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Ferris, Isaac, 1818
Collection Overview
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of selected correspondence, documents, and ephemera relating to Stanford or family members or friends. Included are four letters by Stanford to James Chapman (1785-1857), rector; one letter by James Matlock (1775-1840), New Jersey congressman; two Civil War letters by Stanford's son, one (1865) from Fort Pocahontas, Virginia; one letter by Burgess Allison (1753-1827), chaplain of U.S. House of Representatives; and a copy of Stanford's engraved bookplate. There are also signed receipts for payments made by Stanford for such things as house rent, taxes, coal, a coach, several picture frames, subscriptions to the Ladies' Literary Cabinet, and a donation to the Association for the Relief of Respectable, Aged, Indigent Females; a receipt for a portrait of Stanford signed by the New Jersey portrait painter John Paradise (1783-1833); and a ferrotype portrait of "cousin Elizabeth Andrew."
Collection History
- Archival Appraisal Information:
No appraisal information is available.
Access & Use
- Access Restrictions:
The collection is open for research use.
- Conditions for Reproduction and Use:
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Ferris, Isaac; Thomas Naylor Stanford Collection, C1233, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
