Gilded Age Collections

(Description ID: 594275)

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums

Benson J. Lossing

GA-28

Introduction
Biographical Sketch
Scope and Content
Inventory
Addendum

Introduction
The collection was acquired by the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in 1963. Peter D. Hannaford, great nephew of Elizabeth Anderson Lossing, donated the materials found in the addendum in 1998.

Biographical Sketch
Benson J. Lossing was born to Quaker parents in Beekman, Dutchess County, New York, 12 February 1813.  Left an orphan as a young child, he received a meager education. He worked as a farmhand and then served an apprenticeship with a watchmaker in Poughkeepsie, New York.  After a disastrous partnership in the watch making business, Lossing became co-editor of the Poughkeepsie Telegraph.  Later, he established the Poughkeepsie Casket. He learned the art of wood engraving in order to illustrate his publication.  

In 1838, Lossing went to New York City to seek instruction in drawing.  He was invited to edit and illustrate the Family Magazine, the first fully illustrated American periodical.  He remained in New York, where he established himself as a leading engraver. In 1840, he published Outline of History of the Fine Arts, which became a volume of Harper’s Family Library. 

Lossing’s training and strong interest in writing and art allowed him to take advantage of the revolution occurring in the book publishing business during the 1840s and 1850s.  Through pictorial histories, publishers increased circulation by appealing to semi-literate immigrants and American citizens seeking to reaffirm their patriotism.  In Lossing’s words, illustrations brought “visible language” to the masses.

Encouraged by engraver Samuel Goodrich to produce “sober, honest & truthful” histories, Lossing focused on creating pictorial histories that recorded history through firsthand accounts and drawings of people, artifacts, and the actual locations where the events occurred.  In 1847, he began publishing works of history and biography, creating his own illustrations. Eventually, Lossing established a publishing company and oversaw authorship of all aspects - texts, sketches, and engravings. Among the most popular were his Pictorial Field-Book of the American Revolution and Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812. According to Gregory Pfitzer, in Picturing the Past: Illustrated Histories and the American Imagination, 1840 – 1900, Lossing’s specialty, field books, were “illustrated travelogues based on visits to scenes of historical importance.” In this genre, Lossing  functioned as both historical observer and artistic interpreter.

For Pictorial Field Book of the American Revolution (1850 to 1852), Lossing traveled more than 8,000 miles in the United States and Canada, collecting information and sketching scenes that he later made into wood block engravings. Published by Harper and Brothers, the field book sold tens of thousands of copies.  Twenty-five years later, Publisher’s Weekly deemed the two-volume set remained the most “salable” work on the subject of the American Revolution.

During the next thirty-five years, Lossing worked tirelessly, publishing more than forty titles, of which he was either author or editor.  From 1872 to 1874, Lossing edited the American Historical Record and Repertory of Notes and Queries.   

Lossing’s first wife, Alice Barritt, died in 1855.  The following year, he married Helen Sweet, daughter of Nehemiah Sweet.  They had four children: Edwin, Miriam Helen, Thomas Sweet, and Alice. Lossing purchased a 300-acre farm atop Chestnut Ridge near the town of Dover Plains, New York.  He called his home The Ridge. There Benson built a fireproof library to house his collection of more than five thousand books and documents associated with the American Revolution and the framing of the Constitution. Lossing was actively involved in charitable, civic, literary, and historical societies, most notably serving as a charter trustee of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. He died at the Ridge 3 June 1891.

A written reminiscence of the Lossing family and life in nineteenth-century New York was assembled by his son, Thomas Sweet Lossing. It was edited by his great-nephew, Peter Hannaford, and published as My Heart Goes Home in 1997 by Purple Mountain Press.

Scope and Content
The collection consists of 1,429 pieces of incoming correspondence, spanning the years from 1850 to 1891. The bulk of the correspondence relates to Lossing’s business efforts as a publisher, editor, historian, engraver, and artist. The incoming correspondence is arranged alphabetically by surname and then chronologically in Box 1 and a portion of Box 2. 

Included in Box 2 is Lossing’s outgoing correspondence, which contains more than 100 complete letters arranged chronologically, some of which pertain to family matters.

Box 2 also contains the incoming and outgoing correspondence (118 pieces) of Helen Sweet Lossing, her bank book, and letter copy book. Incoming correspondence of children  Alice C., Edwin, and Miriam Lossing, dating from 1870 to 1891, is included. Essays, manuscripts, biographical files, notes, proofs, business cards, legal documents, and published articles by and about Lossing and family may also be found in Box 2.

Box 3 is made up largely of published newspaper articles grouped by subject: Revolutionary War, War of 1812, American Civil War, travel, geography, poetry, art, and obituaries and biographical sketches of prominent 18^th and 19^th century Americans. Printed materials, pamphlets, monthly magazines, essays, contracts, notices, auction catalogs, memos, invitations, letter fragments, and envelopes are also included.

Box 4 contains pamphlets, published articles, and single issues of periodicals.

Box 5 consists of clipping scrapbooks, an autograph book, ledgers, published works, and issues of the “American Historical Record” from 1872 to 1874 (edited by Benson J. Lossing).

Box 6 consists of bound books and pamphlets. 

Box 7 contains Lossing’s pencil sketches, pen-and-ink drawings, and watercolor and oil paintings. Also included are photographs, daguerreotypes, etchings, engravings, scrapbooks, and postcards. A list of photographs removed from the collection and transferred to the Hayes Presidential Center’s Portrait File is provided.

An item-level inventory to the incoming and outgoing correspondence and to the titles of books, articles, and pamphlets is provided.

Inventory
Ac. 1518, 1563, 1579, 1828, 1845, 1940
4 ½ linear ft.

BOX 1

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE A – ALVORD

ABBOTT, Lyman, Dover Plains, N. Y.
Sept. 14, 1881
Sept. 15, 1881

ADRIANN, Garret, Pleasant Valley
June 7, 1854

AGNEW, C. R., New York
June 15, 1878
July 16, 1878

AKIN, D. D., Quaker Hill
Apr. 10, 1860
June 12, 1861
Nov. 22, 1861
Apr. 10, 1862
June 11, 1862
Dec. 1, 1862
Feb. 2, 1863
Nov. 4, 1863

ALDEN, H. M. – See Harper & Bros.

ALDEN, John B., New York
Mar. 24, 1881
July 21, 1881
Feb. 23, 1884
Dec. 7, 1888
Feb. 9, 1889
Feb. 4, 1889 [prtd]

ALDEN PUBLISHING CO., New York
Jan. 26, 1889

ALLEN, Ethan A., Jr., New York
Apr. 24, 1856

ALLEN, The Henry G. Co., New York
July 17, 1890
July 18, 1890
Sept. 2, 1890
Sept. 30, 1890
Nov. 24, 1890
Nov. 27, 1890

ALLEN, W. D.
Mar. 27, 1852

ALLIBONE S., Austin
n.d.

ALVORD, C. A., New York
May 6, 1863
Oct. 1, 1864

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE AMERICAN - ATLEE

AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY
Apr. 20, 1882

AMERICAN COPYRIGHT LEAGUE, New York
Feb. 1884

AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL & STATSITICAL SOCIETY
Jan. 29, n.d. (invitation)

AMERICAN INSTITUTE, New York
June 9, 1843
Sept. 23, 1857
July 21, 1859
1865 (membership ticket)
July, 1867 (form letter w/ ticket)
Aug. 30, 1873
1874 and 1875 (member’s family ticket)

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CIVICS, Washington, D. C.
Feb. 14, 1888

AMERICAN LITERARY BUREAU, New York
1869-1870 (statement)
Sept. 23, 1870
Oct. 11, 1870
June 22, 1871

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, New York
Nov. 16, 1871

AMERICAN NEWS CO., New York
n.d. (printed booklet)

AMES, Bernice D., East Greenwich, R.I.
May 10, 1862

AMES PUBLISHING CO., New York
May 22, 1891

APPLACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB, Boston
June 5, 1880

APPLETON, D. & CO., New York
Feb. 27, 1865

ARMY RELIEF BAZAAR BLDS., Albany
Jan. 18, 1864

ARNOLD, S. G., Washington, D. C.
May 3, 1863
Nov. 17, 1869
May 19, 1875
Mar. 29, 1876
May 25, 1878
Jan. 4, 1884

ARTISIT’S FUND SOCIETY OF N.Y.
Dec. 3, 1860

ATLEE, Samuel Yorke, Washington, D.C.
Oct. 24, 1856
Oct. 27, 1856
Feb. 20, 1857
Dec. 26, 1861
Sept. 18, 1863
n.d., 1863
Nov. 9, 1865 (admission card)
Nov. 1, 1870
Apr. 9, 1873

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE B - BETHUNE

BACON, D. S., Monroe, MI
Nov. 30, 1860 (w/ clipping)

BAIRD, Henry C., Philadelphia
Nov. 10, 1855

BAKER, Delphine P., Washington, D. C.
Dec. 5, 1862

BAKER, Peter C., New York
Jan. 9, 1855

BAKER, Stephen, Butternut Hall
Feb. 1, 1873
Dec. 10, 1873

BALCH, Thomas
May 31, 1855

BALTIMORE, Md., Mayor’s Office
Sept. 17, 1880 (invitation)

BARNUM, A. [The Mail & Express, N.Y.]
Mar. 8, 1882
Mar. 30, 1882

BARROLL, Benjamin D., Baltimore
Mar. 14, 1891
Mar. 20, 1891

BATES, L. W., New York
May 31, 1883

BEACH, W. W., Philadelphia
Nov. 13, 1872 (w/card)

BEDEL, John, Bath, N.H.
Dec. 1, 1873

BEEKMAN, James W., Albany
Feb. 7, 1853

BELKNAP, T., Hartford
May 17, 1867
June 19, 1867
July 30, 1867
Aug. 6, 1867
Mar. 26, 1868
Nov. 2, 1868
Dec. 23, 1868
Nov. 2, 1869 [2]
Feb. 19, 1873
May 11, 1886
July 14, 1886
Dec. 28, 1886
May 31, 1887
July 22, 1887
Aug. 3, 1887
Jan. 8, 1889

BELLOWS, H. W., New York
June 2, 1865

BENEDICT, W. H., Port Henry, N.Y.
Apr. 17, 1889

BENHAM, E. A., Astor House
Sept. 1, N.Y.
Sept. 2, N.Y.

BENSON, A. T.
Oct. 7, 1887

BENSON, George E., Pokeepsie
May 30, 1877

BENTLEY, Henry [Philadelphia Inquirer]
May 20, 1862

BERRY, M. M., Saratoga Springs
Dec. 11, 1854

BETHUNE, George Washington, [Clergyman] Brooklyn
Sept. 2, 1854

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE BIGELOW - BROCKETT

BIGELOW, E. B., Boston
Feb. 8, 1875
Jan. 29, 1876

BILL, G. F., Springfield, Mass.
Nov. 11, 1857

BILL, Henry, Norwich, Conn.
Nov. 6, 1857
Mar. 10, 1865
Mar. 21, 1865
Apr. 17, 1865

BILL, L., New York
July 11, 1865

BILLINGS, Josh
n.d.

BIRGE, J. W., M.D., Utica
Nov. 24, 1858

BISBEE, Joseph B., Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
June 11, 1886

BISHOP, Nathan, New York
July 20, 1872

BLANCHARD, James, Poughkeepsie
May 6, 1857
June 16, 1868

BLANCHARD, Rufus, Chicago
Oct. 14, 1862

BLISS, Charles M., Washington, D.C.
Feb. 22, 1884

BONTELLE, Charles O., Charleston Hotel
Feb. 26, 1871

BOOTH, Mary L[ouise], New York
July 18, 1878

BOSTON ATHENAEUM
Feb. 24, 1853

BOWDOIN COLLEGE
Dec. 2, N.Y.

BOWEN, Clarence W.
n.d. The Independent, N.Y.
Aug. 10, 1883
Jan. 26, 1884
July 1, 1890
1889 (pamphlet)

BRADLEY & COMPANY, Philadelphia
July 13, 1864
June 7, 1867

BRADY, John, Baltimore
Dec. 23, 1865

BRELSFORD, C. W., New York
Jan. 8, 1873

BREWER, James M.
Aug. 4, 1854

BRINTON, D. G., Philadelphia
“Our Continental Publishing Co."
Dec. 19, 1881

BROCK, Robert A., Richmond
“Virginia Historical Society”
Oct. 25, 1878

BROCKETT, E. J., New York
Mar. 29, 1859

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE BRODHEAD - BUTTS

BRODIX, Charles R., Chicago
June 30, 1884

BROHEAD, J. R.
Sept. 15, 1852

BROOKS, Erastus, Albany
Jan. 7, 1856

BROOKS, James, Washington
June 15, N.Y.

BROOKS SEMINARY
June 17, 1873 (invitation)

BROWNE, D. J., Census Office
Sept. 2, 1852

BROWNLOW
July 23, 1862 (admission tickets)

BROWNLOW, W[illiam] G[annaway]
June 12, 1862

BRUCE, James M., Dover Plains
July 3, 1878

BRUCE, W. J., Pittston, PA
Feb. 2, 1872

BRYANT, W. C., Buffalo
Dec. 21, 1871
Nov. 7, 1872
Apr. 17, 1873
Apr. 26, 1873
June 7, 1873
June 13, 1873
June 18, 1873
Dec. 5, 1874
Apr. 24, 1885
May 1, 1885

BUCKINGHAM, S. M., Rosebank
Feb. 26, 1862

BURBUICK, W. E. & Co., Hartford, Conn.
Sept. 19, 1866

BURNS, Charles, D. F., New York
Mar. 18, 1890 (w/catalogue)

BUSHNELL, Charles I., N.Y.C.
Apr. 3, 1863

BUTLER, E. W. G., Pass Christian, Miss.
Dec. 22, 1872

BUTLER, Lora, Wilkesbarre
Oct. 29, 1849

BUTTS, Allison, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Aug. 10, 1885

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE C - CHILDS

CADY, Philander K., Poughkeepsie
Dec. 24, [1866]

CALLAGHAN, E. B., Albany
Jan. 1852

CAMPBELL, A. G. New York
Sept. 11, 1866

CAMPBELL, Charles, Petersburg, Va.
Mar. 20, 1858
Apr. 24, 1858
June 26, 1858
Nov. 14, 1858
Mar. 9, 1859
Aug. 20, 1860

CAMPBELL, Charles A., New York
Mar. 15, 1880

CAMPBELL, James, P.O. Dept.
Nov. 16, 1855

CAMPBELL, John, Philadelphia
Oct. 3, 1864
Feb., 1865
Feb., 1865

CANADA, Montreal
n.d.

CAROLINE, Francis, Catskill
May 7, 1853

CARLL, Albert G., Stamford, Conn.
June 1, 1865

CARPENTERS COMPANY of Philadelphia
Aug. 24, 1874

CARTER, Enoch, Newburgh
Sept. 20, 1855
Jan. 14, 1856

CAULDWELL, William. Prop.
“Sunday Mercury”
Jan. 9, 1888

CHAMBLISS, Major
June, 1864

CHAPIN, Lon F., Chicago
July 21, 1890

CHASE, Theodore L., Philadelphia
n.d.
Mar. 28, 1871

CHASE & TOWN, Philadelphia
Sept. 19, 1871
Oct. 3, 1871

CHENEY, Albert O., Poughkeepsie
Sept. 14, 1876

CHILDS, George W., Philadelphia
Mar. 19, 18??
June 24, 1861
Feb. 13, 1863
July 20, 1863
July 25, 1863
Aug. 10, 1863
Aug. 26, 1863
Sept. 20, 1863
June 7, 1864
Feb. 13, 1866
June 8, 1866

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE CINCINNATI- CRAMER

CINCINNATI, Society of
Apr. 4, 1883
May 23, 1883

CIVIL WAR, Baltimore
July 9, 1863

CLARK & MAYNARD, New York
Jan. 19, 1864

CLARKE, Robert, Cincinnati
Sept. 25, 1874
Nov. 20, 1886

CLARKE, Robert D., West Point
Dec. 24, 1852

CLEMENS, Jere, Washington
Apr. 18, 1852

CLINTON, C. A.
Feb. 5, 1858

COFFIN, Isaac
n.d.

COHEN, Joshua I., Baltimore
Jan. 14, 1855

COLTON, Dr. G. Q., New York
Nov 25, 1882

COLUMBIA COLLEGE, New York
1862 (commencement ticket)
May, 1885 (invitation)

COLYER, Vincent
Mar. 13, 1866

CONANT, S. S. (see Harper & Bros.)

COOK, J. Harvey
May 28, 1883

CORBIT, William T., Philadelphia
Apr. 3, 1854

COSTELLO, Augustine E., New York
July 18, 1889

CRAIG, Isaac, Allegheny, PA
Jan. 3, 1882

CRAMER, J. L., Washington
Feb. 2, 1837

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE CULLEN – CUTLER

CUMMINGS, C. P., New York
Arp. 19, 1872

CUMMINGS, Thomas S.
n.d.
Apr. 21, 1872
Aug. 28, 1872
Dec. 13, 1875
Jan. 9, 1882
Apr. 17, 1882
Sept. 1, 1882
Oct. 23, 1882
Oct. 24, 1882
Jan. 1, 1883
Feb. 8, 1883
Mar. 14, 1883
Apr. 22, 1883
May 30, 1883
Oct. 3, 1883
May 14, 1884
July 21, 1884
Oct. 26, 1884
July 16, 1885
Jan. 18, 1886
Apr 10, 1887
June 5, 1887
Feb. 24, 1888
Apr. 23, 1888
June 16, 1888
Sept. 17, 1888
Feb. 8, 1889
June 9, 1889
Apr. 2, 1891

CUMMINGS, Willoughby, Toronto
Mar. 18, 1875

CUTTER, Bloodgood H., Little Neck, L.I.
Jan. 28, 1862

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE D - DEVOE

DALRYMPLE, E. A., Baltimore
June 27, N.Y.

