Manuscripts
George Thomas Anderson description of the Battle of Throroughfare Gap
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Poul Anderson papers
Manuscripts
The correspondence consists of Poul Anderson's letters to his publisher Doubleday & Co. and various editors from 1960 to 1977. His letters include substantive discussion of forthcoming or recently published books, including Trader to the stars, Tao zero, Operation chaos, A midsummer tempest, and Firetime. Also included is one printed item consisting of artwork for an Anderson book. The majority of the letters were written from Anderson's home in Orinda, California.
mssHM 56798-56876
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A historical house and its famous people
Manuscripts
Typescript of Kitty Anderson's history of the Anderson family home in Louisville, KY.
mssHM 84525
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William H. Anderson letter to Frances Anderson
Manuscripts
Letter from William H. Anderson to his daughter Frances, written from the "southern part" of New Mexico near Rincon. In the letter Anderson describes his travels from Boston to New Mexico by railroad. The letter was intended as a geography lesson for his daughter and Anderson carefully traces his progress through Buffalo, Detroit, down the Mississippi River to St. Louis, through Missouri and Kansas, and finally through Colorado to New Mexico. Anderson includes a slightly more detailed description of Kansas City, Missouri, where he rode in a cable street car. In addition to tracking his geographical progress Anderson writes of difficulties encountered with cattle on the railroad tracks.
mssHM 74757
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Anderson Family Papers
Manuscripts
This collection primarily contains letters and some manuscripts concerning William Marshall Anderson and the Anderson family, mainly for the period of 1838-1938. It covers family affairs, legal practices and business affairs of William Marshall Anderson, including his involvement in the McArthur lawsuit; the Catholic Church and its financial involvement in Ohio; the northwest United States in 1830s, archeological mounds; Mexico in 1865, civil engineering, bounty land grants to Virginia revolutionary soldiers; Richard Clough Anderson and George Rogers Clark, also William Marshall Anderson's diaries, including his trips to the Rocky Mountains (1834), Mexico (1865), and Mississippi (1871); family and business correspondence of Robert Marshall Anderson, including letters re: construction of Robert M. Anderson's home in Circleville, Ohio, designed by Charles S. Keefe. Anderson family members represented in the collection include Larz Anderson, Charles Anderson, Robert Anderson, Thomas McArthur Anderson, Richard Clough Anderson, Robert Marshall Anderson, Ellen Columba Ryan Anderson, and Mary Anderson Olds. Anderson, Charles, 1814-1895. As author: 10 pieces; as addressee: 4 pieces Anderson, Ellen Columba Ryan. As author: 16 pieces (1858-1898); as addressee: 30 (1858-1891) Anderson, Larz, 1803-1878. As author: 13 pieces (1856-1877); as addressee: none Anderson, Richard Clough, 1829-1878. As author: 6 pieces (1864-1878); as addressee: none Anderson, Robert, 1805-1871. As author: 8 pieces (1825-1871); as addressee: 2 pieces (1842-1843) Anderson, Robert Marshall, 1862-1939. As author: 22 pieces (1872-1939); as addressee: 87 pieces (1879-1939) Anderson, Thomas McArthur, 1836-1917. As author 5 pieces (1864-1901); as addressee 7 pieces (1876-1901) Anderson, William Marshall, 1807-1881. As author: 53 pieces (1838-1880); as addressee: 115 pieces (1837-1880) Clarke, Powhatan Henry, 1862-1893. As author: 6 pieces (1875-1893); as addressee: none Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891. As author: 7 pieces (1843-1867); as addressee: none Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894. As author: 1 piece (1865); as addressee: none Ellison, Robert Spurrier. As author: 11 pieces (1935-1939); as addressee: 22 pieces (1935-1941) Juncker, Henry Damian, 1810-1868. As author: 1 piece (1855); as addressee: none Longworth, Nicholas, 1782-1863. As author: 1 piece (1851); as addressee: none McArthur, Duncan, 1772-1839. As author: 2 pieces; as addressee: 1817 and 1837 Magruder, John Bankhead, 1807-1871. As author: 1 piece (1866); as addressee: none Olds, Joseph. As author: 12 pieces (1885-1901); as addressee: 8 pieces (1866-1903) Olds, Mary Anderson, b. 1846. As author: 12 pieces (1877-1896); as addressee: 1 piece (1885) Purcell, John Baptist, 1800-1883. As author: 4 pieces (1855-1868); as addressee: 1 piece (1868) Piatt, Donn 1819-1892. As author: 5 pieces (1884-1891); as addressee: none Sherman, Ellen Boyle Ewing, 1824-1888. As author: 1 piece (1872); as addressee: none Thurman, Allen Granbery, 1813-1895. As author: 1 piece (1875); as addressee: 1 piece (1851) The Rocky Mountain diary of William Marshall Anderson was published on various occasions in 1838-1967. His Mexican diary has been published in: An American in Maximilian's Mexico, 1865-1866: the diaries of William Marshall Anderson / edited by Ramon Eduardo Ruiz. (San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library, 1959).
mssAD 1-454
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Anderson family papers
Manuscripts
Includes: miscellaneous financial receipts and documents, dating from 1837-1873; 1838 U.S. Seventh Circuit Court law license for Anderson; 1863 United States Internal Revenue license; 1844 and 1870 religious certificate; 1869 St. Joseph's Cathedral, Columbus, Ohio, certificate; 1844 American Art Union certificate to William Marshall Anderson; 1869 Western Reserve Historical Society membership certificate for William Marshall Anderson; 1-page undated transcription of 1814 Army Register of the United States.
mssAD 1-454
Battle of Kenesaw Mountain
Visual Materials
Image of Union and Confederate armies engaging at the Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, in 1864 during the American Civil War; Confederate soldiers fire rifles and cannons from trenches at the advancing Union troops; wounded and dead soldiers in foreground; mountain peak in background.
priJLC_MIL_000761