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Sir James Bateman correspondence

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Description: Bateman's detailed letters to Hill over a four-year period from 1697 to 1700 concerning military remittances to the Continent as well as advice and reports on his private investments on Hill's behalf, with technical references to explanations of the wide variety of financial instruments of the 1690s including the new Exchequer Bills, interest bearing bonds, stocks, etc., and filled with specific quotations of prices, interest, discount rates, and dividends. There are passing references to the politics of the relationship between the Bank of England and the British Treasury, to relations between the Old and New East India Companies, to King William's War, and to other administrators and politicians, but the over-riding content is financial. There are also three letters in French from Cornelius Kreps in Ghent to Hill, 1699-1701, also concerning finance, and three accounts of expenses for English soldiers in the hospital at Bylocke, Ghent, 1693-1698.
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Production date: 1693-1701.

Newton Bateman letters

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Letters to Newton Bateman primarily written by his brother, E.B. Bateman. In addition to news of family and acquaintances, including the death of his son, E.B. writes from St. Louis of the unsanitary conditions of urban life and of prostitution (1848); from Fort Leavenworth of military preparations during the Mexican-American War, of his unofficial service as surgeon to Col. Easton's Missouri Infantry Volunteers, of his travels from Jefferson Barracks to Fort Leavenworth, and of Capt. George de Korponay (1848); from Jacksonville, Illinois, of the "college and academy in St. Louis" (1848); and from Stockton, California, of the cost of goods, difficulty with the mail, and of gold miners leaving for "better diggings" in Australia (1850-1853). Also included are a mathematics textbook circular, a letter from William Peel "P.M." referring to Daniel Anderson's property, and a letter from a friend of Newton's named Peter who writes of St. Charles College, Bateman's options with the school and his potential pay, and of the shooting death of a man named Sterling by Gran or Grun, of which Peter writes "Oh how I would like to make a speech in his defense...Should the Jury pronounce him guilty, it would be an outrage upon humanity were he executed."

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William Hill letter to James Bateman, official of the South Sea Company, 1711 December 3

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Letter from William Hill offering to sell a manuscript chart book of the South Sea (the west coast of South America) by William Hacke to the South Sea Company. Hill states that he purchased the South Sea waggoner, or Buccaneer's atlas from Hacke "about 18 yeares agoe" for 70 pounds sterling. The letter goes on to explain that Hill is currently confined to the Poultry Comptor for a debt of around 30 pounds sterling, and the proceeds from the sale of this rare atlas would help restore him to his home and family as well as be of benefit to the South Sea Company.

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U.S. Pension Office file for Mrs. E.B. Bateman

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Xerox copies of original documents held in the U.S. Pension Office. These records document Mrs. E.B. Bateman's request for a government pension based upon her husband's service in the Mexican-American War.

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Seville-Golladay correspondence, (bulk 1866-1872)

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This group consists of four manuscripts, eleven letters, and three folders of ephemera. Three of the manuscripts are lyrical epitaphs written to commemorate the deaths of various people in no particular order. The fourth manuscript is a personal statement by Mary Elizabeth Seville Hill herself, in which she explains family connections as well as her own point of view with regard to the letters. The letters are mostly written by Mary Elizabeth, commonly called "Mary Lizzie," to her Southern cousins after the Civil War. The letters themselves contain references to their education, the presence of African Americans in schools, the aftermath of the Civil War, and general family news, such as illnesses and marriages. One letter in the group discusses the survival of the other letters in the group, and is written by a descendant of the Southern cousins to May Hill Arbuthnot, 1884-1969. Lastly, the ephemera consist of two hand-embroidered clothing fragments and a collection of newspaper epitaph clippings.

mssHM 79825-79839

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James Henry Gleason papers

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These letters by James Henry Gleason are vivid impressions of a colorful period in the history of the Sandwich Islands and of Alta California from 1841 to 1859. These letters have been published by The Arthur H. Clark Company in a book entitled Beloved Sister the letters of James Henry Gleason. There are two unpublished letters. The first was written by Jose Bandini to [James Santiago Johnson] on May 12, 1833 from San Diego, California. The second letter was written by Dorothy Gleason to Agnes C. Conrad on November 17, 1969 concerning an invitation to the 54th Birthday Anniversary of Her Majesty Kapiolani at Iolani Palace. There are also three deeds concerning land lots.

mssHM 81842-81902

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James Bethel letter to Ward Boyce

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Handwritten letter by James Bethel to his friend Ward Boyce, conveying news from the region of Fort Caspar, Wyoming Territory, including references to weather conditions, a forthcoming dance, the horse trade, the uncertainties of mail in his location, and his feelings of loneliness.

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Sir James Bateman correspondence

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