Box: 1 Fold: 1 E.C. Benedict to Grover Cleveland
- TLS 12/23/1906 w/ envelope from E.C. Benedict to A. Homer Byington, with reference to Congressman George M. Troup (senator, Georgia (R) 1816); presidential nomination of Woodrow Wilson; and Grover Cleveland.
Box: 1 Fold: 2 Henry Van Ness Boynton Box: 1 Fold: 3 A. Homer Byington to Harriet Sophia Byington Box: 1 Fold: 4 William H. Byington to A. Homer Byington Box: 1 Fold: 5 Charles Hopkins Clark Box: 1 Fold: 6 Lorrin A. Cooke et al. Box: 1 Fold: 7 Frank A. Deane from A. Homer Byington Box: 1 Fold: 8 Orris S. Ferry Box: 1 Fold: 9 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 10 Edward C. Frisbie
Box: 1 Fold: 11 Edward C. Frisbie
Box: 1 Fold: 12 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 13 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 14 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 15 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 16 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 17 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 18 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 19 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 20 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 21 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 22 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 23 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 24 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 25 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 26 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 27 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 28 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 29 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 30 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 31 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 32 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 33 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 34 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 35 Edward C. Frisbie Box: 1 Fold: 36 Lucretia R. Garfield Box: 1 Fold: 37 Ulysses S. Grant from A. Homer Byington Box: 1 Fold: 38 Ebenezer J. Hill Box: 1 Fold: 39 Orville H. Platt Box: 1 Fold: 40 Nehemiah D. Sperry Box: 1 Fold: 41 Edmund C. Stedman Box: 1 Fold: 42 Edith Van Buren Box: 1 Fold: 43 Harold Van Buren Box: 1 Fold: 44 Stewart L. Woodford Box: 1 Fold: 45 A. Homer Byington: Correspondence B-C
- James G. Batterson, president, Travelers Insurance Company, Hartford, Conn., ALS 8/18/1897.
- A.S. Bolles, "Norwich Morning Bulletin," ALS 1/25/1879.
- W. Kennedy Boone, Mt. Vernon Company, ALS 12/29/1899.
- C.S. Bushnell, president, Home Insurance Company, New Haven, Conn., ALS 8/1/1870.
- Wilbur J. Carr, U.S. State Department, ALS 8/21/1900.
- D.E. Culver, D.E. Culver Company, 2 ALS 8/28/1884, 9/17/1884.
- Seymour Curtis, secretary, Norwalk Club, Connecticut, ALS 5/1/1901.
Box: 1 Fold: 46 A. Homer Byington: Correspondence E-H
- William W. Eaton, senator, appointing Byington as personal secretary, ALS 4/2/1875.
- Dudley P. Ely, First National Bank of South Norwalk, ALS 5/3/1881.
- H.W.R. Hoyt, lawyer, ALS 10/6/1880.
Box: 1 Fold: 47 A. Homer Byington: Correspondence K-M
- L.W. Kervan, Berlin Steam Brick Works, 3 ALS w/ envelope, 4/4/1879, 4/11/1879, 5/14/1888.
- E.J. McKee, ALS 4/29, 1888.
- S.E. Langton, ALS 7/6/19?
Box: 1 Fold: 48 A. Homer Byington: Correspondence O-P
- Samuel E. Olmstead, ALS 2/19/1879 and quit-claim deed signed by Olmstead 10/7/1879.
- J.A. Porter, secretary, Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., telegram 7/27/1897 & TLS 10/20/1899.
Box: 1 Fold: 49 A. Homer Byington: Correspondence T-W
- William H. Taylor, W.H. Taylor & Son, Machinists and Blacksmiths, ALS w/ envelope 5/27/1886.
- J. Wethrell, 5 ALS 8/22/1876 w/ envelope and torn check for $350.00, 7/22/1876, 11/20/1876, 11/24/1876, 3/17/1877.
Box: 1 Fold: 50 A. Homer Byington: Correspondence (Unidentified) Box: 1 Fold: 51 A. Homer Byington: Correspondence (Envelopes)
1906
DESCRIPTION: - TLS 3/12/1906 (enclosed with TLS 12/23/1906) from E.C. Benedict to Grover Cleveland, on occasion of the latter's 69th birthday.
April 15, 1897
DESCRIPTION: Autograph copy of letter from journalist Henry Van Ness Boynton (1835-1905) to President William McKinley, endorsing A. Homer Byington for a consular appointment in the U.S. Foreign Service.
