Manuscripts
Laura Oakes letters
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Colorado mining letters to Gerald F. Galloway
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Letters to mining engineer Gerald F. Galloway regarding mining operations in Park County, Colorado, specifically Denver, Goldfield, Leadville, Como, and Shawnee. Most of the letters include requests to Galloway for mining surveys from the Hill Top Silver Mining Company, the Kendrick Promotion Company, and the Illinois Central Consolidated Mining & Mineral Company. Included are letters with references to Trout Creek, the Occidental Road, and the cave in of a mining tunnel at Goldfield, with a sketch map of the tunnel and notes on its construction. Also included is a sketch map of property owned by the Colusa M.+M. Co. near Park County, Colorado.
mssHM 74786-74796
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Diaries and letters of Frank M. Fokelman
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Two diaries by and nine letters written to and about Frank M. Fokelman, a railroad dispatcher who worked for the St. Louis, Kansas City, and Northern Railway Company, the Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific Railway, and the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company in the 1870s and 1880s. The first of the two diaries was kept by Fokelman from 1880 to 1881 and describes his travels mainly from Stanberry to Brunswick, Missouri, while working as a railroad employee. The second diary, kept from 1885-1888, includes a personal account of a tour of Colorado and Utah Fokelman made in the summer of 1885, with descriptions of Pueblo and Leadville, Colorado, as well as Salt Lake City. It also describes his later return to Colorado to improve his health and find employment, and his work as a clerk with the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company, including his hours, wages, and living expenses. The letters were written by Fokelman's various railroad employers from 1879 to 1888, and include letters of recommendation for Fokelman as well as letters written to him authorizing his leaves of absence for health reasons.
mssHM 74578-74588
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English emigrant woman letters to sister
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These letters, written to Mary's sister back in Wisconsin, are written from Cheyenne, Wyoming and Denver, Colorado. The first letter describes a trip from Cheyenne to Estes Park, Colorado and back by wagon. In the following three letters, Mary talks about her life and the conditions in Wyoming and various family and domestic matters.
mssHM 83131-83134
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Laura A. Cathell letter to A.D. Dyess
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Correspondence of Martha D. Stone and her extended family. Martha D. Stone's correspondence contains letters and documents on family history, including those from 1908 to 1909. Besides the family members, the correspondents include Greenlee D. Letcher, Lawrence Washington (1836-1926) and Frank P. Flint. Also included are four letters, 1916 to 1918, from Jordan M. Stone describing his life in Banning and Pasadena, California, and photographs of Jordan M. and William Welch Stone at Hollister Ranch, California. Jonathan C. Gibson's correspondence includes two letters to his wife written while away from home; the letter of October 18, 1817, contains a vivid description of the flood of emigrants headed to "Mizura;" the letters to his daughter written between 1840 and 1846 discuss family and local news of Culpeper County and details of some cases that he argued. Also included is a letter, 1821, January, from his kinsman and a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, Fayette Ball (1791-1836), describing bills under consideration. Letters that Frances Ann Gibson Welch Burt and J. Mallory Welch exchanged in the summer of 1844, during her visit to Virginia. In the letter of August 10, 1844, written on pro-Clay pictorial stationery, she described a "Whig festival" in Dandridge, attended by some "thousand persons;" and on August 26, 1844, she gives an account of a Methodist camp meeting in "Prince William Springs." Also included are letters from her friends and relatives. The letter, January 1, 1847, of her friend Mary V. Moore describes her stay at the Olympian Springs, Kentucky, her wedding to a young man she met there, and the busy social life of a newlywed in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. There are also the journal and letters of Mary Emma (Mamie) Cathell Grace (1861-1937), a native of Philadelphia who attended New Orleans High School. The first portion of the diary covers the school year of 1878, the entries describe school studies, including lessons taught by Susan Blanchard Elder (1835-1923) and Mary Humphrey Stamps (1835-); the Mardi Gras festivities, particularly the parade staged by the Knights of Momus, the outbreak of yellow fever, etc. The second portion of the diary gives an account of her trip to Philadelphia to meet her father and siblings. In 1885, Mamie married Dr. Jesse Edward Grace (1852-1895) and moved to Weimar, Texas. The collection also includes photographs, newspaper clippings from The Asheville Citizen, and ephemera.
mssHM 74657
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William Lawrence Austin letters to Joseph Burn Austin
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Five letters written by William Lawrence Austin to his father dealing with the Leadville Colorado silver rush of 1878-1879. One of the letters contains a sketch. Some are on J. B. Grant & Co's Smelting Works letterhead. Four of the letters were written from Leadville (one from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.)
mssHM 81295-81299
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W. Albert Chapman letter
Manuscripts
In W. Albert Chapman's letter to Harvey Farrington, Jr., he describes his travels through Colorado, specifically Leadville, Cottonwood Springs, and Silver Cliff. Chapman goes into details of the silver mining in Leadville and the discovery of silver in Silver Cliff
mssHM 64147