Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Field, Cyrus
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content: Cyrus W. Field Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1835 - 1893
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1386, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series consists of incoming correspondence to Field and outgoing from Field to various people.  Some notable correspondents include: George Saward; R.B. Hayes; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Andrew Johnson; James A. Garfield; James Buchanan; Lucius Fairchild; Joseph Henry; George Peabody; William T. Sherman; Samuel F.B. Morse; Michael Faraday; and Charles Wheatstone. 

The "other" correspondence incudes letters to and from Field's family members such as his wife Mrs. Mary Field, his daughters, and David Dudley Field I (1781-1867), Cyrus Field's father who was an American Congregational clergyman and writer.