Manuscripts

David Bremner Henderson letter to William Buel Franklin

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Description: Henderson requests that Franklin inform him why the State Home at Marshalltown, Iowa has not received its "quarterly allowance provided for by existing appropriation" and asks what steps may be taken on part of the Home. Typed letter, signed by Henderson, and pasted onto backing sheet. "(Dictated)" is indicated on the letter.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1889, January 11.
Call number: mssHM 29239
Creator: Henderson, David Bremner (1840-1906)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from William Wreden, 1961, January 5.
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Harriet Henderson letter to "dear uncle,"

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Letter from Harriet Henderson in Willard, Box Elder County, Utah Territory, to her uncle in Iowa. In the letter Henderson writes of the Civil War and subsequent difficulties in getting cotton, partly prompting Utah Mormons to grow their own crops; of an emigration party headed for the Salmon River gold mines; and of a battle between the California Volunteers and Indians (probably the Battle of Bear River near Franklin, Idaho), following which the Indians were "eager for revenge," making travel in the Washington Territory dangerous. Henderson also describes the Utah Territory and concludes that "we are certainly blessed in this territory with peace and plenty."

mssHM 74520

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Robert Whitney Waterman letter to William Buel Franklin and autographed photograph

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HM 21322 is a letter to General Franklin, written on December 3, 1890. Waterman enclosed receipts for $5,125 of aid to Veterans Home at Yountville, and writes that "with this ceases my officials acts as Governor of California." He informs Franklin that his successor, H. H. Markham, will be inaugurated on January 8, 1891. HM 21323, dated December 6, 1890, contains an autographed photograph of Waterman and an autographed note bearing the words "Business before Pleasure." The recipient of both is not indicated. The letter and the note are written on pages with printed letterhead of the Executive Department of the State of California.

mssHM 21322-21323

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David P. McCafferty letter to Alexander Pogo, 1893-

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In this letter dated August 14, 1966, Florida Bible College student, David P. McCafferty asks Alexander Pogo about a verse in Job 26: 7. He inquires, "I would like to know if there has ever been any place in the north as being empty. Some secular College students will say "where is north"? It seems they just want to argue with everything a Bible College student has to say."

mssHM 83615

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Franklin Pierce, Ocean House, to William D. Ticknor :

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In a letter presumably about Nathaniel Hawthorne's Life of Franklin Pierce, Pierce reports he sent the manuscripts by express; he asks Ticknor to send the proof sheets to him to a hotel in Portland or to Brunswick, mentions Hawthorne will be with him. Letter is dated Wednesday morning.

mssHM 10854

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David Blair letter to Hannah R. Wilson

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A letter that David Blair wrote to a female friend of his back home. The letter describes the battlefield at Perryville and his arrival at the hospital, including a harrowing description of hasty amputations that "looked more like cutting up hogs than anything."

mssHM 69631

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David Wood letter to William J. Hiles

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An autograph, signed letter from David Wood, a member of the West Virginia 1st Cavalry Regiment; he is writing to a former member of the regiment, William J. Hiles. The letter is written from Camp Russell, Virginia, and contains news of many fellow soldiers in the regiment, some of whom have had horses shot out from under them or had been wounded in various battles; Wood also mentions some who have been ill and left the Army or have deserted. The letter is beginning to tear along the folds and there is an old repair along the top of the letter. Enclosed with the letter is the back only of a pictorial envelope.

mssHM 84102

David Bremner Henderson letter to William Buel Franklin

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