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Formal title:: Anne Sims Hopkins collection of Sims family papers
Extent:: 4 linear feet
Date range:: 1844-1954 (bulk) 1905-1920
Abstract:: This collection consists of letters, photographs, invitations, a wedding gift registry, and other papers relating to the Sims family, particularly Admiral William S. Sims and his wife, Anne Hitchcock Sims. The papers detail the Sims family’s personal life and relationship as well as Admiral Sims’s career in the Navy.
Repository:: Naval War College (U.S.). Naval Historical Collection
Collection call no:: MSC-352

Formal title:: Mrs. Mary Almy's account of the cannonading of the French Fleet in Newport
Extent:: 0.2 linear feet (2 folders)
Date range:: 1778, 1878
Abstract:: Account of the cannonading of the French Fleet in Newport, Rhode Island, while the city was occupied by the British Army written by Mary Almy (1735-1808), a Loyalist, to her husband, Benjamin Almy (1724-1818).
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.032

Manuscript Items

Formal title:: Manuscript Items
Extent:: 38.5 linear feet (36 archival boxes, 7 half archival boxes, 14 oversize boxes, 6 oversize folders)
Date range:: 1783-2013 and undated
Abstract:: This collection consists of single manuscripts items from past NWC presidents, faculty, and staff, as well as other other naval officers and military service members from Rhode Island and the surrounding area. These items include correspondence, journals, reports, certificates, commissions, scrapbooks, and other ephemera that relate to the history of the U.S. Naval War College, the history of navies in the Narragansett Bay region, and the history of naval warfare and strategy.
Repository:: Naval War College (U.S.). Naval Historical Collection
Collection call no:: MSC-364

Formal title:: Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell letter
Extent:: 0.01 linear feet (1 folder)
Date range:: 1869
Abstract:: This collection consists of one letter from Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell (1825-1921), the first woman ordained as a minister in the United States, to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, regarding her publication,
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.502

Formal title:: Mary Ellen Chase letter
Extent:: 0.01 linear feet (1 folder)
Date range:: 1942
Abstract:: This collection consists of one letter from Mary Ellen Chase (1887-1973), a noted American novelist and professor at Smith College, regarding a public speaking engagement in 1942.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.506

Formal title:: Charles Timothy Brooks letter
Extent:: 0.01 linear feet (1 folder)
Date range:: 1878
Abstract:: Charles Timothy Brooks (1813-1883) was a Unitarian pastor in Newport, Rhode Island. This collection includes one letter addressed to Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull of Hartford, Connecticut, on July 2, 1878.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.503

Formal title:: Phillips Brooks letter
Extent:: 0.01 linear feet (1 folder)
Date range:: 1880
Abstract:: Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) was a prominent Episcopal clergyman of Boston, Massachusetts. This collection includes one letter written to Thomas M. March (1812-1903), the Bishop of Rhode Island from 1854-1903.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.504

Hunt family papers

Formal title:: Hunt family papers
Extent:: 0.01 linear feet (1 folder)
Date range:: 1858-1899 and undated (bulk 1878-1897)
Abstract:: Letters addressed to members of the Hunt family, particularly renowned architect Richard Morris Hunt (1827-1895) and his wife Catherine Hunt (1830-1909), who were both summer residents of Newport, Rhode Island.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.555

Formal title:: Mrs. Edward A. Sherman, Sr., collection of autographs
Extent:: 0.01 linear feet (1 folder)
Date range:: 1870s-1941 (bulk 1918-1941)
Abstract:: This collection consists of autographs and letters from various political, military, business, and other figures from the late nineteenth through early twentieth century collected by Mrs. Edward A. (Hazel Erma Poole) Sherman of Newport, Rhode Island.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.554

Formal title:: Julia Ward Howe papers
Extent:: 0.01 linear feet (1 folder)
Date range:: 1897-1899 and undated
Abstract:: Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) was a prominent writer, poet, reformer, and lecturer, who was best known for writing the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” and her contributions to the women’s rights movement. This collection includes two letters and one poem written by Howe.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.556

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