Manuscripts

Johnson family letters

Image not available

Description: Seven letters written by Sanford and Benjamin Johnson to family in Massachusetts and Maine. They were written from San Francisco, New Diggings, and Indian Flat, California
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1850-1854.
Call number: mssHM 59828-59834
Creator: Johnson Family(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Pacific Book Auction Galleries, sale 143, lot 8, September 18, 1997.
Associated people: Johnson, Benjamin.; Johnson, Sanford.

Reverdy Johnson letter to James W. Denver

Manuscripts

Letter written by Reverdy Johnson to General James W. Denver and sent from San Francisco. Johnson writes that he will not be able to attend a meeting for the "friends of Judge Douglas" due to previous engagements. He mentions that he recently gave a speech supporting Douglas in Boston and had distributed related pamphlets. He also notes that he was having the speech copied in several California newspapers. Includes envelope and typed transcription of the letter.

mssHM 79958

Image not available

Taber and Holmes family papers

Manuscripts

This small collection consists of 15 letters, one deed and 29 pieces of ephemera all related to the Taber and Holmes families. The letters were written from Meriden, New Hampshire; Middletown and Reisterstown, Maryland; Mummasburg, Pennsylvania; Gardiner, Maine; and Springfield, Kingston, and Boston, Massachusetts. Seven of the letters were written by Alfred Taber to his family members while he was away at school and traveling. Subjects include: the Civil War, Kimball Union Academy, Boston, and land in Maine.

mssHM 80779-80794

Image not available

Parish B. Johnson letters

Manuscripts

Group of three letters written to Parish B. Johnson by his wife, Lydia J. Johnson, and a friend named James A. Waters and sent from Portland, Oregon. Lydia Johnson's letters focus on personal news regarding family and acquaintances. Her 1868 letter notes that the Columbia River has frozen over and ice skating has become a popular pastime, while her 1886 letter mentions a friend's servant, who is "a splendid Chinaman but...he is striking for more wages." The 1868 letter from Waters focuses on his travel schedule, his well-wishes for Johnson's quick recovery from illness, and that he has not had time to visit "six or seven of our Blue Mountain friends in jail here" (possibly referring to the Blue Mountain Eagle, which was published in Grant County beginning in 1868). Each letter also includes an envelope.

mssHM 78054-78056

Image not available

Andrew Johnson, Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., appointment of Thomas Murphy, John B. Sanborn, Kit Carson, William W. Bent :

Manuscripts

Appointment of Kit Carson, William W. Bent, Brigadier General J.B. (John Benjamin) Sanborn, and Superintendent for Indian Affairs for the Central Superintendency Thomas Murphy as "Commissioners to negotiate a treaty or treaties, under instructions of the Secretary of Interior, with the Comanche, Kiowa, Arrapahoe [Arapaho] and Apache Indians, who have agreed to meet at Bluff Creek below the mouth of the Little Arkansas River, on the fourth day of October next, to enter into a treaty of peace with the United States." Signed by Andrew Johnson.

mssHM 13238

Image not available

Hurlbert Family Papers

Manuscripts

The collection is chiefly made up of correspondence written by various members of the Hurlbert and Chenowith families to Andrew J. Hurlbert, his wife Mary Chenowith Hurlbert, and their daughter Ida May Hurlbert; there is one letter by Mary Hurlbert and five by Andrew J. Hurlbert. The Hurlbert family lived in Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire; their letters deal with family matters and their day-to-day activities. The Chenowith family lived throughout the American southwest including Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado and Texas; their letters deal with farm life, descriptions of the Southwest, financial problems, family matters, fears of Indian attacks, the movements of Victorio and the Mimbreño Indians, murders in town, mining in New Mexico, and a shoot-out over a ranch property where a bullet grazed the head of Rachel Chenowith (Mary Hurlbert's mother). There are also 24 pieces of ephemera including receipts, miscellaneous envelopes, invitations, and miscellaneous notes.

mssHM 65102-65241

Image not available

Charles S. Johnson letter to D.T. Johnson

Manuscripts

In this letter to his brother, Charles S. Johnson writes from a Chinese camp of local legislation and politics.

mssHM 16519

Johnson family letters

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

Reverdy Johnson letter to James W. Denver

Taber and Holmes family papers

Parish B. Johnson letters

Andrew Johnson, Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., appointment of Thomas Murphy, John B. Sanborn, Kit Carson, William W. Bent :

Hurlbert Family Papers

Charles S. Johnson letter to D.T. Johnson