Box 6

Letters: Genoa, to Louise Imogen Guiney, 1861-1920, Auburndale, Mass.

2 ALsS. Exchanges photographs with both "friend Imogen" and F. Holland Day. May letter conveys information her sister Clara has gathered about Fanny Keats. "She . . . lives in Madrid, with her eldest son and daughter . . . She is perfectly well in health, body, and mind . . . Dislikes her portrait being taken."

Letters: Nice Maritime, Genoa, Stuttgart, to various correspondents

10 ALsS. Correspondents include Mrs. Edward Tagart, Roberts Bros., Miss Lizzie Dickinson, Francis James Child, and G. W. J. Rolfe. 4 letters to Mrs. Tagart are written as to an intimate and concern mutual friends, lectures, and petitions. Letters to Child have much on Shakespeare and the trials of an author as well as much detail on Clark's life in Genoa.

"Minutes from my conversation with General Clarkson last evening": New York, N.Y.

AMs. Description, written by an unknown party, of Clarkson's reminiscences concerning the American Revolutionary War, particularly his service under the command of Benedict Arnold.

Letter: to John Enery, Esq., Dublin

ALS. Discusses legal and business matters.

Letter: Woodstown, N.J., to Henry W. Green, 1804-1876, Trenton, N.J.

ALS. Clemson discusses with Green the upcoming Whig Party convention and the party's possible candidates for vice president. "When we look at the various discordant interests of so extensive a country it is not possible to select any man who will suit all. We must therefore look for such a man as will add most strength, when we most need it--Frelinghuysen is my own first choice."

Letter: Washington, D.C., to Mahlon Dickerson, 1770-1853

ALS. Asks that Dickerson, Secretary of the U.S. Navy, check to see whether "Georgia has her quota of midshipmen now in the service of the country" as he has recently received an application from a Georgia constituent.

Autograph

Promissory note: Philadelphia, Pa.

DS. Promissory note for the sum of 300 pounds owed to Nicholas Waln by Josiah and Samuel Coates. Schedule of payments is noted on back of document; final payment was made May 16, 1800.

Documents related to Pennsylvania Hospital

1 ALS and 3 DS. Documents include 2 printed reports of expenses incurred "towards erecting additional buildings to the Pennsylvania Hospital," a letter to Richard Richardson regarding the procedures for having a young woman committed, and a receipt for 36 weeks' board of Frances McQueen at the hospital.

Financial papers: London and Philadelphia, Pa.

ADsS. Collection consists mostly of bills sent by Bagshaw & Sons, publishers of Cobbett's Political Register, to Cobbett himself together with Cobbett's own promissory notes to the firm dated London 1807 and 1811. Includes a receipt in Cobbett's hand dated 19 July 1798, Philadelphia, to Mr. Foster "for the sum of five dollars and a half for papers sent him during the late session of Congress."