Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 197 Collections and/or Records:
Lee Losee collection
00-1996-21-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1996-21-0
Scope and Contents
Philo H. Cummings to Miss J. A. Edmonds, Aug. 3, 1859.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1859; Other: Date acquired: 01/08/1996
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Erastus Lyman papers
00-1982-16-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1982-16-0
Scope and Contents
The Erastus Lyman papers (1982-16-0, .21 linear feet) relate to merchant Erastus Lyman (1773-1854) of Goshen, Conn., members of the family of his wife, Abigail Starr Lyman (1778-1855), including her sister Lucretia Starr Root (1770-1858), niece Lucretia Root Brewster (1808-1875), grandnephew Ephraim Starr Brewster (1835-1864), and others. The collection consists of a bill of sale, deeds, accounts, and an inventory of the estate of Hannah Beach Starr (1745-1826), who was the mother of...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1786-1891; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1982
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Evelyn Maddox collection
00-2002-73-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2002-73-0
Scope and Contents
One letter from S. Carl Fisher, president of the Litchfield Enquirer Publishing Co. to "Tete," circa 1930s; photographs of Litchfield High School, 1890-1925, and Litchfield High School students, circa 1921.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1921-circa 1930s; Other: Date acquired: 02/12/2002
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
John W. Mansfield letter
00-2010-260-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-260-0
Scope and Contents
John W. Mansfield writes from New Haven to Charles McNeil of Litchfield, Conn., regarding an account George Steele, deceased, has against McNeil for $24.36.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1860 Nov 10
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Truman Marsh letter
00-1956-31-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1956-31-0
Scope and Contents
Letter from Truman Marsh to Epaphroditus Seymour of Brattleboro, Vt., regarding the death of Seymour's infant.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1831 May 20; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1956
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Gladys Mattson papers
2008-04-0
Collection
Identifier: 2008-04-0
Scope and Contents
The papers of artist and photographer Gladys A. Mattson (1890-1957) of Bantam, Conn., which consist of correspondence, photographs, drawings, stencils, patterns and other documents. Mattson was a daughter of Alfred Mattson and Emma Coe Mattson. By 1912 or so she was tinting photographs. The collection contains three Wallace Nutting prints which contain Mattson's signature on the back. The circumstances under which she worked for Nutting have not been determined, although she would have been...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1912-1950; Other: Date acquired: 04/01/2010
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Muriel Hopkins McLauchlin collection of papers related to the Hopkins family
00-2010-186-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-186-0
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, genealogies, notes, and genealogical tables regarding the Hopkins family gathered by Muriel Hopkins McLauchlin probably for the publication of her booklet, "The Hopkins Family: Litchfield and Northfield." The documents also relate to the Hill and Alfred families.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1920s-1981
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Fanny Coit McLean letters
00-1952-36-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1952-36-0
Scope and Contents
Three letters from Fanny Coit McLean (1852- ) sent from Jacksonville, Fla., to her mother Frances Olmsted Coit (1829-1909). Fanny Coit married Rev. Allan McLean (1837-1882) of the First Congregational Church of Litchfield in 1878. McLean's health was not good and he and Mrs. McLean went to Jacksonville in Feb., 1882, in hopes of a recovery. During this time, Mrs. McLean wrote three letters to her mother, signed with "Kitty," in which she discussed their activities, news of family and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1882; Other: Date acquired: 05/04/1953
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Harlan G. Mendenhall papers
2011-21-0
Collection
Identifier: 2011-21-0
Scope and Contents
The Harlan G. Mendenhall papers (2011-21-0, .43 linear feet) consist of correspondence and historical and biographical notes assembled by Mendenhall for use in writing a history of Litchfield. The collection also includes an Oct. 3, 1839, letter from the Committee of the Chapel Street Congregational Church inviting John Colton to become pastor and an Apr. 1846 unsigned letter to Horace Greely of The New York Tribune regarding the next president of Yale...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1839-1933; Other: Date acquired: 03/04/2012
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Sophia Miles papers
00-2010-245-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-245-0
Scope and Contents
Letters written to Sophia Miles in Paris, France, from Louisa Amelia de Maisonville, Lucy Dickinson, and Rouault de Maisonville; also, coats of arms of William Miles and W. Gale.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1818-1819
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society