Worden, Oliver Norton

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Eli Slifer papers
Letter, 1859 (Box 3, folder 10)
1849-1871

This collection consists of folders in 13 manuscript boxes relating to correspondence and papers of Eli Slifer (1818-1888), an active figure in Pennsylvania politics and the Secretary of the Commonwealth under Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin, 1861-1867. Most of the letters were written during the...

Location: MC 2003.4

Subject: Business and Industry, Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government

Format: Engravings and Illustrations, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Photographs

Time Period: 1840-1859, 1860-1879

Collection Inventory: PDF icon mc2003.04.pdf

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Collection Inventory: PDF icon Appendix A - Civil War Units

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Collection Inventory: PDF icon Appendix B - Military Affairs

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Collection Inventory: PDF icon Appendix C- Political Affairs

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Collection Inventory: PDF icon Appendix D - Business Affairs

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Collection Inventory: PDF icon Appendix E - Miscellaneous Affairs

Letters from Oliver Worden to Eli Slifer
Letters from Oliver Worden to Eli Slifer
1850-1859

Oliver Worden writes five letters to Eli Slifer in which he comments on Slifer's "very interesting and very racy" first chapter of Shades of Public Life as well as offers advice for political speeches. Worden also updates Slifer on affairs regarding the Star and Chronicle paper...

Location: MC 2003.4, B11, F11

Subject: Literary Pursuits, Politics and Government

Format: Legal and Government Documents

Time Period: 1840-1859

Letters from Theodore Christ to Eli Slifer
Letters from Theodore Christ to Eli Slifer
1860-1861

Dr. Theodore S. Christ writes eleven letters to Eli Slifer, the Secretary of the Commonwealth under Governor Andrew Curtin, regarding the organization of volunteer companies and daily life in a Union Army infantry company during the Civil War. Dr. Christ describes the injuries of soldiers and...

Location: MC 2003.4, B2, F18-19

Subject: Health and Medicine, Military Affairs and Conflict

Format: Letters/Correspondence

Time Period: 1860-1879

Letters from Oliver Worden to Eli Slifer
Letters from Oliver Worden to Eli Slifer
1861-1865

Newspaperman Oliver Worden writes fifteen letters to Eli Slifer, the Secretary of the Commonwealth during the Civil War, in which he requests information on military and political issues for publication in the in the Star and Chronicle. Worden also offers his services to communicate...

Location: MC 2003.4, B11, F11

Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government

Format: Letters/Correspondence

Time Period: 1860-1879
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