DANA, Charles A.
Oct. 4, 1858

DARLAND, Andrew, Deans Corners
Apr. 1, 1873

DARLING, Charles W.
[Mar. 27, 1891]

DAVEY, G. W. [engraver]
Dateline removed

DAVIS, A.M. F., Cambridge
June 8, 1886

DAVIS, E. M., Philadelphia
Dec. 26, 1880

DAVIS, George B., Washington, D.C.
Dec. 21, 1889 (w/circulars)

DAVIS, Sheldon, Pleasant Valley
May 28, 1859

DAVIS, T. R., New York
June 10, N.Y.

DAVIS, William J.
Mar. 3, 1854

DAWSON, Henry Barton, Morrisania, N.Y.
July 7, N.Y.
June 18, 1866

DEAN, G[ilbert], Poughkeepsie
Dec. 6, 1851

DEAN, John Ward, Boston
Feb. 11, 1869
Feb. 16, 1869
Oct. 9, 1871
Jan. 4, [1872]
July 2, 1872
Mar. 27, 1873
Sept. 16, 1873
Dec. 1, 1873
Apr. 15, 1874
May 27, 1874
Dec. 7, 1874
Apr. 12, 1882
Dec. 19, 1883
Dec. 27, 1883

DEDERICK, Stewart J., New York
Mar. 23, 1872
May 29, 1872

DEGRAUW, J. W., New York
Oct. 19, 1882
Oct. 25, 1882

DELUCE, Percival, New York
July 31, 1876

DEMILLE, J. H. Hobart, The Rectory, Cherry Valley, New York
July 24, 1876

DENHAM, Edward, New Bedford, Mass.
May 13, 1891
July 29, 1891

DENISON, Frederic, Central Falls, R.I.
May 26, 1860
May 30, 1860

DERBY & JACKSON, Publishers, New York
Mar. 1, 1859

DEVOE, Thomas F., New York
Dec. 12, 1871

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE DICESNOLA - DRAPER

DICESNOLA, L., New York
Jan. 5, 1888

DICKINSON, A. M., Utica, N.Y.
June 4, 1871

DIX, Gov. John A.
Oct. 12, [1874] (reception to)

DOCHARTY, G. B. [New York Free Academy]
May 13, 1854
July 27, 1854
May 9, 1863

DODD, Rebecca M., Glen Ridge
June 21, 1888
Aug. 29, [1888]

DOREMUS, Robert, Ogden, N.Y.
Nov. 24, 1882

DOUBLEDAY, William T., Goshen, Conn.
Jan. 4, 1869
May 11, 1870

DOWNING, M., Poughkeepsie
Oct. 9, 1887

DRAKE, Charles Daniel, St. Louis
Feb. 17, 1865

DRAKE, S. A., Boston
May, 1867

DRAPER, John, New York
Oct. 8, 1873

DRAPER, Lyman C., Madison, WI
Mar. 8, [1854]
Sept. 27, 1855
Sept. 28, 1855
Dec. 25, 1855
Dec. 17, 1857
June 25, 1858
Mar. 25, 1859
May 19, 1862
July 6, 1863
Aug. 25, 1863
Sept. 15, 1863
Nov. 5, 1863
Oct. 22, 1867
Apr. 6, 1868
Sept. 2, 1869
Apr. 15, 1870
Sept. 23, 1870
Nov. 19, 1870
May 4, 1872
Sept. 19, 1872
May 31, 1875
June 22, 1875
May 6, 1880
June 1, 1882
Aug. 24, 1882
July 24, 1883
Jan. 22, 1884
Apr. 3, 1884
Sept. 2, 1886
Nov. 16, 1887
Dec. 27, 1888
May 4, 1889

See Lossing to Draper, 5/20/54

See C.M. Gennet re. Draper clippings, etc.

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE DREER - DWINELLE

DREER, Ferdinand Julius, Philadelphia
Jan. 18, 1865
Oct. 26, 1865
Jan. 27, 1866
July 1, 1866
Mar. 10, 1870
Feb. 2, 1873
July 26, 1875
May 18, 1876
June 21, 1876
Nov. 4, 1876
Sept. 15, 1877
Aug. 24, 1878
Apr. 7, 1881
May 9, 1882
Oct. 23, 1883
Sept. 16, 1884
Oct. 24, 1884
Dec. 9, 1884
June 20, 1885
Oct. 3, 1885
Mar. 31, 1886
Sept. 25, 1886
Apr. 27, 1887
Dec. 19, 1887
Apr. 3, 1888
Dec. 22, 1888
May 7, 1889
Sept. 12, 1889
Oct. 8, 1889
Oct. 24, 1889
Feb. 19, 1890
Mar. 19, 1890
(clipping)

DROWNE, Henry T., New York
Dec. 5, 1870
Dec. 6, 1870
July 26, 1872

DUANE, William, Philadelphia
June 13, 1872

DUNCAN, Harriet
June 22, 1854

DURYEE, Abram
Sept. 19, 1863

DWINELLE, John W., Rochester
Jan. 6, 1847

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE E – F

EARLE, Thomas, Jersey City
Jan. 11, 1879

EASTMAN, H. G.
Oct. 12, 1864 (comp. Ticket)
Dec. 1, N.Y.

EASTMAN COLLEGE, Poughkeepsie
Sept. 18, 1879

EGLE, William H., Harrisburg, PA
Dec. 26, 1871

EIGHTS, James, Albany
May 22, [1856]
June 5, 1856

ELLIOT, Charles W., New York
Sept. 13, 1855

ELLIOTT, George W., New York
Oct. 4, 1862

ELLIS, George E., Swampscott
Aug. 24, 1872
Oct. 15, 1872

EMMET, Dr., New York
Nov. 6, 1865

EMMINS, J. New York
Sept. 2, 1857

ENGLISH, Earl, Washington
Dec. 17, 1880

EWBANK, Thomas, Washington
May 30, 1855

FAIRCHILD, T. B., Hudson, Ohio
May 11, 1852
July, 1854

FARRAR, O. S., Milwaukee
“Milwaukee Female College”
Jan. 27, 1875

FERGUSON, R. H., Toronto, Ont.
Mar. 2, 1884

FERRIS, Mary L. D., Garden City, L.I.
July 15, 1889

FIELD, Benjamin H.
Dec. 5, 1870 (invitation)

FIELD, Cyrus W., New York
Mar. 28, 1882

FILKINS, E. V., New York
Apr. 22, 1853

FISK, D. E. & CO., Springfield, Mass.
Apr. 1, 1867

FLORIDA HOUSE, Apalachicola, FL
Apr. 10, 1875 (invitation)

FOGG, M. N., Nashville
Mar. 8, N.Y.

FOOTE, Horace A., New York
Aug. 25, 1877

FOWLER, John Jr., New Rochelle
Dec. 4, 1860

FOWLERS & WELLS, New York
Jan. 27, 1853

FRANCIS, John W., Jr.
n.d. (memoir of)

FRANCIS, S. W., New York
Oct. 8, 1857

FRANCIS, Samuel W., New York
Jan. 17, 1866
Sept. 18, 1873
Dec. 16, 1873 (w/clipping)
July 31, 1880

FRASER, A. S., New York
June 20, 1854

FRENCH, G. E., Alex., VA
Nov. 11, 1854

FROST, S. F., Claverack, New York
Feb. 21, 1865

FULLER, Samuel L., Delaware House
Jan. 11, 1860

FUNK, Peter
n.d.

FUNK & WAGNALLS, New York
Oct. 18, N.Y.
June 15, 1887
Sept. 16, 1887
Mar. 17, 1888
Dec. 8, [1888]
June 29, 1889
Aug. 15, 1889
Apr. 24, 1891

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE G

GARRETTSON, M. R.
July 16, 1859

GAY BROS. & CO., New York
Dec. 15, 1883
1886 (flier)
Feb. 9, 1891

GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY of N.Y.
Oct. 3, 1874

GENNET, Charles, Richmond
Nov. 23, 1853
n.d., 1861 – see Lyman C. Draper folder

GIBBONS, Thomas, Hagaski, Japan
June 2, 1876 (w/enclosures)
June 8, 1876
Apr. 2, 1878

GIBSON, W.
Mar. 14, 1866

GIBSON, W. I., Vassar College
Apr. 23, 1888

GILMAN, W. S., New York
July 1, 1878

GITCHELL, John C., Bosawen, N.H.
Apr. 16, 1855

GODDARD, E. L, Claremont
Mar. 29, 1862
June 2, 1862 (receipt)

GOODRICH, Cornelia P.
Apr. 23, n.y.
Oct. 18, 1888

GOODRICH, Samuel Griswold
Sept. 8, 1851
Aug. 25, 1855
Apr. 1860
Apr. 27, 1860

GOODRICH, William M., Poughkeepsie
Nov. 20, 1854

GOODSPEED, H. S. & CO., New York
n.d.
Oct. 13, 1881
Oct. 25, 1881
Nov. 5, 1881
Nov. 30, 1881

GOODWIN, L. G., Boston
June 15, 1846

GOSS, Elbridge H., Melrose
Dec. 18, 1885

GOULD, Edward S., New York
Jan. 14, 1872

GOURLIE, John H.
Mar. 13, n.y.
July 13, 1888

GRAHAM, James G., Newburgh
July 10, [1882]

GREBLE, Edwin, Philadelphia
June 9, 1870

GREEN, Samuel A., Groton, MA
Oct. 15, n.y.
Feb. 8, 1868
July 27, 1874

GREENE, George W., Newburgh
Sept. 14, 1861

GREGORY, James G., New York
Sept. 5, 1861

GRIDLEY, Lucius
July 15, 1863

GRIFFITHS, O. J., Chicago
July 2, 1889

GROTON HEIGHTS, Conn.
9/6/81 (Centennial folder)

GUERNSEY, A. H.
n.d.
May 12, n.y.
May 29, 1861
June 1, 1861
Nov. 5, 1861
July 28, 1862
Oct. 14, 1862
Dec. 3, 1863
June 17, 1864

GUTHRIE, James, Treasury Dept.
Nov. 19, 1855

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE H – HARPER BROS.

HAGER, J. Henry, New York [The Tribune]
June 5, 1865
Sept. 9, 1886

HALE, Sarah J., Philadelphia
Mar. 15, 1848
Sept. 12, 1851
Jan. 1, 1853 (w/ encl)
Jan. 1864 (poem)
June 14, 1866
Aug/ 24. 1866

HALL, Benjamin H., Troy, New York
Apr. 19, 1860
Apr. 24, 1860

HALL, Francis
n.d.

HALL, Harrison, Philadelphia
Aug. 17, 1859
Nov. 19, 1859

HALL, Hiland, North Bennington
July 22, 1871
Oct. 11, 1873
Apr. 6, 1874

HALL, Sister Louise Gardner
Feb. 13, 1883

HALSTED, Mrs. Nathaniel Norris
Nov. 10, 1874

HAMILTON, John C., New York
Feb. 26, 1859

HAMILTON, R., Poughkeepsie
July 9, n.y.

HARFORD, Thomas, Poughkeepsie
Nov. 24, 1869

HARPEE, Oscar H., Cincinnati
Apr. 30, 1874
Nov. 2, 1874

HARPER & BROS., New York
Dec. 18, 1858
Nov. 30, 1859
Dec. 20, 1859
Dec. 31, 1859
Dec. 14, 1860
Dec. 14, 1860
July 18, 1862
May 14, 1863
Nov. 11, 1867
Jan. 27, 1869
Jan. 30, 1869
Jan. 30, 1869 (memo)
July 23, 1869
Sept. 30, 1869
Feb. 3, 1870
Feb. 9, 1870
May 7, 1870
June 23, 1870
May 31, 1871
June 10, 1871
Nov. 3, 1873
Jan. 25, 1876
June 15, 1877
Oct. 3, 1877
Apr. 20, 1878
Mar. 5, 1880
Mar. 18, 1880
Dec. 30, 1880
July 17, 1883
Oct. 9, 1884
Feb. 24, 1885
Oct. 23, 1885
Dec. 17, 1886
June 29, 1888
Aug. 11, 1898
n.d. to Harpers from “A Dutchman”

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE HARRINGTON – HUTCHINSON

HARRINGTON, I., New York
Sept. 1854

HART, HARRIETTE, E.
Dec. 1, 1869
Mar. 31, 1870
n.d. (misc. ms. and clippings)

HARTFORD, Conn. Governor’s Foot Guard
Sept. 22, 1880

HASBROUCK, Judge A. B.
Apr. 2, 1860
Oct. 23, 1866

HAWLEY, C. E., Bethlehem, PA
Apr. 7, 1876

HAYDEN, Sidney
n.d.

HEADLEY, J. T., Albany
Jan. 10, 1856

HECKER, George V., New York
Jan. 4, 1883

HEMENWAY, Miss, Burlington, VT
Aug. 1868

HENRY, Frank, Washington, D.C.
May 31, 1866

HIBBARD, William
May 29, 1852

HINE, David, Canfield
Mar. 5, 1860

HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Nov. 8, 1860 (invitation)
Mar. 18, 1884 (invitation)
n.d.

HOAG, F. P., Rawlings, N.Y.
Jan. 18, 1887

HOLDEN, J. G. P., Poughkeepsie
Mar. 9, 1864

HOLDEN, Stephen, Sherburne, New York
May 20, 1887

HOLDT, Henry, New York
Feb. 20, 1883

HOLLAND, Frank, Peru, New York
Aug. 17, 1880

HOLT, Frank, Peru, New York
Aug. 17, 1880

HOUGH, Franklin Benjamin, Albany
July 14, 1856
July 16, 1856
Jan. 24, 1857
Feb. 9, 1865
Mar. 15, 1865
June 3, 1872
n.d. (misc)

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., New York
June 1, 1883

HOWE, Henry, Cincinnati
Dec. 8, 1860

HOWLAND, William, New York
July 29, 1862

HOYT, Albert Harrison, Boston
Apr. 16, 1887

HUBBARD, C. J., Portsmouth, N.H.
Nov. 20, 1881

HUBBARD BROS., Philadelphia
Dec. 16, 1884

HUNTER, J. W., Peekskill
Aug. 30, 1878

HUNTINGTON, F. J., New York
Nov. 8, 1853
Nov. 10, 1853
Jan. 5, 1854
Mar. 9, 1854 (w/encl)
May 12, 1854
Nov. 10, 1854
Nov. 18, 1854
Jan. 10, 1855
Mar. 28, 1884
May 8, 1884

HUNTINGTON, Frank, New York
Appleton’s Cyc. Of Am. Biography
Sept. 16, 1887
Oct. 10, 1887

HUNTTING, Isaac, Pine Plains
July 31, 1883
Mar. 28, 1887
Feb. 21, 1889

HURLBIT, WILLIAMS & CO., Hartford, CT
Feb. 18, 1861

HUTCHINSON, H., Syracuse
May 16, 1850

HUTCHINSON, S., New Bedford
Mar. 15, 1864

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE I – J

INDEPENDENT, The, New York City
Jan. 29, 1887

JAMES, Henry T.
Mar. 16, 1861 (funeral notice)

JAMIESON, M., Batavia
Mar. 13, 1862

JARVES, James Jackson
June 9, 1855

JEWETT, J. H. & Co., Norwich, CT
Sept. 13, 1873

JOHNSON, Fred C., Wilkes Barre, PA
July 10, 1874
Oct. 13, 1874

JOHNSON, WILSON & CO., New York
Aug. 26, 1873
Oct. 11, 1873
Oct. 31, 1873
Dec. 31, 1873
Jan. 16, 1874
Apr. 2, 1875
May 23, 1876
Dec. 1, 1876

JOHNSTON, Henry P., New York
Oct. 21, 1884

JONES, D. R. Floyd, Fort Neck, South Oyster Bay, L.I.
Aug. 29, 1851

JONES, Horatio Gates, Jr., Philadelphia
n.d.
Apr. 5, 1853
Apr. 14, 1854
Nov. 12, 1855
Nov. 19, 1856
May 14, 1864
Sept. 12, 1871

JONES, J. Wesley, Melrose, MA
Oct. 23, 1852
Nov. 7, 1852
May 9, 1853
Dec. 26, 1856

JONES, Thomas, Clermont Co., Ohio
Apr. 5, 1860

JORDAN, John Jr., Philadelphia
June 25, 1859
Sept. 19, 1859
Sept. 28, 1859
Oct. 11, 1859
Oct. 15, 1859
Oct. 20, 1859
Feb. 9, 1861
Mar. 3, 1884
Nov. 24, 1885

JUDD, Orange Company, New York
Aug. 24, 1875

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE K

KAPP, Friedrich, New York
Dec. 8, 1861

KEELER, O. T., New York
Sept. 24, 1855

KELLOGG, E. B. & E. C., Hartford
Apr. 30, 1862

KEMBLE, Governor, Cold Spring
Feb. 22, 1867
July 18, 1872
Dec. 25, 1874
Jan. 7, 1875
Apr. 2, 1875

KETCHAM, J. H., Washington, D.C.
Mar. 30, 1869

KEYNTON, John, Poughkeepsie
May 22, 1854

KIDDER, Edward, Wilmington
Nov. 29, 1860
July 23, 1865
Apr. 6, 1869
July 17, 1869

KIDDER, Frederic
Feb. 22, 1852
May 5, 1852
Dec. 13, 1852
Nov. 19, 1856
Feb. 27, 1857
Mar. 12, 1857 (w/clipping)
June 28, 1857
Aug. 11, 1857
Mar. 10, 1858
Dec. 18, 1858
Sept. 7, 1859
June 10, 1861
n.d., [1864]
Mar. 18, 1865
Apr. 10, 1865
June 20, 1865
Feb. 27, 1867
Nov. 23, 1868
Dec. 21, 1868
June 13, 1869
Oct. 19, 1871
Mar. 25, 1872
May 4, 1872
Oct. 14, 1872
Jan. 11, 1875
Apr. 11, 1875
Jan. 20, 1877
Apr. 21, 1877
May 18, 1877
May 30, 1877
June 13, 1877
July 3, 1877
Aug. 6, 1877
Sept. 9, 1877
Sept. 20, 1877
Oct. 7, 1877
Aug. 20, 1878
Jan. 9, 1878
n.d. (3 pieces, misc.)

