[Two circular seals authenticating a copy of a financial agreement between Enoch Boughton and William H. Barber regarding a patented hot air furnace]

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Title: [Two circular seals authenticating a copy of a financial agreement between Enoch Boughton and William H. Barber regarding a patented hot air furnace]
Date: 1874 January 19
Creator: Barber, William Harrison, 1843-1883; Boughton, Enoch.
Notes: Enoch Boughton & W[illiam] H. Barber DS, January 19, 1874. Norwalk, Ct., page 2. From a collection of correspondence and documents from during and after the Civil War. The Civil War material includes personal letters to Barber's mother; a 15-page letter to a friend that describes a railroad trip from Allentown, Pennsylvania, to Baltimore; Barber's discharge letter, which has a drop of blood on it from a fist fight with another soldier; and a letter of dishonorable discharge for three men (Barber is not one of them) for cowardice in battle. Of special interest is a letter to William from his brother Joseph, December 10, 1861, which includes a full-page pencil sketch of the layout of Fort Ethan Allen in Arlington, Virginia.
Names and Subjects: Contracts--1870-1880.; Contracts--Connecticut.; Seals (Law); Manuscripts shelf.
Genre: Agreements.; Line drawings.; Pen and ink drawings.
Collection Title: William Harrison Barber papers
Collection Creator: Stackhouse, Howard G.
Project Name: Illustrated Manuscripts Project
ID: 6860
Repository: William L. Clements Library
Date Added/Updated: 2018-11-30 11:29:01

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Record: 6860
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