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Ogden Edwards papers

Description: The Ogden Edwards papers consist primarily of incoming correspondence of Pierpont Edwards and Ogden Edwards, with some other, seemingly unrelated, letters retained evidently for their autograph value. The letters and ephemera date from 1753-1903. Of the 43 letters, many contain annotations identifying famous authors or addressees. The annotations are penned in the same hand as the list of famous historical personages, apparently, a catalog and/or list of collector's wanted items; the names represented in the Edwards collection are ticked off. The rest of the collection are letters retained for their autograph value. This portion consists individual letters by Thomas Gage, Samuel Huntington, Stephen Girard (1750-1831), William Gaston (1778-1844), Oliver Wolcott (1760-1833), William North (1755-1836), and Marie Joseph Lafayette, and indemnification bond to the Overseers of the Poor of Dover Hundred (Delaware, 1761).
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Production date: 1753-1903.
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Ogden Edwards papers

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The Ogden Edwards papers consist primarily of incoming correspondence of Pierpont Edwards and Ogden Edwards, with some other, seemingly unrelated, letters retained evidently for their autograph value. The letters and ephemera date from 1753-1903. Of the 43 letters, many contain annotations identifying famous authors or addressees. The annotations are penned in the same hand as the list of famous historical personages, apparently, a catalog and/or list of collector's wanted items; the names represented in the Edwards collection are ticked off. The rest of the collection are letters retained for their autograph value. This portion consists individual letters by Thomas Gage, Samuel Huntington, Stephen Girard (1750-1831), William Gaston (1778-1844), Oliver Wolcott (1760-1833), William North (1755-1836), and Marie Joseph Lafayette, and indemnification bond to the Overseers of the Poor of Dover Hundred (Delaware, 1761).

mssHM 24958-25000

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Elza Ivan Edwards Papers

Manuscripts

The majority of the 43 pieces of correspondence are written by Elza Ivan Edwards and are personal in nature; however, several of the letters discuss in detail the activities and publications of the Los Angeles Corral of the Westerners and the Death Valley '49ers. The letters also discuss Edwards‟ various books on Death Valley as well as the publications of George Koenig, Anthony Kroll, and Earl F. Nation (fellow Westerners and the addressees of Edwards‟ letters). One letter by Edwards recounts a hiking trip in Nevada and provides a good description of the area around Dayton, Nevada, as well as the ghost towns Delamar and Genoa. The ten pieces of ephemera include biographical information about Edwards and newspaper clippings.

mssHM 65769-65811

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Sir Edward Dering personal and political journal and papers

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The bound volume has limp vellum covers, with some damage to the spine. The family material (18th-20th centuries) contains information about the Dering Motto, Crest and Arms, a printed auction catalogue for the sale of the "Contents of the Mansion Surrenden..." (1928), a printed handlist of Dering MS (U1107), and disbound scrapbook pages of printed clippings, pictures, family and genealogical history; with a few autograph and typewritten notes and letters.

mssHM 55605

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Matthew P. Deady letter to Ogden Hoffman

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Writing to California judge Ogden Hoffman, Deady agrees with Hoffman's "case (salvage)" and remarks on the President's veto of the "pauper pension bill."

mssHM 19026

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John Lowell letter to Ogden Hoffman

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Letter from John Lowell in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, to Ogden Hoffman. In the letter Lowell gives his recommendation of a local lawyer, and offers him in writing an introduction to Hoffman.

mssHM 19024

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Counterfeit bonds made out to D. Ogden Mills

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Printed set of apparently counterfeit bonds given to D. Ogden Mills in exchange for a debt of one-thousand dollars. The sheet appears to be signed by railroad president Leland Stanford.

mssHM 80481

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