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[Identification of item], Hughes-Gray Family Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
The Hughes-Gray Family Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a purchase from 1975-1978.
Processed by Rubenstein Library staff, 1978
Encoded by Carrie Mills, May 2011
Accession(s) described in this finding aid: 12-15-75, 2-9-76, 3-29-76, 12-12-77, 2-2-78, and 5-6-78.
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The Hughes and Gray families had publishing connections in Maryland. Ezekiel Hughes was editor of the HERALD in Frederick, Maryland. Jeremiah Hughes owned the NILES NATIONAL REGISTER, and other publishing concerns.
Principally correspondence of the Hughes and Gray familes of Baltimore, Annapolis, and Frederick, Md. Pervasive topics include personal and family matters, Md. and national politics, and religion. Topics occurring less frequently include finances related to the publishing business and the marketing of volumes, the Civil War, city missions for the poor, dealings with Native Americans, and Communism. The collection also includes 31 volumes of notes and diaries compiled by Ellis Hughes, chief anatomist at the University of Maryland, over the period of roughly 1830-1865. His 1865 diary makes reference to Lincoln's assassination and the capture of Jefferson Davis. The remaining five volumes were compiled by Jeremiah's daughter Susanna Hughes, who herself entertained literary aspirations. These volumes are a mixture of diary, devotional, literary copybook, scrapbook, and original composition.
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Collections contains 31 journals of Ellis Hughes. In Box 6, journals cover President Abraham Lincoln's assassination and funeral, the capture of Jefferson Davis, and other American Civil War events.