Manuscripts

American Indpendence manuscript

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Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1782.
Call number: mssHM 693
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of 1930.
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American poets manuscripts binding

Manuscripts

mssHM 1216-1246, 21958

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Commonplace book. English and American poetry : manuscript

Manuscripts

Bound volume of English and American poems, includes an index; copied out and signed by Mary Gillham. With marbled covers and slight damage to the spine and corners. The volume includes poems by, among others: Washington Allston, Robert Burns, S.T. Coleridge, Lady Jane Grey, Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Robert Herrick, L.E.L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), Caroline Sheridan Norton, James. G. Percival, William R. Spencer, Henry K. White, and Nathaniel P. Willis.

mssHM 82902

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American poets manuscripts table of contents

Manuscripts

Typescript list of poets and their poems which were formerly bound in the volume prior to July 1997. The last page notes two additional poems, handwritten in pencil.

mssHM 1216-1246

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Jack London : an American life in letters: typewritten manuscript

Manuscripts

This is the final, uncut, complete draft (before publication) of Earle Labor's book Jack London : an American life, which was published in 2013 by Farrar Straus & Giroux (Reference book: PS3523.O46 Z7643 2013 and Rare book 637506).

mssHM 80589

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James Gray? Accounts for indpendent companies

Manuscripts

The collection primarily contains letters and documents relating to Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl of Loudoun; his son, John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun; other Campbell family members; and various political and military associates. John Campbells military activities during the 1745 to 1746 Jacobite uprising in Scotland and the Seven Years War in North America in 1756 and 1757 are especially documented. Materials in the collection include correspondence, memorials, and petitions; muster rolls, returns, orders, and other military records; appointments; estate records including accounts, bills, receipts, and inventories; and land and government documents.

LO 11740

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Manuscripts regarding the U.S. Army in the American Southwest

Manuscripts

This group of items consists of four manuscripts written by George H. Pettis regarding his experiences in the 1st Regiment of Infantry, California Volunteers in the American Southwest in the 1860s and 1870s. Two of the manuscripts are about the Civil War in New Mexico, and mention specifically Confederate Captain John Baylor, and the Union General H. H. Sibley, Captain Isaac Lynde, and General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby. The other two manuscripts discuss Pettis' experiences in the Indian Wars in New Mexico and Texas including the Battle of Adobe Walls in 1874. He talks about Kit Carson, Colonel James H. Carleton, Fort Bascom, Fort Craig, and Fort Fillmore. He also talks in detail about the Navajo, Apache, Jicarilla, Kiowa and Ute Indians.

mssHM 68406-68409

American Indpendence manuscript

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