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Refers to the attached circular which\n                  requests material for the \n                   Pictorial Field-Book of the War of\n                     1812 and a history of the French domain and\n                  advertises his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Outlines how he plans to approach the\n                  upcoming projects, including extensive travel to\n                  collect material. Mentions: \n                   Florida , \n                   Andrew Jackson , \n                   John Burgoyne , \n                   Quebec , Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                   New Orleans , \n                   Creek County . ]","[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                   Daily Times of that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                   Anne Estelle ? Lewis . \"]","[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                   Charles Willson Peale or \n                   James Peale ) etching of \n                   George Washington in 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. Relates some\n                  quotations in describing himself.]","[Explains why he has not written sooner. Regrets\n                  that he cannot help him, though he is flattered by\n                  Graham's intention to illustrate Lossing's \n                   Pictorial Field Book of Revolution for presentation to the historical society.\n                  Explains that he has few autographs and no\n                  duplicates. Says the papers he has used were borrowed\n                  and that the papers Graham saw in his room were\n                  placed in the state archives in \n                   Albany . Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                   Philip John Schuyler which he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                   The Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler . ]","[Asks for a promotion for \n                   William Henry ? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                   Virginia . \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                   Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn , Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]","[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                   Italy 's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                   Elizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield 's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                   Otraunto , including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                   United States and expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                   Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson commanding the North instead of \n                   Abraham Lincoln , his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                   Fredericksburg (12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                   Richmond and the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                   Europe now and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                   Helen Sweet Lossing , Archie's\n                  mother, \n                   William Charles Redfield , \n                   John Gadsby Chapman , Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                   Tarauto (Italy) , \n                   Naples (Italy) , Mahometanism, \n                   Joseph Kenny Meadows '\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]","[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                   Alonzo Potter or \n                   Horatio Potter ). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America , (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                   Lewis \"Lew\" Wallace and his wife \n                   Susan Arnold Wallace are their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                   Samuel Wylie Crawford ).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                   Benson John Lossing 's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]","[Says \n                   Harper and Brothers are about to\n                  put his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812 in type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                   George Washington to \n                   Alexander Hamilton regarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                   A Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865 by \n                   Rushmore G. Horton . ]","[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                   Brantz Mayer for Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                   Benjamin Thompson ). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                   Edward Young . ]","[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                   Duchess County . Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                   Honesdale, PA , and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                   Poughkeepsie near the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                   Honesdale one, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]","[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                   Newport Daily News containing the notice of the death of \n                   Henry Theodore Tuckerman . Says \n                   Evert Augustus Duyckinck has just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                   Joseph Green Cogswell for\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries ), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                   Sidney Edwards Morris . ]","[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]","[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                   Cincinnati Commerical with its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries . Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                   Vassar College , of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]","[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]","[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                   Morgan Dix is seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                   Henry L. Ziegenfuss ; \n                   Stephen H. Synnot ; \n                   Robert Fulton Crary ; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                   William A. Davies ; \n                   Sheldon Davis ; \n                   Philander Kinney Cady ; \n                   Horatio Potter ; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]","[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America . Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                   George Washington ; \n                   Nathanael Greene ; \n                   William Heath ; \n                   John Stark . ]","[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                   Hours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution ) from \n                   Funk and Wagnalls . Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]","[ \n                   Mason Brothers is the firm name\n                  for \n                   Lowell Marson, Jr. and \n                   Daniel Gregory Mason . The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                   M. Aynes . ]","[It was witnessed by \n                   Helen R. M. Lossing and \n                   Y. L. Perine . In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                   History of New York City by \n                   Benson John Lossing ;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]","[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                   Benson John Lossing has paid in\n                  full. Mentions: Helen, Fanny, Panic of 1873.]","See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","University of Virginia. Library. 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Refers to the attached circular which\n                  requests material for the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field-Book of the War of\n                     1812\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eand a history of the French domain and\n                  advertises his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Outlines how he plans to approach the\n                  upcoming projects, including extensive travel to\n                  collect material. Mentions: \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eFlorida\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAndrew Jackson\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Burgoyne\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eQuebec\u003c/geogname\u003e, Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eCreek County\u003c/geogname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eDaily Times\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eof that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAnne Estelle ? Lewis\u003c/persname\u003e. \"]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Willson Peale\u003c/persname\u003eor \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJames Peale\u003c/persname\u003e) etching of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003ein 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. 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Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003ePhilip John Schuyler\u003c/persname\u003ewhich he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Asks for a promotion for \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Henry\u003c/persname\u003e? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eDewitt Clinton Littlejohn\u003c/persname\u003e, Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eItaly\u003c/geogname\u003e's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield\u003c/persname\u003e's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eOtraunto\u003c/geogname\u003e, including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eUnited States\u003c/geogname\u003eand expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson\u003c/persname\u003ecommanding the North instead of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham Lincoln\u003c/persname\u003e, his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eFredericksburg\u003c/geogname\u003e(12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003eand the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003enow and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHelen Sweet Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e, Archie's\n                  mother, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Charles Redfield\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Gadsby Chapman\u003c/persname\u003e, Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eTarauto (Italy)\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eNaples (Italy)\u003c/geogname\u003e, Mahometanism, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Kenny Meadows\u003c/persname\u003e'\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAlonzo Potter\u003c/persname\u003eor \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHoratio Potter\u003c/persname\u003e). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e, (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eLewis \"Lew\" Wallace\u003c/persname\u003eand his wife \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSusan Arnold Wallace\u003c/persname\u003eare their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Wylie Crawford\u003c/persname\u003e).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Says \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eHarper and Brothers\u003c/corpname\u003eare about to\n                  put his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003ein type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003eto \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAlexander Hamilton\u003c/persname\u003eregarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eA Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eRushmore G. Horton\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBrantz Mayer\u003c/persname\u003efor Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenjamin Thompson\u003c/persname\u003e). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Young\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eDuchess County\u003c/geogname\u003e. Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eHonesdale, PA\u003c/geogname\u003e, and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003ePoughkeepsie\u003c/geogname\u003enear the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eHonesdale\u003c/geogname\u003eone, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eNewport Daily News\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003econtaining the notice of the death of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Theodore Tuckerman\u003c/persname\u003e. Says \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eEvert Augustus Duyckinck\u003c/persname\u003ehas just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Green Cogswell\u003c/persname\u003efor\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSidney Edwards Morris\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eCincinnati Commerical\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003ewith its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eVassar College\u003c/corpname\u003e, of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eMorgan Dix\u003c/persname\u003eis seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHenry L. Ziegenfuss\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eStephen H. Synnot\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Fulton Crary\u003c/persname\u003e; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam A. Davies\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSheldon Davis\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003ePhilander Kinney Cady\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHoratio Potter\u003c/persname\u003e; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eNathanael Greene\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Heath\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Stark\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eHours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e) from \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eFunk and Wagnalls\u003c/corpname\u003e. Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[ \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eMason Brothers\u003c/corpname\u003eis the firm name\n                  for \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eLowell Marson, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003eand \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eDaniel Gregory Mason\u003c/persname\u003e. The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eM. Aynes\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[It was witnessed by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHelen R. M. Lossing\u003c/persname\u003eand \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eY. L. Perine\u003c/persname\u003e. In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eHistory of New York City\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003ehas paid in\n                  full. Mentions: Helen, Fanny, Panic of 1873.]\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_tesim":["[Published as a letter to the editor of \n                   The American Whig Review (Oct. 1852); critical of the article\n                  \"Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution\" ( \n                   American Whig Review , Sept. 1852)]","[Explains why he has not returned the paroles\n                  which he is using in the appendix to the \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Refers to the attached circular which\n                  requests material for the \n                   Pictorial Field-Book of the War of\n                     1812 and a history of the French domain and\n                  advertises his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Outlines how he plans to approach the\n                  upcoming projects, including extensive travel to\n                  collect material. Mentions: \n                   Florida , \n                   Andrew Jackson , \n                   John Burgoyne , \n                   Quebec , Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                   New Orleans , \n                   Creek County . ]","[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                   Daily Times of that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                   Anne Estelle ? Lewis . \"]","[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                   Charles Willson Peale or \n                   James Peale ) etching of \n                   George Washington in 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. Relates some\n                  quotations in describing himself.]","[Explains why he has not written sooner. Regrets\n                  that he cannot help him, though he is flattered by\n                  Graham's intention to illustrate Lossing's \n                   Pictorial Field Book of Revolution for presentation to the historical society.\n                  Explains that he has few autographs and no\n                  duplicates. Says the papers he has used were borrowed\n                  and that the papers Graham saw in his room were\n                  placed in the state archives in \n                   Albany . Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                   Philip John Schuyler which he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                   The Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler . ]","[Asks for a promotion for \n                   William Henry ? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                   Virginia . \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                   Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn , Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]","[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                   Italy 's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                   Elizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield 's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                   Otraunto , including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                   United States and expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                   Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson commanding the North instead of \n                   Abraham Lincoln , his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                   Fredericksburg (12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                   Richmond and the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                   Europe now and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                   Helen Sweet Lossing , Archie's\n                  mother, \n                   William Charles Redfield , \n                   John Gadsby Chapman , Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                   Tarauto (Italy) , \n                   Naples (Italy) , Mahometanism, \n                   Joseph Kenny Meadows '\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]","[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                   Alonzo Potter or \n                   Horatio Potter ). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America , (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                   Lewis \"Lew\" Wallace and his wife \n                   Susan Arnold Wallace are their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                   Samuel Wylie Crawford ).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                   Benson John Lossing 's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]","[Says \n                   Harper and Brothers are about to\n                  put his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812 in type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                   George Washington to \n                   Alexander Hamilton regarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                   A Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865 by \n                   Rushmore G. Horton . ]","[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                   Brantz Mayer for Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                   Benjamin Thompson ). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                   Edward Young . ]","[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                   Duchess County . Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                   Honesdale, PA , and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                   Poughkeepsie near the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                   Honesdale one, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]","[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                   Newport Daily News containing the notice of the death of \n                   Henry Theodore Tuckerman . Says \n                   Evert Augustus Duyckinck has just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                   Joseph Green Cogswell for\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries ), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                   Sidney Edwards Morris . ]","[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]","[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                   Cincinnati Commerical with its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries . Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                   Vassar College , of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]","[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]","[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                   Morgan Dix is seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                   Henry L. Ziegenfuss ; \n                   Stephen H. Synnot ; \n                   Robert Fulton Crary ; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                   William A. Davies ; \n                   Sheldon Davis ; \n                   Philander Kinney Cady ; \n                   Horatio Potter ; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]","[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America . Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                   George Washington ; \n                   Nathanael Greene ; \n                   William Heath ; \n                   John Stark . ]","[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                   Hours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution ) from \n                   Funk and Wagnalls . Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]","[ \n                   Mason Brothers is the firm name\n                  for \n                   Lowell Marson, Jr. and \n                   Daniel Gregory Mason . The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                   M. Aynes . ]","[It was witnessed by \n                   Helen R. M. Lossing and \n                   Y. L. Perine . In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                   History of New York City by \n                   Benson John Lossing ;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]","[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                   Benson John Lossing has paid in\n                  full. Mentions: Helen, Fanny, Panic of 1873.]"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee the \n            \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.library.virginia.edu/policies/use-of-materials\"\u003e\n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc/\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":[""],"names_ssim":["University of Virginia. Library. Special\n            Collections Dept.","Harper and Brothers","Vassar College","Funk and Wagnalls","Mason Brothers","Benson John Lossing","John Wakefield Francis","Henry Wadsworth Longfellow","John Wingate Thornton","Andrew Jackson","John Burgoyne","Elizabeth Oakes\n                  Smith","Anne Estelle ? Lewis","William A. 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Refers to the attached circular which\n                  requests material for the \n                   Pictorial Field-Book of the War of\n                     1812 and a history of the French domain and\n                  advertises his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Outlines how he plans to approach the\n                  upcoming projects, including extensive travel to\n                  collect material. Mentions: \n                   Florida , \n                   Andrew Jackson , \n                   John Burgoyne , \n                   Quebec , Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                   New Orleans , \n                   Creek County . ]","[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                   Daily Times of that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                   Anne Estelle ? Lewis . \"]","[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                   Charles Willson Peale or \n                   James Peale ) etching of \n                   George Washington in 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. Relates some\n                  quotations in describing himself.]","[Explains why he has not written sooner. Regrets\n                  that he cannot help him, though he is flattered by\n                  Graham's intention to illustrate Lossing's \n                   Pictorial Field Book of Revolution for presentation to the historical society.\n                  Explains that he has few autographs and no\n                  duplicates. Says the papers he has used were borrowed\n                  and that the papers Graham saw in his room were\n                  placed in the state archives in \n                   Albany . Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                   Philip John Schuyler which he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                   The Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler . ]","[Asks for a promotion for \n                   William Henry ? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                   Virginia . \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                   Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn , Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]","[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                   Italy 's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                   Elizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield 's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                   Otraunto , including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                   United States and expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                   Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson commanding the North instead of \n                   Abraham Lincoln , his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                   Fredericksburg (12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                   Richmond and the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                   Europe now and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                   Helen Sweet Lossing , Archie's\n                  mother, \n                   William Charles Redfield , \n                   John Gadsby Chapman , Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                   Tarauto (Italy) , \n                   Naples (Italy) , Mahometanism, \n                   Joseph Kenny Meadows '\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]","[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                   Alonzo Potter or \n                   Horatio Potter ). