z41.a936 1582 in spc reading room 1941) document 06-02

Autographs, Original documents, and Primary source material Collection

6 boxes Z41.A936 1582 in SpC Reading Room

Name Type Date Notes

Abbott, Keene (1876-1941)

note 1920 author & critic for Omaha World; wrote Melody in Silver

Adams, John (1735 -1826)

document 06-02-1798 U.S. President

Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848)

note 12-2-1843 U.S. President

Agassuz, Elizabeth Cabot (1822-1907)

letter 09-20-1898 educator and writer

Ainsworth, William Harrison (1805-1882)

letter 04-20-1880 English historical novelist

Alexander, Joshua W. (1852-1936)

note 12-16-1920 U.S. Secretary of Commerce

Allen, Florence Ellinwood (1884-1966)

note undated first woman on the Ohio Supreme Court (1922)

Allen, Florence Ellinwood (1884-1966)

title page undated

Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence (1836-1912)

telegram 03-18-1907 Dutch classicist painter

Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence (1836-1912)

telegram 02-10-1908

Andrews, Elisha Benjamin (1844-1917)

letter 03-09-1907 economist and educator

Anthony, Susan Brownell (1820-1906)

letter 10-17-1902

Anthony, Susan Brownell (1820-1906)

letter 10-25-1887 suffragist

Archer, Frederic (1838-1901)

letter 10-06-1900 organist

Arditi, Luigi (1822-1903)

note 12-15-1893 Italian violinist and composer

Artois, Philippine letter 06-06-1915 lecturer Augustine, John (1789-1871)

document 03-04-1824 Sheriff of Stark County; General 1812 War; state legislator; educator

Bailey, John (1730-1810)

signature 05-04-1810 Lieutenant-Colonel of the Plymouth regiment in the American Revolution

Bailey, L.A. note undated

Autographs, Original documents, and Primary source material Collection 6 boxes

Z41.A936 1582 in SpC Reading Room

Name Type Date Notes Baird, Spencer Fullerton (1823-1887)

letter 01-15-1880 naturalist; helped establish National Museum at the Smithsonian

Baker, Newton Diehl (1871-1937)

letter 08-02-1911


letter 10-06-1937


letter 01-17-1933 Mayor of Cleveland, U.S. Secretary of War


letter 07-17-1931


letter 09-18-1919


letter 03-31-1917


letter 04-27-1916


letter 05-12-1915


letter 05-06-1912


letter 02-22-1912 second letter, same date


letter 02-22-1912


letter 12-09-1911


letter 09-19-1911


note 11-12-1911


letter 07-06-1911


letter 07-03-1911


letter 06-26-1911


note 05-04-1911


note 04-24-1911


letter 12-20-1905


note 08-03-1903



Name Type Date Notes Baker, Newton Diehl (1871-1937)

letter 10-04-1902


letter 02-02-1903

Ball, Sir Robert Stawell (1840-1913)

letter 01-13-1908 Irish astronomer and lecturer


letter 07-03-1906


letter 05-20-1907

Bancroft, George (1800-1891)

signature undated historian and statesman

Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss (1816-1894)

note undated Union Civil War General; Governor of Massachusetts; Speaker of House

Barr, Amerlia E. (1831-1919)

letter undated British-American novelist

Bartholdt, Richard (1855 - 1932)

letter 03-08-1907 congressman from Missouri; newspaper editor

Beck, James Montgomery 1861-1936)

letter 04-24-1925 U.S. Solicitor General; congressman from Pennyslvania; author

Beckwith, Robert Lincoln (1855-1925)

invitation 05-03-1965 ancestor of President Abraham Lincoln

Bell, Charles Frederic Moberly (1847-1911)

letter 07-06-1906 journalist; author; New York Times Managing Editor

Bell, Charles Frederic Moberly (1847-1911)

letter 07-17-1907

Bellamy, George A. (1873-1960)

letter 04-30-1902 Hiram House founder

Bellows, Henry Whitney (1814-1892)

