Letter
Subject
Subject Source: Gilcrease Object Names
Found in 7611 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript Collection: George W. Grayson
Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.78
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: George W. Grayson was Principal Chief of the Creek Nation in 1918, and these are a few papers from that administration such as deeds sent from the court for him to certify as Chief; plans for a memorial to Pleasant Porter, a former chief; and routine correspondence with the Honorable Cato Sells, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. One item is a letter of protest against Creek Indians serving in the military forces outside of the...
Dates:
1888-1919
Manuscript Collection: George W. Wallace
Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.210
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Captain George W. Wallace writes from Fort Texas, April 20, 1860, to Major General G. H. Thomas at Fort Smith. He offers his regrets that he cannot comply with a request made by Major Thomas because of the presence of Indians in the vicinity.
Dates:
1860
Manuscript Collection: Georgia Colony Documents
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.74
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Most of these documents pertain to the founding and settling of the Colony of Georgia. There is a most interesting letter with an account of the sea voyage of the "Anne" with General James Oglethorpe and 120 settlers for Georgia, including homely facts about health, food and activities of the passengers and their leaders. Another paper tells of General Oglethorpe's handling of attempted mutiny at St. Andrews Fort. Also...
Dates:
1727-1864
Manuscript Collection: Gordon W. "Pawnee Bill" Lillie
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.127
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: G. W. Lillie (1860-1942), of Pawnee, Oklahoma, was better known as Pawnee Bill. A notice (probably 1886 or 1887) written on the letterhead of "Pawnee Bill's Oklahoma Colonization Company" is directed to "city and county papers" telling them that 2500 to 5000 people are ready to come into Oklahoma, but have been frightened by false reports that soldiers are waiting to keep them out. A letter to ''Friend Engles" says he...
Dates:
1886-1864
Manuscript Collection: Gurdon Saltonstall
Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.189
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This interesting letter was written by Gurdon Saltonstall (1666-1724) to the "Hon. Society for propagating the Gospel among the Indians in America," from the "Govr. and Council of the Colony of Connecticut in New England," giving an account of the Mohecan and Pequot Indians. The letter is dated May 31; 1716, Hartford. Saltonstall was the grandson of Richard Saltonstall, (1610? - 1694) who came to America in 1630 and was one of...
Dates:
1716
Manuscript Collection: Hall - Pennant Document
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.84
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...
Dates:
1775
Manuscript Collection: Heber M. Creel
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.50
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,...
Dates:
1879-1881
Manuscript Collection: Henry Barclay
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.13
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...
Dates:
October 5, 1763
Manuscript Collection: Indian Spies' Report
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.108
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...
Dates:
1709
Manuscript Collection: Jackson Barnett
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.14
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Jackson Barnett (1852-1934) was a wealthy Creek Indian, concerning whose estate there was a great deal of litigation. These papers concern that litigation and the determination of his heirs. One page (typescript) is a short biography of Jackson Barnett from which the dates 1852 - 1934 were taken.
Dates:
1937-1939