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Book collecting

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

George Perkins Marsh Collection

 Collection
Identifier: mss-985
Abstract Collection includes correspondence, diaries (1864-82), notebooks (1834-86), and published works, relating to protective tariff, founding of Smithsonian Institute, Mexican War, Civil War, and other political issues during Marsh's congressional career; his impressions of Garabaldi and Italian unification while U.S. minister to Italy (1860-82); and comparative philosophy, Near Eastern Studies, Scandanavian Studies, conservation, book collecting, and other scholarly interests. Includes papers of...
Dates: 1812-1929
Found in: University of Vermont Libraries, Special Collections / George Perkins Marsh Collection

Lucius E. Chittenden Papers

 Collection
Identifier: mss-965
Abstract

The Lucius E. Chittenden papers include correspondence, letter books, account books, court dockets, transcriptions of testimony, lists of books, notebooks recording a trip to England (1871) which includes impression of bookseller Henry Stevens and various libraries, notes on rare books, notes on formation of the Republican Party in 1848, translations by Chittenden of descriptions of early French explorations of North America.

Dates: 1838-1930
Found in: University of Vermont Libraries, Special Collections / Lucius E. Chittenden Papers
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