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Bancroft-Bliss families papers, 1788-1928

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BOX 1-6 Family Correspondence, 1810-1902
Letters sent and received between members of the Bancroft and Bliss families and photostatic copies of correspondence between family members.
Arranged chronologically and grouped by correspondent.
BOX 1 1814-1849
BOX 2 1851-1869
BOX 3 1870-1875
BOX 4 1876-1902
BOX 4 Undated
BOX 5 Photostatic copies
BOX 5 Bliss to aunt, Lydia Williams, 1810-1813
BOX 5 Bliss to wife, Betsy, 1827, Jan.-Feb.
BOX 5 George Bancroft to wife, 1838-1861
BOX 5 George Bancroft to William Bliss, 1849
BOX 5 George Bancroft to Alexander (“Sandy") Bliss
BOX 5 1851-1862, Sept.
BOX 6 1862, Oct.-1865, undated
BOX 6 George Bancroft to wife, 1866-1873, undated
BOX 6 George Bancroft to William Bliss, 1883, undated
BOX 7-13 General Correspondence, 1788-1928
Letters received, drafts of letters sent, photostatic copies of letters from George Bancroft, and invitations. An appendix to the finding aid contains an index of correspondents in this series, including the years of the correspondence.
Correspondence arranged chronologically.
BOX 7 1788-1825
BOX 8 1826-1855
BOX 9 1856-1865
BOX 10 1866-1871
BOX 11 1872-1893
BOX 11 1928
BOX 12 Undated
BOX 12 Photostatic copies, from George Bancroft, 1855-1870
BOX 12 Invitations
(1 folder)
BOX 13 (1 folder)
BOX 14 Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors, 1863-1864
Letters received from contributors to this volume and letters received from non-contributors concerning the book.
Arranged alphabetically. Also miscellaneous material and printed matter.
BOX 14 Correspondence with contributors
BOX 14 Bancroft, George
BOX 14 Benjamin, Park
BOX 14 Bryant, William Cullen
BOX 14 Butler, William Allen
BOX 14 Calvert, George H.
BOX 14 Child, Lydia Maria
BOX 14 Cooper, James Fenimore
BOX 14 Coxe, Arthur C.
BOX 14 Cozzens, Frederick S.
BOX 14 Curtis, George William .
BOX 14 Dana, Richard H., Jr.
BOX 14 Emerson, Ralph Waldo
BOX 14 Everett, Edward
BOX 14 Halleck, Fitz-Greene
BOX 14 Hawthorne, Nathaniel
BOX 14 Holmes, Oliver Wendell
BOX 14 Howe, Julia Ward
BOX 14 Irving, Washington
BOX 14 Kennedy, John Pendleton
BOX 14 Kirkland, Carolina M
BOX 14 Lieber, Francis
BOX 14 Longfellow, Henry W.
BOX 14 Mayer, Brantz
BOX 14 Melville, Herman
BOX 14 Mitchell, Donald G.
BOX 14 Motley, John Lathrop
BOX 14 Neal, John
BOX 14 Norton, Charles Eliot
BOX 14 Read, Thomas Buchanan
BOX 14 Sargent, Epes
BOX 14 Sedgwick, Catherine M..
BOX 14 Sigourney, Lydia H.
BOX 14 Street, Alfred B.
BOX 14 Taylor, Bayard
BOX 14 Thoreau, Henry David
BOX 14 Ticknor, George
BOX 14 Tuckerman, Henry T.
BOX 14 Whittier, John Greenleaf
BOX 14 Willis, Nathaniel P.
BOX 14 Wise, Henry A
BOX 14 Correspondence with non-contributors
BOX 14 Agassiz, Alexander
BOX 14 Bancroft, Elizabeth Davis
BOX 14 Bell, D. C.
BOX 14 Bliss, W. D.
BOX 14 Bliss, William R.
BOX 14 Bowes, C. J.
BOX 14 Cary, Alice
BOX 14 Cist, L. J.
BOX 14 Coale, George B.
BOX 14 Coale, James Carey
BOX 14 Collins, Willkie
BOX 14 Donaldson, [H?]
BOX 14 Ford, L. C. Grant
BOX 14 Ulysses S.
BOX 14 Innes, John
BOX 14 Kelton, Frank A.
BOX 14 Lossing, Benson
BOX 14 Piozzi, Hester Lynch (Thrale)
BOX 14 Ripley, George
BOX 14 Schenck, Julia C.
BOX 14 Thackeray, William M.
BOX 14 Willmarth, C. A.
BOX 14 Memorandum of receipt and distribution
BOX 14 Printed matter
BOX 15-23 Miscellany, 1820-1926
Calling cards, a diary of Alexander Bliss, financial papers, legal papers, manuscripts, speeches, writings, newspaper clippings, and other miscellaneous material.
Arranged alphabetically.
BOX 15 Announcements of births, deaths, marriages, and related matter
BOX 15 Atlas of the world
BOX 15 Calling cards Calling cards of the Chinese minister in Berlin, Germany
BOX 15 Clippings
BOX 15 Copies of letters from Elizabeth S. Woodruff to Elizabeth Bliss and others regarding asylums for Italian war orphans, circa 1925-1926
BOX 15 Diary of Alexander Bliss, 1849
BOX 15 Financial papers
BOX 15 Account of Alexander Bliss, 1862-1863
BOX 15 Accounts regarding Garibaldi Guards, 1861, 25 May-1 July
BOX 15 Miscellaneous accounts, 1848-1893
BOX 15 Law cases pled by Alexander Bliss (Sr.), 1820-1823
BOX 16 Legal papers
BOX 16 Letters From England, by Elizabeth D. Bancroft
BOX 16 Galleys
BOX 16 Typescripts
BOX 16 List of pensions in Florence
BOX 16 List of the corps diplomatique at Berlin, Germany, 1867, 1 Nov.
BOX 16 List of letters in the collection
BOX 16 Manuscripts
BOX 16 Elin, or the Man of Rank and the Woman of the People, a Novel, by Marie Sophie Schwartz (copy in hand of Alexander Bliss)
BOX 16 Miscellaneous and unidentified
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