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Israel Mitchell manuscripts
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Edgar Dean Mitchell letter to Dennis Cooper
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In this letter, Mitchell is answering a letter Dennis Cooper had about the navigation of the Apollo Lunar Module.
mssHM 79873
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David Mitchell correspondence
Manuscripts
Correspondence of David Mitchell, chiefly letters to him from his brothers Robert, William, John, and James, his son Andrew, and other family members. There is a small group of letters of Andrew Gregg (1755-1855) addressed to his daughters Juliann and Eliza and his sons-in-law David Mitchell and Roland Curtin. The letters deal chiefly with family and business matters, with a few items discussing political affairs. Letters from Theodore Gregg (approximately 1825-1878), Captain of Company F of the 45th Pennsylvania Infantry to his friend John Lieb and his aunt Eliza Gregg Mitchell, discussing his Civil War service. Also included are three bonds signed by William, Joshua, and Josiah Dart, of Bolton, Hartford County, Connecticut (1756 to 1783).
mssDartt
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David Mitchell correspondence
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Correspondence of David Mitchell, chiefly letters to him from his brothers Robert, William, John, and James, his son Andrew, and other family members. There is a small group of letters of Andrew Gregg (1755-1855) addressed to his daughters Juliann and Eliza and his sons-in-law David Mitchell and Roland Curtin. The letters deal chiefly with family and business matters, with a few items discussing political affairs. Letters from Theodore Gregg (approximately 1825-1878), Captain of Company F of the 45th Pennsylvania Infantry to his friend John Lieb and his aunt Eliza Gregg Mitchell, discussing his Civil War service. Also included are three bonds signed by William, Joshua, and Josiah Dart, of Bolton, Hartford County, Connecticut (1756 to 1783).
mssDartt
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Mitchell family papers
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The collection consists of letters and documents related to the Mitchell family's life in Coloma and El Dorado County, California, and in Nevada mining areas such as Austin, Virginia City, Treasure City, and Hamilton. There are also letters discussing life in San Francisco in 1866 and between 1876 to 1887. Although there are over 32 individuals represented in the collection, the most frequent correspondents include Josephine Beckman, William J. Forbes, George W. Kinney, Eliza Mitchell Schieffer Taylor, and William H. Taylor.
mssMitchell
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Israel N. Prince letters to Elizabeth E. Hodsdon
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Series of letters written by Israel N. Prince to his sister Elizabeth E. Hodsdon in Falmouth, Maine. Prince's first letter traces his journey by boat from Boston to Charleston in 1850. The next several letters provide a detailed look at the hardships of frontier life in the Nebraska Territory, where Prince lives humbly ("our dogs have a more comfortable house," he writes), holds low a low opinion of many of his neighbors ("the character [of frontier people] is not what I could wish it might be," he laments), works briefly on the Burlington Railroad (which ended with "considerable loss"), and is disinterested in in the California and Kansas "excitement," although he later thought about moving to California or Oregon. Prince also urges Elizabeth and her family to come west, answers her questions about when he will return home by saying "when I came into the western country it was my determination not to go back till I had done something," writes of his many uncertainties ("I seem to myself to be peculiar in some respects," he noted, "At times I hardly know what to make of myself"), and shamefully admits his failures ("I hated to tell you that I was too poor to own a farm of any description"). Beginning in 1861 the letters describe "the great war feeling around" and Prince's enlistment in Company "C" of the 1st Nebraska Volunteers in June 1861. He was initially stationed at Pilot Knob, Missouri, and guarded bridges on the Iron Mountain Railroad, and writes of a difficult march to Springfield and an enemy raid at Georgetown, Missouri. Most of his time was spent near the Tennessee/Mississippi border between Savannah and Danville. Prince writes of his participation in the Battle of Shiloh and of the Army of Southeastern Missouri, which in early 1863 had just finished "one of the hardest campaigns of the war" (probably part of Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign). He alludes to "daily skirmishes," although also notes that his sister probably knows better than he what is happening since he has little access to newspapers or outside information. In addition to chronicling the movements of his regiment, Prince outlines the difficulties of army life, including long "forced marches," the shortness of supplies, his many illnesses, the possibility of his death, and the unpopularity of the men in command. In his last letter Prince writes that there is little hope for a promotion since "I don't believe I am a great favorite with some of the officers." Specific references are made to General John Davidson, Secretary of War Simon Cameron, General John C. Frémont, and General Justus McKinstry.
mssHM 75851-75872
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John D. Mitchell letters
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One of the letters is a 16-page detailed account of Mitchell's voyage around Cape Horn and arrival in San Francisco in April 1849. The other letters are about Mitchell's experiences living in San Francisco and Sacramento including witnessing several hangings; his letters also give details regarding his attempts at mining for gold.
mssHM 63944-63950