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Horace F. (Horace Francis) Page letters to C.C. Williams
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Horace Bushnell letter to Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
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In this letter by Bushnell, he states: "I send you today my table of contents and title page" (Scribner, Armstrong, and Company published Sermons on living subjects in 1872). He then tells his publishers that he will be traveling to Ripton, Vermont for "two months." He also says that he will "order Mr. Hobbs to send...his plate proofs." He also wonders if "this political scrub race [is] going to affect the book market this autumn."
mssHM 79204
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Horace Austin letter to William David Lewis
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Mr. Austin informs Mr. Lewis of his business, in which he trades groceries for cotton, and details thereof. He also tells of his family, and how his son has been named Lewis in Mr. Lewis' honor. Through these successes, Austin hopes he has fulfilled the promise made to Mr. Lewis.
mssHM 23164
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Abram Pease Williams letter to Lawrence F. Bower
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Williams responds to Bower's request that he was born in Maine in 1832, moved to California in 1858, and was elected to the Senate in 1886 as a Republican. Signed "A. P. Williams."
mssHM 21337
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Page and Markham families albums
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Box 1 HM 83502: Page family album. This scrapbook documents the Page family history from Connecticut to Pasadena, California in 1887. The contents of the scrapbook include: clippings regarding Connecticut and Pasadena social and religious activities, invitations to functions, correspondence, photographs, postcards, and pamphlets pasted in. There is a telegram from Booker T. Washington where he kindly declines Cornelia B. Page's invitation to visit Pasadena, California. The earliest item in this scrapbook was a letter written by Samuel Malty Page to his "Grandmother" in 1843. The latest clipping reports the death of Emily B. Page in 1916. Note: This scrapbook is fragile.
mssHM 83502-83504
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William B. (William Boyd) Alisson letter to Henry Graff Trevor
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Allison is happy that Trevor and his wife are coming to Washington, but he is not sure if he can secure tickets to "the Ceremony in the Capitol." Typed letter, signed by hand. On United States Senate letterhead. Includes clipping with brief biography of Allison.
mssHM 29218
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C.C. Williams' Workingmen's Party of California and U.S. census materials
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Five documents and letters relating to C.C. Williams' activities with the Workingmen's Party of California, The Peoples Advocate, and the United States Census in San Francisco and Stockton, California. The collection includes a history of the Workingmen's Party of California (WPC), probably written by Williams, which references the Party's political activities, the "Chinese question," and the election of Dennis Kearney as Party president. It also includes a summary of charges from the WPC against Williams and W.E. Peyton accusing them of violating their pledge to the WPC and committing "acts unbecoming a member" by publishing the "Daily Three o'Clock" newspaper, which was "in the interests of the New Constitution Party" and against the WPC. Also included are a letter from Eliot Lord of the Department of the Interior, Census Office, authorizing C.C. Williams as an agent of the Tenth Census (1880), a sheet of Chinese characters used by Williams when he served as deputy assessor of San Francisco, and a memorandum of agreement for the establishment of "The Peoples Advocate" newspaper (1879).
mssHM 72916-72920