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Series IV. Lamb, Articles and Addresses, 1874-1890, undated, inclusive

Scope and Contents note

Drafts, notes, correspondence relating to, and proofs of a few of Lamb's articles and addresses. Arranged alphabetically by title. Publication information follows title if known. One folder is housed in the Manuscript Department's oversize cabinets (Ov); call phrase: Y-Lamb, folder *1.

"Amasa J. Parker": correspondence (MAH Sept. 1890), 1889-1890, undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"American Life Saving Service": proofs (Harper's Feb. 1882), Undated

Box: 7, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"An American Museum. The New York Historical Society Building," Andrews' American Queen, 1879 Feb., inclusive

Box: 19, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite": drafts, notes, correspondence (MAH July 1888), 1888, undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Electioneering in 1701. Exciting Political Controversies of Colonial New York," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1885 Nov. 1

Box: 17, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Historic Mansions of New York": notes (mostly blank), 1882, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Historical 'Claremont'," Mail and Express, New York, 1885 Aug. 21

Box: 17, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"In the Yale Library," New Haven Palladium, 1882 Jul. 31

Box: 17, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Less Known Incidents in the History of New York", Undated

Box: 7, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Lion Gardiner, Founder of the Manor of Gardiner's Island": copy of address read before N-YHS Nov. 5, 1878; see also "Manor of Gardiner's Island," (MAH Jan. 1885), Undated

Box: 7, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

With newspaper accounts of Lamb reading the paper before the New Haven Historical Society, 1882. Also contains a long New York Times piece, "Lion Gardiner's Island," dated August 10, 1879 and signed "E.A.D.," which is probably by Lamb.

"Lyme, a Chapter of American Genealogy": notes, correspondence, 1874-1885, undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Lyme, a Chapter of American Genealogy": drafts, Undated

Box: 7, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Manor of Shelter Island": draft, notes, correspondence, photograph (MAH Nov. 1887), 1884-1887, undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"New York": draft (promotional essay for History of the City of New York), Undated

Box: 7, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"New York Biography": notes, correspondence, 1878, undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"New York Biography": drafts, Undated

Box: 7, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"New York City in 1789," Once a Week, undated, inclusive

Box: 17, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"New York One Hundred Years Ago," Harper's Weekly supplement, 1876 Feb. 19

Box: 17, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Newark": notes and drafts, Undated

Box: 8, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Nicolas Bayard": draft (MAH ), Undated

Box: 8, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Old-Time Politics. A New York Conflict at the Beginning of the Last Century," Philadelphia Press, 1885 Nov. 1

Box: 17, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"The Silk Industry of America—Corticelli Sewing-Silk," Andrews' American Queen, 1880 Jul. 17, inclusive

Box: 17, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Sixty Waymarks in the World's Progress": proofs, notes (MAH Aug. 1890 as "Vinton Reade"), Undated

Box: 8, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"State and Society in Washington," Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1878 Mar., inclusive

Box: 17, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"A Terrible Time. Election Scenes of 1701 in Colonial New York," Sunday Times-Star, Cincinnati, 1885 Nov. 1

Box: 17, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Van Renssalear Manor": copy of address before Long Island Historical Society, Dec. 26, 1882 (revised and published in MAH Jan. 1884), Undated

Box: 8, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Draft of speech before a gathering of women of the press in Boston (Possibly New England Women's Press Association, founded 1885), Undated

Box: 8, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Christmas Owl": proofs, 1881, inclusive

Box: Ov, Folder: *1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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