MSA SC 684-9-1
Fragile materials. Contact department of Special Collections for access.
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1870-1919
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Description
Correspondence between various individuals and Townsend.
- materials relating to Townsend's ancestors.
- letters from Frank B. Loomis.
- notification to Townsend of his appointment to participate in William McKinley's Second Inaugural Parade.
- letters concerning the War Correspondents Monument dedication ceremony.
- letter from Rutherford B. Hayes (1880).
- transcriptions of letters from S.L. Clemens (Mark Twain) (no date) and Henry W. Longfellow (1880).
- telegram from James A. Garfield (Feb. 1881).
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MSA SC 684-9-2
Fragile materials. Contact department of Special Collections for access.
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1860-1919
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Original.
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00/09/07/26
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Description
Correspondence with various individuals, including:
- letters to his wife, recounting his experiences in Europe while on a lecture tour from 1866 to 1868.
- three letters to his wife while a war correspondent with the Union army.
- requests from John R. McLean for Townsend to interview Benjamin Tilden in 1877.
- letters from Edmund C. Stedman.
- letters from Whitelaw Reid, Vice President candidate in 1892.
- letters from John Russell Young.
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MSA SC 684-9-3
Fragile materials. Contact department of Special Collections for access.
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1860-1919
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Original.
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00/09/07/26
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Description
Miscellaneous items, including:
- newspaper clippings about Townsend.
- correspondence, especially about Townsend's 60th birthday in 1901.
- sketches by Townsend of various people and buildings.
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MSA SC 684-9-4
Fragile materials. Contact department of Special Collections for access.
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1865
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00/09/07/26
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Townsend's Master of Arts Diploma from the Central High School, Philadelphia.
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MSA SC 684-9-5
NO RESTRICTIONS
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1865
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00/09/07/26
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Townsend's appointment as Special Deputy Sheriff "to assist in preserving the Public Peace at the Execution of Charles H. Walters" in New York.
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MSA SC 684-9-6
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00/09/07/26
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Materials related to the death of Ella Townsend, infant daughter of George Alfred and Bessie Townsend.
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MSA SC 684-9-7
Fragile materials. Contact department of Special Collections for access.
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Original.
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00/09/07/26
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Description
Manuscript biographical sketch of Townsend by Jerome B. Stillson that was sent to Townsend after Stillson's death.
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MSA SC 684-9-8
NO RESTRICTIONS
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1913
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00/09/07/26
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Description
Handwritten manuscript autobiography, Gath's Literary Work and Folk.
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MSA SC 684-9-9
Fragile materials. Contact department of Special Collections for access.
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Original.
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00/09/07/26
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Description
Scrapbook. Includes:
- article by Townsend "A Peninsular Canaan," published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine (May 1879).
- letters from Townsend's brother, Ralph.
- letter from Townsend's father, Reverend Stephen Townsend, to George Alfred, giving a picture of the Civil War in 1863.
- newspaper clippings about Townsend, including one concerning Townsend's candidacy for the House of Representatives in 1894.
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