97 letters and cards. Delaney writes first from Yaddo in New York and then from Paris. Delaney's letters are primarily personal in nature with frequent comments about his philosophy of life and the value of friendship, and inquiries about mutual friends. Delaney also mentions his work, exhibits, and the sale of paintings in Wallrich's possession.
Description:
Beauford Delaney (1901-1979), artist, was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. In 1929 he moved to New York where he gained a reputation as a portraitist. Delaney spent the last 26 years of his life in Paris., Larry Wallrich, founder of the Phoenix Bookshop in Greenwich Village, was a close friend of Delaney's and assisted him in the sale of his paintings in the United States., and Purchased from Serendipity Books, 1994.
Subject (Name):
Delaney, Beauford, 1901-1979 and Wallrich, Larry
Subject (Topic):
African American artists, African American artists--France--Paris, African American painters, Expatriate painters--France--Paris, and Painters--United States
20 ALS and 2 statements of account and 1 receipt. 13 of the letters and the other three items are between Sage, his publishers Carey & Hart,and their successor Henry C. Baird & Co., and largely concern the dispute over his copyright fees. Three letters from his mother Jerusha Sage, to Rufus just after he moved from Middletown, Connecticut to Marietta, Ohio, contain news of local events. There are two letters from Rufus to his mother dated early 1836, one describing his trip to New York on his way to Ohio, and another describing Marietta. Two undated letters from his mother recount Middletown news, and one other letter is from his cousin Martha P. Sage, dated June 23, 1837.
Description:
Gift of Thomas W. Streeter, 1962. and Rufus B. Sage wrote "Scenes in the Rocky Mountains," published by Carey & Hart in 1846, based on his experiences of traveling in the West. Martha P. Sage, Rufus' cousin, was a schoolteacher in northeast Pennsylvania.
Subject (Geographic):
Marietta (Ohio) and Middletown (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Baird, Henry Carey, 1825-1912, Carey & Hart, Sage, Jerusha Butler, Sage, Martha P., and Sage, Rufus B., 1817-1893
33 ALS to Freaner from friends and associates, some of them Army officers and government officials, and 5 copies of letters he wrote to others. Eleven letters are from John Maginnis; these discuss Delta business and the court of inquiry, other New Orleans newspapers, and the reaction of people in New Orleans to the dispatches he sent from Mexico. Other letters regard payment of loans made to others, a projected mail line in the Gulf, municipal elections in New Orleans, and news from the United States when Freaner was out of the country. Correspondents include General D. E. Twiggs, General Robert Patterson, Francis M. Dimond, and Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro. With an incomplete draft of an article, notes taken of Major Hobbie about English steamers in the Gulf, and a receipt for sales made by Freaner while he was auctioneer in Vera Cruz in June and July, 1848.
Description:
Freaner, a correspondent for the New Orleans Delta during the Mexican War, signed his dispatches from the front "Mustang." He also carried the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to Washington, and became involved in a quarrel between General Winfield Scott and General Gideon Pillow that resulted in the convening of a court of inquiry. After the war, Freaner spent some time in the United States and then seems to have worked in Mexico with a General Smith, perhaps General Persifor Smith, who was commander of the Pacific Division until 1850., John Maginnis was Freaner's editor at the New Orleans Delta., Purchased from Alta California Bookstore on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana., and Some letters torn, affecting text.
