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Manuscript Collection: Albert Pike

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Identifier: MC.1964.174
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Documents concerning Pike and letters written to or from him are to be found in the Choctaw files and in the Pitchlynn papers in addition to these items. Albert Pike (1809-1891) was an attorney for the Choctaw Nation when the Choctaws were attempting to secure from the U. S. Government the "Net Proceeds" of the sale of their lands in the East. According to a treaty with the Confederate States and the Pen-e-tegh-ca Band of the...
Dates: 1861-1862

Manuscript Collection: Alexander Longe

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Identifier: MC.1954.131
Collection Overview

Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Entitled "The Nation of Indians called Charrikees," and written about 1698, this bound manuscript of forty-four pages is enclosed in a portfolio covered with buckram. Written by a man who was apparently an official at Williamsburg in Virginia, this document is interesting as well as informative because of its descriptions of Indian life before 1700.

Dates: 1725 - 1729

Manuscript Collection: Alexander Monypenny

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Identifier: MC.1954.147
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Major Alexander Monypenny (n. d.) kept a diary during an expedition which he led against the Cherokees. The first entry was dated at Charlestown, March 20, 1761; the last entry was dated May 31, 1761, at Camp Moultrie. The diary contains the record of army movements and dealings with the Indians. The order book for New York and Charlestown is a record book-first entry "Orders on board the Brotherly Love Transport" at Sandy...
Dates: 1760-1761

Manuscript Collection: Alexandre Hogue

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Identifier: MC.1966.98
Collection Overview

Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A letter written to David Milston.

Dates: 1966

Manuscript Collection: Alfred Jacob Miller

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Identifier: MC.1954.144
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Artist Alfred Jacob Miller (1811-1874), landscape and portrait painter, was especially noted for his studies of the Indians of the Rocky Mountain area. Born in Baltimore, Miller studied painting with Thomas Sully in 1831-32. In 1837 he met Captain William Drummond Stewart while he was in New Orleans and accompanied him on an expedition into the Rocky Mountains. Miller made over a hundred on-the-spot sketches of Indian life...
Dates: 1837

Manuscript Collection: Amos B. Hudson

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Identifier: MC.1970.103
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Personal letters between Amos Hudson and his wife while he is stationed in Arkansas and Missouri. Most letters are about his enlisted life, health and whereabouts and how much he misses her and her letters. Also included ae documents relating to the war, such as Filed orders, personnel, deaths, requisitions, stores, supplies, horses, and quarterly reports. There is also an envelope labeled "T.H. Reeve" that encloses "Private...
Dates: 1862-1928

Manuscript Collection: Andres Bernaldes

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Identifier: MC.1930.18
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Relating to the history of Spain, particularly during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, this volume was written by a Spanish curate by the name of Andres Bernaldes. It includes the first transcriptions of Columbus' own accounts of his voyages of discovery in the New World. This rare history was one of many important documents purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach and Sons by Thomas Gilcrease. It was obtained in 1930 and is one of...
Dates: circa 1560

Manuscript Collection: Andrew Jackson

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.109
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Ten of these items are letters, two of them addressed to his wife, Rachel. Other letters are mostly concerned with military matters, one addressed to James Calhoun who was at the time Secretary of War. Jackson writes to Governor William Schley of Georgia informing him that "Jessup has not delivered the Creek prisoners to the State of Georgia." Also included are a number of badly faded photostats. Interesting item: In a letter...
Dates: 1813-1847

Manuscript Collection: Andrew Johnson

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Identifier: MC.1954.113
Collection Overview

Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), President of the United States, grants full pardon and amnesty to William D. Bently, Forsyth County, Georgia, for taking part in the rebellion against the government of the United States at the time of the Civil War. The document is dated May 29, 1865. The document is signed by both Johnson and William D. Seward, Secretary of State.

Dates: 1865

Manuscript Collection: Anthony Wayne

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Identifier: MC.1964.215
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Letter from Anthony Wayne (1745-1796) written from Savannah, Georgia, on June 10, 1791 , to Governor Edward Telfair, asks what measures have been taken to recover prisoners and property carried off by the Indians (Creek) which, according to a certain treaty, were to be delivered before June 1. He also asks what the governor's sentiments are about compensation for depredations committed by the Creeks prior to the treaty. The...
Dates: 1791-1795

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