February 4, 1882
DESCRIPTION: Birthday greeting from A. Homer Byington to his wife Harriet Sophia (Richmond) Byington, written on the reverse of his calling card.
March 5, 1901
DESCRIPTION: ALS from William H. Byington, eldest son, to father A. Homer Byington concerning account with Fairfield Company Bank.
August 23 & 25, 1909
DESCRIPTION: 2 ALS from news editor Charles Hopkins Clark to A. Homer Byington, on letterhead of the "Hartford Courant." Reference to action of "Senator Platt" concerning portraits in the Senate Chamber of Senator Isaac Toucey (1796-1869) and Thomas H. Seymour (1807-1868) former governor of Connecticut (1846).
March 23, 1897
DESCRIPTION: TLS with typed endorsement (3 pages/3 leaves) from Lorrin A. Cooke, governor of Connecticut (1897-1899) to President William McKinley, endorsing A. Homer Byington for a consular appointment in the U.S. Foreign Service. Endorsement bears signatures from other congressmen and news editors. Includes autograph transcription of the endorsement (4 pages/2 leaves); and edited typed copy (3 pages/3 leaves).
c. July/August 1897
DESCRIPTION: ALS draft from A. Homer Byington to Frank A. Deane, U.S. consul, Naples, regarding the latter's withdrawal from office and accommodations for Byington and wife during the former's prospective appointment as new U.S. consul to Naples.
1866 & 1879
DESCRIPTION: ALS (2/13/1879, 2 pages/1 leaf) from Charlotte Ferry, wife of Congressman Orris S. Ferry (1823-1875), to A. Homer Byington. Enclosed with autograph transcript of speech by Orris Ferry (5/23/1866, 4 pages/2 leaves).
1894
DESCRIPTION: 2 ALS from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie (7/23/1894 & 11/25/1894). Reference to personal finances; and to receiving gift of shoehorn from Frisbie's wife, Florence.
1899
DESCRIPTION: 4 ALS (10/28/1899, 11/8/1899, 12/7/1899, 12/12/1899); 1 TLS (10/29/1899) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Reference to personal finances and property.
March-May 1900
DESCRIPTION: 3 TLS (3/2/1900, 4/23/1900, 5/23/1900) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Reference to son George Richmond Byington, Charles Phelps, and health of wife Harriet Sophia Byington.
June-September 1900
DESCRIPTION: 3 TLS (6/29/1900, 7/4/1900, 9/4/1900) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Reference to 1. candidates of national convention 1900 including William J. Bryan, Nehemiah D. Sperry; 2. veterans of the Civil War including congressmen Joseph B. Hawley, Orris S. Ferry, John Woodruff; and 3. Gen. Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824-1881) and failure of the Fredericksburg campaign, 1862.
October 1900
DESCRIPTION: 3 TLS (10/6/1900, 10/20/1900, 10/29/1900); ALS (10/31/1900) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Includes demand note for $2,300.00 from Frisbie, drawn at the Charter Oak Bank. Reference also to Ambrose E. Burnside.
November-December 1900
DESCRIPTION: 3 TLS (11/12/1900, 12/6/1900, 12/26/1900) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Reference to Ambrose Everett Burnside and to the Civil War, especially on matters of the Secession and abolition of slavery.
January-April 1901
DESCRIPTION: 2 TLS (1/25/1901, 3/19/1901); 1 ALS (4/28/1901) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Reference to 1. the Missouri Compromise; 2. Ambrose Everett Burnside; and 3. request by Byington to Frisbie to obtain recommendations from senators Joseph B. Hawley, Orville H./Thomas C. Platt(?), and Charles A. Russell.
May 1901
DESCRIPTION: 3 ALS (5/5/1901, 5/27/1901, 5/30/1901) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Reference to a family wedding and to Joseph B. Hawley.
June-November 1901
DESCRIPTION: 4 ALS (6/12/1901, 6/19/1901, 8/12/1901, 11/2/1901) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Reference to the former's voyage to Naples and to a prospective trip to Mexico by Frisbie. Includes typed note (unsigned) from Frisbie describing a religious relic obtained in Mexico.
January-July 1902
DESCRIPTION: 3 ALS (5/29/1902, 6/11/1902, 7/16/1902), 1 TLS (1/27/1902) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Reference to Frisbie's recent trip to Mexico, and to Byington's personal finances.
