General Correspondence
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content: The following is a selective list of correspondence of William and Sophia Page in Series 2.1: General Correspondence. 

Spellings and abbreviations of names below reflect the actual signatures of letters. Names preceded by question marks indicate partially-legible signatures. Letters with unsigned and illegible signatures which could not be indexed are common in the correspondence, so this index should not be considered comprehensive. 

 Adam, Sarah W.: 1877-1878

 Allan, W.G.: 1848

 Allen, Elizabeth Akers: 1863-1864, 1880, 1885-1888, 1892, undated

 Alsop, ?H.J.W.: 1871

 Ammon, W.E.: 1887-1888

 Appleton, Nathan: 1874

 Arcadian Club: 1874

 Armstrong, William: 1889

 Austin Baldwin and Co.: 1863

 Avery, Charles: 1870

 Avery, Sam P.: undated

 Badeau, Adam: 1866

 Baker, H.: undated

 Baker, W.J.: 1874

 Balducci, Y.: 1855

 Bard, M.I.: undated

 Barney, C. H.: 1863

 Barney, Hiram: undated

 Bartholemew, E.: 1855-1856

 Bartlett, C.E.: undated

 Barton, Sam: 1870, 1879

 Bates, L.: undated

 Beardsley, Annie: 1885

 Beatty, John W.: 1900, 1902

 Becker, Dr.: undated

 Beckwith, James Carroll: 1899

 Beecher, Thomas K.: 1850, 1853-1854, undated

 Bellinger, Louis: 1887

 Benedict, Robert D.: 1856, 1876, 1886

 Benedict, Taft, and Benedict: 1880

 Benet, W.V.: 1861

 ?Bennett, J.R.: undated

 Berdam, D.W.: 1861

 Betty, Edward: 1875

 Biglow, L.G.: 1883

 Bigmore, Edward: 1880

 Birney, E.P.: 1865

 Blomeger, Georgina: undated

 Boies, H.M.: 1875-1876

 Bossange, H.: 1855

 Bradford, J.F.: 1870

 Brady, J.R.: 1873

 Brehart, Mary: 1888, undated

 Briggs, Charles Frederick: 1852, 1861, undated (see also series 2.2)

 Briggs, Charlotte "Sharly": 1877, 1882-1883, 1886-1894, 1896, 1899, undated

 Brower, Edith: 1878

 Brown, Henry J.: 1884

 Brown, H.K.: 1871

 Brownell, W.C.: 1889

 Bullard, Laura Curtis: 1875, 1880, undated

 Burt, John: 1860

 Carlin, R.: 1863

 Carpenter, Edward J.: 1873

 Carter, C.M. 1882

 Carter, R.: 1864, 1866, 1872, 1874-1876

 Carter, Susan N.: 1864, 1879, 187?, 1880, 1882, 1884, 1886-1889, 188?, 1891-1892, undated

