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Box Special Collections Oversize Box 1

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Contains 2 Results:

Newspaper clippings, circa 1864, undated

 File — Box: Special Collections Oversize Box 1, Oversize Paper Folder: 1
Collection Overview From the Collection: The collection consists of materials relating to Charlotte A. Myers, her adopted daughter Caroline Griswold, and Caroline Griswold’s nieces and nephews from the Hartley family. Materials relating to Myers contain correspondence and a newspaper clipping about her divorce from Rufus Wilmot Griswold, including letters from her lawyers Samuel Sherman and David Paul Brown, and letters to her husband’s former brother-in-law Hamilton Randolph Searles. There is also a daguerreotype portrait of...
Dates: circa 1864, undated

Emily Mary Joseph England first communion certificate, 1849

 Item — Box: Special Collections Oversize Box 1, Oversize Paper Folder: 1, Item: 1
Collection Overview From the Collection:

A first communion certificate for Emily Mary Joseph England in the Cathedral of St. Finbar, dated April 22nd, 1849. Two Bible verses (Deut. XXXII and Revelations ii, 10) are printed on the certificate; it is unsigned by the pastor. The certificate is a mass-produced form from either Baltimore, Philadelphia, or Pittsburgh. The original certificate has been pasted on to more durable paper for preservation purposes.

Dates: 1849