Chapman Grant gift of 17 California newts to New York Zoological Society , May 31, 1919

This collection contains photographs, correspondence, clippings, and ephemera from scrapbooks made by Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, Jesse R. Grant, Chapman Grant, and their friends and family. This collection also includes the twenty-three family scrapbooks, with items ranging from the second half of the nineteenth century to the 1970s. Items of interest include military documents, memoranda, and correspondence from Chapman Grant’s service in the United States Army and his professional correspondence and notes as an aquarium director and entomological researcher. Of additional note is one scrapbook containing drawings and sketches by Chapman Grant’s father, Jesse R. Grant and six scrapbooks dedicated to clippings about Ulysses S. Grant’s military career, post-presidential life, and evaluations of his presidency. Notable correspondents outside of the Grant family include Chiang Kai-shek.