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Pocket diary of Thomas D. Evans

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Description: Complete diary for the year 1864. The daily entries describe Evans' duties filing provision returns, drawing rations, supplies, and ammunitions, etc., gives accounts of camp life, the wounded and fallen in battles, Confederate prisoners, deserters, and guerillas, military operations, news (including a note about Santiago fire of Dec. 1863), and the recruitment in Pittsburgh, and follows Franz Siegel and David Hunter in Shenandoah Valley in the spring and summer of 1864. The accounts of the hospitals are rather sketchy, on the account of his wounded arm; Evans did mention a Christmas dinner and concert organized by Sanitary and Christian Commissions.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1864.
Call number: mssHM 68427
Creator: Evans, Thomas D (1846-)

Griffith Evans journal

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The journal that Evans kept during his travels to Fort Stanwix and Fort McIntosh. There are also some miscellaneous accounts, promissory notes, etc., dated April and May 1785.

mssHM 608

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Diaries kept aboard the U.S.S. Aquarius

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Two diaries kept by Seymour Siegel while he was with a Coast Guard unit aboard the U.S.S. Aquarius in Peleliu (Palau) and the Philippines from July 1944 to January 1945. Siegel writes of transporting Marines and Army units, attacks from Japanese planes, his time volunteering in the sick bay, the capture of a wounded Japanese soldier, cooperation with Australian transports, Douglas MacArthur's "returning speech to the Philippine people," and the Invasion of Luzon. Also included are two transcripts of rewritten portions of the diaries, a transcript of the diaries, a typed log of the U.S.S. Aquarius, and a letter transferring Siegel to New York in 1945.

mssHM 75032-75038

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Brock Collection: Papers of George Evans

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Personal financial and legal records and scattered correspondence of Dr. George Evans: bonds, bills, accounts, powers of attorney, receipts, and land surveys. There are also bills and receipts for purchases and sales of slaves, treatment of plantation slaves, and documents relating to several estates administered by Dr. Evans. Also included are letters from his agents regarding his bounty lands and letters relating to the debts of George Evans, Jr

mssBR Box 47

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Herbert McLean Evans letters to Bern Dibner

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Three letters written by Herbert McLean to Bern Dibner. In one letter, dated 1954, November 24, Evans proposes that Dibner print a catalogue of 289 works that Evans and his colleagues at the University of California-Berkeley Institute of Experimental Biology have deemed "the chief works or classics in the history of science." In a letter dated 1955, June 18, Evans mentions a shipment of Burndy Library duplicates. An undated letter is a social invitation to Dibner. Also included is a photograph of Bern Dibner and Herbert Evans, taken at Evans's home and dated November, 1952; the photograph includes a handwritten caption by Evans on verso dated 1952, November 16.

mssHM 82735-82738

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A. J. Evans letters to George Washington Paschal

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Evans writes of the possible removal and re-nomination of "Mayor Purnell," among other details of Texas politics.

mssHM 29096

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Daniel M. Evans letter to editors of the People's Advocate

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In this letter, Daniel M. Evans, who was a journalist in London, England before moving to Stockton, California in 1879, is offering his services as a journalist to the Stockton weekly newspaper People's Advocate. The newspaper had just published its first issue and Evans liked it so much that he wanted to work for them.

mssHM 67908

Pocket diary of Thomas D. Evans

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