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A Guide to the Papers of the Barney, Cooke, McClew and Neilson families, 1820-1905 Papers of the Barney, Cooke, McClew and Neilson families, 1820-1905 7786-x

A Guide to the Papers of the Barney, Cooke, McClew and Neilson families, 1820-1905

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7786-x
Title
Papers of the Barney, Cooke, McClew and Neilson families, 1820-1905
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There are 175 items in this collection.
Language
English

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Preferred Citation

Papers of the Barney, Cooke, McClew and Neilson families, 1820-1905, Accession #7786-x, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was a gift of Bruce Engstler, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1996 April 17.

Scope and Content Information

The collection consists mainly of letters, 1865-1875, between Charles D. Barney and Laura E. Cooke, daughter of financier Jay Cooke. Barney, writing chiefly from Sandusky, Ohio and Philadelphia, Pa., discusses their love and future marriage; religious beliefs, church services and sermons; family and friends; social events particularly games, rides, concerts, and dances, as well as a mass meeting addressed by B. F. Wade, a reading by Harriet E. Kimball, and a veterans' parade in Philadelphia.

He describes the ruins of the Chicago fire and briefly notes work in the firm of Jay Cooke & Co. Bankers. People mentioned include Wiliam W. Newton, Jay Cooke, Jay Cooke, Jr., and William White Harding.

Letters of Laura Cook to Barney discuss her love for him; her family and social life; reading; wedding plans, and travels including trips to Kentucky, the grand falls of the Potomac, Fall River, Mass., Newport, R.I., Michigan, Cape May, N.J., Gibraltar and Sandusky, Ohio, She notes church attendance and sermons or services by Alfred Lee, Henry Ward Beecher, John Philip Newman, Charles Edward Cheney and Heman Dyer.

There are comments on the Presidential election of 1868, travel on the steamer "Jay Cooke, " her father's fishing, and family productions of "Cricket on the hearth." There are very brief mentions of Julia Grant, Hugh Lenox Bond, Benjamin Butler, Lewis B. Gunckel, and John H. Martindale.

The collection also contains a programme for an 1868 performance of "Drummer Boy!" in Sandusky, Ohio, annotated with notes on the performance [by Laura Cooke?]

Letters to Barney and Cooke from family and friends include a letter from Harry E. Cooke, traveling in Italy in 1869; a letter from Jay Cooke arranging a position in his firm for Barney; and a letter from Charles B. Dennis, Office Mustering Dept., 4th Army Corps, Chattanooga, 1864 July 13, giving news of friends briefly mentioning Charles Cruft, General Jefferson C. Davis, Charles G. Harker, John D. Imboden, [Isaac Minor?] Kirby, John I. Morrison, Lew Wallace, and Kenesaw Mountain.

The letters also contain letters to emigrant Charles McClew of Montgomery County, N.Y. from relatives in Scotland, 1822-1940, conveying news of family and friends. Topics include college life in Glasgow, economic distress, and religious unrest.

Miscellaneous correspondence unrelated to the rest of the collection includes : an 1841 letter describing a visit to Richmond, Va., by William Henry Harrison and John Tyler that also mentions Thomas Ritchie and Thomas Walker Gilmer; an 1889 letter from Bloomingburgh, N.Y. concerning rowing, fishing, and hunting; 1890 correspondence of Alfred Kean Moe, Jersey City, concerning a student who had dropped out of school; and a 1904 letter from an unknown University of Virginia student concerning James B. Green, a blind tutor at the U. Va. School of Law, Betty Burwell Page Cocke, Betty Page Cocke, and "Raleigh" the Cocke's servant at their boarding house.

Contents List

I. LETTERS FROM CHARLES D. BARNEY TO LAURA E. COOKE
  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1865 Oct 22

    Sandusky, Ohio: church services; a 'Negro "Minstral"'; social affairs such as parties and dances; family

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1866 Oct 3

    Sandusky, Ohio: Mr. Ingersoll's beautiful discourse on repentance; scripture quotes; visit to Camptown Chapel; the Fair; expresses love for her

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1866 Nov 11

    Sandusky, Ohio: on sharing thoughts with her, such as truths of the "beautiful parable of the Prodigal Son"; sermon of Mr. Farr; scripture quotes; lengthy description of a performance of scenes -- "Rose fete" with comments on Clara, Lollie Mills, Connie Homer, Essie Mills, Frank Butler, Sophie Fitzhugh, Hannah, Jake Homer, Mary Osborne, and his namesake Charlie Johnson, "a little colored boy," and others; including Sallie Graham, Emma Marsh, Kitty Campbell, Emma Moss, George Maxwell, Lena Mills, Sallie Mills; "Taking the Oath"; "Ring of Cashiers," specifically "The Rose," with comments on Mary Osborne, Emma Marsh, Sallie Graham, Jessie Stern, and Clara; "The Dentistry Establishment," "Rustic Courtship," "Intercepted Letter," "The Belle of Orleans," "Rock of Ages," and "Mistletoe Bough" (scenes? from the "history of the great Sandusky sensations of 1866")

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1866 Dec 5

    Sandusky, Ohio: parochial meeting; religious thought; poem to Longellow's "Waif"; comments on the temperament of a tailor and on having a tailor as a president [Andrew Johnson (1808-1875)]; longing for them to be together in marriage

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1866 Dec 9

    Sandusky, Ohio: comments on the church sermon on the coming of the Lord by Mr. Farr; religious thoughts and trust in God; Dr. Bancroft, professor at the Theological Seminary at Gambier; her distrust of reverends and his thoughts of becoming one

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1867 Jan 4

    Sandusky, Ohio: thankful to God for having her in his life; missing a gathering at Hannah's with Mary Radcliff, Ella Higgins, and Jay [Cooke, Jr.]; skating at Cedar Point; comments on writing in the fashion of Victor Hugo

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1867 Jan 30

    At home: reassures her of his devotion to her; a gathering at the Latham's with the Misses Robertson, Latham, and Barney (Ella and Sallie) singing compositions of Mozart, Farmer, and Mercidanti; Mr. Farr

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1867 Mar 13

    Sandusky, Ohio: Clara; a journey of Clara and Laura on Chestnut Street; thoughts on Laura's falling in love with various girls -- as a "Christian charity among the quieter sex"; Jay [Cooke, Jr.]; remembrance of a gift of a rosebud to her; marriage of Mary Osborne to a gentleman from Louisville, Kentucky; quiet Lenten season with services and lectures by Mr. Farr

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1867 Mar 31

    Sandusky, Ohio: went to the Fair; prizes won by Allie Porter, Nettie Watherell, Clara, Sallie Reber, Mr. Reber, Charlie Bouton, and the G.A.R. Society

