Manuscripts

William Simpson sketchbook

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Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1873 April.
Call number: mssHM 30489
Creator: Simpson, William (1823-1899)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Philip Rosenbach, May 1953.
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James Hervey Simpson letter to Josiah Simpson

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An autograph, signed letter from James Hervey Simpson to his brother Dr. Josiah Simpson, with envelope. The letter was written three weeks before the 1864 election and Simpson is responding to his brother's concern that it is "injudicious" for him to become involved in presidential politics. Simpson had contributed a long letter to the anti-McClellan pamphlet "Gen'l McClellan's Record. His Sympathy with the South," (1864) a publication attributed to Edgar Conkling. The letter is accompanied by two items which quote Simpson's views on McClellan: a copy of this 1864 pamphlet, with edits by Simpson, and a newspaper clipping from the "Cincinnati Daily Times" with Simpson's letter to the editor (November 12, 1864).

mssHM 84054

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Visions of India : the sketchbooks of William Simpson 1859-62

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646428

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Friench Simpson papers

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Collection includes logbook and photograph album of the Revenue Cutter Perry, 1909, and a letter by Simpson to F. Smith, 1909.

mssHM 50168-50171

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John Simpson Chisum receipts

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This small group of items includes receipts to and from John Chisum for the payment of debts including state and county taxes. One of the receipts is for school taxes in Sherman, Grayson County, Texas. Some of the receipts relate to other Chisum family members such as T. J.?, Elijah, and Delilah. There are a few fragments as well as a wallet and a handkerchief, both presumably owned by Chisum.

mssHM 78280-78287

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Catalogue of Simpson's Seat of war in the East (Colnaghi's Authentic series)

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352009

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J. H. Simpson letter to Edward M. Kern

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Simpson informs Kern that had he heard of Kern's plans to return to St. Louis earlier, Simpson would have hired him as an assistant, and sends his regrets. He also writes that Kern should soon receive a congressional copy of the Navajo report.

mssHM 20645

William Simpson sketchbook

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