Manuscripts

Griffith Evans journal

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Description: The journal that Evans kept during his travels to Fort Stanwix and Fort McIntosh. There are also some miscellaneous accounts, promissory notes, etc., dated April and May 1785.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1784, August 30-1785, November 13.
Call number: mssHM 608
Creator: Evans, Griffith (1760-1845)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from George D. Smith, 1915.
Associated people: Smith, George D. (1870-1920,)
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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.

mssHM 82735-82738

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Pocket diary of Thomas D. Evans

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Complete diary for the year 1864. The daily entries describe Evans' duties filing provision returns, drawing rations, supplies, and ammunitions, etc., gives accounts of camp life, the wounded and fallen in battles, Confederate prisoners, deserters, and guerillas, military operations, news (including a note about Santiago fire of Dec. 1863), and the recruitment in Pittsburgh, and follows Franz Siegel and David Hunter in Shenandoah Valley in the spring and summer of 1864. The accounts of the hospitals are rather sketchy, on the account of his wounded arm; Evans did mention a Christmas dinner and concert organized by Sanitary and Christian Commissions.

mssHM 68427

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Brock Collection: Papers of George Evans

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Personal financial and legal records and scattered correspondence of Dr. George Evans: bonds, bills, accounts, powers of attorney, receipts, and land surveys. There are also bills and receipts for purchases and sales of slaves, treatment of plantation slaves, and documents relating to several estates administered by Dr. Evans. Also included are letters from his agents regarding his bounty lands and letters relating to the debts of George Evans, Jr

mssBR Box 47

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Edward Mott military journal

Manuscripts

The military journal of Edward Mott of the expedition (1775, April 18-May 10) to Fort Ticonderoga, prepared for Christopher Leffingwell (1734-1810).

mssHM 2179

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A. J. Evans letters to George Washington Paschal

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Evans writes of the possible removal and re-nomination of "Mayor Purnell," among other details of Texas politics.

mssHM 29096

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Enoch Poor His Book 1759 : A Journal From Newbury to Saint John's

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Journal that Enoch Poor kept during his military service, including his accounts of three expeditions upstream in July and September 1759, the negotiations with the Acadians who had surrendered at the fort following the fall of Quebec, and soldiers' discontent over their pay.

mssHM 610

Griffith Evans journal

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