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Paul Revere certificate for Jonathan Hollis

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Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1779 April 5.
Call number: mssHM 20836
Creator: Revere, Paul (1735-1818)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of December 1934.
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Joseph W. Revere album

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The album, probably written about 1870, is a collection of memories and stories from Revere's life. The majority of the album focuses on two points in Revere's life, his time in California before and during the gold rush, and his experience in the Civil War. The album specifically covers the following subjects: Revere's experiences on the USS Constitution in 1834; Revere's life as a rancho owner in Mexican California before the gold rush; the California Indians; Revere's travels throughout California and Mexico; his time in the Mexican army; his voyage to California through Panama in 1848; Revere's experiences in the gold mines; and Revere's service in the Civil War including his experience in Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. The album also includes eighteen illustrations, watercolors and sketches, done by Revere to illustrate the text. These sketches include California landscapes, and scenes of life in San Francisco, Panama, and the gold mining camps. There are also a few sketches of scenes from Revere's experience in the Civil War. The last few pages of the album are draft pages for the beginning of Revere's book, Keel and saddle. Also included in the album is a carte-de-visite of Revere

mssHM 56913

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Joseph W. Revere letter to Edward Meyer Kern

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Revere agrees to meet Kern "somewhere on the borders of the territory."

mssHM 20660

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Murder in Mount Holly : by Paul Theroux

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Forced to leave college to seek employment during Lyndon Johnson's presidency, Herbie Gneiss works at a toy factory until he is drafted, prompting a former co-worker who has fallen in love with Herbie's mother to rob a bank run by a man they believe to be a communist.

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Murder in Mount Holly : by Paul Theroux

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Lady Grace Revere Osler letter to Dr. C.N.B. Camac

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This letter from Lady Grace Revere Osler, wife of Dr. William Osler, to Dr. Charles Nicoll Bancker Camac, who was a student of Dr. Osler, describes receiving a copy of Camac's "Counsels and Ideals from the Writings of William Osler" as well as Osler's recent travels and purchase of a house in Oxford. On letterhead "7 Norham Gardens, Oxford."

mssHM 84492

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A review of the case of Brigadier-Gen. Joseph W. Revere

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Paul Revere certificate for Jonathan Hollis

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