Manuscripts

W. F. M. Arny attests to official documents

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Description: These two manuscripts are Arny's written attests certifying the legal validity of documents related to two matters in New Mexico. The documents themselves are not included with either. HM 4009 concerns a territorial warrant for Miguel E. Pino, and is dated January 27, 1865, and HM 4010 is dated February 7, 1865, but the related documents are not described beyond "the foregoing."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1865.
Call number: mssHM 4009-4010
Creator: Arny, W. F. M (1813-1881)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: In library, date unknown.

Arny, William F. M. Letterbook. General correspondence

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).

RI 2216

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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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Leonard F. Ross papers

Manuscripts

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

W. F. M. Arny attests to official documents

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