Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Journal of John Lowery Brown (1779-1852), a Cherokee. He and a party of fellow tribesmen left Grand Saline (near Salina, Oklahoma) on April 20, 1850, for the gold fields of California. After suffering many hardships, the party arrived late in September. The last entry is November 10, 1850. This journal is in English. A transcript with notes is printed in Vol. XII of the Chronicles of Oklahoma (Oklahoma Historical Society,...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This contains various letters from different people, different times, and different locations, on different topics. Perhaps most noteworthy is a diary dated December 15, 1816 to January 22, 1817. This is a bound diary with "Rufus Hatch, Bowling, VT" on inside front cover. (Rufus Hatch was born in Wells, Maine in 1832 and died in 1893. In 1851 he moved to Rockford, Illinois. He was a financier and promoter.) Note on opposite...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Samuel Austin Worcester (1798-1859) was a missionary to the Cherokees in Georgia and in Indian Territory. His great contribution was his translation of various works into Cherokee, securing the type of the Sequoyah Syllabary, and the many publications from his press for the Cherokees, Choctaws, and Creeks. In this collection, there is only one original item: the agreement of the "Old Settlers" Council to allow him, with...

Scope and Contents The Moran Papers comprise handwritten and typewritten primary sources as well as typed transcriptions of these sources. The collection includes correspondence, account books, published and unpublished manuscripts, autobiographical and biographical sketches, miscellaneous notes, published and unpublished articles, drafts of articles and manuscripts, diaries, newspaper and periodical clippings, photographs, pamphlets, and inventories of paintings and etchings, all related to the life and...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: William R. Leigh (1866-1955), traveler and artist, was a painter of wild animals, primitive people, and local color. His home was in New York City, but he traveled and studied in Europe when he was a young man, and later he traveled in Africa with the Carl Akely Expedition and with the Martin Johnsons (1926). The collection is the gift of his wife, Ethel Traphagen Leigh, presented by her brother, Edward Traphagen, after her...

Description Charles Joseph Latrobe was born in England and toured various cities in America, coming down the Mississippi River with Washington Irving in 1832 and 1833. Latrobe was widely educated and traveled and held high offices in Australia. This diary notebook is part of a set of nine describing Charles Joseph Latrobe's daily activities during an excursion to Indian Territory in 1832-1833. These writings were later expanded into the two-volume set "Rambler in North America", published in 1835....

Description Charles Joseph Latrobe was born in England and toured various cities in America, coming down the Mississippi River with Washington Irving in 1832 and 1833. Latrobe was widely educated and traveled and held high offices in Australia. This diary notebook is part of a set of nine describing Charles Joseph Latrobe's daily activities during an excursion to Indian Territory in 1832-1833. These writings were later expanded into the two-volume set "Rambler in North America", published in 1835....

Description Charles Joseph Latrobe was born in England and toured various cities in America, coming down the Mississippi River with Washington Irving in 1832 and 1833. Latrobe was widely educated and traveled and held high offices in Australia. These writings were later expanded into the two-volume set "The Rambler in North America" in 1835. This diary notebook is part of a set of nine describing Charles Joseph Latrobe's daily activities during an excursion to Indian Territory in 1832-1833. These...

Description Charles Joseph Latrobe was born in England and toured various cities in America, coming down the Mississippi River with Washington Irving in 1832 and 1833. Latrobe was widely educated and traveled and held high offices in Australia. This diary notebook is part of a set of nine describing Charles Joseph Latrobe's daily activities during an excursion to Indian Territory in 1832-1833. These writings were later expanded into the two-volume set "Rambler in North America", published in 1835....

Description Charles Joseph Latrobe was born in England and toured various cities in America, coming down the Mississippi River with Washington Irving in 1832 and 1833. Latrobe was widely educated and traveled and held high offices in Australia. This diary notebook is part of a set of nine describing Charles Joseph Latrobe's daily activities during an excursion to Indian Territory in 1832-1833. These writings were later expanded into the two-volume set "Rambler in North America", published in 1835....