Manuscripts

Margaret Deland correspondence

Description: The collection is comprised solely of correspondence, the vast majority of which was written by Margaret Deland to her first cousin, Madeleine Romaine Wade Poindexter. The only other author represented in the collection is American writer Alice Wellington Rollins (1847-1897) who also wrote letters to Poindexter. Issues discussed within the correspondence include nineteenth century authors and their works, the status of women in religious life, female suffrage and women's rights, United States politics and government, and Deland's personal life.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1890-1928
Call number: mssHM 41267-41382
Creator: Deland, Margaret (1857-1945)(Opens in new tab)

1916-1928

Manuscripts

The collection is comprised solely of correspondence, the vast majority of which was written by Margaret Deland to her first cousin, Madeleine Romaine Wade Poindexter. The only other author represented in the collection is American writer Alice Wellington Rollins (1847-1897) who also wrote letters to Poindexter. Issues discussed within the correspondence include nineteenth century authors and their works, the status of women in religious life, female suffrage and women's rights, United States politics and government, and Deland's personal life.

mssHM 41267-41382

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1890-1915

Manuscripts

mssHM 41267-41382

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Charles L. Moore correspondence

Manuscripts

These letters by Charles L. Moore, which were written to his cousin Edmund H. Tindall in Illinois, include details about Moore's life on a farm in Compton, California. He talks about the weather, his family's crops, gold miners in Mammoth, and his personal life and social activities. Two of the letters were written by Moore's sister Jennie.

mssHM 68395-68405

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Sidney Dillon letter to Edward Henry Rollins

Manuscripts

The letter is in the handwriting of Jay Gould (1836-1892), and is followed by a note from Gould to Rollins

mssHM 53641

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William Stanton correspondence, (bulk 1841-1871)

Manuscripts

Personal and political correspondence of William Stanton, chiefly letters addressed to him. Correspondents include Benjamin Stanton, Edwin McMasters Stanton, Benjamin Franklin Wade, Edwin Lamson Stanton, Rutherford Hayes, and others. There are also a few pieces of correspondence between Benjamin Stanton and other family members, and a small group of letters of Brian Hellen, a Quaker of Beaufort, (N.C.), discussing a dispute over family inheritance, which included enslaved persons.

mssHM 37001-37046

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Margaret Jane Cooper diary

Manuscripts

Cooper's diary begins January 1, 1862 while she was living in Pennsylvania. In March 1862, her husband Adam left for the mining town Lincoln City, Colorado. In 1863, she joined him in Colorado. She talks about Denver and mining some. She specifically talks about Indians possibly attacking Denver and martial law being enacted in February 1865. In 1867, she talks about her family's trip back to Pennsylvania (although it seems they later returned to Colorado). She also talks about Lincoln's assassination and funeral. Throughout the whole diary she talks chiefly about her personal life: visits with family and friends; the weather; church going; etc. The diary ends in April 1873. With the diary are six loose pages of writing by Cooper. These include information about her family and some diary entries. There is also a program for "Centennial Federal Reception" in 1876 as well as a letter by J. F. Lewis, MD, to Adam Cooper, also from 1876.

mssHM 80588

Margaret Deland correspondence

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