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Invoice for duty owed on a shipment of Cognac from Antwerp to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, purchased from Pinet, Castillon & Co.
mssHM 84194
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This is an invoice made out by William Workman for Dr. Gelcich's visit to Rancho La Puente. It includes fees for the doctor's visit, a consultation with Workman's son-in-law Francis Pliny F. Temple, and medication.
mssHM 68330
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This account book was kept by a general store in Newark, New Jersey from 1799 to 1841. It includes the name of the person, and their account information including services rendered, supplies purchased, fees charged, and amounts paid.
mssHM 69421
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Letter by Thomson to fellow British physicist Gilbert Stead. The letter reads as follows "Dear Mr. Stead, It was a very great pleasure to me to receive your letter for I remember very well how much I owed to your help during the time I was on the Commission. I hope it will not be long before we meet again. Yours very sincerely, J. J. Thomson." The letter was written in Cambridge.
mssHM 80254
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This manuscript lists expenditures at the Hollister Ranch in Santa Barbara County, California, from November 18, 1890 to August 31, 1891. It includes data such as salaries for hired workers, prices for farm animals and supplies, and insurance. Each entry also has a voucher number and dollar amount for each item. Typescript with some handwritten notes and corrections.
mssHM 26203
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The bulk of the papers consist of account books, passenger lists, and receipts documenting William Young Empey's work in England and America as an agent of the Perpetual Emigration Fund (PEF) of the Mormon Church. There are also letters relating to Empey's service as a missionary in England and to his personal affairs in later life. Among these papers, which concentrate primarily upon the years 1853 and 1854, are lists of PEF passengers on emigrant vessels from Liverpool, bills of landing and receipts for the purchase and shipment of many goods to equip the emigrant parties, and receipts and promissory notes from the emigrants themselves for wagons and teams or supplies purchased for them by the PEF's agent. These various documents illuminate many phases of the emigration process and the Church's careful, business-like organization of all the details. Some notable items include William Empey's incomplete diary account of the pioneer expedition to the Salt Lake Valley and the operation of the North Platte ferry (HM 52586), Empey's account book including accounts kept for the PEF (HM 52587), an 1853 list of Danish Mormons who had provided money for the purchase of cattle, wagons and other material (HM 52599), lists of P. E. Fund passengers on board various ships sailing for the United States in 1854 (HM 52603, 52605-07 and 52610-11), and two letters from Samuel W. Richards to Empey discussing Mormon missionary work in Great Britain and emigration of the Saints to the United States (HM 52593 and 52597).
mssHM 52583-52617