Bright and Handy family

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mathew B. Brady and Levin Corbin Handy Photographic Studios Collection (GEN MSS 580) > Series III: Family Papers and Photographs > Correspondence > Bright and Handy family

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Description

Title: Bright and Handy family
Creator: From the Collection: Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896
Contributor: From the Collection: Handy, Levin C. (Levin Corbin), 1855-1932
From the Collection: Jarvis, J. F. (John Fillis), 1849-1931
From the Collection: Russell, Andrew J., 1829-1902
From the Collection: L. C. Handy Studio
From the Collection: Underwood & Underwood
Published / Created: 1844-1845, 1850-1852, 1857, 1874-1875, 1877, 1879, 1890, 1894, 1904, 1951, 1954-1955, 1957, no date
Description: Much of the early correspondence under this heading deals with family financial matters. This includes a letter of indenture of William Henry Bright (the brother of Mary Ann Bright Handy and uncle of Levin Corbin Handy), 1843. Letters from Robert Handy, serving aboard the United States Revenue Cutters Morris and Howard, to his brother Samuel S. Handy in 1850 include mentions of Brady and his wife living on Staten Island, New York, and the aftermath of the sinking of the bark, Elizabeth, on July 19, 1850. Letters from Levin Corbin Handy to his then future wife, Emma Sussanna Gessford, include one asking her to attend a prayer meeting in 1874, as well as love poems he wrote to her in 1875 and undated. They were married in 1879. Single letters of interest to researchers and philographers include an autograph letter signed from Senator Jefferson Davis to Secretary of War John Buchanan Floyd in 1857, and an undated autographed letter signed by Robert Lincoln to Levin Corbin Handy.
Provenance: Purchased from the William Reese Company on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2006.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English

Item Location

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

GEN MSS 580

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Container / Volume

Box 47, folder 2449-2460

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Citation: Mathew B. Brady and Levin Corbin Handy Photographic Studios Collection. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record: 8075239
Object ID (OID): 2068020