Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

This collection is open to all researchers.

Use Restrictions

The photocopying of copied material from Harvard University Archives and New Haven Colony Historical Society is prohibited without the explicit permission of the repositories. The photocopying of copied material from Yale University is prohibited; all photocopy requests must be made directly to that repository. Copies of material from the National Archives as well as printed material are in the public domain subject to copyright laws.

Preferred Citation

June Barrows Mussey Papers, 1813-1989, Accession #10890, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was given to the Library by Mrs. Barrows Mussey through the Rare Book Division of the Special Collections Department on December 18, 1989.

Alternative Form

Originals of this collection are at Harvard University Archives, New Haven Colony Historical Society, Yale University, and the National Archives.

Scope and Content Information

This research collection about Samuel Griswold Goodrich (pen name Peter Parley) (1793-1851), as compiled by June Barrows Mussey (1910-1985) contains ca. 960 items, 1813-1989. Included are two original letters of Goodrich along with electrostatic copies from various repositories of his correspondence, consular dispatches, articles, and books. There are also publishers and booksellers contracts and receipts of William James Hamersley which includes a contract, February 7, 1852, by which Chauncey A[llen] Goodrich (1790-1852) conveys his right, title, and interest to the book C. C. Hachenberg, Elements of Greek Grammar . Other items include Mussey's correspondence with associates and repositories concerning Goodrich, and prints of Goodrich. Material concerning Barrows include biographical sketches and photographs, and a collection of bookplates of the Merrythought Press.