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Jamaica journal & reporter: manuscript newspapers

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Description: Although these manuscripts are unsigned, their style, art work, tone, humor and handwriting, suggest that they may be written by Abraham Leech. The two issues of the "Jamaica Journal & Reporter" are dated November 25, 1846 and November 1847. They discuss the Mexican-American war and United States politics during that period through articles and hand-drawn cartoons. The newspapers specifically talk about the war, Colonel Santa Anna, the US and Mexican governments, Wall Street financier Jacob Barker, Reverend Colonel James Hazard Perry, and events happening in Jamaica.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1846-1847.
Call number: mssHM 72094-72095
Creator: Leech, Abraham(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased by William Reese Co. on Huntington's behalf from Dorothy Sloan - Books, Auction 22, December 11, 2009.

Mexican and Spanish land grants, Sonora, Mexico

Manuscripts

Documents confirming property rights and holdings in the state of Sonora by Mexican or Spanish royal officials. Most documents concern the Gutierrez family, of San Miguel de Horcasitas and owners of the Rancho San Marcial in Sonora, which may suggest that they collected the documents as a legal record of their property ownership. The documents bear royal or state stamps that establish their bona fide nature. Some documents clearly state that they are copies taken from the originals. The documents are in Spanish.

mssHM 83121

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Journals, financial papers, and newspaper clippings

Manuscripts

A collection of 184 items from 1852 to 1898; it consists of correspondence and journals relating to Frederick Kesler and his duties as a master millwright and bishop of the 16th Ward, as well as financial papers and newspaper clippings. Correspondents in the collection include John M. Bernhisel, George Reynolds, Joseph F. Smith, and Brigham Young. A major portion of the correspondence and manuscripts relate to the divorce between Frederick Kesler and Jane Elizabeth Pratt Kesler and Abigail Dow Snow Kesler. The material covers the reasons for the divorces as well as the financial compensation they would receive from Kesler per the instructions of Brigham Young. The 58 journals written by Frederick Kesler primarily contain notes on mills, tithing records and receipts for expenditures in the ward. A journal written by Alexander Ott includes the names of and provisions provided to Mormon immigrants.

mssHM 63493-63537

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Journal of...voyage in ship Katherine of Bristoll...unto the iland of Barbados [and of other journeys in the same and other ships]: manuscript

Manuscripts

Other ships include the Friendship, and the Michael, both of Bristol; other destinations include Goteburg (Sweden), Boston, Antigua, and the Cape Verde Islands.

mssHM 648

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Mercantile letter and account book recording correspondence addressed to merchants in the city of Albany, New York and in Jamaica

Manuscripts

This manuscript letter and account book is written in multiple hands and divided into several sections; the first section covers Goddard's trade with New York, mainly Albany, the middle section covers his contacts with Jamaica, especially Malcolm Laing, and the final section contains inventories of goods shipped, with prices and quantities. The correspondence includes copies of letters sent by Goddard to his American business partners; these letters constitute a valuable record of Anglo-American trade during this period of political volatility. They include commentary on the state of the London market for furs and ginseng, notes on changing prices, the effect of the Stamp Act on trade, and details concerning duties and taxes. The tone of some of the letters is quite contentious as Goddard seemed to have some sort of financial disagreement with some of his business partners; there are also letters of seeking patronage for help to resolve this conflict. He seems to have ceased trading with Albany in approximately 1767, as the text of several of the letters contain comments suggesting his debts led him to bankruptcy in that same year.

mssHM 83398

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James W. Pope journal

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Indian War journal kept by James Worden Pope, who with a wagon train of supplies accompanied Major Eugene A. Carr's 5th Cavalry expedition to locate and bring provisions to Captain William H. Penrose's cavalry. The 5th Cavalry departed from Fort Lyon, Colorado, in November 1868 and spent the next month in Indian Territory in search of Penrose. Pope's journal provides a detailed account of the 5th Cavalry's movements and their initially futile attempts to locate Penrose. He recounts the many difficulties of the expedition, from cold weather and inadequate provisions to drunkenness among some of its men. Pope also writes of encountering dead horses that had belonged to Penrose's cavalry and of the starving conditions of Penrose's men (when the 5th Cavalry finally caught up to Penrose on December 19, Pope writes that their men had just received their last rations, although they did have a supply of buffalo meat). He writes of encounters with Mexican buffalo hunters and Buffalo Soldiers, although not Indians (Pope's party discovered only "deserted Indian wigwams"). He also gives detailed descriptions of terrain, mainly around Purgatory River, Cimarron River, and Two Buttes Creek, as well as writing of the large numbers of buffalo and of buffalo hunts. The last entries of the journal, made in January 1869, recount camp life after the 5th Cavalry had joined Penrose's party, including the story of a man killed by Indians. Most of Pope's entries recount facts and do not have much personal reflection, although in an entry from New Year's Eve 1868 he writes of staying up until midnight, when the old year "gave up the ghost; burying with him many pleasant associations and hopes and fear. How little did I expect at this time last year to be out in this desolate region with only a tent for shelter...an episode in the life of [a] soldier." Some mentions are made of Carr, Penrose, Wild Bill Hickok, and General Philip Sheridan. The last page has a light sketch of unidentified terrain and what appears to be a list of Pope's provisions.

mssHM 74606

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Mary Stuart Bailey journal

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HM 2018 is the original journal of thirty handwritten pages, dated April 13, 1852 through November 8, 1852. Also included is a negative photostat of the 1850 Federal Census of Lucas County, Ohio, showing entries for Mary Stuart Bailey, her husband Dr. Frederick E. Bailey, and Harriet Bailey, as well as four typewritten pages showing burial plots in Association Cemetery (Sylvania, Ohio), wherein rests Harriet Bailey. HM 2019 is a typescript of an extract of the journal, through October 31. Also included here are two typewritten pages by Mrs. W.W. Hicks relating further information about the Baileys, and a map of the Salt Lake Trail. The journal itself is Mary Bailey's account of her journey. She stops in St. Louis, Missouri to see friends, and gives shelter to some Indians in "destitute condition." After a hard journey, they reach California in October, and Bailey writes in her final entry, "I do not think we shall be as well off as at home."

mssHM 2018-2019

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