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William Selwyn letter to Sir William Maynard Gomm
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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This letter was written by George H. Darwin to the English jurist Frederick Pollack. The letter is simply dated "Tuesday;" the cataloger obtained the date from the postmark on the envelope.The letter reads as follows: "I enclose a cheque for £10 from my Father, and one of £5 from myself. My Father says he will be glad to increase his subscription if necessary, + I shall be proud to help so worthy a subscription by another £5 if there is any kind of need of it - So will you let me know how the total gets on. Yours G. H. Darwin." The letter was written from Beckenham, London, England.
mssHM 80279
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In this short letter, John A. Logan states to G. A. Bingham: "...it will be impossible for me to accept your invitation owing to other engagements." The letter was written from Chicago. It is accompanied by an engraving of John A. Logan.
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William Lawrence Austin wrote this letter to his father, Joseph Burn Austin, in the midst of the Leadville silver boom. Leadville had been founded only two years earlier, but not all is well. Lawrie writes to his father in South America from a smelting works in Leadville, Colorado, seeking financial help. "My dear Papa, Can't you borrow the money to keep Cecil at Yale under a guarantee from me to pay it back with interest? It is really too bad for me to be taking all these chances...I am overworked, under paid, & tied up in such a way, than a human being can't be expected to stand it." One of his co-workers, Abarci, left some time ago and two more are going to leave the smelting works soon. He suggests, "Now I'll give you the boys' plan & you can see what a temptation it is to me. They intend to start an assay office up town, then add on a store, to consist of simply miner supplies, then do a general professional business besides. We will be working for ourselves..." He is confident that "...we will make the strongest team in the country." Lawrie is in despair because he must endure the dangers of the smelting works and shortchange his own future by attending to his brother's needs first, a brother who spends his time reading novels and his money on "pleasure seeking." He states, "You don't know how interesting life has been becoming for me, & I must stay in the poisonous fumes of furnaces, & give up every thing...I have to look far enough into the future, anyhow, in order to see a blue sky, but to think that I must give up my Leadville, & start again at some future day, possibly in some camp, & certainly without one cent to back me is very hard Papa." He concludes, "You must pay some attention to my case, as well at Cecil's. You could not keep one man in a hundred as you are keeping me, & there will be a final blow up, if you keep on, & that I want to avoid if possible." The letter is simply signed "Lawrie."
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Letter by Thomson to fellow British physicist Gilbert Stead. The letter reads as follows "Dear Mr. Stead, It was a very great pleasure to me to receive your letter for I remember very well how much I owed to your help during the time I was on the Commission. I hope it will not be long before we meet again. Yours very sincerely, J. J. Thomson." The letter was written in Cambridge.
mssHM 80254
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Poem in 166 lines. Endorsed by Swift: "Vindication of Sir T.P. sent me in an unknown hand. May 25 1736. By Dunkin I am sure."
HM 14364.
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Certificiate written and signed by Sir William Johnson to Kewaykishgum (sometimes spelled Quieouigoushkam or Kewigushum) reading "Whereas I have received from the officers Commanding the out posts as well as from other persons an account of your Good behaviour last year in protecting the officers, soldiers &c. of the Garrison of - Michilimackinac - and in Escorting them down to Montreal, as also the Effects of the Traders to a large amount and you having likewise entered into the strongest engagements of Friendship with the English, before me at this place - I, Do therefore give you this Testimony of my Esteem fo your Services and Good behaviour. Given Under my hand and sea At Arms At Niagara the first day of August 1764."
mssHM 3044