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    Astor, John Jacob

    Manuscripts

    Professional and personal papers of Otis R. Marston and his collection of the materials on the history of Colorado River and Green River regions.

    mssMarston papers

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    John Jacob Astor letter to Ogden Hoffman

    Manuscripts

    Astor writes of the removal of John Charles Frémont from his post in the California. He also tells Hoffman: "Since we parted on the steamboat dock a year ago last July, what strange times have come upon us, it sometimes seems to me like a dream," and gives updates on friends and family.

    mssHM 19012

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    Stuart, Robert, 1785-1848. Letter to John Jacob Astor, 1763-1848

    Manuscripts

    Mackinac Island, Mich. (4 p.)

    mssBakerL

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    Phillip Knightley Correspondence: John Jacob Astor, 1912-1992, 1 piece, (1969, June 20)

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists of manuscripts (by and about Lawrence), correspondence (including over 150 letters by Lawrence), photographs, drawings, reproductions and ephemera. Also included in the collection is research material of various Lawrence collectors and scholars. Correspondents represented in the collection include: Tom W. Beaumont, Brian Carter, Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, Doubleday and Company, Inc.,Theodora Duncan, David Garnett, Robert Graves, H. Montgomery Hyde, Augustus John, Jonathan Cape (Firm), Phillip Knightley, Pat T. Knowles, A.W. Lawrence, Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart, John Mack, Edwards H. Metcalf, Jeffrey Meyers, Robert Payne, Raymond Savage, Bernard Shaw, Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend Shaw, Clare Sydney Smith, Sir Ronald Storrs, Lowell Thomas, and Jeremy Wilson.

    mssTEL 1-1277

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    Henry Astor

    Manuscripts

    The "California Gold Rush Fleet Encyclopedia of Vessels Sailing from the East Coast of the United States and Canada for San Francisco, December 7, 1848-December 31, 1849" comprises individual histories of 762 ships as well as various subject files, arranged in alphabetical order. Goodman records a broad spectrum of information derived from a variety of sources about the multitude of Gold Rush vessels. The bulk of the manuscripts are photocopies and some are heavily annotated in the author's hand. Some histories include hand colored illustrations of maps and ships. They were written and edited between 1970-1991.

    mssGoodman