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Papers 1723-1923
(202 items)
Scope: Scudder is the principal correspondent and collector in the
collection. The majority of the letters are addressed to him and/or
his wife. The miscellaneous documents, clippings, autographs, appear
to have been collected by him, although no particular pattern is
discernible. Subjects are primarily concerned with social matters
and his editing work, in particular the preparation of his biography
of James Russell Lowell. Items are arranged alphabetically by name
of principal person. Of particular note in the collection are the
Rev. Timothy Edward notebooks (1723), the Rev. Samuel Buell sermons
(1746-1747), the single page of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Oak Openings, the draft of the James
Monroe letter to the Committee of Publick Safety respecting Jay’s
Treaty (1794), and the John Greenleaf Whittier letters to Scudder
concerning the preparation of the Riverside edition of his
writings.
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