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[Identification of item], William Swinton Bennett Hopkins Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
The William Swinton Bennett Hopkins Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift in 1983.
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Colonel in the 31st Massachusetts Volunteers during the Civil War and a prominent Mass. attorney and politician. His father was Erastus Hopkins, a noted Mass. clergyman.
Collection consists largely of correspondence
between family members, friends, and business associates
spanning three generations, as well as some Civil War and
early Reconstruction letters relating to Hopkins'
activities in New Orleans. Correspondents include Hopkins'
daughter, Elizabeth; her husband Alfred Lawrence Aiken, a
prominent banker in Boston; the Gadsden family of
Charleston, S.C.; and the Peck family, relatives of
Hopkins' wife, Lizzie. An information folder
chronologically lists a portion of the collection. Also
included in this collection are a few legal papers,
financial papers, addresses and writings, pictures, and a
miscellaneous folder that includes some genealogy. Subjects
mentioned in the letters include travel in the U.S. and
Europe, marriage and family life, illness, Williams
College, Yale College, politics, law,
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.