Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Ford collection.
2. Thomas Addis Emmet collection.

Description

1. .1 linear foot (1 folder)

Summary

1. Miscellaneous items by or relating to Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and poet. Includes a German manuscript translation of the Star Spangled Banner made in 1870 by Isidor Kann; an 1808 receipt signed by Key; a brief 1835 letter relating to a debt; and an agreement of counsel in the case of Pratt and others against the Bank of Columbia, which related to the land speculation activities of James Greenleaf, Robert Morris, John Nicholson, and others.

Subject

1. Real estate investment > Washington (D.C.)
2. Washington (D.C.) > History
3. Nicholson, John, 1757-1800
4. Morris, Robert, 1734-1806
5. Lawyers
6. Land speculation > Washington (D.C.)
7. Greenleaf, James, 1765-1843

Call number

1. MssCol 4484

Access (note)

1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Provenance (note)

1. Some material was originally received as part of the Ford and Thomas Addis Emmet collections.

Author

1. Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843.

Title

1. Francis Scott Key miscellany, 1808-1870.

Restricted access

1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Provenance

1. Some material was originally received as part of the Ford and Thomas Addis Emmet collections.

Occupation

1. Lawyers.

Added author

1. Ford collection.
2. Thomas Addis Emmet collection.

Research call number

1. MssCol 4484