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Elizur Wright papers, 1793-1935

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BOX 1-22 Correspondence, 1793-1922
Principally letters written or received by Elizur Wright, Jr.
Organized in two sets, bound and unbound, and therein chronologically.
BOX 1 Bound
BOX 1 1817, July 1-1829, Feb. 26
BOX 2 1829, Mar. 5-1835
BOX 3 1838, Jan. 13-1837, June 30; 1839
BOX 4 1837, July 8-1838, Mar. 5; 1839
BOX 5 1838, Mar. 6-1839, June 5
BOX 6 1839, June 14-1841, Jan. 21
BOX 7 1841, Jan. 26-1842, Sept. 7
BOX 8 1842, Sept. 7-1844, June 29
BOX 9 1844, July 1-1846, Jan. 14
BOX 10 1846, Jan. 22-1852, May 13
BOX 11 1853, Jan. 7-1861, Nov. 26
BOX 12 1861, Dec. 30-1868, Jan. 22
BOX 13 1868, Feb. 21-1872, Dec. 26
BOX 14 1872, Dec. 27, 1877, Nov. 25
BOX 15 1877, Dec. 8-1879, Aug. 18
BOX 16 1879, Aug. 19-1880, Aug. 15
BOX 17 1880, Aug. 21-1882, Aug. 27
BOX 18 1882, Sept. 1-1885, Oct. 16
BOX 19 1885, Oct. 17-1895, Dec 25, undated
BOX 20 Unbound
BOX 20 1793-1869
(10 folders)
BOX 21 1870-1874
(7 folders)
BOX 22 1875-1922, undated
(11 folders)
BOX 23-26 Writings, circa 1820-1887
Bound volumes of typed transcriptions compiling Wright’s shorter essays on public affairs, religion, and life insurance, followed by manuscript notes and drafts pertaining to other works.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 23 Public affairs, 1832-1876
BOX 23 Religion, 1858-1885
BOX 24 Life insurance
BOX 24 1859-1874
BOX 24 1875-1886
BOX 24 Miscellaneous and dramatic writings, 1859-1884, undated
BOX 25 Copybook, circa 1820
BOX 25 Clark, Susan, school composition book, 1824
BOX 25 Lecture notes, Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio, 1831, undated
BOX 25 Auxiliaries to the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836-1837
BOX 25 The Fables of La Fontaine, circa 1839
BOX 25 Anti-Slavery, 1840, undated
BOX 25 Inventions, rotary knitting loom, circa 1840
BOX 25 A Curiosity of Law, 1866
BOX 25 The Cash and Part Note Premium Systems of Life Insurance, 1868
BOX 25 Northern Pacific Railroad, 1874
BOX 26 Holley, Myron, biography, circa 1880
BOX 26 Biographical material, 1885, undated
BOX 26 “Song for the Million and Other Poems by Father,” 1887
BOX 26 Free thought, undated
BOX 26 Politics, undated
BOX 26 Miscellaneous, circa 1830-1873, undated
BOX 26-29 Miscellany, 1801-1935
Legal and financial papers, prints and photographs, clippings and printed matter, and scrapbooks.
Organized by type of material and therein chronologically.
BOX 26 Receipted bill, Josiah Clark, 1801
BOX 26 Deeds, 1827-1831
BOX 26 Commissions, 1858; 1864
BOX 26 Printed matter, 1867-1906, undated
BOX 26 Prints and photographs, circa 1870-1895
BOX 26 Estate papers, 1886-1889
BOX 26 Clippings
BOX 26 Unbound, circa 1885-1935
BOX 27 Bound, 1852-1884
BOX 28 Scrapbooks
BOX 28 1842-1885
BOX 28 circa 1860-1880
BOX 28 1883-1900
BOX 29 Cash receipts ledger, 1828-1832, 1879

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