KIDDER, Mrs. Frederic, Mansion House, Brooklyn
Jan. 25, n.y. (w/clipping)

KING, Charles R., Andalusia, PA
July 22, 1887

KING, Richard, New York
July 22, 1887

KINNEY, B. H., Worchester, MA
Nov. 1, 1858

KIRBY, J. Brown, Brownville
Mar. 2, 1856

KIRKE, H. B.
n.d.

KNICKERBOCKER, Dr., Rochester
Aug. 20, 1855

KOECKER, L. R., Philadelphia
Mar. 20, 1856

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE L

LAIDLEY, Mrs. J. W., New York
Apr. 18, 1876

LAIRD, John M., Quebec
Aug. 3, 1859

LAPHAM, Ludlow E.
n.d.

LARNED, J. N., Buffalo
Mar. 3, 1893

LAURENCE, R., New York
Jan. 13, 1879

LEATHE, Frank, New York
July 28, 1864

LEAVENSWORTH, Elias Warner, Albany
Dec. 10, 1855

LEAVITT, Geo. A. & Co., New York
n.d. (admission card)

LEE, S. Adams, Washington, PA
Feb. 6, 1856

LEFFINGWELL, E. H., New Haven, CT
Nov. 25, 1853

LESLIE, Frank Publishing House, New York
Feb. 5, 1868
Nov. 3, 1868
Oct. 28, 1870
Dec. 5, 1870

LeVAL, Octavia Walton, Mobile, AL
Feb. 11, 1860

LEWIS, Mrs. Estella Anna Blanche
May 12, 1851

LEWIS, James C., New York
Nov. 6, 1860

LEXINGTON, CT [Battle of]
Feb. 18, 1875
Apr. 19, 1875

LIBRARY of CONGRESS, Washington
Apr. 19, 1875
July 31, 1875

LINN, John B., Harrisburg, PA
Apr. 21, 1874

LIPPINCOTT, J. B., Co., Philadelphia
May 18, 1886

LOBAM, Mary C.. Albany
Apr. 8, 1865

LOCKE, Mary Anne, Stratford
June 20, 1850 (w/clipping)

LOOMIS, H., Jr., Poughkeepsie
Sept. 27, 1870

LOSSING, Edwin J., New York
Nov. 1880

LOSSING, Fanny, Poughkeepsie
[Mar. 30, 1880]

LOSSING, Family
n.d. (miscellaneous)

LOTHROP, S. K., Boston
Sept. 12, 1854

LOWELL, [Ladd I Whitney], Boston
Oct. 30, 1859

LUDLOW, R. Fulton, Claverack, N. Y.
May 24, 1889

LUKENS, Charles J., Philadelphia
Feb. 9, 1865
Mar. 21, 1872

LUKENS, Henry Clay, New York City
Mar. 20, 1877
Mar. 30, 1877
Oct. 20, 1880
Nov. 8, 1880
Dec. 27, 1880
July 1, 1882 (printed poem)
July 3, 1882
Nov. 30, 1885

LUMLEY, Arthur, N.Y.
Mar. 1, 1870

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE M – MAYER

McALLISTER, John A., Philadelphia
Sept. 9, 1854
Jan. 2, 1859
Apr. 2, 1859
May 16, 1859
Sept. 20, 1859
Sept. 3, 1862
Sept. 10, 1862
Oct. 26, 1862
Mar. 17, 1867
Mar. 26, 1870
May 15, 1870
Jan. 29, 1871
June 19, 1871
Mar. 13, 1872
June 18, 1872
June 15, 1875
Oct. 15, 1876
July 28, 1877
July 28, 1878
Sept. 27, 1880
Mar. 10, 1884

McCLURE, S. S., New York
Aug. 10, 1889

McCONAUGHY, D., Gettysburg, PA
July 29, 1863

McCORD, W. G., Tribes Hill, N.Y.
May 9, 1861

McCUTHEON, A. S., Poughkeepsie
Dec. 7, 1887

McDONALD, J. C.
Apr. 24, 1854
May 22, 1854

McFETRIDGE, J. R., Philadelphia
Apr. 7, 1869

McKINNEY, H. D.
June 29, 1875

McKINSTRY, G. A., New York
Sept. 9, 1854

McKNIGHT, C. S., Newburgh
Sept. 11, 1852
Feb. 14, 1876

McLELLAN, C. H. P., Poughkeepsie
Mar. 23, 1856

McMITCHELL, R., Saratoga
Oct. 24, 1864 (telegram)

MACKAY, Charles
Nov. 30, 1857

MADDEN, Mamie L., Chicago
Feb. 27, 1890

MANSFIELD, John W., New York
Jan. 28, 1883

MAPES, James J.
n.d. (invitation)

MARANVILLE, R. E., Castleton, VT
Aug. 23, 1859

MARR, James H., Washington
Aug. 9, 1871

MARSTON, E., New York
Dec. 27, 1867

MARTIN, Cyrus B.
n.d. (invitation)

MASON, B. C.
Feb. 28, 1870

MASON, D. & CO., Syracuse, N.Y.
Mar. 8, 1882

MASON, George C., Newport, R.I.
Mar. 11, 1872
Mar. 7, 1874

MASON, W. L., New York
June 28, 1884
July 9, 1884

MASON, William F., St. Louis
Mar. 22, 1862

MATHER, Charles M.
n.d.

MAYER, Brantz, Baltimore
n.d. (post card)
Nov. 20, 1856
Oct. 26, 1857
Dec. 22, 1859
Oct. 23, 1860
Mar. 21, 1864
June 10, 1868
Apr. 3, 1869
Aug. 17, 1869
Sept. 23, 1870
May 7, 1876
June 2, 1876
July 26, 1876
Aug. 28, 1878

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE METROPOLITAN – MORRIS

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
May 4, 1885 (admission card)
Nov. 2, 1885 (admission card)

MICHIGAN, PIONEER SOCIETY OF
Jan. 18, 1877

MICHIGAN, UNIVERSITY OF, Alumni
Mar. 10, 1882 (invitation)

MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION OF THE UNITED STATES, PA.
Apr. 1890 (20th Anniversary, invitations, programs, admission cards, etc. 7 pieces)

MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Oct. 4, 1869

MINTON, John B., Philadelphia
Feb. 20, 1855

MITCHELL, James, Fayetteville, AR [Arkansas Industrial Univ.]
May 5, 1876

MOORE, George H., New York
June 18, 1881
Oct. 19, 1883
Jan. 1, 1885
Jan. 22, 1886

MOREAU, John B., New York
Dec. 30, 1880

MORGAN, Henry J., Quebec, D.E.
Sept. 27, 1862

MORRELL, John J., Fishkill-on-Hudson
Dec. 8, 1883

MORRELL, T. H., New York
Jan. 9, 1855
Oct. 26, 1864

MORRIS, Edmund, Poughkeepsie
Sept. 1, 1879

MORRIS, George P., Union Pl. Hotel
Dec. 6, 1861

MORRIS, T. A., Indianapolis
Nov. 15, 1865

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE MORSE – MURRAY

MORSE, George R.
Mar. 1887

MORSE, Leila L.
June 3, 1872

MORSE, Samuel F. B.
n.d. (photo of )
sketch for Morse statue
Apr. 16, 1872 (memorial service folder)
Calling card, invitation, clippings

MOULTON, Charles W., Buffalo
Dec. 20, 1889

MOUNT VERNON ASSOCIATION
Letters and Misc.

MUNN, O. D., New York
Jan. 1, 1883

MUNSELL, J., Albany
Jan. 31, 1860
Mar. 24, 1860
Sept. 24, 1860
Oct. 14, 1860
Feb. 11, 1864
Sept. 30, 1865
Apr. 20, 1866
Nov. 3, 1866
Sept. 23, 1868
Sept. 30, 1868
Jan. 27, 1869
Jan. 29, 1869
July 21, 1871 (statement)
July 22, 1871
Apr. 2, 1875
June 5, 1876
July 11, 1877

MURRAY, Mrs. Elizabeth
Nov. 14, 1868 (invitation)

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE N – O

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, New York
Mar. 29, 1848 (invitation)

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LETTERS, ARTS, AND SCIENCES, New York
Dec. 4, 1868

NATIONAL PROHIBITION CAMP-GROUND ASSOC., West Brighton, N.Y.
May 12, 1891
May 13, 1891

NEILSON, Charles
July 29, 1850

NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
Aug. 2, 1869

NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Newark
Apr. 13, 1872

NEW WINDSOR CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
June 9, 1883
n.d.

NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL & BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
1869
June 12, 1869
1882 (invitation)

NEW YORK, City
June 21, 1847 (invitation)

NEW YORK COUNTY DEMOCRACY
Oct. 30, 1885

NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, N.Y.
n.d. (post card)
Jan. 2, 1856
May 17, 1858
Oct. 5, 1870
Nov. 1, 1872
Aug. 8, 1876
Jan. 1, 1877
Dec. 29, 1877 (post card)
June 4, 1878

NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY
Nov. 9, 1872 (admission ticket)

NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY, Albany
Jan. 10, 1853
Oct. 12, 1854
Nov. 12, 1854
July 22, 1856

NEW YORK STATE MILITIA (7th Regt., 3rd Brig. Co. 3)
Jan. 15, 1853

NEW YORK STATE NATIONAL GUARD (7th Reg.)
Apr. 12, 1878
Jan. 20, 1882
Apr. 12, 1882
May 1, 1882
June 6, 1882
Mar. 29, 1886

NEW YORK TYPOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
Dec. 18, 1855 (invitation w/ admission tickets)

NEW YORK VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY (6th Reg.)
Sept. 2, 1890 (admission ticket)

NEWBURGH CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, Newburgh, N.Y.
Oct. 15, 1883

NEWTON, John M., College Hill, O.
June 25, 1877
Aug. 4, 1877

THE NIAGRA FALLS ASSOCIATION, N.Y.
Feb. 20, 1885

NORRIS, J. Parker, Philadelphia
Jan. 19, 1874

NOWLAND, A. C., New Castle, DE
Jan. 22, 1862

OBZ, M. C.
Jan. 23, 1856

ODD FELLOWS, Independent Order of
Sept. 6, 1843
Feb. 18, 1845
Jan. 6, 1847

OLMSTED, E. K.
Apr. 6, n.y.

ONDERDONK, Henry, Jr.
7 items undated
Nov. 27, 1853
Oct. 25, 1859
Jan. 27, 1868
Dec. 24, 1868
Dec. 6, 1869
Nov. 23, 1871
Feb. 28, 1872
Feb. 27, 1873
Clipping

ORTHOPAEDIC DISPENSARY for the Treatment …of the Spine & Hip Joint
Jan. 2, 1872

OSBORNE, J. S., Charlotte
Dec. 30, 1851

BOX 2

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE - P

PANCOAST, George, Philadelphia
Jan. 21, 1854

PARK THEATER
n.d. Theater bill

PARKER, Caroline G.
June 19, 1868

PARKER, E. H., Poughkeepsie
Nov. 11, 1872

PARKS, M. P.
n.d. – poem

PARMENTER, Stephen C., Newburgh
Apr. 30, 1860

PATTERSON, A., Albany
Feb. 5, 1853

PAYNE, E. S., Syracuse
July 29, 1858

PEALE, Lucy
Dec. 28, 1870
June 6, 1875
Dec. 31, 1875

PENNSYLVANIA, Historical Society of
Oct. 20, 1870 (invitation)

PENNSYLVANIA VETERAN VOLUNTEERS (25th Regt)
July 17, 1865
List of Officers

PENTZ, Benjamin I., N.Y.
Mar. 23, 1854

PERINE, George E., New York
June 22, 1881
1888

PERINE, S. I., New York
July 3, 1874

PERRY, E. Wood [The Century]
Jan. 3, 1876

PETERS, J. C., New York
n.d.
Dec. 1881 (receipt)

PHILETHEAN SOCIETY
Dec. 7, 1877

PHILLIPS, Morris
Dec. 28, 1866

PHINNEY, H. F., Cooperstown, N.Y.
Mar. 29, 1873

PHOENIX, S., Whitney, Hudson
Dec. 14, 1866
July 21, 1867

PIERCE, G. T., Garrett, KS
Oct. 8, 1881

PIERSON, H. W., New York
June 16, 1852

PLATT, John I., Poughkeepsie
Sept. 4, 1872

POILLON, William, New York
Dec. 31, 1883

POLAND, Col. & Mrs. J.S., Narragansett Pier, R.I.
June 24, N.Y. (invitation)

PORTER & COATES, Philadelphia
Mar. 15, 1875
Mar. 25, 1875
Feb. 19, 1876
Mar. 1, 1876
Apr. 6, 1876
May 3, 1876

POTTER, John E. & Co., Philadelphia
Nov. 28, 1874
Mar. 11, 1875
June 5, 1875
June 22, 1875

POTTSVILLE, PA, First Defenders Association
June 7, 1880

POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y.
Misc. items pertaining to church, civic, and social affairs

POWERS, Charles, Poughkeepsie
May 9, 1854

PRESTON, W. W., New York
Nov. 6, 1889

PRINCE, S. J.
May 17, n.y.

PUTNAM, George & Co., N.Y.
Jan. 26, 1857
May 7, 1864
July 14, 1864
Jan. 9, 1866
Jan. 7, 1869
Mar. 4, 1869
Feb. 1870
June 3, 1870
June 15, 1870
Jan. 30, 1871
Mar. 15, 1871
June 24, 1871
Feb. 1872
Feb. 8, 1872
Apr. 19, 1872
May 2, 1872
Jan. 31, 1876

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE Q – R

QUILLAN, James E., Monticello
Mar. 16, 1872

RANDOLPH, Anson D. F., New York
Jan. 17, 1864
May 18, 1865

RANTOUL, Robert S., Salem, MA
Dec. 10, 1888

REDFIELD, Julius Starr [D.A.B. Publisher]
Dec. 18, 1864

REID, N., Penns Store, VA
July 1, 1856
July 21, 1856

REYNOLDS, B. B. & SEAMAN, James N.
Oct. 26, 1854

RICH, William F., New York
July 27, 1880

RICHARDS, T.  Addison, New York
Nov. 1, 1856 (announcement)

RICHARDS, W. C., Charleston
Jan. 24, 1852

RICHARDSON, C. Benjamin, New York
n.d.
Sept. 2, 1852
May 15, 1858
Sept. 10, 1858

RICHARDSON, C. F., Philadelphia
[The Sunday School Times]
Aug. 28, 1878
Feb. 17, 1880
Mar. 16, 1882

RIDER, George T., Poughkeepsie [Cottage Hill Seminary]
Mar. 14, 1866

ROBERTS, Alex F., New York
Sept. 21, 1852

ROBERTS, Harriet A., New York
Oct. 12, 1841

ROBINSON, Nugent, New York (“Collier’s Once a Week”)
Aug. 7, 1888
Oct. 5, 1888
Oct. 9, 1888
Nov. 15, 1888
Nov. 20, 1888
Jan. 4, 1889
Apr. 13, 1889

RODE, Charles R., New York
June 2, 1860

ROGERS, John
n.d.

RUTTENBER, E. M., Newburgh
Dec. 6, 1855
July 17, 1862
Jan. 29, n.y.

RYAN, John S., Charleston
Nov. 28, 1866

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE S – SINCLAIR

SAFFELL, W. T. R., Ellicotts Mills, MD
Apr. 17, 1857

ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida
Mar. 1885 (invitation)

ST. JOHN, Oliver S., Easton, PA
June 23, 1852

ST. NICHOLS, Editor of [The Century Co.]
Feb. 5, 1884

SAMUELS, S., New York
June 17, 1886

SANDS, Samuel, Baltimore
Oct. 15, 1889

SATTERLEE, Edward, Highland Falls, N.Y.
n.d.

SAUNDERS, Frederick, N.Y.
Feb. 6, 1883

SAVAGE, C. C., Brooklyn
June 15, 1861
July 25, 1862 (w/photo)

SCHROEDER, J[ohn] F[rederick], Brooklyn
Oct. 9, 1854
Mar. 27, 1855
July 22, 1856

SCHUYLER, Eliza A., Dobbs Ferry
Oct. 28, 1859Nov. 2, 1859
Oct. 22, 1865

SCHUYLER, Philip
n.d.

