RIAMCO

Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online

For Participating Institutions

Henry Ledyard collection (RLC.Ms.565)

Redwood Library and Athenaeum

50 Bellevue Avenue
Newport, RI 02840
Tel: (401) 847-0292
Fax: (401) 841-5680
email: redwood@redwoodlibrary.org

Administrative Information

ABOUT THE COLLECTION  
Acquisition: Gift of Henry Ledyard, 1869 October (see item 27)
Processing information: Prior to processing in 2014, this collection was found within the Steel Cabinet collection: Drawer 7, Folder 2. The majority of the materials in this collection are glued onto larger pieces of paper with more than one document typically glued onto one of the sheets of paper. As a result, the documents do not appear to be in any type of discernable order. The larger sheets of paper with the documents glued on them were numbered and two indexes were created, most likely by Library staff at an unknown time. The first index is an alphabetical listing of all the names associated with each document and the second index is by the document’s assigned folio number. These indexes can be found in the folder for this collection.In addition, it appears as though some documents were added to this collection after Ledyard’s initial gift in 1869. There is no other documentation describing their acquisition.
ABOUT THE FINDING AID  
Author: Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth Delmage.
Encoding: Finding aid encoded by Elizabeth Delmage 2014 October 02
Descriptive rules: Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)
Sponsor: Funding for processing and cataloging this collection was provided by the van Beuren Charitable Foundation.