Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Harwood family.
- Extent:
- 2 Linear Feet (4 boxes)
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item] Harwood Family Papers, M0206, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Letters, notes, autographs, portraits, and other materials collected by the Harwood Family over a period of two hundred-fifty years. Much of the early materials, including Revolutionary War era materials, are navy and military service related. Later materials include letters from major political, financial, and literary figures. Correspondents include Herbert Hoover, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Ray Lyman Wilbur, Pearl S. Buck, and Carl Sandburg. Also included are engravings, photographs, and autographs of historical figures.
- Biographical / historical:
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Over his lifetime, Andrew Allen Harwood (1802-1884), great grandson of Benjamin Franklin, kept letters and notes of interest and autographs in a collection known as ODDS & ENDS. He willed it to his grandson, Thomas Triplett Hunter Harwood. In the year 1940 it passed into the hands of his nephew, A. A. Harwood's great grandson, Wilson Franklin Harwood (Stanford '35).
A. A. Harwood's career in the Navy started with his appointment as Midshipman on the gun-brig Saranac in 1818. He retired with the rank of Rear Admiral in 1874. For this reason, much of the material he put into his odds and ends was related to the Navy.
After 1940, W. F. Harwood added other items of interest that had come into the possession of various branches of the family over time.
Much of the added documentation concerns George Spencer Wilson, maternal grandfather of W. F. Harwood. G. S. Wilson (1842-1897) from boyhood was in the military service. In 1861 he started as a corporal in the Indiana Volunteers; at the time of his death he was Major and Assistant Adjutant General, U.S. Army.
Another source was the archives of Lee Lewis Harwood (Stanford '38). Her father, Winford Lee Lewis (1878-1943), a graduate of Stanford University and a chemist, had kept a few letters from Jordan, Hoover, Wilbur, and others.
Many references will be found in the more recent papers to the parents of W. F. Harwood: Franklin Bache Harwood (1876-) and Margaret Spencer Wilson Harwood (1883-1964).
- Custodial history:
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Gift of Wilson Franklin Harwood, 1969.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Names:
- Harwood family.
- Indexes:
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INDEX
Oversized items listed at the end of the guide have not been indexed.
Abercrombie, Gen. Abercromby, Lt. Gen. Abbot, C.W. Jr. Adamic, Louis Alger, Horatio Jr. Allen, Chas. H Allen, M. Arago, F. Aretresa, Il Fonte Armstrong, R.B. Arnold, Benedict Astor, Nancy Atherton, Gertrude Babbage, Charles Babcock, H.P. Bache, Alexander Dallas Bache, Mrs. Bache, Richard Bainbridge, Wm. Baird, Spencer F. Banks, N.P. Barney, John A. Barron, J. Bart, Sir Thomas Munro Bartram, Wm. Bates, Edward Benet, Wm. Rose Beresford, William-Carr Bernard, Lt. Gen. Simon Biddle, James Boncicault, Dion Booth, Edwin Boskerk, Van J. Bourke, John G. Boyer, B.M. Brander, James Breckinridge, J.C. Bremer, Federika Bronk, Detlev Brown, Allan D. Brown, Hugh G. Brown, Samuel Buck, Pearl S. Bufano, Beniamino Bunce, F.M. Burnet, R. Douglass Burnett Burnett, Frances Hodgson Burnett, J.C. Burnett, Jere Burnett, Samuel Burnett, Vivian Burr, Aaron Bush, V. Cable, Geo. W. Cadman Cadrington, Sir Edward Calhoun, John C. Candolle, Augustin Pyrame de Cantwell, J.C. Casy, Commander Charles II Chauncey, J. Choate, Joseph H. Churchill, Winston Cisco, John J. Clay, Henry Cleveland, Francis F. Cleveland, Grover Cochrane, Lord Collingwood, Cuthbert Collingwood, Lord Cook, Capt. James Cooke, A. Cooke, G.F. Coolidge, Calvin Cooper, James Fenimore Corbin, Guy C. Corbin, Henry C. Cox Crane, W.M. Cruikshank, George Cumberland, Duke of Curdg, Maj. Gen. Curtis, Geo. Wm. Dalgren, John A. Danberry, Charles Davezac, August Decatur, Stephen DeHart, W.C. DeLaffre, A.A. Dickens, Charles Dickerson, Mahlon Dickins, F.W. Dill, Thomas T. Dobbin, James C. Donkin, Lt. Gen. Sir R.S. Dorr, J.W. Doyle, W.E. Duane, D. Duane, Richard B. Duane, William J. Duer, Wm. Dupont, S.F. Edward, Duke of Kent Egbert, Harry C. Eisenhower, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mrs. Elliott, Jesse D. Emerson, R.W. Everett, E. Farnham, John Farragut, David E. Farrand, Max Faxen, Wm. Fee, Jerome Fischer, Emil Fisher, J.E. Foote, A.H. Fosdick, Harry Fox, G.V. Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Elizabeth Fraser, Lt. Gen. Alexander MacKenzie Friedel, Frank Gage, Lyman Gahagan, Helen Garfield, James A. Garibaldi, G. Garrison, Oswald Gilder, R.W. Gilmore, J.C. Gilpin, J.B. Goethals, Geo. W. Goldsborough, Louis M. Gordon, Chas. Gordon, W.H. Gould, Dr. Graham, John Grant, U.S. Gresham, W.O. Griswold, Alexander V. Haenel, A. Hall, Basil Hall, David Halliburton, Richard Hamilton, Alexander Hamlet, O.C. Hancock, John Harding, W.G. Harris, Ira Hartley, David Harwood, A.A. Harwood, Bessie Harwood, F.B. Harwood, Frank Harwood, John Edward Harwood, Miss E.F. Harwood, Mrs. Harwood, Mrs. F.B. Harwood, Mrs. Lee Harwood, Mrs. M.B. Harwood, Mrs. Margaret B. Harwood, Sally F. Harwood, Sarah Harwood, W.F. Hayes, Mrs. R.B. Hayes, Rutherford B. Henry, Joseph Hershel, Sir John Hill, I.H. Hill, I.W. Holmes, O.W. Hood, Alexander Hoover, Herbert Hopkinson, Fran Horatio, Viscount Nelson Howard, Chas. Howe, Earl Howe, Lord Viscount Howells, W.D. Howland, W.S. Huddart, Capt. Jos. Hull, Isaac Huntington Huntington, Marian Huntington, Samuel Hutchins, Rob't M. Ingraham, Capt. James, Wm. Janauschek, Fanny Jefferson, Thomas Jervis, John Joinville, Prince de Jones, Wm. H. Jordan, David Star KalaKaua, David Kelton, J.C. Kennedy, John P. Kilgore, H.M. Knight, Sir Edward Hawke Knox, Henry LaMont, David S. Lavallee Lawrence, James Leahr, Chas. Leslie, E. Lewis, W. Lee Lincoln, Abraham Lion, Chas. Livingston, Edward Lomax, L.L. Long, John C. Long, John D. Longfellow, Henry W. Louis, Phillippe J. Luce, Steven B. Luce, Wm. Macdonough MacKau, Baron de MacLeish, Archibald Madison, Dolley Madison, James Marshall, J.M. Masher, Theo. Mason, J.Y. McClernard, John A. McClune, A. McCulloch, Hugh McNear, E. Denman McNear, Geo. P. Merrell, Jno. P. Michael, Wm. Middleton, Henry Miller, A.O. Millikan, Robert A. Monroe, Jas. Montague, H.J. Morris, Chas. Morris, F.H. Moultrie, Maj. Gen. Wm. Murel, L. Murray, Sir George Napolean III Nelson, Lord Nesselrode, Chancellor Count Newman, Capt. James Nicholson, J.J. Nicolay, John G. Nuckles, J.M. Ogelthorpe, Gen. Pacha, Rechid Paget, Henry Wm. Parker, Theodore Pavlova, Anna Perry, C.G. Perry, M.C. Perry, Oliver H. Phillips, John Phister, Nat Pickering, Timothy Picton, Sir Thomas Pinckney, Thomas Pinkney, Charles C. Pisma, Il Fonte Crane la Pitcher, U.L. Polhill, George Porter, David Powell Preble, Edward Rice, Dr. Rice, Mr. Roath, W.D. Rockefeller, Nelson A. Rooke, Sr. Geo. Roosevelt, F.D. Roosevelt, Theo. Ross, Sir John Ross, W.G. Rossiter, Thomas R. Russell, Andrew H. Sabine, Major Sandburg, Carl Scott, Mr. Scott, Winfield Sergeant, Tho. Sherman, W.T. Shoemaker, C.F. Shoup, Geo. L. Shriver, Sargent Sims, Wm. S. Smith, Fred A. Smith, Joseph Smith, Mr. Sothern, E. Southard, Samuel Spaulding, O.L. Stanley, Henry M. Stanton, Edwin M. Stefansson, Vilhjamur Stevens, Tho. H. Stevenson, Adlai Stewart, Maj. Gen. David Storey, Joseph Stowe, Phineas Street, Chas. Stringham, S.H. Sullivan, Algernon Sullivan, Maj. Gen. Taylor, Frank Taylor, H.A. Tayman, C.E. Tegetthoff, Wilhelm Von Tompkins, Daniel D. Totten, Joseph G. Townshend, E.F. Truman, Harry S. Truxton, Thomas Tumulty, J.P. Turner, Chas. Tuttle, F. Upshur, A.P. Vaid, J.E. Van Buren, Martin Van Troup, Adml. Vaughn, T. Vernon, Adm. Vespucci, Amerigo Villard, O.E. Von Humbolt Voorhees, Ralph Wakeham, Cyrus Walker, R.J. Walker, W. Wallace, Henry A. Warrington, Louis Washington, Booker T. Washington, George Washington, Lewis Washington, Martha Watson, J.C. Weaver, Adm. Webster, Daniel Welles, Gideon Welsh, C.F. Wherry, Wm. Whingate, Capt. Whitesides, W. Whittier, John G. Wild, J.F. Wilder, J.T. Willard, C.W. Willcox, O.B. William the Fourth Willis, Nathaniel Parker Wilson, Capt. Wilson, James H. Wilson, George S. Wilson, Miss Margaret S. Wilson, Mrs. George S. Wilson, Woodrow Wolfe, Dael Wood, Commander Barney Wothirspooh Wyrick, O.D. Zeitlin, J.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.
- Terms of access:
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While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns. Some of these materials are believed to be in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use of public domain materials.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item] Harwood Family Papers, M0206, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
- Location of this collection:
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Department of Special Collections, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6004, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022