Manuscripts

Louis François de Pourtalés letters to E. Meriam

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Description: Two autographed letters signed, from Coast Survey Office, Washington, March 25 and August 27, 1857, from Louis François de Pourtalés to E. Meriam, of New York, requesting information about an earthquake off the California coast in August, 1856, and subsequently thanking Meriam for information received.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1857.
Call number: mssHM 70411-70412
Creator: Pourtalès, L. F. de (1824-1880)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Bruce J. Ramer, February 20, 2009.
Associated people: Meriam, E.,
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Antoine-François de Fourcroy and Gaspard Monge letter to the Minister of the Marine

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The letter from Antoine-François de Foureroy and Gaspard Monge to the Minister of the Marine regards Citoyen [Jean-François?] Clouet. The letter is dated 1 Ventôse, l'an 9 de la République française [1801 June 1], and is written in French from Paris. One page is torn.

mssHM 83080

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François Arago letter to James Silk Buckingham

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Letter written by François Arago to James Silk Buckingham. Arago wrote the letter from Paris in his capacity as secretary of the Académie Royale des Sciences, Institutes de France, addressing Buckingham as the Commandent de Buckingham, Paris. The letter regards Buckingham's published prospectus for a voyage around the world, Esquisse d'un Plan de Voyage autour du Monde par la Route des Indes, de la Chine, du Japon et des îles de l'Océan Pacifique: Ayant pour but les Intérêts Combinés des Découvertes, de la Civilisation et du Commerce. The letter is in French. A second page of writing consists of Buckingham's address.

mssHM 83058

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Jean-François Ducis letters to Prince Louis-Eugène de Wurtemburg

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mssHM 2704-2724

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Arthur Leon Campa poems and letters to Louis Untermeyer

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Letters dated August 6, 1930 and October 31, 1930. Accompanied by Poems of the Colonials of the Southwest: typescript of four poems in Spanish, each with an accompanying English translation, dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. With dating of the poems in the hand of the author. The poems are referred to in the letter dated October 31, 1930.

mssHM 41068-41070

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Pierre-Jean de Smet letter to John Dawson Gilmary Shea

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Writing from St. Louis University in Missouri, de Smet is happy to help with compiling information for Shea's almanac. When the almanac is ready, de Smet asks that a copy be sent to his native Belgium.

mssHM 4018

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Josiah Royce letters to Henry L. Oak

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This group of manuscripts is a series of letters from philosopher and historian Josiah Royce to Henry L. Oak, a librarian in California who was part of the founding of the Bancroft Library, which was known as the Pacific Library in its early years. The letters are dated between 1884 and 1886. In HM 20132, Royce writes of the book on California history that he is writing, with advice from Oak. Details of Royce's interview with General John C. Frémont and a possible conspiracy are in HM 20147 and HM 20133. Royce tells of his trip to Washington D. C. to search for "the Frémost documents" in HM 20134, where he failed to find a trace of "any secret instruction" for Frémont. It appears that Royce may have found such evidence in Oak's collections at the Bancroft Library, and considers presenting it to Frémont to gauge his reaction. Royce gives Oak permission to use whatever information from the interview he may find interesting for his own purposes. In his own book, he has included "an elaborate attack on Frémont's honor." Most of the letters are concerned with Frémont's apparent indiscretion and Royce's pending book on the matter, and Royce is keeping Oak informed as Oak's information played an important role in Royce's developing story. HM 20138, dated 1885, August 29, has cross-hatch writing on the first page. By mid-1886 (HM 20143, June 20), Royce's book has been published, and he discusses the resulting reviews and criticism. In July, Royce is happy to accept a list of suggestions from Oak to improve a future edition of his book (HM 20144, July 26), and upon the finding of a mistake in his book, asks Oak to "keep this on file as record of my discovery of my own blunder" while also requesting him to "let me know in case there should be any noteworthy attack on my book from any respectable source" (HM 20145, July 29).

mssHM 20132-20147

Louis François de Pourtalés letters to E. Meriam

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