Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A two-page document, on vellum, signed November 12, 1862, authorizes the Smithsonian Institution's agents in London to recover the residue of Smithson's bequest so that it may be used for the benefit of the Institution. This is one of the few documents on which Lincoln signed his full name - he usually used only the initial of his first name. The paper is countersigned by William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and Charles...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Most are personal letters and greeting cards between Acee Blue Eagle and Jack and Ione Schurch. Some references to Blue Eagle's artwork. There is also some biographical material concerning his death, and letters from Jeanne Snodgrass at the Philbrook Museum of Art regarding Blue Eagle. There are also various broadsheets, leaflets, and programs regarding exhibits of Blue Eagle's art. There are letters between Ione Schurch and...

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Letter from A.G. Henry to Oregon Territory Geary. Henry, a physician at the Grand Rond Indian Reservation in Territory, is writing to the Governor concerning his brother, E.R. Geary.

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Four bound books containing list of receipts, a log of a trip to St. Louis from Burlington, Vermont, a legal description about land, and a memorandum of legal cases.

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Items in this collection relate to McIntosh's tenure as Superintendent of Creek Schools. Included are reports, expense accounts and claims for education and correspondence between McIntosh and the National Council.

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...

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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.

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...

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

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...