Manuscripts

Lou H. Blackmer letter to Julia E. Smith

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Description: Autograph letter written by Lou H. Blackmer to Julia E. Smith, 13 August 1877, in National City, California. In part: "...I love and honor you for the brave stand you have taken. Do you not sometimes weary in the conflict for rights that are ours? I do and not only weary, but become thorougly heartsick at the injustice heaped upon our sex. My husband is a firm woman suffragist, which gives me strength..."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1877, August 13.
Call number: mssHM 58200
Creator: Blackmer, Lou H(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Pacific Book Auction Galleries, October 1998.

William H. Taft, Hot Springs, Virginia, letter to Hamilton Holt, New York :

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Taft writes to the managing editor of The Independent magazine that he would like to assist Holt but is not able to do anything until August, asks him to write again later in the month. Taft states that "The Independent has been very good to me and has supported me, especially with respect to the colored disaffection, and I am anxious to respond if I can, but you know human energy has its limitations."

mssHM 23528

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Joseph Lane letter to Joseph S. Ruckel

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Lane writes to Joseph Ruckel regarding the acquisition of a patent for Ruckel. However, as Ruckel did not fill out his name properly on land warrant forms, Lane writes "if I do not succeed, you will know the fault is not mine." Includes printed clipping with a biography of Joseph Lane, with the handwritten date "1987."

mssHM 29248

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Kimball Hale Dimmick letter to Sarah Dimmick

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In this letter to his wife Sarah, Kimball Dimmick is distraught at not getting any word from her. He is poised to quit his California business "at a sacrifice" and return home, for he is quite vexed, thinking that something might be wrong at home. He closes: "I have been in good health but not in good spirits, and do not expect to be until I hear from you." He also mentions he has been chosen to be president of the convention, the only position he is retaining as he prepares to return home. Dated 1849, August 31 and September 1.

mssHM 4013

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Cyrus Townsend Brady letter to James Carleton Young

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Transcription: "Dear James: Did I return you the copy, On the old Kearsarge you sent me to sign or not? I have been worrying since I am not sure about this matter. Pls. Joy. Yours Sincerely, Cyrus Townsend Brady. Mr. Jas Carleton Young --"

mssHM 29221

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S. P. (Samuel Pierpont) Langley letter to Henry S. Mackintosh

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This letter was written by Langley to Henry S. Mackintosh, an American teacher and author. It is on Smithsonian Institution letterhead. The letter reads as follows: "I am very glad to see your hand again, and perhaps I can best answer your inquiry by enclosing you a copy of a report from the Administrative Assistant in the National Museum, in reference to the feathered cloak. If you wish anything more done through the Museum, let me know, though I rather think you would do quite as well with private parties. Very sincerely yours, S. P. Langley."

mssHM 80278

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Ann Renaudet Chevalier letter to Charles Willson Peale

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This autograph letter signed is addressed to Mr. Peale at the Museum (Peale retired from the museum in 1810, this letter may be for him or one of his sons who replaced him). Chevalier writes, "Sir, Please to receive in your Museum a little pensionnary that came last night to take refuge in the house where I live: It is a screetch-owl of the smallest and beautiful kind, I had always been told that such birds were ominous creatures; but the contrary I now find in the opportunity this offers me, by presenting you with it, to do something with that perhaps may prove agreeable to you. I am with respect, Anne Renaudet Chevalier."

mssHM 83617

Lou H. Blackmer letter to Julia E. Smith

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