SCOTT, Rev. Lockburn B., Dover Plains, N.Y.
Oct. 6, 1887

SEAMAN, D. M., New York
Mar. 9, 1883

SEARS, Robert, N.Y.
June 22, 1871

SEDGWICK, Charles F., Sharon, CT
Feb. 2, 1874

SEYMOUR, Horatio, Marquette, MI
Jan. 3, 1889

SHEA, George, New York
Feb. 22, 1883

SHEA, John G.
n.d. (4 letters)

SHELDON, Alex, Buffalo
Sept. 18, 1874

SHELDON, Smith, New York
Dec. 26, 1867

SHELDON & COMPANY, New York
June 20, 1871

SHOBER, Sam L.
May 19, 1874

SILL, Edward E., Rochester
Apr. 13, 1882

SIMMS, J. R., Fultonville, N.Y.
Sept. 21, 1855
Jan. 5, 1872
Nov. 20, 1880

SIMONS, M. Laird, Philadelphia
Mar. 1, 1880
Mar. 24, 1880

SIMPSON, I. E., Washington, D.C.
Sept. 21, 1861

SINCLAIR, Thomas, Philadelphia
Feb. 21, 1860

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE SMITH – SWEET

SMITH, A. B., Poughkeepsie
Aug. 23, 1866

SMITH, E Oaks, Brooklyn
Feb. 11, 1851

SMITH, Helen E.
May 19, 1860

SMITH, I. Galvin, N. Y.
July 24, 1838

SMITH, Joseph P.
July 29, 1878

SMITH, Lizzie R., Wallingford
Oct. 5, 1876

SMITH, P. H.
July 25, 1874

SMITH, Thomas B., New York
Apr. 4, 1854

SMYTHE, J. Henry, N. Y.
n.d.

SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND
June 10, 1876
Sept. 1885

SOMMERVILLE, R. A., Washington
June 20, 1885

SPENCER, Mrs. Cornelia Philips, Chapel Hill, N.C.
July 22, 1869

SPENCER, James S., N. Y.
Aug. 16, 1886

SQUIER, E. George, New York
Dec. 31, 1876

STANLEY, Col. D. S.
Apr. 18, 1890

STEVENS, Hy. H., New York
Mar. 18, 1854

STILES, Henry R., Brooklyn
Jan. 26, 1860

STONE, Edwin Martin, Providence
Nov. 2, 1868

STONE, William L.
Dec. 1, 1873
Oct. 23, 1886

[STRONG, Nathaniel Thayer] “Honnondenk”
Apr. 3, 1855
May 22, 1856
Jan. 15, 1863

STURGES, M. R.
n.d. (2 letters)

SUTTON, Richard, Washington
Feb. 25, 1857

SWEET, S., New York
May 20, 1886

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE T – V

TANNER, Rueben, Poughkeepsie
June 11, 1860

TAPPAN, L., Newton, MA
Aug. 15, 1854

TENNEY, Mrs. Harriet A., Lansing
Dec. 13, 1883

THAYER, Eben, New York
Dec. 1, 1865

THOMAS, Sarah, Poughkeepsie
Nov. 4, 1889

THOMAS, Dr. [William]
n.d.

THOMPSON, John R.
July 8, 1856

THORNE, Jonathan, New York
Apr. 28, 1883

THORNTON, J. Wingate, Boston
May 10, 1858

TIFFANY, C. L., New York
Nov. 11, 1882

TIFFANY, Osmond, Baltimore
Mar. 10, 1871

TIFFEY, S. Washburn, Mt. Vernon
Feb. 22, 1870

TITUS, M., Batavia
Jan. 31, 1860
Feb. 20, 1860

TOBEY, A. B., Poughkeepsie (“The Sunday Courier)
Jan. 12, 1890

TOMASSON, Tower, St. Louis
Nov. 7, 1854

TOMLINSON, Abraham
Apr. 1, 1856
Apr. 15, 1856

TOMPKINS, Emma L., Newark, N. J.
Dec. 29, 1887

TOWNSEND, Aurelia W.
Mar. 28, N.Y.
Jan. 1, 1860
Jan. 7, 1860
Oct. 19, 1860
Feb. 5, 1861
Feb. 21, 1861
Mar. 31, 1862
Nov. 26, 1863
Mar. 21, 1864
Nov. 28, 1864

TOWNSEND, Sol, N. Y.
Mar. 20, 1872
July 25, 1872

TOWNSEND, Virginia F.
n.d.
Oct. 5, 1864
Dec. 19, 1864

TOWNSEND, W. A. & CO.
Jan. 26, 1859
July 2, 1859
Oct. 17, 1859
Nov. 4, 1859
Apr. 12, 1864
June 18, 1864
July 1, 1864
Oct. 10, 1864
Jan. 11, 1865
Aug. 7, 1865
Mar. 28, 1867
Apr. 9, 1868
Dec. 2, 1869
Mar. 14, 1876
Mar. 15, 1876

TRACY, M. C.
Feb. 15, 1854

TRACY, S.C., Mt. Vernon Mansion
Oct. 13, 1863

TRACY’S MILITARY SCHOOL, Tarrytown, N. Y.
July 24, 1863

TRIVETT, Robert C.
Mar. 27, 1854

TROOMEY, F. J., N. Y.
Mar. 2, 1854

TROW, John F., N. Y.
May 10, 1867

TROWBRIDGE, Amasa, Watertown
Jan. 26, 1858

TURRILL, M. T.
Sept. 15, 1853

TYLER, M. C., Ann Arbor
Mar. 7, 1872
Jan. 1, 1874

TYING, J. H., New York
n.d.

UNITED STATES BOOK COMPANY, N. Y.
Aug. 28, 1890

UNITED STATES SANITARY COMMISSION
n.d. (3 items)

VAN CLEVE, I., Lewiston
Oct. 1860

VAN RENSSALAER, Adeline
Jan. 3, 1857

VAN SCHAAK, Henry Cruger, Manlius, N. Y.
Apr. 24, 1860
June 27, 1874

VARDEN, John, Washington, D.C.
Jan. 21, 1852
Dec. 30, 1856

VASSAR COLLEGE
n.d.

VAUGHN, Petty, London
Dec. 7, 1846

VIRTUE, James, N. Y.
Sept. 11, 1862

VIRTUE, James S., London
Feb. 9, 1861

VIRTUE, William A., N. Y.
Sept. 6, 1862

VIRTUE & CO., New York
Oct. 11, 1862

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE W – WISCONSIN

WADHAMS, Albert, Goshen, CT
Jan. 21, 1867

WADSWORTH, J., Albany
Jan. 17, 1856
Jan. 30, 1856

WAISS, George F.
Nov. 15, 1856

WAITE, H. R., N.Y.C. (American Institute of Civics)
Feb. 1888

WALKER, Dexter H., N.Y.
May 18, 1876

WALKER, E.
Aug. 29, 1863

WALKER, E. & SONS, N.Y.
Apr. 10, 1852

WALKER, S. Lyon, Poughkeepsie
May 26, 1869

WALLACE, Francis, B., Pottsville, PA
Feb. 25, 1864

WALLACE, Henry L, Indianapolis
June 15, 1882 (invitation)

WALLACE, Gen. Lewis
Dec. 29, 1886 (calling card, Mrs. Wallace)

WALLIN, S., N. Y.
Oct. 29, 1859

WALTON, E. P., Montpelier
Dec. 5, 1873

WARNER, Andrew
Nov. 18, 1854

WASHINGTON, George
(see individual folder)

WATSON, W. C., Port Kent
n.d.
Nov. 10, N.Y.

WEIDERWAX, N. C., Burns Hills, N.Y.
May 21, 1853

WELLS, William V., N. Y.
Sept. 28, 1857

WEST MUTUAL INSURANCE CO., New Rochelle
May 10, 1854

WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
May 26, 1870
Sept. 8, 1870
Jan. 3, 1871
Jan. 1, 1873

WETMORE, P. M., New York
July 12, 1860

WHEELER, A. F., Poughkeepsie
Mar. 4, 1861

WHEELER, E. S., Jersey City
June 30, 1854

WHEILER, John H.
Jan. 1853

WHIPPLE, H. B. (Diocese of Minnesota)
Sept. 13, 1878 (printed)

WHITE, Edward M., N.Y.C.
Apr. 26, 1883

WHITMAN, Lavina F.
Dec. 20, 1865

WHITMAN, William A., Philadelphia
Jan. 25, 1859

WHITTAKER, T., New York
Dec. 22, 1883

WHITTEMORE, Henry, Tappan, N. Y.
Dec. 28, 1878
Feb. 21, 1879
Dec. 30, 1879
Jan. 10, 1880
Apr. 15, 1881

WHITTLESEY, Elisha, Canfield, OH
Dec. 10, 1860

WILLARD, Frances E.
June 24, 1888

WILLARD, Joseph, Boston
Aug. 22, 1861

WILLIAMS, E., N. Y.
Oct. 2, 1854

WILSON, Archibald, Poughkeepsie
Apr. 30, 1869
Aug. 26, 1871
Aug. 10, 1877
June 23, 1886

WILSON, James Grant (“Chicago Record”)
Jan. 23, 1862

WILSON, Lavalette, Haverstraw, N.Y.
Apr. 18, 1883

WISCONSIN STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Madison
Jan. 9, 1866 (printed)

WOOL, John E., Troy
Feb. 22, 1813 [copy]
Feb. 11, 1866
See also Hart, Harriette E.

WORCESTER SOCIETY OF ANTIQUITY
Jan. 27, 1885

WORDIN, William R., Poughkeepsie
Sept. 4, 1878

WORLD’S CONGRESSES
Jan. 6, 1890 (printed)

WORHTINGTON, DUSTIN & CO., Hartford, CT
Mar. 4, 1870

WYATT, J. H., N.Y.C.
Sept. 19, 1866

WYRICK, David, Newark, OH
Mar. 15, 1861
July 26, 1861

YORSTON, John C. & Company
Sept. 20, 1866
Oct. 13, 1881
Aug. 28, 1882
Nov. 10, 1883
May 30, 1889

YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, N. Y.
Mar. 9, 1853
Feb. 25, 1876 [Richard C. Morse]

ZABRISKIE, A. C., New York
Oct. 11, 1875

OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE, BENSON J. LOSSING, n.d. – 1859

To “Post Master” n.d.
n.d. (invitation thank you)
To ? “Mr. & Mrs. Benson J. Lossing acknowledge the receipt the kind invitation…” n.d.
To A. S. Barnes & Co., n.d.
To Captain Toplanye, n.d.
To Mr. Cobb dtd Nov. 11, 1850
To Lyman C. Draper, Sec. of Wisconsin Historical Society, dtd Mar. 20, 1854, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To “My Dear Sir” dtd Mar. 30, 1854, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To H. Phelps dtd Nov. 10, 1854, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To H. Phelps dtd Nov. 24, 1854, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To Joel T. Headly dtd Jan. 8, 1855, New York
To Joint Committee on the Library dtd Feb. 6, 1856, Albany, N.Y.
To Dr. Kocker dtd Nov. 17, 1856, New York
To S. H. Fulton dtd Feb. 7, 1857, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To Geo. P. Putnam dtd Mar. 17, 1857, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To E. J. Brockett dtd Mar. 23, 1857, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To Helen S. Benson dtd Aug. 13, 1857
To John A. McAllister dtd Jan. 20, 1858, New York
To Mrs. B. Lossing dtd July 23, 1858, Watertown (telegraph)
To Messrs. Harpers & Bros. dtd Nov. 28, 1859, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE, BENSON J. LOSSING, 1860 – 1869

To “Dear Sir” dtd 1860, Poughkeepsie, N.Y
To Mrs. Lossing “My Dear Sweet Wife” dtd Aug. 15, 1860, Buffalo
To “My Own Sweet Helen” (wife) dtd Nov. 20, 1860, Maine
To Joseph Finigan dtd Jan. 7, 1861, Washington
To Geo W. Childs dtd Dec. 21, 1861, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To “My Dear Sir” dtd Jan. 6, 1862, New York
To ?  dtd Mar. 21, 1862, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To Geo Livermore dtd Nov. 11, 1862, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To F. L. Perkins dtd May 11, 1863, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To Messrs. Clarke & Maynard dtd Jan. 15, 1864, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To Messrs. Clarke & Maynard dtd Jan. 28, 1864, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To the Managers of the Duchess County and Poughkeepsie’s Sanitary Fair, in aid of the
      U.S. Sanitary Commission dtd Mar. 11, 1864, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To John A. McAllister dtd Feb. 22, 1865, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To Frederic Kiddler dtd Apr. 14, 1865, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To Mrs. Frances Titus dtd June 14, 1865, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To John A. McAllister dtd Oct. 25, 1865, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To “My Darling” (wife) dtd May 31, 1866, Ballard House, Richmond, Va.
To B. McNally dtd June 25, 1866, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To “Beloved” (wife) dtd Aug. 20, 1866
To “My Own Sweet Wife” dtd Oct. 2, 1866, Summit of South Montain, Maryland
To H. Dexter Walker dtd Nov. 9, 1866, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (copy)
To James R. Fields dtd Nov. 25, 1867, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To G. B. Tillinghort dtd Mar. 23, 1868, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To his son, signed “Father” dtd Aug. 16, 1868, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To S. Yorke Atlee dtd Oct. 10, 1868, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To Publishers of Protestant Churchman dtd Nov. 20, 1868, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
To Henry T. Clauder dtd Oct. 7, 1869, The Ridge, Dover, N.Y.

OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE, BENSON J. LOSSING, 1870 – 1879

To ? dtd Dec. 16, 1870 (memo)
To Messrs. Chase and Town dtd Apr. 1, 1871, Dover, N.Y.
To Ed. Frederic Kiddler, “My Dear Friend” dtd Aug. 14, 1871, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To R. W. Gilden dtd Nov. 7, 1871, Philadelphia
To Saml. P. Preine, D.D., dtd Apr. 5, 1873
To S.C. Griggs & Co. dtd July 9, 1873, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To “My Young Friend” dtd Nov. 10, 1873, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To John B. Linn dtd Jan. 4, 1875, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Messrs. Porter & Coates dtd Mar. 27, 1875, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Samuel C. Clarke dtd Sept. 13, 1875, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Thomas Gibbons dtd Mar. 11, 1876, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To F. J. Dreer dtd June 17, 1876, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To A. O. Cheney dtd Sept. 18, 1876, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Messrs. C. H. Davis, J. M. Woodwalter, M.D., T.M. Vincent, W. T. Clarke dtd Oct. 5, 1876,
    The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To “Dear Sir” dtd Oct. 18, 1876, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Mr. Tompkins dtd Dec. 12, 1876
To Mr. Johnson dtd Feb. 9, 1877, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To “My Dear Sir” dtd July 14, 1877, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To W. L. Stone dtd Oct. 15, 1877, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y. (printed)
To J. C. Butts dtd Oct. 22, 1878, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Samuel Adams Less dtd Apr. 26, 1880, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.

OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE, BENSON J. LOSSING, 1880 – 1891

To “My dear Son” dtd May 18, 1880, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To My Beloved Son” dtd June 29, 1880, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To “My Beloved Son” dtd July 26, 1880, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Mr. Simons dtd Aug. 20, 1880, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To “My Dear Son” dtd Nov. 10, 1880, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Samuel B. Ruggles dtd May 5, 1881, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To James N. Smith dtd July 4, 1881, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To R. A. M. Fadden, State Library, Harrisburg PA dtd Mar. 4, 1882, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To C. S. Carter dtd Mar. 23, 1882, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To “My Dear Sir” dtd May 10, [1882], The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To ‘My Beloved” (wife) dtd June 13, 1882, Vassar College
To “My Beloved” (wife) dtd Oct. 28, 1882, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To “Beloved” (wife) dtd Oct. 30, 1882
To James Watson Webb dtd Apr. 30, 1883, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To M. S. Beach dtd May 26, 1883, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To M. S. Beach dtd July 5, 1883, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Clarence W. Bowen dtd July 25, 1883, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Peter Ward dtd Sept. 27, 1883, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To R. H. Ferguson dtd Mar. 6, 1884, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
May 25, 1884, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y. (quote)
To “Dear Sir” dtd July 8, 1884, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To John H. Ketcham, dtd Nov. 23, 1884, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To J. C. Derby dtd Jan. 10, 1885, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To H. M. Alden, dtd Feb. 27, 1885, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Charles Albright dtd June 19, 1885, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Dr. H. R. Kerrey dtd July 17, 1885, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To L. L. Perine dtd July 18, 1885, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y. (postcard)
To A. J. Ketcham dtd June 14, 1886, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Hampton L. Carson dtd July 14, 1886, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Jno. V. Alden dtd Aug. 26, 1886, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Wm. L. Stone dtd Nov. 1, 1886, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To “Dear Sir” dtd Nov. 17, 1886, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To “Dear Sir” dtd Dec. 6, 1886, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Mr. Hunting dtd Mar. 2, 1887, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Messrs. Funk & Wagnalls dtd Mar. 24, 1887, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Messrs. Funk & Wagnalls dtd Apr. 28, 1887
To Edgar Gladwing dtd May 3, 1887, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Messrs. Fund & Wagnalls dtd May 19, 1887
To Stephen Holden dtd May 25, 1887, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Mr. Hedge dtd June 20, 1887
To Geo A. Kip dtd June 22, 1887, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Rev. L. B. Scott dtd Oct. 8, 1877, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Arthur T. Benson dtd Oct. 10, 1877, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To M. Downing dtd Oct. 13, 1887, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To T. Coffin dtd May 26, 1888, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Chas. A. Campbell dtd June 20, 1888, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To “My Dear Sir” dtd Dec. 15, 1888, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To Mr. Belknap dtd Mar. 6, 1889, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To “Beloved Wife” dtd Apr. 8, 1889, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To “Beloved Wife” dtd May 5, 1889, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To “My Esteemed Friend” dtd Sept. 28, 1889, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
Oct. 21, 1889, Dover Plains, N.Y. (“The Voice” 2 copies)
To Mrs. H. J. Boutwell dtd Dec. 14, 1889, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To “Beloved” (wife) dtd Feb. 8, 1890, Philadelphia
To “Editor of The Voice dtd June 30, 1890, Dover Plains, N. Y.
To Edwin J. Lossing (son) dtd June 30, 1890, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
To A. G. Tobey dtd Jan. 14, 1891, The Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.

