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Daniel Thomas Chandler documents
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Daniel Boone documents
Manuscripts
Includes appeal bond signed by Daniel Boone, 1788 (mssHM 990) and depositions of Boone and others.
mssHM 990-995
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Harry Chandler letter to Eddie Mannix
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Harry Chandler letter written to Eddie Mannix of MGM Studios asking him to meet for a luncheon of "considerable civic importance," taking place on February 18, 1941, at the Board of Directors Room in the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, "about which your advice and cooperation is needed." Eddie Mannix was known as a "fixer" who covered for Hollywood stars' indiscretions to protect the reputation of the film studio. Written on Los Angeles Times letterhead and signed by Harry Chandler.
mssHM 84153
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The Controversy Over Joseph Smith, by Tertius Chandler
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This 23-page typescript is a rebuttal to three Mormon responses to Fawn Brodie's 1945 biography of Joseph Smith, "No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith." The first section, 13 pages long, focuses on the 1946 pamphlet "No, Ma'am, That's Not History," written by Hugh Nibley. Chandler compares Nibley occasionally to another Mormon historian, B. H. Roberts, whose work he considers "a very capable defense." The second section (the final 9 pages) briefly addresses a March 1946 review by John A. Widtsoe in the Mormon monthly "Improvement Era," and then takes on an anonymous review published in the newspaper "Deseret News" on May 11, 1946. Chandler attributes the review to either Widtsoe or "Bowen" (probably Albert Ernest Bowen).
mssHM 69944
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Thomas Savage letter to Chandler Eastman Potter
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Inscription of the tombstone of Colonel John Goffe (1701-1786)
mssHM 59533
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Daniel Horn papers
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Letters from Daniel Horn to his wife Geles posted in various places in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Georgia. Also, letters of Horn's comrades and the regimental chaplain informing Geles Horn of the death of her husband. The letters discuss camp life, payments, Horn's concern over his family back in Ohio, war news, the Union commanders, including Ulysses S. Grant, and his fellow Confederate soldiers. He also writes about several military operations including Fort Donelson, the siege of Vicksburg, Morgan's Ohio raid, and operations near Atlanta and Marietta, Georgia.
mssHM 49539-49610
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Charles Penniman Daniell Papers
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The collection consists of letters and a few photographs related to Daniell's experiences and life in San Francisco (1850-53). Charles is the author of all the letters and the only addressees are his sister Lucetta, his mother Sarah, and his father Josiah. The letters, generally one to four pages in length, are arranged chronologically. Several of the letters are duplicated in typewritten format. Charles wrote the bulk of the letters from the city of San Francisco, but there are also letters from Boston, where he helped with his father's dry goods business and from the ship "Marcia Cleaves" as he sailed around the Horn to California. A seemingly amiable and optimistic young man, Charles appears to wrestle with the challenges of making his own way in the world and the longing for the familiar. The letters rarely go into great detail, but they allude to a great variety of topics such as home-sickness for his family and New England, the importance of "Steamer Day" when mail arrives, the weather, his health and well-being and that of his compatriots, the importance of social relationships to business success, the difficulty of business success without sufficient capital, the diversity of nationalities/ethnicities on ship and in town, party politics, the Vigilance Committee, church attendance, anecdotes about music, his food and lodging conditions, the outbreak of fires and cholera in town, and the occurrence of marriages at home in Massachusetts and in California. Photographic material includes a photograph of the Daniell family, four copy prints of daguerreotypes and four negatives of copy prints of Daniell family members, the family's house in Roxbury, and William standing next to his brother's grave in California. Subjects include: the ship Marcia Cleaves, Voyages "around the Horn", ocean travel, Valparaiso, (Chile), San Jose (California), life in San Francisco, and business enterprises there, the city's U.S. Custom House, city politics—especially the Vigilance committee, church attendance, the building of a Unitarian church, relationships between men and women, ethnic relations, anecdotes about music, and descriptions of fruit purchases.
mssHM 70463-70510