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Caleb Cushing Papers

A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress

Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
2006
Revised 2010 March

Contact information:

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LC Online Catalog record:

http://lccn.loc.gov/mm78017509

Prepared by John McDonough, Esther Coles, Woodrow Hamilton, and Bessie Waters
Revised and expanded by Nan Ernst

Collection Summary

Title: Caleb Cushing Papers Span Dates: circa 1785-1906 Bulk Dates: (bulk 1820-1878) ID No.: MSS17509 Creator: Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879

Language: Collection material in English Extent: 120,000 items ; 420 containers plus 4 oversize ; 190 linear feet ; 9 microfilm reels Location: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Summary: United States cabinet official and representative from Massachusetts, army officer, diplomat, and lawyer. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, journals, writings, speeches, notes, notebooks, legal file, business papers, biographical material, newspaper clippings, printed material, maps, photographs, and other papers reflecting Cushing's role in national and international affairs of the mid-nineteenth century.

Selected Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.

People

Bancroft, George, 1800-1891--Correspondence. Buchanan, James, 1791-1868. Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893--Correspondence. Campbell, James, 1812-1893--Correspondence. Choate, Rufus, 1799-1859--Correspondence. Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879. Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889--Correspondence. Dobbin, James C. (James Cochran), 1814-1857--Correspondence. Everett, Edward, 1794-1865--Correspondence. Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893--Correspondence. Guthrie, James, 1792-1869--Correspondence. Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875. Lieber, Francis, 1800-1872--Correspondence. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Marcy, William L. (William Learned), 1786-1857--Correspondence. McClelland, Robert, 1807-1880--Correspondence. McCulloch, Hugh, 1808-1895--Correspondence. Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869--Correspondence. Pike, Albert, 1809-1891--Correspondence. Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 1806-1878--Correspondence. Rose, John, Sir, 1820-1888--Correspondence. Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872--Correspondence. Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866--Correspondence. Taney, Roger Brooke, 1777-1864--Correspondence. Tyler, John, 1790-1862--Correspondence. Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852--Correspondence. Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892--Correspondence.

Organizations

Democratic Party (U.S.) Geneva Arbitration Tribunal. Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office. United States and Mexican Claims Commission. United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Attorney General.

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Whig Party (U.S.)

Subjects

Canals--Panama. Diplomatic and consular service, American. Land speculation. Mexican War, 1846-1848. Political parties--United States.

Places

China--Foreign relations--United States. Colombia--Foreign relations--United States. Great Britain--Foreign relations--United States. Massachusetts--Politics and government--1775-1865. Mexico--Foreign relations--United States. Panama Canal (Panama)--History. Spain--Foreign relations--United States. United States--Foreign relations--China. United States--Foreign relations--Colombia. United States--Foreign relations--Great Britain. United States--Foreign relations--Mexico. United States--Foreign relations--Spain. United States--Foreign relations. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Claims. United States--Politics and government--19th century.

Titles

North American review.

Occupations

Army officers. Cabinet officers. Diplomats. Lawyers. Representatives, U.S.--Massachusetts.

Administrative Information

Provenance

The papers of Caleb Cushing, lawyer, author, United States representative from Massachusetts, envoy to China, Colombia, and Spain, brigadier general in the Mexican War, attorney general of the United States, and senior counsel for the United States at the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration, were given to the Library of Congress by his niece, Margaret W. Cushing, 1935-1942. Several small additions have been acquired through purchase, gift, and transfer, 1906-1995.

Processing History

The papers of Caleb Cushing were initially arranged and described between 1961 and 1962. Additional material was incorporated into the collection in 1984 and in 1999, and the finding aid was revised in 2006.

Additional Guides

A description of the Caleb Cushing Papers appeared in the Report of the Librarian of Congress, 1936, p. 33. The provenance of Cushing's papers may be found in Claude M. Fuess, The Life of Caleb Cushing (1923): vol. 1, pp. vii-viii; vol. 2, pp. 399-400.

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Copyright Status

The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Caleb Cushing is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).

Access and Restrictions

The papers of Caleb Cushing are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.

