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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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Edward Mott military journal

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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

Obadiah Harris journal, 1758 May 22-October 23

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A regimental journal kept by Obadiah Harris. The journal covers James Abercromby’s 1758 campaign, including the Battle of Ticonderoga (July 6, 1758) and its aftermath. In addition, there is also information on Fort Edward and Fort George between 1758 May 22 and October 23.

mssHM 591

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Daniel M. Evans letter to editors of the People's Advocate

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In this letter, Daniel M. Evans, who was a journalist in London, England before moving to Stockton, California in 1879, is offering his services as a journalist to the Stockton weekly newspaper People's Advocate. The newspaper had just published its first issue and Evans liked it so much that he wanted to work for them.

mssHM 67908

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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.

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Griffith Evans journal

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