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Box 1

 Container

Contains 7 Results:

1886-1894

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F1
Scope and Contents

Includes several letters from New York City, Buffalo, and Michigan. Those from Michigan were sent by George W. Earle, Robert's former legal mentor.

Dates: 1886-1894
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections / Bright family papers / Correspondence

1895, January-April

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F2
Scope and Contents

Includes letters from Robert A. Bright, Laura D. Lovett, and a letter informing Bright of his election as an honorary member of the Phoenix Literary Society.

Dates: 1895, January-April
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections / Bright family papers / Correspondence

1895, May-September

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F3
Scope and Contents

Includes letters from Robert A. Bright, James Roper, Joseph P. McCullen, and Henrietta B. Wyeth. Also included is an 1895 pocket calendar sent by S. Lippincott from Haden Hall in Atlantic City, N.J.

Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections / Bright family papers / Correspondence

1895, October-December

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F4
Scope and Contents

Includes letters from Robert A. Bright, a ten-page letter from William Taliaferro, and a list of the publications of the Virginia Historical Society.

Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections / Bright family papers / Correspondence

1896

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F5
Scope and Contents

Personal and business correspondence

Dates: 1896
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections / Bright family papers / Correspondence

1897

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F6
Scope and Contents

Includes letters from R.A. Bright, a letter from R.P. Lore that contains a transcription of a letter by J.P. Morgan, and other letters from Lore regarding business dealings with Morgan & Co.

Dates: 1897
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections / Bright family papers / Correspondence

1898

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F7
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter by William Roper, one from A. de Beelen Lovett (Geneva, N.Y.), and a letter and poem about the Battle of Santiago de Cuba sent by Professor J. Leslie Hall of the College of William and Mary (7 pp.). Also included is a five-page letter of response from Bright to Hall, regarding the poem.

Dates: 1898
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections / Bright family papers / Correspondence

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