Manuscripts

Gilbert Parker letters to William Carey

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Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1892-1899.
Call number: mssHM 44533-44547
Creator: Parker, Gilbert (1862-1932)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from William K. Bixby, 1918.
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William H. Gilbert diaries

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William H. Gilbert's United States Christian Commission diaries covering the periods from May 24 to July 4, 1864 (HM 82594), October 20 to December 17, 1864 (HM 82595), and January 24 to October 19, 1865 (HM 82596). The notebooks contain notes that Gilbert made in the process of discharging his duties with the U. S. Christian Commission. The last notebook also contains notes for the final report that Gilbert was required to submit at the end of his commission, a list of "letters written," expenses, memorandum of the members of 1841 graduating class, and a tally of collections for the Bible Society. Gilbert's notes describe hospitals, barracks, camps, and schools in Washington, D.C., Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina, including contraband camps and "colored" schools; prayer meetings, funerals, temperance meetings, and sermons, conversations with soldiers, officers, hospital chaplains, surgeons, Confederate prisoners, civilians, ministers, fellow agents, contrabands (fugitive slaves), notes for letters written on behalf of wounded soldiers; copies of Gilbert's letters to the U. S. Christian Commission members and fellow agents, records of books, clothes, and foodstuffs distributed and needed; expenses, etc.

mssHM 82594-82596

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Gilbert Burnet letter to Edward Welchman

Manuscripts

With address and seal of letter to Thoresby.

mssHM 7395

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Sir John Gilbert letter to Frederic Shields

Manuscripts

mssHM 63267

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An adventurer of the North : ǂb being a continuation of the histories of "Pierre and his people," and the latest existing records of Pretty Pierre / ǂc by Gilbert Parker

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12897

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Samuel Augustus Gilbert letters

Manuscripts

The letters, which Gilbert wrote to his sisters, span fourteen years and cover his various travels and work throughout Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia, and more specifically Cape Cod, Charleston, Galveston, Matagorda, Corpus Christi, and Mount Vernon. The first eleven letters discuss briefly Gilbert's work with the U.S. Coast Survey and Alexander Dallas Bache, but are mainly personal in nature with discussions of his family and friends. The two Civil War era letters are written from Camp Platt, W.V., and Mount Vernon, Va.; in these letters he discusses troop movements, his experiences with the people of the south, and his opinion of the war, the "rebs," and "Father Abraham."

mssHM 66182-66194

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Mathew Carey letter to William Young

Manuscripts

mssHM 7241

Gilbert Parker letters to William Carey

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