 Catlin, Henry: 1882

 Centennial Commision: 1876

 Chase, Thomas: undated

 Chase, William M.: 1902

 Cheney, E.D.: 1886

 Cheney, T.A.P.: 1869

 Child, Lydia Marie: 1848, undated

 Chilton, James R.: 1848

 Chilton, R.I.: 1849

 Chilton, W.W.: undated

 Choate, Joseph: 1873

 Clagstone, H. Glassford: 1884

 Clark, Mrs. C.S.: 1871

 Clason, Mrs. A.S.: 1868, undated

 Clemens, Clara: 1886

 Cleveland, Esther Greeley: undated

 Clover, Lewis: 1870, 1880

 Codling, Geroge: 1862

 Conant, B.B. (Harper and Brothers): 1883

 Conant, L.B.: 1877

 Congers, N.S.: 1863

 Cook, Albert S.: 1873

 Corbin, Francis: 1852

 Cornwallis, H.J.: undated

 Cowley, Mrs. Julius D.: undated

 Crawford, L.W.: undated

 Crawford, Thomas: 1853, undated

 Crocker, U.H.: 1875-1876

 Curtis, George W.: 1857, 1870, 1880, 1887

 Cushman, Charlotte (Charles): 1853, 1858, 1874, undated

 Dana, Charles A.: 1854, 1881

 Day, Livy: undated

 ?Decamps, J.: 1880

 Dewy, Julius: 1882

 Dexter, Franklin B.: 1871

 Didama, H.D.: 1867

 Dietz, Linda: undated

 Dixon, O.H.: 1875

 Douglas, Eliza: 1863

 Druker, L.E.: undated

 Dunnel, John H.: 1861, 1863

 Durfee, Rose: 1877, 1879

 Easton, Harriet: undated

 Eliot, Charles W.: 1876

 Elliman, Charles B.: 1870

 ?Evans, Joseph or George: 1874

 Evans, W.W.: 1877

 Fagan, John F.: 1888

 Farrell, M.: 1869

 Fenton, R.: undated

 Fields, Annie: 1860, undated

 French, W.M.R.: 1877

 G.P. Putnam Sons: 1877

 Gale, L.D.: 1848

 Gay, S.H.: undated

 Gibbons, S.J.: 1878

 Gifford, S.R.: 1871, 1873

 Gilder, R.W.: undated

 Godkin, E.L.: 1871-1872

 Godwin, Parke: 1880, undated

 Goodyear, William Henry: 1882-1883

 Gray, David: 1862

 Green, H.H.: 1865

 Guy, S.J.: 1874, 1885, 1887

 Hale, Mrs. E.E.: 1872

 Hall, Anna Maria: 1853, undated

 Hall, E.W.: 1868, undated

 Hammersley, J.W.: undated

 Hannah, George: 1870

 Harper Brothers: 1879

 Harris, Addie A.: 1863

 Hart, Burnham: 1885

 Hart, John S.: 1873

 Hart, Levi Wells: undated

 Hastings, Alice: undated

 Hawkins and Cothren: 1871

 Hazard, W.A.: 1879

 Henderson, Ettie: 1891

 Henry Holt and Co.: 1879

 Hibbard, James N.: 1880

 Hicks, Thomas: 1863, 1868

 Hills, Mrs. Amelia: 1869

 Hinckley, Polly Page: 1873

 Holcombe, Emily: 1886

 Hooker, J.C. (of Packenham and Hooker): 1854-1858, 1860, undated

 Hooper: 1854

 Hopkins, Geraldine: 1863

 Hopper, J.: 1861-1862, undated

 Hoppin, Rosalie: 1858

 Hoppin, William J.: 1857

 Hudson, John: 1883

 Humphreys, Mary Cray: undated

 Hunt, Richard M.: 1868

 Huntington, D: 1878

 Huntington, Frank: 1888-1889

 Hussey, George B.: 1875

 ?Ickelheimer, I.: 1872, 1875

 Ingersoll, W.H.: 1876

 Jay, William: 1888

 Jeremiah, Ann; 1880

 Johnson, B.: 1863

 Johnson, E.H.: 1876-1877

 Johnson, E.N.: 1874

 Johnson, Josephine M.: 1873

 Johnson, Kate: 1886

 Johnston, J.B.: 1869, 1876-1877

 Johnston, Mrs. : 1868

 Keenan, Thomas Jr.: 1889

 Kennedy, James C.: 1858

 Kidney, John S.: 1872

 Kimball, Richard: 1852, 1854

 King, Augustu G.: undated

 King, Clarence: 1875

 Knortz, Karl: 1877

 Knowell, John: 1881

 Kucsczuski, S.W.: 1861

 Kuzynski, Pauline A.: 1855

 Laing, Charles G.: 1885

 Laurie, Alexander: 1870

 Law, S.D.: 1848

 Lester, Mrs. L.: 1877

 Leupp, Charles: 1852

