Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 197 Collections and/or Records:
Joy and Beers families papers
00-1975-04-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1975-04-0
Scope and Contents
Papers related to the Joy and Beers families consisting of genealogical tables and family records, news clippings and obituaries, correspondence (six are sympathy letters written at the death of Katie Palmer Joy at age 26 in childbirth), and other documents. Family members include Jane Joy Burgess, Jane Ellen Joy, Lewis Beers Joy, and Belle Radcliffe Laverack. These families primarily lived in New York State. Walter Joy (1810-1863) and Jane Ellen Radcliffe were married on January 22, 1833...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1859-1935; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1975
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Lucy Flower Karl papers
00-1971-44-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1971-44-0
Scope and Contents
Papers of Lucy Flower Karl (1870-1958), consisting of correspondence, ephemera, a photograph, and other documents. Lucy Karl was married to William C. Karl, and the papers include items related to her 13-year-old son William Raymond Karl, who had the unfortunate distinction of being Litchfield's first motor vehicle fatality in 1915. William C. Karl was one of seven Karl brothers who came to Litchfield with their parents, Peter and Wilhelmina Hudel Karl, in the 1880s. William died in 1903....
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1896-1930; Other: Date acquired: 01/03/1971
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Dwight C. Kilbourn collection
1929-18-0
Collection
Identifier: 1929-18-0
Scope and Contents
The Dwight C. Kilbourn collection (1929-18-0, .83 linear feet) consists of a wide range of Litchfield, Conn., historical materials collected by Kilbourn, some of which relate to him and other Kilbourns, particularly his distant cousin Eliada Kilbourn (1809-1883) and Eliada’s family, and many that do not. Of particular interest are research files Dwight Kilbourn assembled regarding the involvement of Litchfield men in the American Revolutionary War and the American Civil War. The collection...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1801-1920; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1929
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Dwight C. Kilbourn letter
00-1986-01-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1986-01-0
Scope and Contents
Dwight C. Kilbourn writes to Mr. Kingsbury about a visit and about Kilbourn's lack of knowledge about the Headquarters section of Litchfield.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1910 Aug 15; Other: Date acquired: 07/01/1986
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Myron E. Kilbourn letter
00-2010-288-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-288-0
Scope and Contents
Kilbourn writes to the friends of the Library Association from Alexandria, Va., during the Civil War about heading for the front soon, being a soldier, health, and weather. Photocopy.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1862 Dec 28; Other: Date acquired: 12/09/2011
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Elizabeth Cone Kilbourne scrapbook
1996-24-0
Collection
Identifier: 1996-24-0
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook labeled "Mrs. Elizabeth Kilbourn" on the cover containing news clippings chiefly concerning her husband Payne Kenyon Kilbourne and numerous members of the Kilbourn family. Some of the clippings are Payne's articles and poetry. Hand-written poems by Payne are loose in the scrapbook, as are family photographs, their daughter Julia's writing book, drawings, engravings, correspondence, and advertising cards and other ephemera. There is also a draft of articles and a list of members...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1840s-1894; Other: Date acquired: 11/07/1996
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
John A. King letter
00-2010-197-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-197-0
Scope and Contents
Letter to N. B. Morse, Edward W. Fiske, James Humphrey, C. P. Smith, and Edward Driggs indicating that King cannot attend the dinner to be given for Henry C. Murphy.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1857 Jul 29
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Landon and Howd families papers
1999-18-0
Collection
Identifier: 1999-18-0
Scope and Contents
The papers of the Landon and Howd families of Salisbury, Conn., including bonds, correspondence, deeds, estate records, and other items. Family members reflected in the papers include James Landon (1744-1813) and his son James (1770-1833), Henry E. Howd, (1799-1878; son-in-law of the younger James Landon), and Henry E. Howd's son Frank E. Howd (1849-1933).John Landon (1720-1810) was one of four brothers who moved to Litchfield, Conn., with their father, James, in the 1720s. John...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1795-1936; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1999
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Giovanni Lega letter
00-2010-194-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-194-0
Scope and Contents
A letter from Giovanni Lega to "sir," in which paintings and frames are discussed.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: undated
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
H. Bertram Lewis letters
00-1951-27-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1951-27-0
Abstract
Two letters to John H. Hubbard regarding Indian trails in Litchfield, Conn.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1918
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society