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Horatio Nelson papers
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Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson letter
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L.S. from Horatio Nelson to the Prinicipal Officers & Commissioners of His Majestys Navy regarding wages due various sailors. The letter was written by a secretary and only signed by Nelson; written aboard the H.M.S. Boreas at the Nore.
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Donald M. Nelson papers
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Personal and professional papers of Donald Marr Nelson. Included are papers and records of Sears, Roebuck, and Company, Spiegel, Inc., the War Production Board, and addresses, lectures, remarks, speeches, radio addresses, etc. by Donald M. Nelson. Also included is a manuscript of Nelson's book Arsenal of Democracy.
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Horatio Nelson Rust papers, (bulk 1870-1906)
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A collection of 1,229 items from 1799 to 1906, it consists of letters, manuscripts, volumes, diaries, scrapbooks, and ephemera related to the life and work of Horatio Nelson Rust. Subject matter includes: Indian culture in the Southwest; horticulture in Southern California; and the Freedmen's Bureau; there is also material regarding abolitionist John Brown and his family. Correspondents represented in the collection include: Franklin George Adams, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Thomas Robert Bard, George Amos Dorsey, Edward Dwight Eaton, Thomas Featherstonhaugh, Jessie Benton Frémont, John Charles Frémont, John Watson Foster, Horace Greeley, Richard Josiah Hinton, Edward Hitchcock, Frederick Webb Hodge, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Henry Holmes, Helen Hunt Jackson, A.L. Kroeber, Charles Fletcher Lummis, Otis Tufton Mason, John Muir, Frederick Ward Putnam, James Redpath, Alexander Milton Ross, F.B. Sanborn, Carl Schulz, Edward Parmelee Smith, Frederick Starr, and Henry A. Ward.
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Horatio Alger papers
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The majority of the collection pertains to Joseph P. Loeb (1883-1974) and his attempts as an amateur book collector to procure editions of Horatio Alger's work. There are various letters to book dealers and collectors and numerous notecards on the provenance of individual Alger items. The collection contains around ninety letters written by Alger, the vast majority of which went to his friend, Irving Blake. Other addressees include Ernest Burks, Payson Smith, and William N. Washburn. Alger's correspondence addresses literary topics, his position with the New York tribune, and health and family matters. The collection also contains one manuscript poem by Alger: "Strive and Succeed! The world's temptations flee."
mssHM 32600-32688
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Horatio Nelson Rust letter to Major William S. Beebe
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In this letter, written from Colton, California, Rust is answering a letter he received from Major William S. Beebe regarding archaeological tablets. Rust states that he had casts of several tablets including the Davenport tablets, which were found during an archaeological excavation by Reverend Jacob Gass in 1867 in a mound near Davenport, Iowa. (These tablets were later found to be fakes.) Rust also states that he published a paper with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, giving his interpretation of the tablets that he got from the "Old Mandan and other Old Dakotas." The letter is written on United States Indian Service letterhead.
mssHM 69391
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Horatio Nelson Nelson, 3rd Earl of Nelson
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The majority of the correspondence is addressed to Oliver Bainbridge (there are a few letters not addressed to him and there are only two letters written by Bainbridge). The authors of the correspondence are mostly British royalty, diplomats and administrators in India and Australia, as well as American, British, Australian and Canadian clergy, writers and politicians. Issues addressed within the correspondence include the life and career of Oliver Bainbridge and 20th century politics and government within Great Britain, India, Canada, and Australia. Correspondents include Sir George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood, Sir Henry Arthur Blake, Sir William Martin Conway, Sir Almeric William Fitz Roy, Sir Henry Knollys, Reginald Brabazon, the 12th Earl of Meath, Olʹga Alekseevna Novikova, Sir George Houstoun Reid, Horatio Nelson Nelson, and Ellis Rowan.
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