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Robert Whitney Waterman letter to William Buel Franklin and autographed photograph

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    David Bremner Henderson letter to William Buel Franklin

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    Henderson requests that Franklin inform him why the State Home at Marshalltown, Iowa has not received its "quarterly allowance provided for by existing appropriation" and asks what steps may be taken on part of the Home. Typed letter, signed by Henderson, and pasted onto backing sheet. "(Dictated)" is indicated on the letter.

    mssHM 29239

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    Celso Cesare Moreno letters to William Barnet Phillips

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    In these two letters, Celso Cesare Moreno informs Phillips of his whereabouts, political duties, and other personal details. HM 16740 is dated 1876, June 2, and is written from Washington, (D. C.), and is written on the back page of a printed United States Senate Bill S. 892 of the 44th Congress. HM 16741 is dated 1876, November 25, and is written from San Francisco.

    mssHM 16740-16741

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    Letters to Thomas Nast

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    This collection consists of 14 miscellaneous letters addressed to American cartoonist Thomas Nast (1840-1902), from various friends and acquaintances. The items consist of single letters from the following individuals: Robert Bonner, 1869 March 30 (HM 15522); John Griffin Carlisle, 1890 December 26 (HM 15532); George William Childs, 1887 January 6 (HM 15530); Julia A. (Buckingham) Cox, 1889 October 7 (HM 15531); Hamilton Fish, 1877 January 8 (HM 15524); Murat Halstead, 1883 October 31 (HM 15528); Rush Christopher Hawkins, 1869 July 31 (HM 15523); Guy V. Henry, 1878 March 13 (HM 15525); George Parsons Lathrop, 1897 May 18 (HM 15534); Nelson Appleton Miles, 1881 April 19 (HM 15527); Nineteenth Century Club, 1886 September 21 (HM 15529); William Franklin Gore Shanks, 1868 December 28 (HM 15521); Henry E. Sweetser, 1868 February 26 (HM 15520); and John Russell Young, 1879 February 6 (HM 15526).

    mssHM 15520-15534

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    John Roberts letters

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    The collection consists of ten letters to Roberts and a receipt for payments by Roberts to Sumner Black Coal, an Arapaho. The authors of the letters include Reverend Franklin Spalding, Missionary Bishop of Colorado; Reverend Ethelbert Talbot, Missionary Bishop of Wyoming, and Idaho; Reverend J. B. Funsten; and George H. Sands, a Major in the U.S. Cavalry and commanding officer at Fort Washakie, Wyoming. The correspondence deals with affairs on the reservation, its residents, staff, and finances. More specifically, Reverend Franklin Spalding asks about the progress of Sherman Coolidge, an Arapaho priest and John Roberts' assistant.

    mssHM 83982-83992

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    Autograph Letters of Robert Southey to William Taylor: original binding

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    A collection of letters written by Robert Southey to William Taylor, British scholar, essayist, and translator. The collection also includes two letters to James Everett and a letter by John Warden Robberds. Three of the letters by Southey include autograph copies of his poems, "The Wedding," "Inscription Under an Oak," and "King Ramiro." The letters discuss many of the important people of the period including, among others, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Humphry Davy, Charles Lamb, Walter Savage Landor, Napoleon I, Sir Walter Scott, and William Wordsworth. Also included is the original separated binding, with the William K. Bixby bookplate; all of the material in the collection is still window-mounted on paper.

    mssHM 4815-4876

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    Robert Selden Garnett letters

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    These are two letters written by American officer Robert Selden Garnett. HM 46544, dated 1849, August 23, is addressed to A. Somervail Garnett ("My dear Somervail," Robert writes), and is written following the wrecking of the ship Edith off the California coast. Robert assures Somervail that he will do all he can to keep Somervail enrolled at Harvard until his education is completed, and gives Somervail advice concerning his chosen occupational path, particularly the importance of mathematics and surveying. Robert urges Somervail to be steadfast in his studies, but not at the expense of his social life, which Robert considers as important as school. Robert closes by saying he hopes to return to Washington by December 1. In the second letter (HM 46545, dated 1849, September 30), Robert writes to Caleb Lyon concerning the authorship of a proposed "seal or coat of arms for the new state of California" as well as a constitution for the pending state. Robert claims to be the sketcher of the original seal, and gives Lyon the authority to reveal him as such, should he deem it proper.

    mssHM 46544-46545