INCOMPLETE LETTERS 

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE, HELEN S. LOSSING, n.d. – 1905

n.d.
n.d. (envelope – Queenstown Hotel, Queenstown
n.d. (letter with several calling cards enclosed)
Apr. 12, 1847, New York
Feb. 14, 1848
June 10, 1849
Feb. 16, 1864, Poughkeepsie
May 22, 1865, New York
June 18, 1879, New York
Jan. 11 ,1881, Poughkeepsie
Apr. 28, 1884, Poughkeepsie

Sept. 17, 1885, Washington, N.Y.
Jan. 15, 1888, Sherbrook
Mar. 11, 1890, Poughkeepsie
July 28, 1893, Cherbourg, France (U.S.S. “Chicago)
Aug. 20, 1893, South Hampton, England
Oct. 16, 1893, Malaga, Spain (U.S.S. “Chicago”)
Nov. 1, 1893, Barcelona, Spain
Dec. 6, 1893, Barcelona
Jan. 16, 1894, Washington, D.C.
Mar. 5, 1894, Washington, D.C.
June 20, 1894 Library of Congress, Copyright Office, Washington
Oct. 25, 1894, Lisbon, Portugal
Nov. 17, 1894, Malaga
Nov. 27, 1894, Gibraltar
Nov. 30, 1894, Gibraltar
Dec. 11, 1894, Barcelona, Spain (U.S.S. “Chicago”)
Jan. 27, 1895, Algiers, Algeria
Feb. 27, 1895, Gibraltar
June 18, 1896, Oswego, N. Y.
Aug. 25, 1897, Franklin Square, N. Y.
June 30, 1898, New York
Dec. 3, 1898, Franklin Square, N. Y.
Mar. 23, 1901, Smelter
June 30, 1904, New York (royalty statement)
Nov. 2, 1904, New York
Dec. 15, 1905, Smelter

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE, HELEN S. LOSSING, 1906 – 1910 

Oct. 8, 1906, Yonkers
June 17, 1907, Smelter
June 19, 1907, Smelter
June 25, 1907, Smelter
July 1, 1907, Smelter
July 30, 1907, Smelter
Aug. 12, 1907, Smelter
Aug 13, 1907, Smelter
Aug. 23, 1907, Brooklyn (postcard)
Aug. 24, 1907, Smelter
Sept. 1, 1907, Smelter
Sept. 13, 1907
Sept. 16, 1907, Smelter
Sept. 19, 1907, Smelter
Sept. 24, 1907, Smelter
Sept. 26, 1907, Smelter
Sept. 30, 1907, Smelter
Oct. 4, 1907, Smelter
Oct. 8, 1907, Smelter
Oct. 28, 1907, Smelter
Oct. 31, 1907, Smelter
Nov. 1, 1907, Smelter
Nov. 7, 1907, Smelter
Nov. 18, 1907, Smelter
Nov. 20, 1907, Smelter
Nov. 27, 1907, Smelter
Dec. 2, 1907, Smelter
Dec. 9, 1907, Smelter
Jan. 1, 1908, Smelter
Jan. 6, 1908, Smelter
Mar. 27, 1908, Smelter
Apr. 1, 1908, Smelter
Apr. 7, 1908, Smelter
Apr. 11, 1908, Smelter
Apr. 19, 1908, Smelter
May 22, 1908
June 19, 1908, Smelter
June 30, 1908, Smelter
July 6, 1908, Smelter
July 10, 1908, Smelter (w/clippings)
July 27, 1908, Smelter
July 31, 1908, Smelter
Aug. 10, 1908, Smelter
Aug. 23, 1908, Smelter
Oct. 1, 1908, Smelter
Oct. 23, 1908, Smelter
Nov. 1908
Nov. 23, 1908, Smelter
Nov. 30, 1908, Smelter
Jan. 4, 1909, Smelter
Feb. 8, 1909, Smelter
Feb. 28, 1909, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Sept. 13, 1908, La Fundicion, Peru
Oct. 1, 1909, La Fundicion, Peru
Oct. 4, 1909, La Fundicion, Peru
Oct. 13, 1909, La Fundicion, Peru
Oct. 18, 1909, Smelter
Oct. 21, 1909, Smelter
Dec. 13, 1909, La Fundicion, Peru
Jan. 19, 1910, La Fundicion, Peru

OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE, HELEN SWEET LOSSING, nd. – 1893 

To “My dear Husband dtd Apr. 24, n.y.
To “Mrs. Ray” n.d.
To “My dear Son” n.d.
To “My dear Husband” n.d.
To “Dear Mrs. Baxter” n.d.
To “Dear Daughter” n.d.
To the Children of the Public Schools dtd Oct. 1858 (printed)
To “Dear Daughter” n.d.
To “Dear Alice” dtd Saturday n.d.
To Mrs. Dreer n.d.
To Alice Casey dtd Apr. 20, 1881, Westminster Hotel
To Mr. J. A. Larnet dtd Apr. 1893
To B. J. Lossing dtd Apr. 6, 1860, Poughkeepsie

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE, ALICE C. LOSSING, 1870 – 1888 

Aug. 21, 1870
May 7, 1870
May 15, 1879
Mar. 12, 1880
May 20, 1881
June 17, 1881
Aug. 22, 1881, Poughkeepsie
Sept. 5, 1882, Poughkeepsie
Dec. 15, 1883, Poughkeepsie
May 30, 1884, Poughkeepsie
Dec. 26, 1884, Titusville
Jan. 13, 1885, The Ridge
Feb. 11, 1885, Titusville
Feb. 16, 1885, Titusville
Dec. 27, 1885, “The Evergreens”
Jan. 19, 1886
Feb. 24, 1886, “The Evergreens”
Mar. 21, 1886, “The Evergreens”
Apr. 18, 1886, “The Evergreens”
June 26, 1886, “The Evergreens”
Sept. 9, 1886, “The Evergreens”
Nov. 9, 1886, Poughkeepsie
Dec. 23, 1886, Poughkeepsie
Jan. 5, 1887, Poughkeepsie
Jan. 7, 1887, Poughkeepsie
Mar. 1, 1887, Poughkeepsie
Nov. 13, 1887
Dec. 15, N.Y.
Dec. 20, N..
July 6, 1888, “The Evergreens”
Dec. 2, 1888, “The Evergreens”

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE, ALICE C. LOSSING, 1889 – 1894 

Jan. 1, 1889, “The Evergreens”
Jan. 29, 1889. Titusville
Feb. 2, 1889
Feb. 13, 1889, Poughkeepsie
Mar. 26, 1889, Millbrook
Apr. 14, 1889, Poughkeepsie
June 18, 1889, Washington Hollow, N.Y.
Aug. 11, 1889, “The Evergreens”
Aug. 30, 1889 Salt Point, N.Y.
Dec. 8, 1889, Titusville
Jan. 6, 1890, Poughkeepsie
Jan. 10, 1890, New York
Jan. 19, 1890, Poughkeepsie
Feb. 12, 1890, “The Evergreens”
Feb. 24, 1890, Titusville
Aug. 23, 1890, The Ridge
Sept. 19, 1890 Titusville

INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE, ALICE C. LOSSING, 1900 – 1910 

Mar. 10, 1901 “Treetops”
Aug. 4, 1903
Apr. 3, 1906, Rome, Italy
June 25, 1906, Charlottetown
July 6, 1906, Murray River
Aug. 23, 1906, Belle River, P.E.I.
Sept. 2, 1906, Hotel DuParc, Geneve
May 24, 1907, Smelter
June 1, 1907, Smelter
June 10, 1907, Smelter
June 15, 1907, Smelter
June 18, 1907, Smelter
July 1, 1907, Smelter
Aug. 1, 1907, Smelter
Dec. 6, 1907, Smelter
May 3, 1908, Yonkers
May 22, 1908, Chancharnayo, Peru
June 17, 1908
Aug. 16, 1908, Charlottetown, P.E.I.
Oct. 17, 1908, Hotel Ferrocarbil, Cerro de Pasco
Oct. 19, 1908, Smelter
June 2, 1910, Smelter

CORRESPONDENCE, THOMAS, EDWIN & MIRIAM LOSSING 

Nov. 23, 1890, Washington, D.C.
Apr. 28, 1911, Smelter
Sept. 9, 1911, Smelter
Sept. 22, 1911, Smelter
Sept. 28, 1937, Yonkers 

BENSON J. LOSSING, FAMILY DIARY & NOTES 

Dec. 1, 1856 – Jan. 1866 (few entries)

HELEN SWEET LOSSING LETTERBOOK 

Poughkeepsie National Bank Book 1884 – 1901
Letterbook 1903 – 1905

ALICE C. LOSSING, DIARIES 1883, 1884, 1895 

(Daily entries – weather, activities, visits)

BENSON J. LOSSING AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 

Handwritten and printed material 

CARDS 

Advertising and business cards 

THE DOVER STONE CHURCH, 1876

EMPTY ENVELOPES

DANIEL BOONE MATERIAL

Manuscript notes, miscellaneous articles

GEORGE WASHINGTON MATERIAL

Manuscripts, miscellaneous articles and pamphlets 

OUTDOOR LIFE IN & AROUND NIEUIVE AMSTERDAM

Manuscript 

“LARGE CANNON” FOR THE EAGLE

Manuscript 

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS

MISCELLANEOUS MANUSCRIPTS

Observation on the Situation of Trade of Turkey, Oct. 8, 1846
Atlantic Cable pieces to be issued by Tiffany & Co. (Booklet of names of purchasers and amount paid)
The Merchants of New York 1765-1775 Non Importation Agreement – Committee of correspondence
      by John Austin Stevens, June 1875
List of Patents of Land, &c. To be sold in Jan. 1882 for Arrears of QUIT RENT, Albany
Inventory of all goods, chattels and credits of William Knosc, by Isaac Powell, June 18, 1832
Rev. Van Hornn (biographical sketch)
Geo. R. Herrick dtd Sept. 4, 1837, Washington, D.C. (To Mr. Roger Cowan)
S. Simpson letter dtd Dec. 13, 1811, New Orleans
Murphy Baxter letter dtd Jan. 8, 1852, Jonesville (to Henry C. Trumbull)
Wm Nilson dtd Apr. 16, 1879
Recipes (2)
Sale of land from Josiah Fowler to Benjamin Corsor, Feb. 25, 1805, Yonkers, N.Y.
Confession of Elijah Porter for use of India Tea, Jan. 8, 1776, Farmington
Request for ½ pound of India Tea for medicinal purpose, Elisha Williams, June 22, 1775
A Cartel for the Exchange of Prisoners between General Conway and the Marquis DuBarrail,
      Flanders, Feb. 16, 1759. Agreed to by the British at Ambory (?) 1779
The Homicide (poem)
Muster Roll of a Company of militia commanded by William Sherman, June 5, 1815
Order of church service (prayers to be said)
Miln Parker in a/c with Mark Walton, 1825
“Copy of Parole” – Daniel Winants, Feb.2, 1779
“Copy of Endorsement” – Daniel Winants, Mar. 1, 1779
(original in the possession of Charles H. Moore, East Cambridge, Mass.)
Sale of Real Estate (announcement)
Full Covenant Deed, Jan. 1, 1841
Certificate of Membership of Richard W. Bogart, Private- Fourth Company in the Seventh
      Regiment of New York State Militia, Aug. 13, 1857
Case of Taylor, Oct. 31, 1826 (Charles Taylor)
“Cuba” manuscript (concerning independence from Spanish)
Day Signals – U.S. Navy 1803-4 (printed)
“Conventions” manuscript
Clipping on most valuable precious stones, n.d.
Map of Lake Ontario region, n.d.
Republican Party candidates (printed cards)
“Churn Mixer” – Advertisement, n.d.

BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILES

Samuel Jones Tilden
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Barritt
President U. S. Grant
Grover Cleveland
James Buchanan
Maria Mitchell
Scott Hancock
George McClellan
Thomas J. Wood

“EWELL’S BRIGADE AT FRONT ROYAL” MANUSCRIPT 

“JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD” FROM EMINENT AMERICANS, 1883 MANUSCRIPT 

“IS AMERICA A MISNOMER?” MANUSCRIPT 2 drafts, part omitted 

HISTORY OF THE U.S. MANUSCRIPT (ARTHUR ADMINISTRATION) 

HISTORY OF NEW YORK MANUSCRIPT 

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES

Book Cover – draft, 1874
Suspension bridge over East River, N.Y. (notes)
Several incomplete notes

THE CENTENNIAL OF THE CONSTITUTION CELEBRATION 1888 

THE DUTCHESS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 

A COMPENDIUM OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY 1850 MANUSCRIPT (FOLDER 1) 

A COMPENDIUM OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY 1850 MANUSCRIPT (FOLDER 2) 

AMERICAN HISTORY MANUSCRIPTS – MISC. 

HARD TIMES IN GOTHAM 1858 MANUSCRIPT 

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF IMPORTANT EVENTS TO 1864 

INDEXES

BOX 3 

“THE CHURCH” MANUSCRIPT 

SIDELIGHTS OF HISTORY MANUSCRIPTS
The Inca in Captivity
A Sudden Attack of Gold Fever 

STEPHENS AND DAVIS IN THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE MANUSCRIPT (Copy) 

MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES (MANUSCRIPTS)
“An Evening with the N.Y. Sketch Club”
“Caricatures as a Weapon”
“My School Life in Amenia”
“A History of the National Academy”

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES

Page Indexes
Insurance – Estate of George E. Perine
Note on the author of “The Spider and the Fly”
Railroad transportation in the U.S. – 1890 (numbers of passengers)
Republican convention disturbance, n.d.
Counterfeit money issued by Clinton – description of counterfeit $50 bill
Surviving Women of the Revolution (pensions) (clipping)
Full-length portrait (13x17) of Washington- advertisement for (clipping)
List of points for Common School stock 

FIRST IN PEACE (PROOF – PRINTED) 

THE EMPIRE STATE – LAST CHAPTER (PROOF – PRINTED) 

THE HUDSON (PROOF – PRINTED) 

THE HISTORY OF U.S. NAVY FOR BOYS, 1880 (PROOF – PRINTED) 

HARPER’S POPULAR CYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNITED STATES (PROOFS – PRINTED) 

AMERICAN HISTORICAL RECORD – “BATTLE OF HOBKIRKS HILL” (PROOF – PRINTED) 

MISCELLANEOUS PRINTED MATERIAL
“Seven Ways to help the Indian”, Nov. 1890, The Women’s National Indian Association (delivered by
      President, Mrs. Amelia S. Quinton) pamphlet
“Indian Appropriations”, Jan. 1892 by General T.J. Morgan, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, The Women’s
      National Indian Association – pamphlet
“Report of the Young Peoples Dept.”, Nov. 1891, by Miss Marie E. Ives – pamphlet
“An Example of Indian Civilization”, Nov. 1891, by Mrs. Anne Kennedy Bidwell - pamphlet
Seventh Annual Report of the Summer Home at Ashford Hill Retreat, 1886-7 - pamphlet
“The Poetry of Printerdom” by Practical Printers or Persons Directly Connected with the Art of Printing,
      May 1874, Cincinnati – pamphlet
Calendar – Year 1898
Bibliography of the U.S. relating to Military Collective Biography by R.S. Guernsey, Mar. 11, 1874 – pamphlet
Yonkers Historical Society (background, officers, membership form), n.d. - pamphlet
Sermon to Young Men, “Shall we frequent Billard Saloons?”, Jan. 29, 1871 by Rev. S. S. Martyn - pamphlet

MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL WRITINGS (PRINTED CLIPPINGS)
“The Independent”, Jan. 31, 1884, New York
“The Fourth Centenary of America”, May 31, 1883
“The Fourth Centennial of the Discovery of America”, Jan. 24, 1884
“The Independent”, July 3, 1890, New York (full paper)
Stoddart’s Review, “Circumstantial Evidence”, Aug. 1880
New York Observer, “Mount Vernon”, May 12, 1870, New York
“Travels and Observations in the South”
“The Independent Examiner”, Feb. 24, 1855
“The Eagle”, Oct. 28, 1887
“My Dear Mr. Childs”, Mar. 22, 1866, Washington City, D.C.
The National Temperance Congress Program, n.d.
“The Fourth of July”, The American, June 2, 1853, Poughkeepsie
“Opinions of the Press” – Lossing’s Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution, Oct. 1854

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

“Self-Made Man” (clipping)
“A Reminiscence – The Old Tomlinson Museum” (clipping)
Obsequies of Captain Holliday, City News, Sept. 20, 1862
“Kathy Ferguson”, The Sunday School Times

MEMORIAL TO LOUIS MELANE HAMILTON, 1868 

LOSSING PERSONAL DOCUMENTS AND PRINTED MATERIAL RE: ENGRAVING
Envelope – Lossings 1812, New Contract, Jan. 30, 1869, Old Contract Cancelled (one set to be
      returned to Harper & Brothers)
Certificate – Ladies Mount Vernon Association of the Union, 1859, New York
Mechanics’ Institute School, Apr. 26, 1854 (2)
Advertisement for Lossing & Barritt Wood Engraving Establishment, Mar. 1, 1862, New York
Festival to E. Walker & Sons, Advertisement, Mar. 15, 1882
Lossing & Co. Fine Wood-Cut Printers, N. Y. (advertising card)
Lossing & Barritt, Designers & Engravers on Wood Envelope
Indenture of Lease &c. Contract between Benson J. Lossing and Benjamin R. Barlow, July 31, 1847,
      New York
Thomas Austin to Benson J. Lossing and Richard Busteed, Assignment Contract, Mar. 23, 1848