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1867 Apr 20

    Sandusky, Ohio: thoughts of the coming June (the time of their marriage) for happiness; remembers their delightful talks and the happiness of their 'short & sweet' association; description of visit to Central Park and Broadway; visit to Laura's brother Pitt Cooke and Willie Pritchard in Brooklyn and a trip to 'Fulton Market' with them; visit to Aunt Mary's with Hal, Willie Pritchard, Mrs. Pitt, Mrs. Pritchard, and Townie Pritchard; heard Maggie Mitchell that evening; railroad and ferry rides home to Sandusky; church attendance with Mr. Farr and Jay Butler -- describes Easter service; singing the hymn; [ ] Farr's sermon; news of their engagement out

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1867 Apr 22

    Sandusky, Ohio: trust in God, in her, and the future; discussion of patterns; Charles Olds; Jay Butler; Emma Marsh; Kitty Campbell; Luke Mills; Jay and Clara Moorehead; "Fort Whipple," Virginia where he was a Corporal in the 100 Days War

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1867 May 1

    At home: patterns of animals for his mother's afghan; business getting brisk; description of scenery around Washington, D. C.; Laura's opal being found; comments on her performance of "The Cricket on the Hearth"; "Grand Army and Union League meetings; Charles Augustus; Hannah Marshall

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1867 June 5

    Sandusky, Ohio: playing charades; arrangements for a concert with assistance from Mr. Andersen, Sallie Mills, and Sally Reber

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1867 June 6

    Sandusky, Ohio: reminsces about their first meeting two years previous; arrangements for the concert and rehearsal that night

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1867 June 27

    Sandusky, Ohio: in appreciation of her kindnesses; loving letter, expressing his feelings of love; Mrs. Barney, Ella, Sallie, "Grandma," [Jay Cooke], and Uncle Collie playing backgammon; ride and dance following night with Cora Brown; cancelled trip to the island, going to School Exhibition with his mother instead; Jay Butler; Martha Cooke; Lake Mills

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1867 Aug 2

    Sandusky, Ohio: joy in receiving her letter; Georgia Moss; Jay Butler; conversation on housekeeping; their engagement; photograph of her carriage enclosed; romantic thoughts; a river adventure braved by Sallie [Cooke] and Laura; Martha Cooke

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1867 Aug 17

    Gibraltar, Put-In-Bay: Clara Hepburn; boat ride to "Gibraltar, Put-In-Bay," boat ride around the bay; playing croquet; prayers and sermon conducted by Mr.Taylor; bay ride during which a German man with an accordion entertained; description of the water, air, and moonlight -- the atmosphere -- of the bay ride; Dr. [Thomas Hewlings?] Stockton (1808-1868) suffering and thoughts concerning this matter; Sunday church prayers by Mr. Peck; humorous comment on his musical aptitude in comparison to George Morgan; description of activities and music from the steamers by the wharf; romantic thoughts

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1867 Sep 12

    Sandusky, Ohio: attended mass meeting held in the [South Mansfield Station] and Newark Railroad Passing Depot which was addressed by Benjamin [Franklin] Wade and N. C. McFarland; Aunt Martha [Cooke]; proceedings of last night's meeting during which he was chosen secretary

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1867 Sep 15

    Sandusky, Ohio: Aunt Martha [Cooke]; cousin Dora and Aunt Sarah [Moorhead?] train trip to Sandusky; Lake Mills; visit to Aunt Caldwell's

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1867 Sep 18

    Sandusky, Ohio: religious overtones concerning their love and relationship; Lake Mills; Jake Hosmer; lottery drawings for prizes; Fishers Hall a gambling hole; sermons from Dr. Bancroft and Mr. Fullerton, Presbyterian minister; vote of township ticket; Kittie Campbell; Theo Hosmer; the Fair; George Thomas lecture on 'Sign boards'; her report of the Japanese visit to her [incomplete letter]

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1867 Oct 18

    Sandusky, Ohio: Jay [Cooke, Jr.] and Clara; "closed up entirely at the Bank so that now I am through -- there forever -- I guess -- I must make a few more calls this P. M. & then I shall be out of that business & entirely a man of ease without a thing in the world on my hands --"; visit to Mrs. George Anderson on her fifteenth wedding anniversary

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke [1867 Oct?]

    The Office: planning a trip to Cleveland, Ohio and offers to pick up Laura if she is coming through

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke [1867 Oct?]

    --: reading [The Chronicles of the] Schonberg-Cotta Family [by Elizabeth Rundle Charles], commenting on it as "the most useful -- truthful -- interesting & simply beautiful book" he ever read; determined to meet Laura in Cleveland, Ohio; Miss Horstman; an evening dancing party; big fire consumed the Marsh's Plaster Mill; choir singing in church; Mr. Farr of the church; his own successor in the office

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 Mar 11

    Ogontz "Library," [Chelten Hills, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]: choir meeting; stories of Mr. Rickerts; notes from Nennie and John M. Bronaugh, Sallie [Cooke], H. A. Rickert with a sketch; locks of hair

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 May 27

    Ogontz 'Chinese' Room: Kittie Tryvilian; Jim Bingham; [Jay Cooke] her father at the office and home; [John W.] Sexton, George [Thomas]; Mr. Rickert playing piano in the parlor; Della Coles; describes drive in the buggy with the Cooke family; drowning of local boy, the son of Isiaah Drain, in the Penn Mill Creek; playing billiards; Mr. and Mrs. Appleton, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, Willie Newton, Mr. and Mrs. Parvins all at house; Jay Cooke conducted private business conversations at house; prayers and hymns; ride in the "Omnibus"

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 May 28

    The Office: Laura in Detroit, Michigan; [Jay Cooke], Jay [Cooke, Jr.]; George [Thomas], Willie Newton, Mr. Rickert on train together; doctrinal discussion on "Stubbs & Boggs" [incomplete letter]

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 May 29

    -- : Harry Bingham: Mrs. Barney's afflicted state; John at Ida and Ginnie Thomas'; reading by Miss [Harriet McEwen] Kimball (1834-1917) of [Friedrich] Schiller's Mary Stuart; visit to Birdsells for strawberries and cream; moving to new quarters on 9th Street at the Aldens; Eckstein Nagle & Company; spending the weekend at Ogontz with Mr. Bingham, John, Willie Newton [Note: William Wilberforce Newton (1843-1914) married Emily Stevenson Cooke on November 16, 1870, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania], and Mr. Rickert

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 May 31

    Ogontz "Chinese room": discussion of a conversation on women by Mr. Bingham, John, and himself; Willie Newton; Miss Horstman; playing billiards; activities at Ogontz; Richard Thomas; Mr. Appleton; Mr. Rickert; Mr. Parvins; Emma Faris; Sunday school and church services; "poney carriage" ride to Branchtown; Maimie Brock

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 [May?]

