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Grace Aquilar letter to Robert Anderson
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Grace R. Simmons diaries
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Grace R. Simmons lived on a farm in the Pasadena, California area with her husband John L. Simmons and son Edward. Grace Simmons was the granddaughter of abolitionist John Brown, through her mother Ruth Brown Thompson. The collection includes 21 diaries written by Grace Simmons, describing her life and activities.
mssHM 31174
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Lady Grace Revere Osler letter to Dr. C.N.B. Camac
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This letter from Lady Grace Revere Osler, wife of Dr. William Osler, to Dr. Charles Nicoll Bancker Camac, who was a student of Dr. Osler, describes receiving a copy of Camac's "Counsels and Ideals from the Writings of William Osler" as well as Osler's recent travels and purchase of a house in Oxford. On letterhead "7 Norham Gardens, Oxford."
mssHM 84492
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William H. Anderson letter to Frances Anderson
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Letter from William H. Anderson to his daughter Frances, written from the "southern part" of New Mexico near Rincon. In the letter Anderson describes his travels from Boston to New Mexico by railroad. The letter was intended as a geography lesson for his daughter and Anderson carefully traces his progress through Buffalo, Detroit, down the Mississippi River to St. Louis, through Missouri and Kansas, and finally through Colorado to New Mexico. Anderson includes a slightly more detailed description of Kansas City, Missouri, where he rode in a cable street car. In addition to tracking his geographical progress Anderson writes of difficulties encountered with cattle on the railroad tracks.
mssHM 74757