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Percival Drayton family papers.

Title: Percival Drayton family papers.
Author: Drayton, Percival, 1812-1865
Publication: 1827-1967, bulk 1860-1879.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	box 1	Mixed material	Request in advance	MssCol 840 box 1	Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	box 2	Mixed material	Request in advance	MssCol 840 box 2	Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	box 3	Mixed material	Request in advance	MssCol 840 box 3	Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328

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1.26 linear feet (3 boxes)

Summary

Captain Percival Drayton (1812-1865) of Charleston, South Carolina and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was a distinguished U.S. Navy officer who served in the Union Navy during the Civil War. The Percival Drayton family papers, 1827-1967, chiefly document Percival Drayton's naval career, particularly during the Civil War. Drayton's papers, 1827-1865, comprise correspondence, naval orders and reports, a journal, financial papers, and certificates. The remainder, 1845-1967, consists of papers created or received by other Drayton family members and relatives, as well as ephemera, photographs, and printed material, mostly pertaining to Percival Drayton. Also included are letters written by an unidentified relative, a naval notebook, and later family correspondence regarding Drayton's naval service, as well as two manifest books for shipments of tobacco in the Maryland-District of Columbia area, 1803-1817, their connection to the Drayton family being unclear.

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Genre/Form

Diaries.
Ephemera (general object genre)
Estate records.
Notebooks.
Photographs.
Printed materials (object genre)
Shipping records.
Genealogies (histories)
Military commissions.
Technical drawings.

Access (note)

Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Additional Formats (note)

Selected letters from the Gertrude L. Hoyt donation were published with textual omissions in "Naval Letters from Captain Percival Drayton, 1861-1865." Bulletin of The New York Public Library 10, nos. 11-12 (November-December 1906): 587-625, 639-681.

Source (note)

The Percival Drayton Family Papers were acquired by donation from Gertrude L. Hoyt in 1906; by purchase from Caravan-Maritime Books in 1977; and by donation from William Drayton in 1983.

Call Number

MssCol 840

OCLC

776148902

Author

Drayton, Percival, 1812-1865, creator.

Title

Percival Drayton family papers.

Production

1827-1967, bulk 1860-1879.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

volume

Access

Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Additional Formats

Selected letters from the Gertrude L. Hoyt donation were published with textual omissions in "Naval Letters from Captain Percival Drayton, 1861-1865." Bulletin of The New York Public Library 10, nos. 11-12 (November-December 1906): 587-625, 639-681.

Source

The Percival Drayton Family Papers were acquired by donation from Gertrude L. Hoyt in 1906; by purchase from Caravan-Maritime Books in 1977; and by donation from William Drayton in 1983.

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Occupation

Naval officers.

Added Author

Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard, 1809-1870, correspondent.

Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870, correspondent.

Hamilton, Alexander, 1816-1889, correspondent.

Hoyt, Gertrude L., correspondent.

Hoyt, Lydig M., 1821-1868, correspondent.

Research Call Number

MssCol 840

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