Henry Charles Lea Papers: Oversize

Civil War Scrapbooks

• Excerpts on the War. 1861-1866. [on cover] Newspaper clippings beginning with 1864. Bound, mounted on acid paper.
• Excerpts on the War. 1861-1866. [on cover] Newspaper clippings beginning with 1861, 1862. Bound, mounted on acid paper.

Box 195: Excerpts on the War. 1862-1866. [on cover]. Newspaper clippings beginning with 1862. Bound, mounted on acid paper. Fragile.

Political Reform

Box 197

• Folders 2421-2422: To: Hon. S. J. Randall, et al. re: Civil Service Bill, with signatures, 1869.
• Folder 2423: To the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Pennsylvania, 1870.
• Folder 2424: Memorial for Constitutional Convention for the State of Pennsylvania, 1871.
• Folder 2425: To the Honorable [United States Congress]. Protesting the income tax, 1871, 1878.
• Folder 2426: To the Honorable [Philadelphia City Councils] on behalf of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, re: slaughterhouse.

Political Reform--Memorials and Petitions

• Folders 2427-2428: Mass Meeting re: Attorney General Lear and Continental Passanger Railway Company.
• Folder 2429: To the Honorable [United States Congress]. Re: presidential election, 1876.
• Folder 2430: To the Honorable [United States Congress]. Memorial to Congress on the Compromise Bill. See: Cavan, Joseph L. correspondence, 1877.
• Folder 2431: To the Select and Common Councils [Philadelphia]. Re: Philadelphia & Reading Terminal Company, Market Street elevated train, 1888.
• Folder 2432: To [United States Congress]. Memorial re: forming a militia, n.d. [186?].
• Folder 2433: To the taxpayers and other Citizens of the City of Philadelphia. Re: public buildings, n.d. [ca. 1860].
• Folder 2434: To the citizens of the Eighth Ward. n.d.
• Folder 2435: To the Commissioners for the Erection of Public Buildings. n.d.
• Folder 2436: To the Select and Common Councils of [Philadelphia]. re: Market St. elevated train. n.d.
• Folder 2437: To the Delegates to the Republican State Convention of Pennsylvania, n.d.

Box 199

• Political newspapers, broadsides, Philadelphia tax assessments. Philadelphia. Appropriations and Expenses, oversize charts, with annotations by Henry Charles Lea. Used by Lea to write tracts for the Citizens' Municipal Reform Association on municipal taxation. Lea's notes, newspaper clippings.
• New England Loyal Publication Society. No. 248 [includes a memorial to the U.S. Congress sent under the auspices of the Union League of Philadelphia re: the bounty system, signed by H. C. Lea and others.], December 28, 1864. Also new series No. 16, No. 17, No. 18, No. 19, No. 21, No. 23, No. 24, No. 25, No. 26, No. 27, No. 28, August- October 1868.

Personal Memorabilia

• Log Book: Voyages of the Yacht Vega of Philadelphia commanded by S. T. Dayton. January 7, 1881-October 8, 1881. From New York to Bermuda, St. Thomas, Trinidad, Barbados, etc. Second voyage from Philadelphia to Boston, Mt. Desert (Maine), New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Bar Harbor, Portland, Portsmouth, Marblehead, Newport, etc. Binding broken, paper is brittle.
• Folder 2438: Invoice or price list for fittings for the Vega. W. B. Ferguson & Son, New York.
• Folder 2439: Bill of Sale of Enrolled Vessel. Draft of bill of sale of the Yacht Vega to Edmund M. Ferguson, 26 December 1883.
• Folder 2440: Memo about steamers from Havana.
• Folder 2441: Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad Co. Photostats of stock certificates held by HCL, August 15, 1876.
• Folder 2442: Unidentified copy of a page dated 1779? with the name Arthur Lee on the bottom entry. Genealological material ?

Miscellaneous Oversize

Box 202

• HCL photos. Portrait photographs of Henry Charles Lea. Photograph of HCL's grave site.
• Charles Grafly's sketches for bust and memorial at the Henry Charles Lea Public School, and for a memorial designed for the First Unitarian Church, 2 watercolor sketches, ca. 1916.

Box 203, Folder 2443:
• Folder of oversize clippings re: HCL funeral and memorials from a scrapbook donated by Henry Lea Hudson, 1970.
• HCL honorary degrees, memberships. [Legal size and smaller are filed with correspondence, under the name of the institution.]
• Academia Letterarum et Scientiarum Regia Boica. 15 November 1889. Signed by Guill. de Giesebrecht.
• American Academy of Political and Social Science. n.d. ca. 1910. Signed by Rowe, President and Carl Kelsey, Secretary.
• American Historical Association. Life member. 14 June 1898. Signed by George Park Fisher, President, and Herbert B. Adams, Secretary.
• American Philosophical Society. Election to membership. 18 October 1867. Signed by George B. Wood, President; John C. Cresson, Isaac Lea, George Sharswood, Vice Presidents; and Secretaries.
• Deutsche Comenius-Gesellschaft. Diploma signed by Ludwig Keller, 10 October 1891.
• Franklin Institute. Life Member. 18 January 1849. Signed by Merrick, President and other officers. Lithograph. [badly damaged]

Diplomas and Membership Certificates

• Massachusetts Historical Society. Election to membership. 14 October 1875. Signed by Robert C. Winthrop, President; Chandler Robbins and Charles Deane, Secretaries.
• Northern Dispensary of Philadelphia. Life member. 18 June 1868. Signed by Geo. Tryon, President. Engraving of the Good Samaritan.
• Pennsylvania Hospital. Contributor. Thirty dollars. 13 March 1858. Signed by John T. Lewis, Treasurer. Engraving of Pennsylvania Hospital, drawn by Geo. Strickland, engraved by C. G. Childs and W. W. Hay. [water damaged on edge]
• Pennsylvania Hospital. Contributor. 30 September 1865. Signed by president and treasurer. Engraving of Pennsylvania Hospital, drawn by Geo. Strickland, engraved by C. G. Childs and W. W. Hay.
• Pennsylvania Forestry Association. Life member. 30 April 1897. Signed by John Birkinbine, President; J. T. Rorhoch, Secretary.
• Pennsylvania Humane Society. Life member. 20 April 1888. Signed by Geo. D. McCreary, President.
• Princeton University. Doctor of Laws. 1896.
• Regia Lynceorum Academia. Election to membership. 29 August, 1901.
• Societa Nazionale Emancipatrice di mutuo soccorso del Sacerdozio Italiano. 9 March 1869.
• United States. Army. War Department. Official acknowledgement of patriotism and public spirit, re: John Seif, representative recruit. July 27, 1864. Signed by James B. Fry, Brigadier General and D. M. Lane, Captain and Provost Marshall.
• United States. Army. War Department. Official acknowledgement of patriotism and public spirit, re: Joseph Coyle, representative recruit. August 25, 1864. Signed by James B. Fry, Brigadier General and D. M. Lane, Captain and Provost Marshall.
• Universitat Giessen. Doctor of Theology. 1907. 1 original with wax seal. 4 copies.