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David Starr Jordan letter to Max Farrand
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David Starr Jordan letter to Rev. Charles Ferguson
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In this letter to Rev. Charles Ferguson of All Souls' Church of Kansas City Missouri, Jordan thanks the Reverend for his kind letter and agrees with him that the "University spirit" should shape modern democracy and furthermore, the future of our country and others relies on the training of a large body of men to see reality and have the courage to believe what they see. Jordan express interest in Ferguson's writings and invites him to Stanford. Written on Leland Stanford Junior University, Office of the President letterhead.
mssHM 29241
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David Starr Jordan letter to [William Henry] Irwin
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Letter to congratulate Will Irwin on his Saturday Evening Post article, "Europe Today and Tomorrow." Jordan mentions that he is on a lecture tour speaking similarly about "the dynastic basis of war." Letter is on illustrated letterhead from the Davenport Hotel in Spokane, Washington.
mssHM 29242
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David Starr Jordan letter to Arthur M. Ellis
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Typed, signed letter from David Starr Jordan at Stanford University to Los Angeles lawyer and writer, Arthur M. Ellis. In the letter, Jordan discusses biology, evolution, and literature by various evolutionists and naturalists including: Charles Darwin, J. Arthur Thomson, Stanford professor Dr. W. W. Thoburn, and Henry F. Osborn. The letter is accompanied by a pamphlet listing books by David Starr Jordan, and two printed poems by Jordan ("Unarmed and Unafraid" and "There Was A Man").
mssHM 83100
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David Starr Jordan poems
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Manuscript and typewritten poems by David Starr Jordan. Includes 'The Bubbles of Saki' and 'Viverols,' as well as a collection of poems called 'To Barbara' (Jordan's daughter with his second wife Jessie Louise Knight) and which include 'A Castle in the Air,' 'A Castle in Spain,' When Man Shall Come,' 'Men Told Me, Lord,' and 'Altruism.'
mssHM 74118-74125
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David S. Jordan letter to the Editor of the Independent
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In this letter to a newspaper editor, David S. Jordan notes that a manuscript "A continuing city" had not been published yet as that it was published in a larger work, "Imperial democracy" to be released by Appleton & Co. on June 18th of that year. He offers some other essays that may be of use as the publication of the larger volume might affect the arrangement they made.
mssHM 31258
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David Coverstone letters
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Set of letters written to David Coverstone in Shenandoah County, Virginia, by acquaintances in California. The first 8 letters were sent by Andrew Cullers between 1874 and 1887, when he was living in Colusa, Leesville, and Little Stony, California. Cullers writes throughout of life in California, including his first impressions, land he has purchased, agricultural prospects, and the price of produce and livestock. He also comments frequently on Southern politics, including his refusal to take an oath of allegiance in Missouri ("I refused to swallow the damnable teste [sic] oath," he wrote on May 10, 1874), his firm stance as a Democrat and hatred of Republican politics and Ulysses S. Grant in particular, and a poem he composed on the death of Robert E. Lee. There are also 9 letters sent by Milton M. Ritenouer to David and Harvey Coverstone from 1853-1856. Ritenouer writes from Virginia of securing passage to California, from the Isthmus of Panama about his journey, and from Columbia, California, about working in the gold mines, lacking enough water to run his claims, and how much profit his fellow miners have made. One of the letters is also signed by Joseph Keyser. Also included is a letter from Morgan, Charles and Sons in New York, written on New York Steamship Line via Nicaragua letterhead and regarding a sea voyage (1857).
mssHM 16840-16857