Manuscripts

Correspondence: Bowdish-Elliot

Description: Correspondence between Bell and his fiancee concerns only with their private life. A few letters written by other soldiers after Bell's death, depict hardships of a Civil War soldier's life.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1854-1883.
Call number: mssBellja
Creator: Bell, James Alvin (1834-1863)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from G.E. Woodley, July 1964.
Associated people: Elliott, Augusta Anna Hallock.
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Correspondence: Elliot-Various, fragments, ephemera, photographs

Manuscripts

Correspondence between Bell and his fiancee concerns only with their private life. A few letters written by other soldiers after Bell's death, depict hardships of a Civil War soldier's life.

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Correspondence: Bell

Manuscripts

Correspondence between Bell and his fiancee concerns only with their private life. A few letters written by other soldiers after Bell's death, depict hardships of a Civil War soldier's life.

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This collection contains 135 letters written by James to Augusta during the period 1854-October, 1863, and 141 letters from Augusta to him. The content of their letters is limited to themselves and their limited social sphere. James' war letters provide little description of relevant conditions, but do afford his reactions to the hardships. Another soldier's letters to Augusta (24 in all) during the 1863-1865 period and 12 others written to her after the death of James portray the tragedy of the war. There are other miscellaneous letters, a few of Augusta and James' poems, seven photographs, and some fragments.

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Correspondence

Manuscripts

The collection contains manuscripts of Horace Bell's published works, including On the old West Coast and twelve other stories. There is also family correspondence, including letters to his sister Caroline Bell Rush and other materials collected by Bell about early California. There is also an Abel Stearns deed and a manuscript about Junipero Serra.

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Correspondence and affidavit

Manuscripts

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James Alvin Bell papers addenda

Manuscripts

This small collection contains 14 letters between James Alvin Bell and Augusta Anna Hallock Elliott and two notes by Bell. Most of the correspondence is personal in nature and Augusta Elliott talks about her teaching job and personal activities. The correspondence does have brief mentions of the Civil War, and in one letter by James Bell, dated 1862 November 28, written from Belle Plains, Virginia, he goes into more detail about his life as a soldier, and talks about General George B. McClellan, General Ambrose Burnside, and President Abraham Lincoln. Many of Augusta Elliott’s letters have poems and watercolors in them. Also included are tintypes of James Alvin Bell and Augusta Anna Hallock Elliott, a letter by Elliott to "Mr. Cooper," a comb, and empty addressed envelopes.

mssHM 82523-82540

Correspondence: Bowdish-Elliot

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