Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 91 - 100 of 232

Manuscript Collection: Georgia Colony Documents

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.74
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Most of these documents pertain to the founding and settling of the Colony of Georgia. There is a most interesting letter with an account of the sea voyage of the "Anne" with General James Oglethorpe and 120 settlers for Georgia, including homely facts about health, food and activities of the passengers and their leaders. Another paper tells of General Oglethorpe's handling of attempted mutiny at St. Andrews Fort. Also...
Dates: 1727-1864

Manuscript Collection: Gold Rush Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.76
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A carefully typed 15-page diary with no indication as to its author, this is probably a transcript of the author's account of an expedition from Fort Smith, Arkansas, headed toward California, but in this journal, reaching only Santa Fe, New Mexico. The time recorded is from March 26 to May 29, 1849. A Captain Ebbets was evidently in charge of the expedition and it appears that it was called the Knickerbocker Company. Some of...
Dates: 1849

Manuscript Collection: Gordon W. "Pawnee Bill" Lillie

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.127
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: G. W. Lillie (1860-1942), of Pawnee, Oklahoma, was better known as Pawnee Bill. A notice (probably 1886 or 1887) written on the letterhead of "Pawnee Bill's Oklahoma Colonization Company" is directed to "city and county papers" telling them that 2500 to 5000 people are ready to come into Oklahoma, but have been frightened by false reports that soldiers are waiting to keep them out. A letter to ''Friend Engles" says he...
Dates: 1886-1864

Manuscript Collection: Grant Foreman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1944.67
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...
Dates: late 19th century-mid-20th century

Manuscript Collection: Gurdon Saltonstall

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.189
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...
Dates: 1716

Manuscript Collection: Gwynn - Howard Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1982.82
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...
Dates: 1684-1689

Manuscript Collection: Hall - Pennant Document

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.84
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...
Dates: 1775

Manuscript Collection: Heber M. Creel

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.50
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,...
Dates: 1879-1881

Manuscript Collection: Henry Barclay

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.13
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...
Dates: October 5, 1763

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Manuscript Collection Records 223
American 142
Letter 125
Native American 57
Note 19