 Lewis, Eliela P.: 1865

 Lewis, Juan: 1873

 Lines, Mary: undated

 Linton, W.J.: 1872-1874, 1876-1886, 1891, undated

 Livingston, John Henry: 1878

 Loring, E.G.: 1857

 Lossing, Bevson J.: 1877

 Low, William H.: 1904-1905

 Lowell, Effie: 1877

 Lowell, James Russell: 1843, 1848, 1874, 1878, 1885-1887, 1889, undated

 Lowell, Josephine S.: 1885, 1887, undated

 Ludlow, E.H.: 1884

 Lyman, Arthur T.: 1876

 M. Knoedler and Co.: 1901

 MacBeth, W.: 1902-1903

 Mackay, W.B.: 1848

 MacPherson, William H.: 1874

 Mansfield, John W.: 1883

 Manton, Walter: 1857

 Maquay, George A.: 1853

 Marrell, J.H.: 1871

 Martin, Charles F.: 1887-1888

 Martin, Mrs. C.L.: 1877, 1885 , 1887

 Martin, Louise P.: 1885

 Martin, ?H.H.: 1872

 Maston, William H.: 1866

 Mead, Mary V.: 1877, 1882, undated

 Menger, Louis R.: 1880, 1887

 Merchant, Daniel M.: 1868

 Metcalf, Arthur: 1884

 Millner, J.B.: 1877

 Minturn, Robert B.: 1861, undated

 Moulton, Charles: 1886

 Moulton, Francis: 1872

 Munn and Co.: 1861

 Murphy, Charles: 1888

 Naramore, E.M.: 1875

 Neal, John: 1855

 Newton, O.L.: 1864

 Nichols, Abel: 1857

 Nichols, Florence: 1857

 Nichols, George Ward: 1857

 Norris, J. Parker: 1870, 1873-1877, undated

 Norton, Catherine: 1874, 1878, undated

 Nutting, Mary O.: 1883

 O'Donovan, W.R.: 1877, 1886, 1890-1891, undated

 Olmsted, Bertha: 1853-1854, 1856-1857, 1860

 Olmsted, Frederick Law: 1868-1869

 Olmsted, John H.: 1851, 1853-1854

 Olmsted, Mary A.: 1850, 1853-1854, 1874, 1877, undated

 Osborne, Mary: undated

 Ostrander, Nathaniel J.: 1885

 Pakenham, N.: 1851

 Pardue, Charles Inslee: 1873

 Parkhurst, Henry M.: 1865-1866

 Partridge, James R.: 1862

 Patterson, F.B.: 1874

 Peabody, Cornelia Marshall: undated

 Peck, J.: 1854

 Peet, Eileen: 1884

 Pentecost, Hugh O.: 1890

 Perkins, T.B.: 1872

 Perry, Enoch Wood: 1870, 1873, 1877-1878, 1882-1884, 1886, 1902, undated

 Phillips, E.O.: 1876

 Phillips, Wendell: undated

 Powers, H.N.: 1876

 Putnam, G.P.: 1866

 Quick, Addie T.: 1872

 Rawson, Charlotte: 1886, 1888

 Raymond, George: 1886

 Ream, Vinnie: undated

 Reinhart, B.F.: 1873

 Rice, Alexander H.; 1882-1883

 Richards, T. Addision: 1882, 1886 (see also the letters used as evidence in Page's probate trial; Series 4)

 Richmond, Victoria and J.W.B.: 1883, 1886

 Rider, George S.J.: 1868

 Ridner, Caroline: 1885, 1887

 Rively, Mary: 1886-1887

 Robertson, Ann Elize Worcester: 1877

 Robinson, A.S.: 1852-1853, 1855, 1862

 Robinson, E.: 1874

 Robinson, George C.: 1868, undated

 Robinson, Mrs. Jennie: 1870

 Robinson, M.C.: 1853

 Robinson, W.H.: 1875-1876

 Rogers, John: undated

 Rogers, W.K.: 1877

 Rose, J.W.: 1882

 ?Rossel: 1878

 Ruggles, Edward: 1861

 Sanborn, ?O.H.: 1868

 Sartain, John: 1875

 Schultz, E.A.: 1873

 Schuyler, Louisa Lee: 1877

 Schwab, Charles M.: 1906

 Scott, Frank H.: 1875

 Scott, Julian: 1874

 Scranton, William Walker: 1874-1875, 1877-1879, 187?, 1880-1881

 Scribner editors: 1879

 Searle, L.: undated

 Sellstedt, L.G.: 1863-1864, undated

 Shaw, Anna K: 1863, undated

 Shaw, Francis George: 1850-1851, 1853-1855, 1859, 1861, 1863-1864, 1872-1874, 1876-1877, 1880-1881, undated (see also letters used as evidence in Page's probate trial; Series 4)