letter 06-20-1881 President of United States Sanitary Commission

Benedite, Leonce (1859-1925)

letter 09-27-1906 French art historian

Benson, Arthur Christopher (1862-1925)

note 05-15-1906 Archbishop of Canterbury

Benson, Edward Frederic (1867-1940)

letter undated English novelist

Bercovici, Konrad (1882-1961)

signature 09-30-1924 Romanian-American novelist

Berkman, Alexander letter undated



Name Type Date Notes (1870-1936) Berkman, Alexander (1870-1936)

letter 11-06-1914 Russian-American author; radical anarchist; and would-be assassin

Bernstorff, Count Johann Heinrich Von (1862-1939)

letter 05-03-1909 German ambassador to the United States and Mexico; saboteur

Blackwell, Henry Brown (1825-1909)

letter 10-13-1887 abolitionist and women's rights activist

Blackwell, Henry Brown (1825-1909)

letter 11-07-1888

Blaine, James Gillespie (1830 - 1893)

letter 06-13-1884 U.S Secretary of State; Speaker of the House, Sentor from Maine

Blaine, James Gillespie (1830 - 1893)

document 08-19-1889

Bliven, Bruce (Ormsby) (1889-1977)

letter undated author

Bochsa, Robert Nicolas Charles (1789 - 1856)

note undated French musician

Bolton Chester C. (1882-1939)

letter 06-20-1936 congressman and Ohio senator

Bolton, Charles Knowles (1867-1950)

letter 09-23-1925 son of writer Sarah Knowles Bolton

Bolton, Frances P. (1885-1977)

signature undated U.S. Representative from Ohio

Bonaparte, Charles Joseph (1851–1921)

letter 10-12-1903 U.S. Secretary of Navy and U.S. Attorney General

Booth, Evangeline Cory (1865–1950)

note undated General of Salvation Army

Borgese, Giuseppe Antonio (1882-1952)

letter 02-25-1936 Italian-American novelist

Boule, Pierre Marcellin (1861-1942)

letter 07-06-1906 French paleontologist

Bourne, Eben H. letter 12-21-1904 Brande, Dorothea (1893-1948)

letter 03-30-1936 writer and editor

Breck, Clarissa estate appraisal 03-06-1832 Breck, Eliza M. power of attorney 09-06-1841 Breck, John (1860-1899)

document 09-20-1828 painter

Breck, John (1860-1899)

property deed 07-01-1804



Name Type Date Notes Breck, Robert deed to land 04-22-1799 Brewer, David Josiah (1837-1910)

letter 03-23-1908 U.S. Supreme Court Judge

Bricker, John W. (1893-1986)

letter 02-02-1939 Ohio governor and U.S. Senator

Brickner, Barnett R. letter 01-22-1958 Rabbi of Fairmount Temple and educator

Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

note 04-21-1907 writer

Brownell, Clarence Ludlow (1864-1927)

note 04-20-1904 writer

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861)

letter 1854 English poet

Browning, Robert (1812-1889)

note 08-29-1886 English playwright and poet

Brush, Katharine (1902-1952)

signature undated

Brush, Katharine (1902-1952)

letter 10-12-1931 author

Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925)

letter 10-16-1897 U.S. Secretary of State; lawyer and three time Democratic presidential nominee

Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878)

letter 04-23-1847 American romantic poet and journalist

Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878)

letter 11-16-1861

Bryce Viscount of Dechmont, James (1826-1958)

letter 10-14-1911


letter 10-21-1911


letter 06-15-1911


letter 04-10-1909


letter 01-24-1908 British Ambassador to the U.S. and writer


letter 08-23-1903



Name Type Date Notes Bryce Viscount of Dechmont, James (1826-1958)

letter 07-03-1903


letter 12-26-1912

Bryce, E. Marion (1839-1920)