    Ogontz "Chinese room": describes horseback ride on "Miss 'Kitten'" with Tom -- saw the Brocks, "Rockwood," the Parvins, and the Gimps; dinner at the Continental; piano and flute performance by Charlie and Tom; religious thoughts; new lodgings at Mrs. Alden's

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 June 1

    The Office: walked to Depot with Tom, Joe, and James Rowland; [John W.] Sexton; a matter concerning Sallie Cooke and "the club"; Laura in Gibraltar

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 June 4

    Ogontz: croquet club assembled for games then discussion of the proceedings of the business meeting in the parlor; George Thomas; Mr. and Mrs. George C. Thomas, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Henry Butcher, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Cooke, Jr. all new members; Miss Rowland; Mr. Bingham

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 Aug 10

    Ogontz "The end room": Nennie, James Rowland, Miss Henderson; description of "poney carriage" ride -- to J. B. Moorhead, Addie Thomas, Mrs. Wright, Shoemakertown; played backgammon

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 Aug 13

    Ogontz "Library": Nennie, Mrs. Bingham, Mr. Pollard; rode in the "Germantown"; George and Ida Thomas, Miss Warwick, Tom Parvin; trip on Saturday with Ginnie and Caddie Moorhead, the Horstmans and their cousin Miss Mary, Charlie Sharpless; [Sandusky] dance, waltz, gallopade; Jenny Rowland, Clara Horstman, Caddie Rowland played piano; Sallie Cooke; sleeve buttons to Caldwells; Mr. Bingham

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 Aug 14

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: carriage ride to "Bloomfield," Limekein turnpike beyond Waverly Heights, to the York Road, with John, Ida, Ginnie, and Nennie; George Thomas; Harry; Mr. Hawkins of the macadamized Chapel; sleeve buttoms from Caldwells; Mr. Brazier of Caldwells

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 Aug 20

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Mrs. Alden; met Mr. Evans, insurance agent who knew Mr. Bingham; Sallie Cooke; George Thomas

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 Aug 21

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Washington Gilpin, Jay and Joe Shoemaker; [Jay Cooke]

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 Sep 25

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: [George C.] Thomas; Jay [Cooke, Jr.]; played billiards; Clara; plan for the wedding; Joe Shoemaker, Charlie Dunn; Charlie Dennis [Note: Charles B. Dennis (uncle?)]

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 Sep 26

    Jay Cooke & Co. Bankers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Jay [Cooke, Jr.]; invitation to tea with Mrs. Brock, Charlie Dennis, and others

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 Sep 27

    Ogontz "Library": Jay [Cooke, Jr.], Emma Ferris, Lollie Thomas, Minnie Parvin, Joe Shoemaker rode from church in the "Omnibuss"; discussion of Sunday School and Mr. Boulton preaching; Lake Mills; elaborate dinner menu; walk around grounds to stable, mausoleum, greenhouses, the old mill; saw Joe and Jay Shoemaker, Minnie Parvins, Lollie Thomas; Mrs. Brock's tea; Miss Warwick after church; Joe Shoemaker playing the organ

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 Sep 28

    "The Cedars": Mr. Shoemaker, Joe and Bennie's house, the Cooke's old home where Laura spent her childhood; Mr. [George C.] Thomas, George [Thomas]; [John W.] Sexton; Joe [Shoemaker?]; visit to Ogontz; met Miss Warwick, James Rowland, Tom [Parvin] and Charlie Parvin on the train

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 Sep 30

    Jay Cooke & Co. Bankers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Mary Horstman, Mrs. Jacobs, Mrs. Wright, Charlie, Louise all at Ogontz along with George, Addie, Ginnie, Jay Cooke, Jr., and visitors Horace Lippincott and Mr. Hart; orchestra and playing billiards

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 Sep 30

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: family matter concerning his mother, Mrs. Barney, and Laura; advises her to hear Dr. Keiffer

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 Oct 1

    Jay Cooke & Co. Bankers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: busy in office, [John W.] Sexton

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 Oct 2

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: loving thoughts, missing her; Philadelphia "is thronged with people -- 'the boys in blue' & others who have come to see the doings -- the Parade this afternoon was very fine & it took over two hours for the procession to pass the office -- to night they parade again -- then there will be speeches -- fireworks -- illuminations -- rows -- music & everything interesting..."; matter concerning his mother and her second marriage [to Dr. Keiffer]; death of baby Maggie Fahnestock; Jay [Cooke, Jr.]; sent black silk dress; visit to Ogontz

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 Oct 4

    Ogontz "The Chinese room": studying Sunday school lesson; Clara, Jay [Cooke, Jr.]; reference to "Friday was the great day of the 'Boys in blue'" -- his own account of some of the activities of October 2nd; their upcoming marriage; Dr. Newton's tale of the doings of his party at Gibraltar -- 'the trial,' 'the convention' or 'their celebration'; Dr. Newton's sermon, church; his mother and Dr. K[eiffer]

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 Oct 7

    Ogontz: Jay [Cooke, Jr.], Clara; conservatory; Tom Parvin

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 Oct 8

    Ogontz: Clara, Jay [Cooke, Jr.]; playing baseball; hearing orchestrion; Charlie Parvin; dinner menu; playing football; Tom [Parvin]; going to Jenkintown for a political meeting in the hay wagon; invitation to "Bloomfield," the Thomas home

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 Oct 8

    Bloomfield: to Jenkintown to the political meeting in the hay wagon; Harry Birchall, Mary Bigar, Tom [Parvin], Bob [Parvin], Charlie Parvin, Charlie Dunn; Caddie Rowland; Harry Howe in "the procession of torch lighter bearers otherwise -- 'the Invincibles'" & also Harry Rodgers; Miss Carr; Lollie Thomas, Mary McKee, and Mrs. Tillis

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke [1868 Oct 9?]

    Annie Warwick, James Rowland; [John W.] Sexton, Jay [Cooke, Jr.]; playing billiards

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 Oct 10

    Jay Cooke & Co. Bankers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: asks result of her talk with her father [Jay Cooke]; Mr. [George C.] Thomas; Mrs. Appleton; Joe S[hoemaker] now choir leader

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 Oct 11

    The Parsonage: Mr. and Mrs. Appleton; Miss Boulton; describes curiosities collected by Appletons, including inkhorn, brass lamp, items from Palestine; Will Moorhead; Appleton's servants -- little "Kattie" who reminds him of 'the Marchioness' in 'The old curiosity shop'; Mr. Atkinson preached eloquently and beautifully and taught her father's [Jay Cooke] Bible class; Sunday School; the Cookes' feelings toward their daughter Laura's impending marriage to Charlie; death of Mrs. Brock's brother in Haiti by yellow fever; Clara, Jay [Cooke, Jr.]

