Personal correspondence
Subject
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Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
John Phillips and Beverly Jean Lyon letters
Collection
Identifier: BUSC-1995-001
Abstract
The John Lewis Phillips and Beverly Jean Lyon letters include roughly 150 pieces of correspondence written by Binghamton-area fiances during WWII while John was serving on the USS Blue Ridge.
Dates:
1944 - 1945
Pichler, Karoline letter, July 23, 1829
File — Box 1
Scope and Contents
Letter from the Austrian novelist Karoline Pichler dated July 23, 1829 and written in German. Recipient may be named Maltitz.
Dates:
July 23, 1829
Preller, Friedrich letters to Eva van Blomberg, 1878 - 1899
File — Box 1
Scope and Contents
One letter to Eva van Blomberg, undated; one postcard dated April 19, 1899, and a posthumous cabinet card photograph of Friedrich Preller the Elder, dated in manuscript April 23, 1878 (the day of Preller's death). Letter and postcard are written in German.
Dates:
1878 - 1899
Louisa Russell Family letters
Collection
Identifier: BUSC-2018-001
Abstract
This collection consists primarily of letters received by Louisa Russell (1841 - 1913) of Hooper, Town of Union, Broome County, New York between 1861 and 1866. Correspondents include her brother James Russell, cousins Carrie, Lydia, and Daniel Russell of St. Joseph County, Indiana, and cousins Sarah and Chester McKinney of Litchfield, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. The collection also includes one letter written by Louisa Russell to her sister-in-law, Louisa Chauncey Russell, and two letters...
Dates:
1861 - 1866
Ingraham P. Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: BUSC-2004-004
Abstract
The collection comprises two medical documents and forty-five letters written by Ingraham P. Smith (1844 - 1918), a resident of Middlefield, Otsego County, New York and a soldier in Company G, 121st New York Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War. The 1861 - 1865 letters were penned to his mother and sister. A letter written by his brother Jerry, of the 51st New York Volunteer Infantry, is also included in the collection. This collection has been digitized and is accessible from the ...
Dates:
1861 - 1865
Francis M. and Henry H. Stone letters
Collection
Identifier: BUSC-2004-005
Abstract
This collection contains twenty-one letters written by brothers Francis M. and Henry H. Stone during the Civil War. The brothers were from Lima, Livingston County, New York. The letters, from 1861 to 1864, are to their father, sister Alta, and brother-in-law George, and are full of rich details concerning their daily life, poor camp conditions, troop movements and battles, such as, Bull Run and Manassas. This collection has been digitized and is accessible from the ...
Dates:
1861 - 1864
Terry, Ellen letter to Charles Oram Lander, February 3, 1917
File — Box 1
Scope and Contents
Letter from Ellen Terry to Charles Oram Lander, February 3, 1917. At the top of the first page is written vertically "Pray excuse a 'dictated' note." Terry thanks Lander for his note and writes that she should have written sooner but that she has been "laid up by an attack of bronchitis." The letter is signed in green ink, and on the verso she has added, also in green, "If you care to take the chance of finding me at home some evening about 5 o'clock pray look in at 215 'to say how do you...
Dates:
February 3, 1917
Washburn, Charles E. letter to Mariana Washburn, April 24, 1850
File — Box 1
Scope and Contents
Letter from Charles E. Washburn in Binghamton to his wife Mariana A. Washburn in Homer, Cortland County, April 24, 1850. Washburn begins his letter "Very briefly, I must write, chiefly to ask your decision again in respect to 'help.'" He offers various scenarios for hiring domestic laborers in the short term until Caroline, currently in the employ of a Mrs. Humphreys, can be engaged in three or four months' time. "Shall I engage the young African till then? Or shall I secure Irish help, to...
Dates:
April 24, 1850
Wells, Chester letter to Captain Franklin Whitney, July 25, 1828
File — Box 1
Scope and Contents
Letter from Chester Wells to Captain Franklin Whitney at Binghamton, July 25, 1828. Writing from Jersey, Wells laments his ill health, reports on the state of the haying season and that they have had no rain, and urges Whitney to come to Jersey.
Dates:
July 25, 1828
Anna E. Wilcox Family letters
Collection
Identifier: BUSC-2001-001
Abstract
This collection includes forty-five letters, primarily written to Anna E. Wilcox of Smyrna, Chenango County, New York by four of her male cousins while they were serving in the Civil War (William S. Pike, Emory Wilcox, Benjamin Leroy Pike, and John Pike). A small number of letters written from 1866 to 1868 are between other correspondents. The collection also includes several photographs of the authors. This collection has been digitized and is accessible from the ...
Dates:
1862 - 1868