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BOX 3 REEL 3 Speeches and Writings File, 1830-1886
Handwritten speeches and articles and Fell's unpublished autobiography.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
BOX 3 REEL 3 Articles
BOX 3 REEL 3 "Local Option and High License," undated
BOX 3 REEL 3 Normal, Ill., establishment of, undated
BOX 3 REEL 3 Repudiation of Illinois state debt, 1845
BOX 3 REEL 3 Autobiography of Fell, 1886
BOX 3 REEL 3 Speeches, 1830-1833, 1870
(5 folders)
BOX 3-8 REEL 3-8 Subject File, 1816-1965
Biographical material, broadsides, calling cards, certifications, circulars, college catalogs, genealogies, land grants, ledgers, lists, lithographs, maps, miscellaneous notes, newspaper clippings, notebooks, obituaries, petitions, photographs, plats, poems, scrapbooks, stock certificates, wills, and miscellaneous material.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or type of material.
BOX 3 REEL 3 Bar association papers
BOX 3 REEL 3 Illinois bar admission, 1832
BOX 3 REEL 3 Illinois law practice certification, 1842
BOX 3 REEL 3 Ohio bar admission, 1832
BOX 3 REEL 3 Biographies
BOX 3 REEL 3 Assorted sketches, 1908, 1931, undated
BOX 3 REEL 3 Hiett, Herbert R., "Jesse W. Fell," 1952
BOX 3 REEL 3 Lewis, Edward J., "Life of Jesse W. Fell"
BOX 3 REEL 3 Newspaper clippings, 1887, undated
BOX 4 REEL 4 Text
BOX 4 REEL 4 Original, undated
BOX 4 REEL 4 Typed transcription, 1901-1902
BOX 4 REEL 4 "Life of J. W. Fell in Bloomington," author unknown, with corrections by Robert D. Richardson, undated
BOX 4 REEL 4 Marshall, Helen E., "Jesse W. Fell, Friend of Education," 1957
BOX 4 REEL 4 Bloomington & Normal Horse Railway Co., Bloomington, Ill., 1914
BOX 4 REEL 4 Bloomington Cemetery Association, Bloomington, Ill., 1869
BOX 4 REEL 4 Bloomington Library Association, Bloomington, Ill., 1867
BOX 4 REEL 4 Broadsides
BOX 4 REEL 4 Prairie Farmer magazine, 1853
BOX 4 REEL 4 "State University," 1870
BOX 4 REEL 4 Brown family centennial, 1928
BOX 4 REEL 4 Calling cards, passes, tags, etc., 1874, 1911, undated
BOX 4 REEL 4 Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Rail Road Co., indenture, 1855
BOX 4 REEL 4 Circular, 1859
BOX 4 REEL 4 Death of Fell
BOX 4 REEL 4 Newspaper clippings, 1887, undated
BOX 4 REEL 4 Scrapbook, circa 1887
BOX 4 REEL 4 Tributes, resolutions, and memorials, 1887, 1906, undated
BOX 5 REEL 5 Downingtown Boarding School, Downingtown, Pa., notebooks, circa 1831, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 5 REEL 5 Downingtown Seminary, Downingtown, Pa., notebook, 1827
BOX 5 REEL 5 Fell, Fannie C., memorial, 1931
BOX 5 REEL 5 Fell, Hester Vernon Brown, biographical sketches, 1899, undated
BOX 5 REEL 5 Fragments, notes, lists, etc., undated
BOX 5 REEL 5 Genealogies
BOX 5 REEL 5 Brown family, 1924, undated
BOX 5 REEL 5 Fell family, undated
BOX 5 REEL 5 Gordon, Hester Milner, obituary, 1871
BOX 5 REEL 5 Illinois State Normal University, Normal, Ill.
BOX 5 REEL 5 Burnham, J. H.
