Manuscripts
W. F. M. Arny attests to official documents
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Arny, William F. M. Letterbook. General correspondence... Dec. 4, 1863-May 18, 1867
Manuscripts
The collection contains clippings, correspondence, manuscripts, documents, maps, and scrapbooks in both English and Spanish related to the history of early and territorial New Mexico collected by William G. Ritch. The very early portion of the collection (1539-1700) contains original manuscripts, contemporary copies, and later translations of official documents and journals of explorers, correspondence, papers of various governors, court records, church inventories, and passport lists of American traders. The papers for the years 1846-1873 cover the American military occupation, New Mexico politics and government, New Mexico during the US Civil War, and Indian affairs relating to the Navajo, Apache, Comanche, and Pecos tribes. Items after 1873 tend to be the personal papers of William G. Ritch, including biographical sketches of significant New Mexicans, drafts of articles, and notebooks of research materials (including the biography of Father Antonio Jose Martinez by Santiago Valdez).
mssRI 1-2270
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Leonard F. Ross papers
Manuscripts
This collection consists of four items relating to Leonard F. Ross' Civil War career, including two communications from Ulysses S. Grant. Grant's autograph letter signed dated 1861 December 4 (HM 69444) discusses confiscations from Missouri citizens and instructions for dealing with marauding Confederates; the contemporary copy of his 1862 October 5 letter (HM 69445) recaps a dispatch from General William S. Rosecrans detailing the movement of federal troops during the pursuit of Confederate General Earl Van Dorn's forces at Corinth, Chewalla and Ripley, Mississippi on 1862 October 3-4. Also present is a receipt from Henry P. Noble to Ross for a payment for a horse, 1863 April 28 (HM 69446), and an undated copy of "Foraging Parties Instructions," with Ross' note "Please read to the guards" (HM 69447).
mssHM 69444-69447
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Three drafts of poems by Elizabeth Jennings
Manuscripts
These two sheets of paper contain three poems: HM 75954 - "A Slight Shock" and "Four Seasons in a Mental Hospital," and HM 75955 - "A Slight Shock." The poems are in Jennings' hand and include edits. In some cases, entire lines are crossed out. The poems are not dated or signed.
mssHM 75954-75955
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Francis Thompson letters to Timothy Wolcott
Manuscripts
In the first of these two letters, Thompson informs Wolcott that he has arrived in Maine. The second is concerned with business and financial affairs, and Thompson writes "I think that my troubles are about over. And I doubt not but what you are as glad as my self." HM 19000 is dated 1857 (signed "Frank Thompson), July 18, and HM 19001 was written 1858, December 16.
mssHM 19000-19001
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W. H. Webber Chinese exclusion notebook
Manuscripts
This directory, compiled and used by immigration inspector W. H. Webber, is comprised of pasted-in clippings from San Francisco's Chinatown directories published by Horn Hong & Co., as well as handwritten lists by Webber, of residents living in Chinatown. The entries are dated by year and arranged by street name, though the entries are not in true chronological order. The earliest entries are dated 1883, the first year of enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and the last entries are dated 1916.
mssHM 84094
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A Complete Chronological Index of the Letters, Legal Documents, Speeches, Official Addresses, Messages, and State Papers, etc. of Abraham Lincoln from 1832-1865
Manuscripts
This collection contains four chronologically arranged volumes of both published and unpublished collected works from newspaper, legal files and records, private and public library sources. The collected works include, Nicolay & Hay, twelve volume, Gettysburg Edition of Lincoln's collected works, Ida M. Tarbell's Life of Lincoln, Gilbert A. Tracy's uncollected letters of Abraham Lincoln, Paul M. Angle's New Letters and Papers, Herndon-Weik collection, Lincoln collection of Brown University Library, files of Lincoln cases in the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Southern District of Illinois, and notebooks compiled by Emanuel Hertz (HM 79998 A-D). Also included are two volumes, the catalogue of Jesse W. Weik collection of Lincoln documents and manuscripts and catalogue of the Herndon-Weik Lincoln collection (HM 79999 A-B).
mssHM 79998-79999