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 Oct 12

    Ogontz: Jay [Cooke, Jr.] and Clara; the Rowlands, Miss Carr, Tom Parvin, Joe Shoemaker; her father's [Jay Cooke] blessing on their marriage; Caddie [Rowland?]

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 Oct 13

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Mr. Bingham, [John W.] Sexton; card from his mother and the wedding cards of the new Mrs. Charles Hubbard of Sandusky, Ohio

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1868 Oct 14

    Office of Jay Cooke & Co. Bankers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: looking forward to being married in the spring; her black silk dress admired; love poems of Sir Phillip Sidney; tea at Elwell's; Clara's new house

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1869 Feb 26

    Jay Cooke & Co. Bankers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: played two games of billiards with Harry; [Jay Cooke] meeting with Mr. Wikeson in the Library at Ogontz; [Dorothea Allen Cooke], Nennie, Mr. [George C.] Thomas; playing backgammon; boxes of laces and trimmings for Laura's bridal dress; doing well in the office; Willie Newton

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1869 Mar 1

    Jay Cooke & Co. Bankers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: work day discouraging

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke [1869 Mar]

    1622 Spruce Street: James Bingham and Chet Moss at the Continental; [John W.] Sexton and settling cash at the office; Harry Delaney; three yards of silk from Mr. Thomas' store; W[illia]m [White] Harding (1830- 1889), publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer , at the office inquiring for Jay [Cooke, Jr.] and [Jay Cooke] -- rumor of Jay Cooke's being telegraphed to go to Washington, D. C. to see about accepting the Secretary of the Treasury; Laura attending the inauguration of President [Ulysses S. Grant]. [Note: Hugh McCulloch was the Secretary of Treasury until March 1869; Ulysses S. Grant was inaugurated on March 4, 1869]

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1871 Oct 8

    Chicago, Illinois: letter to his wife and five-month-old daughter; [J. B. T.] Marsh, Mr. Turner's brother-in-law in Branchtown to make the address to their S[unday] S[chool]; working in the offices of The Advance; dinner at the 'Palmer'; driving all over the city in a carriage; going to the city on the city cars -- went on the West Side to hear Robert Colyer, impressive services, and interesting sermon; describes church; visit to two Sunday Schools -- met Mrs. Bush, Mr. L. M. Brook's little sister; Edward M. Davis, [Jay Cooke], J. Alfred Townsend, and C.T.C.

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1871 Oct 9

    [Letterhead of] Editorial Rooms of The Advance , Chicago, Illinois: description of the great fire which destroyed Chicago; city half in flames -- courthouse burnt to ground; walked to see fire, stopped at 'Palmer House'; office of the Advance Company totally destroyed; Mrs. Turner's house on Wabash Avenue burned down; the Post Office in flames and destroyed as well as nearly all the prominent buildings -- the Fremont Hotel, the Union Central Depot, the 'Palmer House,' Robert Colyer's magnificent church; "poor women...with nothing in the world left of ruined men, homes & business..." and "the hundreds of thieves walking off with their plunder in their hands or arms..."; requests the raising of funds

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1875 Aug 3

    Charles D. Barney & Co. Bankers and Brokers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John, Harry; Julie Bullitt; invitation to a bachelor party

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke 1875 Aug 14

    Charles D. Barney & Co. Bankers and Brokers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John, [Jay Cooke], Charlie Butler, Clara R[ ], Jay [Cooke, Jr.], Ned, and Eddie McGaw to Trenton for a new horse

  • Charles D. Barney to Laura E. Cooke n.d.

    -- : death of dog "Jipprus"; [business] trip with John and James Bingham; Ella [Barney]'s health; [John W.] Sexton, W[illia]m [G. Moorhead]; and [Jay Cooke] at the office

II. LETTERS FROM LAURA E. COOKE TO CHARLES BARNEY
  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1866 July 29

    Long Island Sound, On board the Newport : destination Mr. Dodge's summer home, the "Farm," near Narragansett Beach, Rhode Island; describes the great confusion caused when the steamer collided with a scow; onboad with Sallie [Cooke] and parents [Jay and Dorothea Allen Cooke]; describes Mr. Dodge's house and surrounding area; loveliness of Ogontz; sailing on the ship; read Granville de Vigne and Strathmore [by Ouida] -- comments on them as horrid and wicked -- given Idalia as a gift

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1866 Oct 2

    -- : on Put-In Bay Island, near Peach Orchard Point; discourse on her life's freedom from trial and tribulations; read John Greenleaf Whittier's "Mogg Megone"

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney [1866] Oct 10

    Erie, [Pennsylvania]: unhappy to be there, wanting to be home, missing Charles; parents like him but want them to be sure of themselves

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1866 Oct 15

    The Cedars: had her picture taken at Wenderoth & Taylor; comments on the "high spirits" of Charles D. Barney; Allie Porter; Jay B[utler]; Oliver Evans

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1866 Oct 17

    The Cedars: [John W.] Sexton; Jay [Cooke, Jr.], [Jay Cooke]; cousin Emily [Allen] reading Punchinello aloud to Harry; Sallie [Cooke] and [Dorothea Allen Cooke] playing backgammon; describes the library at the Cedars; read Charles Dickens' The Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1866 Oct 22

    The Cedars: Emma Allen of Kentucky; her kitten Gipsy; Oliver Evans; Barnaby Rudge; entered at Miss Carr's as a full scholar; matinee at the Academy of Music to hear [Verdi's] Trovatore ; how glorious it is to be a Christian; Theo's return to St. Louis, Missouri; Jay Butler

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1866 Nov 18

    -- : spent Saturday afternoon visiting by carriage driven by "George," the coachman; Anna Commerford, Dora, Aunt Sarah, and Sallie [Cooke]

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1867 Feb 3

    Brooklyn, New York: devastation over cancellation of Charlie's visit; church at St. Ann's in Brooklyn; Uncle Pitt [Cooke] recommendation to brother [ ] Cooke for Mr. Mills; Mr. Farr's sermon "Valley of Ach[ ] and taking charge of Grace Church; Lena Mills; William Bott; [Henry Ward] Beecher sermon in the evening. [Note: Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), clergyman, at Plymouth Congregational Church, Brooklyn, New York, 1847-1887]

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1867 Feb 10

    Ogontz: appreciation for a gift handcrafted by Charlie's sister and mother; discourse of love for each other; Cora Badger; [John Philip] Newman's sermon in evening; [Charles Edward] Cheney's sermon in morning; party at Mrs. Barlow Moorhead's with Lena Haddock, William Farr, and others; gift of little book Thoughts for Weary Hours -- quotes from book; Ella [Barney]. [Note: John Philip Newman (1826-1899), bishop; Charles Edward Cheney (1836-1916), rector of Christ Church, Chicago, Illinios]

