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Joseph Allan Nevins diary of a trip from Illinois to California

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Description: This manuscript is Nevins' account of his journey from Illinois to California via the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads, and then by steamboat through the Panama Canal to New York. Much of it is description of the countryside, towns, and inhabitants he visits en route. He arrived in San Diego, CA, on February 21, 1874, and prospected for three weeks without success, then boarded the boat. Upon reaching Panama, there was a delay, as the ship Nevins was to take was being repaired; he writes "The waiting here is very irksome. I fear the folks at home will be anxious about us." Dated January 10 through April 1. Also included is 15-page typescript of the original.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1874.
Call number: mssHM 26339
Creator: Nevins, Joseph Allan

Allan Nevins correspondence

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Letters addressed to Allan Nevins during the period between 1934 and 1955, while he was the DeWitt Clinton Chair in American History at Columbia University.

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Research papers and correspondence of Allan Nevins, chiefly those pertaining to his work at the Huntington Library. Included are research papers on the Civil War, drafts to the third and fourth volumes of the Ordeal of the Union, lectures, and shorthand books kept by his secretary at the Huntington, Lillian K. Bean. The correspondence deals chiefly with the publication of the last two volumes in the Ordeal of the Union and was conducted by Lillian Bean. Also included is correspondence between Allan Nevins and his wife Mary, and Lillian Bean. Significant correspondents represented in this collection are: James Truslow Adams; John Edwin Bakeless; Grayson Louis Kirk; Alfred A. Knopf; Archibald MacLeish; Fred Delbert Schwengel; Eunice Kennedy Shriver; Charles Scribner's Sons; Adlai Ewing Stevenson; Irving Stone; and Arnold Toynbee.

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Allan Nevins paper written on Collis P. Huntington with his notes and clippings

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The notes were taken in 1939 for a paper on Collis P. Huntington that was written and read to a Huntington Library audience by Alan Nevins. Some information in the notes were gained from an old time associate of Collis Huntington who was discovered according to Nevins at a large hotel on the Arroyo that was taken over and used by the government, probably the Vista del Arroyo Hotel.

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Joseph Allan Nevins diary of a trip from Illinois to California

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