Translated Title

Map of the United States of America

Description

From catalog info:
U.S./Canada/Mexico
Thierry, French Engraver
Paris: [1830]
Scale: 1:15,400,000
Atlas plate no.75 from Geographie Moderne.
Shows Louisiana and Oregon Territory as part of U.S. Oklahoma, shown as part of Arkansas Territory.
Not found in Phillips

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Typed letter from Charles M. Russell to George Wright dated 1920 (no other date information) wishing him a happy new year. Handwritten top recto: 'Cowboy bowing to Geo Wright, West Port, Conn.'

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A handwritten letter from Charles P. Jones in Augusta, Georgia, to his father Timothy Jones in Hartford County, Connecticut. Charles misses his parents but wishes to remain in the South for the summer as a peddler. He also tries to persuade his parents to convert to Christianity. Includes a short typed summary. Folder 16

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Letter sent by G. Saltonstall, on behalf of the Governor and Council of the Colony of Connecticut in New England, to the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians in America. He requests that a missionary be sent to instruct the Mohegans, and the English living on lands granted by them, in the Christian religion. Typescript is available. Folder 1

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Letter from Guy Carleton to Sir John Johnson. Sending scouts to obtain intelligence data on the Hudson River.

Description

From catalog info:
North America
Jean d'Anville (1697-1782)
A map of North America from the French of Mr. D'Anville. Improved with the Back Settlements of Virginia and Course of Ohio.
London: Thomas Jefferys, Publisher, 1755
Scale: 1:6,000,000
Shows British Colonies & boundaries, towns, forts, Indian Tribes, streams
Hargrett Catalog, p.34[0?]
Phillips, Maps, p.576.
Tooley's Dictionary, p.335.

Descriptive Title

Traveller's Guide- S. Augustus Mitchell

Description

From catalog info:
United States
Merchant, G.W., American Engraver, Albany.
Colored.
Publisher: Solomon Schoyer, New York, 1826
Scale: One inch equals 110 miles; 1:7,000,000
Hargrett Catalogs p.341
Tooley, p. 435

Description Charles Joseph Latrobe’s ten-page diary records his travels from July 11-August 23, 1832. He begins by discussing the Native American tribes he encounters during the start of his journey, but he does not give the tribe names. In one entry, Latrobe worries because he has traveled eighteen miles off course, and in a later entry, Latrobe discusses another traveler he encounters who always carried a Bible under one arm and a cookery book under the other. Latrobe's handwriting is very difficult...

Description Folder 342A Transcript (DCI) [printed in ink with margin lines on left side and at top of page][The following text is printed above the margin line at top of page:] ACKNOWLEDGING, ex animo, 1100 ODD CHRISTMAS CARDS, GRATEFULLY RECEIVED: HAIL AND FAREWELLTo eleven hundred Christmas Cards we quakingly respond, In bad blank forms of blanker verse to Friendship’s Golden Bond, And tell our Friends the world...