Manuscripts
R.H. Horne correspondence
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Dame family correspondence
Manuscripts
This small group consists of eight letters from members of the Dame family, including Jeremiah Dame and William Horne Dame (1819-1884). Some of the subjects covered are William's missionary trip to England and his father's concern for him and his wife as they travel to Salt Lake City, Utah. The remaining ten pieces are legal documents and a patriarchal blessing of William Horne Dame (1819-1884) from William Smith. Also included are copies of the letters and the patriarchal blessing.
mssHM 65613-65630
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Daniel Horn papers
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Letters from Daniel Horn to his wife Geles posted in various places in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Georgia. Also, letters of Horn's comrades and the regimental chaplain informing Geles Horn of the death of her husband. The letters discuss camp life, payments, Horn's concern over his family back in Ohio, war news, the Union commanders, including Ulysses S. Grant, and his fellow Confederate soldiers. He also writes about several military operations including Fort Donelson, the siege of Vicksburg, Morgan's Ohio raid, and operations near Atlanta and Marietta, Georgia.
mssHM 49539-49610
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R.H. Gerard letters to Edward L. Gerard
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Series of letters written by R.H. Gerard from Galena, Dakota Territory, to his brother Edward L. Gerard in Suffolk County, New York. In the letters Gerard writes of trying to find various fossils and minerals (mainly quartz, particularly agate) to send back to Edward. He writes specifically of fossils and minerals in Deadwood and the Black Hills, as well as those bought and sold to a man named Charley Jones. Gerard also writes of difficulties caused by the Sioux Reservation (he writes of the Sioux that "there is a sentiment in the East that would make millionaires out of them at the expense of the whites, which I think is cutting it a little too far"), of railroads constructed in the Black Hills area ("it does not seem to increase the prosperity of this country...it was never so dull a place as it is right now"), and of a possible explosion of one of the railroad lines. Gerard also mentions the Orofino Gold Mine and Harvey Tin Company.
mssHM 74566-74575
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Charles Dickens letter to Sir James Murray
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An autograph letter written while Charles Dickens lived in Italy; the letter is written to the Irish physician Sir James Murray and concerns the illness of Dickens' youngest surviving daughter, Catherine (Kate) Dickens Perugini. Also included is a trimmed page with the address of Sir James Murray and a black and white engraving of Charles Dickens. The items were originally framed behind glass but were removed by Huntington Library staff.
mssHM 75953
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Walter Van Horn letter to "dear wife,"
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In this letter to his wife, Walter Van Horn acknowledges receipt of her last letter, and comments on the domestic details therein. He expects to return home from the war in the following spring or summer, and includes other details of his war experiences, including learning "from good authority" that Mexico will soon accept the terms proposed by the United States.
mssHM 27994
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Eaton Family correspondence
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This group of fifteen letters is made up largely of correspondence between Amos Beebe Eaton (1806-1877) and his wife and son, Elizabeth Selden Eaton and Daniel Cady Eaton (1834-1895). Amos Beebe Eaton is in Northern California during this time, and his son Daniel is a student at Yale collecting botanical samples. The letters document the family's sentiments about their separation but also describe a student's life in New Haven, CT, and a soldier's life in Northern California during the mid-nineteenth century. There is also one letter to Daniel Cady Eaton (1834-1895) from an uncle of the same name, a brother of Amos Beebe Eaton
mssHM 60678-60692