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  Clendenen Family Papers

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  Clenenden family correspondence and the 1859 pocket diary kept by Clemens L. Clendenen cover Clendenen family affairs, farming, and property, including and a rift between Hyman Clendenen and his father over the land in Iowa and a homestead grant. The Civil War letters from Clemens L. Clenden to his wife Louisa Shinn Clendenen posted from Parkersburg, Clarksburg and New Creek, West Virginia. (Aug. Sept. - 1864) and a letter from Andersonville prison deal with camp life and comprise some discussion of war politics, Vallandigham and Copperheads. This portion of the collection also includes letters to Louisa from John V. Clendenen, and members of the 4th W. Virginia Cavalry about her husband's fate. Letters from William Lambden Clendenen to his fiance Mary Cowan (1887-1888) (32 pieces) describe his life in Ashland, Kansas, as a farmer and laborer. Correspondence between Colonel Clarence Clemens Clendenen and Confederate Historical Society (London) (1969-1972, 18 pieces) deal with history of the Civil War, especially in the West and border states, and discuss affairs of the Confederate Historical Society. Correspondents include Michael A. Rich, Robert Fowler, and Kenneth M. Broughton.

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  William H. Taft, Washington, D.C., telegram to Jacob Chandler Harper, Cincinnati, Ohio :

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  Taft instructs Harper to not publish his letter regarding the referendum. Folder also includes addressed envelope to Harper and a printed copy of a joint resolution proposing the submission of amendments to the Constitution of Ohio for direct legislation.

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  Ichnographical plan of Albany [cartographic material] : design to stay within the old boundaries an [sic] to trace a line about it with several dispersed redouts

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  Manuscript plan of the fort and defenses at Albany, New York. An inset shows a profile of the trenches. Ground elevations are depicted pictorially with contours and shading. Design done by G.C. Wetterstrom, of the Royal American Regiment.

  mssHM 15439

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  Letters signed by and related to John W. Schriber

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  Three of the letters (Aug. 11, 1849, Nov. 30, 1849, and Sept. 13, 1850) are from John W. Schriber to his wife, Eliza L. Rogers Schriber. They discuss his ocean voyage to California, his efforts in the gold mines, and the economic conditions of Northern California. Another letter by Schriber, written from Panama (Aug. 11, 1849) is addressed to John Clendenen in New York. The fifth letter (Feb. 26, 1851), from James Perry to Eliza L. Rogers Schriber, discusses the circumstances regarding John W. Schriber's death and the state of Schriber's affairs

  mssHM 60700-60704

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  United States Senators from California

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  This manuscript is a list of twenty-two senators from California. Each entry includes political party affiliation and previously held position.

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  David Wood letter to William J. Hiles

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  An autograph, signed letter from David Wood, a member of the West Virginia 1st Cavalry Regiment; he is writing to a former member of the regiment, William J. Hiles. The letter is written from Camp Russell, Virginia, and contains news of many fellow soldiers in the regiment, some of whom have had horses shot out from under them or had been wounded in various battles; Wood also mentions some who have been ill and left the Army or have deserted. The letter is beginning to tear along the folds and there is an old repair along the top of the letter. Enclosed with the letter is the back only of a pictorial envelope.

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