Microfilm

A microfilm edition of correspondence, Dec. 1856-Dec. 1860, is available on eight reels and the treaty of Wang Hiya (Wanghsia), 1844, is available on one reel. Consult reference staff in the Manuscript Division concerning availability for purchase or interlibrary loan. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the microfilm edition as available.

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, Caleb Cushing Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Biographical Note

  • Date
  • Event

  • 1800, Jan. 17
  • Born, Salisbury, Essex County, Mass.

  • 1817
  • Graduated, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

1820-1821 1821
Tutored mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Admitted to bar and commenced practice of law, Newburyport, Mass. Edited local newspaper

Began contributing to North American Review

  • 1824
  • Elected representative to Massachusetts general court

Married Caroline Elizabeth Wilde (died 1832)

  • 1825
  • Elected Massachusetts state senator

1829-1830 1834-1842 1843
Traveled to England, France, and Spain U.S. representative from Massachusetts, Whig party Nominated three times as secretary of the treasury but rejected by the Senate

  • Commissioner to China; negotiated Treaty of Wang Hiya
  • 1843-1844

  • 1846
  • Traveled to Great Lakes region and along St. Croix River

Reelected representative to Massachusetts general court

1847-1848 1850
Brigadier general, Mexican War Reelected representative to Massachusetts general court

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  • 1851
  • Elected first mayor of Newburyport, Mass.

  • 1852
  • Appointed associate justice, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts

  • Attorney general of the United States
  • 1853-1857

  • 1857
  • Reelected representative to Massachusetts general court

  • Named permanent president of the National Democratic Convention, Charleston, S.C.
  • 1860

  • 1860
  • Sent as President James Buchanan's personal representative to Charleston, S.C., to delay passing

of ordnance of secession

1865-1870

1868
Counsel for the United States before the British and American Joint Commission to settle claims by the Hudson's Bay and Puget's Sound companies

Special Minister to Colombia to negotiate a treaty regarding a canal across Isthmus of Panama Appointed agent and counsel by the Mexican government to present claims before the Mexican-
American Claims Commission

  • 1871
  • Appointed counsel for the United States, Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration

  • Minister to Spain
  • 1873-1877

  • 1879, Jan. 2
  • Died, Newburyport, Mass.

Scope and Content Note

The papers of Caleb Cushing (1800-1879) span the period circa 1785-1906 with the bulk of the material dating from 1820

to 1878. The collection includes diaries; journals; general and special correspondence; subject, legal, and financial files; a

speech, article, and book file; and related newspaper clippings and printed matter. There is also an extensive file based on Cushing's land speculation and an additional file with papers that relate to his varied public employments, beginning with the China mission of 1843-1844 and ending with his ministry to Spain, 1873-1877.

The General Correspondence series, constituting approximately one-third of the collection, documents Cushing's life and touches on many of the national and international issues that arose during the middle years of the nineteenth century. The much less voluminous Special Correspondence series includes letters dealing with patronage questions during Cushing's congressional career (1835-1843) and during his service as President Franklin Pierce's attorney general (1853-1857). Social correspondence, autograph requests, bound correspondence, and a small amount of family correspondence complete this series.

Legal and business correspondence is included as part of the extensive Legal File. The Legal File is divided among cases in which Cushing was in some way personally involved and those in which he acted as attorney or consultant. Also in the Legal File, and separately arranged therein, are drafts of Cushing's opinions as attorney general.

Correspondence is also included in the Land Speculation and Related Business Ventures File illustrating Cushing's financial interest in lands located from Maine to Lower California.

The Speech, Article, and Book File has material as disparate as Cushing's fledgling attempts at poetry in 1816 and his philippic against Britain's Sir Alexander Cockburn in The Treaty of Washington (1873). The bulk of this file, however, is made up of drafts and printed copies of Cushing's speeches and addresses and drafts of articles for the North American Review and other publications.

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A Subject File incorporates notes, memoranda, and extracts, largely in Cushing's hand and principally dealing with political topics of the day. Personal Miscellany contains biographical material, early notebooks, commissions, and photographs. Numerous lists and inventories reflect Cushing's reading habits and wide-ranging interests. Much of the Financial File is in small, dated bundles as kept by Cushing. The series of newspaper clippings and printed matter complete the collection.

