Indiana Historical Society - Manuscripts & Archives

VALENTINE NICHOLSON
TRANSCRIPTS, 1841-1895


Collection #:
M 642


Table of Contents

User Information
Historical Background
Scope and Content Note
Box and Folder Listing
Cataloging Information

Processed by:
Paul Brockman
17 November 1993


USER INFORMATION

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.


HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

For historical background, see Valentine Nicholson Collection, M 641.


SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

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 AND FOLDER LISTING

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


CATALOGUING INFORMATION

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)

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