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James Hoyt diary
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Reverend James Hoyt kept this diary while living in Washington, D.C. right after the end of the American Civil War. He writes in detail about his work with the United States Christian Commission including visiting hospitalized soldiers and handing out supplies. Hoyt also writes about attending a memorial service for President Abraham Lincoln, visiting Mary Surratt's house, where she and John Wilkes Booth and conspirators had met, and going to the courthouse during their trial and seeing Surratt in the courtroom. He describes in detail two encounters he had with angry, drunk soldiers. On June 6, a group of soldiers from the 75th Indiana stormed the supply tent accusing Hoyt and his fellow ministers of giving preferential treatment to African American soldiers. On June 8, Hoyt and the ministers were harassed by a group of soldiers from the 17th Ohio with the same complaint. One soldier had a club and struck the tent, and one minister was thrown to the ground. The last few pages of the volume contain notes on specific soldiers Hoyt ministered to, inscriptions by his fellow chaplains, and notes on the history and organization of William Tecumseh Sherman's army. With a complete typed transcript and index. Includes 18 printed pages. The diary contains racist language.
mssHM 84018
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Charles L. Green journal
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Journal that Charles L. Green kept between May 23, 1865 and October 31, 1869, including his service on the Miantonomoh and the Nipsic. The manuscript opens with a brief autobiographical narrative that Green composed "having lost my previous journals a short time since, by the destruction of the vessel to which I was attached." This portion of the manuscript includes a detailed account of the fire that destroyed the steamer Arizona.
mssHM 42272
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Ivor Armstrong Richards letters to James Thorpe and Daniel Woodward
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Two autograph letters written by I.A. Richards to James Thorpe (HM 83567) and Daniel Woodward (HM 83568, with envelope); written from Santa Barbara where Richards was scheduled to give a lecture. The letters, written on the same day, were thank you letters for his recent tour of the Huntington Library given by Thorpe (Director of the Library) and Woodward.
mssHM 83567-83568
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Charles H. Alden journal
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Personal journal that Charles Henry Alden kept while onboard of the Delaware. The journal, intended for his wife, consists of detalied and vivid accounts of the Delaware's voyages in South America and the Mediterranean, complete with watercolor and pencil illustrations, samples of the ship's logs, index and appendix consisting of clippings of Alden's newspaper articles. The manuscript opens with Alden's letter to his wife that recaps the events between his leaving home and the Delaware's departure for South America, followed by a copy of the letter from the Delaware officers to the departing Secretary of the Navy George Edmund Badger (Sep. 1841), an account of the day in port at Hampton Roads, and the detailed, illustrated description of the Delaware. The journal proper begins on p. 115. The entries include accounts of the life onboard; marine wildlife, encounters with other ships; an arrest of a slaver by the British Navy, sketches of South American landscape, sights, and peoples, including slaves; descriptions of Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina, including Alden's take on the revolution in Brazil, the battle of Arroyo Grande, and events leading to the Guerra Grande in Uruquay; and accounts of the Mediterranean, including Portugal, Spain, Minorca, and Italy.
mssHM 46321
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Charles A. Magnuson letter to Miss Kneebone
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This letter was written by Charles A. Magnuson to Miss Kneebone, a friend, living in Butte, Montana. He describes his experiences in Alaska, including the weather, landscape, mail delivery, and arrivals and departures of ships. Magnuson arrived in Nome less than a month ago and started working immediately: "This is the busy season here, and I have been working every day and evening since I stepped ashore. However, the rush will be over in a few days...then we will be dead to the outside world for about seven months." He describes the last frontier as being bleak: "I have not had much opportunity to see the country as yet, but what I have seen is not a least bit inviting. Not a tree, or blade of grass...when the heavy snows come, they will hide all of this...nothing but snow, snow, snow."
mssHM 80840
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Charles Plummer journal
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This journal is an account by Charles Plummer documenting his travels and gold mining experiences California, which took place in 1850-1851. The majority of the volume concerns the trip, which lasted from 1850, May 2 to 1851, October 1. While Plummer was digging outside Stockton, there were several instances of theft and murder in the town and the surrounding mining claims. He describes digging for gold as "very poor business." Bound leather volume. Journal entries begin in 1842; most of the early entries are financial notes, such as bills paid.
mssHM 2017