Box 1

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Approximately 30 letters to and from members of and people associated with the Abbey family, an American family apparently resident at least in part in Ontario County, New York, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Identifiable correspondents include Norman W. and Frank Abbey, as well as several members of the McLellan family of Gorham, Maine.

Scope and Contents Approximately 80 pieces from the personal archive of American military engineer and Army officer Henry L. Abbot, related largely to his scientific and military pursuits as a Union General after the American Civil War, dated between 1861 and 1925. The collection is mostly correspondence, but an Army Corps of Engineers handbook on guns, a lithograph, and various documents and notes are also present, including several lists of letters and autographs, likely made by Abbot himself. Notable...

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Approximately 75 items from the personal archive of novelist and playwright Hall Caine, including correspondence, typed and manuscript poems, photographs, sketches, and other ephemera dated between the 1880s and 1920s. The bulk of the collection consists of handwritten letters sent to Caine from correspondents ranging from family members to fellow poets including James Thomson (1834-1882).

Scope and Contents 18 letters from the archive of journalist Sir George Armstrong and his wife Alice Fitzroy dated between 1899 and 1913. Writers include Sir Squire Bancroft, Lord Charles Beresford, Hubert von Herkomer, Walter Hunt Long, Alfred Milner, Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, Sir Percy Moreton Scott, and Hermann Vezin. A 1932 postcard addressed to one William Gaskell at 27 Kew Green, Surrey is also included, but it is unclear how it relates to the Armstrong family. The names of several oil paint colors are...