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J.D. Strong letters
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The collection consists of letters from Joseph Dwight Strong and his wife, Isobel Osbourne Field, to Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909). Some of the letters are about Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne Stevenson.
mssHM 37959-38165
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J.D. Stevenson discharge of Kimball H. Dimmick
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In this brief document, J.D. Stevenson declares that Kimball Hale Dimmick has been honorably discharged from his duties as a captain in the First Regiment of New York Volunteers.
mssHM 4177
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1894-1896
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters from Joseph Dwight Strong and his wife, Isobel Osbourne Field, to Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909). Some of the letters are about Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne Stevenson.
mssHM 37959-38165
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1897-1899
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters from Joseph Dwight Strong and his wife, Isobel Osbourne Field, to Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909). Some of the letters are about Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne Stevenson.
mssHM 37959-38165
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1874-1893
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters from Joseph Dwight Strong and his wife, Isobel Osbourne Field, to Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909). Some of the letters are about Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne Stevenson.
mssHM 37959-38165
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Letterpress book of the Secretary of the Treasury
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Letterpress copybook containing telegrams sent and received by the Secretary of the Treasury between June 1, 1863 and Jan. 1, 1864. The correspondents include members of the military command, legislators, collectors of the customs of New York, San Francisco, and Portland (Me), the Treasury employees, lawyers, businessmen, etc. The telegrams concern duties, including those imposed on the sales of arms and supplies for the army, Southern cotton, and whiskey; regulations of the shipment of goods, including in the areas that are "within reach of the rebels" and Lincoln's ban on a sale of Prussian arms to Guatemala and shipment of livestock; revenue steamers; bids on government contracts; design and printing of fifty and hundred dollar denomination greenbacks and arrests of counterfeiters; appointments of collectors and other personnel issues. Also discussed are: the conflict over the Farralon Islands (San Francisco); Pennsylvania during the Gettysburg campaign (including a proposal to "form a company for city defense made up in part of revenue officers" of Philadelphia); draft riots in New York; the question of opening of the Mississippi for commercial shipping in the wake of the victory at Vicksburg; Lincoln's push for restoring legislative and judicial authority in Southern states under the Union control; providing arms for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, etc.
mssHM 71515