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Title: Robinson Collection,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1739-1931
Collection Number: Wyles Mss 12
Extent:
.4 linear feet
(1 document box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur
Language:
English.
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Robinson Collection. Wyles Mss 12. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Undetermined.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains correspondence, financial, legal, and religious materials pertaining to a number of apparently unrelated
individuals and organizations, primarily from Massachusetts and other parts of the eastern seaboard, from the mid-18th to
the early-20th centuries. Some documents in the collection are from the Revolutionary War and Civil War periods. Surnames
represented in the collection include: Blatchford, Coates, Cohen, D'Wolf, Hosmer, Lyons, Nathans, Ogden, Stirling, Tilton,
and Wells (Welles).
Included in the collection are two slave documents (a bill of sale, 1819, and a bill of hire, n.d.). Also included are 18th
and 19th century correspondence and other items from Great Britain, and 19th century correspondence in German (much of it
from the U.S.).
A number of items in the collection apparently were collected for autographs, and in some cases have been cut from larger
documents. The rationale for the title of the collection is unclear, but may relate to the seller or collector from whom the
materials were acquired.