PROHIBITION WRITINGS 

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES MENTIONING LOSSING & FAMILY 

LOSSING FAMILY RECORDS, NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS 

HISTORICAL PAPERS – PUBLISHED IN THE POUGHKEEPSIE DAILY EAGLE 

OBITUARIES

William E. Burton
Judge Jones
Charles Graham Halpine, Aug. 2, 1868
Alexander Dallas Bache, May 10, 1869
Horatio Greenough
Tristam Burgess
John Howard Payne
Dr. S. G. Howe, Jan. 10, 1876
Dr. John Reed Cooper, Apr. 8, 1887
Andrew H. Green
Ablijah Resseguia
Washington Irving
Capt. Augustus Ford, U.S.N, Aug. 8, 1855
John Woodhull, Mar. 27, 1855
Mrs. Edward S. Livingston
Charles F. Browne, Mar. 9, 1869
Nathaniel Parker Willis, Jan. 20, 1867
Rear Admirial Charles Stewart, Nov. 8, 1869
Mrs. C.H. (Mary) Ruggles
General John Anthony Quitman
Dr. Amasa Towbridge
Lucilius H. Moseley, Apr. 19, 1889
Washington Hunt, Feb. 2, 1867
Gen. Samuel R. Curtis, Dec. 28, 1866
Thomas Paine
Thomas W. Barger
Charles Goodyear
Charles Patterson, Feb. 9, 1861
John R. Murray
Commander Charles T. Platt, U.S.N.
Mrs. Samuel C. Reid
Dr. William Beaumont
General Henry T. Kiersted, Sept. 13, 1882
Ogden Hoffman
William Rufus Putnam, Jan. 1, 1855
** Elijah Dent (118 years old) – not yet deceased
Mrs. Anna Van Antwerp
Col. John B. Barstow
Commodore Downes, Aug. 10, 1854
Major General William J. Worth
William H. Prescott
Mr. Charles Robert Leslie, May 23, 1859
John Tyler, 1862
Ambrose Whitlock, 1863
Isaac B. Hart, Sept. 20, 1867
George O. Harris
Elizabeth Stanford Toppan
Rev. Albert D. Traver
Cornelius H. Delamater, Feb. 7, 1889
Ex-Gov. Thomas Metcalfe
Brig. General William P. Sanders, Nov. 1863
Lewis Livingston Delafield, Mar. 29, 1883
William B. Taylor
Miss Alice Cary
Robert Monroe Harrison, May 25, 1858
Jonathan Gillett, Mar. 14, 1855
Col. Benjamin Chew, Aug. 4, 1864
General Adam J. Slemmer
Lewis Cass
Maj. General George A. McCall
Lucretia Mott, Nov. 12, 1880
Uzal Knapp, 1854
Commodore Mathew Calbraith Perry, 1858
James K. Paulding, Apr. 5, 1860
James Fenimore Cooper, Sept. 16, 1851
Gen. Sam Houston, July 25, 1863 (?)
Gen. James Miller

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

“Extract from the Speech of Hon. Hiland Hall at Bennington, Aug. 10”
“Copy of a Letter from John Adams to James Warren, written the morning after throwing overboard of the tea
      in Boston Harbor”, written Dec. 17, 1773, Boston
“Extract from a Revolutionary Diary, Oct. 6, 1777”
“Rome Saved America”
“More Treaty History”, Dec. 15, 1886
“Gen. Packenham – A Curious Fact”, Dec. 1856
“A Coincidence”
“The Royal Salvage”
“Revolutionary Mss. Relative to Nathaniel Sackett”
“Bounteous Alabama”
“The Capture of Fort St. George, Mastic, South side of Long Island”
“New Movement in Literature and Patriotism”
“A Relic of the Revolution”
“Honor to Whom Honor is Due”, Nov. 11, 1859
“The Invasion of Canada”
“Historical Reminiscences – A Yankee Village in Embrye – Sobriety of the Troops”
Obituary of Ralph Farnham, Dec. 26, 1860 (Last survivor of the battle of Bunker Hill)
“Revolutionary Patriots”
“The True History of the Jane McCrea Tragedy”
“Major Moses Van Campen – Thrilling Incidents in the Life of a Revolutionary Soldier”
“The Hero of the Paoli Massacre”
“Ferdinand J. Sebastian De Brahm”

GEORGE WASHINGTON – NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

“The Tomb of Washington”
“Washington – Acrostic on the name”, Nov. 1781, Poughkeepsie
“Early Observances of the Birthday of Washington”, The Sunday School Times
“Washington’s Birthday”, New York Herald, 1879
“Reminiscence of Washington”
“Washington and his Portraits” – An Interesting Lecture by Mr. Rembrandt Peale
“Sully’s Washington”
“Washington’s Figure”
“The Lady Washington Tea Party”
“Original Letters of General Washington”
“Character of Washington”
“Excursion to the Tomb of Washington”
“Washington National Monument”
“The Celebration”
“Washington’s Birth-Day”
“Mount Vernon” 

MAJOR ANDRE – NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

“The Capture of Andre”
“Centennial Sketches for 1880, Connected with the Revolutionary War”, May 18, 1880, New York
“Criticism Invited – Andre’s Proposed Monument”
“A Midnight Explosion” – The Andre Monument Blown Up with Nitro-Glycerin
“Ninety Eight Anniversary of the Execution of Major Andre”
“Major Andre & Mr. Field”, Jan. 10, 1879, New York
“The Views of Benson J. Lossing, the Historian of the Revolution”
Description of each side, (N,S,E,W) of Monument of Major John Andre
“Nathan Hale, Spy and Hero”
“The Andre Monument” (Letters from the People, Mr. Cyrus W. Field will read with interest)
“The Work of Miscreants” – Unsuccessful Attempt to Destroy the Andre Shaft
“Andre, Was He Ever Imprisoned at Carlisle”
“Williams, Paulding and Van Wert”
“Nathan Hale and Andre”, Dec. 31, 1878, New York
“How Washington Felt about the Execution of Andre”
“…Col Isaac Van Wart, the only surviving captor of Major Andre…” from the New Enquirer, printed in
      Hampden Journal, Aug. 23, 1826
“Major Wolfe and Major Andre, A Coincidence”

INDIAN HISTORY – NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

“The Passamaquoddy Indians”
“The Stockbridge Indians and their Claim”
“Nequitimauk and Nanhoon” – No. 1 – No. 7
“Indian Names”
“Indian Children”
“Shekomeko”
“Moke-Ta-Va-Ta, The Martyred Chieftain”, May 10, 1869

GENERAL SOLOMON VAN RENSSLEAER – NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

“Ingratitude”
“Gen. W. H. Harrison and Gen. Solomon Van Rensselaer”
“This Pistol is a Great Character”
“The Late Adjutant General”
“General Solomon Van Rensselaer and the Postmaster”
“Gen Van Rensselaer”
“More Bucktail Calumny”, Mar. 17, 1821
“General Van Rensselaer”, Apr. 25, 1843

WAR OF 1812 – NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

“Interest Correspondence – Gen Joseph Treat at the Battle of Chippewa”
“Army Portraits – Major General Worth”
“Reminiscences … from AD 1812 – AD 1825”
“Incidents in the Last War with Great Britian”
“Shifting Flags in Action”
“The Old Soldiers of 1812”
“Commodore Stewart”
“The British Capture of Washington”
“The British Fleet in the Chesapeake”, Oct. 12, 1847
“Captain Stephen Champlin”, Nov. 22, 1861, Buffalo
“Reminiscences of the Battle of New Orleans”, Feb. 27, 1854
“The Second War with England”, 1855
“Old Ironsides and the Centennial”
“A Trick of War”
“The War of 1812 – Biographical Sketch of Capt. John Price”
“The Veterans of New Orleans”
“Commodore Stewart and John C. Calhoun – A Remarkable Reminiscence”
“Commodore Stewart and John C. Calhoun”, Bordentown, May 4, 1861
“Address of Wm. Darlington, M.D., L.L.D.”
“Anniversary of the Ratification of the Treaty of Ghent”, Feb. 18, 1863, New York Daily Times, New York

CIVIL WAR – NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

The National Banner – collections of military biographical sketches
“The Lion in his Lair”
“The Old Brass Guns Formerly in the Virginia Armory at Richmond”
“Letter from ‘Occasional’”, Jan. 24, 1863, Washington
“Office Board of Commissioners for State of Alabama”, May 1863, Montgomery
“South Side View of the Question of Slavery”, Sept. 7, 1861
“Reminiscence of the Last War”
“A Wreck of the War – The Relics of Lee’s Home”
“An Afternoon Jaunt to Arlington”, Sept. 29, 1865, Washington
“McDowell’s Advance to Bull Run” – pamphlet from the Century War Book, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
“Jefferson Davis, A few interesting unpublished facts exemplifying his cowardice and treason”
“The First Iron-Clad”, May 30, 1862, New York Times
“First Company Po’Keepsie Volunteers”, May 21, 1861
“Rhyming Treason”, Oct. 12, 1861, Poughkeepsie
“To John C. Fremont”
“The Solicitor of the War Department”
“Why Major Anderson did not Fire on the Charleston Batteries”
“Herschel V. Johnson…”
“O I’m a Good Old Rebel” song
To the Editor of the N. Y. Tribune…Sir, St. Catharine’s, C.W. …May 8, 1865
“War by Railroad”, Nov. 9, 1866
“The Plots and Conspiracies in the Early Part of the War”
“The Battlefield of Gettysburg”, Nov. 27, 1865
“Willis At the War, He visits Arlington House and Finds and Old Manuscripts”
“Presentation of a Gold Watch to the President [Lincoln]”, Dec. 5, 1863
“The Society of the Army of the Cumberland Held its Tenth Annual Reunion…”, July 15, 1876

LADD & WHITNEY MONUMENT 1865 – NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

“Consecration of the Ladd and Whitney Monument”
“Monument Celebration” – Remarks of Gen. Butler, June 19, 1865
“Lowell - Dedication of the Ladd and Whitney Monument”, June 18, 1865

POUGHKEEPSIE ARTICLES – NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

“The Transfer Made”, Jan. 1, 1884
“Public Opinion”
“The Soldiers Monument”, Nov. 20, 1867
“The Y.M.C.A. Jubilee”, May 5, 1887
“Board of Supervisors”, Nov. 19, 1867
“A Flag on the Poughkeepsie Female Seminary”, May 4, 1861
“A Cackle”
“First Trip Today – Locomotive No. 2”, Feb. 17, 1869
“Our Future”, Jan. 22, 1869
“Great Sale of Real Estate”, June 24, 1869
“Eighty Years Ago…Description of a Cyclone…in Poughkeepsie”, Nov. 3, 1873
“Should the Time for Building the Poughkeepsie Bridge be Extended”, May 12, 1887
“The Poughkeepsie Bridge”, May 28, 1887
“The Bridge Divers”, May 21, 1887
“The Poughkeepsie Bridge”, Apr. 15, 1887
“The Poughkeepsie Bridge”, Apr. 22
“Poughkeepsie Bridge Co.” Apr. 1886
“Will Paint it Red – The Poughkeepsie Bridge”, May 29, 1888
“Across the Bridge – The First Train”, Dec. 31, 1888
“Summer Leisure”, Aug. 21, 1881
“Caisson No. Four in Permanent Position”, Apr. 17, 1887
“Episcopal Centennial”, Dec. 22, 1866
“The Manager of Storm King”, Apr. 23, 1887
“The Dimensions” (Poughkeepsie Bridge), Apr. 1871
“Free Education, Laying of the Corner Stone of the New High School – Speeches, Music, etc.” Programme,
      July 1871
“Po’Keepsie at the Capitol – Fighting the Devereux Bill” – photocopy
“Water”
“The Eagle versus the Water Commissioners”, Nov. 26, 1870
“Assault of a Teacher of Eastman Business College”
“The Federal Store”
“The Case of Young Lewis”, Dec. 6, 1867
“Saint Thomas Day”
“Formal Opening of Eastman Skating Rink”, Dec. 16, 1867
“Supreme Court Circuit”, Dec. 6, 1867
“Commencement”
“Water, Water, Water”
“Commencement and Parting at College Hill Seminary, 1868”, July 24, 1868
“Early History & c” May 16, 1854, New Paltz
“Historic Quaker Hill”, Apr. 20, 1890 (photocopy)
“Flag Raising at Christ Church”
Front Page of Sunday Mercury, Feb. 23, 1879
College Hill – Semi-Centennial, 1836, June 15, 1886 (programme)
“Re-Union, College Hill-Riverview”
“Alumni of College Hill Riverview” 

POUGHKEEPSIE POLITICS, 1861 – NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

“Republican County Convention”, Sept. 24, 1861
“The People’s Union Convention”, Sept. 24, 1861 (several clippings)

NEW YORK HISTORY – NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

“Quarantine – Shall Quarantine by Removes to Sandy Hook?”
“Members of Assembly from Ulster County from 1777 to 1853”
“A Word for the Governor’s Ears”
“Old Tom’s Demolished”
“The Old Walton House”
“The State House and its Uses – Peale’s Museum”
“The Stones of New York”, Jan. 30, 1883
“New York Historical Society – Annual Meeting”
“Illustrated History of Dutchess County”
“Eastman’s Business College – Grand Banquet at Pine’s Hall”
“Buffalo, Long Time Ago”, Feb. 25, 1857
“The Oldest House in New York City”, The Latham House…as it was and as it is today, Oct. 6, 1888
      (sketching)
“Columbia College”
“The Haunted Tavern, and Witchcraft in New Hackensack”, Jan. 1, 1870, Fishkill Landing,   N.Y.
“Dutchess 112 Year Ago! Pendergast’s Home”, Dec. 11, 1878, New York
“The Piracies of the Alabama”, Feb. 23, 1863, N.Y. Tribune
“The Governor’s Room”, Nov. 22, 1877
“History of the Society of Cincinnati”
‘The Albany Sufferers”, Aug. 22, 1848
“N.Y. Canals”, Jan. 1, 1891
“The Assessment Valuation”, Jan. 1, 1891
“The Old Stone Bridge at Canal Street and Broadway”

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES – NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

Photographs of Popular People – Edwin M Stanton
“Lewis P. Clover”, May 1, 1861, Chicago
“The Vanderbilt Bronze”, Nov. 17, 1869
“Sketch of the Life of Major M. M. Noah”
“Anecdote of Gen. Ripley”
“Was Capt. Kidd a Pirate”
“Anson Sessions”
“The Late Commodore Barren – Sketch of his Life and Naval Career”, Apr. 27, 1851
“Daniel Cady”, Jan. 25, 1855
“James Harper”, Apr. 17, 1869, New York
“The Self-made Men of Our Times – John Harper”
“Hon. Seward Barculo”
“Jacob Leisler”
“Four Generations of Ingersolls”
“A Visit to Marshfield”, Nov. 11, 1858
“Early Life of Senator Benjamin”
“The Late Gen. George B. McClellan”
“General James Wolfe, The Conqueror of Quebec”
“Washington and His Portraits”
“Charles Wilson Peale”, Jan. 8, 1855
Obituary Notice of Franklin Peale”, Feb. 8, 1871
“Grant at West Point – An Interview with Gen. Sherman on the Dead Hero and Some Famous Classmates”,
      Aug. 2, 1885, Philadelphia Press

MISCELLANEOUS AMERICAN HISTORY – NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

“Governor Winslow, One of the Pilgrim Fathers, Married Susanna White” , May 22, 1901 (photocopy)
“Delaware Historical Society”
George W. White, Cambridge City Forester. “A Cheeky Proceeding”, Jan. 15, 1876
“Address of Rev. J.H. Hobart Demille at Cherry Valley, Otsego Co., N.Y. on Decoration Day, May 31,1875”,
      June 17, 1875
“An Interesting Contribution from the Nutmeg State”, Sept. 29, 1883, Essex, CT.
“Lady Occupants of the White House at Washington”, Apr. 8, 1853, The Home Journal
“Boston Fifty Years Ago”
“The Signing of the Federal Constitution”
“The Constitution of Our Forefathers”
“Great Seal of the United States”
“Fictitious History”
“The Old Brass Guns Formerly in the Virginia Armory at Richmond”, Oct. 5, 1878, The Standard
“Bayard Taylor in Northern Europe – Crossing the Arctic Circle”
“Inaugurations – A Retrospect – Sketches of the Twenty-Four Presidential Inauguration, from that
      of Gen. Washington in 1879 to that of Gen. Grant in 1869 – The Ceremonies at the Capitol Yesterday”
“A Republican Oregon Declares the Convention a Party of Office-Holders and Shoddyites”
“A Visit to General Fremont”
“History Vindicated: A Letter to the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas on his “Harper” Essay”
“Courtesy Towards Opponents”, July 31, 1856, Poughkeepsie
“The Inauguration of Gen. U. S. Grant As the Eighteenth President of the United States”
“Congressional Review – The Total Appropriation Will Exceed $525,000,000”, May 4, 1891
“The Baltimore Convention”, June 7, 1864
“The National Flag Over Richmond”, July 28, 1865
“Who are the Reformers?”, Oct. 9, 1872, Poughkeepsie
“A Curious Political Reminiscence”
“The Present Rev. Senator Goodwin and the Late Tom Paine”. Mar. 1853
“The Supremacy of the Seas”, Aug. 12, 1851, N.Y. Tribune
New York Tribune, Feb. 22, 1879 (full front page)

POETRY, FICTION, ART – NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

“The Literary Revolution”
“President and Mrs. Hayes”, Mar. 31, 1877 (Full length portrait on reverse page)
by William Ross Wallace – A Poem
“Resolushuns”
“Loving Words”
“The House the Vander Built”, Nov. 1869
“Literary Intelligence”
“My Philosophy”
“The Man Without a Country”
“Life of Benjamin Harrison”
“Oriental Splendor – Ben Hur at the Shrine of the Three Wise Men”
“The Wood Engravers Artists”
“American Art”