Buchanan, James (1791-1868)

document 10-12-1860 U.S. President

Buck, Charles Neville (1879-1930)

letter 02-06-1914 novelist

Buffington, Joseph (1803 - 1872)

letter 04-18-1907 congressman from Pennsylvania

Bunts, Dr. Frank E. (1861-1928)

letter 05-09-1917 physician

Burchfield, Charles Ephraim (1893-1967)

letter 02-12-1930 watercolor painter born in Ashtabula

Burchfield, Charles Ephraim (1893-1967)

letter 05-14-1930

Burdette, Robert Jones (1844–1914)


Burnett, Frances Eliza Hodgson (1849-1924)

letter undated English-American playwright and author

Burr, Aaron (1756-1836)

letter 08-24-1798 U.S. Vice President and duelist

Burritt, Elihu (1810–1879)

signature undated philanthropist, linguist, and social activist

Burroughs, John (1837-1921)

signed photo 1903 naturalist and essayist


signature undated "sincerely yours"


signature undated

Burton, Harold Hitz (1888-1964)

letter 12-18-1935 U.S. Senator; Supreme Court Justice; mayor of Cleveland

Burton, Harold Hitz (1888-1964)

document 09-29-1942

Burton, Selma letter undated wife of Harold Hitz Burton Burton, Theodore Elijah (1851-1929)

signature undated "compliments of…"

Burton, Theodore Elijah (1851-1929)

letter 10-12-1928 congressman



Name Type Date Notes Burton, Theodore Elijah (1851-1929)

letter 01-23-1929


letter 03-17-1902


signature 07-23-1927


letter 08-04-1921

Bushman, Francis X (1883-1966)

letter 10-21-1961 movie star

Bushnell, Asa Smith (1834-1904)

document 12-12-1897 Ohio governor

Bushnell, Asa Smith (1834-1904)


Butler, Benjamin Franklin (1818-1893)

letter 05-15-1878 congressman and lawyer

Byrd, Richard Evelyn (1888-1957)

signature undated Rear Admiral; polar explore; and aviator

Byrd, Richard Evelyn (1888-1957)

signature undated second signature

Cable, George W. (1844-1925)

letter 01-04-1896 journalist, writer

Caine, Sir Hall (1853-1931)

letter 11-03-1912 novelist, playwright

Calderon, Y. typed letter 4-06-1907 Bolivian diplomat Cannon, Austin typed letter 4-05-1933 Carlyle, Jane Baillie (1801-1866)

letter 4-05- diarist, wife of Thomas Carlyle

Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881)

letter 08-11-1847 Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian

Carnegie, Andrew (1835-1919)

signature 01-01-1911 Scottish-born American businessman, a major philanthropist

Carnegie, Andrew (1835-1919)

letter 11-19-1914 letter to William H. Brett, Cleveland Public Library

Carolus-Duran, Emile-Auguste (1837-1917)

letter 01-31-1885 French painter

Carpenter, William Benjamin (1813-1885)

letter 08-05-1882 English physiologist and naturalist

Carter, Franklin (1837-1919)

letter 05-23-1892 professor

Cartier de Marchienne, Emile de, baron (1872-1946)

letter 04-17-1926 Belgian diplomat



Name Type Date Notes Cather, Willa Sibert (1873-1947)

note 11-24-1933 author

Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1684-1727)

letter 08-28-1702 Empress of Russia

Cecil, Lord Hugh (1867-1918)

letter 07-28-1906

Cecil, Lord Hugh (1867-1918)


Celebezze, Anthony J. (1910-1998)

letter 10-03-1963 Mayor of Cleveland; U.S. appeals judge

Chamberlain, Houston Stewart (1855-1927)

letter 08-13-1915 English white-supremacist author

Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940)

letter undated British Prime Minister

Charpentier, Gustave (1860-1956)

card undated French composer

Chase, Mary Ellen (1887-1973)

signature undated teacher, scholar, and writer - "Mary Christmas"

Chase, Mary Ellen (1887-1973)

note undated "A novel is a story…"

