Manuscripts
Commonplace books of Sarah A. Pierson Walsworth
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Commonplace book
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Commonplace book containing two quotations from Shakespeare's Othello, along with passages and translations from classical texts, notes on classical and mythological figures, remedies, household hints and practical notes, theological notes and arguments, poems, epigrams and sententiae, legal forms, rentals for land around Kirby Knowle [North Yorkshire], and copies of letters and documents.
mssHM 60413
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George Macartney commonplace book
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Includes accounts of or treatises on Russia, Canada, Trinidad, and Scotland.
mssHM 686
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Pierson family correspondence
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This collection contains twenty-three letters written primarily from Schuyler, Buffalo County, Nebraska, but include also three letters from Morrison, Colorado, one from Deadwood, South Dakota, and one from Pendleton, Oregon. Most of the correspondence was written by newlyweds Elmer or Lou (short for Louisa?) Pierson to their relatives in Illinois. The letters are filled with numerous details reflecting daily lives and struggles while making ends meet on the western plains. In January 1894 Lou writes, "...well it seems to me I never can get Elmer's debts paid I come out here & he owes [Geo] Little $150.00 and Mr. VanHoosen over $200.00 and I have got my 2 hands to pay..." Elmer appears to be a very colorful character, who, as he mentions in one letter, "I served ten years in the penitentiary in Nebraska for stealing horses..." (April 4, 1882). His writing reflects at times humor, a quick wit, and a restless ambition to take full advantages of the opportunities promised by the open west.
mssHM 81100-81122
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The kingdom by the sea : a journey around Great Britain
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Reports on the author's journey along the coasts of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
481110
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The kingdom by the sea : a journey around Great Britain
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Reports on the author's journey along the coasts of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
646351
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The kingdom by the sea : a journey around Great Britain
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Reports on the author's journey along the coasts of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
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