Correspondence and Autographs - H, 1793-1922

Correspondents include: Sir E. Marshall Hall (1790-1857), English physician and physiologist, undated notes; A.H. Handy to William H. Brown, Clerk of the U.S. Circuit Court, Jackson, Mississippi, concerning two lawsuits, 1849 April 17; Sir W.G. Hayter (1792?-1879) to Charles Cowan, answers Cowan’s unjust note about his bill that did not pass, 1851 June 28; Major T.R. Heard, Louisiana, Quartermaster’s Department, to Captain N.A. Birge, Texas, Assistant Quartermaster, both Provisional Confederate Army, concerning a dispute about payment of the board for a sick Negro teamster left behind in Shreveport, Louisiana, by the wagon master, 1863 January 3; and Henry Hobhouse (1776-1854) to the Lord Chief Justice [Charles Abbott] (1762-1832), reviewing the law concerning the Cornish assizes and the charter held by Launceston, 1825 March 3. Additional correspondents include: Prince von Hohenlohe document, in German, 1856 April 27; W.D. Holden, Pontotoc County, Mississippi, to Charles H. Rogers, discussing various legal cases, 1840 February 7, 1849 February 19; Heinrich Julius Holtzmann (1832-1910), German Protestant theologian, letter in German, 1903 December 31; John Hooker to General Elisha Porter (1742-1796), sheriff of the County of Hampshire, enclosing writs, 1793 November 21 and 30; B. Howard to William D. Sohier, concerning Grace Church, undated; and William Henry Hudson (1841-1922), author, naturalist and ornithologist, to Mrs. Massingham, artist, discussing her work and the work of [Edward Julius] Detmold shown to Hudson by the publisher, J.M. Dent, 1918 August 9. Other correspondents include: Cordell Hull (1871-1955), Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and Secretary of State, to Andrew J. McShane (1865-1936), requesting money for the political campaign,1922 October 24; Joseph Hume (1777-1855), Scottish doctor and Radical MP, to D.T. Gregory, requesting that Gregory accept his son as a pupil, 1838 June [18?]; Thomas W. Hunt, urging his uncle to meet him at Kansas City after the St. Louis fair and learn about various parts of the West, 1868 August 29;William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), English painter and founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, to Mr. Gambart concerning William Henry Simmon’s engraving of his painting “The Light of the World,” 1860 June 27; [William ?] Hunter (1805-1886), C.C., Department of State, to Colonel William Hickey, requests a copy of President Polk’s message to the Senate accompanying the 1846 treaty with New Granada, 1860 April 3; [Rev. Cyrus] Huntington, Ellicott’s Mills, Maryland, to [Peter?] Cooper, urging the employment of John Thompson as the agent of the Thistle Factory, 1860 January 18; Eppa Hunton (1822-1908), U.S. Representative and Senator from Virginia and Confederate Army brigadier general, to Joseph J. Halsey (1823-1907), concerning the settling of an estate and an errant check, 1852 June 25 and December 7; and “Eugenie” letter to Miss Frances Hutchinson, Utica, New York, no year January 18.