Chester, Colby Mitchell (1844-1932)

letter 04-06-1860 U.S. Admiral

Chinda, Count Sutemi (1856-1929)

letter 06-30-1912


letter 06-27-1912 Japanese Ambassador


letter 04-28-1912

Choate, Joseph Hodges (1832-1917)

letter 06-03-1914 lawyer and diplomat

Choate, Rufus (1799-1859)

note 12-1857 lawyer and orator

Churchill, Clementine (1885-1977)

letter 03-03-1965 wife of Winston Churchill

Churchill, Sir Winston (1874-1965)

letter 10-13-1919 British Prime Minister

Churchill, Sir Winston (1874-1965)

photo & note 04-23-1932

Clark, Champ (James Beauchamp) 1850-1921

signature undated U.S. Congressman, Speaker of the House, 1911

Clark, John Hessin (1857-1945)

letter 04-27-1915



Name Type Date Notes Clark, John Hessin (1857-1945)

invitation 03-14-1912 Supreme Court Justice; Judge, Fed.District Court, Cleveland 1914-1916

Clark, John Hessin (1857-1945)

letter 01-26-1915

Clarke, William Breck papers:contract 09-19-1806 contractor Clay, Henry (1777-1852)

document 08-30-1828 statesman and orator

Cleveland, Frances Folsom (1864-1947)

signature undated wife of U.S. President, Grover Cleveland

Cleveland, Grover (1837-1908)

invitation 03-04-1885 U.S. President


signature undated


letter 03-22-1901


signature undated

Clowry, Robert Charles

letter 04-03-1907 President, Western Union Telegraph Co.

Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury (1876-1944)

signature undated American author, humorist

Colvin, Sir Sidney (1845-1927)

letter 02-05-1908 English biographer, art critic, museum curator

Conway, Moncure Daniel (1832-1907)

letter 01-15-1901 clergyman

Conwell, Russell Herman (1843-1925)

signature undated clergyman, university president

Cooke, Edmund Vance (1866-1932

signed poem undated Cleveland poet

Cooke, Edmund Vance (1866-1932)

letter undated


signed poem c1920


signed poem undated


signed poem undated


signed poem c1904


signed poem undated


signed poem undated



Name Type Date Notes Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933)

signature undated U.S. President

Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933)

signature undated

Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933)

letter to CPL 10-14-1927

Cooper, Moses document 02-12-1738 yeoman Cosgrave, William Thomas (1880-1965)

letter 03-27-1928 Irish statesman; first President of Irish Free State 1922-32

Courtney, Fay letter undated Cox, Jacob Dolson (1828-1900)

signature undated Box 6

Cox, Jacob Dolson (1828-1900)

letter 10-13-1897 Pres. U. of Cincinnati, Ohio gov.,Secretary of Interior


letter 01-22-1884 Box 6


letter 12-10-1896 Boix 6

Cox, James Middleton (1870-1957)



letter 01-22-1918 Ohio governor, publisher


letter 08-27-1918

Cranston, Sir Robert letter 10-03-1906 Scottish politician Crawford, Francis Marion (1854-1909)

signature undated author

Crile, George Washington (1864-1943)

envelope 05-23-1929

Crile, George Washington (1864-1943)

letter 05-20-1929 Physician, founder of Cleveland Clinic

Crothers, Samuel McChord (1857-1927)

letter 02-02-1914 clergyman and essayist

Cullom, Shelby Moore (1829-1914)

letter 09-26-1890 politician

Curzon, George Nathaniel (1859-1925)

letter 02-15-1900 British statesman

Curzon, George Nathaniel (1859-1925)

letter 07-02-1906



Name Type Date Notes Dabney, Charles William (1855-1945)

letter 05-12- educator, pres. of U.of Cincinnati

Dalgliesh, Alice (1893-1979)

letter 12-15-1937 American children's author, editor

Danierls, Josephus (1862-1948)

signature 01-21-1921 diplomat, secretary of the navy

Davies, William Watkin (1895-1973)

letter 01-24-1925

Davies, William Watkin (1895-1973)