Subject (Geographic):
New Orleans (La.)--Description and travel and New Orleans (La.)--Newspapers
Subject (Name):
Dimond, Francis M., Freaner, James L., Maginnis, John, Patterson, Robert, 1792-1881, Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 1806-1878, Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866, Tasistro, Louis F. (Louis Fitzgerald), 1808-1868, and Twiggs, David Emmanuel, 1790-1862
Subject (Topic):
American newspapers--Louisiana--New Orleans, Mexican War, 1846-1848--Periodicals, and Mexican War, 1846-1848--Treaties
Correspondence, documents, writings, printed material, photographs and financial papers relating to the Cowdery, Gillum, and Starling families. The correspondence, which consists primarily of family news, includes letters written during the Civil War, with an account of the evacuation of Pensacola written by Lewis Cowdery, and a letter from a Union soldier named Henry (possibly Henry Gillum) on board ship to New Orleans in 1863. There are two letters written from Texas by Virginia and Henry Gillum, one referring to an accident on board a steamer, another referring to "interests" there, and one letter to Lewis Starling from Missouri in July, 1858, about land in Hannibal. and The collection includes several items that aren't obviously related to the Cowdery, Gillum, or Starling families. There is a Confederate account book kept by Lt. Commander Joseph B. Goodwin, Company F, 16th Virginia Regiment, used to track of purchases of clothing, with lists at the back of returned men reported as deserted, and men who have been discharged, died, and killed. There are also morning reports of Captain G. Alexander, Assistant Provost Marshal, Eastern District dated November-December 1863, listing men arrested, and including Julia Ann Cheek and C. Cheek, a "negro woman and infant." Also present is the machine room time book of the Thomas Clock Company in Thomaston, Conn., dated 1905-1911.
Description:
The Cowdery family of Columbus, Mississippi and Lakeland, Florida included the siblings Mattie J., Sally, Dolly, Lewis, Lester, Walter, and Almarine Cowdery Slade. Lester and Lewis Cowdery worked in the business started by their father, the L.L. Cowdery & Co., importers of china, foreign glassware and fancy goods. Kate Light Barlow, who seems to be their sister, was a friend of Henry and Virginia A. Gillum., The Starling family lived in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and included siblings Lewis, George, and Fielding. Fielding died in 1863, and George was a Confederate soldier at Ft. Hudson, Louisiana in 1862. Mary Starling Payne was Virginia's sister-in-law., and Virginia Anne Duffield (often referred to as Jennie) inherited property from George Anthony Nixon, who accumulated a substantial amount of land while acting as land commissioner for the Joseph Vehlein, Lorenzo de Zavala, and David G. Burnet empresario grants in Texas. Virginia's first husband, Lewis Starling, worked as a merchant in Pensacola, Florida during the Civil War, and died of consumption in 1862. They had two children: Kate, who died in 1862, and Willie, who attended the Virginia Military Academy and died while still a young man. Virginia's second husband was Col. Henry Gillum, who researched Nixon's estate in Texas on behalf of his wife.
Subject (Geographic):
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives
Subject (Name):
Cowdery family, Gillum family, and Starling family
Correspondence and property records concerning the Talbot family, primarily Richard Ely Talbot. Correspondence includes circa 80 autograph letters, signed, between Richard Ely Talbot, Anna Louisa Trowbridge Talbot, and their daughters Elizabeth Talbot Anderson and Anna Louisa Talbot Shell while students at Abbot Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, 1865-1867. Topics include the family's ranch in Georgetown, Texas, the Chisholm trail, an outbreak of yellow fever in New Orleans, the Civil War, and Richard Ely Talbot's involvement with the Republican Party. Includes documentation of Richard Ely Talbot's interactions with the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, including the impressment of ten of Talbot's mules and an interrogation about transactions involving enemy property, 1862-1864. Property records include deeds, land grants, surveys, and titles concerning land in Texas relating to Richard Ely Talbot, Thomas Talbot, John W. Talbot, Joseph W. Talbot, Elias W. Talbot, Peter Kinsey, and Sarah Gilleland Kinsey Tone, 1838-1877. Includes three manuscript and printed maps of the Talbots' properties in Texas. Collection also includes report cards from the Abbot Academy for Anna Louisa Talbot Shell and Elizabeth Talbot Anderson. Genealogical material consists of five issues of the Williamson Country Genealogical Society newsletter containing articles about the Talbots and Andersons.