BOX 5 REEL 5 "Our Duty to Future Generations," 1905
BOX 5 REEL 5 "Some of the Influences Which Led to the Founding of the Normal University," 1909
BOX 5 REEL 5 Catalog, 1860
BOX 5 REEL 5 Design for the grounds, undated
BOX 5 REEL 5 Memorial gateway, 1916, 1921, undated
BOX 5 REEL 5 Miscellany, 1861, undated
BOX 5 REEL 5 Petitions, 1857, 1867-1870
BOX 5 REEL 5 n, 1859
BOX 5 REEL 5 Tasher, Lucy Lucile, "Lincoln and Illinois State Normal University," 1956
BOX 6 REEL 6 Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Ill., catalog, 1852
BOX 6 REEL 6 Industrial League of Illinois, 1854, 1867, undated
BOX 6 REEL 6 Knights of Pythias, Jesse Fell Lodge, Bloomington, Ill., 1900, 1913
BOX 6 REEL 6 Land grants, 1833, 1839, 1853-1854
BOX 6 REEL 6 Larchwood Colony, Iowa
BOX 6 REEL 6 "Larch-Wood," by John A. Warder, 1882
BOX 6 REEL 6 Plat prepared by Fell, undated
BOX 6 REEL 6 Law studies notebooks, 1830-1831, undated
(5 folders)
BOX 6 REEL 6 Ledgers, 1832-1887
(2 folders)
BOX 7 REEL 7 Lincoln, Abraham
BOX 7 REEL 7 Autobiography
BOX 7 REEL 7 Correspondence, 1900-1965
(3 folders)
BOX 7 REEL 7 Envelope with notes by Fell, undated
BOX 7 REEL 7 History of the autobiography, author unknown, undated
BOX 7 REEL 7 Newspaper clippings, 1865, 1909, 1938, 1947-1948, undated
BOX 7 REEL 7 "The Story of the Lincoln Autobiography," by Sarah E. Raymond Fitzwilliam, undated
BOX 7 REEL 7 Will and deed of gift of Fannie Fell, 1931, 1947
BOX 7 REEL 7 Deposition concerning Lincoln's religion, undated
BOX 7 REEL 7 Extracts from speeches, undated
BOX 7 REEL 7 Newspaper clippings
BOX 7 REEL 7 General, 1909, 1922, 1936
BOX 7 REEL 7 Lewis, E. J., sketch of Lincoln, 1860
BOX 7 REEL 7 Speech, "Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln," by Richard Edwards, 1865
BOX 7 REEL 7 Lithographs, 1893, undated
BOX 7 REEL 7 Maps
BOX 7 REEL 7 Bloomington and McLean County, Ill., 1838, undated
BOX 7 REEL 7 Chicago, Ill., 1834
BOX 7 REEL 7 Newspaper clippings, 1898-1950, undated
BOX 7 REEL 7 Normal, Ill.
BOX 7 REEL 7 Residential addition, circa 1870
BOX 7 REEL 7 Views of Normal; An Educational Center and an Ideal Residence City, undated
BOX 7 REEL 7 Normal University, Bloomington, Ill. See Container 5, Illinois State Normal University
BOX 7 REEL 7 North Bloomington, Ill., renaming to Normal, Ill., 1883
BOX 7 REEL 7 Ohio, extract from notes of 1816 trip, author unknow, undated
BOX 7 REEL 7 Petition urging Fell to run for Congress, circa 1864
BOX 7 REEL 7 Photographs, 1937, undated
BOX 7 REEL 7 Poems by Eliza Brown, 1826-1827
BOX 7 REEL 7 Printed matter
BOX 7 REEL 7 "Address of the Managers of the American Colonization Society to the People of the United States," 1832
BOX 7 REEL 7 "Beaver City," Pa., circa 1836
BOX 7 REEL 7 "Bill of Review, Dohrman v. Wells and Osborn," Tuscarawas County, Ohio, undated
BOX 7 REEL 7 "Catalog of the Principal Garden Seeds, Cultivated at the Horticultural Grounds of D. & C. Landreth, near Philadelphia," circa 1835
BOX 7 REEL 7 Farmer's Almanac and Illinois Register for the Year 1834, 1833
BOX 7 REEL 7 Illinois Farmer's Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1840, circa 1840
BOX 7 REEL 7 Illinois legislature, "Report of the Committee on Finance," 1841
BOX 8 REEL 8 The Illinois Teacher, 1855
BOX 8 REEL 8 Letters to John Quincy Adams, Relative to the Fisheries and the Mississippi, First Published in the Argus of Western America, 1823
BOX 8 REEL 8 The Mother's Magazine, 1839
BOX 8 REEL 8 "Popular Considerations on Homoeopathia," undated
BOX 8 REEL 8 Prairie Farmer, 1852
BOX 8 REEL 8 Reflections on the Statements and Opinions Published in the Free Enquirer, 1829
BOX 8 REEL 8 Report of the Case of Illinois v. Marshall, 1842
BOX 8 REEL 8 Report of the Trial of Friends in the City of Philadelphia, June 1828
BOX 8 REEL 8 Receipts, 1859-1868
BOX 8 REEL 8 State Normal School, Bloomington, Ill. See Container 5, Illinois State Normal University
BOX 8 REEL 8 Stock certificates, 1866, 1873
BOX 8 REEL 8 Weekly Western Whig, inventory, undated
BOX 8 REEL 8 Will, 1886
BOX 8 REEL 8 "The Work of Art," author unknown, undated

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