envelope 01-24-1925 Welsh barrister, lecturer, author

Davis, Harry Lyman (1878-1950)

letter 05-03-1916 Cleveland Mayor, Ohio Governor


signature undated


signature undated

Davis, James John (1873-1947)

signature undated politician

Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889)

signature undated President, Confederate States of America

Davis, Robert Hobart (1869-1942)

letter 04-28-1922 dramatist, journalist

Dawson, Coningsby William (1883-1959)

letter undated author, poet

Dawson, Coningsby William (1883-1959)

letter 04-25-1924

De Angeli, Marguerite (1889-1987)

signature undated children's author, illustrator

De Angeli, Marguerite (1889-1987)

envelope 08-16-1950

De Medicis, Catherine (1519-1589)

document 01-10-1582 Queen of France

Deland, Margaret (1857-1945)

signature undated American author

Dell, Floyd (1887-1969)

poem undated author, dramatist

Dempsey, Jack (1895-1983)

letter 09-15-1932

Dempsey, Jack (1895-1983)

signature undated boxer

Dempsey, James Howard

letter 01-27-1902 lawyer



Name Type Date Notes Depew, Chauncey Mitchell (1834-1928)

signature undated railroad executive and senator from New York

Dewar, James (1842-1923)

letter 07-03-1906 Scottish physicist and chemist

Dewey, Orville (1794-1882)

note 10-19-1860 clergyman

Diaz, Armando (1861-1928)

signature 01-29-1922 Italian general

Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)

letter 02-09-1854 English novelist

Dickens, Sir Henry Fielding (1849-1933)

letter 05-06-1929 author, son of Charles Dickens

Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth (1842-1932)

letter abolitionist, feminist [damaged]

Dionne, Ernest Christmas card undated Donald, Robert (1860-1933)

letter 07-11-1906 journalist, author

Donaldson, Sir James (1831-1915)

letter 07-04-1906

Donaldson, Sir James (1831-1915)

letter 06-16-1909 Scottish educational administrator, classical scholar

Doolittle, C.H. letter 03-04-1844 Choctaw Indian Soldier, lst Lieutentant

Doumer, Paul (1857-1932)

note 01-14-1932


note undated


letter 02-05-1926


letter 01-15-1926


letter 11-07-1907


letter 06-02-1909


letter 01-03-1931 French politician, President of the Third Republic

Dowling, George Thomas (1849-1928)

signature 03-08-1895 American author

Doyle, Joseph Beatty (1849-1927)

letter 12-31-1913 Ohio author

Duchnovich, Alexander (1803-

letter 06-18-1854 priest, Ruthenian nationalist



Name Type Date Notes 1865) Dumas, Alexandre (1802-1870)

signature undated French novelist, dramatist

Duncan, Norman (1871-1916)

letter 05-21- author, professor

Durant, Will (1885-1981)

letter 01-14-1932 American author

Duryea, Charles Edgar (1861-1938)

singed circular 10-1895 U.S. manufacturer

Dyer, J. Milton (1870-1957)

letter 12-24-1903 Cleveland architect

Earle, Alice Morse (1851-1911)

letter undated

Earle, Alice Morse (1851-1911)


East, Sir Alfred (1849-1913)

letter 03-23-1908


letter 05-05-1909


letter 07-26-1910 English painter, etcher

Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley (1882-1944)

postcard 11-25-1932 British astronomer

Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931)

letter 01-23-1884 American inventor


signature undated


signature undated

Eells, Howard Parmelee (1855-1919)

letter 12-21-1900

Eells, Howard Parmelee (1855-1919)

letter 10-29-1904

Eells, Mary Witt ( -1916)

letter 01-11-1901 President, Cleveland YWCA, wife of Dan P. Eells

Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)

letter 01-20-1947 German-American physicist

Eliot, Charles William (1834-1926)

letter 05-20-1896


envelope 05-20-1896


letter 05-14-1896 American university president

Eliot, Charles William letter 07-27-1896



Name Type Date Notes (1834-1926) Eliot, George (1819-1880)

letter undated English author (pseudo. of Mary Ann Evans)

