Manuscripts
New York tonnage book
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Railroad Tonnage Book
Manuscripts
The collection consists of the business records of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. The records are made up ships' logs, waybills, manifests, personnel records, financial records, notes of protest, freight claims and other business papers. The collection also contains some records of the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company.
mssPacmail
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Martin Van Buren, Kinderhook, New York, letter to William P. Van Ness, New York, New York :
Manuscripts
Van Buren writes primarily about the fallout over the presidential election of 1800, which elected Thomas Jefferson president and Aaron Burr vice president. He discusses Aaron Burr and newspaper editor James Cheetham, who had publicized claims that Burr had conspired to win the presidency. Also mentions the current fever epidemic in New York, presumably yellow fever.
mssHM 22944
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Theodore Roosevelt, New York, letter to Russell Benedict, New York :
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Roosevelt writes that he cannot accept Benedict's invitation to speak, presumably at a Society of Mayflower Descendants event. Written on letterhead for The Outlook magazine, Office of Theodore Roosevelt.
mssHM 23540