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An engraving of a fight in Congress Hall in Philadelphia, Feb. 15, 1798 depicting Matthew Lyon fighting Griswold. Also named are Dayton, Speaker and Jonathan W. Condy, Clerk.

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...

Scope and Contents Papers related to William Buell Sprague (1795-1876), clergyman and autograph collector. He was born in Andover, Conn, a son of Benjamin Sprague and Sybil Buell. William Sprague's great grand uncle, John Buell, was one of the original proprietors of Litchfield. After graduation from Yale in 1815, Sprague was a private tutor, studied two years at Princeton theological seminary. In 1819, he was ordained pastor of the First Congregational Church in West Springfield, Mass., remaining there until...

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A steel engraving of the Declaration of Independence by Charles Tappan, Philadelphia in 1829. Notes and changes in the handwriting of Dr. Franklin and Mr. Adams.