From an early date Cushing was in correspondence with important figures of his day. Names such as George Bancroft, Rufus Choate, Edward Everett, Jared Sparks, and Daniel Webster appear in the General Correspondence series as early as the 1820s, and in some instances frequently reappear for decades thereafter. A number of letters and notes from John Tyler and Franklin Pierce are found during their terms as president but are not confined to those years. Every member of Pierce's cabinet, including James Campbell, Jefferson Davis, James C. Dobbins, James Guthrie, Robert McClelland, and William L. Marcy, is represented in the 1853-1857 period. Included among the many other prominent correspondents are Benjamin F. Butler, Hamilton Fish, Francis Lieber, Hugh McCulloch, Albert Pike, Gideon Johnson Pillow, Sir John Rose, William Henry Seward, Roger Brooke Taney, and John Greenleaf Whittier.

The Addition includes two items of correspondence. The first item is a printed circular letter dated 1841 from Frederick Franks hand-addressed to Cushing requesting the establishment of national banks and a uniform fiscal policy for the United States. The second is a letter dated 1853 from Cushing to attorney Philip B. Key asking his views on William W. Williamson's conviction for forging bank notes.

Organization of the Papers

The collection is arranged in thirteen series:
•••••••••••••

Diaries, Journals, and Notes, 1827-1844 General Correspondence, 1815-1878 Special Correspondence, 1817-1899 Special Commissions File, 1843-1878 Speech, Article, and Book File, 1816-1877 Subject File Legal File, circa 1785-1886 Land Speculation and Related Business Ventures File, circa 1813-1906 Miscellany, circa 1814-1879 Financial File, 1805-1878 Printed Matter, circa 1820-1878 Addition, 1841-1853 Oversize, 1823-1874

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Description of Series

  • Container
  • Series

BOX 1-2

Diaries, Journals, and Notes, 1827-1844

About sixty small, unbound notebooks and two bound volumes. Arranged chronologically by type of material.

BOX 3-143

General Correspondence, 1815-1878

Letters sent and received. Arranged chronologically or alphabetically by name of correspondent. Undated correspondence includes files for Cushing and Franklin Pierce.
Microfilm edition available of Containers 79-88, Dec. 1856-Dec. 1860. Shelf no. 19,366.

BOX 144-162

Special Correspondence, 1817-1899

Bound copies of selected letters to Cushing, bound correspondence of I. Lowell, and correspondence and related papers of J. N. Cushing, L. B. Cushing, S. Stevens, and others.
Patronage letters are followed by files for invitations, announcements, and requests for autographs. Each file is arranged chronologically.
Microfilm edition available of the treaty of Wang Hiya (Wanghsia), 1844. Shelf no. 21,859.

BOX 163-197

Special Commissions File, 1843-1878

Memoranda, drafts, extracts, official documents, and other material connected with Cushing's many public offices.
Arranged chronologically by title of office or subject and thereunder by type of material or by subject. Correspondence removed unless noted in container list.
Microfilm edition available of the treaty of Wang Hiya (Wanghsia), 1844.

BOX 198-213

Speech, Article, and Book File, 1816-1877

Handwritten drafts, printed copies, and newspaper accounts of Cushing's speeches, articles, and books.
Arranged chronologically by year; poetry separately grouped.

BOX 214-225 BOX 226-330 BOX 226-232 BOX 233-246

Subject File

Notes, memoranda, and extracts relating to a variety of topics of interest to Cushing. Arranged alphabetically by topic.

Legal File, circa 1785-1886

Opinions, briefs, legal documents, drafts, memoranda, notes, printed matter, and correspondence.

Personal Cases, 1830-1878

Cases in which Cushing was himself a party to the suit. Arranged chronologically and thereunder alphabetically by case title or subject.

Attorney General's Office, 1853-1857

Chiefly drafts of Cushing's opinions with official correspondence and memoranda, notes, and other material.
Arranged chronologically by month and year.

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BOX 247-330

Private Practice, circa 1822-1886

Various types of litigation and business ventures in which Cushing acted as attorney or had an interest.
Arranged chronologically and thereunder alphabetically by case title or subject. In some instances, grouped by type of case.

