Manuscripts

Thomas Hart Benton letter to "sir"

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Description: Benton writes of the capture of Colonel John Frémont, and how this has pacified California, allowing "an American to walk from one end of the province to the other without guards, and without insult or injury." Includes newspaper clipping of article in which the newly appointed Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, John Hughes, is described as believing he would have influence with the people of Mexico amidst the current crisis.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1847, August 23.
Call number: mssHM 23151
Creator: Benton, Thomas Hart (1782-1858)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Smith, Lot 37, date unknown.

Jessie Benton Frémont letters

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This group of items is comprised of three letters by Jessie Benton Frémont to George Whitwell Parsons, an article written by Jessie Benton Frémont, and a letter by George Whitwell Parsons to William Jennings Bryan. The Frémont letters discuss an article Jessie was writing on her husband, her father, the Bear Flag Revolt, and California history; an incomplete copy of that article is included in the group. The Parsons letter to Bryan consists of a request by Parsons to Bryan to speak to the members of the YMCA of Los Angeles; at the bottom of the page is a signed note by Bryan saying that it is "impossible."

mssHM 66102-66106

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Jessie Benton Frémont letter to "Carry,"

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Letter from Jessie Benton Frémont on Bald Porcupine Island, Maine, to a friend named Carry. Frémont writes of the beauty of the Maine coast, a description of Bald Porcupine (with sketch maps), a description of her house and its furnishings, of her neighbors, and of observing a bald eagle. The letter also includes sketches of two girls with a walking stick, a hiking boot, and a shrub.

mssHM 28670

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Thomas F. Seward letter to Lucy F. Seward

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In this letter to his wife, Thomas F. Seward writes that wages have fallen in California, calling twenty-five to fifty dollars a month "extraordinary." His job, however, is safe, as he is good at it. He writes of a recent event where a man killed another for not allowing him to marry his daughter. The murderer has been hanged. A second murder soon followed. Seward also writes of a fire in the city, and reports of similar recent blazes in Marysville and Sacramento. A ship from China brought cholera with it, and many in the city have gotten sick. He has received the daguerrotype sent from home, and writes, "I have got the Home Fever to night - the worse kind." Small booklet, bound in red paper.

mssHM 20721

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John Quincy Adams, Department of State, Washington, D.C., letter to John Scott, Thomas Hart Benton, David Barton, Washington, D.C. :

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Informing the recipients that the following newspapers in Missouri--the Independent Patriot at Jackson, the Missouri Intelligence at Franklin, and the Missouri Gazette and Public Advertiser at St. Louis--had been selected to publish the acts of the second session of the 16th Congress.

mssHM 34000

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Thomas Bewick letter to "Dear Sir"

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Re: a portrait of himself by Murphy.

mssHM 17257

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Thomas Campbell letter to "My Dear Sir"

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Regarding Shakespeare's drama, "The Tempest".

mssHM 11450

Thomas Hart Benton letter to "sir"

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