Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
| Title | W.A. Croffut papers, 1774-1933 |
|---|---|
| Span Dates | 1774-1933 |
| Bulk Dates | (bulk 1880-1915) |
| ID No. | MSS17285 |
| Creator | Croffut, W. A. (William Augustus), 1835-1915 |
| Extent | 7,500 items |
| Extent | 31 containers |
| Extent | 12.4 linear feet |
| Language | Collection material in English, with Spanish |
| Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
| Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011102 |
| LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79017285 |
| Summary | Author, editor, and poet. Correspondence, writings, minutes, scrapbooks, printed matter, and miscellaneous items pertaining chiefly to Croffut's publications, activities with the Anti-Imperialist League, and the presidential campaign of 1900. Includes material relating to Ethan Allen Hitchcock, copies of correspondence with Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne, wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne, journals of Henry Alfred Robbins, letters of John Quincy Adams and Jefferson Davis, and autograph material. |