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1867 Feb 17

    Ogontz: practicing in music room; festivities on Valentine's Day -- "Sandusky dance," Sandusky tunes by "eight piece & piano" band; Gertrude Farr, William Farr's sister; Dr. [Heman] Dyer's sermon in morning; Dr. Bancroft acceptance of a professorship in the Divinity School of West Philadelphia; death of her sister on February 19, 1865 -- Mrs. George Thomas; death of George Mears on February 1, 1866. [Note: Heman Dyer (1833-1900), clergyman, New York, New York]

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1867 Mar 18

    Ogontz: visit from Katie and Harry Howe of Germantown, [Ohio]; thirteen inches of snow; Mary Osborne's engagement; Louise's characteristics; sermons of Dr. Clayton and Mr. Tiffany of Germantown; Ginnie Thomas; went to church at Holy Trinity; Lena Haddock; going to visit relatives in Kentucky and then on to Sandusky, Ohio; Jay Butler

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1867 April 28

    Ogontz: returned from Washington, D. C. with Jay [Cooke]; description of excursion to the "Grand Falls"; visit by General [Ulysses S.] Grant's wife [Julia T. Dent Grant] and daughter; Mary Barber; Jay Butler; Kittie Campbell; Mary Patterson; "Cricket on the Hearth" rehearsals; Mrs. William Farr's reception with John Butler as fourth groomsman

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1867 May 9

    Kentucky Military Institute: Theo Hosmer; describes beautiful scenery of Kentucky; to travel to the Mammoth Cave; officers and cadets gentlemanly

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1867 May 12

    Kentucky Military Institute: uniforms remind of the old war; describes the actions involved in the inspection of students' rooms; attended one of the societies literary and debating; changed travel plans to the Mammoth Cave; cousin Sallie and Howard; comments on general activities at the institute; traveling to Sandusky, Ohio

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1867 June 18

    Gibraltar: discourse on their love and engagement; Fannie's funeral

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1867 July 7

    Ogontz: Cora Badger; George Thomas; Eva Bradley; Mr. and Mrs. Appleton, the new pastor and his wife; Rosa Birchett; Kittie [Campbell]

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1867 July 26

    Brooklyn, New York: turning eighteen; Louise; Townsend; Sallie Mills; Caroline; visit to Narragansett, Rhode Island

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1867 July 31

    Echo Farm, Near Fall River, [Massachusetts]: ride in a three-seated wagon without a cover or backs to the seats; drive to Fall River; Mary Marchant; describes scenery on long drive towards Newport, Rhode Island and along the shores of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island; going to spend the day on Mr. Dodge's yacht Silvie

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1867 Aug 12

    Ogontz: servant Maggie Edmonson keeping her company while the family is away; plans to go to Willow Grove one evening; Ginnie and Richard Thomas; Tom and Charlie Parvin; [Jay Cooke] hiring Tom Parvin for a position in the office; discussion of books Frederick [the Great] and his Family and Frederick [the Great] and his Court

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1867 Aug 25

    Mr. Bingham; Dorothea Allen Cooke, Jay Cooke, Jay Cooke, Jr.; rumor of Jay Butler and Ella Taylor engagement; slight feeling of depression

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1867 Sep 1

    Ogontz: rumor of engagement of Vannie Durberrow; Mr. Appleton spoke at preparatory prayer meeting; Baptism of twelve children; Mr. Bingham and Dora's relationship; cousin Emily [Allen] and Nennie indisposed; John and Clara Horstman's relationship

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1867 Sep 15

    Ogontz: Dora in Sandusky, Ohio; gentlemen visitors -- Uncle Harry [Henry David Cooke?], Uncle Pitt [Cooke], Mr. [James] Bingham, John Bingham, Uncle William [Moorhead], and Mr. White; description of the unusual Mr. White; going to Dr. Flagg the dentist; her cousin Emmie [Emily] Allen suffering from chronic rheumatism; Charlie's being appointed secretary at a meeting; Kate Farr, John Bingham, Mr. [James] Bingham, Jay [Cooke, Jr.], Dorothea Allen Cooke, and herself going to Sandusky, Ohio; Jay getting a director's car to go as far as Cleveland or Mansfield, Ohio

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1867 Oct 1

    Gibraltar: croquet with Harry; cousin Emma [Emily Allen]

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1867 Oct 2

    Gibraltar: [Jay Cooke] and Mrs. McMeens playing backgammon

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1867 Oct 7

    Gibraltar: Jay and Clara; Aunt Sarah [Cooke Moorhead], Dora, and Sallie Mills visiting

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1867 Oct 9

    Gibraltar: fireworks night before; new books and supplies at Sunday School

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles E. Burney 1867 Oct 18

    Gibraltar: [Jay Cooke], Jay [Cooke, Jr.] and Hal Cooke fishing all day; going fishing and on a picnic to Middle Island; putting sample of cologne on cards to distribute to his mother and grandmother

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1867 Oct 19

    Gibraltar: Charlie's impending visit and arrival on the Star

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1867 Nov 14

    The Cedars: visit with Dorothea Allen Cooke to Aunt Sarah's [Cooke Moorhead]; Uncle William [Moorhead], [Jay Cooke], and Jay [Cooke, Jr.] away; "meteoric shower" previous night; visitors George Thomas, Anna Commerford, Caddie Moorhead, and Cora and Mary Badger; Ginnie Thomas, Jay [Cooke, Jr.], Joe Shoemaker, and herself watched meteor shower from the tower; description of Cora Badger; copy of a ballad "Under the Daisies!" [by Harrison Millard]

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Mar 13

    St. Nicholas: comments on his letter of March 11th; Dorothea Allen Cooke, Aunt Lizzie, Clara, and Jay [Cooke, Jr.]; returning to Ogontz by train

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Mar 30

    Ogontz: visit by Miss Rubeau; took lesson at the school from Miss Merino; [Jay Cooke]; practice on her harp; describes beautiful sunset; Sallie [Cooke] at Ginnie Thomas' house; Tom [Parvin] and [Jay Cooke] playing billiards; visit by Ms. Lozier to treat her father's [Jay Cooke] carbuncle on his face

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Apr 1

    Ogontz: her wedding present to Charlie -- solid silver-gold lined sauce boat for $36.00 from Caldwell's; reading The Pillar of Fire; [or, Israel in Bondage] by [Joseph Holt Ingraham]; going to Dr. Flagg, the dentist, with John and Nennie; Ella's [Barney] health

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Apr 3

    Ogontz: sewing at Mrs. Thomas' for the Fair with Nennie, Sallie [Cooke], Mrs. Appleton, Cassie Brock, and Cornelia Grayson; her parents [Jay Cooke] and [Dorothea Allen Cooke], Mr. Appleton, Joe Shoemaker, Mrs. And Mrs. George C. Thomas, Mr. Thomas, Dr. Clayton and his daughter, Mrs. Aubin, and Tom Parvin arrived; plans for tomorrow include fair work, school work, harp lesson, and prayer meeting; Ella's [Barney] health

