Guide to the Caleb Carr Letters,
1856-1867

Collection Number: 2386

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Caleb Carr letters, 1856-1867.
Collection Number:
2386
Creator:
Caleb. Carr
Quantity:
53 items.
Forms of Material:
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Letters written to Caleb and Emily Pierce Carr of Hillsboro, Wisconsin, from family members in Genoa, Locke, and Elmira, New York. Subjects include family and local news, farm conditions, politics, temperance, spiritualism, the Panic of 1857, and homefront reactions to the Civil War. Also, 13 letters to Carr from Henry Queripel, Jr. of New York City, mostly concerning his farm property in Wisconsin, but also commenting on commodity prices and trading conditions, religion, a smallpox epidemic in New York, and the Civil War.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Letters written to Caleb and Emily Pierce Carr of Hillsboro, Wisconsin, from family members in Genoa, Locke, and Elmira, New York. Subjects include family and local news, farm conditions, politics, temperance, spiritualism, the Panic of 1857, and homefront reactions to the Civil War. Also, 13 letters to Carr from Henry Queripel, Jr. of New York City, mostly concerning his farm property in Wisconsin, but also commenting on commodity prices and trading conditions, religion, a smallpox epidemic in New York, and the Civil War.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Carr, Caleb.
Carr, Emily Pierce.
Qeuripel, Henry,

Subjects:
Agriculture--New York (State)
Commodity exchanges.
Depressions--1857.
Religion.
Smallpox--New York (State)
Spiritualism.
Temperance.

Places:
Cayuga County (N.Y.)
Hillsboro (Wis.)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

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Caleb Carr letters, #2386. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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