Collection Overview

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.

Collection Overview

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: Included are a photocopy of unidentified list of officers serving in Mexico campaign, seven letters to Richard from Papa from Mexico, one including 3 photographs, a photocopy of article "Details on 1 91 9 Juarez battle listed" from El Paso Herald Post, and a transcript of pages 2 to 12 covering period March 19 to November 19, which appears to be the "Literary Surprise" mentioned in folder 1 and portions thereof can be traced...

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Various records concerning the family life and immigration of Olaf Seltzer. Most is of a research background, such as immunization and school records, and letters of inquiry about Seltzer's life.

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: As representatives of the Narraganset Indians, Samuel Niles and James Niles present a petition to the "Council of War," the beginning of which reads: "To the Honorable Nicholas Cooke Esq. Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over the State of Rhode Island." The petition protests the leasing of farm lands to anyone not a member of the Narraganset Tribe and asks that the problem be referred to the General Assembly. The...

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Completely handwritten, this is a treaty, written in Spanish, between the Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Governor Lemos of "the Place and District of Natchez." It contains many signatures, the majority "by his mark."

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This manuscript (7 pp.) is a proposal and constitution for the "New Jersey Organization for Helping the Indians." Written during the French and Indian War, it was intended to help bring about improved living conditions for the native New Jersey Indians. Along with the document is a letter (not signed) citing objections to the proposed association.

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Memorial by citizens of New Mexico. Petitioning President Andrew Johnson and others to permit retention of two regiments of New Mexico volunteers for at least two years to subjugate Comanches, Navajos, Apaches, and Utahs [in English and Spanish].