Inventory for MSA SC 684-9



MSA SC 684-9 contains 9 unit(s). Showing results 1 to 9.


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MSA SC 684-9-1
Fragile materials. Contact department of Special Collections for access.
Dates1870-1919
MediumOriginal.
Storage00/09/07/26
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).
MSA SC 684-9-2
Fragile materials. Contact department of Special Collections for access.
Dates1860-1919
MediumOriginal.
Storage00/09/07/26
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.
MSA SC 684-9-3
Fragile materials. Contact department of Special Collections for access.
Dates1860-1919
MediumOriginal.
Storage00/09/07/26
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.
MSA SC 684-9-4
Fragile materials. Contact department of Special Collections for access.
Dates1865
MediumOriginal.
Storage00/09/07/26
Description
Townsend's Master of Arts Diploma from the Central High School, Philadelphia.
MSA SC 684-9-5
NO RESTRICTIONS
Dates1865
MediumOriginal.
Storage00/09/07/26
Description
Townsend's appointment as Special Deputy Sheriff "to assist in preserving the Public Peace at the Execution of Charles H. Walters" in New York.
MSA SC 684-9-6
NO RESTRICTIONS
Dates
MediumOriginal.
Storage00/09/07/26
Description
Materials related to the death of Ella Townsend, infant daughter of George Alfred and Bessie Townsend.
MSA SC 684-9-7
Fragile materials. Contact department of Special Collections for access.
Dates
MediumOriginal.
Storage00/09/07/26
Description
Manuscript biographical sketch of Townsend by Jerome B. Stillson that was sent to Townsend after Stillson's death.
MSA SC 684-9-8
NO RESTRICTIONS
Dates1913
MediumOriginal.
Storage00/09/07/26
Description
Handwritten manuscript autobiography, Gath's Literary Work and Folk.
MSA SC 684-9-9
Fragile materials. Contact department of Special Collections for access.
Dates
MediumOriginal.
Storage00/09/07/26
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.