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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Contains family letters written from Massachusetts, Ohio, Alabama, Tennessee, Illinois, Nebraska, and California. A number of these letters are photocopies. Also included is a typed summary and outline of Curtis family letters (1984).
mssHM 50671-50759
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Contains family letters written from Arizona Territory, California, and Idaho. Also included is a small amount of ephemera.
mssHM 50671-50759
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Miscellaneous letters and correspondence of Samuel Ryan Curtis, chiefly letters addressed to him, documenting his political, and military career. The collection includes: letters and newspapers clippings related to 1860 presidential elections and Curtis' own campaign, including the tallies for various Iowa counties; correspondence related to his removal from the Dept. of Missouri in 1863, including a lengthy letter from Jacob Brinkerhoff to his brother Henry B. Curtis, describing his meeting with Abraham Lincoln regarding the case (1863, Nov. 11), and letters to Curtis from his friends and colleagues.
mssHM 66420-66484
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A.L.S. from Casson to his parents Curtis and Mary (Peacock) Casson; written from Ackworth School in Yorkshire, the letter describes his life at school and relates news of the other students.
mssHM 82937
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Personal correspondence of Samuel Ryan Curtis, chiefly his letters to his brother Henry Barnes Curtis (1799-1885), a prominent Ohio lawyer. Included are: a 1828 letter from West Point, discussing the cadet life and national politics (including the presidential elections); letters recounting Curtis' service in the Mexican War (1846, July - 1847, Nov.), his political and professional activities in 1849 and 1857, the Civil War (including the battle of Pea Ridge), and post-war service
mssCU 1-83
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In 1860, William Carroll traveled from Oswego Co., N.Y. to California where he taught school and was engaged in a "medical business." D. Carroll served with a New York regiment and worked at the defenses of Fort Merriam, near City Point, Va. in 1864-1865. His daughter Clarissa married Gates Saxton, a New York farmer, in 1864
mssHM 19802-19813, HM 27863-27911