AMERICAN LIFE – NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

“Observance of Washington’s Birthday”
“The Peabody Gift”, 1867
“James Gordon Bennett’s Marriage – How he Announced It”
“He Wouldn’t Show His Pass”
“The Lost Fashions of Housekeeping”
“These Women Know Law”, Apr. 10, 1891, New York
“Living on a Good Income – The Expenses of a Well-to-Do Family”
The Dutchess Farmer, Apr. 23, 1878
“Matrimony in the Air”, Nov. 9, 1865 – Marriage of Dr. John G. Boynton, of Syracuse, to Miss Mary
      West Jenkins, of St. Louis (photocopy)

TRAVEL, GEORGRAPHY, ETC. – NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

“Climbing the Catskills”, Sept. 2, 1875
“Minnesota”
“Buried City in Texas”, July 1889
“Old Fort Washington”
“The Hardenburg Patent”, July 19, 1888
“Geographical Discoveries – Lieutenant Maury’s Address before the Geographical and Statistical Society”
“The Fourth at Oyster Bay”, July 13, 1850, New York
“A South Carolina Garden”, 1863
“The Old Inhabitants of Pawling”, Mar. 11, 1867
“A Romantic Incident in the History of Wyoming”

SPEECHES, SERMONS, ETC. – NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

“Mr. Webster’s Address – Before the Historical Society”, Feb. 24, 1852, N.Y. Tribune
“St. Clement’s Church – A Sermon” – delivered by Rev. W.H.N. Stewart – Apr. 16, 1871, Apr. 17, 1871,
      Philadelphia

ODDITIES, FACTS, ETC. – NEWPAPER CLIPPINGS

“Pseudonyms – the identity of Popular Writers Revealed”
“Hayti-Coronation of the Emperor”, Apr. 19, 1852
“The Dartmore Prison”, Aug. 3, 1866
“The Ville Du Havre Disaster”
“From Betsy to Betsy”
“The Pirate ‘Floida’”
“Facts from History”
“The Hollanders the Founders of America’s Brilliant Successes”, May 3, 1860, New York
“One Hundred Years Ago”
“Remarkable Experience with a Grizzly”
“The Drinking Horn”
“St. Swithin’s Day”, July 9, 1899
“Interesting Narrative – Wreck of the United States Frigate Macedonian”
“The Ocean Ferry”, 1891
“Chase and Capture of a Hippopotamus – A Novel Scene in Detroit River”, 1867
“Origin of the Name ‘White House’”
“How Cincinnati Became a City”
“The Cradle of the World”
“Too Many People Here”, Aug. 10, 1889
“Mrs. Clarissa Williams, who was 101 years old…”
“Extraordinary Case”
“The Figure-Head, How the Head Was Removed”, Jan. 20, 1855, New York
“The Whaling Fleet of the U.S.”
Obituary of George B. Smith
“The Moabite Inscription”, 1870
“The Burning of the Phoenix – 255 Lives Lost”
“Loss of the Ship John Gilpin”
“Author of ‘Home Sweet Home’’
“A Lost Portrait of Theodosia Burr”, June 17, 1901, Poughkeepsie
“Sir Walter Scott’s First Love”, June 18, 1901, Fredericksburg, VA

PHILADELPHIA – NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

“History of Philadelphia”
“Historical Society…The Pennsylvania Historical Society…”
“Meeting of the Historical Society”, May 1864
“Well Deserved Testimonial”, Jan. 29, 1866
“The Penn Mansion”
“An Historical Ball”, May 18, 1878
“Philadelphia”, Dec. 14, 1857

AUTOGRAPH AUCTION – NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

“Hoe Total Nears $500,000, Apr. 29, 1911
“Autographs – the Charles Aldrich Collections, Etc.”
“Bookseller’s Trade Sale”, Sept. 9, 1857
“De Foe Books Sold At Record Prices”
“Autographs” (The sale of the Hoe Library)

INVENTIONS/TECHNOLOGY – NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

“About Watches”
“A Medical Prophecy Fulfilled”, Dec. 1867
“A Story of the Telegraph”
“The Pacific Railroad” (3 different articles)
“Condensed History of Steam”
“Edison Stumbled On It”, Sept. 25, 1884
“The Pacific Telegraph Line”, Oct. 1861
“San Francisco to New York Greeting”, Oct. 26, 1861
“An Engineer’s Monument”
“History of the Rise and Progress of the Scientific American”
“The Iron Horse and its Drivers”, March 1888, Hartford
“Yankee Clocks” – History of Clock Making In America, Aug. 30, 1890
“The Great Bridge – To Span the Hudson River”

THE ATLANTIC CABLE

“A Notable Anniversary – The Silver Wedding on the Cable”, Mar. 11, 1879, New York Times
“The Great Work of the Age – Telegraph Union of the Old and New Worlds”, Apr. 20, 1857, N.Y. Herald
“Atlantic Telegraph”

MAGAZINES – HARPERS & DAY’S DOINGS, ETC. –  PIECES

Chatterbox, Aug. 25, 1874
The Independent, July 3, 1890 (pgs. 7, 8, 9, 10)
The Day’s Doing, Apr. 28, 1873
Harpers Weekly, Sept. 24, 1881

ENVELOPES, NEWSPAPER FRAGMENTS

Flag of Gen. Morgan’s Regiment – Sketch
Marshall & Stockholm Dealers in Carpets, Oilcloths (small pocket book with empty lined paper)
“New York Historical Society”
Assorted Envelopes (4)

THE MEXICAN REPUBLIC BY C. EDWARDS LESTER (BOOK) 

BENSON J. LOSSING ADDRESSES, LECTURES, ETC. (NOTICES OF – NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS)

Family card of Admission (to lecture by BJL), Apr. 4, 1863
Eastman’s Journal, “American Citizenship”, Nov. 1879
Lincoln Hall, Dec. 13, 1870 – Subject: “Chivalry, Yesterday and To-Day” (Advertisement – 2)
“Neutral in Nothing”, Sept. 28, 1872, Poughkeepsie
“Oration” – Delivered at Newburgh 18^th of June, 1860 on the Occasion of the Dedication of a Monument
      Erected to the Memory of Sergeant Uzal Knapp, the Last Survivor of Washington’s Life Guard.
“Arts” The State Democrat
“Closing Lecture before Young Men’s Society”
“Lecture, Jan. 14, 1870”, The Mohawk Valley Register
“Chivalry in Relation to Civilization”
“Lecture, Feb. 24, 1870, Lansing MI”
Poughkeepsie Centennial
“Danger of Tolerating Treason”, May 2, 1861, Poughkeepsie
“Art and its History” given in various places…clippings from: Duchess Farmer, Mar. 8, 1870, Daily Times,
      Mar. 11, 1870, Bethlehem, PA
Wayne Citizens, Mar. 10, 1870, Honesdale, PA
“Amenia Seminary Lecture Course”, Feb. 26, 1878, Amenia Times
“Lecture of Benson J. Lossing”, Mar. 3, 1870, The State Republican
“The Lecture System”, Feb. 24, 1870, The State Republican
“Professor B. J. Lossing Lecture”, Mar. 2, 1870, National Republican
“Lossings Lecture”, Jan. 20, 1870, Canajoharie
“The Lecture Tonight”, Mar. 10, 1870, Bethlehem, PA
Mar. 6, 1875 (clipping about Lossing Lecture
Mar. 2, 1870 by D. S. Curtis (about Lossing Lecture), Washington, D.C.
Mar. 2, 1870 by S.G. Arnold – Washington Correspondent of Toledo Blade

LOSSING COLLECTION AUCTION – 1912

“Americana, The Library of the Late Benson J. Lossing – American Historian” – Part I-Part VII

MISCELLANEOUS – NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

”Unsolved Questions” by BJL, Sept. 22, 1887, The Independent
“August”, 1833
Daily Eagle, by BJL, Oct. 7, 1867, Poughkeepsie
“The Lot” by BJL, Mar. 24, 1864
“Ritualism” by BJL, Mar. 21, 1867, Poughkeepsie, Daily Eagle
“The Last Days of Tom Marshall”
“Spelling of Shekomeko” by BJL, May 27, 1878, The Ridge
“She-Kom-E-Ko” by BLJ, Apr. 27, 1878, The Ridge
“Friends of the South” by BJL, May 7, 1861, Poughkeepsie
“The Life and Times of Philip Schuyler” by BJL (review)
“Idea for a Fourth of July Oration”
Death Notices for Benson J. Lossing (from various newspapers)

WOWAPI: A MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF THE INDIANS, NOV. 7, 1883 

GILBERT STUART – “PAISLEY SHAWLS” (PRINTED) 

BOOK ADVERTISEMENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS 

BOX 4 

PRINTED JOURNAL ARTICLES

PAMPHLETS – CATALOGUES

“Offices and Students in Union College, 1845, Troy, N.Y.
“Adams County – Teacher’s Institute, Jan. 20, 1873, Gettysburg, PA
“Third Annual Report of the Trustees of the Melrose Public Library, 1875”
“American Historical Association”, Sept. 8-10, 1885, Saratoga
“Proceedings at the Opening of the Library – The University of Pennsylvania, Feb. 7, 1891”, Philadelphia
"History and Value of Water Gas Processes”, 1864, New York
“Action of Yellow Light in Producing the Green Color”…
“Address of Richard Harrington to the Graduating Class National University, 1873”
“Funeral Discourse on the Death of Robert Stuart, Esq.” Delivered, Nov. 5, 1848 (published 1849)
“Memoir of Anna Mary Adams”
“The Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence” 1875, Watertown, N.Y.
“Falls of Niagara and the Vicinity” 1866 (with postcard renderings)
“Third Annual Report of the Clergyman’s Mutual Insurance League” 1871, Red Bank, N.Y.
“A Happy Life by Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant”
“Omar Khayyam” Reprint of Rare First Edition of the Translation of Edward Fitzgerald”
“On Suicide” by Arthur Schopenhauer
“Illustrated Family Christian Almanac 1858”, Feb. 12, 1858
“Illustrated Family Christian Almanac 1852”
“Illustrated Family Christian Almanac 1850”
“The Confession of Faith…” 1846, Hartford
“Anniversary of American Commerce”
“First Steamships to Cross the Ocean”
“Extracts from Baltimore Patriot of the 27^th and 28^th “, Apr. 1841, speaking on the Funeral Procession of
      President Harrison

PAMPHLETS – CATALOGUES

”Connecticut Chronicle of Events, July 1, 1872 – July 1, 1873 and other Interesting Facts”
“Description of a View of Rome”, 1840, N.Y.
“Address of the Board of Managers of the American Colonization Society”
“Fifth Annual Report of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color”, 1822, Washington City
“Executor’s Sale of the Nassau Dry Dock and Marine Railway”, Mar. 5, 1874
“White Star Line…Saloon Passenger List ‘Britannic’ from New York to Liverpool – June 15, 1887”
“Biographical Sketch of the late Thomas Say”, 1835, Philadelphia
“Constitution of the Yonkers Game and Fish Protective Society”, Oct. 26, 1875
“Oration” incomplete, n.d.
“A Journey Across the Continent, The Scenic Route” – Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway, n.d.
“The Phoenix (formerly Montesuma), Las Vegas, Hot Springs”
“Othello: A Tragedy in Five Acts, by William Shakespeare…1876, London”
“Authorized Visitors Guide to the Centennial Exhibition and Philadelphia 1876”
“The Children in the Wood”, 1824, Cooperstown
“Freed from the Bondage of Superstition”, May 1881
“The Raymond and its Surroundings”, Oct. 30, 1886, South Pasadena, CA
“The Teacher’s Gift to an Industrious Scholar”, 1833
“The New England Bibliopolist …”, Jan. 1880, Boston, MA

GEORGE WASHINGTON – PHOTOCOPY PAGES FROM PAMPHLETS

AMERICAN REVIEW ARTICLES

“Sketch of the Life and Character of John Jay”, July, 1845
“Biographical Sketch of Harman Blennerhassett”, Aug. 1845
“Metaphysics of Bear Hunting”, Aug. 1845
“The Commerce of Lake Erie”, Aug. 1845
“Political Elements of the Constitution – Historical Notes on its Adoption”
“Will There Be War with Mexico”, Sept. 1845
“Scenery and Resources of Maine”, Sept. 1845
“My First Speculation”, Oct. 1845
“Annexation”, Nov. 1845
“Adventures of the Frontier of Texas and Mexico”, Nov. 1845 (Part II – Part VI)
“Big Abel and the Little Manhattan”, Nov. 1845
“The Anti- Rent Movement and Outbreak in New York”, Dec. 1845
“The Salem Witchcraft”, Jan. 1846
“The Oregon Question: War and Peace”, Feb. 1846
“California”, Jan. 1846
“New York Historical Society”, Feb. 1846
“The Administration and the Country”, Mar. 1846
“Our Relations with Mexico”, July 1846
“The Army of Occupation”, Aug. 1846
“The Oregon Treaty”, Aug. 1846
“Early Notices of the Cooper Region”, Oct. 1846
“Memoirs of the Administration of Washington and John Adams”, Dec. 1846
“The Quadrupeds of North America”, Dec. 1846
“Military Conduct of the War”, Feb. 1847
“Gen. Winifred Scott”, Feb. 1847
“Letters on the Iroquois” (Letter I – XIII)
“Executive Usurpations”, Mar. 1847
“Mr. Slidell’s Mission to Mexico”, Apr. 1847
“Incidents of the Revolution – The Battle of Saratoga”, Apr. 1847
“Major Andre’s Execution”, Apr. 1847
“The Precious Medals”, Apr. 1847
“Texas and the Western Boundary of Louisiana”, May 1847
“Washington and his Generals”, May 1847
“Sam Houston and His Republic”, June 1847
“Memoir of John R. Vinton”, June 1847
“The Constitution; Written and Unwritten”, July 1847
“Revolutionary Reminiscences Connected with the Life of Robert Morris, Esq,, The Financier”, July 1847
“The Chicago Convention”, Aug. 1847
“Life and Correspondence of Joseph Redd”, Aug. 1847
“Emerson’s Poems”, Aug. 1847
“The President and the Army”, Sept. 1847
“Thomas Corwin”, Sept. 1847
“The Whigs and the War”, Oct. 1847
“The Late Negotiations for Peace”, Nov. 1847
“The Valley of the Lakes”, Nov. 1847
“Mr. Clay’s Resolution”, Dec. 1847
“An Important Improvement in the Art of Lithograph”, Dec. 1847

PAMPHLETS – CATALOGUED

“A Gift for a Good Child – Parley’s Picture Book”, 1847, New York
“Huntington’s School Visitor”, Feb. 1854, New York
“Wilber, Stevens & Co. – Eureka Mower, 1868”, Poughkeepsie (Pamphlet describing Mower)
“A New Historical Movement”
“Oneida Seminary” (General Information), Fall term, 1859
“Memorial – To the Honorable, Senate and House of Representatives of the United States”
“Special Regulations for Barracks”
“Village Accounts – Feb. 28, 1849”, Village of Poughkeepsie
“Out of the Past”
“Young and Middle-Aged Men…” Eastman National Business College, Apr. 1867
“Drs. Kline & Dixon, Physicians and Surgeons”
“Election Districts – Where Do You Vote?” Map of City of Poughkeepsie
“New Amendment of the Copyright Laws”, Feb. 18, 1867
Ad for summer places away from N.Y. City, Sept. 1865 (10 copies)
“The Broadway” – An illustrated monthly magazine (Ad)
“The Old Booksellers of New York”, Mar. 1895, July 1895
“Old Books in New York, Illustrated”, 1872
“A Days Fishing in the Callikoon”, 1845
“Special Report of the Library of Congress”, 1867, Washington
Letters, Documents and Testimonials, accompanying Capt. Geo. Henry Preble’s
Diploma from County Agricultural Society
Poster – “Printer’s Banquet…Jan. 17, 1851”
“The Declaration of Independence” 1861

THE SILVER STANDARD

June 1, 1847
Aug. 1847
Sept. 1847
Oct. 1847

HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE – FEB. 1876 AND VARIOUS ARTICLES

Complete Feb. 1876 Magazine
“Fur Hunting in Oregon”, Feb. 1856
“A Man and His Knife”, July 1898
“With Bluecoats on the Border’, May 1886
“The American Cow-Boy”, Nov. 1886
“Rye, and Round There”, June 1879
“A Brush with a Bison”, July 1851
“The First Overland Trip to California”, June 1869
“Wild Life in Oregon”, Oct. 1856 

GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE – VARIOUS ARTICLES

Nov. 1841

FRANK LESLIE’S BUDGET – JULY 1885; DR. FOOTES HEALTH MONTHLY – JUNE 1895; THE CRITIC – DEC. 1881; NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE – JUNE 1892 

SCRIBER’S MAGAZINE

“View Near Anthony’s Nose”
“Rise of an American Publishing House”
“The City of the Golden Gate”, July 1875
“Sailing Alone Around the World”, Oct. 1897
“An Elk Hunt on the Plains”, Jan. 1888
“The CŒUR D’ALENE Stampede”
Book Cover (only) 

THE RURAL ALMANAC AND SPORTSMAN’S ILLUSTRATED CALENDAR – 1882 

JOURNALS

The New York Literary Gazette, Oct. 8, 1825
Promethus , Jan. 3, 1877
Appleton’s Journal, Apr. 29, 1871
The Continent, Jan. 3, 1883
Humane Journal, Nov. 1879, Chicago
La France Elegante, Nov. 1871

MAGAZINES: MONTHLIES AND QUARTERLIES

The American Naturalist, Feb. 1860
Beecher’s Magazine, Jan. 1870
Berkley Quarterly, Jan. 1880
Brentano’s Chess Monthly, May 1881
British American, May 1863
The Cornhill Monthly, July 15, 1868
Curiosities from the Press, 1868 

AMERICAN LIBRARY JOURNAL 1876-1879 Vol. 1 No. 1-5 

QUARTERLY MAGAZINES, ETC.

