Manuscripts

Edward D. Tuttle correspondence and reminiscences

Description: The collection consists of 21 pieces of correspondence, including nine Civil War letters and nine letters between Tuttle and two early State Historians of Arizona, James McClintock and George Kelly. The collection also includes one manuscript of Tuttle's reminiscences of the Civil War and the early years of the Arizona Territory.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1834-1928
Call number: mssHM 26562-26584
Creator: Tuttle, Edward D (1834-1928)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edward B. Tuttle, April 1955.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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Edward D. Tuttle correspondence and reminiscences

Manuscripts

The collection consists of 21 pieces of correspondence, including nine Civil War letters and nine letters between Tuttle and two early State Historians of Arizona, James McClintock and George Kelly. The collection also includes one manuscript of Tuttle's reminiscences of the Civil War and the early years of the Arizona Territory.

mssHM 26562-26584

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Edward D. Tuttle letters to James H. McClintock

Manuscripts

mssHM 26562-26584

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Reminiscences by Bishop Tuttle of his mission days in Utah, Idaho and Montana

Manuscripts

This typescript of Tuttle's reminiscences is the not the same as the text he had published in 1906. This account, which is much shorter in length, focuses upon Tuttle's stagecoach journey west to Salt Lake City, including a stop in Denver, and his experience traveling in the West while he was Bishop of Montana, Idaho, and Utah. He talks about specific stagecoach drivers and employees of Wells, Fargo & Company, and tells stories about stagecoach robberies and accidents. This account also includes Tuttle's meeting with Brigham Young shortly after he arrived in Salt Lake City in 1867

mssHM 66249

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D. P. McHarg correspondence

Manuscripts

The majority of the letters are written by D. P. McHarg to his mother. McHarg's first letter was written while he was on his voyage to California aboard the ship Grecian. In his letters from California, he discusses the conditions in the gold camps, the gold miners with whom he does business, the financial crisis of 1855 and the failing of the Adams Express Company, as well as his opinions about slavery and the Civil War. There are five letters written by McHarg to his wife Fannie while he was in New York City in 1873; in these letters he discusses the stock market crash of 1873. There is one letter by New York Senator Elihu Root to McHarg's wife Fannie.

mssHM 66623-66656

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Curtis family correspondence

Manuscripts

A collection of family correspondence containing 110 items; the letters are chiefly to Delia Augusta and Sarah Henrietta Curtis from their brothers. The letters include discussion of the Curtis sisters' studies and education, family news, the Civil War, life in Ohio, Tennessee, Arizona, and California, from 1820 to 1892; also included are a few letters of Henry James and Clarissa Fisher Curtis. The collection also contains a typewritten summary and outline of the Curtis family letters (1984) and ephemera.

mssHM 50671-50759

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Edward Dowden correspondence

Manuscripts

The collection contains letters from Edward Dowden to Robert Perceval Graves. There are also a few poems by Dowden and letters from Mary Clerke Dowden and John Ramsden Tutin.

mssHM 39181-39258

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