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Collected papers of Dr. Newell Clark Gilbert : a memorial volume
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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30405
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Manuscripts
The volume includes transcripts of material about Robert Newell and the Nez Percé War of 1877. This material includes Newell's 1868 diary of his trip to Washington D.C. with several Nez Percé Indians including Lawyer, Jason, and Timothy, to negotiate a treaty. While in Washington, the group met with President Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Nathaniel G. Taylor. The diary also covers their overland trip back to Fort Lapwai, Idaho. There is also a typescript of a clipping regarding the unveiling of a bronze tablet dedicated to Robert Newell in 1931. Also present in the volume are typescripts of articles from the Lewiston Teller Extra from June 16-August 12, 1877, discussing the Nez Percé War
mssHM 66240
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The collection consists of letters and a few documents related to the business activities of Francis Clark (fl. 1850s). They deal chiefly with his interests in gold mining, property, and finance in Placer and El Dorado Counties, CA. A number of letters are from his partner in the firm of Brooks, Clark, and Company.
mssHM 17382-17425
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This collection contains the letters of Lincoln Clark, his wife, Julia Annah Clark, and their family, with the bulk of the collection consisting of Clark's letters to his wife. The correspondence was accumulated by Mrs. Clark and her side of the family the Smith and Williams families. Also included is a genealogical chart and a family history written in 1942 by Julia Lincoln Ray Andrews. Other correspondents besides family members include Rev. Joseph Howe (1747-1775); John H. Tice, a meteorologist from St. Louis (Mo.) Jane Currie Blaikie Hoge, Howard Crosby, William Anderson Scott, Alexander T. McGill, Le Roy Clark Cooley, Maria Mitchell, Harry Norman Gardiner, James Dwight Dana. Daniel Warren Poor, George Washington Cable, Mary Watson Whitney, Jonathan Baldwin Turner, Meta Lander (Margaret Oliver Woods Lawrence), Washington Gladden, Rutherford B. Hayes, Cordelia Agnes Greene, Charles Henry Oliphant, William E. Gladstone, Catherine Mary Phillimore, and others.Persons represented by five or more pieces: Mary Ann (Ball) Bickerdyke, 5 pieces Catharine Lincoln Clark, 31 pieces Julia Annah (Smith) Clark, 47 pieces Lincoln Clark, 368 pieces Isabel A. Pratt, 10 pieces Sarah C. (Smith) Robinson, 5 pieces Pandius Theodore Ralli, 9 pieces Erastus Smith, 10 pieces Sarah C. (Williams) Smith, 19 pieces William Williams, 9 pieces Lincoln Clarks' letters are written during his many absences riding the circuit in Alabama between 1837 and 1847; trips back east; their two-year separation between 1846 and 1848; his stay in Washington, D.C., in 1852-1853; and his business travels in the 1850s and 1860s. The letters discuss Lincoln Clark's professional and political career; Mrs. Clark's work at home and involvement in charities, their religious feelings, their children's upbringing and education, the fate of their slaves; financial troubles, especially in the wake of the 1857 panic, the Civil War, the U. S. Sanitary Commission, etc. Also included are five letters written between 1854 and 1861 by Frederick Clark and his wife Charlotte, Lincoln Clark's former slaves who immigrated to Liberia in 1856. Also included is correspondence of Julia Clark's parents and grandparents, her sisters Dorothy Williams Smith Holbrook, Rachel Bardwell Smith Holbrook, and Catharine Amelia Smith Jones, a cousin Caroline W. Porter, and her daughters. William Williams's letter written in 1758 to his then sweetheart Dorothy Ashley discusses the proper relationship of faith and reason; a long letter of February 1, 1800, describes, in great detail, the passage by the Massachusetts legislature of the Act Providing for Public Worship of God, which Williams had sponsored. The 1816 letter from a cousin, Sarah T. Williams Newton, wife of Edward Augustus Newton (1785-1862), from Calcutta discusses Christian missionaries in India and Indian society. The letters from Julia Annah Clark Ray describe her studies at Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut. The letter from Alfred Wright (July 4, 1825) discusses his work as a missionary to the Choctaw Nation. The correspondence of Caroline W. Porter includes letters from her friends and admirers, including Thomas R. Ingalls (1798-1864), the future president of Jefferson College and then (in 1816-1818), a West Point cadet, and Pandias Theodore Ralli (1819-1882) who later became a director of the firm Ralli Bros. Some notable items include: Clark, Lincoln. To Mrs. Clark: a gossipy letter from Washington, D. C. "I dined at Col. King's [William Rufus King] on Friday... it was a real state dinner - no ladies - I was never behind the curtain where great men relaxed before..." Jan. 26, 1852 Clark, Lincoln. To Mrs. Clark: "Iowa is not worth bargaining with, if she could be bargained with, because her political strength is so small..." Washington, June 6, 1852 Clark, Lincoln. To Mrs. Clark, regarding a visit to James Buchanan at Wheatland. Philadelphia, Feb. 10, 1857. Correspondence of Mrs. Lincoln Clark and her daughter Catharine, having to do with their war service on the U. S. Sanitary Commission, 1864-1865
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Letters and articles by Matthew Gilbert Upton of San Francisco, California. Includes some material related to the Customhouse in San Francisco.
mssHM 19271-19292
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