Manuscripts
Albert Franklin Sawyer letter to James A. Tufts
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Warren E. Sawyer letters
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Letters from Warren E. Sawyer to his family depict the camp life, officers, fellow soldiers and commanding officers, including Don Carlos Buell, Confederate prisoners, and Buell's pursuits of Bragg, including the skirmish at Lawrenceberg. Also included an undated letter addressed to "Dear Sister," a poem dated 1885, contemporary envelopes, featuring patriotic designs, and a copy of song sheet printed on notepaper Victory at last. Words by Mrs. M. A. Kidder, music by Wm. B. Bradbury. New York, New York: Charles Magnus, 1865.
mssHM 68170-68176
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Regimental returns of the 8th Massachusetts Regiment of the Continental Army, with additions and emendations by Gardner Tufts, (bulk 1779-1781)
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The regimental returns of the personnel of the 8th Massachusetts regiment kept by Francis Tufts, the adjutant to Colonel Michael Jackson (1734-1801), for the period from 1778 September 3- December 18, when the men were stationed in the Hudson Valley. After the war, Gardner Tufts and possibly other family members (it is written in a variety of hands) filled the added leaves with different material including: a brief narrative of Francis Tufts' military service; copies of orders taken from other regimental order books (including some by George Washington); moral, patriotic and religious essays, reflections, poetry, diagrams, and speeches; and sketches of family homes. Also includes tipped in lithographic portraits of Christopher Columbus, Charles Carroll (last living signer of the Declaration of Independence), George Washington, John Warren (physician and brother of Joseph Warren, hero of Bunker Hill), Marquis de Lafayette, John Adams, Edward Augustus Holyoke (Massachusetts physician and educator), and President William Henry Harrison. Volume also contains several, smaller manuscript items laid in. Front cover is detached; some signs of foxing and water damage.
mssHM 84015
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James Franklin Burns reminiscences
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Burns details his move from Michigan to California in 1853. He also discusses his time as L.A. Chief of Police and County Sheriff including crimes that were committed while he held these positions and criminals he helped prosecute. Burns also talks about his actions during the 1871 Chinese Massacre in Chinatown and politics in California and Los Angeles.
mssHM 66765
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Bryant, Sturgis & Co., letter to Messers. Grant & Stone : photostat
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A photostat of an autograph letter from the Bryant, Sturgis & Co., to the company of Grant & Stone; they are requesting assistance with a small box of rough gold which is to be deposited at the Mint to be coined. The gold was from a mine in "Upper California" which was discovered in 1842, and the owner of the mine wished to know the value and purity of the gold; neither the name of the mine or owner are included in the letter. On the verso of the photostat is a penciled note: "Sent to the Huntington Library by Prof. Merk at the suggestion of Dr. F. J. Turner;" Frederick Merk was a historian and professor at Harvard University and the suggestion by Frederick Jackson Turner was made shortly before his death on March 14, 1932.
mssHM 84045
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Franklin Pierce, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, letter to William D. Ticknor, Boston :
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In a letter presumably about Nathaniel Hawthorne's Life of Franklin Pierce, Pierce mentions that his friend has written a notice on the book that he will send to Ticknor, suggests it should be published in the Post. A postscript discusses booksellers.
mssHM 10862
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Zoeth Skinner Eldredge letter to Professor Josiah Royce
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The letter is an inquiry as to whether or not Professor Royce ever received the complementary copy of The Beginnings of San Francisco that he sent in May of 1913. Letter is accompanied by cancelled cover addressed to Prof. Josiah Royce, Harvard College, with a San Francsico postmark of Sep 14, 1914 at 6:30 PM.
mssHM 4007