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Julia S. Bartlett - Ropkins
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Julia S. Bartlett correspondence
Manuscripts
The collection consists of correspondence between various members, and generations, of the Bartlett family, most of whom were practicing Christian Scientists. Subjects include the Christian Science faith, familial concerns and descriptions of Boston and its social life. Correspondents include Julia's brother, John O. Bartlett, his wife, Harriet Eliza W. Bartlett, and their daughter, Harriet S. Bartlett.
mssHM 28927-28942
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A - Harriet S. Bartlett
Manuscripts
The collection consists of correspondence between various members, and generations, of the Bartlett family, most of whom were practicing Christian Scientists. Subjects include the Christian Science faith, familial concerns and descriptions of Boston and its social life. Correspondents include Julia's brother, John O. Bartlett, his wife, Harriet Eliza W. Bartlett, and their daughter, Harriet S. Bartlett.
mssHM 28927-28942
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John Russell Bartlett letter to D.C. Goddmer
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John R. Bartlett gives details of his duties related to his role in the Mexican Boundary Commission.
mssHM 4016
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Dwight Bartlett letters to family
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Series of seventeen letters sent by Dwight Bartlett from Nevada and Utah to his family in Connecticut between 1870 and 1873. The letters are addressed to his mother Christine Fisher Bartlett and sister Christina Bartlett Carpenter (later Brainerd). Bartlett's letters provide vivid accounts, many of them disparaging, of his experiences with and observations of life in the West. He writes throughout of his homesickness, illnesses, monetary losses, and the advent of the railroad. He also specifically writes about the Shoshone and Ute Indians in Utah and of the Mormons, who he derides as having "very few men of intelligence and wealth...so they lack the elements that give strength and dignity to a community" (1870, Jan.5); of traveling to San Francisco to organize a company to work the mines in the Cope District (he later wrote that the trip "accomplished nothing"), of the contrast in opportunities for those with a "little style" and poor workingmen, and of his belief that unemployment, especially on the Pacific Railroad, was caused by Chinese laborers (1870, March 5); of the lack of opportunities in the mines near Pine Grove, Nevada, of passing up an opportunity to accompany an expedition to Big Horn because "it is almost certain death for white men to go there unless they go in large numbers and well armed," of his lack of respect for political figures such as U.S. Grant and Ben Butler, of his low opinion of Nevada Indians ("certain...writers have thrown a false and foolish glamour around the character of the Indian"), and of the "frog pond lawyers" in mountain camps (1870, July 27); of the danger of the mines near Virginia City, of which he writes "a larger proportion of men who work in these mines have been killed than of those who were in the war," particularly at the Yellow Jacket Mine (1870, Sep.15); of attending the legislature at Carson, where "it is said votes were sold dog cheap," of the frequent activities of vigilante committees, who stormed a jail and hung a prisoner, and of the jails being so full that "old bums can get drunk with impunity for there is no place to put them" (1871, March 29); of a traveling bull and bear fight and of the haunting of a cabin near Dayton, Nevada, by a spirit named Anne (1871, Aug.2); of fires in Virginia City and Pioche and the subsequent escape of prisoners (1871, Oct.2); and of an earthquake centered near Inyo, California (1872, Apr.13).
mssHM 26633-26649
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Daniel Bartlett Beard letter to Allen Frost
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Five page letter by Daniel Bartlett Beard to ornitholgist Allen Frost. In the letter he talks about his job at Everglades, birds he sees, and national parks in general. The letter was written from Coral Gables, Florida, on "United States Department of the Interior National Park Service" letterhead.
mssHM 82586
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Julia Minot Wilde Hall Papers
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The papers of Julia Minot Wilde Hall are arranged in the following series: 1. Manuscripts (Box 1); 2. Correspondence (Boxes 1-3); 3. Ephemera (Box 3). The Manuscripts series is arranged chronologically and consists of diaries kept by Julia M. Wilde Hall from 1855-1859. In the diaries, Hall talks about her day-to-day activities in Sacramento, Ca. It appears that she lived in a hotel called the Orleans Hotel. She talks about household chores, church, dinner parties, the weather, and her husband Andrew. This series also includes a family records notebook which traces the ancestors of Julia's family back to 1605 in England. The notebook includes newspaper clippings and obituaries relating to the deaths of Martha C. Hall, John W. Hall, and Andrew W. Hall. Lastly, there is a eulogy of Rev. John Wilde, the father of Julia, which is about 34 pages long. The Correspondence series (1850-1941) is arranged alphabetically by author and consists largely of letters from Julia to her husband Andrew. There are a small number of letters from Julia's family including her father, mother, brother-in law, and sisters to her and her son John. This series also includes documents pertaining to Ellis Spear, husband of Susan Mehitable Wilde Spear and the brother-in-law to Julia. Spear was head of the United States Patent Office in Washington, D.C. Franklin S. Farquhar made several inquires after Spear, sending letters to the War Department in Washington D.C. asking about Spear's military history and about his time at Bowdoin College in Maine. The series includes correspondence written between Farquhar and various parties inquiring after Ellis Spear and his time spent in the military and at Bowdoin College, Maine. The ephemera is a single sheet of paper listing the family's expenses during 1856.
mssHM 71750-71877