These letters and papers include a memorandum book (1795-1827), lectures on botany and medicine, genealogical materials, committee reports from Columbia College, speeches, minutes of the New York Horticultural Society (1822-1828), letters to Sir James Edward Smith (1817-1826), a receipt book of Alexander Hosack (1781-1801), and diaries of Thomas K. Wharton (1830-1862).

The Noah Webster papers consist of correspondence, writings by Webster on various topics, diaries, and miscellaneous papers. Correspondence, 1776-1843, and diaries, 1784-1820, relate to his career as lawyer, educator, editor of newspapers, federalist agitator, lexicographer, and etymologist. Included are his writings on banking, the history of political parties, federalism, and suffrage. Also, papers concerning his American Dictionary of the English Language, Amherst College, epidemics, etymology, legislation in Connecticut, amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and other matters.

The journal contains an account of a visit to the Indians of New York State.

From the original manuscript held at the Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College. Contains drafts of this Civilization of the Indian Natives (Philadelphia, 1830). Described by George S. Snyderman, "Halliday Jackson's Journal of a Visit Paid to the Indians of New York (1806)," APS Proc. 101 (1957): 565.

These papers include 140 pages of letters, council minutes of Indian conferences, petitions, and speeches, concerning the activities of the New York Assembly and the Six Nations, principally for 1745-1747. Also contains a 200-page addendum of papers of the Van Shack family, pertaining to the same subjects. Table of contents included.

Selections from 31 volumes from the Massachusetts State Archives, these materials include letters and papers from the official records of provincial Massachusetts. Many relate to the Six Nations in New York, and to French activity and influence among the Indians. Contains references to the treaties at Albany with the Six Nations, the western boundary of Massachusetts, the Stockbridge removal, and the sack of Deerfield by Caughnawaga Mohawks.

The journal includes notes on travels to New York and Michigan, conversations, and Indian councils. Also included is a record of letters received from Indians. Table of contents.

This collection of correspondence, accounts, and certificates primarily concerns the China trade of Talbot, Olyphant & Co., New York, and Olyphant & Co. and Gordon & Talbot, both of Canton, China. The papers also concern their missionary endeavors in China and the vicinity.

This correspondence, by and relating to Young, was collected by John G. Gazley for his biography "The Life of Arthur Young, 1741-1820" (APS Memoirs 97; Philadelphia, 1973).

Physician John Wakefield Francis (1789-1861) cofounded the New York Academy of Medicine. He served as the second president of the Academy, taught at Bellevue Hospital, wrote medical texts, and edited professional journals. Collection consists of correspondence, financial papers, writings, by-laws and minutes, and related papers of Francis and others. Correspondence of others include letters to Francis's associates and family members. Financial documents, 1798-1851, are accounts, receipts, receipt books, checks, and collection notices. Writings are speeches, lectures and notes of Francis and others. Also, minutes and by-laws, 1807-1810, of the Medical and Surgical Society of the University of New York State; and printed material.

These papers include correspondence and reports of proceedings concerning Indian affairs. Miscellaneous materials, mostly 1778-1791, of Timothy Pickering, Henry Knox, William Hardenburgh, John Taylor and others. Includes 94 pages, account of meeting with the Indians at Fort Stanwix, New York, June 1, 1790, and 47 pages of miscellaneous material.

These records represent volumes 21-22 of the Society's archive of documents relating to North America, and includes letters to and from Pennsylvanians, or the missionaries sent there, and a few from New York, and from Massachusetts.

These forty-five letters concern legal and political matters, Indian languages and linguistics, philological matters, and the American Philosophical Society.

Correspondence to and from John Bartram and his son, William Bartram.

Correspondence to and from John Bartram and his son, William Bartram.

This collection contains correspondence, diaries, reports, letters, conference minutes, church registers and catalogs, and other papers documenting the work of Moravian missionaries among the Indians of North America. Includes language materials in Delaware, Creek, Mohawk, and Onondaga; and materials pertaining to the Chippewa, Cherokee, Nanticoke, and Shawnee. Materials cover New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Ontario.

Fenton compiled this reel from several collections for his research on American Indians. From the George Chalmers Collection (1750-1775) are correspondence, intelligence reports, and records of treaties concerning the Indians of the Ohio Valley. The writers include Thomas Cresap, Thomas Hutchins, and Sir William Johnson. There are also papers from the Philip John Schuyler papers (1710-1797) and one item from the Withrop, Wait, and Leverett Memorial (1709).

These selections include letters, bills, accounts, receipts, memoranda, and official communications and documents relating to the Iroquois in New York state, selected from volumes 6-15 of O'Reilly's collections, "Mementos of western settlement," together with copies of documents from the American State Papers, etc. Included are letters of Phelps, Gorham, Chapin, Brant, Kirkland, Knox, Pickering, Irvine, and Morris. Many manuscripts appear to be from the papers of General Israel Chapin, an Indian agent.

This collection includes family letters of the Eccles, Jones, and Lanneau families of North Carolina and Florida. Some letters were written from Philadelphia (and speak of the Peale family), New York, and New Haven.