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...

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,...

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...

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Printed statement to the American people concerning the immediate relation of the United States to the war. Autographed by former President Hoover.

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Research material

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A Bostonian, William Marshall, writes for Captain Richard Walker of Nova Scotia in 1668 asking that a run­away slave boy be returned to Walker. The second item is a bill of sale dated 1750 for an Indian boy "called Newe'sock aged about nine years of age" for thirty pounds.

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This letter came from the library of Sir R. Leicester Harmsworth and was sold at a public auction from Sotheby and Company in 1948. It is described as follows: "Examination of some Indians in Relation to ye condition of ye French in Canada, at a Meeting of the Comm. for managing the Indian Affairs in Albany, 21 June 1709, contemporary MS., 3 pp. folio." It is a report of the "Indian Spies" who had been sent into Canada to see...

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Appointment of D.D. Hitchcock as Assistant Surgeon of the Second Indian Regiment of Guards at Bentonville, Arkansas. Signed by Major M.B.C. Wright, as Commander of the Regiment.

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Unsigned notes on Isaac McCoy's tour from Harmony Mission into Indian Territory with Pottawatomie and Ottawa Tribes. [The use of the pronouns I and we suggest it was written by McCoy. There is also a typescript of the notes.]

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Dr. J. Rhett Motte was a surgeon in the U.S. Army and these are a few papers written by him. In this collection is his commission as assistant surgeon of the 16th Regiment Infantry, 4th Brigade, 2nd Division, So. Carolina Militia, dated 1846. In 1842 he was at Ft. Gibson, Indian Territory, and an account book kept by him at that time is also included here. Interesting item: Probably the most important document is a journal...