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Simon Gratz autograph collection
This autograph collection was created by Simon Gratz, starting in his late teens. A myriad of documents are included and represent Gratz’s philosophy of collecting and the many relationships he formed with other collectors in the United States and abroad. Contained here are autographed letters, lega...
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| Collection: | Simon Gratz Autograph Collection |
| Collection Number: | 0250B |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to finding aid |
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Processing Information: The processing of this collection primarily included rehousing the material. The collection maintains its original arrangement. |
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130.4 Linear feet ; 326 boxes |
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This collection is open for research. |
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This autograph collection was created by Simon Gratz, starting in his late teens. A myriad of documents are included and represent Gratz’s philosophy of collecting and the many relationships he formed with other collectors in the United States and abroad. Contained here are autographed letters, legal documents, and artifacts from many prominent and well known figures and personalities in the arts, religion, government, education, and military. While there are some non-substantive letters written to Gratz much of the collection includes correspondence between prominent women and men across classes, professions, and nationalities. The collection dates from the sixteenth century to the early twentieth century. Besides date range, this collection differs slightly from the Simon Gratz collection (#250A) in its alphabetical arrangement, compared to the arrangement by categories/subjects (Case) in #250A. One other distinction in this collection are the personal letters and papers of Simon Gratz and family members, where the other has very few. The collection is alphabetically arranged. This collection is particularly rich in papers of Protestant American clergymen. It includes letters, 1795-1820, of American Presbyterian clergy addressed to William Wallace Woodward, a Philadelphia bookseller and manuscript sermons (some of which are included in the Gratz Sermon Collection) of such clergymen as Abiel Abbot, Lyman Beecher, Nathaniel Chauncey, Timothy Edwards, Ashbel Green, Levi Hart, Alexander Murray, James Muir, William B. Sprague, Solomon Stoddard, Samuel Willard, and others. The collection includes letters and portraits of many other prominent Americans and Europeans: Theodosia Burr Alston; Governor Edmund Andros, 1677; Susanna Anthony, 1770; General John Armstrong, 1769; John Jacob Astor, 1842; Governor Jonathan Belcher; John Bradford, 1720; George Bryan; Dewitt Clinton, 1822; George Clinton; George Clymer; William Dearborn, 1808; John Dickinson; William Duer, 1786; Benjamin Eastburn, 1734; William Eaton, 1805; Edward Everett, 1827; Albert Gallatin, 1801-1811; Joseph Galloway, 1769; Adolphus W. Greely; Jonathan Greenleaf, 1843; Alexander Hamilton; William Harrison, 1786; Patrick Henry; Samuel Hopkins, 1770; Jared Ingersoll; Washington Irving; John Jay, 1822; Dyre Kearney, 1787; James Kent; Francis Scott Key; John Laurens, 1778; Thomas Mifflin, 1791; John P. Montgomery, 1776; Gouverneur Morris, 1806; Isaac Morris; John Nicholson, 1795; Samuel Otis, 1789; James Parker, 1793; Edmund Pendleton; Richard and Thomas Penn, 1755; Peyton Randolph; Joseph Reed, 1812; Colonel James Rodney, 1764; Henry De Saussure, 1787; Theodore Sedgwick, 1799; Jonathan D. Sergeant, 1784; J. Bayard Smith, 1778; William Tweed, 1871; John Tyler, Jr., 1842; James Wadsworth, 1780; John F. Zubley, 1767; and others. Other miscellaneous items are: manuscripts of James Monroe, 1794-1828, on the French Revolution; instructions to James Monroe by Edmund Randolph, 1794-1796; Aaron Burr letters, 1775-1811; Erick Bollmann, 1810; William Eaton, 1802; Joseph Bonaparte correspondence, 1815-1827; parchment deeds, 1691-1786, of Pennsylvania and New Jersey; Judge John Cleves Symmes to Captain Dayton on settlements west of Ohio and on the Miami, 1789; papers relating to Indian affairs, 1789-1806; Irish Revolution papers, 1806-1813; Mexico and South America, 1785-1843; United States Bank, 1805; Bank of North America, 1813-1814; Canadian Rebellion, 1837-1838; political relations between France and America, 1783-1793; letters of writers, artists, scholars, scientists, physicians, apothecaries, penologists, reformers, ca. 1711-1910, including Joseph Lancaster’s correspondence on education, James Rumsey’s manuscripts and printed material, 1788, concerning his invention of the first steam vessel, and other papers bearing on intellectual trends. |