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Account book while serving on barque "Empire"

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Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1849-1856.
Call number: mssHM 30511
Creator: Randall, Rufus S(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Acquired from Patterson, September 1964.
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Account book of the barque Golden Fleece

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The account book records the Golden Fleece's activities at Honolulu, Hong Kong, and San Francisco. It includes some of the names of the officers and crew, monthly balance statements, payments received, wages paid to the crew, and daily expenses for equipment and supplies. Also includes information regarding the ships which which the Golden Fleece did business

mssHM 59297

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Account Book and Memo Book – Diaries, 1936

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Most of Farquhar's diaries, which are arranged, chronologically, include his daily activities but also include reminiscences about his life and family history and musings on a variety of topics. There is one "Account Book and Memo Book" from 1902 to 1907 and one "Journal" which includes Farquhar's memories of his life (it includes no daily entries). His earlier diaries (1906-1911) were written while he was living in Washington; the later diaries were written while he was living in California. In his diaries Farquhar also talks about the attack on Pearl Harbor, World War II, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, his brother-in-law Rear Admiral William R. Furlong, the bombing of Hiroshima and Japan's surrender. Many of the volumes have loose clippings with them, the majority of which are obituaries for people Farquhar knew. The manuscripts include copies of several of his writings including '49, And what of the years?, and History of Livingston, California. These books deal with early California pioneer history, the Gold Rush, and the Chinese in California. There are also two manuscripts regarding the genealogy of the Burgess and Farquhar families. These manuscripts, which are arranged alphabetically by title, are all carbon copies with Farquhar's handwritten edits.

mssHM 71720-71742

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Brazil, the home for southerners: or, A practical account of what the author, and others, who visited that country, for the same objects, saw and did while in that empire

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440201

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Ulysses S. Grant account book :

Manuscripts

Accounts kept by Ulysses S. Grant while a cadet at West Point in a printed, leather-bound cadet account ledger. Columns are for Store Keeper, Taylor, Shoe Maker, Barber, Post Master, Damages U.S., Subscriptions, Cash, and Total Amount. Most ledger entries fill the Store Keeper column and list Grant's purchases and expenses for clothing, various supplies, books, and a subscription to the Philadelphia Saturday Courier. There are remarks by Grant's instructors, for example the entry dated July 1842 "The Balance due by Cadet Grant is too great to admit of any increase." Also included is a loose note titled "Memoranda for Mr. Childe" and signed Edward C. Boynton (3 pages) and two loose notes in pencil regarding "furlough clothing" issued "to Cadet Grant when he visited his home in 1841" and his "indebtedness" being "two great to allow him anything but the strictly necessary articles for daily use." End pages contain several signatures.

mssHM 975

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A Book of Verses, etc

Manuscripts

mssHM 43311

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Account book

Manuscripts

This ledger book, covered with corduroy and red leather, contains debit and payment records for the Guadalupe Mine from January 1914 through December 31, 1915. Entries are organized alphabetically by person or company with which the mine had an account or business dealings. Identified bills are for labor, equipment, and materials (livry, assay equipment, fuel, etc.), but most bills do not typically indicate the product or service.

mssHM 63656

Account book while serving on barque "Empire"

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