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America , (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                   Lewis \"Lew\" Wallace and his wife \n                   Susan Arnold Wallace are their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                   Samuel Wylie Crawford ).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                   Benson John Lossing 's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]","[Says \n                   Harper and Brothers are about to\n                  put his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812 in type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                   George Washington to \n                   Alexander Hamilton regarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                   A Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865 by \n                   Rushmore G. Horton . ]","[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                   Brantz Mayer for Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                   Benjamin Thompson ). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                   Edward Young . ]","[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                   Duchess County . Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                   Honesdale, PA , and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                   Poughkeepsie near the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                   Honesdale one, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]","[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                   Newport Daily News containing the notice of the death of \n                   Henry Theodore Tuckerman . Says \n                   Evert Augustus Duyckinck has just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                   Joseph Green Cogswell for\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries ), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                   Sidney Edwards Morris . ]","[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]","[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                   Cincinnati Commerical with its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries . Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                   Vassar College , of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]","[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]","[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                   Morgan Dix is seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                   Henry L. Ziegenfuss ; \n                   Stephen H. Synnot ; \n                   Robert Fulton Crary ; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                   William A. Davies ; \n                   Sheldon Davis ; \n                   Philander Kinney Cady ; \n                   Horatio Potter ; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]","[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America . Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                   George Washington ; \n                   Nathanael Greene ; \n                   William Heath ; \n                   John Stark . ]","[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                   Hours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution ) from \n                   Funk and Wagnalls . Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]","[ \n                   Mason Brothers is the firm name\n                  for \n                   Lowell Marson, Jr. and \n                   Daniel Gregory Mason . The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                   M. Aynes . ]","[It was witnessed by \n                   Helen R. M. Lossing and \n                   Y. L. Perine . In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                   History of New York City by \n                   Benson John Lossing ;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]","[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                   Benson John Lossing has paid in\n                  full. Mentions: Helen, Fanny, Panic of 1873.]","See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","University of Virginia. Library. 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Refers to the attached circular which\n                  requests material for the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field-Book of the War of\n                     1812\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eand a history of the French domain and\n                  advertises his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Outlines how he plans to approach the\n                  upcoming projects, including extensive travel to\n                  collect material. Mentions: \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eFlorida\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAndrew Jackson\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Burgoyne\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eQuebec\u003c/geogname\u003e, Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eCreek County\u003c/geogname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eDaily Times\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eof that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAnne Estelle ? Lewis\u003c/persname\u003e. \"]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Willson Peale\u003c/persname\u003eor \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJames Peale\u003c/persname\u003e) etching of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003ein 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. Relates some\n                  quotations in describing himself.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Explains why he has not written sooner. Regrets\n                  that he cannot help him, though he is flattered by\n                  Graham's intention to illustrate Lossing's \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003efor presentation to the historical society.\n                  Explains that he has few autographs and no\n                  duplicates. Says the papers he has used were borrowed\n                  and that the papers Graham saw in his room were\n                  placed in the state archives in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eAlbany\u003c/geogname\u003e. Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003ePhilip John Schuyler\u003c/persname\u003ewhich he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Asks for a promotion for \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Henry\u003c/persname\u003e? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eDewitt Clinton Littlejohn\u003c/persname\u003e, Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eItaly\u003c/geogname\u003e's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield\u003c/persname\u003e's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eOtraunto\u003c/geogname\u003e, including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eUnited States\u003c/geogname\u003eand expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson\u003c/persname\u003ecommanding the North instead of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham Lincoln\u003c/persname\u003e, his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eFredericksburg\u003c/geogname\u003e(12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003eand the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003enow and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHelen Sweet Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e, Archie's\n                  mother, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Charles Redfield\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Gadsby Chapman\u003c/persname\u003e, Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eTarauto (Italy)\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eNaples (Italy)\u003c/geogname\u003e, Mahometanism, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Kenny Meadows\u003c/persname\u003e'\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAlonzo Potter\u003c/persname\u003eor \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHoratio Potter\u003c/persname\u003e). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e, (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eLewis \"Lew\" Wallace\u003c/persname\u003eand his wife \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSusan Arnold Wallace\u003c/persname\u003eare their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Wylie Crawford\u003c/persname\u003e).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Says \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eHarper and Brothers\u003c/corpname\u003eare about to\n                  put his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003ein type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003eto \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAlexander Hamilton\u003c/persname\u003eregarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eA Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eRushmore G. Horton\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBrantz Mayer\u003c/persname\u003efor Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenjamin Thompson\u003c/persname\u003e). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Young\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eDuchess County\u003c/geogname\u003e. Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eHonesdale, PA\u003c/geogname\u003e, and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003ePoughkeepsie\u003c/geogname\u003enear the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eHonesdale\u003c/geogname\u003eone, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eNewport Daily News\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003econtaining the notice of the death of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Theodore Tuckerman\u003c/persname\u003e. Says \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eEvert Augustus Duyckinck\u003c/persname\u003ehas just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Green Cogswell\u003c/persname\u003efor\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSidney Edwards Morris\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eCincinnati Commerical\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003ewith its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eVassar College\u003c/corpname\u003e, of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eMorgan Dix\u003c/persname\u003eis seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHenry L. Ziegenfuss\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eStephen H. Synnot\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Fulton Crary\u003c/persname\u003e; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam A. Davies\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSheldon Davis\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003ePhilander Kinney Cady\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHoratio Potter\u003c/persname\u003e; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eNathanael Greene\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Heath\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Stark\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eHours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e) from \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eFunk and Wagnalls\u003c/corpname\u003e. Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[ \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eMason Brothers\u003c/corpname\u003eis the firm name\n                  for \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eLowell Marson, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003eand \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eDaniel Gregory Mason\u003c/persname\u003e. The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eM. Aynes\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[It was witnessed by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHelen R. M. Lossing\u003c/persname\u003eand \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eY. L. Perine\u003c/persname\u003e. In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eHistory of New York City\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003ehas paid in\n                  full. Mentions: Helen, Fanny, Panic of 1873.]\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_tesim":["[Published as a letter to the editor of \n                   The American Whig Review (Oct. 1852); critical of the article\n                  \"Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution\" ( \n                   American Whig Review , Sept. 1852)]","[Explains why he has not returned the paroles\n                  which he is using in the appendix to the \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Refers to the attached circular which\n                  requests material for the \n                   Pictorial Field-Book of the War of\n                     1812 and a history of the French domain and\n                  advertises his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Outlines how he plans to approach the\n                  upcoming projects, including extensive travel to\n                  collect material. Mentions: \n                   Florida , \n                   Andrew Jackson , \n                   John Burgoyne , \n                   Quebec , Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                   New Orleans , \n                   Creek County . ]","[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                   Daily Times of that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                   Anne Estelle ? Lewis . \"]","[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                   Charles Willson Peale or \n                   James Peale ) etching of \n                   George Washington in 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. Relates some\n                  quotations in describing himself.]","[Explains why he has not written sooner. Regrets\n                  that he cannot help him, though he is flattered by\n                  Graham's intention to illustrate Lossing's \n                   Pictorial Field Book of Revolution for presentation to the historical society.\n                  Explains that he has few autographs and no\n                  duplicates. Says the papers he has used were borrowed\n                  and that the papers Graham saw in his room were\n                  placed in the state archives in \n                   Albany . Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                   Philip John Schuyler which he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                   The Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler . ]","[Asks for a promotion for \n                   William Henry ? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                   Virginia . \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                   Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn , Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]","[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                   Italy 's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                   Elizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield 's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                   Otraunto , including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                   United States and expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                   Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson commanding the North instead of \n                   Abraham Lincoln , his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                   Fredericksburg (12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                   Richmond and the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                   Europe now and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                   Helen Sweet Lossing , Archie's\n                  mother, \n                   William Charles Redfield , \n                   John Gadsby Chapman , Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                   Tarauto (Italy) , \n                   Naples (Italy) , Mahometanism, \n                   Joseph Kenny Meadows '\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]","[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                   Alonzo Potter or \n                   Horatio Potter ). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America , (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                   Lewis \"Lew\" Wallace and his wife \n                   Susan Arnold Wallace are their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                   Samuel Wylie Crawford ).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                   Benson John Lossing 's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]","[Says \n                   Harper and Brothers are about to\n                  put his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812 in type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                   George Washington to \n                   Alexander Hamilton regarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                   A Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865 by \n                   Rushmore G. Horton . ]","[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                   Brantz Mayer for Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                   Benjamin Thompson ). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                   Edward Young . ]","[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                   Duchess County . Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                   Honesdale, PA , and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                   Poughkeepsie near the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                   Honesdale one, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]","[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                   Newport Daily News containing the notice of the death of \n                   Henry Theodore Tuckerman . Says \n                   Evert Augustus Duyckinck has just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                   Joseph Green Cogswell for\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries ), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                   Sidney Edwards Morris . ]","[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]","[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                   Cincinnati Commerical with its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries . Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                   Vassar College , of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]","[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]","[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                   Morgan Dix is seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                   Henry L. Ziegenfuss ; \n                   Stephen H. Synnot ; \n                   Robert Fulton Crary ; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                   William A. Davies ; \n                   Sheldon Davis ; \n                   Philander Kinney Cady ; \n                   Horatio Potter ; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]","[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America . Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                   George Washington ; \n                   Nathanael Greene ; \n                   William Heath ; \n                   John Stark . ]","[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                   Hours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution ) from \n                   Funk and Wagnalls . Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]","[ \n                   Mason Brothers is the firm name\n                  for \n                   Lowell Marson, Jr. and \n                   Daniel Gregory Mason . The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                   M. Aynes . ]","[It was witnessed by \n                   Helen R. M. Lossing and \n                   Y. L. Perine . In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                   History of New York City by \n                   Benson John Lossing ;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]","[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                   Benson John Lossing has paid in\n                  full. Mentions: Helen, Fanny, Panic of 1873.]"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee the \n            \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.library.virginia.edu/policies/use-of-materials\"\u003e\n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc/\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":[""],"names_ssim":["University of Virginia. Library. Special\n            Collections Dept.","Harper and Brothers","Vassar College","Funk and Wagnalls","Mason Brothers","Benson John Lossing","John Wakefield Francis","Henry Wadsworth Longfellow","John Wingate Thornton","Andrew Jackson","John Burgoyne","Elizabeth Oakes\n                  Smith","Anne Estelle ? Lewis","William A. 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Ziegenfuss","Stephen H. Synnot","Robert Fulton Crary","William A. Davies","Sheldon Davis","Philander Kinney Cady","Tristram Coffin","Nathanael Greene","William Heath","John Stark","Helen R. M. Lossing","Lowell Marson, Jr.","Daniel Gregory Mason","M. Aynes","Francis Baker","George Edward Perine","Y. L. Perine","Ulysses Cole"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":27,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T12:50:01.893Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viu_viu00295","ead_ssi":"viu_viu00295","_root_":"viu_viu00295","_nest_parent_":"viu_viu00295","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/uva-sc/viu00295.xml","title_ssm":["Benson John Lossing Collection"],"title_tesim":["Benson John Lossing Collection"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["7857"],"text":["7857","Benson John Lossing Collection","25 items","Collection is open to research.","Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment\n            for the Humanities","[Published as a letter to the editor of \n                   The American Whig Review (Oct. 1852); critical of the article\n                  \"Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution\" ( \n                   American Whig Review , Sept. 1852)]","[Explains why he has not returned the paroles\n                  which he is using in the appendix to the \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Refers to the attached circular which\n                  requests material for the \n                   Pictorial Field-Book of the War of\n                     1812 and a history of the French domain and\n                  advertises his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Outlines how he plans to approach the\n                  upcoming projects, including extensive travel to\n                  collect material. Mentions: \n                   Florida , \n                   Andrew Jackson , \n                   John Burgoyne , \n                   Quebec , Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                   New Orleans , \n                   Creek County . ]","[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                   Daily Times of that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                   Anne Estelle ? Lewis . \"]","[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                   Charles Willson Peale or \n                   James Peale ) etching of \n                   George Washington in 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. Relates some\n                  quotations in describing himself.]","[Explains why he has not written sooner. Regrets\n                  that he cannot help him, though he is flattered by\n                  Graham's intention to illustrate Lossing's \n                   Pictorial Field Book of Revolution for presentation to the historical society.\n                  Explains that he has few autographs and no\n                  duplicates. Says the papers he has used were borrowed\n                  and that the papers Graham saw in his room were\n                  placed in the state archives in \n                   Albany . Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                   Philip John Schuyler which he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                   The Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler . ]","[Asks for a promotion for \n                   William Henry ? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                   Virginia . \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                   Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn , Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]","[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                   Italy 's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                   Elizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield 's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                   Otraunto , including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                   United States and expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                   Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson commanding the North instead of \n                   Abraham Lincoln , his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                   Fredericksburg (12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                   Richmond and the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                   Europe now and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                   Helen Sweet Lossing , Archie's\n                  mother, \n                   William Charles Redfield , \n                   John Gadsby Chapman , Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                   Tarauto (Italy) , \n                   Naples (Italy) , Mahometanism, \n                   Joseph Kenny Meadows '\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]","[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                   Alonzo Potter or \n                   Horatio Potter ). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America , (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                   Lewis \"Lew\" Wallace and his wife \n                   Susan Arnold Wallace are their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                   Samuel Wylie Crawford ).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                   Benson John Lossing 's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]","[Says \n                   Harper and Brothers are about to\n                  put his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812 in type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                   George Washington to \n                   Alexander Hamilton regarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                   A Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865 by \n                   Rushmore G. Horton . ]","[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                   Brantz Mayer for Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                   Benjamin Thompson ). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                   Edward Young . ]","[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                   Duchess County . Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                   Honesdale, PA , and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                   Poughkeepsie near the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                   Honesdale one, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]","[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                   Newport Daily News containing the notice of the death of \n                   Henry Theodore Tuckerman . Says \n                   Evert Augustus Duyckinck has just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                   Joseph Green Cogswell for\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries ), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                   Sidney Edwards Morris . ]","[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]","[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                   Cincinnati Commerical with its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries . Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                   Vassar College , of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]","[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]","[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                   Morgan Dix is seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                   Henry L. Ziegenfuss ; \n                   Stephen H. Synnot ; \n                   Robert Fulton Crary ; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                   William A. Davies ; \n                   Sheldon Davis ; \n                   Philander Kinney Cady ; \n                   Horatio Potter ; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]","[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America . Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                   George Washington ; \n                   Nathanael Greene ; \n                   William Heath ; \n                   John Stark . ]","[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                   Hours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution ) from \n                   Funk and Wagnalls . Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]","[ \n                   Mason Brothers is the firm name\n                  for \n                   Lowell Marson, Jr. and \n                   Daniel Gregory Mason . The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                   M. Aynes . ]","[It was witnessed by \n                   Helen R. M. Lossing and \n                   Y. L. Perine . In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                   History of New York City by \n                   Benson John Lossing ;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]","[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                   Benson John Lossing has paid in\n                  full. Mentions: Helen, Fanny, Panic of 1873.]","See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","University of Virginia. Library. Special\n            Collections Dept.","Harper and Brothers","Vassar College","Funk and Wagnalls","Mason Brothers","Benson John Lossing","John Wakefield Francis","Henry Wadsworth Longfellow","John Wingate Thornton","Andrew Jackson","John Burgoyne","Elizabeth Oakes\n                  Smith","Anne Estelle ? Lewis","William A. Whitman","Charles Willson Peale","James Peale","George Washington","James Lorimer Graham,\n                  Jr.","Philip John Schuyler","Edwin Denison Morgan","William Henry","Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn","Justus Starr Redfield","Elizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield","Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson","Abraham Lincoln","Helen Sweet Lossing","William Charles Redfield","John Gadsby Chapman","Joseph Kenny Meadows","C. McAllister","Alonzo Potter","Horatio Potter","Lewis \"Lew\" Wallace","Susan Arnold Wallace","Samuel Wylie Crawford","Charles Chauncey\n                  Burr","Alexander Hamilton","Rushmore G. Horton","Frank M. Etting","Brantz Mayer","Benjamin Thompson","Edward Young","Harvey Gridley\n                  Eastman","Samuel Ward Francis","Henry Theodore Tuckerman","Evert Augustus Duyckinck","Joseph Green Cogswell","Sidney Edwards Morris","Charles Colcock\n                  Jones","Lewis Jacob Cist","William Leete Stone","Morgan Dix","Henry L. Ziegenfuss","Stephen H. Synnot","Robert Fulton Crary","William A. Davies","Sheldon Davis","Philander Kinney Cady","Tristram Coffin","Nathanael Greene","William Heath","John Stark","Helen R. M. Lossing","Lowell Marson, Jr.","Daniel Gregory Mason","M. Aynes","Francis Baker","George Edward Perine","Y. L. Perine","Ulysses Cole","English"],"unitid_tesim":["7857"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Benson John Lossing Collection"],"collection_title_tesim":["Benson John Lossing Collection"],"collection_ssim":["Benson John Lossing Collection"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["Deposit \n             [1963 December 17] 1965 March 6"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["25 items"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to research.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to research."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBenson John Lossing\n            Collection, Accession 7857, Special Collections Department, University of\n         Virginia Library\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Benson John Lossing\n            Collection, Accession 7857, Special Collections Department, University of\n         Virginia Library"],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eFunded in part by a grant from the National Endowment\n            for the Humanities\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Funding Note"],"processinfo_tesim":["Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment\n            for the Humanities"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Published as a letter to the editor of \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThe American Whig Review\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e(Oct. 1852); critical of the article\n                  \"Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution\" ( \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Whig Review\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e, Sept. 1852)]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Explains why he has not returned the paroles\n                  which he is using in the appendix to the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Refers to the attached circular which\n                  requests material for the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field-Book of the War of\n                     1812\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eand a history of the French domain and\n                  advertises his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Outlines how he plans to approach the\n                  upcoming projects, including extensive travel to\n                  collect material. Mentions: \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eFlorida\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAndrew Jackson\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Burgoyne\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eQuebec\u003c/geogname\u003e, Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eCreek County\u003c/geogname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eDaily Times\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eof that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAnne Estelle ? Lewis\u003c/persname\u003e. \"]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Willson Peale\u003c/persname\u003eor \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJames Peale\u003c/persname\u003e) etching of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003ein 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. Relates some\n                  quotations in describing himself.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Explains why he has not written sooner. Regrets\n                  that he cannot help him, though he is flattered by\n                  Graham's intention to illustrate Lossing's \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003efor presentation to the historical society.\n                  Explains that he has few autographs and no\n                  duplicates. Says the papers he has used were borrowed\n                  and that the papers Graham saw in his room were\n                  placed in the state archives in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eAlbany\u003c/geogname\u003e. Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003ePhilip John Schuyler\u003c/persname\u003ewhich he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Asks for a promotion for \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Henry\u003c/persname\u003e? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eDewitt Clinton Littlejohn\u003c/persname\u003e, Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eItaly\u003c/geogname\u003e's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield\u003c/persname\u003e's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eOtraunto\u003c/geogname\u003e, including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eUnited States\u003c/geogname\u003eand expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson\u003c/persname\u003ecommanding the North instead of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham Lincoln\u003c/persname\u003e, his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eFredericksburg\u003c/geogname\u003e(12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003eand the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003enow and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHelen Sweet Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e, Archie's\n                  mother, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Charles Redfield\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Gadsby Chapman\u003c/persname\u003e, Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eTarauto (Italy)\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eNaples (Italy)\u003c/geogname\u003e, Mahometanism, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Kenny Meadows\u003c/persname\u003e'\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAlonzo Potter\u003c/persname\u003eor \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHoratio Potter\u003c/persname\u003e). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e, (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eLewis \"Lew\" Wallace\u003c/persname\u003eand his wife \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSusan Arnold Wallace\u003c/persname\u003eare their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Wylie Crawford\u003c/persname\u003e).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Says \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eHarper and Brothers\u003c/corpname\u003eare about to\n                  put his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003ein type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003eto \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAlexander Hamilton\u003c/persname\u003eregarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eA Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eRushmore G. Horton\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBrantz Mayer\u003c/persname\u003efor Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenjamin Thompson\u003c/persname\u003e). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Young\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eDuchess County\u003c/geogname\u003e. Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eHonesdale, PA\u003c/geogname\u003e, and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003ePoughkeepsie\u003c/geogname\u003enear the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eHonesdale\u003c/geogname\u003eone, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eNewport Daily News\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003econtaining the notice of the death of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Theodore Tuckerman\u003c/persname\u003e. Says \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eEvert Augustus Duyckinck\u003c/persname\u003ehas just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Green Cogswell\u003c/persname\u003efor\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSidney Edwards Morris\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eCincinnati Commerical\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003ewith its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eVassar College\u003c/corpname\u003e, of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eMorgan Dix\u003c/persname\u003eis seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHenry L. Ziegenfuss\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eStephen H. Synnot\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Fulton Crary\u003c/persname\u003e; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam A. Davies\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSheldon Davis\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003ePhilander Kinney Cady\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHoratio Potter\u003c/persname\u003e; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eNathanael Greene\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Heath\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Stark\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eHours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e) from \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eFunk and Wagnalls\u003c/corpname\u003e. Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[ \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eMason Brothers\u003c/corpname\u003eis the firm name\n                  for \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eLowell Marson, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003eand \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eDaniel Gregory Mason\u003c/persname\u003e. The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eM. Aynes\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[It was witnessed by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHelen R. M. Lossing\u003c/persname\u003eand \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eY. L. Perine\u003c/persname\u003e. In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eHistory of New York City\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003ehas paid in\n                  full. Mentions: Helen, Fanny, Panic of 1873.]\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_tesim":["[Published as a letter to the editor of \n                   The American Whig Review (Oct. 1852); critical of the article\n                  \"Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution\" ( \n                   American Whig Review , Sept. 1852)]","[Explains why he has not returned the paroles\n                  which he is using in the appendix to the \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Refers to the attached circular which\n                  requests material for the \n                   Pictorial Field-Book of the War of\n                     1812 and a history of the French domain and\n                  advertises his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Outlines how he plans to approach the\n                  upcoming projects, including extensive travel to\n                  collect material. Mentions: \n                   Florida , \n                   Andrew Jackson , \n                   John Burgoyne , \n                   Quebec , Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                   New Orleans , \n                   Creek County . ]","[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                   Daily Times of that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                   Anne Estelle ? Lewis . \"]","[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                   Charles Willson Peale or \n                   James Peale ) etching of \n                   George Washington in 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. Relates some\n                  quotations in describing himself.]","[Explains why he has not written sooner. Regrets\n                  that he cannot help him, though he is flattered by\n                  Graham's intention to illustrate Lossing's \n                   Pictorial Field Book of Revolution for presentation to the historical society.\n                  Explains that he has few autographs and no\n                  duplicates. Says the papers he has used were borrowed\n                  and that the papers Graham saw in his room were\n                  placed in the state archives in \n                   Albany . Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                   Philip John Schuyler which he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                   The Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler . ]","[Asks for a promotion for \n                   William Henry ? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                   Virginia . \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                   Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn , Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]","[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                   Italy 's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                   Elizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield 's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                   Otraunto , including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                   United States and expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                   Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson commanding the North instead of \n                   Abraham Lincoln , his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                   Fredericksburg (12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                   Richmond and the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                   Europe now and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                   Helen Sweet Lossing , Archie's\n                  mother, \n                   William Charles Redfield , \n                   John Gadsby Chapman , Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                   Tarauto (Italy) , \n                   Naples (Italy) , Mahometanism, \n                   Joseph Kenny Meadows '\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]","[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                   Alonzo Potter or \n                   Horatio Potter ). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America , (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                   Lewis \"Lew\" Wallace and his wife \n                   Susan Arnold Wallace are their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                   Samuel Wylie Crawford ).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                   Benson John Lossing 's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]","[Says \n                   Harper and Brothers are about to\n                  put his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812 in type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                   George Washington to \n                   Alexander Hamilton regarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                   A Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865 by \n                   Rushmore G. Horton . ]","[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                   Brantz Mayer for Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                   Benjamin Thompson ). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                   Edward Young . ]","[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                   Duchess County . Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                   Honesdale, PA , and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                   Poughkeepsie near the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                   Honesdale one, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]","[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                   Newport Daily News containing the notice of the death of \n                   Henry Theodore Tuckerman . Says \n                   Evert Augustus Duyckinck has just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                   Joseph Green Cogswell for\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries ), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                   Sidney Edwards Morris . ]","[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]","[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                   Cincinnati Commerical with its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries . Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                   Vassar College , of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]","[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]","[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                   Morgan Dix is seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                   Henry L. Ziegenfuss ; \n                   Stephen H. Synnot ; \n                   Robert Fulton Crary ; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                   William A. Davies ; \n                   Sheldon Davis ; \n                   Philander Kinney Cady ; \n                   Horatio Potter ; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]","[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America . Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                   George Washington ; \n                   Nathanael Greene ; \n                   William Heath ; \n                   John Stark . ]","[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                   Hours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution ) from \n                   Funk and Wagnalls . Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]","[ \n                   Mason Brothers is the firm name\n                  for \n                   Lowell Marson, Jr. and \n                   Daniel Gregory Mason . The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                   M. Aynes . ]","[It was witnessed by \n                   Helen R. M. Lossing and \n                   Y. L. Perine . In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                   History of New York City by \n                   Benson John Lossing ;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]","[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                   Benson John Lossing has paid in\n                  full. 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Most of letter given to describing, in sorrowful terms, the recent death of his wife and comparing it with Dr. Francis's sorrow at the loss of his son, Lou, who apparently was briefly treated in Lossing's book.]\u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00297#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"viu_viu00297","ead_ssi":"viu_viu00297","_root_":"viu_viu00297","_nest_parent_":"viu_viu00297","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/uva-sc/viu00297.xml","title_ssm":["Benson John Lossing Collection"],"title_tesim":["Benson John Lossing Collection"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["7857-b"],"text":["7857-b","Benson John Lossing Collection","4 items","Collection is open to research.","Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment\n            for the Humanities","[Expresses appreciation for Dr. Francis's letter\n                  commending his book and asks if it can be used by his\n                  publisher. Most of letter given to describing, in\n                  sorrowful terms, the recent death of his wife and\n                  comparing it with Dr. Francis's sorrow at the loss of\n                  his son, Lou, who apparently was briefly treated in\n                  Lossing's book.]","[Tells correspondent that his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812 is printed and will be published in parts,\n                  \"the first to be issued immediately after the\n                  approaching election.\" Adds that the work contains a\n                  portrait of General Montgomery \"a copy of which you\n                  lent me several years ago, when I called upon you\n                  with our mutual friend, Mr. \n                   Frederick Kidder . \" Desires to\n                  return his portrait and asks how this might be best\n                  accomplished.]","[Describes his efforts, long hours and strain, in\n                  writing his recent books. Speaks of visit to the \n                   Philadelphia Centennial\n                  Exhibition where \"[we] spent the evening at\n                  Mr. Drexel's who gave a reception to Dom Pedro.\" Says\n                  his latest work \n                   The American Centenary was issued in a superb and too costly\n                  volume---$20 in `half-calf' and muslin and contains .\n                  . . a great deal from my storehouse of facts.\"]","[Encloses his check for $10 and says, \"Since you\n                  have all knowledge while I have very little . . . I\n                  leave the matter wholly to your judgement satisfied\n                  that you will do all that any man can do.\"]","See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","University of Virginia. Library. 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Refers to the attached circular which\n                  requests material for the \n                   Pictorial Field-Book of the War of\n                     1812 and a history of the French domain and\n                  advertises his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Outlines how he plans to approach the\n                  upcoming projects, including extensive travel to\n                  collect material. Mentions: \n                   Florida , \n                   Andrew Jackson , \n                   John Burgoyne , \n                   Quebec , Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                   New Orleans , \n                   Creek County . ]","[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                   Daily Times of that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                   Anne Estelle ? Lewis . \"]","[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                   Charles Willson Peale or \n                   James Peale ) etching of \n                   George Washington in 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. Relates some\n                  quotations in describing himself.]","[Explains why he has not written sooner. Regrets\n                  that he cannot help him, though he is flattered by\n                  Graham's intention to illustrate Lossing's \n                   Pictorial Field Book of Revolution for presentation to the historical society.\n                  Explains that he has few autographs and no\n                  duplicates. Says the papers he has used were borrowed\n                  and that the papers Graham saw in his room were\n                  placed in the state archives in \n                   Albany . Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                   Philip John Schuyler which he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                   The Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler . ]","[Asks for a promotion for \n                   William Henry ? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                   Virginia . \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                   Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn , Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]","[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                   Italy 's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                   Elizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield 's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                   Otraunto , including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                   United States and expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                   Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson commanding the North instead of \n                   Abraham Lincoln , his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                   Fredericksburg (12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                   Richmond and the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                   Europe now and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                   Helen Sweet Lossing , Archie's\n                  mother, \n                   William Charles Redfield , \n                   John Gadsby Chapman , Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                   Tarauto (Italy) , \n                   Naples (Italy) , Mahometanism, \n                   Joseph Kenny Meadows '\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]","[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                   Alonzo Potter or \n                   Horatio Potter ). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America , (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                   Lewis \"Lew\" Wallace and his wife \n                   Susan Arnold Wallace are their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                   Samuel Wylie Crawford ).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                   Benson John Lossing 's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]","[Says \n                   Harper and Brothers are about to\n                  put his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812 in type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                   George Washington to \n                   Alexander Hamilton regarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                   A Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865 by \n                   Rushmore G. Horton . ]","[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                   Brantz Mayer for Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                   Benjamin Thompson ). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                   Edward Young . ]","[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                   Duchess County . Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                   Honesdale, PA , and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                   Poughkeepsie near the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                   Honesdale one, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]","[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                   Newport Daily News containing the notice of the death of \n                   Henry Theodore Tuckerman . Says \n                   Evert Augustus Duyckinck has just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                   Joseph Green Cogswell for\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries ), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                   Sidney Edwards Morris . ]","[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]","[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                   Cincinnati Commerical with its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries . Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                   Vassar College , of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]","[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]","[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                   Morgan Dix is seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                   Henry L. Ziegenfuss ; \n                   Stephen H. Synnot ; \n                   Robert Fulton Crary ; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                   William A. Davies ; \n                   Sheldon Davis ; \n                   Philander Kinney Cady ; \n                   Horatio Potter ; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]","[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America . Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                   George Washington ; \n                   Nathanael Greene ; \n                   William Heath ; \n                   John Stark . ]","[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                   Hours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution ) from \n                   Funk and Wagnalls . Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]","[ \n                   Mason Brothers is the firm name\n                  for \n                   Lowell Marson, Jr. and \n                   Daniel Gregory Mason . The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                   M. Aynes . ]","[It was witnessed by \n                   Helen R. M. Lossing and \n                   Y. L. Perine . In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                   History of New York City by \n                   Benson John Lossing ;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]","[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                   Benson John Lossing has paid in\n                  full. Mentions: Helen, Fanny, Panic of 1873.]","See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","University of Virginia. Library. 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Refers to the attached circular which\n                  requests material for the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field-Book of the War of\n                     1812\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eand a history of the French domain and\n                  advertises his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Outlines how he plans to approach the\n                  upcoming projects, including extensive travel to\n                  collect material. Mentions: \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eFlorida\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAndrew Jackson\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Burgoyne\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eQuebec\u003c/geogname\u003e, Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eCreek County\u003c/geogname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eDaily Times\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eof that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAnne Estelle ? Lewis\u003c/persname\u003e. \"]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Willson Peale\u003c/persname\u003eor \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJames Peale\u003c/persname\u003e) etching of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003ein 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. Relates some\n                  quotations in describing himself.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Explains why he has not written sooner. Regrets\n                  that he cannot help him, though he is flattered by\n                  Graham's intention to illustrate Lossing's \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003efor presentation to the historical society.\n                  Explains that he has few autographs and no\n                  duplicates. Says the papers he has used were borrowed\n                  and that the papers Graham saw in his room were\n                  placed in the state archives in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eAlbany\u003c/geogname\u003e. Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003ePhilip John Schuyler\u003c/persname\u003ewhich he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Asks for a promotion for \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Henry\u003c/persname\u003e? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eDewitt Clinton Littlejohn\u003c/persname\u003e, Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eItaly\u003c/geogname\u003e's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield\u003c/persname\u003e's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eOtraunto\u003c/geogname\u003e, including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eUnited States\u003c/geogname\u003eand expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson\u003c/persname\u003ecommanding the North instead of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham Lincoln\u003c/persname\u003e, his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eFredericksburg\u003c/geogname\u003e(12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003eand the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003enow and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHelen Sweet Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e, Archie's\n                  mother, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Charles Redfield\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Gadsby Chapman\u003c/persname\u003e, Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eTarauto (Italy)\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eNaples (Italy)\u003c/geogname\u003e, Mahometanism, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Kenny Meadows\u003c/persname\u003e'\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAlonzo Potter\u003c/persname\u003eor \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHoratio Potter\u003c/persname\u003e). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e, (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eLewis \"Lew\" Wallace\u003c/persname\u003eand his wife \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSusan Arnold Wallace\u003c/persname\u003eare their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Wylie Crawford\u003c/persname\u003e).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Says \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eHarper and Brothers\u003c/corpname\u003eare about to\n                  put his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003ein type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003eto \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAlexander Hamilton\u003c/persname\u003eregarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eA Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eRushmore G. Horton\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBrantz Mayer\u003c/persname\u003efor Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenjamin Thompson\u003c/persname\u003e). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Young\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eDuchess County\u003c/geogname\u003e. Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eHonesdale, PA\u003c/geogname\u003e, and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003ePoughkeepsie\u003c/geogname\u003enear the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eHonesdale\u003c/geogname\u003eone, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eNewport Daily News\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003econtaining the notice of the death of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Theodore Tuckerman\u003c/persname\u003e. Says \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eEvert Augustus Duyckinck\u003c/persname\u003ehas just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Green Cogswell\u003c/persname\u003efor\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSidney Edwards Morris\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eCincinnati Commerical\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003ewith its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eVassar College\u003c/corpname\u003e, of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eMorgan Dix\u003c/persname\u003eis seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHenry L. Ziegenfuss\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eStephen H. Synnot\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Fulton Crary\u003c/persname\u003e; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam A. Davies\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSheldon Davis\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003ePhilander Kinney Cady\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHoratio Potter\u003c/persname\u003e; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eNathanael Greene\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Heath\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Stark\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eHours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e) from \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eFunk and Wagnalls\u003c/corpname\u003e. Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[ \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eMason Brothers\u003c/corpname\u003eis the firm name\n                  for \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eLowell Marson, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003eand \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eDaniel Gregory Mason\u003c/persname\u003e. The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eM. Aynes\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[It was witnessed by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHelen R. M. Lossing\u003c/persname\u003eand \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eY. L. Perine\u003c/persname\u003e. In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eHistory of New York City\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003ehas paid in\n                  full. Mentions: Helen, Fanny, Panic of 1873.]\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_tesim":["[Published as a letter to the editor of \n                   The American Whig Review (Oct. 1852); critical of the article\n                  \"Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution\" ( \n                   American Whig Review , Sept. 1852)]","[Explains why he has not returned the paroles\n                  which he is using in the appendix to the \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Refers to the attached circular which\n                  requests material for the \n                   Pictorial Field-Book of the War of\n                     1812 and a history of the French domain and\n                  advertises his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Outlines how he plans to approach the\n                  upcoming projects, including extensive travel to\n                  collect material. Mentions: \n                   Florida , \n                   Andrew Jackson , \n                   John Burgoyne , \n                   Quebec , Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                   New Orleans , \n                   Creek County . ]","[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                   Daily Times of that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                   Anne Estelle ? Lewis . \"]","[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                   Charles Willson Peale or \n                   James Peale ) etching of \n                   George Washington in 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. Relates some\n                  quotations in describing himself.]","[Explains why he has not written sooner. Regrets\n                  that he cannot help him, though he is flattered by\n                  Graham's intention to illustrate Lossing's \n                   Pictorial Field Book of Revolution for presentation to the historical society.\n                  Explains that he has few autographs and no\n                  duplicates. Says the papers he has used were borrowed\n                  and that the papers Graham saw in his room were\n                  placed in the state archives in \n                   Albany . Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                   Philip John Schuyler which he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                   The Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler . ]","[Asks for a promotion for \n                   William Henry ? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                   Virginia . \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                   Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn , Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]","[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                   Italy 's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                   Elizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield 's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                   Otraunto , including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                   United States and expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                   Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson commanding the North instead of \n                   Abraham Lincoln , his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                   Fredericksburg (12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                   Richmond and the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                   Europe now and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                   Helen Sweet Lossing , Archie's\n                  mother, \n                   William Charles Redfield , \n                   John Gadsby Chapman , Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                   Tarauto (Italy) , \n                   Naples (Italy) , Mahometanism, \n                   Joseph Kenny Meadows '\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]","[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                   Alonzo Potter or \n                   Horatio Potter ). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America , (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                   Lewis \"Lew\" Wallace and his wife \n                   Susan Arnold Wallace are their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                   Samuel Wylie Crawford ).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                   Benson John Lossing 's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]","[Says \n                   Harper and Brothers are about to\n                  put his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812 in type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                   George Washington to \n                   Alexander Hamilton regarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                   A Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865 by \n                   Rushmore G. Horton . ]","[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                   Brantz Mayer for Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                   Benjamin Thompson ). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                   Edward Young . ]","[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                   Duchess County . Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                   Honesdale, PA , and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                   Poughkeepsie near the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                   Honesdale one, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]","[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                   Newport Daily News containing the notice of the death of \n                   Henry Theodore Tuckerman . Says \n                   Evert Augustus Duyckinck has just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                   Joseph Green Cogswell for\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries ), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                   Sidney Edwards Morris . ]","[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]","[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                   Cincinnati Commerical with its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries . Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                   Vassar College , of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]","[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]","[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                   Morgan Dix is seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                   Henry L. Ziegenfuss ; \n                   Stephen H. Synnot ; \n                   Robert Fulton Crary ; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                   William A. Davies ; \n                   Sheldon Davis ; \n                   Philander Kinney Cady ; \n                   Horatio Potter ; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]","[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America . Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                   George Washington ; \n                   Nathanael Greene ; \n                   William Heath ; \n                   John Stark . ]","[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                   Hours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution ) from \n                   Funk and Wagnalls . Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]","[ \n                   Mason Brothers is the firm name\n                  for \n                   Lowell Marson, Jr. and \n                   Daniel Gregory Mason . The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                   M. Aynes . ]","[It was witnessed by \n                   Helen R. M. Lossing and \n                   Y. L. Perine . In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                   History of New York City by \n                   Benson John Lossing ;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]","[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                   Benson John Lossing has paid in\n                  full. 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Refers to the attached circular which\n                  requests material for the \n                   Pictorial Field-Book of the War of\n                     1812 and a history of the French domain and\n                  advertises his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Outlines how he plans to approach the\n                  upcoming projects, including extensive travel to\n                  collect material. Mentions: \n                   Florida , \n                   Andrew Jackson , \n                   John Burgoyne , \n                   Quebec , Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                   New Orleans , \n                   Creek County . ]","[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                   Daily Times of that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                   Anne Estelle ? Lewis . \"]","[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                   Charles Willson Peale or \n                   James Peale ) etching of \n                   George Washington in 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. Relates some\n                  quotations in describing himself.]","[Explains why he has not written sooner. Regrets\n                  that he cannot help him, though he is flattered by\n                  Graham's intention to illustrate Lossing's \n                   Pictorial Field Book of Revolution for presentation to the historical society.\n                  Explains that he has few autographs and no\n                  duplicates. Says the papers he has used were borrowed\n                  and that the papers Graham saw in his room were\n                  placed in the state archives in \n                   Albany . Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                   Philip John Schuyler which he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                   The Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler . ]","[Asks for a promotion for \n                   William Henry ? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                   Virginia . \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                   Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn , Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]","[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                   Italy 's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                   Elizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield 's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                   Otraunto , including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                   United States and expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                   Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson commanding the North instead of \n                   Abraham Lincoln , his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                   Fredericksburg (12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                   Richmond and the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                   Europe now and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                   Helen Sweet Lossing , Archie's\n                  mother, \n                   William Charles Redfield , \n                   John Gadsby Chapman , Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                   Tarauto (Italy) , \n                   Naples (Italy) , Mahometanism, \n                   Joseph Kenny Meadows '\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]","[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                   Alonzo Potter or \n                   Horatio Potter ). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America , (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                   Lewis \"Lew\" Wallace and his wife \n                   Susan Arnold Wallace are their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                   Samuel Wylie Crawford ).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                   Benson John Lossing 's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]","[Says \n                   Harper and Brothers are about to\n                  put his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812 in type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                   George Washington to \n                   Alexander Hamilton regarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                   A Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865 by \n                   Rushmore G. Horton . ]","[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                   Brantz Mayer for Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                   Benjamin Thompson ). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                   Edward Young . ]","[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                   Duchess County . Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                   Honesdale, PA , and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                   Poughkeepsie near the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                   Honesdale one, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]","[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                   Newport Daily News containing the notice of the death of \n                   Henry Theodore Tuckerman . Says \n                   Evert Augustus Duyckinck has just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                   Joseph Green Cogswell for\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries ), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                   Sidney Edwards Morris . ]","[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]","[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                   Cincinnati Commerical with its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries . Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                   Vassar College , of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]","[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]","[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                   Morgan Dix is seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                   Henry L. Ziegenfuss ; \n                   Stephen H. Synnot ; \n                   Robert Fulton Crary ; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                   William A. Davies ; \n                   Sheldon Davis ; \n                   Philander Kinney Cady ; \n                   Horatio Potter ; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]","[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America . Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                   George Washington ; \n                   Nathanael Greene ; \n                   William Heath ; \n                   John Stark . ]","[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                   Hours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution ) from \n                   Funk and Wagnalls . Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]","[ \n                   Mason Brothers is the firm name\n                  for \n                   Lowell Marson, Jr. and \n                   Daniel Gregory Mason . The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                   M. Aynes . ]","[It was witnessed by \n                   Helen R. M. Lossing and \n                   Y. L. Perine . In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                   History of New York City by \n                   Benson John Lossing ;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]","[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                   Benson John Lossing has paid in\n                  full. Mentions: Helen, Fanny, Panic of 1873.]","See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","University of Virginia. Library. 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Refers to the attached circular which\n                  requests material for the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field-Book of the War of\n                     1812\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eand a history of the French domain and\n                  advertises his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Outlines how he plans to approach the\n                  upcoming projects, including extensive travel to\n                  collect material. Mentions: \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eFlorida\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAndrew Jackson\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Burgoyne\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eQuebec\u003c/geogname\u003e, Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eCreek County\u003c/geogname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eDaily Times\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eof that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAnne Estelle ? Lewis\u003c/persname\u003e. \"]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Willson Peale\u003c/persname\u003eor \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJames Peale\u003c/persname\u003e) etching of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003ein 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. Relates some\n                  quotations in describing himself.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Explains why he has not written sooner. Regrets\n                  that he cannot help him, though he is flattered by\n                  Graham's intention to illustrate Lossing's \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003efor presentation to the historical society.\n                  Explains that he has few autographs and no\n                  duplicates. Says the papers he has used were borrowed\n                  and that the papers Graham saw in his room were\n                  placed in the state archives in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eAlbany\u003c/geogname\u003e. Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003ePhilip John Schuyler\u003c/persname\u003ewhich he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Asks for a promotion for \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Henry\u003c/persname\u003e? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eDewitt Clinton Littlejohn\u003c/persname\u003e, Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eItaly\u003c/geogname\u003e's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield\u003c/persname\u003e's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eOtraunto\u003c/geogname\u003e, including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eUnited States\u003c/geogname\u003eand expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson\u003c/persname\u003ecommanding the North instead of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham Lincoln\u003c/persname\u003e, his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eFredericksburg\u003c/geogname\u003e(12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003eand the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003enow and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHelen Sweet Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e, Archie's\n                  mother, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Charles Redfield\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Gadsby Chapman\u003c/persname\u003e, Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eTarauto (Italy)\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eNaples (Italy)\u003c/geogname\u003e, Mahometanism, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Kenny Meadows\u003c/persname\u003e'\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAlonzo Potter\u003c/persname\u003eor \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHoratio Potter\u003c/persname\u003e). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e, (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eLewis \"Lew\" Wallace\u003c/persname\u003eand his wife \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSusan Arnold Wallace\u003c/persname\u003eare their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Wylie Crawford\u003c/persname\u003e).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Says \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eHarper and Brothers\u003c/corpname\u003eare about to\n                  put his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003ein type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003eto \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAlexander Hamilton\u003c/persname\u003eregarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eA Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eRushmore G. Horton\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBrantz Mayer\u003c/persname\u003efor Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenjamin Thompson\u003c/persname\u003e). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Young\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eDuchess County\u003c/geogname\u003e. Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eHonesdale, PA\u003c/geogname\u003e, and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003ePoughkeepsie\u003c/geogname\u003enear the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eHonesdale\u003c/geogname\u003eone, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eNewport Daily News\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003econtaining the notice of the death of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Theodore Tuckerman\u003c/persname\u003e. Says \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eEvert Augustus Duyckinck\u003c/persname\u003ehas just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Green Cogswell\u003c/persname\u003efor\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSidney Edwards Morris\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eCincinnati Commerical\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003ewith its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eVassar College\u003c/corpname\u003e, of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eMorgan Dix\u003c/persname\u003eis seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHenry L. Ziegenfuss\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eStephen H. Synnot\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Fulton Crary\u003c/persname\u003e; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam A. Davies\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSheldon Davis\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003ePhilander Kinney Cady\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHoratio Potter\u003c/persname\u003e; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eNathanael Greene\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Heath\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Stark\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eHours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e) from \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eFunk and Wagnalls\u003c/corpname\u003e. Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[ \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eMason Brothers\u003c/corpname\u003eis the firm name\n                  for \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eLowell Marson, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003eand \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eDaniel Gregory Mason\u003c/persname\u003e. The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eM. Aynes\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[It was witnessed by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHelen R. M. Lossing\u003c/persname\u003eand \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eY. L. Perine\u003c/persname\u003e. In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eHistory of New York City\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003ehas paid in\n                  full. Mentions: Helen, Fanny, Panic of 1873.]\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_tesim":["[Published as a letter to the editor of \n                   The American Whig Review (Oct. 1852); critical of the article\n                  \"Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution\" ( \n                   American Whig Review , Sept. 1852)]","[Explains why he has not returned the paroles\n                  which he is using in the appendix to the \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Refers to the attached circular which\n                  requests material for the \n                   Pictorial Field-Book of the War of\n                     1812 and a history of the French domain and\n                  advertises his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Outlines how he plans to approach the\n                  upcoming projects, including extensive travel to\n                  collect material. Mentions: \n                   Florida , \n                   Andrew Jackson , \n                   John Burgoyne , \n                   Quebec , Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                   New Orleans , \n                   Creek County . ]","[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                   Daily Times of that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                   Anne Estelle ? Lewis . \"]","[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                   Charles Willson Peale or \n                   James Peale ) etching of \n                   George Washington in 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. Relates some\n                  quotations in describing himself.]","[Explains why he has not written sooner. Regrets\n                  that he cannot help him, though he is flattered by\n                  Graham's intention to illustrate Lossing's \n                   Pictorial Field Book of Revolution for presentation to the historical society.\n                  Explains that he has few autographs and no\n                  duplicates. Says the papers he has used were borrowed\n                  and that the papers Graham saw in his room were\n                  placed in the state archives in \n                   Albany . Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                   Philip John Schuyler which he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                   The Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler . ]","[Asks for a promotion for \n                   William Henry ? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                   Virginia . \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                   Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn , Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]","[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                   Italy 's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                   Elizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield 's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                   Otraunto , including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                   United States and expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                   Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson commanding the North instead of \n                   Abraham Lincoln , his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                   Fredericksburg (12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                   Richmond and the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                   Europe now and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                   Helen Sweet Lossing , Archie's\n                  mother, \n                   William Charles Redfield , \n                   John Gadsby Chapman , Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                   Tarauto (Italy) , \n                   Naples (Italy) , Mahometanism, \n                   Joseph Kenny Meadows '\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]","[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                   Alonzo Potter or \n                   Horatio Potter ). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America , (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                   Lewis \"Lew\" Wallace and his wife \n                   Susan Arnold Wallace are their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                   Samuel Wylie Crawford ).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                   Benson John Lossing 's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]","[Says \n                   Harper and Brothers are about to\n                  put his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812 in type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                   George Washington to \n                   Alexander Hamilton regarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                   A Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865 by \n                   Rushmore G. Horton . ]","[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                   Brantz Mayer for Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                   Benjamin Thompson ). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                   Edward Young . ]","[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                   Duchess County . Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                   Honesdale, PA , and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                   Poughkeepsie near the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                   Honesdale one, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]","[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                   Newport Daily News containing the notice of the death of \n                   Henry Theodore Tuckerman . Says \n                   Evert Augustus Duyckinck has just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                   Joseph Green Cogswell for\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries ), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                   Sidney Edwards Morris . ]","[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]","[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                   Cincinnati Commerical with its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries . Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                   Vassar College , of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]","[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]","[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                   Morgan Dix is seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                   Henry L. Ziegenfuss ; \n                   Stephen H. Synnot ; \n                   Robert Fulton Crary ; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                   William A. Davies ; \n                   Sheldon Davis ; \n                   Philander Kinney Cady ; \n                   Horatio Potter ; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]","[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America . Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                   George Washington ; \n                   Nathanael Greene ; \n                   William Heath ; \n                   John Stark . ]","[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                   Hours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution ) from \n                   Funk and Wagnalls . Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]","[ \n                   Mason Brothers is the firm name\n                  for \n                   Lowell Marson, Jr. and \n                   Daniel Gregory Mason . The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                   M. Aynes . ]","[It was witnessed by \n                   Helen R. M. Lossing and \n                   Y. L. Perine . In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                   History of New York City by \n                   Benson John Lossing ;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]","[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                   Benson John Lossing has paid in\n                  full. 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Mentions that \n                   Lewis \"Lew\" Wallace and his wife \n                   Susan Arnold Wallace are their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                   Samuel Wylie Crawford ).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                   Benson John Lossing 's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]"],"title_filing_ssi":"Benson John Lossing to \n                   C. McAllister","title_ssm":["Benson John Lossingto \n                  C. McAllister"],"title_tesim":["Benson John Lossingto \n                  C. McAllister"],"unitdate_other_ssim":["1865 July 28"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1865"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Benson John Lossingto \n                  C. 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Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAlonzo Potter\u003c/persname\u003eor \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHoratio Potter\u003c/persname\u003e). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e, (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eLewis \"Lew\" Wallace\u003c/persname\u003eand his wife \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSusan Arnold Wallace\u003c/persname\u003eare their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Wylie Crawford\u003c/persname\u003e).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_tesim":["[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                   Alonzo Potter or \n                   Horatio Potter ). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America , (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                   Lewis \"Lew\" Wallace and his wife \n                   Susan Arnold Wallace are their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                   Samuel Wylie Crawford ).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                   Benson John Lossing 's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. 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Refers to the attached circular which\n                  requests material for the \n                   Pictorial Field-Book of the War of\n                     1812 and a history of the French domain and\n                  advertises his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Outlines how he plans to approach the\n                  upcoming projects, including extensive travel to\n                  collect material. Mentions: \n                   Florida , \n                   Andrew Jackson , \n                   John Burgoyne , \n                   Quebec , Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                   New Orleans , \n                   Creek County . ]","[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                   Daily Times of that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                   Anne Estelle ? Lewis . \"]","[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                   Charles Willson Peale or \n                   James Peale ) etching of \n                   George Washington in 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. Relates some\n                  quotations in describing himself.]","[Explains why he has not written sooner. Regrets\n                  that he cannot help him, though he is flattered by\n                  Graham's intention to illustrate Lossing's \n                   Pictorial Field Book of Revolution for presentation to the historical society.\n                  Explains that he has few autographs and no\n                  duplicates. Says the papers he has used were borrowed\n                  and that the papers Graham saw in his room were\n                  placed in the state archives in \n                   Albany . Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                   Philip John Schuyler which he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                   The Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler . ]","[Asks for a promotion for \n                   William Henry ? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                   Virginia . \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                   Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn , Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]","[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                   Italy 's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                   Elizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield 's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                   Otraunto , including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                   United States and expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                   Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson commanding the North instead of \n                   Abraham Lincoln , his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                   Fredericksburg (12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                   Richmond and the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                   Europe now and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                   Helen Sweet Lossing , Archie's\n                  mother, \n                   William Charles Redfield , \n                   John Gadsby Chapman , Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                   Tarauto (Italy) , \n                   Naples (Italy) , Mahometanism, \n                   Joseph Kenny Meadows '\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]","[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                   Alonzo Potter or \n                   Horatio Potter ). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America , (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                   Lewis \"Lew\" Wallace and his wife \n                   Susan Arnold Wallace are their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                   Samuel Wylie Crawford ).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                   Benson John Lossing 's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]","[Says \n                   Harper and Brothers are about to\n                  put his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812 in type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                   George Washington to \n                   Alexander Hamilton regarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                   A Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865 by \n                   Rushmore G. Horton . ]","[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                   Brantz Mayer for Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                   Benjamin Thompson ). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                   Edward Young . ]","[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                   Duchess County . Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                   Honesdale, PA , and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                   Poughkeepsie near the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                   Honesdale one, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]","[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                   Newport Daily News containing the notice of the death of \n                   Henry Theodore Tuckerman . Says \n                   Evert Augustus Duyckinck has just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                   Joseph Green Cogswell for\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries ), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                   Sidney Edwards Morris . ]","[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]","[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                   Cincinnati Commerical with its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries . Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                   Vassar College , of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]","[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]","[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                   Morgan Dix is seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                   Henry L. Ziegenfuss ; \n                   Stephen H. Synnot ; \n                   Robert Fulton Crary ; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                   William A. Davies ; \n                   Sheldon Davis ; \n                   Philander Kinney Cady ; \n                   Horatio Potter ; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]","[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America . Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                   George Washington ; \n                   Nathanael Greene ; \n                   William Heath ; \n                   John Stark . ]","[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                   Hours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution ) from \n                   Funk and Wagnalls . Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]","[ \n                   Mason Brothers is the firm name\n                  for \n                   Lowell Marson, Jr. and \n                   Daniel Gregory Mason . The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                   M. Aynes . ]","[It was witnessed by \n                   Helen R. M. Lossing and \n                   Y. L. Perine . In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                   History of New York City by \n                   Benson John Lossing ;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]","[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                   Benson John Lossing has paid in\n                  full. Mentions: Helen, Fanny, Panic of 1873.]","See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","University of Virginia. Library. Special\n            Collections Dept.","Harper and Brothers","Vassar College","Funk and Wagnalls","Mason Brothers","Benson John Lossing","John Wakefield Francis","Henry Wadsworth Longfellow","John Wingate Thornton","Andrew Jackson","John Burgoyne","Elizabeth Oakes\n                  Smith","Anne Estelle ? Lewis","William A. Whitman","Charles Willson Peale","James Peale","George Washington","James Lorimer Graham,\n                  Jr.","Philip John Schuyler","Edwin Denison Morgan","William Henry","Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn","Justus Starr Redfield","Elizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield","Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson","Abraham Lincoln","Helen Sweet Lossing","William Charles Redfield","John Gadsby Chapman","Joseph Kenny Meadows","C. McAllister","Alonzo Potter","Horatio Potter","Lewis \"Lew\" Wallace","Susan Arnold Wallace","Samuel Wylie Crawford","Charles Chauncey\n                  Burr","Alexander Hamilton","Rushmore G. Horton","Frank M. Etting","Brantz Mayer","Benjamin Thompson","Edward Young","Harvey Gridley\n                  Eastman","Samuel Ward Francis","Henry Theodore Tuckerman","Evert Augustus Duyckinck","Joseph Green Cogswell","Sidney Edwards Morris","Charles Colcock\n                  Jones","Lewis Jacob Cist","William Leete Stone","Morgan Dix","Henry L. Ziegenfuss","Stephen H. Synnot","Robert Fulton Crary","William A. Davies","Sheldon Davis","Philander Kinney Cady","Tristram Coffin","Nathanael Greene","William Heath","John Stark","Helen R. M. Lossing","Lowell Marson, Jr.","Daniel Gregory Mason","M. Aynes","Francis Baker","George Edward Perine","Y. L. Perine","Ulysses Cole","English"],"unitid_tesim":["7857"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Benson John Lossing Collection"],"collection_title_tesim":["Benson John Lossing Collection"],"collection_ssim":["Benson John Lossing Collection"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["Deposit \n             [1963 December 17] 1965 March 6"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["25 items"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to research.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to research."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBenson John Lossing\n            Collection, Accession 7857, Special Collections Department, University of\n         Virginia Library\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Benson John Lossing\n            Collection, Accession 7857, Special Collections Department, University of\n         Virginia Library"],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eFunded in part by a grant from the National Endowment\n            for the Humanities\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Funding Note"],"processinfo_tesim":["Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment\n            for the Humanities"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Published as a letter to the editor of \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThe American Whig Review\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e(Oct. 1852); critical of the article\n                  \"Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution\" ( \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Whig Review\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e, Sept. 1852)]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Explains why he has not returned the paroles\n                  which he is using in the appendix to the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Refers to the attached circular which\n                  requests material for the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field-Book of the War of\n                     1812\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eand a history of the French domain and\n                  advertises his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Outlines how he plans to approach the\n                  upcoming projects, including extensive travel to\n                  collect material. Mentions: \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eFlorida\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAndrew Jackson\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Burgoyne\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eQuebec\u003c/geogname\u003e, Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eCreek County\u003c/geogname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eDaily Times\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eof that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAnne Estelle ? Lewis\u003c/persname\u003e. \"]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Willson Peale\u003c/persname\u003eor \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJames Peale\u003c/persname\u003e) etching of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003ein 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. Relates some\n                  quotations in describing himself.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Explains why he has not written sooner. Regrets\n                  that he cannot help him, though he is flattered by\n                  Graham's intention to illustrate Lossing's \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003efor presentation to the historical society.\n                  Explains that he has few autographs and no\n                  duplicates. Says the papers he has used were borrowed\n                  and that the papers Graham saw in his room were\n                  placed in the state archives in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eAlbany\u003c/geogname\u003e. Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003ePhilip John Schuyler\u003c/persname\u003ewhich he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Asks for a promotion for \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Henry\u003c/persname\u003e? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eDewitt Clinton Littlejohn\u003c/persname\u003e, Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eItaly\u003c/geogname\u003e's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield\u003c/persname\u003e's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eOtraunto\u003c/geogname\u003e, including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eUnited States\u003c/geogname\u003eand expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson\u003c/persname\u003ecommanding the North instead of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham Lincoln\u003c/persname\u003e, his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eFredericksburg\u003c/geogname\u003e(12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003eand the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003enow and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHelen Sweet Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e, Archie's\n                  mother, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Charles Redfield\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Gadsby Chapman\u003c/persname\u003e, Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eTarauto (Italy)\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eNaples (Italy)\u003c/geogname\u003e, Mahometanism, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Kenny Meadows\u003c/persname\u003e'\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAlonzo Potter\u003c/persname\u003eor \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHoratio Potter\u003c/persname\u003e). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e, (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eLewis \"Lew\" Wallace\u003c/persname\u003eand his wife \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSusan Arnold Wallace\u003c/persname\u003eare their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Wylie Crawford\u003c/persname\u003e).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Says \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eHarper and Brothers\u003c/corpname\u003eare about to\n                  put his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003ein type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003eto \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAlexander Hamilton\u003c/persname\u003eregarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eA Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eRushmore G. Horton\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBrantz Mayer\u003c/persname\u003efor Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenjamin Thompson\u003c/persname\u003e). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Young\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eDuchess County\u003c/geogname\u003e. Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eHonesdale, PA\u003c/geogname\u003e, and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003ePoughkeepsie\u003c/geogname\u003enear the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eHonesdale\u003c/geogname\u003eone, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eNewport Daily News\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003econtaining the notice of the death of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Theodore Tuckerman\u003c/persname\u003e. Says \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eEvert Augustus Duyckinck\u003c/persname\u003ehas just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Green Cogswell\u003c/persname\u003efor\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSidney Edwards Morris\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eCincinnati Commerical\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003ewith its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eVassar College\u003c/corpname\u003e, of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eMorgan Dix\u003c/persname\u003eis seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHenry L. Ziegenfuss\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eStephen H. Synnot\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Fulton Crary\u003c/persname\u003e; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam A. Davies\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSheldon Davis\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003ePhilander Kinney Cady\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHoratio Potter\u003c/persname\u003e; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eNathanael Greene\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Heath\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Stark\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eHours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e) from \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eFunk and Wagnalls\u003c/corpname\u003e. Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[ \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eMason Brothers\u003c/corpname\u003eis the firm name\n                  for \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eLowell Marson, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003eand \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eDaniel Gregory Mason\u003c/persname\u003e. The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eM. Aynes\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[It was witnessed by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHelen R. M. Lossing\u003c/persname\u003eand \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eY. L. Perine\u003c/persname\u003e. In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eHistory of New York City\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003ehas paid in\n                  full. Mentions: Helen, Fanny, Panic of 1873.]\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_tesim":["[Published as a letter to the editor of \n                   The American Whig Review (Oct. 1852); critical of the article\n                  \"Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution\" ( \n                   American Whig Review , Sept. 1852)]","[Explains why he has not returned the paroles\n                  which he is using in the appendix to the \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Refers to the attached circular which\n                  requests material for the \n                   Pictorial Field-Book of the War of\n                     1812 and a history of the French domain and\n                  advertises his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Outlines how he plans to approach the\n                  upcoming projects, including extensive travel to\n                  collect material. Mentions: \n                   Florida , \n                   Andrew Jackson , \n                   John Burgoyne , \n                   Quebec , Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                   New Orleans , \n                   Creek County . ]","[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                   Daily Times of that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                   Anne Estelle ? Lewis . \"]","[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                   Charles Willson Peale or \n                   James Peale ) etching of \n                   George Washington in 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. Relates some\n                  quotations in describing himself.]","[Explains why he has not written sooner. Regrets\n                  that he cannot help him, though he is flattered by\n                  Graham's intention to illustrate Lossing's \n                   Pictorial Field Book of Revolution for presentation to the historical society.\n                  Explains that he has few autographs and no\n                  duplicates. Says the papers he has used were borrowed\n                  and that the papers Graham saw in his room were\n                  placed in the state archives in \n                   Albany . Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                   Philip John Schuyler which he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                   The Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler . ]","[Asks for a promotion for \n                   William Henry ? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                   Virginia . \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                   Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn , Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]","[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                   Italy 's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                   Elizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield 's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                   Otraunto , including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                   United States and expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                   Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson commanding the North instead of \n                   Abraham Lincoln , his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                   Fredericksburg (12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                   Richmond and the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                   Europe now and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                   Helen Sweet Lossing , Archie's\n                  mother, \n                   William Charles Redfield , \n                   John Gadsby Chapman , Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                   Tarauto (Italy) , \n                   Naples (Italy) , Mahometanism, \n                   Joseph Kenny Meadows '\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]","[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                   Alonzo Potter or \n                   Horatio Potter ). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America , (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                   Lewis \"Lew\" Wallace and his wife \n                   Susan Arnold Wallace are their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                   Samuel Wylie Crawford ).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                   Benson John Lossing 's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]","[Says \n                   Harper and Brothers are about to\n                  put his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812 in type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                   George Washington to \n                   Alexander Hamilton regarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                   A Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865 by \n                   Rushmore G. Horton . ]","[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                   Brantz Mayer for Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                   Benjamin Thompson ). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                   Edward Young . ]","[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                   Duchess County . Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                   Honesdale, PA , and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                   Poughkeepsie near the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                   Honesdale one, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]","[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                   Newport Daily News containing the notice of the death of \n                   Henry Theodore Tuckerman . Says \n                   Evert Augustus Duyckinck has just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                   Joseph Green Cogswell for\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries ), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                   Sidney Edwards Morris . ]","[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]","[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                   Cincinnati Commerical with its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries . Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                   Vassar College , of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]","[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]","[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                   Morgan Dix is seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                   Henry L. Ziegenfuss ; \n                   Stephen H. Synnot ; \n                   Robert Fulton Crary ; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                   William A. Davies ; \n                   Sheldon Davis ; \n                   Philander Kinney Cady ; \n                   Horatio Potter ; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]","[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America . Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                   George Washington ; \n                   Nathanael Greene ; \n                   William Heath ; \n                   John Stark . ]","[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                   Hours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution ) from \n                   Funk and Wagnalls . Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]","[ \n                   Mason Brothers is the firm name\n                  for \n                   Lowell Marson, Jr. and \n                   Daniel Gregory Mason . The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                   M. Aynes . ]","[It was witnessed by \n                   Helen R. M. Lossing and \n                   Y. L. Perine . In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                   History of New York City by \n                   Benson John Lossing ;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]","[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                   Benson John Lossing has paid in\n                  full. 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Says\n                  he wrote to \n                   Brantz Mayer for Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                   Benjamin Thompson ). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                   Edward Young . ]"],"_nest_path_":"/components#1/components#8","timestamp":"2026-05-21T12:50:01.893Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viu_viu00295","ead_ssi":"viu_viu00295","_root_":"viu_viu00295","_nest_parent_":"viu_viu00295","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/uva-sc/viu00295.xml","title_ssm":["Benson John Lossing Collection"],"title_tesim":["Benson John Lossing Collection"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["7857"],"text":["7857","Benson John Lossing Collection","25 items","Collection is open to research.","Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment\n            for the Humanities","[Published as a letter to the editor of \n                   The American Whig Review (Oct. 1852); critical of the article\n                  \"Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution\" ( \n                   American Whig Review , Sept. 1852)]","[Explains why he has not returned the paroles\n                  which he is using in the appendix to the \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Refers to the attached circular which\n                  requests material for the \n                   Pictorial Field-Book of the War of\n                     1812 and a history of the French domain and\n                  advertises his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Outlines how he plans to approach the\n                  upcoming projects, including extensive travel to\n                  collect material. Mentions: \n                   Florida , \n                   Andrew Jackson , \n                   John Burgoyne , \n                   Quebec , Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                   New Orleans , \n                   Creek County . ]","[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                   Daily Times of that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                   Anne Estelle ? Lewis . \"]","[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                   Charles Willson Peale or \n                   James Peale ) etching of \n                   George Washington in 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. Relates some\n                  quotations in describing himself.]","[Explains why he has not written sooner. Regrets\n                  that he cannot help him, though he is flattered by\n                  Graham's intention to illustrate Lossing's \n                   Pictorial Field Book of Revolution for presentation to the historical society.\n                  Explains that he has few autographs and no\n                  duplicates. Says the papers he has used were borrowed\n                  and that the papers Graham saw in his room were\n                  placed in the state archives in \n                   Albany . Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                   Philip John Schuyler which he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                   The Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler . ]","[Asks for a promotion for \n                   William Henry ? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                   Virginia . \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                   Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn , Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]","[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                   Italy 's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                   Elizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield 's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                   Otraunto , including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                   United States and expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                   Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson commanding the North instead of \n                   Abraham Lincoln , his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                   Fredericksburg (12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                   Richmond and the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                   Europe now and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                   Helen Sweet Lossing , Archie's\n                  mother, \n                   William Charles Redfield , \n                   John Gadsby Chapman , Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                   Tarauto (Italy) , \n                   Naples (Italy) , Mahometanism, \n                   Joseph Kenny Meadows '\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]","[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                   Alonzo Potter or \n                   Horatio Potter ). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America , (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                   Lewis \"Lew\" Wallace and his wife \n                   Susan Arnold Wallace are their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                   Samuel Wylie Crawford ).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                   Benson John Lossing 's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]","[Says \n                   Harper and Brothers are about to\n                  put his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812 in type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                   George Washington to \n                   Alexander Hamilton regarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                   A Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865 by \n                   Rushmore G. Horton . ]","[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                   Brantz Mayer for Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                   Benjamin Thompson ). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                   Edward Young . ]","[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                   Duchess County . Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                   Honesdale, PA , and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                   Poughkeepsie near the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                   Honesdale one, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]","[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                   Newport Daily News containing the notice of the death of \n                   Henry Theodore Tuckerman . Says \n                   Evert Augustus Duyckinck has just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                   Joseph Green Cogswell for\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries ), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                   Sidney Edwards Morris . ]","[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]","[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                   Cincinnati Commerical with its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries . Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                   Vassar College , of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]","[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]","[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                   Morgan Dix is seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                   Henry L. Ziegenfuss ; \n                   Stephen H. Synnot ; \n                   Robert Fulton Crary ; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                   William A. Davies ; \n                   Sheldon Davis ; \n                   Philander Kinney Cady ; \n                   Horatio Potter ; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]","[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America . Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                   George Washington ; \n                   Nathanael Greene ; \n                   William Heath ; \n                   John Stark . ]","[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                   Hours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution ) from \n                   Funk and Wagnalls . Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]","[ \n                   Mason Brothers is the firm name\n                  for \n                   Lowell Marson, Jr. and \n                   Daniel Gregory Mason . The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                   M. Aynes . ]","[It was witnessed by \n                   Helen R. M. Lossing and \n                   Y. L. Perine . In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                   History of New York City by \n                   Benson John Lossing ;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]","[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                   Benson John Lossing has paid in\n                  full. Mentions: Helen, Fanny, Panic of 1873.]","See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","University of Virginia. Library. Special\n            Collections Dept.","Harper and Brothers","Vassar College","Funk and Wagnalls","Mason Brothers","Benson John Lossing","John Wakefield Francis","Henry Wadsworth Longfellow","John Wingate Thornton","Andrew Jackson","John Burgoyne","Elizabeth Oakes\n                  Smith","Anne Estelle ? Lewis","William A. Whitman","Charles Willson Peale","James Peale","George Washington","James Lorimer Graham,\n                  Jr.","Philip John Schuyler","Edwin Denison Morgan","William Henry","Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn","Justus Starr Redfield","Elizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield","Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson","Abraham Lincoln","Helen Sweet Lossing","William Charles Redfield","John Gadsby Chapman","Joseph Kenny Meadows","C. McAllister","Alonzo Potter","Horatio Potter","Lewis \"Lew\" Wallace","Susan Arnold Wallace","Samuel Wylie Crawford","Charles Chauncey\n                  Burr","Alexander Hamilton","Rushmore G. Horton","Frank M. Etting","Brantz Mayer","Benjamin Thompson","Edward Young","Harvey Gridley\n                  Eastman","Samuel Ward Francis","Henry Theodore Tuckerman","Evert Augustus Duyckinck","Joseph Green Cogswell","Sidney Edwards Morris","Charles Colcock\n                  Jones","Lewis Jacob Cist","William Leete Stone","Morgan Dix","Henry L. Ziegenfuss","Stephen H. Synnot","Robert Fulton Crary","William A. Davies","Sheldon Davis","Philander Kinney Cady","Tristram Coffin","Nathanael Greene","William Heath","John Stark","Helen R. M. Lossing","Lowell Marson, Jr.","Daniel Gregory Mason","M. Aynes","Francis Baker","George Edward Perine","Y. L. Perine","Ulysses Cole","English"],"unitid_tesim":["7857"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Benson John Lossing Collection"],"collection_title_tesim":["Benson John Lossing Collection"],"collection_ssim":["Benson John Lossing Collection"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["Deposit \n             [1963 December 17] 1965 March 6"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["25 items"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to research.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to research."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBenson John Lossing\n            Collection, Accession 7857, Special Collections Department, University of\n         Virginia Library\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Benson John Lossing\n            Collection, Accession 7857, Special Collections Department, University of\n         Virginia Library"],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eFunded in part by a grant from the National Endowment\n            for the Humanities\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Funding Note"],"processinfo_tesim":["Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment\n            for the Humanities"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Published as a letter to the editor of \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThe American Whig Review\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e(Oct. 1852); critical of the article\n                  \"Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution\" ( \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Whig Review\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e, Sept. 1852)]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Explains why he has not returned the paroles\n                  which he is using in the appendix to the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Refers to the attached circular which\n                  requests material for the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field-Book of the War of\n                     1812\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eand a history of the French domain and\n                  advertises his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Outlines how he plans to approach the\n                  upcoming projects, including extensive travel to\n                  collect material. Mentions: \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eFlorida\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAndrew Jackson\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Burgoyne\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eQuebec\u003c/geogname\u003e, Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eCreek County\u003c/geogname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eDaily Times\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eof that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAnne Estelle ? Lewis\u003c/persname\u003e. \"]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Willson Peale\u003c/persname\u003eor \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJames Peale\u003c/persname\u003e) etching of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003ein 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. Relates some\n                  quotations in describing himself.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Explains why he has not written sooner. Regrets\n                  that he cannot help him, though he is flattered by\n                  Graham's intention to illustrate Lossing's \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003efor presentation to the historical society.\n                  Explains that he has few autographs and no\n                  duplicates. Says the papers he has used were borrowed\n                  and that the papers Graham saw in his room were\n                  placed in the state archives in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eAlbany\u003c/geogname\u003e. Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003ePhilip John Schuyler\u003c/persname\u003ewhich he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Asks for a promotion for \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Henry\u003c/persname\u003e? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eDewitt Clinton Littlejohn\u003c/persname\u003e, Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eItaly\u003c/geogname\u003e's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield\u003c/persname\u003e's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eOtraunto\u003c/geogname\u003e, including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eUnited States\u003c/geogname\u003eand expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson\u003c/persname\u003ecommanding the North instead of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham Lincoln\u003c/persname\u003e, his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eFredericksburg\u003c/geogname\u003e(12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003eand the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003enow and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHelen Sweet Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e, Archie's\n                  mother, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Charles Redfield\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Gadsby Chapman\u003c/persname\u003e, Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eTarauto (Italy)\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eNaples (Italy)\u003c/geogname\u003e, Mahometanism, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Kenny Meadows\u003c/persname\u003e'\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAlonzo Potter\u003c/persname\u003eor \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHoratio Potter\u003c/persname\u003e). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e, (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eLewis \"Lew\" Wallace\u003c/persname\u003eand his wife \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSusan Arnold Wallace\u003c/persname\u003eare their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Wylie Crawford\u003c/persname\u003e).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Says \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eHarper and Brothers\u003c/corpname\u003eare about to\n                  put his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003ein type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003eto \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAlexander Hamilton\u003c/persname\u003eregarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eA Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eRushmore G. Horton\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBrantz Mayer\u003c/persname\u003efor Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenjamin Thompson\u003c/persname\u003e). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Young\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eDuchess County\u003c/geogname\u003e. Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eHonesdale, PA\u003c/geogname\u003e, and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003ePoughkeepsie\u003c/geogname\u003enear the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eHonesdale\u003c/geogname\u003eone, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eNewport Daily News\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003econtaining the notice of the death of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Theodore Tuckerman\u003c/persname\u003e. Says \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eEvert Augustus Duyckinck\u003c/persname\u003ehas just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Green Cogswell\u003c/persname\u003efor\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSidney Edwards Morris\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eCincinnati Commerical\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003ewith its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eVassar College\u003c/corpname\u003e, of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eMorgan Dix\u003c/persname\u003eis seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHenry L. Ziegenfuss\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eStephen H. Synnot\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Fulton Crary\u003c/persname\u003e; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam A. Davies\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSheldon Davis\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003ePhilander Kinney Cady\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHoratio Potter\u003c/persname\u003e; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eNathanael Greene\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Heath\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Stark\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eHours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e) from \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eFunk and Wagnalls\u003c/corpname\u003e. Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[ \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eMason Brothers\u003c/corpname\u003eis the firm name\n                  for \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eLowell Marson, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003eand \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eDaniel Gregory Mason\u003c/persname\u003e. The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eM. Aynes\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[It was witnessed by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHelen R. M. Lossing\u003c/persname\u003eand \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eY. L. Perine\u003c/persname\u003e. In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eHistory of New York City\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003ehas paid in\n                  full. Mentions: Helen, Fanny, Panic of 1873.]\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_tesim":["[Published as a letter to the editor of \n                   The American Whig Review (Oct. 1852); critical of the article\n                  \"Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution\" ( \n                   American Whig Review , Sept. 1852)]","[Explains why he has not returned the paroles\n                  which he is using in the appendix to the \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Refers to the attached circular which\n                  requests material for the \n                   Pictorial Field-Book of the War of\n                     1812 and a history of the French domain and\n                  advertises his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Outlines how he plans to approach the\n                  upcoming projects, including extensive travel to\n                  collect material. Mentions: \n                   Florida , \n                   Andrew Jackson , \n                   John Burgoyne , \n                   Quebec , Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                   New Orleans , \n                   Creek County . ]","[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                   Daily Times of that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                   Anne Estelle ? Lewis . \"]","[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                   Charles Willson Peale or \n                   James Peale ) etching of \n                   George Washington in 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. Relates some\n                  quotations in describing himself.]","[Explains why he has not written sooner. Regrets\n                  that he cannot help him, though he is flattered by\n                  Graham's intention to illustrate Lossing's \n                   Pictorial Field Book of Revolution for presentation to the historical society.\n                  Explains that he has few autographs and no\n                  duplicates. Says the papers he has used were borrowed\n                  and that the papers Graham saw in his room were\n                  placed in the state archives in \n                   Albany . Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                   Philip John Schuyler which he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                   The Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler . ]","[Asks for a promotion for \n                   William Henry ? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                   Virginia . \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                   Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn , Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]","[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                   Italy 's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                   Elizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield 's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                   Otraunto , including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                   United States and expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                   Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson commanding the North instead of \n                   Abraham Lincoln , his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                   Fredericksburg (12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                   Richmond and the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                   Europe now and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                   Helen Sweet Lossing , Archie's\n                  mother, \n                   William Charles Redfield , \n                   John Gadsby Chapman , Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                   Tarauto (Italy) , \n                   Naples (Italy) , Mahometanism, \n                   Joseph Kenny Meadows '\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]","[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                   Alonzo Potter or \n                   Horatio Potter ). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America , (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                   Lewis \"Lew\" Wallace and his wife \n                   Susan Arnold Wallace are their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                   Samuel Wylie Crawford ).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                   Benson John Lossing 's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]","[Says \n                   Harper and Brothers are about to\n                  put his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812 in type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                   George Washington to \n                   Alexander Hamilton regarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                   A Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865 by \n                   Rushmore G. Horton . ]","[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                   Brantz Mayer for Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                   Benjamin Thompson ). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                   Edward Young . ]","[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                   Duchess County . Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                   Honesdale, PA , and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                   Poughkeepsie near the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                   Honesdale one, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]","[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                   Newport Daily News containing the notice of the death of \n                   Henry Theodore Tuckerman . Says \n                   Evert Augustus Duyckinck has just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                   Joseph Green Cogswell for\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries ), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                   Sidney Edwards Morris . ]","[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]","[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                   Cincinnati Commerical with its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries . Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                   Vassar College , of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]","[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]","[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                   Morgan Dix is seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                   Henry L. Ziegenfuss ; \n                   Stephen H. Synnot ; \n                   Robert Fulton Crary ; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                   William A. Davies ; \n                   Sheldon Davis ; \n                   Philander Kinney Cady ; \n                   Horatio Potter ; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]","[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America . Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                   George Washington ; \n                   Nathanael Greene ; \n                   William Heath ; \n                   John Stark . ]","[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                   Hours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution ) from \n                   Funk and Wagnalls . Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]","[ \n                   Mason Brothers is the firm name\n                  for \n                   Lowell Marson, Jr. and \n                   Daniel Gregory Mason . The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                   M. Aynes . ]","[It was witnessed by \n                   Helen R. M. Lossing and \n                   Y. L. Perine . In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                   History of New York City by \n                   Benson John Lossing ;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]","[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                   Benson John Lossing has paid in\n                  full. 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Refers to the attached circular which\n                  requests material for the \n                   Pictorial Field-Book of the War of\n                     1812 and a history of the French domain and\n                  advertises his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution . Outlines how he plans to approach the\n                  upcoming projects, including extensive travel to\n                  collect material. Mentions: \n                   Florida , \n                   Andrew Jackson , \n                   John Burgoyne , \n                   Quebec , Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                   New Orleans , \n                   Creek County . ]","[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                   Daily Times of that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                   Anne Estelle ? Lewis . \"]","[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                   Charles Willson Peale or \n                   James Peale ) etching of \n                   George Washington in 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. Relates some\n                  quotations in describing himself.]","[Explains why he has not written sooner. Regrets\n                  that he cannot help him, though he is flattered by\n                  Graham's intention to illustrate Lossing's \n                   Pictorial Field Book of Revolution for presentation to the historical society.\n                  Explains that he has few autographs and no\n                  duplicates. Says the papers he has used were borrowed\n                  and that the papers Graham saw in his room were\n                  placed in the state archives in \n                   Albany . Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                   Philip John Schuyler which he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                   The Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler . ]","[Asks for a promotion for \n                   William Henry ? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                   Virginia . \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                   Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn , Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]","[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                   Italy 's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                   Elizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield 's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                   Otraunto , including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                   United States and expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                   Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson commanding the North instead of \n                   Abraham Lincoln , his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                   Fredericksburg (12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                   Richmond and the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                   Europe now and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                   Helen Sweet Lossing , Archie's\n                  mother, \n                   William Charles Redfield , \n                   John Gadsby Chapman , Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                   Tarauto (Italy) , \n                   Naples (Italy) , Mahometanism, \n                   Joseph Kenny Meadows '\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]","[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                   Alonzo Potter or \n                   Horatio Potter ). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America , (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                   Lewis \"Lew\" Wallace and his wife \n                   Susan Arnold Wallace are their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                   Samuel Wylie Crawford ).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                   Benson John Lossing 's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]","[Says \n                   Harper and Brothers are about to\n                  put his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812 in type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                   George Washington to \n                   Alexander Hamilton regarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                   A Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865 by \n                   Rushmore G. Horton . ]","[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                   Brantz Mayer for Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                   Benjamin Thompson ). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                   Edward Young . ]","[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                   Duchess County . Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                   Honesdale, PA , and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                   Poughkeepsie near the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                   Honesdale one, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]","[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                   Newport Daily News containing the notice of the death of \n                   Henry Theodore Tuckerman . Says \n                   Evert Augustus Duyckinck has just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                   Joseph Green Cogswell for\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries ), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                   Sidney Edwards Morris . ]","[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]","[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                   Cincinnati Commerical with its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries . Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                   Vassar College , of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]","[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]","[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                   Morgan Dix is seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                   Henry L. Ziegenfuss ; \n                   Stephen H. Synnot ; \n                   Robert Fulton Crary ; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                   William A. Davies ; \n                   Sheldon Davis ; \n                   Philander Kinney Cady ; \n                   Horatio Potter ; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]","[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America . Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                   George Washington ; \n                   Nathanael Greene ; \n                   William Heath ; \n                   John Stark . ]","[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                   Hours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution ) from \n                   Funk and Wagnalls . Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]","[ \n                   Mason Brothers is the firm name\n                  for \n                   Lowell Marson, Jr. and \n                   Daniel Gregory Mason . The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                   M. Aynes . ]","[It was witnessed by \n                   Helen R. M. Lossing and \n                   Y. L. Perine . In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                   History of New York City by \n                   Benson John Lossing ;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]","[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                   Benson John Lossing has paid in\n                  full. Mentions: Helen, Fanny, Panic of 1873.]","See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","University of Virginia. Library. Special\n            Collections Dept.","Harper and Brothers","Vassar College","Funk and Wagnalls","Mason Brothers","Benson John Lossing","John Wakefield Francis","Henry Wadsworth Longfellow","John Wingate Thornton","Andrew Jackson","John Burgoyne","Elizabeth Oakes\n                  Smith","Anne Estelle ? Lewis","William A. Whitman","Charles Willson Peale","James Peale","George Washington","James Lorimer Graham,\n                  Jr.","Philip John Schuyler","Edwin Denison Morgan","William Henry","Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn","Justus Starr Redfield","Elizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield","Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson","Abraham Lincoln","Helen Sweet Lossing","William Charles Redfield","John Gadsby Chapman","Joseph Kenny Meadows","C. McAllister","Alonzo Potter","Horatio Potter","Lewis \"Lew\" Wallace","Susan Arnold Wallace","Samuel Wylie Crawford","Charles Chauncey\n                  Burr","Alexander Hamilton","Rushmore G. Horton","Frank M. Etting","Brantz Mayer","Benjamin Thompson","Edward Young","Harvey Gridley\n                  Eastman","Samuel Ward Francis","Henry Theodore Tuckerman","Evert Augustus Duyckinck","Joseph Green Cogswell","Sidney Edwards Morris","Charles Colcock\n                  Jones","Lewis Jacob Cist","William Leete Stone","Morgan Dix","Henry L. Ziegenfuss","Stephen H. Synnot","Robert Fulton Crary","William A. Davies","Sheldon Davis","Philander Kinney Cady","Tristram Coffin","Nathanael Greene","William Heath","John Stark","Helen R. M. Lossing","Lowell Marson, Jr.","Daniel Gregory Mason","M. Aynes","Francis Baker","George Edward Perine","Y. L. Perine","Ulysses Cole","English"],"unitid_tesim":["7857"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Benson John Lossing Collection"],"collection_title_tesim":["Benson John Lossing Collection"],"collection_ssim":["Benson John Lossing Collection"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["Deposit \n             [1963 December 17] 1965 March 6"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["25 items"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to research.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to research."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBenson John Lossing\n            Collection, Accession 7857, Special Collections Department, University of\n         Virginia Library\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Benson John Lossing\n            Collection, Accession 7857, Special Collections Department, University of\n         Virginia Library"],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eFunded in part by a grant from the National Endowment\n            for the Humanities\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Funding Note"],"processinfo_tesim":["Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment\n            for the Humanities"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Published as a letter to the editor of \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThe American Whig Review\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e(Oct. 1852); critical of the article\n                  \"Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution\" ( \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Whig Review\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e, Sept. 1852)]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Explains why he has not returned the paroles\n                  which he is using in the appendix to the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Refers to the attached circular which\n                  requests material for the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field-Book of the War of\n                     1812\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eand a history of the French domain and\n                  advertises his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of the\n                     Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Outlines how he plans to approach the\n                  upcoming projects, including extensive travel to\n                  collect material. Mentions: \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eFlorida\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAndrew Jackson\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Burgoyne\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eQuebec\u003c/geogname\u003e, Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eCreek County\u003c/geogname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eDaily Times\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eof that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAnne Estelle ? Lewis\u003c/persname\u003e. \"]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Willson Peale\u003c/persname\u003eor \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJames Peale\u003c/persname\u003e) etching of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003ein 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. Relates some\n                  quotations in describing himself.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Explains why he has not written sooner. Regrets\n                  that he cannot help him, though he is flattered by\n                  Graham's intention to illustrate Lossing's \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003efor presentation to the historical society.\n                  Explains that he has few autographs and no\n                  duplicates. Says the papers he has used were borrowed\n                  and that the papers Graham saw in his room were\n                  placed in the state archives in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eAlbany\u003c/geogname\u003e. Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003ePhilip John Schuyler\u003c/persname\u003ewhich he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Asks for a promotion for \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Henry\u003c/persname\u003e? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eDewitt Clinton Littlejohn\u003c/persname\u003e, Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eItaly\u003c/geogname\u003e's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield\u003c/persname\u003e's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eOtraunto\u003c/geogname\u003e, including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eUnited States\u003c/geogname\u003eand expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson\u003c/persname\u003ecommanding the North instead of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham Lincoln\u003c/persname\u003e, his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eFredericksburg\u003c/geogname\u003e(12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003eand the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003enow and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHelen Sweet Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e, Archie's\n                  mother, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Charles Redfield\u003c/persname\u003e, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Gadsby Chapman\u003c/persname\u003e, Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eTarauto (Italy)\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eNaples (Italy)\u003c/geogname\u003e, Mahometanism, \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Kenny Meadows\u003c/persname\u003e'\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAlonzo Potter\u003c/persname\u003eor \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHoratio Potter\u003c/persname\u003e). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e, (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eLewis \"Lew\" Wallace\u003c/persname\u003eand his wife \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSusan Arnold Wallace\u003c/persname\u003eare their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Wylie Crawford\u003c/persname\u003e).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Says \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eHarper and Brothers\u003c/corpname\u003eare about to\n                  put his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003ein type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003eto \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eAlexander Hamilton\u003c/persname\u003eregarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eA Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eRushmore G. Horton\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBrantz Mayer\u003c/persname\u003efor Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenjamin Thompson\u003c/persname\u003e). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Young\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eDuchess County\u003c/geogname\u003e. Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eHonesdale, PA\u003c/geogname\u003e, and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003ePoughkeepsie\u003c/geogname\u003enear the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                  \u003cgeogname\u003eHonesdale\u003c/geogname\u003eone, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eNewport Daily News\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003econtaining the notice of the death of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Theodore Tuckerman\u003c/persname\u003e. Says \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eEvert Augustus Duyckinck\u003c/persname\u003ehas just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Green Cogswell\u003c/persname\u003efor\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSidney Edwards Morris\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eCincinnati Commerical\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003ewith its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eVassar College\u003c/corpname\u003e, of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eMorgan Dix\u003c/persname\u003eis seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHenry L. Ziegenfuss\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eStephen H. Synnot\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Fulton Crary\u003c/persname\u003e; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam A. Davies\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eSheldon Davis\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003ePhilander Kinney Cady\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHoratio Potter\u003c/persname\u003e; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e. Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eNathanael Greene\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Heath\u003c/persname\u003e; \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Stark\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eHours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e) from \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eFunk and Wagnalls\u003c/corpname\u003e. Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[ \n                  \u003ccorpname\u003eMason Brothers\u003c/corpname\u003eis the firm name\n                  for \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eLowell Marson, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003eand \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eDaniel Gregory Mason\u003c/persname\u003e. The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eM. Aynes\u003c/persname\u003e. ]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[It was witnessed by \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eHelen R. M. Lossing\u003c/persname\u003eand \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eY. L. Perine\u003c/persname\u003e. In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                  \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eHistory of New York City\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003e;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                  \u003cpersname\u003eBenson John Lossing\u003c/persname\u003ehas paid in\n                  full. 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Mentions: \n                   Florida , \n                   Andrew Jackson , \n                   John Burgoyne , \n                   Quebec , Fond du Lac, French\n                  Jesuits and traders, \n                   New Orleans , \n                   Creek County . ]","[Thanks her for her rebuke of something published\n                  in the \n                   Daily Times of that day. Expresses shock at \"The\n                  indecency of your assailant's words and innuendos.\" A\n                  handwritten note on the back page says, \"Mr. Lossing\n                  here refers to an attack upon me by \n                   Anne Estelle ? Lewis . \"]","[Acknowledges receipt of and thanks for a\n                  photograph of Peale's ( ? \n                   Charles Willson Peale or \n                   James Peale ) etching of \n                   George Washington in 1787. Says\n                  he would appreciate having the photograph of a map he\n                  offered to send. Adds that he would like anything of\n                  the \"hoary\" past which he can send him. Relates some\n                  quotations in describing himself.]","[Explains why he has not written sooner. Regrets\n                  that he cannot help him, though he is flattered by\n                  Graham's intention to illustrate Lossing's \n                   Pictorial Field Book of Revolution for presentation to the historical society.\n                  Explains that he has few autographs and no\n                  duplicates. Says the papers he has used were borrowed\n                  and that the papers Graham saw in his room were\n                  placed in the state archives in \n                   Albany . Mentions that the papers\n                  of \n                   Philip John Schuyler which he now\n                  has will probably be placed in \"our Historical\n                  Society.\" Mentions: \n                   The Life and Times of Philip\n                     Schuyler . ]","[Asks for a promotion for \n                   William Henry ? Adriance to\n                  lieutenant in the 24th (Oswego) regiment. Mentions\n                  his bravery in \"the late 3 days' battles in \n                   Virginia . \" Gives background of\n                  attempts by others to gain his promotion. Mentions: \n                   Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn , Col.\n                  Rotch (in other handwriting in upper left\n                  corner.)]","[Mentions a letter from Lossing which didn't reach\n                  him. Expresses his regret at how little he has to\n                  show for 53 years of life. Mentions the loss of first\n                  his means of living and now his health (to \"breakbone\n                  fever\" [dengue]). Discusses the false belief that \n                   Italy 's climate is beneficial to\n                  invalids. Mentions the prevalence of both\n                  intermittent fever and influenza. Describes in depth\n                  the houses and humidity. Speaks of his wife \n                   Elizabeth Eaton Jones Redfield 's\n                  pulmonary problems. Says there is much to interest\n                  the traveller, but that a knowledge of the Italian\n                  language and history, as well as Greek history, is\n                  essential. Gives a brief history of \n                   Otraunto , including its sacking\n                  by the Turks in 1480. Mentions his own lack of\n                  knowledge of the area and his desire to write its\n                  history. Gives a colorful description of the olive\n                  trees. Speaks of the \"imbecility\" ruling in the \n                   United States and expresses his\n                  wish to have \n                   Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall)\n                  Jackson commanding the North instead of \n                   Abraham Lincoln , his Cabinet and\n                  \"half of his biggest generals.\" Compares the Battle\n                  of \n                   Fredericksburg (12/13 and 12/14)\n                  to the Battle at \n                   Richmond and the Bull Run\n                  Campaign. Begs Lossing to stop overworking himself\n                  and says his histories will benefit from his\n                  traveling to \n                   Europe now and writing later.\n                  Expresses pleasure that Archie is doing well and\n                  sends his and his wife's regards to Archie and his\n                  family. Mentions: Early Christians, \n                   Helen Sweet Lossing , Archie's\n                  mother, \n                   William Charles Redfield , \n                   John Gadsby Chapman , Temple of\n                  Minerva, \n                   Tarauto (Italy) , \n                   Naples (Italy) , Mahometanism, \n                   Joseph Kenny Meadows '\n                  \"Falstaff.\"]","[Mentions his failure to acknowledge McAllister's\n                  letter with an offer of assistance. Thanks him for\n                  the photo of Bishop Potter ( ? \n                   Alonzo Potter or \n                   Horatio Potter ). Says he's busy\n                  readying volume 1 of his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America , (probably) for the press. Mentions that \n                   Lewis \"Lew\" Wallace and his wife \n                   Susan Arnold Wallace are their\n                  guests and that he spent the day before with Gen.\n                  Crawford (probably \n                   Samuel Wylie Crawford ).\n                  Expresses hope for restoration of Mrs. McAllister's\n                  health and says a visit at \n                   Benson John Lossing 's in the\n                  fall should be the finishing touch. Mentions:\n                  Fanny.]","[Says \n                   Harper and Brothers are about to\n                  put his \n                   Pictorial Field Book of the War of\n                     1812 in type. Mentions an included sketch of the\n                  history of the two political parties of that time.\n                  Asks where he can find a copy of a 7-29-1792 letter\n                  from \n                   George Washington to \n                   Alexander Hamilton regarding\n                  Hamilton's uttering of \"Shameless political\n                  sentiment. Mentions: \n                   A Youth's History of the Great Civil War in\n                     the United States from 1861 to 1865 by \n                   Rushmore G. Horton . ]","[Answers a June 1866 letter which had arrived\n                  while he was in the South and had just surfaced. Says\n                  he wrote to \n                   Brantz Mayer for Etting's\n                  address. Encloses some photographs and returns the\n                  autographs of Count Rumford (pseudonym of \n                   Benjamin Thompson ). Speaks of\n                  his procrastination in making a drawing of the seal,\n                  but says he has now done both it and the signature.\n                  Asks if he has the motto on the ribbon, tells how he\n                  reads it and questions the repeat of the word \"lege.\"\n                  Mentions \n                   Edward Young . ]","[Regrets that he can't take part in the dedication\n                  of a memorial fountain honoring the soldiers of \n                   Duchess County . Describes a\n                  \"soldier's monument\" in \n                   Honesdale, PA , and expresses a\n                  desire for a similar one in \n                   Poughkeepsie near the fountain.\n                  Calls the objections of others to such a monument\n                  un-American. Mentions a sketch of the \n                   Honesdale one, which he promised\n                  to send to General smith but has mislaid. Mentions:\n                  Romans.]","[Thanks Francis for the copy of the \n                   Newport Daily News containing the notice of the death of \n                   Henry Theodore Tuckerman . Says \n                   Evert Augustus Duyckinck has just\n                  recommended that he ask Tuckermant to write a notice\n                  of \n                   Joseph Green Cogswell for\n                  Lossing's new magazine (probably \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries ), a prospectus of which is enclosed. Says\n                  he has prepared an obituary of Tuckerman. Says the\n                  evening paper reports the death of \n                   Sidney Edwards Morris . ]","[Mentions seeing the prints of ? \"Diez\" at Mr.\n                  Pierson's, the engraver. Says he told Pierson to send\n                  Jones 36 copies without charge and wonders if Jones\n                  received them.]","[Thanks for the letter and enclosures. Regrets not\n                  receiving the \n                   Cincinnati Commerical with its notice of Cist's collection in time\n                  to put a notice in the June issue. Says he received\n                  the catalogue a few days ago. Says apparently the\n                  notice didn't reach the publishers in time. Explains\n                  the publishing schedule of the \n                   American Historical Record and Repertory of\n                     Notes and Queries . Sympathizes with Cist's push with\n                  engagements and expresses appreciation of Cist's\n                  sending autographs. Discusses \n                   Vassar College , of which he has\n                  been trustee and cooperator. Says he will send a\n                  catalogue for this term.]","[Regrets that he can't subscribe to Stone's book\n                  due to financial problems. Mentions hard times\n                  affecting book sales and paying for stock for the\n                  farm.]","[Writes from a church convention describing his\n                  schedule and mentioning several conferences. Says \n                   Morgan Dix is seeking someone to\n                  write a history of Trinity Church. Says he is\n                  watching the papers for news of a certain ship being\n                  in port and will go on board to see Edwin if it is.\n                  Wishes Miriam and Alice could go on board with him\n                  and lays out a plan for their possible visit. Speaks\n                  briefly of his accommodations. Mentions: Mr. Weills,\n                  wife and daughter; \n                   Henry L. Ziegenfuss ; \n                   Stephen H. Synnot ; \n                   Robert Fulton Crary ; Le Grand\n                  Dodge; Mr. Sandford; \n                   William A. Davies ; \n                   Sheldon Davis ; \n                   Philander Kinney Cady ; \n                   Horatio Potter ; Mrs. Van Riper;\n                  \"Pet\"; Mr. Segelken.]","[Thanks Coffin for his letters and his interest in\n                  Lossing's autographs. Says he doesn't mean to sell\n                  them singly, but would be willing to sell the letter\n                  about which Coffin wrote. Asks for prices brought by\n                  various autographed letters at the Burnham Sale. Says\n                  he and Dr. Fogg have corresponded for twenty years.\n                  Says Fogg supplied one of the drawings engraved in\n                  his \n                   Pictorial History (later Field Book) of the\n                     Civil War in the United States of America . Mentions some information he recently\n                  supplied Fogg and his intention to write Fogg about\n                  his own collection. Thanks Coffin for suggestions\n                  concerning Fogg and the arrangement of annotations of\n                  Lossing's autographs. Expresses a desire to see the\n                  letters Coffin purchased at the sale. Speaks of much\n                  time spent cataloguing his own autographs. Thanks\n                  Coffin forallowing him to keep his Poore ? catalogue.\n                  Mentions: \n                   George Washington ; \n                   Nathanael Greene ; \n                   William Heath ; \n                   John Stark . ]","[Expresses sorrow at her illness; pleasure that\n                  she is better. Tells her not to worry about\n                  portraits. Tells her he has received three copies of\n                  \"our book\" (probably \n                   Hours with the Living Men and Women of the\n                     Revolution ) from \n                   Funk and Wagnalls . Says she\n                  shouldn't feel that writing him is a necessity.]","[ \n                   Mason Brothers is the firm name\n                  for \n                   Lowell Marson, Jr. and \n                   Daniel Gregory Mason . The\n                  document was witnessed by \n                   M. Aynes . ]","[It was witnessed by \n                   Helen R. M. Lossing and \n                   Y. L. Perine . In [1844] Perine\n                  published \n                   History of New York City by \n                   Benson John Lossing ;\n                  illustrations were engraved on steel by Perine.]","[Relates the history of the loan, which Cole\n                  forgave orally on July 17, 1881, saying he would\n                  destroy the note. A short memorandum dated May 1,\n                  1886, says that Cole died without cancelling the note\n                  and that \n                   Benson John Lossing has paid in\n                  full. 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