Correspondence and Autographs – S, 1798-[1877]

Correspondents include: Sir Jeremy Sambrooke to Madame, welcoming her to the country and sending her a dozen bottles of “Hock” sparkling wine from Rotterdam, undated; William Saurin (1757-1839), autograph, 1828 August 13; William Petty Shelburne, 2nd Earl (1737-1805) to Mr. [Astle?] assuring him that the register of Chertsey Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located in Surrey, will be ready for his inspection on the morrow, undated; G. Sherman, to his aunt, Anne Bradley, describing his visit to New Orleans in detail, 1853 March 28; John Sherman (1823-1900), autograph on an Executive Mansion, Washington, card, undated but signed as Secretary of the Treasury, 1877-1881; letter from a nephew to Hugh Shoard (1741-1817), Innholder, Red Lion, Kilmington, Somerset, concerning a repayment of a debt, 1817 July 6; and Major Charles E. Smith to L.G.B. Cannon, President of the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad Company, about ordering various kinds of equipment and products,1847 May 18. Other correspondents include: [T.?] Allen Smith to Robert Gilmer, sending Lord Castlereagh’s writing, undated; the Reverend William T. Smithett, Rector of Christ Church, Boston, to William D. Sohier, on the difficulty of raising funds in the parish, 1854 October 10; Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-1883), Governor of Georgia, autograph, undated; Alexander Stewart, New York, to Joshua Mersereau, referring to the business of Broome and Platt in New York City, who assigned lands for their creditors in the Ohio Company, 1798 May 2; Civil War soldier, T.R. [Strangl?], James M. Carrington’s Battery, to his brother, asking for him to find a healthy substitute, 1863 January 14; Edward B. Sugden (1781-1875), 1st Baron St. Leonard’s to John [Levan ?], plans to visit him after Friday, undated; and a frank of Charles Sumner (1811-1874), a Massachusetts Senator, on an envelope addressed to Isaac L. Lyon, undated.