Volume containing 13 autograph letters, signed, collected by A. Conger Goodyear and pertaining to Yale alumni or employees, 1742-1846, Elisha Williams, Wethersfield, Connecticut, to Reverend Stephen Williams, 1742 July 5., Richard Sill (Yale 1755), New Haven, Connecticut, to Nathan Hale (Yale 1773), New London, Connecticut, 1775 March 5., William Robinson, New Haven, Connecticut, to Nathan Hale (Yale 1773), Roxbury, Connecticut, 1776 February 19., Timothy Dwight (Yale 1744) to George Washington, 1778 March 8., John C. Calhoun (Yale 1804), Washington, D.C., to M. Sterling, Watertown, New York, 1818 April 1., Noah Webster (Yale 1778), Amherst, Massachusetts, to Jedidiah Morse (Yale 1783, MA 1786), New Haven, Connecticut, 1820 September 27., Samuel F. B. Morse (Yale 1810), Washington, D.C., to Jedidiah Morse (Yale 1783, MA 1786), New Haven, Connecticut, 1821 December 7., Samuel F. B. Morse (Yale 1810), Washington, D.C., to Louis McLane, London, England, 1846 March 24., Eli Whitney (Yale 1792), New Haven, Connecticut, to Lieutenant Drummer, 1814 August 28., Roger Sherman, Eliphalet Dyer (Yale 1740), and Silas Deane (Yale 1758), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to “Col. Butler, Esqr. Denison, Esqr. Judd, & Mr. Slumon,” 1775 August 2., Autograph accounts rendered by Richard Morris (Yale 1748) to Lewis Morris (Yale 1746) in New York, 1765. Noted are multiple purchases of enslaved people, Samuel F. B. Morse (Yale 1810) to David Dudley Field (Yale 1802), undated, Jedidiah Morse (Yale 1783, MA 1786), Charleston, South Carolina, to “Dear Sir,” 1818 June 30., and Theodore Dwight Woolsey (Yale 1820), New Haven, Connecticut, to Benjamin F. Thompson, Hempstead, Long Island, 1841 October 25.
Description:
A. Conger Goodyear (1877-1964) (Yale 1899) succeeded his father, Charles W. Goodyear, as director of the Buffalo Academy of Fine Arts in 1912 and was appointed the first president of the Museum of Modern Art in 1929., In English., Title from volume spine., and Some letters accompanied by typescript summaries or transcriptions.
Subject (Geographic):
New York (State) and New Haven (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Calhoun, John C. 1782-1850. (John Caldwell),, Deane, Silas, 1738-1789., Dwight, Timothy, 1752-1817., Dyer, Eliphalet, 1721-1807., Field, David D. 1781-1867. (David Dudley),, Goodyear, A. Conger 1877-1964. (Anson Conger),, Hale, Nathan, 1755-1776., McLane, Louis, 1786-1857., Morris, Lewis, 1726-1798., Morris, Richard, 1730-1810., Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826., Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872., Robinson, William, 1754-1825., Sherman, Roger, 1721-1793., Sill, Richard, 1755-1790., Thompson, Benjamin F. 1784-1849. (Benjamin Franklin),, Washington, George, 1732-1799., Webster, Noah, 1758-1843., Whitney, Eli, 1765-1825., Williams, Elisha, 1694-1755., Williams, Stephen, 1693-1782., Woolsey, Theodore Dwight, 1801-1889., and Yale University. Alumni.
