Box 37

Scope and Contents

Approximately 130 pieces of correspondence sent to British politician Aneurin Williams between 1874 and 1934 from various personalities in the arts and politics, including historian, novelist, and editor J.A. Froude, German philologist Kuno Meyer, and Sir Edward Augustus Bond, principal Librarian of the British Museum. A curatorial file compiled by Scheetz is also included.

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Approximately 20 letters sent to British philanthropist and educational writer Dawson William Turner between 1849 and 1884. Correspondents include scholar E.H. Plumptre, cleric H.R. Haweis, and the English divine George Trevor, with whom he discusses temperance and the political ills of the country. Also included is a lengthy and wide-ranging correspondence with classical scholar and clergyman James Gylby Lonsdale, comprising seven letters and two poems written to Turner.

Scope and Contents 37 legal documents, mostly manuscript but some partially printed, almost all generated from the Courts of Woodstock, Windsor County, Vermont. The documents pertain to a number of legal matters, largely debt collection, land transfers, and appeals. The majority are signed by clerk of the court Major Benjamin Swan (1762–1839), a significant figure in Vermont history: Swann was a merchant, banker, and Federalist politician, and held the posts of Justice of the Peace, Postmaster, and Vermont...