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The letter is written by Jean Pierre Vibert to a "Monsieur Lauret" regarding an order of roses purchased by Lauret. In addition to a detailed invoice of thirteen roses, Vibert exchanges pleasantries with Lauret about visits that his customer has made to Chenevieres, ending with a discussion of the imminent closure of his business and the deep discounts that he can therefore offer on his 1833 catalogue of rose specimens. Letter is in French; written in Paris. With typed English translation.
mssHM 80796
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This letter makes official Sicard's sale to Covilland of his interests in the D.J. Willman Company.
mssHM 43205
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The journal that Jeunot kept during his service in the West India Islands and Virginia. The manuscript contains detailed information on vessels of the French fleet, the combined French and Spanish fleets, together with a list 124 English vessels, and gives detailed accounts of the French operations at Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Kitts, Tobago, and St. Christopher as well as a long account of the engagement in Chesapeake Capes (Sept. 5, 1781). The manuscript also includes the Articles of Capitulation of the Islands of Tobago and St. Christopher, as well as the "Capitulation of York in Virginia made between Lord Cornwallis Commander General of the British Troops in Virginia and Maryland..." and a list of the French regiments engaged in the siege of Yorktown, together with a list of the ships engaged and the names of their commanders. Also included are contains directions for making fuses, disquisitions of the artillery employed in the French fleet, some poems, religious reflections, scattered daily entries penned in the early 1800s (in a different hand), etc.
mssHM 578
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Pambrum is grateful for the first news from Forbes in over for years, and reports that his own family is "doing better than I have imagined." He also briefly discusses a handful of minor business details.
mssHM 16948
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The three volumes of manuscript memoirs cover John Lockwood's life as a gold miner, member of the U.S. 7th cavalry regiment, employee of the Hudson's Bay Company, and stagecoach driver in Utah and California. There are eleven pieces of correspondence, which are between Lockwood and various people regarding military pensions and the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Little Bighorn; the other authors are Elizabeth Custer, Senator Peter Norbeck, and Representative Harold Knutson. The group also includes 23 pieces of ephemera including 58 newspaper clippings about the Battle of Little Bighorn and its anniversary celebration. Subjects covered are: National Indian War Veterans, coaching in the southwest, Comanche the horse, the Crow, Sioux, Cheyenne, and Nez Percé Indians, gold mining in the Black Hills, military veterans, Montana and South Dakota. Persons covered are: George Crook, George Custer, Chief Gall, Chief Joseph, Nelson Miles, Rain in the Face, Marcus Reno, army scout Charley Reynolds, Sitting Bull, Samuel Sturgis, and Alfred Terry
mssHM 65754-65767
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Writing from St. Louis University in Missouri, de Smet is happy to help with compiling information for Shea's almanac. When the almanac is ready, de Smet asks that a copy be sent to his native Belgium.
mssHM 4018