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Summary Information
Herbert and Dorothy
Metzger, collectors, family papers,
Herbert,
Metzger
1814-1883.
1.2 cubic
ft.
Abstract:: Business and personal papers of the North and
related families of Walton and Unadilla, New York; included are correspondence
and accounts of Mary North (1814-66) and her first husband, Roswell Wright
(1816-30); estate and guardianship papers; and personal correspondence
(1833-56). Papers of Dr. Henry E. Bartlett, Mary North's second husband, a
physician and Democratic politician, include letters, resolutions, and reports
concerning his chairmanship of the New York State Senate railroad committee;
correspondence, notices, reports, monthly statements, landing permits,
immigrants' bonds, quarantine instructions, and other papers relating to his
appointment as Health Officer of the Port of New York (1854-55); reminiscences
of Bartlett's early life in Massachusetts and Stanstead, Quebec, and his early
years of medical study; his notes of Dr. Valentine Mott's medical lectures
(1826); papers concerning business ventures in which the Wrights or Bartletts
were interested; and numerous bills, accounts, and related items.
1822
Language: Collection material in English
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
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