Research Catalog
Bryant family papers
- Title
- Bryant family papers, 1809-1989, bulk (1824-1901).
- Author
- Bryant family.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 2.2 linear feet (6 boxes).
- Summary
- Members of the Bryant family were descended from Peter Bryant (1767-1820) and Sarah Snell Bryant (1766-1847) of Cummington, Mass., and included the poet William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) and his brothers, who settled in or around Princeton, Ill. The brothers were primarily involved in farming in the area. The collection consists of correspondence and other personal papers of various members of the Bryant family. Correspondence is with family members, friends and business associates and concerns pioneering and farming in Illinois and Kansas, Cullen Bryant's life as a West Point cadet, family affairs and finances, and discussions of politics, particularly slavery and the Civil War. Also, diaries, manuscript poems of John H. Bryant, land papers, photographs and other family memorabilia, and printed matter.
- Subject
- Bryant family
- United States Military Academy
- Agriculture > Illinois
- Agriculture > Kansas
- Pioneers > Illinois
- Pioneers > Kansas
- Military education > United States
- Slavery > United States
- Real property > Illinois
- Real property > Kansas
- Sharecropping > United States
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States > Politics and government > 1815-1861
- Illinois > History > 1778-1865
- Kansas > History
- Genre/Form
- Diaries.
- Photographs.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Source (note)
- Jeff Weber Rare Books
- Estate of Wilberforce Eames
- Margo Ferris
- Processing Action (note)
- Surveyed
- Cataloging updated
- Call Number
- MssCol 421
- OCLC
- NYPW89-A371
- Author
- Bryant family.
- Title
- Bryant family papers, 1809-1989, bulk (1824-1901).
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Finding Aids
- Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Bryant, Peter, 1767-1820.Bryant, Sarah Snell, 1766-1847.Brown, E. R.Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878.Bryant, John Howard.Bryant, Cyrus.Bryant, Cullen.Bryant, Marcus.Bryant, Elijah.Bryant, Louisa C.Bryant, Julia Sands, 1831-1907.McVay, Kate Bryant.McVay, William E.Olds, Justin Hixon.
- Research Call Number
- MssCol 421