Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Captain John Stuart ( -1838) of Company C, 7th Regiment , U. S. Army, originally from Kentucky, spent most of his life in Indian Territory, serving in the army at Fort Gibson, Fort Smith, and Fort Coffee. The latter was established by him in 1833. This eleven page letter, written on June 18, 1836, to Adjutant General R. Jones, from Fort Coffee, discusses the situation of the troops in Arkansas Territory. In 1838 he established...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Colonel John Trumbull (1756-1843), a soldier and aide to Gen. George Washington, was a portrait painter during the Revolutionary and Federalist periods. This slender volume, similar to a scrapbook, contains two letters written and signed by John Trumbull: one to Richard Rush regarding the death of Benjamin West, and the other to Sir Thomas Lawrence congratulating him as president of the Royal Academy, succeeding West. Another...

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This collection of papers contains a declaration of citizenship to John W. Swain in the Cherokee Nation (1882), a letter signed by D.W. Bushyhead, Principal Chief of the Cherokees, a letter to Rebecca Swain from Senator Robert Owen, letters regarding family matters, a divorce decree, bills of sale, etc.

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Painted letter (hand addressed and signed) from J.W. Powell to W. Eakes in New York Includes an abstract of transactions of the Anthropological Society of Washington, D.C., 1880-1881.

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Jonathan Williams (1750-1815), a grand­ nephew of Benjamin Franklin, was a diplomat, business man, army officer and engineer. He was with Franklin in Paris and Superintendent of West Point 1805-12. This circular letter of the Military Philosophical Society announces the annual meeting and the agenda of business to be conducted. Williams was president of the society at that time.

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This is a message to the Governor of Pennsylvania from Galloway as Speaker of the Assembly. The Assembly takes exception to the Governor's request for a garrison at Fort Pitt to protect the inhabitants of the back country from the Indians and refuses for fear of stirring up trouble among the Indians. At one point in the letter, it reads: "We might offer other Reasons for not concurring in Sentiments with your Honor, on the...

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Letters between Sharp and Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Bryan of Tulsa Oklahoma, some about art, some with personal overtones.

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Joseph Martin (1740-1808) was one of three commissioners appointed by the governor of Virginia to treat with the Southern Indians. In that same year North Carolina also engaged his services as agent among the Cherokees and Chickamaugas. In 1785, as commissioner of the National Government, he engaged in the negotiation of the Treaty of Hopewell. In this letter dated March 12, 1785, he writes to Alexander Martin, Governor of...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Often called "the Historian of the Santa Fe Trade," Josiah Gregg (1806-1850) was an early trader, and the author of Commerce of the Prairies, published in 1844: These papers consist of sixteen letters to his brother John concerning business and trade and also tell something of his work as a doctor. There are several "memorandum books." One notebook contains notes made while he was in medical school at Louisville, Kentucky. A...