Eliot, Thomas Dawes (1803-1870)

note 08-14-1861 U.S. Congressman

Elkin, John Pratt (1860-1915)

letter 02-12-1908 Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice

Ellenborough, Cecil Henry Law (1849-1931)

letter 01-18-1907 English Justice of the Peace, colonel

Ely, Heman (1775-1852)

note 09-28-1830 founder of Elyria, Ohio

Ely, Richard Theodore (1854-1943)

letter 08-14-1891 American economist

Emerson, Gertrude (1893-1982)


Emerson, Gertrude (1893-1982)

note undated

Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)

signature undated American essayist, philosopher

Erskine, John (1879-1951)

signature 02-17-1928 American novelist, pianist

Evans, Henry Oliver letter 01-19-1948 lawyer, Pittsburgh, PA Fancher, Mollie (1848-1916)

letter 03-03-1899 "The Brooklyn enigma"

Ferber, Edna (1885-1968)

letter 03-23-1917 American novelist

Fillmore, Millard (1800-1874)


Firth, Charles Harding (1857-1936)

letter 07-06-1906 British historian

Firth, Charles Harding (1857-1936)

letter 02-25-1911

Fish, Hamilton (1808-1893)

document 07-02-1873 American statesman

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (1879-1893)


Fiske, John (1842-1901)

postcard 02-04-1897 historian

Fiske, John (1842-1901)

letter 11-04-1899

Foss, Sam Walter (1858-1911)

letter 08-29-1898 writer, librarian



Name Type Date Notes Francois I, King of France (1494-1547)

letter undated King of France, 1515-1547 [damaged]

Frank, Glenn (1887-1940)

letter 01-25-1924 editor, politician

Fraser, James Earle (1876-1953)

letter 05-01-1929 American sculptor

Frederick William IV, of Prussia (1795-1861)

photograph 02-23-1846

Frederick William IV, of Prussia (1795-1861)

signature 02-23-1846 King of Prussia, 1840-1861

Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins (1852-1930)

signature undated


envelope 04-09-1900



Frew, William Nimick ( -1914)

letter 03-21-1902 educator

Friend, John document 04-19-1809 Frost, Robert (1874-1963)

signed book:811.5 F929c

undated American poet

Frost, Robert (1874-1963)

page, ML annual report 1930

Frost, William Goodell (1854-1938)

letter 12-25-1900 educator, President, Berea College

Furlong, Charles W. (1874-1967)

note undated explorer, writer, lecturer

Furman, Lucy (1869-1958)

letter 01-29-1914 American writer

Furman, Lucy (1869-1958)

envelope 01-31-1914

Furness, William Henry (1802-1896)

signature 08-01-1883 clergyman, theologian

Gage, Frances Dana Barker (1808-1884)

letter undated suffragist, abolitionist

Gale, Zona (1874-1938)

manuscript page (Miss Lulu Bett)

undated

Gale, Zona (1874-1938)

signature 1925

Gale, Zona (1874- manuscript page (Miss undated American writer, novelist



Name Type Date Notes 1938) Lulu Bett) Gale, Zone (1874-1938)


Gangooly, Joguth Chunder (baptized Philip)

note 08-1859 Indian Christian minister

Garfield, Harry Augustus (1863-1941)

letter 03-15-1901 educator, son of Pres. James A. Garfield

Garfield, James Abraham (1831-1881)

letter 01-19-1876 U.S. President


letter 07-09-[1880]


copy of letter 04-27-1881


copy of envelope 04-28-1881


PD clipping 07-01-1991

Garfield, James Rudolph 1865-1950)

signature 07-1895 Secretary of the Interior, son of Pres. James A. Garfield

Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1888)

letter 12-04-1866

Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1888)

letter 06-18-1868 Italian Revolutionary

Garrison, Wendell Phillips (1840-1907)

letter 11-01-1897 author, editor

Garrison, William Lloyd 1805-1879)

signature undated abolitionist, journalist

Gayarre, Charles Etienne Arthur (1805-1895)

letter 03-28-1886 American historian

Geikie, Sir Archibald (1835-1924)

letter 11-15-1906 Scottish geologist

George IV, King of Great Britain (1762-1830)

document 01-17-1812 King of England [document damaged]