BOX 331-375

Land Speculation and Related Business Ventures File, circa 1813-1906

Correspondence, legal and business papers, financial data, memoranda, notes, maps, newspaper clippings, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by state and thereunder in approximate chronological order or by type of material.

BOX 376-385

Miscellany, circa 1814-1879

Biographical material, notebooks, daybooks, commissions, prints and photographs, literary enterprise, inventories and lists of books, publications, memoranda, notes, and printed extracts.

BOX 376-381

Personal, circa 1814-1879

Biographical material including a portion of C. M. Fuess's manuscript, notebooks, daybooks, commissions, prints and photographs, literary enterprise, inventories and lists of books, publications, memoranda, and notes.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material.

BOX 382-385 BOX 386-392 BOX 393-419

General, circa 1816-1878

Principally memoranda, notes and extracts in Cushing's hand. Arranged chronologically. An undated memoranda file contains documents concerning
Madrid, Spain, and Washington, D.C.

Financial File, 1805-1878

Bills, receipts, accounts, bank books, vouchers, memoranda of expenses, and related material including some financial correspondence.
Arranged in approximate chronological order with the remainder grouped by type of material.

Printed Matter, circa 1820-1878

Newspaper clippings, pamphlets, magazines, and articles,some of which are annotated by
Cushing and others that concern him.
Arranged in two groups as Newspaper Clippings and as Pamphlets, Magazines, and Articles.
Two containers of the newspaper clippings are marked "personal" by Cushing.

BOX 420

Addition, 1841-1853

Two items of correspondence.

BOX OV 1-OV 4

Oversize, 1823-1874

Treaty, watercolor and ink sketches, maps, legal documents, and certificates of appointment, commission, citation, and membership.
Arranged according the series, container, and folder from which the documents were removed. Microfilm edition available of the treaty of Wang Hiya (Wanghsia), 1844. Shelf no. 21,859.

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Container List

  • Container
  • Contents

BOX 1-2

Diaries, Journals, and Notes, 1827-1844

About sixty small, unbound notebooks and two bound volumes. Arranged chronologically by type of material.

BOX 1

1827-1830, diary and notes on travel in Europe and U.S. See also Container 201, Notes, for

Cushing's Reminiscences of Spain

BOX 2

1829-1830, diary circa 1829, journal 1835, Jan., journal 1844, notes on Mexico

BOX 3-143

General Correspondence, 1815-1878

Letters sent and received. Arranged chronologically or alphabetically by name of correspondent. Undated correspondence includes files for Cushing and Franklin Pierce.
Microfilm edition available of Containers 79-88, Dec. 1856-Dec. 1860. Shelf no. 19,366.

BOX 3 BOX 4 BOX 5

1815-1823
(13 folders)
1824-1825
(12 folders)
1826
(12 folders)
1827
Jan.-May
(4 folders)
June-Dec.
(5 folders)
1828

BOX 6

(10 folders)
1829
Jan.-May
(5 folders)
June-Dec.
(4 folders)
1830-1831
(13 folders)
1832-1833
(7 folders)
1834

BOX 7 BOX 8

Jan.-Feb.
(3 folders)

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General Correspondence, 1815-1878

  • Container
  • Contents

BOX 9

Mar.-Oct.
(12 folders)

BOX 10

Nov.-Dec.
(4 folders)
1835
Jan.-Oct.
(11 folders)

BOX 11

Nov.-Dec.
(4 folders)
1836
Jan. 1-Mar. 4
(5 folders)

