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...

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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: A collection of letters, some written in Cherokee, receipts, birth and marriage certificates and newspaper clippings. Most letters are between Lewis and Henry Ross.

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Letters to and from his wife, and his mother. Also letters to and from Andrew Jackson, as well as letters about supplies. Included is a 29 page typescript "Profile of a Southerner Maunsel White A Gentleman of the Old South."

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Peter Perkins Pitchlynn, Chief of the Choctaws, (1806-1881) was one of the persons selected by the Choctaws in 1828 to survey the southeast section of Indian Territory, the land they had chosen for their home when they were forced to leave Mississippi. Peter Pitchlynn's father was John Pitchlynn, a white man and interpreter for the United States Government, who had married a Choctaw woman of the famous Folsom family. Peter...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: 4 folders cover the T.F. Healy papers, which consist of mostly receipts for purchases, rental agreements, or debts owed. Impressively included are 23 boxes of "clippings". In general, these seem to be newspaper or magazine articles about topics that interested Mr. Healy. Included are Business Interests like lumber, iron and steel, mining and railroads, Political Subjects, including political cartoons by Robert Nast, Tammany...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: General William McIntosh (1778?-1825) was a Creek Indian Chief who favored the removal of the Creeks out of the state of Georgia to lands in the West. In this matter there was a strong party in opposition. On April 30, 1825, a force of these Indians burned his home, then killed him and other members of his family. General McIntosh was a cousin of Governor George M. Troup of Georgia. The papers include a letter to Governor...

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Folder 170

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Left portion of receipt is missing. Receipt was written in Webbers Falls, Indian Territory. A. J. Boyd was the clerk of the Commission Court. Folder 546

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Post Office post card receipt indicating that I.W. Church received some registered mail from Nancy C. Russell, May 21, 1928.