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David Turner letter to John A. Rockwell

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Description: David Turner is heading west from Connecticut to settle in California, and asks for Rockwell's expertise regarding California, such as any information, maps or documents, that might be of use to him concerning his move.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1848, December 20.
Call number: mssHM 4156
Creator: Turner, David(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: In library, date unknown.
Dimensions: 26 cm :
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Benjamin J. Edson letter to Josiah [Edson]

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Letter from Benjamin J. Edson in Genoa, Nevada, to Josiah (probably his brother Josiah Edson) regarding mining claims in Nevada. Edson writes of a letter he sent to Robert Moir, and of Josiah asks that "I would like to hear from you...as to prospects, even although a longer delay might be necessary to perfect any project that might be thought of."

mssHM 16527

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David P. McCafferty letter to Alexander Pogo, 1893-

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In this letter dated August 14, 1966, Florida Bible College student, David P. McCafferty asks Alexander Pogo about a verse in Job 26: 7. He inquires, "I would like to know if there has ever been any place in the north as being empty. Some secular College students will say "where is north"? It seems they just want to argue with everything a Bible College student has to say."

mssHM 83615

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Saxon Sydney-Turner letters to Clive Bell

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A collection of letters from Saxon Sydney-Turner to fellow Bloomsbury friend Clive Bell. The letters discuss mutual friends, including Thoby Stephen, plays, symphonies, their co-authored book Euphrosyne, and other personal matters. The collection also includes one drawing and several poems by Sydney-Turner.

mssHM 57632-57679

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Saxon Sydney-Turner letters to Clive Bell

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mssHM 57632-57679

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Frederick Jackson Turner letter to George Frederick Howe

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In this letter, written by Turner to a former student and historian George Frederick Howe, Turner is answering some questions Howe had for him regarding another fellow student of Turner's, historian and author Theodore Clark Smith, President James A. Garfield and financier Wharton Barker. Howe may have been writing an article about President Garfield. Theodore Clark Smith published a biography of President Garfield in 1924; George Frederick Howe published a biography of President Chester A. Arthur in 1934.

mssHM 75107

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David S. Jordan letter to the Editor of the Independent

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In this letter to a newspaper editor, David S. Jordan notes that a manuscript "A continuing city" had not been published yet as that it was published in a larger work, "Imperial democracy" to be released by Appleton & Co. on June 18th of that year. He offers some other essays that may be of use as the publication of the larger volume might affect the arrangement they made.

mssHM 31258

David Turner letter to John A. Rockwell

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