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John A. Scott letter to Wilson Scott

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Description: In this letter to his brother, John A. Scott writes of his journey to California. He reports the roads through Wyoming are in poor condition, and rainy weather made crossing rivers dangerous and difficult. At Fort Laramie, he saw many teams planning their routes West. Sicknesses such as cholera are rampant, and he has seen many graves along the roads. Includes fragment of envelope.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1849, June 22.
Call number: mssHM 15244
Creator: Scott, John A(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. J.A. Beckett, 1934, April 5.

John Scott Eldon letter to "My dear Lord,"

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In this letter, the 1st Earl of Eldon is talking about politics and clearly shows his lifelong antagonism towards any form of republicanism. He states "The plant of Republicanism grows rapidly and I grieve to hear that some good & true men are meditating hard on what Regulations it can be best encouraged...."

mssHM 80797

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Walter Scott letters to John Wilson Croker

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Also enclosed: Scroll of warrant for opening the chest deposited in the Crown Room of Edinburgh supposed to contain the Regalia of Scotland (mssHM 2011).

mssHM 25063-24069

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John Muir letter to Katharine Putnam Hooker

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In this letter to his friend Katherine Hooker, John Muir responds to the news that she is sick in bed with some surprise as she seems so strong to him. He suggests rest and then "plain pure white love-work" with Marian (Dr, Marian Osgood Hooker) tending to their fellow creatures. Muir is glad that Marian is not with him as yellow fever and malaria are rampant. Muir briefly describes life on the river with him staring and sketching. Muir described a week of beauty and fellowship at Manaos on the Rio Negro tributary. He ends the letter with a surprise find of a copy of Katherine's book, Wayfarers in Italy in a lonely house in the Amazon Basin. He fears telling the story in full as Marian might think he's in a fever dream.

mssHM 31154

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John Whittaker letter to Cincinnatus Hiner Miller

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Whittaker congratulates Miller on his tales, calling them "some of the boldest flights of imagination I ever saw as any man could conceive of" and lauding Miller for his "fixed reputation as among the first of novelists." He writes of the situation in Oregon: "Gold discoveries and Gold excitements - Gold Humbug - form the staple of our local news." He also writes of the state of local and national politics, in the wake of the Civil War.

mssHM 20707

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John B. Wilson letter to Emma Moore Wilson

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Letter from John Bordeaux Wilson to his mother Emma Moore Wilson, written shortly after Wilson had joined the engineering corps of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1868. In the letter, written at Fort Sanders, Dakota Territory, Wilson writes of his dissatisfaction with being removed from Colonel Joseph Opdyke Hudnutt's company and placed instead with a Mr. Lawrence's party, which he writes will "operate much further west" than the other and work east for 250 or 300 miles from the Green River until they meet the other parties. He notes that Colonel Hudnutt's party was headed for the North Platte while John O'Neill's party would work at Medicine Bow, and gives a description of the various supplies carried by each party. The remainder of the letter describes Wilson's attempts to stay warm in his tent and the meals that he has been given. With envelope, marked "Union Pacific Railway Company, Engineer's Office, Fort Sanders - Dakota."

mssHM 74318

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John Keteltas Hackett letter to Ogden Hoffman

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Hackett writes that he has been appointed to be "a Commissioner for the State of California." Fragment; only final page of letter remains.

mssHM 19010

John A. Scott letter to Wilson Scott

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