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Isaac Swain letters to James Fowler Simmons

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Description: Swain, who lived in San Francisco, wrote these letters to Rhode Island Senator James Fowler Simmons. In the letters Swain discusses business interests he still holds in Rhode Island, politics in California, his lawyer Annis Merrill, the south seceding from the Union, the Fort Sumter situation, and Simmons' speech to Congress regarding secession.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1852-1861.
Call number: mssHM 67912-67914
Creator: Swain, Isaac(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Whitman Bailey, April 4, 1945.
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Isaac Mann letters

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Primarily letters that Isaac Mann wrote to his wife Susan Deaver Mann from Jan. 1 1862 to Aug. 7, 1864. The bulk of the letters were written during the march to Huttonsville, W.Va. (Feb. 1862), expedition ot Lost River, W. Va., (Apr. 1862), pursuit of Stonewall Jackson to Shenandoah Valley (June 1862), defenses of Washington, D.C. (September - December 1862), march to Fredericksburg, Va. (Dec. 10-15 1862), the "Mud March" (Jan. 20-24 1863), Gettysburg Campaign (June 11 - July 24 1863), and the operations against Fort Wagner, Morris Island and Charleston, S.C. The last three letters were written from army hospitals in Covington, Ky. and New Albany, Ind. The intensely personal and somewhat introvert letters are mostly devoted to Mann's love for his wife and family, longing for home, and religious reflections as well as trials and tribulations of camp life. Although he tended to avoid detailed descriptions of war operations and battle scenes, he did mention the "trying scenes" of the 2nd battle of Bull Run and the battle of Gettysburg. Also one letter written to John Deaver, 1862.

mssHM 21882-21909

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Isaac Owen letter book

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Typewritten copies of letters by and to Reverend Owen for the Methodist Church in various cities in northern California. With envelope of related used envelopes. Copies made in 1919 from letters in the Methodist Church in Berkeley, California by Mrs. Miller, Owen's sister.

mssHM 48972

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Group 128: Simmons College

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This collection contains of the business records of the Merrymount Press and the related papers of its founder Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941). The bulk of the collection consists of financial volumes; correspondence with customers, publishers, illustrators, craftsmen, and suppliers; bills; estimates; and scrapbooks with specimens of work. While the majority of the correspondence is comprised of letters, there are occasionally proofs, specimens, and cloth, paper, fabric samples, etc., found with the correspondence. The records reflect Updike's involvement with printing across the United States and in Europe, though much of his work was produced for clients in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York City. Some of the correspondence reflects Updike's personal interests including Rhode Island history and churches and charitable work with poor children as well as prison inmates.

mssMerrymount

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Group 1942: Fowler, Alfred

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Isaac Swain letters to James Fowler Simmons

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