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John Vanbrugh letter to Jacob Tonson
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John S. Hager letter to Benjamin W. Austin
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Hager thanks Austin for his recent election as an honorary member to the North Western Literary & Historical Society.
mssHM 21334
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John Charles Frémont letter to Jacob Rink Snyder
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In this letter to Major Snyder, stationed in San Francisco, Frémont gives his thanks for Snyder's accomodations regarding "the copies of the portrait," and his condolences for the death of President Zachary Taylor, which he considers a "public calamity."
mssHM 48974
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John Quincy Adams, The Hague, letter to Jean Luzac :
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Regarding the recent U.S. presidential election of 1796; is sending a copy of President Washington's recent speech to Congress. Discusses the seizing of American ships by the French Directory.
mssHM 22839
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John Burroughs letter to John W. Childs
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In this letter, written while Burroughs was on the S. S. Mongolia, he discusses his recent trip to California where he visited Riverside, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and Yosemite, where he was given a tour by John Muir. The letter is signed "John Burroughs," but text is in the hand of Dr. Clara Barrus; the envelope is postmarked Honolulu, Hawaii, May 11, 1909. The letter is addressed to John W. Childs of Floral Park, Long Island, New York.
mssHM 82577
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John B. Williams letter to Ogden Hoffman
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Williams relates that "we are all in a state of excitement here, as everything depends on Grant's success." He also writes of a recent bill that is to rearrange the judicial districts of California, and of the effort to repeal the Act of 1860, which would transfer survey cases to the Land offices.
mssHM 19020
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Maria Anne Fitzherbert letter to W. Jutsham concerning Captain John Willett Payne
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This letter to a W. Jutsham of 6 Milson Street, Bath, postmarked July 1795, thanks him for his welcome news of the recovery from illness and restoration to better health of "Captain Payne" (later Rear Admiral John Willett Payne, 1752-1803), the British naval officer responsible for bringing Caroline of Brunswick to England for her disastrous marriage to the Prince of Wales.
mssHM 73721