George V, King of Great Britain (1865-1936)

letter 04-1918 King of England

George V, King of Great Britain (1865-1936)

copy of letter 04-1918



Name Type Date Notes George V, King of Great Britain (1865-1936)

letter 06-21-1989

George, Henry (1836-1897)

letter 04-03-1886 economist, reformer

Gerard, James Watson (1867-1951)

signature undated lawyer, diplomat

Gibbons, James (1834-1921)

letter 12-14-1895 Roman Catholic Cardinal

Gibbons, James (1834-1921)

signature undated

Gibbs, Sir Philip ((1877-1962)

letter 12-02-1931 English journalist, author

Gibbs, Sir Philip (1877-1962)

envelope 12-03-1931

Gibson, Charles Dana (1867-1944)

letter undated


envelope 09-01-1931


signature undated American illustrator

Giddings, Joshua Reed (1795-1864)

letter 01-25-1844 U.S. politician

Gilbert, N. A. letter 12-03-1898 Cleveland lawyer Gilder, Jeannette Leonard (1849-1916)

letter 03-28-1907 literary editor, author

Gilder, Richard Watson (1844-1909)

signed calling card 1902 poet, periodicals editor;Omar Khayyam interest


letter 10-22-1902


letter 10-31-1902


letter 12-06-1902


letter 06-23-1904


letter 11-23-1904


letter 02-06-1907

Gillmore, Inez Haynes (Irwin) (1873-1970)

note undated author, feminist



Name Type Date Notes Gilman, Daniel Coit (1831-1908)

letter 12-11-1901 university president, geographer

Gladden, Washington (1836-1918)

letter 03-15-1893 clergyman

Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson (1836-1918)

letter 07-18-1906 American novelist, Pulitzer Prize 1942

Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson (1836-1918)

letter Friday

Goldman, Emma (1869-1940)

letter undated American anarchist


letter 09-25-1911


letter 11-16-1913

Goldsmith, Milton (1861-)

letter 11-22-1897 merchant, author

Goldsmith, Milton (1861-)

letter 12-10-1897

Gompers, Samuel (1850-1924)

signature 1920 American labor and political leader

Gounod, Charles Charles-François (1818 -1893)

letter 06-28-1854 French composer

Grainger, Percy Aldridge (1882–1961)

letter 03-26-1941 pianist, composer

Grainger, Percy Aldridge (1882–1961)

envelope 03-26-1941

Greeley, Horace (1811-1872)

letter 12-25-1858 editor, reformer

Greely, Adolphus Washington (1844 -1935)

letter 11-11-1903 polar explorer

Greenaway, Kate (1846-1901)

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letter 07-06-1909


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letter 07-06-1906 German theologian

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letter 05-13-1895 American president

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letter 12-29-1900

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letter 03-11-1901 Mayor of Chicago

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letter 02-16-1799 Governor-general of British India

Hawthorne, Julian (1846-1934)

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letter 02-13-1905

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Hoover, Herbert Clark (1874-1964)

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note undated U.S. President


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letter 03-08-1928

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letter 02-19-1941 Cleveland lawyer, Director of Cleveland Trust

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letter 06-30-1934 politician, Secretary to FDR

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envelope 05-18-1887


letter 02-05-1899


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envelope 12-15-1903


letter 09-16-1909

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letter 09-28-1903 founder, Cleveland Orchestra

Hughes, Charles Evans (1862-1948)

signature 07-31-1921 Governor of New York State

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letter undated author, composer

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letter 07-10-1934

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letter 03-23-1881 General

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signature undated American novelist