August-September 1902
DESCRIPTION: 5 ALS (8/8/1902, 8/23/1902, 9/1/1902, 9/2/1902, 9/19/1902) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Reference to illness of Frisbie's son "Ned," and to Frisbie's candidacy for Congress.
October-November 1902
DESCRIPTION: 4 ALS (10/10/1902, 11/3/1902, 11/24/1902, 11/28/1902) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Reference to Frisbie's defeat as candidate for Congress, and death of Congressman Charles A. Russell.
January-April 1903
DESCRIPTION: 4 ALS (1/10/1903, 3/5/1903, 4/1/1903, 4/20/1903) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Reference to Orville H. Platt (senator, Connecticut), illness of Joseph B. Hawley, widow and family of Charles A. Russell (d.1902).
May-October 1903
DESCRIPTION: 4 ALS (5/5/1903, 6/22/1903, 9/11/1903, 10/9/1903) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Reference to diminishing remuneration for work in the Foreign Service, and marriage of grandson Homer Morrison Byington.
November-December 1903
DESCRIPTION: 3 ALS (11/14/1903, 11/27/1903, 12/24/1903) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Reference to travels of Florence Frisbie with Harriet Sophia Byington.
May-July 1904
DESCRIPTION: 3 ALS (5/3/1904, 5/27/1904, 7/18/1904) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Reference to prospective holiday home to U.S. and family activities.
August-November 1904
DESCRIPTION: 4 ALS (8/1/1904, 8/27/1904, 9/27/1904, 11/9/1904) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Reference to a consular reform bill proposed by U.S. government. Includes newspaper clipping of birthday greeting from Frisbie to Byington.
April 1905
DESCRIPTION: 2 ALS (4/6/1905, 4/24/1905) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Reference to friend Charles Phelps; White House appointments; and death of Orville H. Platt (1905).
January-April 1906
DESCRIPTION: 4 ALS (1/3/1906, 2/28/1906, 4/8/1906, 4/27/1906) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Reference to death of Byington's wife, Harriet Sophia (1906), and to an eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
June-July 1906
DESCRIPTION: 4 ALS (6/4/1906, 6/25/1906, 7/26/1906, 7/27/1906) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Reference to Charles Phelps, and to activities during visit home to the U.S.
October-November 1906
DESCRIPTION: 2 ALS (10/31/1906, 11/28/1906) & 1 ALS (undated) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Notable references in ALS 10/31/1906 to 1. George Washington and alleged affair with a "brevet wife," and to Rev. Minot Savage ((1841-1918) "who has made an exhaustive study of the inner life of Washington..."; 2. Mrs. Mary E. Surratt, conspirator in assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and use of a "clandestine postal service," which Surratt headed and which Byington also claimed to have used to assist in "smoking out the whole gang of (John Wilkes) Booth's assassins & it was I who gave the authorities their place of meetings at the house of Mrs. Surratt, etc...."; and 3. treason attempts in the army during Civil War events of 1862 which were diminished with the assistance of railroad officials Henry Alfred Bishop (1860-1934) and brother William Darius Bishop (1827-1904) -- the former having used Suratt's postal service to intercept letters from his wife who was "daughter of the rebel postmaster general of the Confederacy..."
January-February 1907
DESCRIPTION: 2 ALS (1/2/1907, 2/28/1907) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie, with New Year's greetings and thanks for the latter's gift of the American flag.
July-August 1907
DESCRIPTION: 3 ALS (7/6/1907, 8/2/1907, 8/19/1907) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Reference to Byington's resignation from Foreign Service post in Naples.
October-December 1907
DESCRIPTION: 2 ALS (10/12/1907, 12/7/1907) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Reference to Orris S. Ferry, Joseph B. Hawley, and to moving from Naples post to return to U.S. ALS 10/12/1907 includes attached ALS (undated) from Charlotte Ferry.
February-May 1908
DESCRIPTION: 4 ALS (2/12/1908, 4/3/1908, 4/5/1908, 5/14/1908) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Reference to Edgar T. Welles (1843-1914) son of Gideon Welles (1802-1878), Secretary of the Navy in Lincoln's cabinet; Charles Phelps; Byington's recommendation of Joseph B. Hawley as secretary of war to Ulysses S. Grant; and family matters. Includes typed carbon from Frisbie to Byington (4/6/1908).