Description:
Box 1: correspondence between Richard Ely Talbot, Anna Louise Trowbridge, and their daughters, genealogical materials, and report cards. and The Talbot family was an American family of ranchers and politicians in Texas, Michigan, and Massachusetts. Richard Ely Talbot (1816-1884) was a rancher and cowboy in Georgetown, Texas who was involved in the Texas Republican Party and Texas Reconstruction Convention, including serving as a delegate to the Texas Republican Party Convention, 1868-1869. Talbot married Anna Louisa Trowbridge in Louisiana in 1846; they moved to Texas in 1852 and were among the earliest settlers in the area between Georgetown and Circleville. The Talbots had six children, including Elizabeth Talbot Anderson (1847-1900) and Anna Louisa Talbot Shell (1848- ). Richard Ely Talbot's siblings included John W. Talbot (1805-1876), Joseph W. Talbot (1815-1886), Elias W. Talbot (1820-1876), and Thomas Talbot (1818-1885), who was a politician and governor of Massachusetts, 1874-1875 and 1879-1880.
Subject (Geographic):
Georgetown (Tex.)--Economic conditions--19th century, Georgetown (Tex.)--Social life and customs, and Texas--Politics and government--1865-1950
Subject (Name):
Abbot Academy, Shell, Anna Louisa, 1848-, Talbot family, Talbot, Anna Louisa Trowbridge,-1869, Talbot, Elias W., 1820-1876, Talbot, John W., 1805-1876, Talbot, Joseph W., 1815-1886, Talbot, Richard Ely, 1816-1884, Talbot, Thomas, 1818-1886, and Tone, Sarah Gilleland Kinsey, 1797-1857
Correspondence, documents, writings, printed material, photographs and financial papers relating to the Cowdery, Gillum, and Starling families. The correspondence, which consists primarily of family news, includes letters written during the Civil War, with an account of the evacuation of Pensacola written by Lewis Cowdery, and a letter from a Union soldier named Henry (possibly Henry Gillum) on board ship to New Orleans in 1863. There are two letters written from Texas by Virginia and Henry Gillum, one referring to an accident on board a steamer, another referring to "interests" there, and one letter to Lewis Starling from Missouri in July, 1858, about land in Hannibal. and The collection includes several items that aren't obviously related to the Cowdery, Gillum, or Starling families. There is a Confederate account book kept by Lt. Commander Joseph B. Goodwin, Company F, 16th Virginia Regiment, used to track of purchases of clothing, with lists at the back of returned men reported as deserted, and men who have been discharged, died, and killed. There are also morning reports of Captain G. Alexander, Assistant Provost Marshal, Eastern District dated November-December 1863, listing men arrested, and including Julia Ann Cheek and C. Cheek, a "negro woman and infant." Also present is the machine room time book of the Thomas Clock Company in Thomaston, Conn., dated 1905-1911.
Description:
The Cowdery family of Columbus, Mississippi and Lakeland, Florida included the siblings Mattie J., Sally, Dolly, Lewis, Lester, Walter, and Almarine Cowdery Slade. Lester and Lewis Cowdery worked in the business started by their father, the L.L. Cowdery & Co., importers of china, foreign glassware and fancy goods. Kate Light Barlow, who seems to be their sister, was a friend of Henry and Virginia A. Gillum., The Starling family lived in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and included siblings Lewis, George, and Fielding. Fielding died in 1863, and George was a Confederate soldier at Ft. Hudson, Louisiana in 1862. Mary Starling Payne was Virginia's sister-in-law., and Virginia Anne Duffield (often referred to as Jennie) inherited property from George Anthony Nixon, who accumulated a substantial amount of land while acting as land commissioner for the Joseph Vehlein, Lorenzo de Zavala, and David G. Burnet empresario grants in Texas. Virginia's first husband, Lewis Starling, worked as a merchant in Pensacola, Florida during the Civil War, and died of consumption in 1862. They had two children: Kate, who died in 1862, and Willie, who attended the Virginia Military Academy and died while still a young man. Virginia's second husband was Col. Henry Gillum, who researched Nixon's estate in Texas on behalf of his wife.
Subject (Geographic):
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives
Subject (Name):
Cowdery family, Gillum family, and Starling family