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    Bridgewater State University Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Journals and Campus Publications Society Spring 2015 Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Vol. 76, No. 1 Massachusetts Archaeological Society Follow this and additional works at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/bmas Copyright © 2015 Massachusetts Archaeological Society This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. BULLETIN OF THE MASSACHUSETTS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY VOLUME 76 (1) SPRING 2015 CONTENTS: Editor’s Note . 1 Testing the Stockpiling and Field Stone Clearing Pile Theories Mary E. Gage. 2 Evidence of a Native American Solar Observatory on Sunset Hill in Gloucester, Massachusetts Mary Ellen Lepionka and Mark Carlotto. 27 The Restorative Hand and Mind of William S. Fowler William E. Moody. 43 Contributors. 48 THE MASSACHUSETTS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, Inc. P. O. Box 700, Middleborough, Massachusetts 02346-0700 THE MASSACHUSETTS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Robbins Museum of Archaeology Web Site address: www.massarchaeology.org phone: (508) 947-9005 email: [email protected] Officers: Philip Graham, Plantsville, CT 06479 President Fred Robinson, Greenville, RI 02828 Vice President Susan Jacobucci, Weymouth MA 02190 Clerk Dan Lorraine, Cranston, RI 02828 Treasurer David DeMello, Mattapoisett, MA 02739 Museum Director Curtiss Hoffman, Ashland, MA 01721 Bulletin Editor Jane Lopes, Middleborough, MA
  • Daniel Hewett's List of Newspapers and Periodicals in the United States in 1828

    Daniel Hewett's List of Newspapers and Periodicals in the United States in 1828

    1934.] Newspapers and Periodicals, 1828 365 DANIEL HEWETT'S LIST OF NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1828 ANIEL HEWËTT, compiler of the list of News- D papers and Periodicals published in the United States in 1828, is a little known figure in American literary life. H!e first appeared in print with "The Traveller's Guide through the United States and Brief Geographical View of the World," published at New York in 1822. He then issued "A New and Complete System of Short hand, or Stenography" published at Philadelphia in 1823. This was followed by a second edition printed at Washington with the same title in 1824, and also the same work with the revised title of "The Self Taught Stenographer; or, A New and Complete System of Short hand," Washington, 1824. In 1825 Èiewett published the second of his several books on American geography and statistics, "The American Traveller; or. National Directory containing an Account of the Roads of the United States, with a Description of the Country, and a Geographical and Statistical View of the United States," a work of 440 pages, printed at Washington. In 1829 he issued at New York "A Gazetteer of the New-England States," a small volume of 84 pages. In the West, Richardson & Lord papers in the American Antiquarian Society is an agreement made by Hewett with that firm, and signed by him February 4, 1830, promising to prepare a complete gazetteer of the United States, for which he was paid $75 on account. Throughout all this period, from 1824 to 1843 or after, he was editing a small magazine entitled "The Universal Traveller," or some- times "The Traveller and Monthly Gazetter," or 366 American Antiquarian Society [Oct., "Philadelphia Traveller and Gazetteer,"¡ which went through a different series of volume numbering and was frequently varied in its contents.
  • (Rocks Bridge) HAER No. MA-103 Spanning the Metrimack River on Bridge Street Haverhillj^Newbury) Essex County Massachusetts

    (Rocks Bridge) HAER No. MA-103 Spanning the Metrimack River on Bridge Street Haverhillj^Newbury) Essex County Massachusetts

    Merrimac Bridge (Rocks Bridge) HAER No. MA-103 Spanning the Metrimack River on Bridge Street Haverhillj^Newbury) Essex County Massachusetts PHOTOGRAPHS WRITTEN HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE DATA Historic American Engineering Record National Park Service Department of the Interior Washington, DC 20013-7127 HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD &/> MERRIMAC BRIDGE (ROCKS BRIDGE) HAER NO. MA-103 Location: Spanning the Merrimack River on Bridge Street, approximately one and three-quarter miles southeast of US-495, between Rocks Village in the City of Haverhill, and West Newbury in the Town of Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts UTM: Haverhill, Mass., Quad. 19/336460/4741510 Date of Construction: 1883 (spans 2,3) 1895 (span 1) 1914 (spans 4,5,6) Structural Type Six-span iron and steel bridge, featuring a rim-bearing through truss swing span Engineer: D.H. Andrews (spans 2,3) Edward S. Shaw (span 1) R.R. Evans and George F. Swain (spans 4,5,6) Fabricator/ Builder: Boston Bridge Works, Boston (spans 1,2,3); McClintic-Marshall & Co., Pittsburgh (spans 4,5,6) Previous Owner Essex County, Massachusetts Present Owner: Massachusetts Department of Public Works, Boston Use: Vehicular highway bridge Significance: The Merrimac Bridge is located on a site which has been utilized as a major river crossing since the seventeenth century. It contains the oldest moveable span identified in the Massachusetts Department of Public Works database, and is still operable under hand power. It also contains one of the earliest riveted metal trusses identified in the state, which is one of the earliest known surviving works of the Boston Bridge Works, a nationally significant bridge- building firm in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
  • Classified Lists