 Shaw, Sarah B.: 1877, 1879, 1881, 1883, 1885-1889, 1892, undated

 Shegogue, J.H.: 1848

 Shelton, W.H.: 1905

 Shinn, Earl: 1873

 Shipman, Andrew: 1892

 Shipman, Frank: 1886

 Shipman, Mary C.: 1886, undated

 Skinner, Mabel R.: 1879

 Smith, Charles E.: 1868

 Smith, J. Eustace: 1884

 Southland, William D.: 1886

 Spencer, L: 1862

 Sperry, Watson: 1880

 Spring, Jeanie: 1861

 Spring, Marcus: 1867, 1869, 1872

 Spring, R.B.: undated

 Spring, Rebecca: 1886

 Stafford, John: 1864, 1877

 Stafford, O.H.: 1864

 Stark, William and Madelaine: 1858, 1860-1862

 Stebbins, A.: 1869

 Stenton, Josephine: 1872

 Stoddard, W.O.: 1870

 Storrs, R.S.: 1870

 Story, Mr. and Mrs. William Wetmore: 1850, undated

 Sturgis, Robert: 1870, 1873, undated

 Sturgis, Russell: 1874-1875, 1879, 1881

 Suydam, W.A.: 1883

 Taylor, Charles J.: 1869

 Thayer, A.H.: 1890, undated

 Thayer, William Henry: undated

 Thompson, E.C.: 1863

 Thompson, Launt: 1872

 Tilton, Theodore: 1868-1872

 Torry, C.P.: 1869

 Varnum, Joseph b.: 1875

 Vaughn, Virginia: 1854

 Vaulchaick, S.W.: 1873

 Vlymer, Alice: 1884

 Wainwright, C.S.: undated

 Wales, George: 1856

 Wall, J.W.: undated

 War Department: 1877

 Ward, J.Q.A.: 1870, 1872, 1873

 Ward, Sam S.: 1850

 Washburn, B. Davis: 1868

 Watson, Fred: 1882

 Watson, J.W.: 1886, 1890

 Watts, Edmund: 1875, 1887-1889, 1892, 1903, 1907, undated

 Weir, ?J or G.F.: 1871, 1874, 1876

 Welby, Edgar: 1856

 Weston, Eduard Payson: 1863

 Weston, Theodore: 1871

 Whiting, Julia D.: 1879

 Whittingham, Jane: 1881

 Wild, Hamilton G.: 1851, undated

 Wilds, Howard Payson: 1874

 Williams, M.W.: 1857

 ?Wills (Wells?), Theodore: 1877-1878

 Wilmarth, L.E.: 1874, 1877

 Winthrop, Robert C.: 1850

 Wood, T.W.: 1880

 World's Fair St. Louis: 1904

 Wright, George F.: undated
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content: Letters in this series include the personal and professional correspondence of William Page, his wife, Sophia Candace Stevens Page, and their families, as well as correspondence of Sophia Page's first husband Stephen Hitchcock and his family. 

William Page's correspondence is found from 1833 to 1885 only, with the bulk of his correspondence dating from 1852 to 1877. Drafts of outgoing letters written by William and Sophia Page are found throughout the series. Correspondence is arranged chronologically, with undated correspondence filed alphabetically by author at the end of the series. Correspondence of Page's children, which is voluminous from the early 1880s onward, and other family correspondence of the Page, Stevens, and Hitchcock families has not been indexed.

The earliest correspondence is that of Page's relatives of the Mathies, Dunnel, and Baldwin families of New York State. From 1840 through 1852, much of the correspondence is that of the Hitchcock family. See Series 2.3 for correspondence between Sophia and Steven Hitchcock. Love letters between William Page and Sophia (then Hitchcock) are prevalent in 1857, the year they were married. Family correspondence among Sophia Page, her parents, and her brothers Henry, B. Frank, and Simon Stevens is prevalent from the 1850s through the 1880s. By 1884, much of the correspondence is that of the Page children, including their personal, business, and family correspondence. A long, amorous correspondence from Charlotte "Sharly" Briggs to Candace "Dacie" Page, which documents an apparently intimate relationship between the two women, is found from the late 1880s onward, with many undated letters. 

William Page's significant correspondents include artists such as Thomas Hicks, Enoch Wood Perry, William Stark, Theodore Tilton, and Lemuel Wilmarth; patrons Wendell Phillips, J. Hopper, William Walker Scranton, and Francis G. Shaw; writers James Russell Lowell, Charles Frederick Briggs (see also Series 2.2), George W. Curtis, and the actress Charlotte Cushman. An unusually lengthy letter from Page to a young artist "W" (possibly William Stark) about painting is dated 1860. Sophia Page's correspondents include Thomas K. Beecher, Mary Olmsted and Bertha Olmsted. 

See Appendix for a list of selected correspondents from Series 2.1.