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Rent book kept for Ethan Allen Hitchcock
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Francis Russell, Duke of Bedford, account book
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A manuscript volume containing the current accounts for Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford, covering the years 1850 January 1-1858 December 31, with his bank Child & Co., London, England. The volume is divided into incoming funds on versos and sums paid on rectos and in some cases very large sums of money are recorded (£ 259,431); entries include, for example, income from Covent Garden Market and payments for kitchen gardens. The entries provide insights into the life of one of England's highest ranked peers. The volume is in very good condition, with contemporary vellum covers; the pages are ruled in red with entries mainly in one hand. The covers contain the title: "His Grace / the Duke of Bedford / Current Account / From 1st Jany / To 31st Decr 1858."
mssHM 83789
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Phineas Warrener Hitchcock letter to Thomas Jefferson Durant
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Hitchcock wishes to see Durant in person to arrange for his deposition, for he is not sure when the opportunity may present itself. With printed letterhead of the United States Senate Chamber.
mssHM 29240
Hospital Note Book
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An autograph notebook kept by Walt Whitman during his services as an army nurse in the Civil War from 1862 to 1865. The notebook is bound with fabric tape with a cover of yellow paper; the cover is inscribed: "Hospital Note Book. Walt Whitman." The majority of the notebook is written in pencil with a few pages in ink; the entries are written in two directions with the text beginning at one cover then turned over and beginning again. With the notebook is a blue morocco leather embossed slipcase; also enclosed, an original paper envelope, printed with "The Arlington, Washington, D.C."
mssHM 1197
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Hitchcock, Ethan Allen, 1798-1870. Widow's Pension Certificate
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The collection contains 69 letters (primarily between members of the Brinley family and Edward Brinley, Jr.), 18 documents (largely relating the career of Edward Brinley, Jr.), a journal kept by Brinley on board the USS North Carolina, Oct. 1840-May. 1841, and the U.S.S. Delaware from Dec. 1843-Mar. 1844, and a portable wooden writing desk owned by Brinley. The early correspondence deals with Edward's childhood and education, his first naval appointment aboard the U.S.S. North Carolina including details about the various ports-of-call. His letters of the 1844-1845 period deal with his service on the U.S.S. Falmouth in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean during the prelude to the U.S.-Mexican War. Edward's letters of the 1846-1850 period deal with his service aboard the U.S.S. Preble during its cruise of the Pacific. Brinley's comments on the economic, ecological, and political phenomenon of the Pacific throughout these letters. The California gold rush, U.S. economic colonialism in present-day Hawaii, U.S. whaling in the Pacific, and the Chinese Opium trade are among the issues extensively discussed. His letters of 1856 were written during his service on the USS Potomac in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. They include discussions of the "filibusterer" William Walker's short-lived takeover of Nicaragua. The letters of Francis W. Brinley, Edward, Jr.'s most frequent correspondent, are dominated by family news and fatherly advice regarding the merits of hard work and respect for authority. Francis's letters do contain some interesting portraits of quotidian life as a businessman in Perth Amboy, NJ, however. The two letters of Thomas Brinley paint a dismal picture of his failed attempt at making a fortune in 1850s California. The remainder of the correspondence relates primarily to the everyday affairs of the Brinley family.
HM 74082
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Charles P. Crawford notebook
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Notebook containing miscellaneous accounts and records kept by Charles P. Crawford between 1853 and 1869. Included are lists of slaves that Crawford and his younger brother Joel Terrell Crawford (1833-1862) bought from his father's estate in 1858. Also included is a "Memorandum for Lee County" containing lists of goods and property, including slaves, which Crawford intended to bring with him when the family moved there from Americus in 1859.
mssHM 71717
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Receipt book
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This leather-bound receipt book contains records of payments from the Guadalupe Mine to a variety of vendors for commodities and services from January 30, 1858 to September 8, 1860. The entries are signed by the venor who received payment and witnessed by one or two of the company officials. There are also some entries on slips of paper and 21 bill-headed invoices (most of which are from San Francisco companies) tipped in
mssHM 63655