September-December 1908
DESCRIPTION: 5 ALS (7/12/1908, 10/7/1908, 10/15/1908, 10/27/1908, 11/11/1908) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Reference to Charlotte Ferry, Joseph B. Hawley, Charles Hopkins Clark, Ebenezer J. Hill and Connecticut politics.
February-September 1909
DESCRIPTION: 2 ALS (2/6/1909, 7/30/1909) from A. Homer Byington to friend Edward C. Frisbie. Reference to selling of the diary of Gideon Welles by his son Edgar T. Welles; commemorative statue for Orville H. Platt. Includes typed carbon from Frisbie to Byington with reference to the latter's experience at Gettysburg.
November 21, 1894
DESCRIPTION: ALS from Lucretia R. Garfield, widow of President James A. Garfield, on black-bordered mourning stationery. Thanks to A. Homer Byington for "all the true good words" he wrote in Garfield's memory.
July 15, 1876
DESCRIPTION: ALS (folio) from A. Homer Byington to President Ulysses S. Grant regarding the position of "Congressional Printer." Includes testimonials from congressmen Bainbridge Wadleigh, Phineas W. Hitchcock, Aaron A. Sargent, Algernon Sidney Paddock, and others.
1879-1908
DESCRIPTION: 2 ALS (3/19/1879, 4/16/1881) & TLS (1/13/1899, 11/24/1908) from Congressman Ebenezer J. Hill (1845-1917) to A. Homer Byington. Reference to various business matters.
1881-1897
DESCRIPTION: ALS (1/14/1881, 1 leaf) & TLS (6/11/1895, 1 page/1 leaf) from Senator Orville H. Platt (1827-1905), to A. Homer Byington. Includes ALS (April 1897) from Byington to Platt and Joseph B. Hawley. Reference to Platt's appointment of Byington as private secretary (1/14/1881); railway problems and Ebenezer J. Hill in Norwalk, Conn.; and consular appointments suggested by Byington.
May 23, 1881
DESCRIPTION: ALS (4 pages/4 leaves) from Congressman Nehemiah D. Sperry (1827-1911) to James G. Blaine, U.S. Secretary of State, endorsing the appointment of A. Homer Byington to a consulate.
1887-1897
DESCRIPTION: 2 ALS (1/20/1887, 8/18/1897) from poet and critic Edmund C. Stedman (1833-1908) to A. Homer Byington. Includes autograph copy of letter (4/6/1897) from Stedman to John Sherman, U.S. Secretary of State, endorsing Byington for a consular appointment.
May-June 1900
DESCRIPTION: 5 ALS (5/13/1900 w/ envelope, 5/21/1900, 6/13/1900, 6/20/1900 w/ newsclipping, 6/21/1900 w/ envelope) from Edith Van Buren, daughter of Harold s. Van Buren, U.S. consul, Nice. Includes typescript copies of the letters. Also includes 1 ALS (5/3/1900, mutilated) from Horace Porter, U.S. embassy, Paris. Reference to background information on a suitor for Edith Van Buren.
1900-1901
DESCRIPTION: 2 ALS (12/10/1900, 1/19/1901) from Harold Van Buren to A. Homer Byington. Reference to background information on suitor for daughter Edith Van Buren.
April 4, 1897
DESCRIPTION: Autograph copy of letter from diplomat Stewart L. Woodford (1835-1913) to John Sherman, U.S. Secretary of State, endorsing A. Homer Byington for a consular appointment.
1870-1901
DESCRIPTION: Miscellaneous correspondence received by A. Homer Byington from the following concerning, in general, personal business matters:
1875-1881
DESCRIPTION: Miscellaneous correspondence received by A. Homer Byington from the following concerning, in general, personal business matters:
1879-1888
DESCRIPTION: Miscellaneous correspondence received by A. Homer Byington from the following concerning, in general, personal business matters:
1879-1899
DESCRIPTION: Miscellaneous correspondence received by A. Homer Byington from the following concerning, in general, personal business matters:
1876-1886
DESCRIPTION: Miscellaneous correspondence received by A. Homer Byington from the following concerning, in general, personal business matters:
undated
DESCRIPTION: Fragment of autograph note to A. Homer Byington, unidentified.
undated
DESCRIPTION: 2 empty envelopes addressed to A. Homer Byington.
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