Indiana Historical Society - Manuscripts & Archives
User Information
Historical Background
Scope and Content Note
Box and Folder Listing
Cataloging Information
Processed by:
Paul Brockman
17 November 1993
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 2 manuscript boxes, .75 linear feet
COLLECTION DATES: 1841-1895
PROVENANCE: Thomas Hamm, Lilly Library, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana 47374, 22 September 1993
RESTRICTIONS: None
REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society.
ALTERNATE FORMATS: None
RELATED HOLDINGS: Valentine Nicholson Collection (M 641); Meredith Nicholson Papers (M 221); T. L. Steele Papers (M 263)
ACCESSION NUMBER: 93.0678
NOTES: As far as can be determined, all materials in this collection are transcripts of the Valentine Nicholson Collection, M 641. Not all items in the Nicholson Collection were transcribed.
For historical background, see Valentine Nicholson Collection, M 641.
The collection consists of the transcriptions of the Valentine Nicholson Collection. Included are letters, diaries, ledgers, and notebooks regarding Nicholson and his family, 1841-1895. For a more detailed description of the contents, see Valentine Nicholson Collection, M 641. Items such as scrapbooks clippings and non-Nicholson family letters apparently were not transcribed.
BOX 1: Transcripts and Photocopies of Letters and Papers, 1841-1895
FOLDER CONTENTS
1 Letters, 1841-1849
2 Letters, 1855-1859
3 Letters, 1855-1888, folder 1
4 Letters, 1855-1888, folder 2
5 Letters, 1855-1888, folder 3
6 Letters and Papers, 1861-1862
7 Nicholson Family Letters, 1869-1895
8 Letters, 1878-1879
9 Valentine to Libbie Nicholson, July 4, 1881
10 Articles Copied, 1844, and Related Items, n.d.
11 Reminiscences, 1894
12 Reminiscences of Journey Made to New York in 1843, 1895
13 Prairie Home, n.d.
14 Family History, n.d.
15 Photocopies, 1876-1887
BOX 2: Transcripts and Photocopies of Diaries, Ledgers, and Notebooks, 1866-1895
FOLDER CONTENTS
1 Nicholson Notebooks, 1866, folder 1
2 Nicholson Notebooks, 1866, folder 2
3 Nicholson Notebooks, 1866, folder 3
4 Notes on Seances, 1866
5 Pages from "Diary"--Address Book, 1870-1895
6 Diary, 1876-1877, folder 1
7 Diary, 1876-1877, folder 2
8 Photocopies--Diary, 1876-1877, folder 1
9 Photocopies--Diary, 1876-1877, folder 2
10 Photocopies--Diary, 1876-1877, folder 3
11 Diary and Remedy Book, 1876-1877, folder 1
12 Diary and Remedy Book, 1876-1877, folder 2
13 Diary, n.d.
14 Ledger A, n.d., folder 1
15 Ledger A, n.d., folder 2
16 Ledger A, n.d., folder 3
MAIN ENTRY: Nicholson, Valentine, 1809-1904
SUBJECT ENTRIES: Nicholson, Valentine, 1809-1904
Wales, Thomas M, b. 1812
McKay, Martha Nicholson, 1843-1934
Nicholson family
Spiritualism--Ohio
Religious communities--Ohio--Urbana
Collective settlements--Ohio--Urbana
Diaries--Authorship--Religious aspects
Religious life
Underground railroad--Ohio
Slavery--United States--Anti-slavery movements
Abolitionists--Ohio
Recipes--Ohio
Folk medicine--Ohio--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
Herbs--Ohio--Therapeutic use
Travelers--Ohio--Diaries
Voyages and travels
Fathers and daughters--Ohio
Prairie Home (Urbana, Ohio)
Urbana (Ohio)
Harveysburg (Ohio)
END