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Apr 4

    Ogontz: practice at the church with Jay [Cooke, Jr.]; Sunday School, sermon on the origin of "Confirmation"; group giving a concert Tuesday; Clarke family visiting; baptism and confirmation; Ella's [Barney] health

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Apr 6

    Ogontz: rode on new train on the North Penn[sylvania] with Nennie and [Jay Cooke] to the city; stopped at the office and met John [Butler?], [John W.] Sexton, and Tom Parvin; went to Van Harlingen's; visited Clara Horstmann; includes pen-and-ink sketch of self; cousin Emily [Allen]; Christina Dodge

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Apr 7

    Ogontz: confirmation of eighteen by Bishop [Alfred] Lee of Delaware; Ella's [Barney] improved health; anticipation awaiting the visit of Charlie. [Note: Alfred Lee (1807-1887), the Episcopal Bishop of Delaware]

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 May 27

    Williamsport, [Pennsylvania]: her feelings following her departure

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 [May ?]

    Biddle House, Detroit, Michigan: dirty hotel slight improvement over Russel House; Aunt Cora and Carrie

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 May 31

    Detroit, Michigan: attended St. Paul's Church and heard an unusual sermon; hard day's journey from Niagara on two sections of the "Pullman's Palace Hotel Cars" which were comfortable; Jay [Cooke, Jr.], Sallie [Cooke], Cassie, and cousin Emily [Allen]

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 June 1

    Gibraltar: left Detroit, Michigan in the morning, on the way down the Detroit River, stopped on board the Jay Cooke, a large steamer; arrival of [Jay Cooke], [Dorothea Allen] Cooke, Harry and Mary

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 June 2

    Gibraltar: going to St. Paul's and Lake Superior with papa [Jay Cooke] and mamma [Dorothea Allen Cooke]; illness of Ella [Barney] and Charlie's mother; comments on [ ] Kemble ? [Harriet McEwen Kimball] and a book on Lady Jane Grey and Mary Stuart; Jay Butler; cousin Emily [Allen]

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 June 3

    Sandusky, Ohio: visit to Charlie's mother, Sallie [Barney?], Aunt Martha, and his grandmother; Ella [Barney] and her severe illness; saw "Drummer Boy!" at Norman Hall

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 June 17

    Gibraltar: cousin Emily [Allen], Mrs. Appleton, Sallie, Clara, Cassie into lake for a swim; Ella's [Barney] illness; engagement of Richard and Clara H[orstmann]

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney [1868] Aug 8

    Ogontz: dancing party at Aunt Sarah's [Cooke Moorhead]; Sallie [Cooke], Emily [Allen], and [Dorothea Allen Cooke] going to Cape May, New Jersey

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney [1868] Aug 10

    Congress Hall: describes travel and accommodations; sending a birthday gift of sleeve studs

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Aug 11

    Cape May, New Jersey: visitors Clara Reeves and Carrol Tyson; her love for him; Clara and Katie Sagers; bathing in the slightly strong surf; Mary Edward having rooms in the "Blue Pig"; steriopticon exhibition on the lawn

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney [1868] Aug 12

    Cape Island, New Jersey: tea with Mrs. E. W. Clarke at her cottage; having a "Hop" in the dining room; Mrs. Clarence Clarke; taking a walk with Sallie [Cooke] up the beach and back by the Columbia House; playing "Champagne Charlie" for a gallop at the "Hop"; attending Episcopl services with Sallie; Heber Newton and family coming

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Aug 13

    Cape May, New Jersey: describes the "loveliest view of the sea"; bath with no surf as the tide was very low -- good for swimming and floating; going for a drive on the beach; Ginnie Rowland and Jay [Cooke, Jr.]

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney [1868] Aug 20

    Congress Hall: children's hop tonight to be unusually pretty; Mr. Evans; concern over Charlie's illness; others gone to Tenpin Alley; ate delicious pears, peaches, nectarines, and sugar plums; higher tide and more surf for bath; evening activities include riding and playing croquet

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney [1868] Aug 22

    Cape May, New Jersey: describes view of the Atlantic Ocean from her porch; [Jay Cooke] and Mr. Bingham out fishing; reproachful of Charlie's Sunday activities

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Sep 23

    Williamsport, Pennsylvania: met Joe S[hoemaker] at Quacake Junction; Mrs. Moorhead and Carrie; cousin Emily [Allen], Sallie, and Mary Patterson; Harry and Joe Shoemaker; Dorothea Allen Cooke, Aunt Cora, and herself in same rooms; sadness at his departure; copied some of her "Serving Children's" names in her book; Mr. Powell's wedding; fantasies about her own wedding; Great Western Railway Company ticket

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Sep 23

    Pullman Hotel Cars between Elmira and Rochester, New York: describes scenery from Williamsport, Pennsylvania, along Seneca Lake; news of the presidential competition between [Ulysses S.] Grant and [Horatio] Seymour; quotes Hiwatha; arrival at Congress Hall, Rochester, and waiting to leave for Niagara

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Sep 25

    Pullman Hotel Cars: left Niagara and passing through Canada all day; pamphlet for Pullman's Hotel Car Great Central Route

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney [1868] Sep 26

    Onboard the Jay Cooke : enroute to Gibraltar on the Detroit River; discusses the Jay Cooke as a new steamer on the line

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney [1868] Sep 27

    Gibraltar: discussion of wedding plans; spent last evening engaged with fancy-work, etc.; excellent sermon by Mr. Weldon; her love for him; [Jay Cooke] and Will Moorhead to arrive following day

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Sep 28

    Gibraltar: arrival of the General Lyon with [Jay Cooke], cousin Will Moorhead], John Butler, and James Bingham; men then went on a hunting expedition to Middle Island and Point au Pillee; playing croquet; making a black silk cravat for him

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney [1868] Sep 29

    Gibraltar: playing croquet; hearing Charles Dickens' prettiest "Christmas Stories"; describes view of the Lake and Middle Bass Island; Charlie [Charles B.] Dennis

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Sep 30

    Gibraltar: Will [Moorhead] reading Dickens aloud; Will, Aunt Cora, cousin Emily [Allen], and herself went rowing and had a game of tenpins swung on a gate; John left for Sandusky, Ohio on the Jay Cooke ; playing game of croquet; [Jay Cooke] and Will [Moorhead] are fishing; Sallie Mills