    Classified Lists

    LISTS Page Daily Papers . 1167 Papers having Rotogravure Photo- graphic Supplements . 1189 Sunday Papers (NotSunday Editions of Daily Papers) 1190 Monthly and Weekly Publications of General Circulation . 1191 Religious Publications . 1195 Agricultural Publications . 1205 Class and Trade Publications (Index) 1213 Secret Society Publications . 1283 Foreign Language Publications . 1287 Co-operative Lists . 1301 Alphabetical List . 1303 1167 DAILY NEWSPAPERS A LIST OF ALL DAILY NEWSPAPERS IN THE UNITED STATES ANDTHEIR POSSESSIONS AND THE DOMINION OF CANADA WHICH ARE PUBLISHEDCONTINUOUSLY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, TOGETHER WITH THE POPULATION OF THEPLACES WHERE THEY ARE PUBLISHED, ACCORDING TO OUR LATEST INFORMATION. MORNING PAPERS APPEAR IN ROMAN TYPE. EVENING PAPERS IN ITALIC TYPE. DAILY PAPERS HAVING SUNDAY EDITIONS. WHETHER UNDER THESAME OR DIFFERENT TITLES, ARE MARKED WITH AN ASTERISK (5), THOSE HAVING WEEKLY, SEMI-WEEKLY TIONS. WITH PARALLELS (I). OR TRI-WEEKLY EDI- CIRCULATION FIGURES MARKED " (A.B.C.)" ARE THE TOTAL NET PAIDFIGURES OF SWORN STATEMENTS MADE FOR Tin,. AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS, AND COVER A PERIODOF SIX MONTHS, IN- CLUDING AT LEAST THREE MONTHS OF LAST YEAR. IN A VERY FEWCASES, WHERE NO MORE RECENT STATEMENT WAS RECEIVED, THEY REPRESENT THE TOTAL NETPAID CIRCULATION, AS REPORTED BY AN AUDITOR FROM THE AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. Pop. ALABAMA Circ. Pop. Circ. Albany 12,500 .....Albany -Decatur Daily 3,200Mesa 4,000 Tribune 1.407 Anniston t Miami 9 000 Silver Belt I P. 0. Statement, 2,336 20,000 Star* P. 0. Statement. 6.514Nogales t 3,5/4. Herald 1,320 Birmingham ...........(A.B.C.), 23,560 Oasis *1 200,000 Sunday edit ion (A.B.C.), 20,795Phwnix t 25,000..Arizona Gazette" (A.B.
  • Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820

    Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820

    396 American Antiquarian Society. [Oct., BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS, 1690-1820. PART IV: MASSACHUSETTS (EXCEPT BOSTON) COMPILED BY CLARENCE S. BRIGHAM The following bibliography attempts, first, to present a historical sketch of every newspaper printed in the United States from 1690 to 1820; secondly, to locate all files found in the various libraries of the country; and thirdly, to give a complete check list of the issues in the library of the American Antiquarian Society. The historical sketch of each paper gives the title, the date of establishment, the name of the editor or publisher, the fre- quency of issue and the date of discontinuance. It also attempts to give the exact date of issue when a change in title or name of publisher or frequency of publication occurs. In locating the files to be found in various libraries, no at- tempt is made to list every issue. In the case of common news- papers which are to be found in many libraries, only the longer files are noted, with a description of their completeness. Rare newspapers, which are known by only a few scattered issues, are minutely listed. The check list of the issues in the library of the American Antiquarian Society follows the style of the Library of Con- gress "Check List of Eighteenth Century Newspapers," and records all supplements, missing issues and mutilations. The arrangement is alphabetical by states and towns. Towns are placed according to their present State location. For convenience of alphabetization, the initial "The" in the titles of papers is disregarded. Papers are considered to be of folio size, unless otherwise stated.

