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A proclamation
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William Irwin letter to John B. Lillard
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Irwin confirms receipt of Lillard's recent letter. On letterhead of the State of California Executive Department. With a newspaper clipping of portrait of Irwin.
mssHM 21320
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M. Brown letter to "My Dear Sir,"
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This letter, written from Valparaiso, Chile is dated March 7, 1849. M. Brown wrote it on board the USS Independence to a former shipmate aboard the USS Ohio stationed in San Francisco Bay. In the letter, Brown discusses difficulties in Chile, life aboard Commodore Shubrick's vessel, naval politics and news from the rest of the fleet in the Pacific.
mssHM 81273
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Valentín Gómez Farías letter to Juan Bautista Alvarado
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Farías discusses the political situation in California, stating that the independence and liberty of the people of California deserve the government's strict attention.
mssHM 26651
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J. H. Settlemier & Son letters
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The letters are written by Will S. Fawcett of the Quaker Colony Nurseries in Whittier, California, and James A. Anderson a nurseryman from Lodi, California. The letters discuss prices for trees and supplies and the fear that business will suffer due to bad weather.
mssHM 68323-68324
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William H. Taft, Hot Springs, Virginia, letter to Hamilton Holt, New York :
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Taft writes to the managing editor of The Independent magazine that he would like to assist Holt but is not able to do anything until August, asks him to write again later in the month. Taft states that "The Independent has been very good to me and has supported me, especially with respect to the colored disaffection, and I am anxious to respond if I can, but you know human energy has its limitations."
mssHM 23528
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Regimental returns of the 8th Massachusetts Regiment of the Continental Army, with additions and emendations by Gardner Tufts, (bulk 1779-1781)
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The regimental returns of the personnel of the 8th Massachusetts regiment kept by Francis Tufts, the adjutant to Colonel Michael Jackson (1734-1801), for the period from 1778 September 3- December 18, when the men were stationed in the Hudson Valley. After the war, Gardner Tufts and possibly other family members (it is written in a variety of hands) filled the added leaves with different material including: a brief narrative of Francis Tufts' military service; copies of orders taken from other regimental order books (including some by George Washington); moral, patriotic and religious essays, reflections, poetry, diagrams, and speeches; and sketches of family homes. Also includes tipped in lithographic portraits of Christopher Columbus, Charles Carroll (last living signer of the Declaration of Independence), George Washington, John Warren (physician and brother of Joseph Warren, hero of Bunker Hill), Marquis de Lafayette, John Adams, Edward Augustus Holyoke (Massachusetts physician and educator), and President William Henry Harrison. Volume also contains several, smaller manuscript items laid in. Front cover is detached; some signs of foxing and water damage.
mssHM 84015