Manuscripts
Leonard Wilkington Noyes letters and papers
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Leonard F. Ross papers
Manuscripts
This collection consists of four items relating to Leonard F. Ross' Civil War career, including two communications from Ulysses S. Grant. Grant's autograph letter signed dated 1861 December 4 (HM 69444) discusses confiscations from Missouri citizens and instructions for dealing with marauding Confederates; the contemporary copy of his 1862 October 5 letter (HM 69445) recaps a dispatch from General William S. Rosecrans detailing the movement of federal troops during the pursuit of Confederate General Earl Van Dorn's forces at Corinth, Chewalla and Ripley, Mississippi on 1862 October 3-4. Also present is a receipt from Henry P. Noble to Ross for a payment for a horse, 1863 April 28 (HM 69446), and an undated copy of "Foraging Parties Instructions," with Ross' note "Please read to the guards" (HM 69447).
mssHM 69444-69447
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Leonard Herbert Swett papers addenda
Manuscripts
Small addenda consisting of biographical material, genealogy, and a few printed items compiled by Leonard Herbert Swett and related to Leonard Swett (1825-1889) and Abraham Lincoln. Includes two manuscript portions of the "Life of Leonard Swett" by Leonard Herbert Swett, which gives a biographical account of his father's life including his experiences in the Mexican-American War, his travels to California, and his involvement with the 1860 and 1864 Lincoln campaigns; a portion of "Mr. Lincoln's Own Story of His Life as Told to Leonard Swett;" an essay praising Lincoln's character by Leonard Herbert Swett; a notebook of Swett family genealogy; a copy of The Marriage Service (1925) containing a marriage certificate for Harold Ashley Burnham and Laura Rose Swett; a program from the ceremonies surrounding the unveiling of the Lincoln statue at Lincoln Park in Chicago (1887); and a printed pamphlet by Harry E. Pratt entitled "The Repudiation of Lincoln's War Policy in 1862: Stuart-Swett Congressional Campaign" (1931).
mssHM 80143-80150
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Leonard Woolf Letters
Manuscripts
Letters from English writer Leonard Woolf to Saxon Arnold Sydney-Turner, a college roommate and friend and one of the group of "Apostles" at Cambridge. The letters tell of Woolf's activities and projects while on vacation from Cambridge, of his life as a Civil Servant in Sri Lanka, and a few treat the period after his return to England. Thirty-eight letters date from Woolf's college days at Cambridge and they treat a variety of scholastic subjects (his reading of Plato, Byron etc.) on which he was working during his vacations. Lytton Strachey is mentioned frequently in the letters as some incident concerning him or a fragment of a letter from him is reported. Twenty-two letters date from the period when Woolf served as a Civil Servant in Sri Lanka and they are written from a number of cities and remote outposts throughout the country (Jaffna, Kandy, Hanbantota, Marichchukkadi etc.). Woolf describes with humor his life in Sri Lanka, especially the change in the state of his mind brought on by the long hours of work, the heat, and the isolation from the kind of society he had been used to. Among other things, he describes a public hanging, a meeting of a local Shakespeare society, and his experience of becoming ill in a remote village on one of his circuits of the territory. Four letters date from the period after his return to England in 1911. One letter was written from Spain during his honeymoon there, describing his and Virginia's efforts to communicate with the locals and the omnipresent smell of "stale urine" Most of the letters do not concern literary matters. There are two poems by Woolf contained in the letters: 1) "2:30 AM" in a letter dated Apr. 17, 1901 (HM 42126) 2) "To Ponamma" in a letter dated June 12, 1910 (HM 42179) A "chronological list of mystics", written during Woolf's school days groups various "mystics" by time and nationality. (HM 42119)
mssHM 42119-42183
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Leonard T. Caplinger papers, (bulk 1862-1863)
Manuscripts
Correspondence between Leonard T. Caplinger and his wife Mary; Caplinger's pocket diary kept in 1863; miscellaneous receipts
mssHM 28385-28396
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Leonard Woolf letters to Clive and Julian Bell
Manuscripts
Eighteen letters by Woolf to fellow Bloomsbury friend Clive Bell and nephew Julian Bell discuss British politics prior to WWII and give details of Woolf's involvement in the League of Nations and the Labor Party. There are references to Virginia Woolf throughout the letters, as he discusses family, travel plans, and other personal matters
mssHM 57680-57697