MARC Record from Library of Congress

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245 00 $aBancroft-Bliss families papers,$f1788-1928$g(bulk 1815-1875).
300 $a5,800$fitems.
300 $a20$fcontainers plus$a3$foversize.
300 $a1$fmicrofilm reel.
300 $a8.1$flinear feet.
506 0 $aOpen to research.
520 8 $aCorrespondence, diary, legal and financial papers, article and book galleys, invitations, and printed material of members of the Bliss and Bancroft families. Persons represented include George Bancroft (1800-1891), historian, U.S. secretary of the navy, and U.S. minister to England and Germany, whose career is reflected in personal, official, and other papers, and includes an annotated galleys of his article on James K. Polk for Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography; his wife, Elizabeth Davis Bancroft (1803-1886), whose papers relate to conditions in England, France, and Germany during Bancroft's years abroad; her first husband, Alexander Bliss (1792-1827), lawyer and junior partner of Daniel Webster, who is represented by social and business correspondence (including 140 letters, 1816-1827, of Webster); and their son, Alexander Bliss (1827-1896), author, soldier, and secretary of the U.S. legation at Berlin, whose papers concern his service as an officer in the U.S. Quartermaster's Dept. during and after the Civil War and his observations of the social and economic conditions in the U.S. and Europe.
520 8 $aIncludes papers of other family members relating to affairs in Europe, foreign travel, relief work in Italy after World War I, and the schoolwork of children in Latin schools, as well as letters to Alexander Bliss and John Pendleton Kennedy concerning the publication of their Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors (1864). Correspondents associated with Autograph Leaves include William C. Bryant, Ralph W. Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Henry D. Thoreau. Other correspondents include Joseph G. Crane, George William Curtis, Caroline B. Estcomb, George Hardwick, John Hay, Rufus Ingalls, Montgomery C. Meigs, Elizabeth P. Peabody, Charles Sumner, Angelica Van Buren, and Lydia Williams.
530 $aMicrofilm edition of selections available,$dno. 3,476 (13,231).
533 $aMicrofilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division.$bWashington, D.C. :$cLibrary of Congress Photoduplication Service,$d1944.
533 $aIn part, photocopies.$b[S.l.].
541 $cGift,$aElizabeth B. Bliss and William J. A. Bliss,$d1928-1945.
541 $cGift,$aRod Davis,$d1976.
541 $cReproduced with permission,$aElizabeth B. Bliss,$d1944.
541 $cPurchase,$d1946.
544 $3Books, maps, and photographs$etransferred to$aappropriate custodial divisions of the Library of Congress.
546 $aCollection material in English.
555 8 $aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.
600 10 $aBryant, William Cullen,$d1794-1878$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aCrane, Joseph G.$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aCurtis, George William,$d1824-1892$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aEmerson, Ralph Waldo,$d1803-1882$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aEstcomb, Caroline B.$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aHardwick, George$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aHawthorne, Nathaniel,$d1804-1864$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aHay, John,$d1838-1905$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aIngalls, Rufus,$d1818-1893$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aKennedy, John Pendleton,$d1795-1870$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aMeigs, Montgomery C.$q(Montgomery Cunningham),$d1816-1892$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aMelville, Herman,$d1819-1891$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aPeabody, Elizabeth Palmer,$d1804-1894$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aPolk, James K.$q(James Knox),$d1795-1849.
600 10 $aSumner, Charles,$d1811-1874$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aThoreau, Henry David,$d1817-1862$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aVan Buren, Angelica Singleton,$d1816-1877$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aWebster, Daniel,$d1782-1852$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aWilliams, Lydia$vCorrespondence.
600 30 $aBancroft family.
600 30 $aBliss family.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bArmy.$bQuartermaster's Dept.
650 0 $aPrivate schools$zUnited States.
651 0 $aEurope$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aFrance$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aGermany$xForeign relations$zUnited States.
651 0 $aGermany$xSocial conditions
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xForeign relations$zUnited States.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aItaly$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aUnited States$xBiography$xEncyclopedias.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zGermany.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zGreat Britain.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865.
700 1 $aBancroft, Elizabeth Davis,$d1803-1886.$tElizabeth Davis Bancroft papers.
700 1 $aBancroft, George,$d1800-1891.$tGeorge Bancroft papers.
700 1 $aBliss, Alexander,$d1792-1827.$tAlexander Bliss papers.
700 1 $aBliss, Alexander,$dd. 1896.$tAlexander Bliss papers.
852 $aLibrary of Congress$bManuscript Division$eWashington, D.C. 20540 USA$ndcu$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home