Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Grant Foreman (1869-1953), an attorney of Muskogee, Indian Territory, chose for his life work the history of this area and published many books on the subject. Drafts of his manuscripts are in this collection. He served as an attorney, especially on land questions, for the Dawes Commission. He was instrumental in founding the Oklahoma Historical Society and was one of its directors. He also was responsible for the preservation...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This interesting letter was written by Gurdon Saltonstall (1666-1724) to the "Hon. Society for propagating the Gospel among the Indians in America," from the "Govr. and Council of the Colony of Connecticut in New England," giving an account of the Mohecan and Pequot Indians. The letter is dated May 31; 1716, Hartford. Saltonstall was the grandson of Richard Saltonstall, (1610? - 1694) who came to America in 1630 and was one of...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A manuscript of the 17th century, this volume contains a series of important official reports, some of which appear to be in the handwriting of Francis Gwyn, Under Secretary of State, 1681-89. There are about 200 pages in all, bound in contemporary calf and in fine condition. It is No. 7419 from the Phillipps collection. It is written in both French and English. One or two entries are signed "True copy-Robert Livingstone." On...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This is a document sent from a Dr. Hall to "Mr. Pennant" containing personal observations made on a journey from St. Augustine to the neighborhood of the present Tallahassee in 1775. The author accompanied an embassy from the Governor of East Florida to the Creek Nation to investigate attempts of Georgia and Carolina to extort lands from the Creeks. Dr. Hall also compares the traits and customs of the various Indian tribes; he...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Lieutenant Heber M. Creel, of the 7th Cavalry, was assigned to study the ethnology of the Cheyennes. These manuscripts contain a large amount of material concerning the language of the Cheyenne as well as ethnology and philology. In the Gilcrease Library there is a Cheyenne-English dictionary compiled by Rev. Rodolphe Petter, missionary to the Cheyennes in 1891 at Cantonment, Oklahoma, and printed at Kettle Falls, Washington,...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: In a letter to Sir William Johnson (1715-1774), Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the British in New York, Henry Barclay discusses the printing of a Mohawk Prayer Book and the enrollment of an Indian boy in Columbia College. Henry Barclay (1716- 1765) was a prominent Anglican clergyman, Rector of Trinity Church, New York City, in the 18th century. He graduated from Yale University in 1734 and served as a missionary in the...

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Printed statement to the American people concerning the immediate relation of the United States to the war. Autographed by former President Hoover.

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Research material

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A Bostonian, William Marshall, writes for Captain Richard Walker of Nova Scotia in 1668 asking that a run­away slave boy be returned to Walker. The second item is a bill of sale dated 1750 for an Indian boy "called Newe'sock aged about nine years of age" for thirty pounds.

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This letter came from the library of Sir R. Leicester Harmsworth and was sold at a public auction from Sotheby and Company in 1948. It is described as follows: "Examination of some Indians in Relation to ye condition of ye French in Canada, at a Meeting of the Comm. for managing the Indian Affairs in Albany, 21 June 1709, contemporary MS., 3 pp. folio." It is a report of the "Indian Spies" who had been sent into Canada to see...