Hutchinson, Ray Coryton (1907-1975)

letter 09-21-1937 English author

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envelope 09-21-1937

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letter undated English historian, author

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letter 05-13-1923 Mayor of New York City

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letter 11-25-1913 outlaw, politician

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Johnson, Hiram Warren (1866-1945)

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letter 03-30-1908 Governor of Minnesota

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letter 11-15-1911

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letter 04-08-1901 Mayor of Cleveland



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letter 04-14-1902

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letter 12-11-1902


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letter 05-05-1899 Mayor of Toledo, Ohio


letter 05-19-1903

Kaiser, Henry John (1882-1967)

letter undated American industrialist, shipbuilder

Keeler, Louise Harriet (1846-1921)

letter 12-23-1917


letter 10-28-1912 Superintendent, Cleveland Public Schools; Harriet L.Keeler Memorial Woods in Brecksville Reservation


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King, William Lyon Mackenzie (1874-1950)

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letter 04-20- American music critic, musicologist

Krehbiel, Henry Edward (1854-1923)

letter 07-02-

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letter 12-1956 President of Brazil

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letter 10-29-1824 French aristocrat and military officer

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letter 05-31-1919 U. S. Senator

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envelope 10-15-1935


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letter 10-14-1935

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Lang, Andrew (1844-1912)

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letter 03-25-1857 General, Confederate Army

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signature undated American author; 1933 Newbery Award

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document 04-07-1863 U. S. President

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Lloyd George, David (1863-1945)

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letter 06-21-1902 President of Czechoslovakia


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letter 10-28-1904

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handwritten poem undated Irish poet, singer

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Paine, Ralph Delahaye (1871-1925)


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Parker, Sir Gilbert (1862-1932)

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letter 06-23-1916 U. S. Senator, Ohio

Porter, William Nichols (1886-1973)

letter 05-16-1944


letter 05-04-1944


letter 11-17-1943 Major General, U. S. Army

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letter 03-12-1909 Founder, Francis Bacon Society

Potwin, Julia Hedges signature 12-1911 Cleveland author



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signature 02-24-1926 Serbian-born American physicist, inventor; Pulitzer Prize, 1924

Ramsey, Alexander (1815-1903)

document 01-01-1861 Governor of Minnesota

Reed, David Aiken (1880-1953)

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Reed, Thomas B. (1839-1902)

letter 12-06-1901 Speaker of the House

Reid, Whitelaw (1837-1912)

letter 03-22-1907


letter 09-10-1902 Ohio native, politician, author: Ohio in the Civil War


letter 09-15-1902


letter 10-29-1902


letter 02-19-1907

Repplier, Agnes (1855-1950)

letter 02-01-1899 American essayist

Reynolds, Quentin James (1902-1965)

envelope 12-19-1959

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Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe (1850-1943)

letter 10-18- American author, Pulitzer Prize 1917


signature 1886


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letter 09-10-1760 English author

Richover, Hyman George (1900-1986)

letter 06-10-1963 admiral

Rinehart, Mary Roberts (1876-1958)

signature 10-18-1920 American author


note 03-31-1931



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letter 04-22-1950

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Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle (1869-1943)

letter 10-12-1928 American poet

Rockefeller, John Davison (1839-1937)

letter 03-08-1881 American industrialist


letter 06-22-1903


letter 03-17-1881

Rodzinski, Artur (1892-1958)

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Rodzinski, Artur (1892-1958)

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Rolland, Romain (1866-1944)

letter 02-02-1908 French writer, pacifist

Romney, George (1907-1995)

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Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor (1884-1962)

letter 04-18-1956 First Lady of United States

Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor (1884-1962)

letter 02-19-1959

Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


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letter 08-03-1877 Secretary of the Interior, U. S. Senator from Missouri


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letter 01-17-1958 U. S. Senator from Ohio

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letter 11-20-1894 statistician; U. S. Commissioner of Labor

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signature 01-08-1920 lst controlled flying machine; Dayton, Ohio native

Wu Tingfang (1842-1922)

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