Denison Quarterly, Jan. 1893
Harper’s Magazine, Sept. 1894
Harper’s Weekly, Mar. 1888
International Book Seller, Mar. 26, 1892 

LEND A HAND – JAN. 1886; MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY – SEPT. 1881; THE MONIST. – OCT. 1890 

NEW ENGLAND NOTES AND QUERIES – JAN. 1890; PHILOSOPHY FOR THE PEOPLE–1887; SCIENCE NEWS – NOV. 1, 1878; QUARTERLY ILLUSTRATOR - JAN. 1893; WORTHINGTON’S ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE – JAN. 1893 

BOX 5 

CLIPPING SCRAPBOOKS, BOUND BOOKS, LEDGERS, AND AUTOGRAPH BOOKS 

Confederate Portrait Album Civil War 1861 – 1865
Historical Clippings and Memorabilia Scrapbook of Nathaniel Jarvis, Jr., dtd. 1889
“Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812”, July, 1868, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Autograph Book of Mrs. Cornelius Smith, 1880, Newark, N.J.
Book of recipes for medical solutions, salves, ointments, n.d.
Giles H. F. VanHorn – Ledger No. 1, Jan. 1, 1832
“The American Historical Record, and Repertory of Notes and Queries, Jan. 1872 – Dec. 1874
      (edited by Benson J. Lossing)
“Delaplaine’s Repository of the Lives and Portraits of Distinguished Americans, Vol. II, Part I”, 1818”
Souvenir of the Albany Bi-Centennial Celebration, July 1886, The Journal Company, N.Y.
Concert Pianist Henrietta H. Beebe [Lawton] Clipping Scrapbook (with concert programs laid in),
      dtd. Jan. 1867

BOX 6 

BOUND BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS

“A Word – Spoken in Season”, N.Y.
“The Life of Benjamin West – The Great American Painter”, 1836, New York
“The Statesman – Political Manual for the State of New Hampshire”, 1864
“Dewey Days”, Sept. 28, 1899
“Garfield – The Ideal Man”, 1882
“…System of the Geography of the World – Nathaniel Dwight”, May 12, 1795, Hartford
Geography cards, n.d. (21)
Harrigan & Harts “Mordecal Lyons Songster”
“An Oration of the Apparent, and the Real Political Situation of the United States...” pronounced
      Before the Connecticut Society of Cincinnati, July the 4^th, 1799”
“The Children’s Magazine”, Feb. 1831, Sept. 1831 and Dec. 1831
“Cherokee Chief” (photocopy of drawing)
Don Antonio De Ulloa (photocopy of drawing)
“Marie Antionetta”
“The American Spelling Book by Noah Webster, Esq.”, 1825
“The Old Farm and the New Farm”, 1864, New York
“The Mother’s Magazine”, Jan. 1834 – Dec. 1840
“The Book of Psalms and Sacred Harmonies…”, 1859
“Views from Nature” presented to Elizabeth Cristy, Greenwich, CT., New Years, 1864
“Pictures of Life and Character in New York”, July 18, 1879, J. C. Clute & Son, N.Y.
“Washington Irving – Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 – Vol. 4”, 1857
“Heroes of the Three Wars, 1776, 1846, 1861” by Capt. Willard Glazier, 1882, Philadelphia
“Poems” by William Wilson (edited by Benson J. Lossing), 1875, Poughkeepsie
“Reminiscences of the Last Sixty-Five Years…”, by E. S. Thomas, Vol. II, 1840, Hartford
“The Sparrowgrass Papers or Living in the Country”, by Frederic S. Cozzens, 1865, Philadelphia
“Harper’s New Monthly Magazine”, Vol. I to L from June 1850, to May 1875, N. Y.
“The War with Spain and McKinley’s Administration”, n.d.
“Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine and Monthly American Review”, Vol. VI from Jan.. – July 1840,
      Philadelphia
“Fifty Years among Authors, Books and Publishers”, by J.C. Derby, 1884, New York

BOX 7 

PHOTOGRAPHS, ENGRAVINGS, LEDGERS, MISC.

ENGRAVINGS FOR BOOKS 

DRAWINGS & ENGRAVINGS 

PHOTOGRAPHS – PEOPLE

Unidentified 

PHOTOGRAPHS – MISCELLANEOUS

Unidentified
Statuary – No. 987 – Trout Fishing
Front Entrance to Fort MacKinac 

ART WORK – DEFRAMED

“Coblenz Et Ehrengreitstein”
“Col. Woodbourne”, Hartford, CT.
“Delia in the Country”, Feb. 10, 1788, London
Unidentified
“Washington’s Headquarters, Kingston, N.Y.” 

PENCIL DRAWINGS 

“COMICAL CREATURES” - ETCHINGS

“Dr. Leach in Consultation on Mr. Grasshoppers Case”
“Mr. & Mrs. Cataline Pussy Visit Mrs. Mouse”
“Box & Cox”
“The Duel Between Ensign Lobster, of the Reds, and Mr. Quill, of the Fretful Porcupines”
“Mrs. Owlet Tells Polly Lambkin Her Fortune”
“Mrs. Codfish Indulges in a Little Billingsgate with Miss Whiting”
“How Lord Peacock Granted An Audience to Mr. Toady”
“Waiting for Alderman Turtle at the Whitebait Dinner” (2) 

ETCHINGS 

OIL PAINTINGS

2 outdoor scenes 

GEORGE WASHINGTON – ENGRAVINGS, ETC. 

ENGRAVINGS (from books and magazines)

PRINTS (miscellaneous) 

INK DRAWINGS

Dtd. Mar. 10, 1884; Apr. 5, 1871; 1879; n.d. 

WATERCOLORS 

ARTWORK (miscellaneous) 

PHOTOGRAPHS – BUILDINGS

“Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara, April 1895”
Unidentified
“Views of the Metropolitan Sanitary Fair – Exterior”
“Building, 14^th Street” (Also Fireplace in Knickerbocker Kitchen)
“Near the spot was the house of Simon Broadstreet, Gov. of MA, taken Aug. 24, 1904, Ipswich, N.Y.
“Columbia College”
“Main St. looking east – Norfolk, VA”
“Incidents of the War” – (Civil War reproduction) 

PHOTOGRAPHS – PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

Manila – 1863
Unidentified (3 photos)

ENGRAVINGS FROM “THE FOLIO”

Carl Zerrahn
Miss Anna

“Bellevue Hospital”
“Philadelphia” 

ETCHINGS – INDIVIDUALS

Mrs. John Howell
Jerry
Glover
Generals of Our Army – 1861
Officers of Our Navy – 1861

POSTCARDS

“Robert Fulton”
“Dock Landing of the ‘Clermont’”
“Inside the Stable”
“The Virgin and Child”
“Major Andre…” 

HORNER ANIMAL PRINTS

No. 556 – Horses
No. 557 – Cows
No. 558 – Goat and Cows
No. 564 – Sheep
No. 562 – Goat
No. 566 – Bull 

CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION – 1876

“The Centennial – Balloon View of the Ground”, Supplement to Harper’s Weekly, Sept. 30, 1876 

PHOTOGRAPHS

Chas. Sumner (LLD, U.S. Senator 1851-74, great orator & author)
District Men
Butler
Preston Brooks of South Carolina
Coast Guard that Fought at Aquia Creek
Hon. John J. Crittendon
Ben Cass
Hon. Hugh McCulloch (The first Controller of the Currency)
Hon. Mrs. Smith – North Carolina
Japanese Embassy (unidentified man – 3 photos)
Staff Officers of N.Y. 37 Reg.
J.S. Avery
Mrs. McCormick – Virginia
Whittlesey – boy
Whittlesey
Jesse B. Bright – Indiana
Horace Greeley
Anson Burlingame (Born 1820, died 1870 – very important figure in U.S. national affairs)
Unidentified girl
Unidentified woman
Officer of 12 Regt. New York
District Volunteer
2 unidentified children
Southern Methodist Conference
Judge Wayne
Alexander Stephens S.C…statesman of the South when Civil War broke out.
W. S. Williams
Hon. Caleb Smith (Sec. of Interior)
Judge Carey – Ohio
Gen. Scott
P. J. Benjamin (Born St. Domingo – 1812, U.S. Senator from Louisiana 1853-61, Attorney General
      of the Southern Confederacy – acting Secretary of War and Secretary of State)
Jeff Davis – S.C.
Hunter of South Carolina Before Seceding (Robert Hunter born Apr. 1809, Member of Congress
      from Virginia 1837-41, 45-47, U.S. Senator 1847 – Expelled from the Senate for treason 1861 – Confederate
      Sec. of State)
Hunter after seceding
Col. Johnson – PA 5^th Regt.
Mrs. H. B. Stowe
Col. Baker of Oregon (Ed. Dickinson Baker, born London 1811, killed at Balls Bluff, Oct. 21, 1861. Congressman
      from IL – until 1846, Colonel of IL Vol. in Mexican War – Congressman again in 1848 – removed to Oregon,
      elected U.S. Senator 1860)
Sam Houston   (Texas, Gov. of Texas – President of Texas, Member of Congress, Gov. of Tennessee, First U.S.
      Senator while  Gov. of Texas – at the outbreak of the Civil War – he returned rather than take the oath of
      allegiance to the Southern Confederacy – Born Mar. 2, 1793, Died July 25, 1863)
Reverdy Johnson (Baltimore, born 1796, died 1876, U.S. Senator 1845-49, U.S. Attorney General,
      U.S. Senator 1863-68, Minister to England 68-69)
Grace Greenwood
Judge Daniels
Prof Morse (Telegraph)
Chief Justice Taney (Roger Brooke Taney, Born Mar. 17, 1777, Died Oct. 12, 1864)

6 UNIDENTIFIED PHOTOGRAPHS 

EUPHENE IRWIN – JANUARY 1882 SCRIPTURE VERSES 

VIEWS OF SARATOGA 

INDENTURES

Sept. 14, 1786
Apr. 11, 1793 

LEDGER – COOPER’S SHOP AND GRISTMILL ACCOUNTS 1841-1843 

LEDGER 

“SUNSHINE AT HOME – SPARKLING PAGES FOR THE CHILD, THE YOUTH, THE PARENT…” 1883, BATTLE
CREEK, MI 

PHOTOGRAPHS TRANSFERRED TO PORTRAIT FILE

Anthony, Emily
Baker, Col. Edward D.
Banks, Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P.
Barritt, Thomas
Berden, Col. H.
Blenker, Brig. Gen. Louis
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Boone, Daniel
Brittan, S. B., Jr.
Brownlow, Wm. G.
Burnside, Brig. Gen. Ambrose E.
Butler, Maj. Gen. Benj. F.
Butler, Mrs. Laura Faxon
Butterfield, Brig. Gen. Daniel
Carr, Col. Jos. B.
Carter, Jacques
Casey, Brig. Gen. Silas
Cherokee Chief
Clark, George Rogers
Clay, Maj. Gen. Cassius M.
Colton, Isaac
Corcoran, Col. Michael
Cornwallis, Charles 1^st.
Ord, Maj. Gen. E.O.C.
Cox, Brig. Gen. J. Dolson
Crawford, Martin Jenkins
Curtis, Maj. Gen. Samuel R.
Davis, Com. Charles H.
De Ulloa, Don Atonio
Dix, Maj. Gen. John A.
Doubleday, Brig. Gen. Abner
Dupont, Com. Samuel F., U.S.N.
Duryee, Brig. Gen. Abram
Ellsworth, E. E.
Emerson, Dr.
Farragut, Com. David G.
Faxon, Ebenezer
Foot, Capt. John (2^nd Reg.)
Foot, Jonathan, M.D.
Foot, Solomon
Franklin, Maj. Gen. William B.
Fremont, Maj. Gen. John C.
Garfield, Brig. Gen. James A.
Genet, Edmond Charles Edouard
Goldsborough, Com. Louis M.
Grant, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S.
Grover, Brig. Gen. Cuvier
Haines, Thos. R.
Halleck, Maj. Gen. Henry Wager
Hamlin, H.
Hancock, W. S.
Harrison, William Henry
Hawkins, Col. Rush C.
Heintzelman, Brig. Gen. Sam. P.
Hooker, Maj. Gen. Joseph
Hunter, Maj. Gen. David
Jackson, Andrew
Jackson, Mrs. Andrew
Jay, John
Johnson, Andrew
Kearney, Maj. Gen. Philip
Kenton, Simon
Lander, Brig. Gen.
Lemoyne, Jean Baptiste
Lincoln, A.
Longfellow, Henry W.
Lyon, Brig. Gen. Nathaniel
McCall, Brig. Gen.
McClellan, Maj. Gen. George B.
McClernand , Maj. Gen. John A.
McDowell, Brig. Gen. Irwin
Madison, James
Mansfield, Brig. Gen. J. K. F.
Marie Antoinette
Mason, Lowell (Musician)
Meagher, Col. Thomas Francis
Mitchell, Maj. Gen. O. M.
Monroe, James
Mulligan, Col. James A.
Nilson, Mdlle. Christine
Oglethorpe, James Edward
Pinckney, Thomas
Pope, Maj. Gen. John
Porter, Comr. David D.
Porter, Maj. Gen. Fitz John
Reno, Maj. Gen. Jessie L.
Rosecrans, Brig. Gen. W. S.
Schurz, Brig. Gen. Carl
Scott, Lt. Gen. Winfield
Shields, Brig. Gen. James
Sickles, Brig. Gen. Daniel E.
Sigel, Brig. Gen. Franz
Smith, Dr. James C.
Southworth, G. C. S.
Sprague, Maj. Gen. William (Gov. of R.I.)
Stahel, Brig. Gen. Julius
Stevens, Brig. Gen. Isaac I.
Sumner, Maj. Gen. Edwin V.
Wadsworth, Brig. Gen. James S.
Wallace, Maj. Gen. Lewis
Wallace, Brig. Gen. W. H. L.
Ward, Brig. Gen. J. H. Hobart
Washington, George
Washington, Martha
Wayne, Anthony
Weber, Col. Max
Wilkes, Capt. Charles, U.S.N.
Wilson, Col. Henry (MA)
Winthrop, Maj. Theodore
Wool, Maj. Gen. John E. 

ADDENDA
Ac. 5443
¼ linear ft. 

BOX 8 

THOMAS SWEET LOSSING 

Although the son of a distinguished man of letters and a highly cultured mother, Thomas Sweet Lossing lived the rough and tumble life of a farm boy.   He was taught at home, and much of his learning came through coping with the practical demands of country life.   He lived at The Ridge until leaving to study civil engineering. He then traveled to South America where he worked for the Cerro de Pasco Mining Company in Peru. During WWI, Thomas and his wife Rebecca returned to the U.S. where he superintended the construction of Langley Field in Virginia. Not long after, Rebecca died, and Thomas married Elizabeth, the widow of Malcolm Anderson. They retired to Berkeley, California where Thomas died in 1944. 

Thomas Sweet Lossing’s second wife encouraged him to write his recollections of his happy boyhood with his devoted father at their farm. In 1939, Thomas prepared an account on his Hudson Valley youth, entitled My Heart Goes Home. He recalled the vanished time of the 1870s and 1880s in Dutchess County, New York on the Lossing farm. It offers a child’s-eye view of Benson Lossing, the prominent writer, historian, artist, and founding trustee of Vassar College, who worked at home in his magnificent library. My Heart Goes Home was edited by Peter D. Hannaford, whose great aunt was Elizabeth Anderson Lossing. 

THOMAS SWEET LOSSING – MANUSCRIPT

“My Heart Goes Home” by Peter Hannaford 

“MY HEART GOES HOME”

Proofs 

COPY PRINTS OF BENSON LOSSING SKETCHES (Huntington Library)

”Lossing Manor” 1994 (photograph taken by Peter Hannaford)
“A Silhouette of Benson Lossing was cut in 1876”
“Milton Ferry and Horse-Boat” (“My Heart Goes Home”, pg. 115)
“The Katzbergs From Montgomery Place” (“My Heart Goes Home”, pg. 137)
“Sleigh Riding on the Hudson” (“My Heart Goes Home”, pg. 79)
“Mouth of Wappingi’s Creek” (“My Heart Goes Home”, pg. 91)
“The Battery and Castle Garden” (“My Heart Goes Home”, pg. 149)
“First Home Erected on Quaker Hill, Benjamin Ferris, Dutchess Co., N.Y.” (“My Heart Goes Home”, pg. 101)
“Poughkeepsie, From Lewisburg” (“My Heart Goes Home”, pg. 37)
“Henry Van Meter, of Bangor, a black man now at least 95 years of age” (“My Heart Goes Home”, pg. 51)
“My Heart Goes Home” (pg 3)
“My Heart Goes Home” (pg. 171)
“Surf bathing near Pavilion, Coney Island” (“My Heart Goes Home”, pg. 159)
“Indian Church, Lonette” (“My Heart Goes Home”, pg. 127)

ORIGINAL SKETCHES BY THOMAS SWEET LOSSING ca 1939 – 1940

“Mother’s Toilet Table"
“Japanese jar of dried grass on mantle, Boston rocker, “Billy” (rocking horse), shoe box”
Single page from Benson Lossing’s diary, Sept. 27, 1849