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Three letters from Abraham Lincoln, Sprinfield, Illinois, 1846-1853, to John M. Bush, a probate judge in Pekin, Illinois, and the official commission of the Bushy as County Judge of Tazewell County, Illinois, make up this collection.

ALS, 1 leaf

1 leaf

Consists of three record books from the Henry G. Little family of Grinnell.  Little was mayor of the town in the last decades of the nineteenth century.

Consists of newspaper clippings of events in the lives of Henry and Fidelia Little and their daughters Louise (married Henry Viets), Maude (married Professor Jesse Macy), Elizabeth (married lawyer J.P. Lyman, Fannie (married Dr. Austin Alvord), and Henrietta (married Will Holyoke). Inscription in the front of the book is “Fannie R. Little, Grinnell, Iowa, November 28, 1875.” Most clippings are undated; they may cover the years 1874-1884.

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Jesse Macy's letters and papers compiled by Katharine Macy Noyes. Also present is an extract from his diary.

Note from Bryce to Macy, Mar. 26, 187-. Smith Robinson to Macy, Mar. 26, 187-. Invitation to tea from Bryce, Mar. 26, 187-. Smith Robinson, “Hunt Buffalo,” ca. 1878 Macy and Maude L. Macy (Grinnell) to sister Kate, Jan. 24, 1876. Smith Robinson (Vinton Ia.) to Macy, Aug. 13, 1877. Postcard from Smith Robinson (Vinton, Ia.) to Macy, Aug. 20, 1877. Smith Robinson (Vinton, Ia.) to Macy, Oct., 1877. Smith Robinson (Santee Agency, Neb.) to Macy, Nov. 1, 1877. Postcard from Perry Engle (Newton, Ia.) to Macy, Apr. 22, 1878. Sage and Robinson (Newton, Ia.) to Macy, July 11, 1878. Smith Robinson (Santee Agency, Neb.) to Dr. G.F. Magoun, Mar. 1, 1878. John Farwell (Chicago, Ill.) to Macy, Feb. 14, 1879. T.S. Goodwin (Port Richmond, N.Y.) to Macy, Mar. 22, 1879. T.S. Goodwin (Port Richmond, N.Y.) to Macy, Apr. 21, 1879. T.S. Goodwin (Port Richmond, N.Y.) to Macy (Grinnell), May 21, 1879. Maude Macy (Battle Creek, Mich.) to Macy, May 23, 1883. Frank Zelinsky (Forestburg, Dakota Territory) to Macy, Sept. 1883. T.H. Sherman, sec. To Mr. Blaine (Augusta, Maine) to Macy, July 19, 1884. Macy (Stratford-on-Avon, England) to “Friends at home,” Nov. 16, 1887. Macy (Grinnell) to F. I. Herriott (Philadelphia),Oct. 31, 1897. Macy (Grinnell) to F. I. Herriott (Des Moines, Ia.) Oct. 13, 1898

Katharine Macy (Dunlap, Ia.) to Macy (Grinnell), July 2, 1906. Woodrow Wilson (Princeton, N.J.) to Macy (Grinnell), Dec. 5, 1910. Macy (Venice, Italy) to R.E. Sears (Hotel Bristol, Houston, Texas), Feb. 23, 1913. O. F. Emerson (Painesville, Ohio) to Macy (Grinnell), July 14, 1913. Part of a page, Robert Kerr (Grinnell) to Macy, [n.d.], 1914. Mary Clark McCornack (Sioux City, Ia.) in response to Macy’s article “Make the Vote for Woman Suffrage Unanimous” (also included), April 18, 1916. F. I. Herriott (Des Moines, Ia.) to Macy (Grinnell), May 20, 1916. O. F. Emerson (Cleveland, Ohio) to Macy (Grinnell), Dec. 27, 1916. O. F. Emerson (Cleveland, Ohio) to Macy (Grinnell), Jan. 21, 1917. Louis F. Post (Washington, D.C.) to Macy, Feb., 27, 1917. Stephen G. Barnes (Burlington, Vermont) to Macy, Sept. 15, 1919. C. Cestre (Paris, France) to Macy (Grinnell), Dec. 13, 1919.