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Squire Bancroft manuscript
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Squire Bancroft letters
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One letter is addressed to William L. Selfe and the other is to Miss Field.
mssHM 11321-11322
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George Bancroft manuscript
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"History of the United States. The American Revolution, vol. VIII. Chapter LI. Parliament is at one with the King. October-December, 1775." Inscription on leaf 2 says: "For Miss Florence Connyngham with the best wishes of George Bancroft."
mssHM 2163
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Letter from Arabella Huntington to Caroline Holladay
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it very hard to realize that I shall never see or hear that dear face & voice again. Time as yet has helped me very little, but I get through the days one by one. I am not well, have had a cold that won't go away - as I can not go out, I am sending you a check also one for Harriet with which get something to please your selves. Write to me some times & tell me what you are doing.
msssHEH 422
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William Lawrence Austin letter to Joseph Burn Austin
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William Lawrence Austin wrote this letter to his father, Joseph Burn Austin, in the midst of the Leadville silver boom. Leadville had been founded only two years earlier, but not all is well. Lawrie writes to his father in South America from a smelting works in Leadville, Colorado, seeking financial help. "My dear Papa, Can't you borrow the money to keep Cecil at Yale under a guarantee from me to pay it back with interest? It is really too bad for me to be taking all these chances...I am overworked, under paid, & tied up in such a way, than a human being can't be expected to stand it." One of his co-workers, Abarci, left some time ago and two more are going to leave the smelting works soon. He suggests, "Now I'll give you the boys' plan & you can see what a temptation it is to me. They intend to start an assay office up town, then add on a store, to consist of simply miner supplies, then do a general professional business besides. We will be working for ourselves..." He is confident that "...we will make the strongest team in the country." Lawrie is in despair because he must endure the dangers of the smelting works and shortchange his own future by attending to his brother's needs first, a brother who spends his time reading novels and his money on "pleasure seeking." He states, "You don't know how interesting life has been becoming for me, & I must stay in the poisonous fumes of furnaces, & give up every thing...I have to look far enough into the future, anyhow, in order to see a blue sky, but to think that I must give up my Leadville, & start again at some future day, possibly in some camp, & certainly without one cent to back me is very hard Papa." He concludes, "You must pay some attention to my case, as well at Cecil's. You could not keep one man in a hundred as you are keeping me, & there will be a final blow up, if you keep on, & that I want to avoid if possible." The letter is simply signed "Lawrie."
mssHM 80808
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S. P. (Samuel Pierpont) Langley letter to Henry S. Mackintosh
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This letter was written by Langley to Henry S. Mackintosh, an American teacher and author. It is on Smithsonian Institution letterhead. The letter reads as follows: "I am very glad to see your hand again, and perhaps I can best answer your inquiry by enclosing you a copy of a report from the Administrative Assistant in the National Museum, in reference to the feathered cloak. If you wish anything more done through the Museum, let me know, though I rather think you would do quite as well with private parties. Very sincerely yours, S. P. Langley."
mssHM 80278
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Marie Bancroft manuscript
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"Stage masks may cover honest faces": quotation.
mssHM 16063