  • Early American Newspapers

    Early American Newspaper Microfilm Holdings These newspapers can be found in the microfilm section of the Grosvenor Room Alabama: Blakely Sun 1818-1819 (Blakely, Alabama) Huntsville Gazette 1816 (Claiborne, AL), Alabama Courier 1819 (Cahawba, AL), Alabama Intelligencer 1819-1820, Alabama Watchman 1820 Halcyon , June 2, 1818-November 27, 1820 (St. Stephen’s, AL) Arkansas Arkansas Gazette 1819-1822 (Little Rock, AR) 3 reels Connecticut: American Telegraphe November 5, 1800-June 6, 1804 (Bridgeport, CT) Bridgeport Herald 1805-1806, Bridgeport Advertiser 1806-1809, Bridgeport Gazette 1810-1811 (Bridgeport, CT) Connecticut Intelligencer 1809-1810, Day 1812, Danbury Gazette 1813-1814 (Danbury, CT) Republican Farmer November 16, 1803-December 25, 1805 (Danbury, CT) Fairfield Gazette October 26, 1786-September 23, 1789 (Fairfield, CT) American Mercury January 2, 1821-December 27, 1825 (Hartford, CT) 2 reels Connecticut Courant January 2, 1821-December 27, 1825 & January 3, 1826- December 31, 1827 (Hartford, CT) 3 reels 1 Connecticut Mirror July 10, 1809-December 15, 1832 (Hartford , CT) 6 reels Hartford Gazette January 13, 1794-March 19, 1795 (Hartford, CT) Times January 1,1817-December 28, 1824 (Hartford, CT) 3 reels Litchfield Republican 1821, Miscellany 1821-1822 (Litchfield, CT) Witness 1805-1807, Litchfield Gazette 1808-1809 (Litchfield, CT) Connecticut Spectator 1814-1816 (Middletown, CT) Middlesex Gazette January 4, 1821-December 31, 1828 (Middletown, CT) 4 reels American Telegraphe April 8, 1795-December 28, 1796 (Newfield, CT) Visitor
  • December 1991 AU COURANT

    December 1991 AU COURANT

    Jaargang 6 nr. 4 - december 1991 AU COURANT Driemaandelijks tijdschrift van de Vereniging van Kranten- en Tijdschriftenverzamelaars ISSN - No. 0920 - 4180 (!tbe little StnltOnto. De kleinste krant SllALLEBT NIIWBPAPKR IN Tnl'l WORLD, No, 2. TOIlQUAY: FEBlWAIlY, 181H, CON80LlDA1'lON. ITE}[S. ter wereld : op Mr. E. Plke .llccee,l. Dr. La.t month wlll be rem em· Andrew RB o'w ot the Cnun­ bere,1 tor .ome Ume to come cilloro tor EIiRcomhe. .8 the perlor! wh en the con· 1'he IInclmllltun 1'ollrna, oollclntlon ot the puhllc lonll .... ment reolllte<l In l!.'lO ttlr the ware grootte ! ot Tur'luny, alld the I .. ". ot TO"llIny MeoJlolly ~oclety, Poople at Tor are Il8klng a per cent Corporatloll stockl hecunce aD accoOlpll.hO<l when the propoo.d uranch tact. It WIUI na doubt grat!· ballk 10 t.o he opened In thnt Iylng In a •• n •• that th. locamy. otock wa. toudered tor near· Colon el Appleton hll8 aue­ Iy twlc. over, althongh at ceoded Dr. Blnck aa Pre.I,lellt tho •• me tlmo It mu.~ be 'ot the TortIUa)' Young :lofen', ,uJmltted th at tho net reslllt, Chrlatlnn AS.HclaUon, Onze vereniging verbetert hiermee "" Inr BB It offocta 8 oavlng, Madame Patey hacl 11 maat I•• carcely .o.stl.tactory BB cordlal recepUon at her ta.re­ het Guinness' Book of Records ! ... WilS at fint nntlclpnted. weil concert Rt the Bath But, nUhough the Hnanelal Salooll 011 Satur,ln)', .'nllunry ( Zie blz. 22: deel 8 van de reeks tmn81\ctlon wlII not effect 8 2Oth.