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Oct 1

    Gibraltar: Mamma [Dorothea Allen Cooke] and Papa [Jay Cooke] postponing her trip to Sandusky, Ohio; General Butler and the Trustees of Soldier's Homecoming; wanting Sallie [Barney] to visit; cold and blustery, white caps in the bay; Mamma and Papa out fishing; Aunt Lizzie and Aunt Cora on a rowing expedition, stranded on Squaw Harbor; the County Fair; comments on Charles being at the Cedars; death of little Maggie Fahnestock and of her own little sister Carrie at the same age

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Oct 2

    Gibraltar: row of four miles to the "West Dock" and back; [Jay Cooke] and Will [Moorhead] fishing all day; [Dorothea Allen Cooke], Aunt Lizzie [Moorhead], and cousin Emily [Allen] started out in the Piscatoribus Sacrum ; Aunt Cora, Sallie, and Carrie [Moorhead] also in their boats in the bay; Aunt Cora reading aloud Charles Dickens' Golden Mary , "a pitiful story of shipwreck & danger at sea"; discusses characteristics of Carrie Moorhead; relationship between Mrs. Barney and Dr. Keiffer

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Oct 4

    Sandusky, Ohio: hearing the church bells before going to church; Sallie [Barney]; comments on the choir which included Mrs. Frank Moss, soprano, Georgie Moss, alto, and a fine tenor and bass; Mr. Farr's sermon; discussion with Mrs. Barney on the matter of Dr. Keiffer and the future; went to the fair-grounds and saw some fine racing [horses or dogs?]; describes Dr. Keiffer's physical appearance and his mannerisms; going to church with John Butler; comments on Dr. Keiffer and his intentions toward Mrs. Barney

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Oct 5

    Sandusky, Ohio: going home in Evening Star; Sallie Mills; others' positive comments on the new minister [Dr. Keiffer]; John Butler giving a dance on Wednesday night

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Oct 6

    Gibraltar: fishing all day with cousin Emily [Allen], Aunt Lizzie Moorhead, Nennie, Mrs. McMeens, and Aunt Mary; dinner on Middle Island, carried by the revenue cutter Sherman ; [Jay Cooke] received word that General [John Henry] Martindale (1815-1881) and his daughter and Governor Smythe and his wife are visiting; Sallie Barney

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Oct 7

    Gibraltar: Mrs. McMeen's bad disposition; activities including sewing, singing and playing piano; [Jay Cooke] and Will [Moorhead] on tug to the peninsula to shoot squirrels; their marriage in the spring; Fannie Osborne, Leiscester Hubbard, and George Hubbard [incomplete]

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Oct 8

    Gibraltar: Miss Martindale, Major DeKay (General Butler's secretary), Mrs. Smythe, General Butler, General [John Henry] Martindale, and Governor Smythe arrived on the Jay Cooke from Detroit, Michigan; [Dorothea Allen Cooke], Mr. Gunkill [Lewis B. Gunckel (1826-1903)] of Dayton, Ohio, and Judge [Hugh Lenox] Bond (1828-1893) of Baltimore, Maryland arrived on the Evening Star ; comments on some of the guests; plans to go to Europe in the spring

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Oct 10 a.m.

    -- : planning for their wedding to be in the spring; [Mrs. Barney] and Sallie

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Oct 10 p.m.

    Sandusky, Ohio: at cousin Caroline's for dinner; Mrs. Barney; riding; wearing new black silk dress; improvement of cousin Jay [Butler]; kittens deserted by mother having to be drowned; church in morning, excellent sermon from Mr. Farr; Mary Barber in choir again; Dr. Keiffer preaching in evening; her new room at Ogontz

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Oct 12

    Sandusky, Ohio: visitors [Jay Cooke], [Dorothea Allen Cooke], cousins Will [Moorhead], Emily, and Harry; [Jay Cooke] and Will [Moorhead] going to "Club house" for duck shooting; berating Charlie at length for "kissing promiscuously" in the light of their relationship

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Oct 13

    Sandusky, Ohio: their love for each other, their relationship, and their engagement and upcoming marriage; played a game of "Authors": a [Republican] procession with fine transparencies and a splendid band of music; Mrs. Barney; Dr. Keiffer; going to Detroit, Michigan in the Jay Cooke ; party for children at Aunt Mary's

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Oct 13

    Sandusky, Ohio: Sallie [Barney] returning to Gibraltar with her; visited Mrs. Barney, Sallie [Barney] and Aunt Martha

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Oct 15

    Gibraltar: playing croquet, rowing, playing the piano; festival for the benefit of the church attended by [Jay Cooke], [Dorothea Allen Cooke], Uncle William, Will [Moorhead], Kennedy Moorhead, and herself

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1868 Oct 16

    Gibraltar: Sallie B[arney] roasting chestnuts with Sallie [Cooke]; playing croquet; rowing -- describes the scenery on the lake and relates a story of the wind and rain disrupting the taking of a photograph of everyone in their boats; [Jay Cooke] and Kennedy Moorhead on fishing excursion; leaving for Detroit, Michigan on the Jay Cooke; Mrs. McMeens and Durham having plans for a "fete champetre" on the lower end of the [Put-In-Bay] Island; played games of "Pussy wants a corner" and "Proverbs"

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney [1868] Oct 23

    -- : feeling blue over their not being together; going to a concert to hear among others Madam Pareba, who is said to sing as well as Jenny Lind, and Mr. N. B. Mills, a celebrated performer

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney [1868 Nov ?]

    -- : rejoicing in the streets over the election [of Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax as president and vice-president]

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1872 Sep 25

    Sandusky, Ohio: left O. Y. R. Station for Elmira, New York, in the drawing room car accompanied by John, Sallie, Clara, Minnie Parvin, and Mr. Bingham to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; describes travel; their children, Dolly and [ ] with her; death of Burton Spencer's wife following childbirth; Lollie Mills gravely ill

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney [1872] Sep 28

    Sandusky, Ohio: Sallie's uncomfortable condition; funeral of Burton Spencer's wife; Jay [Cooke, Jr.] and Mollie; went to the Fair grounds; saw Lizzie Moss and husband Jay Butler, the Libby Hubbards, and Julia Radcliffe Cogswell; activities of their daughter Dolly; tea at Aunt Mary Cooke's; visit to the Farm; Aunt Selina Milliman and daughters Grace and Fanny visiting; baby Bessie needing to be nursed; leaving for Gibraltar the next day; Louise expecting Theo

  • Laura E. Cooke to Charles D. Barney 1872 Sep 30

    Gibraltar, Lake Erie, Ohio: [Jay Cooke] met them at Middle Bass with a tug; their daughter Dolly

III. LETTERS TO CHARLES D. BARNEY AND LAURA E. COOKE, AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS
  • Cora H. Badger, Ogontz, to Charles D. Barney 1867 July 7

    Social; Sallie's [Cooke] 15th birthday

  • C. Lottie Blair, Troy, [ ? ], to Charles D. Barney 1864 Mar 24

    Ill with diptheria for several weeks; visit by Frank Porter who also went to the seminary to see Hannah and Emma Moss

