Manuscripts

John McDougal letter to John C. Hays

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Description: McDougal requests that Hays recruit a volunteer force of one hundred men to counter aggressive behavior of Indians near San Diego. The Indians have assembled in large numbers, and "have assumed a hostile and menacing attitude." Signature may not be McDougal's.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1851, December 6.
Call number: mssHM 20173
Creator: McDougal, John(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from MacDonald, date unknown.
Dimensions: 29 cm :

Mrs. John Barton McDougal letters from American politicians

Manuscripts

These four letters are replies to letters that Mrs. McDougal wrote to these four American politicians: Senator Harry F. Byrd, Senator William F. Knowland, Senator Robert F. Taft (this one is addressed to Mr. John Barton McDougal), and Vice-President Richard Nixon (signed "Dick Nixon").

mssHM 75982-75985

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John White Geary letter to John C. Hays

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Captain Geary reports to Colonel Hays that the San Francisco Rangers are organized and ready for duty.

mssHM 20171

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Daniel Aldrich letter to John C. Hays

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Commander Aldrich reports to Colonel Hays that he and his company of Aldrich Rangers are ready for duty.

mssHM 20172

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John C. Fall letter to Henry Goode Blasdel

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Fall writes to Blasdel, the governor of Nevada, that his town of Unionville "is under control of a mob." He reports a group of armed miners has banded together to force out the town's population of "Chinamen," who are in fear for their lives. Fall reports his mills have ceased operation due to this incident, and that the local law enforcement has been ineffective in restoring order.. Printed Western Union Telegraph Company telegram forms, filled in by hand.

mssHM 31538

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John Mitchell letter to Cadwallader Colden, London

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The letter describes Mitchell's involvement in publishing the London edition of Colden's History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada; his effort to further Colden's interest with Mitchell's patrons Archibald Campbell, the third Duke of Argyll and the president of the Board of Trade George Montagu Dunk, the second earl of Halifax; the outbreak of yellow fever in New York; Mitchell's plans for "the Natural & medical History of N. America;" his interest in American native plants, including plant pigments that "the Indians dye their Red & black colours with," and in "the New surveys the french have lately made of their Colonies."

mssHM 22340

John McDougal letter to John C. Hays

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