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Barbara Evans letter to Thurman Wilkins
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Herbert McLean Evans letters to Bern Dibner
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Three letters written by Herbert McLean to Bern Dibner. In one letter, dated 1954, November 24, Evans proposes that Dibner print a catalogue of 289 works that Evans and his colleagues at the University of California-Berkeley Institute of Experimental Biology have deemed "the chief works or classics in the history of science." In a letter dated 1955, June 18, Evans mentions a shipment of Burndy Library duplicates. An undated letter is a social invitation to Dibner. Also included is a photograph of Bern Dibner and Herbert Evans, taken at Evans's home and dated November, 1952; the photograph includes a handwritten caption by Evans on verso dated 1952, November 16.
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John Milton Hay letter to James D. Hague
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In this letter, Hay is thanking Hague for sending him proofs from the biography of the geologist Clarence King entitled Clarence King memoirs: The helmet of Mambrino. The King Memorial Committee of the Century Association, of which James D. Hague was a member, published the biography in 1904. Although Hay returned the proofs to Hague, they are not with the letter.
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Sir Francis Henry Evans letter to Isaac Sherman
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This letter concerns the American presidential election of 1876 and the implications for the United States in the international bond market of Samuel J. Tilden's presumed victory in that election. Evans writes, "I trust Mr. Tilden will feel advisability of still further reducing the interest on the govt loans there is no reason why more than 4% should be paid - if the proper means were taken to please the public and meet this requirement." Although Democratic Party candidate Tilden eventually lost the Electoral College vote to his Republican opponent, Rutherford B. Hayes, that decision had not yet been made at the time of this letter. Also referenced is the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway: "...high dividends in time of bad trade are generally ominous and the P + R seem fairly to have rushed to destruction."
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Daniel M. Evans letter to editors of the People's Advocate
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In this letter, Daniel M. Evans, who was a journalist in London, England before moving to Stockton, California in 1879, is offering his services as a journalist to the Stockton weekly newspaper People's Advocate. The newspaper had just published its first issue and Evans liked it so much that he wanted to work for them.
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Sir Murland de Grasse Evans letters to Sir Francis Henry Evans
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The set consists of seven letters sent from Murland de Grasse Evans to his father while he was traveling throughout the United States in 1899, and one letter to shipping company president Bernard Baker in Baltimore in 1900. In the letters Evans describes his travels through Oregon, Washington, Quebec, Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Colorado. He occasionally writes of the steamship business, noting that he was being looked after by "local bigwigs" and had received a large number of invitations to social functions. In an April 15 letter sent from Chicago he also discussed local dissatisfaction with the management of ships in London, growing steamboat markets in the southern United States, and of a pending Steamship Subsidy Bill before Congress. Most of his letters are devoted to describing the cities he visits and his observations about the American way of life. He praises transportation around the Great Lakes as the "secret of their thriving & growing industry," and after a stay in Detroit marvels that American cities "are so utterly unlike anything I have seen before - Large open avenues asphalted, lit by immense electric lights...it makes one feel as though our ordinary street lamps...were relics of the Middle Ages!" In the same letter he describes the "pulse of intrepid & ceaseless energy that beats in the hearts of this young American life," and that while many of the people he encountered made him "shudder at their frightful want of good breeding & good manners," they provided a "powerful stimulant" to those used to a more rigid class structure. "Here you are nobody no matter what your name is, and yet you are at the same time everybody," he concluded (Nov.4, 1899). He was not impressed by Chicago, which he believed was filled with corrupt government and police officials and "ruffians" with revolvers, and he summed up his experience there by writing that he had "never felt so unsafe anywhere" before (Nov.25, 1899). Other letters describe the scenery of Puget Sound, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Colorado; Evans's first experience in an American sleeping car while traveling to Quebec (he lamented of the lake of privacy and the fact that "we are all treated...like schoolboys by the conductor!"); compare gold mines in Colorado to those he had seen in South Africa; and touch briefly on his observations of the Boer War of 1899-1902. In the letter to Baker, who was president of the Atlantic Transport Company, Evans writes from Oregon that after traveling through the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia he has found a "promising attitude of these newer markets...and of the good openings for a steamship enterprise in the Pacific Ocean." He writes of establishing Portland as a major port for ships going to the Alaskan gold rush, as well as for more expanded trade in China, Japan, and Russia (Jan.12, 1900).
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William S. Kenyon letter to Smith Wildman Brookhart
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This letter, written in Fort Dodge, Iowa on United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit letterhead finds Kenyon glad that Brookhart takes a bold position on public questions. He writes that there is a movement across the country to end primary elections and that progressives better be aware. He notes that Secretary or War, John W. Weeks spoke out against the primary as he was defeated in a primary election for Senator in a Republican state. by a wide margin. He further writes that Brookhart's nomination shook things up among the "old crowd." He relates that he is glad that he resigned from the senate as it gave opportunity for people to express themselves. His prediction is that Brookhart will win by a large majority.
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