  • C. Lottie Blair, Troy, [ ? ], to Charles D. Barney 1864 June 12

    Apparently to CDB while a soldier serving his country

  • John M. Butler, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Charles D. Barney 1867 Sep 5

    Expresses congratulations on his engagement to Laura E. Cooke; praises characteristics of Laura and Charles; encourages him with the new position in Philadelphia, mentioning his qualities, experience and talent

  • Harry E. Cooke, Rome, Italy, to Laura E. Cooke 1869 Oct 17

    Visit to ruins, Caesar's Palace; offers a list of relics collected, along with each place of origin and an historical anecdote

  • Jay Cooke, Ogontz, to Charles D. Barney 1867 Aug 15

    Has arranged a position for him in their Philadelphia office, offering him "chances for gaining a perfect knowledge of [ ] kind of Banking" as well as future positions of trust, in order to aid him "in attaining a respectable & honorable standing..." for the sake of his daughter [Laura E. Cooke] and his friend [Charles D. Barney]

  • Jay Cooke, Jay Cooke & Company Bankers, to Charles D. Barney 1867 Aug 24

    Planning a discussion with his mother, Mrs. Barney, when in Sandusky, Ohio

  • Sallie E. Cooke, Ogontz, to Charles D. Barney 1867 July 7

    Re: her 15th birthday; social

  • Charles B. Dennis [uncle?], Office Mustering Department, 4 Army Corps, Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Charles D. Barney 1867 July 13

    Comments on [John Daniel] Imboden cutting up all sorts of capers down his way; news of Jay Smith and his return to the Army; report of William B. Rice from the front: Jay Butler well, Ed Pomeroy killed; Major or Lt. Col. B. B. McDonald, the "gopher" of Libby Prison, hated by the boys; Col. Kirby, commanding the Brigade, well-liked; Will Rice saw Brewer Smith who was well; Brigadier General Harker mortally wounded; General Davis division lost terribly; Jay Butler slightly wounded; a matter at Troy concerning Charles D. Barney; Charlie Hubbard dead; Captain Morrison having a brother [John Irwin Morrison (1806-1882), state treasurer of Indiana, 1865-1867] in the Treasury Department at Washington, D.C.

  • "Ma Barney" Keiffer, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, to Charles D. Barney and Laura E. Cooke Barney 1869 Apr 25

    Met Frank at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; judge Sloane Eade's conversation concerning the affairs of [Jay] Cooke, [William] Moorhead, John Butler, and Charles D. Barney; death of Mr. Culbertson; Mr. Keiffer going to country to preach; Sallie [Barney] going to Sabbath School with Frank

  • Broadside "Programme Drummer Boy! " at Norman Hall 1868 June 2, 3, 4

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IV. LETTERS TO CHARLES McCLEW
  • Thomas Neilson, Glasgow, Scotland, to Charles McClew, Montgomery County, New York 1822 Jan 12

    Commenting on news of the recipients welfare and happiness and birth of a son and heir; eloquent letter expressing feelings of friendship and religious faith; attending second season of college in Glasgow; news of various family members and friends

  • Thomas Neilson, Glasgow, Scotland, to Charles McClew, Montgomery County, New York 1824 Mar 18

    Finishing the last of his classical curriculum at college and qualifying for the study of Divinity, hopefully at Paisley with Andrew Symington, the Cameronian Divinity professor; discourse on education, studies and student life; death of brother John's wife, leaving him with two babies; news of various family members and friends

  • Charles Neilson, Peter Hannay, and Elisabeth Hannay, Stranraer, Scotland, to Charles McClew, Montgomery County, New York 1827 July 1

    Circumstances of the death of Mary McGill's husband on April 28, 1887; news of national matters -- multitudes of banks failing in England; tremendous eclipse of manufacturing and trade, especially cotton and silk; failure of crops through Britain and Ireland

  • David McClew, Port Patrick, Scotland, to Charles McClew, Montgomery County, New York 1828 Mar 25

    Death of McClew's father-in-law; an old friend John being a wag at the John McThie Distillery of Whiskey; news of family and friends

  • Thomas Neilson, Rothesday, Scotland, to Charles McClew, Montgomery County, New York 1836 Apr 16

    Inquires of his brother Charles [Neilson] who sailed for New York last June and made no contact since; his family growing to four -- wife Alice and a daughter and a son; household also contains four boarders and [two] servants; news of various "Galloway relations"; comments on the agitation in Scotland in regard to civil establishments of religion; a meeting in Glasgow between their Synod and delegates from the Irish Synod concerning the "American Question!"

  • William and Mary McClew, Lennoxtown of Camphrey, Scotland, to Kilmarnock, Scotland 1840 Mar 24

    News of his own family, including sons William and Peter, daughters Jean and Mary, and of other family members and friends; death of John Nelson, and of his wife son William's wife, leaving one child; discussion of religious unrest in Scotland

V. MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE
  • Susan S. G. Pellet, Richmond, Virginia, to [Peter Joseph] Wagner, Washington, D.C. 1841 Feb 25

    Requests Mrs. Wagner to visit Richmond and discuss news of their mutual acquaintances from New York; Richmond being honored by a visit from the president-elect [William Henry Harrison (1773-1841)] and vice- president-elect [John Tyler (1790-1862)]; describes activities in honor of the president and vice-president and a sword presentation ceremony honoring the officers who are natives of Virginia, who had distinguished themselves during the last war; mentions [Thomas] Ritchie and Thomas Walker Gilmer, and meeting the president and vice-president at the governor's house

  • Frederick A. Culbert, Bloomingburgh, New York 1889 July 21

    Rowing and fishing, hunting, making a kite, boarding with Wilbur H. Brink

  • Alfred K[ean] Moe (1874- ), High School, Jersey City, New Jersey, to C. E. Hoffmann 1890 Jan 10

    In reply to his inquiry concerning his brother Paul who left them in the spring and reportedly was working as a mechanic in Brooklyn, New York; advises against hiring a detective, suggesting that he advertise in the newspapers of the large cities

  • C. E. Hoffman, Chicago, Illinois, to [Alfred K.] Moe 1890 Dec 28

    Concerning his brother Paul [written in German]

  • Unknown correspondent, Charlottesville, Virginia, to his parents 1904 Sep 21

    Relates the history of James B. Green, a blind man who tutors and [has served as a licentiate in the School of Law from 1896], and his wife; writes of Bettie Burwell Page Cocke (1841-1900), widow of John Bowdoin Cocke (1836-1889), and her daughter, Betty Page Cocke, who run the boarding house [on University Avenue next to St. Paul's Church] in which the correspondent boards; mentions "Raleigh," the African- American servant at the boarding house