Finding aid for the Perry Autograph Collection
Repository: Western Reserve Historical Society
Creator: Greene, Edward B.
Title: Perry Autograph Collection
Dates: 1781-1852
Extent: 0.20 linear feet (1 container)
Abstract: The Perry autograph collection was originally collected by Edward B. Greene of Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of 67 letters and documents signed by American Civil War military figures and other notable American political, literary, and military figures.
MS Number MS 3264
Location: closed stacks
Language: The records are in English

Scope and Content

The Perry Autograph Collection, 1781-1952, consists of 67 letters and documents signed by Civil War military figures and other notable American political, literary, and military figures.

This collection will be useful to researchers studying the history of the American Civil War. The majority of these items relate to military figures of that war and date from 1862 to 1870. Among the letters are 24 addressed to General William T. Sherman. Of special interest are six Abraham Lincoln items, including three holograph letters. Also represented here are Henry Ward Beecher, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Everett, William Pitt Fessenden, Nathanael Greene, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), Washington Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Robert Morris (1734-1806), William Hickling Prescott, Daniel Webster, and John Greenleaf Whittier.

Statement of Arrangement

The collection has been retained in original order and is arranged in the order in which Greene received each document.

Restrictions on Access

None.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects:

Authors, American -- Autographs.
Autographs -- United States -- Collections.
Confederate States of America. Army -- Officers -- Autographs.
Generals -- United States -- Autographs.
Poets, American -- Autographs.
Politicians -- United States -- Autographs.
Soldiers -- United States -- Autographs.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Miscellanea.
United States -- History -- Miscellanea.
United States. Army -- Officers -- Autographs.

Preferred Citation

[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 3264 Perry Autograph Collection, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio

Acquisition Information

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. A. Dean Perry in 1964.