Manuscript Collections

Resources (19)

• Alpheus Hyatt (1838-1902)

  Papers, 1859–1928, 30 items and 1 vol. Naturalist. The album contains a letter, 21 April 1865, of Cleveland Abbe (1838–1916) containing the metereologist's observations on Russia. (NUCMC 67–1523) (MS 1007)

• Anna Ella Carroll (1815-1894)

  Papers, 1854–90, ca. 550 items. Author and military strategist. Includes 1 letter, 24 January 1873, of Cassius M. Clay (1810–1903) discussing Russia and the American Civil War. Unpublished index (NUCMC 67–1361). (MS 1224)

• Anna Melissa Graves (1889-1961)

  Papers, 1889–1961, 1 box, 38 items. World traveler, peace worker. Some correspondence concerns world peace, brotherhood, China, Korea, and Russia. (MS 2031)

• Bonaparte Family

  Papers, 1785–1921, ca. 6 ft. Includes 1 letter, 2 October 1906, from Admiral George Dewey (1837–1917) to Charles J. Bonaparte (1851–1921), U.S. secretary of the navy, concerning naval matters in the Russo-Japanese War. Partial unpublished finding aid (NUCMC 67–1327). (MS 141)

• Brantz Mayer (1809-1879)

  Papers, 1791–1934, 2 ft. and 2 vols. Lawyer, diplomat, historian, and antiquarian. Includes 4 letters, 1844–49, to him from Charles Stewart Todd (1791–1871), an American diplomat in Russia. Partial index (NUCMC 67–1605). (Mayer and Roszel Papers, MS 581.3)

• Claudia Old McKittrick (d. 1943)

  Diaries, 1923–37, 2 vols. Wife of a U.S. naval officer. Diaries of travel to the Far East, Near East, India, and Russia, the latter in the late 1920s. Written with "understanding and wit," according to the card catalog. (MS 2115)

• Edna Claiborne Latrobe (d. 1949)

  Papers, 1926–27. 40 items. Relief worker. 1 manuscript, and a second excerpted from it, narrates her experiences and travels in the USSR, 1926–27. 27 photographs, with attached descriptions, are of Russia. Other items include circulars and letters of solicitation printed by the American Committee for the Relief of Russian Children at the time of Latrobe's service as a field inspector, (MS 2119)

• Hollyday Family

  Papers, 1659–1934, 710 items, 7 vols., 1 box, and 1 file. Includes 1 letter, 8 August 1822, from Charles Ward to S. Carvill about Russia's peace with Turkey. (NUCMC 67–1511) (MS 453)

• Latrobe Family

  Papers, 1796–1947, ca. 3 ft. and 31 vols. Includes diary of a European trip, 1847, and Russian correspondence, 1857–58, of John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe (1803–1891), artist, lawyer, inventor, and public official. On one trip to Russia, Latrobe secured from the tsar the sum of $60,000 as allowance for claims for a railroad from St. Petersburg to Moscow. There is a restriction on some of the material; inquire at the library. Calendar and partial index (NUCMC 67–1560). (MS 523)

• Merchant's Exchange Reading Room

  Record books, 1832–99, 72 vols. Records of arrivals and clearances in the port of Baltimore. Documents divided into: 32 vols, on arrivals; 9 vols, on foreign imports by port of origin; 21 vols, on vessels entering and clearing, and their cargo; 1 vol. on foreign exports; and miscellaneous other volumes. Includes data on commerce with Russia. (MS 610)

• Redwood Collections

  1694–1940, 5 ft. Includes correspondence of John Greene Proud (1776–1865), a merchant, and other members of the Proud family. Proud's letterbooks, 14 March–17 July 1810 and 21 July 1810–19 July 1811, with copies of outgoing correspondence, contain many references to trade with Russia, difficulties getting cargoes to Russian ports during the English and French blockades, and politics obstructing trade. In 10 letters from Proud to Eliza Proud written in St. Petersburg, 1809–13, there are more references to trade with Russia, the French invasion of Russia, the fall of Moscow, and John Quincy Adams, plus descriptions of St. Petersburg, the Hermitage, churches, the harsh winter, outdoor sports, and social activities. A letter, 6 October 1809, of Proud and others, from Hamburg, to J. Q. Adams in St. Petersburg congratulates him on his mission and mentions American trade in Denmark. Another letter, 10 July 1813, of Proud to William T. Proud from London mentions the diplomatic mission of A. Gallatin and J. Bayard, which, with Alexander I in Silesia, cannot succeed. 2 letters, 2 January 1812 and 17 October 1813, from John Proud, Sr. to William T. Proud discuss the difficulties of doing business in St. Petersburg. There is also a letter, 16 November 1821, from Pierre de Poletica to Edward Johnson Coale, expressing, on behalf of Alexander I, the appreciation of the Russian government for Coale's services as vice-consul of Russia in the port of Baltimore and presenting him with a diamond ring. Finally, a letter, 2 October 1928, of G. D. Dorsey in Vichy, France, to Mrs. Francis T. Redwood mentions Pierre Botkine, a writer, of Montreux, Switzerland. Unpublished register and partial index (NUCMC 67–1658). (MS 1530)

• Richard H. Douglass (1780-1829)

  Letterbook, 1816–18, 1 vol., ca. 1,600 items. Baltimore merchant. 1 letter, 4 October 1816, concerns trade in Russian goods. (NUCMC 67–1418) (MS 305)

• Robert Gilmor (1774-1848)

  Papers, 1689–1848, 17 vols, and 1 folio. Baltimore art collector, Includes an album with data on Russian-American commerce in the second quarter of the 19th c. (NUCMC 67–1462) (MS 387.1)

• Robert Goodloe Harper (1765-1825)

  Papers, 1701–1912, ca. 4 ft. Lawyer, U.S. representative from South Carolina, and U.S. senator from Maryland. Includes letter, 4 August 1808, from George Henry Rose which refers to the Russian navy; and a letter to Harper from Samuel Stanhope Smith, 9 January 1814, concerning Russia. Partial index (NUCMC 67–1490). (Harper-Pennington Papers, MS 431)

• White Family

  Papers, 1764–1928, ca. 5,000 items and 30 vols. Includes account books for 1892 relating to the Russian Famine Relief Fund. Partial index (NUCMC 67–1755). (MS 1005.1)

• William Carmichael (d. 1795)

  Papers, 1739 and 1779–91, 10 items. 1 letter, 8 February 1779, from Charles Carroll of Carrollton to him questions reports of Russia's plans to enter the American Revolutionary War. (NUCMC 67–1823) (MS 2143)

• William Patterson (1752-1835)

  Papers, 1770s–1838, ca. 75 items, 4 vols., and 1 package. Baltimore merchant. Includes a letter, 5 June 1828, to him from Christopher Hughes (1786–1849) that discusses the Russo-Turkish War. (NUCMC 67–1630) (MS 1084)

• William Pinkney (1764-1822)

  Papers, 1796–1926, 41 items and 2 vols. Lawyer, politician, and diplomat. U.S. minister to Russia, 1816–18. Includes a letter, 1823, of Charles Pinkney, his brother, about the Russian court. Partial index (NUCMC 67–1638). (MS 1388)

• Winans Family

  Papers, 1838–1963, ca. 1,200 items and 81 vols. Contains papers of Ross Winans (1796–1877), a Baltimore engineer, inventor, and locomotive builder, and of his son Thomas (1820–1878). Family/company records and correspondence include a contract and accounts relating to the St. Petersburg & Moscow Railroad and its equipment. (NUCMC 67–1766) (MS 916)