” 1835.

“English Writers on America,” Feb. 18, 1835

On the Subject of an International Copyright Between England and America, Mar. 18, 1835

Carlisle, [J.] M.
WME to, dtd. New York, 12 Oct. 1869

Cogges [Hall], E. W.
WME to, dtd. New York, 17 Oct. 1864

Hough, H.
WME to, dtd. Dept. of State, Washington, 16 May 1879

Pierrepont, Edwards
To WME dtd. Fifth Ave., (NY), 11 June 1863

Thompson, Richard W.
WME to dtd. Dept. of State, Washington, 22 June 1877. Original in R. W. Thompson
    Scrapbook, p. 251 (GA-69).
WME to, dtd Dept of State, Washington, 21 Jan. 1878. Original in R. W. Thompson
    Scrapbook, p. 264 (GA-69).

Wolff, Victor H.
WME to, dtd. Department of State, Washington, 30 July 1878