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James Norman Gridley correspondence

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Description: In these letters, addressed to Dr. John Francis Snyder and written from Long Beach, California, Gridley talks about the following subjects: his opinion of World War I, his Civil War research, the growth of the cities of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and James Rolph and the election of 1918.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1918.
Call number: mssHM 68180-68182
Creator: Gridley, J. N(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Harry E. Pratt, December 18, 1950.
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Luke Gridley diary, 1757 Mar. 29-1758 Aug. 23

Manuscripts

The diary covers the period from Mar. 29 through Nov. 10 and includes accounts of the camp life, rumored attacks by Indians, martial punishments, and reports on the surrender of Fort William Henry. Also included is a record of a trip in Aug. 13-23, 1758, records entitled "An a Count of the men of each government" and "Small Pox," and a description of the route and mileage from Hartford to Fort Edward.

mssHM 59425

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James S. (James Stephen) Green letter to Jeremiah Sullivan Black

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Green gives his support for Albert M. Snyder for the position of Marshall of Nebraska.

mssHM 29236

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My own experience with the Vasques Bandits

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This manuscript is Snyder's account of his experiences in the mercantile business in Monterey County, California beginning in 1872. He ran a "branch store" and a "hotell." At length and in detail, Snyder describes an incident where his store was robbed by armed "Spanyards," the leader of whom he names as "Vasques." The bandits shot and killed a partially deaf man when he did not heed their demands for him to submit, and shot a second man hiding in a nearby barn. After killing a third man, Vasques declares that "he had only one way to make a living and that was by robbing, and as long as other people had any money he intended to have his Share of it if he had to kill a man to gett it." The bandits did not kill Snyder because he "submitted." The bandits stole eleven horses, including one that had been a present to Mrs. Snyder, loaded them with the stolen goods, and rode away. Snyder called the aftermath "a Mournfull looking Site." He reports that Vasques was eventually captured in San Jose and hanged. With typewritten card containing a brief biography of Snyder.

mssHM 16695

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Charles Sumner correspondence

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Letters from Charles Sumner to Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, American sculptor and writer William Wetmore Story, and others, concerning the relations of the United States with Great Britain and British opinion of the Civil War; national politics in the years immediately preceding, during and after the war, President Andrew Johnson, travels in England, France, and Italy, and law and literature.

mssHM 25934-25991

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Charles Sumner correspondence

Manuscripts

mssHM 25934-25991

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Visual Materials

Includes: Packaging and typesetting "Los Angeles Herald" newspapers (1922); downtown Los Angeles street scenes; people in automobiles; parade downtown; sculling in Long Beach (1932); Graf Zeppelin dirigible on ground (1929); propeller airplane; unidentified female aviator portrait; train locomotive 2700; Peggy Caffee in court during murder trial of Clara Phillips in Los Angeles (1922); Adolphe Menjou; California Governor James Rolph Jr., with his son James Rolph III; President Woodrow Wilson in automobile in parade, downtown Los Angeles; L.A. County Sheriff William I. Traeger and officers with rifles; Rudecinda Florencia Sepulveda de Dodson with Roman de Sepulveda (1929) and with husband James H. Dodson (192-?).

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James Norman Gridley correspondence

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