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Henry Delano Fitch letter to John Marsh

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Description: In this letter, Fitch apologizes for an error made in a transaction with Marsh, and promises to send him bear skins and oil, and possibly beaver. Letter partly damaged. Included is a typescript of the letter with a brief biography of Fitch.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1841, October 3.
Call number: mssHM 19820
Creator: Fitch, Henry Delano(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Milton D. Eisner, 1954, January 15.
Dimensions: 25 cm :

Peramus Green Ames letter to Sarah Ann Ames

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In this letter to his wife, Peramus Green Ames regerts not being able to return home sooner. He promises to send money to keep her and their children comfortable, and promises to write twice a month. Dated December 12-28, 1852. Also included on the letter's final page is a note to Mrs. Ames from her sister, dated 1852, April 18.

mssHM 16549

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Francis Mellus letter to John Marsh

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Mr. Mellus discusses a note payable in cash and Mr. Marsh's accounts, and mentions that there may not be another season for cargo for another four years. He also writes that Henry will arrive soon, and if Mr. Marsh might have any beaver for him.

mssHM 19822

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Cave Johnson Couts letters

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The first letter is from Nancy Couts, Cave Couts' mother, written while Cave Couts was away at West Point, [1838], December 8. In the letter she talks about the family and what they have been doing and promises to send money to him for Christmas. Couts' brother William adds a short note at the end of the letter. Letter is in fragile condition, torn with loss of text.

mssHM 83192-83193

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Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary letter to George Rockwood

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In this letter, written to New York City photographer, George Rockwood, Peary is paying for and asking about photographs of himself (that Rockwood took and sent to him) that he had received yet. Peary also promises to send Rockwood a copy of his "Arctic narrative" (his book Northward over the "great ice," published in 1898). The letter may be written by another person, but Peary signed it. There is also a note, possibly by Rockwood, "Have ordered 1dz" on page two.

mssHM 79890

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Joseph Whitaker letter

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In this letter, written from Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, to an unknown addressee, Joseph Whitaker describes the Native Americans in the area: "...not many deer now the Indians kill about all there is a few Indians about all the time they speak muskrats and fish on the ice in the winter the muskrats build a kind of house of pieces of old bog one of them is worth a shilling to them. The skins they sell for six pence and eat the rest they don't wash themselves once a month and when they have good luck they paint themselves with all kinds of paint...." Whitaker also talks briefly about his farming and hunting.

mssHM 82459

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Jonas Bigelow letter to Otis Arnold

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This letter contains extensive detail from Jonas Bigelow to Otis Arnold, of Troy, New York, about his many recent activities as a merchant in Albany, New York; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Cincinnati, Ohio; and New Orleans, Louisiana, leading eventually to his venture into Arkansas Territory to trade for beaver pelts and bear skins. The letter also describes his relocation to Fort Smith, an army post located on one of the routes along which Native Americans traveled as they were forcibly removed from the southeastern United States to Indian Territory. Bigelow writes at length about the region surrounding Fort Smith, its many opportunities for profit, and his hope to make a considerable fortune by obtaining government contracts to supply parties of Native Americans.

mssHM 84001

Henry Delano Fitch letter to John Marsh

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