Manuscripts

Francis Johnston letterbooks

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Description: The letters are written to various people by Frank Johnston from New York City in 1853 to 1857. He discusses several types of business but the letters deal chiefly with the cotton trade. Johnston talks a lot about shipments of cotton and the prices.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1853-1857.
Call number: mssHM 78341-78342
Creator: Johnston, Francis(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Maggs, June 1986.
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Brock Collection: Correspondence of Peyton Johnston

Manuscripts

Chiefly letters to Peyton Johnston from his Irish relatives

mssBR Box 104

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Sir Francis Walsingham letterbook

Manuscripts

Copies of Walsingham's official correspondence during his embassy to France.

mssHM 416

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Frances Benjamin Johnston Photograph Collection

Visual Materials

The Huntington's collection of Johnston photographs covers her D.C. career, mainly in the 1890s. Johnston herself described the collection as "portraits of famous men and women and historic events ... through the administrations of Benj. Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft." The focus is largely on D.C. socialites, diplomats, Presidents, senators, reformers, Supreme Court justices, artists, authors, Confederacy officers, etc. Also included are series of views of Washington's embassies (largely interior shots), legations, and famous residences Johnston photographed for Demorest's family magazine. The remainder of the collection includes, among other items, copies of Mathew Brady's daguerreotypes that belonged to the War Dept., treaties and other official documents from the State Dept. Archives, Lincoln ephemera intended to illustrate Ida Tarbell's Life of Lincoln, and views of the Bell telephone

photCL 352

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Joseph E. Johnston papers

Manuscripts

The collection includes letters, communications, reports, and other records generated and accumulated by General Joseph Johnston's headquarters during the American Civil War, with some private letters written and received by Johnston. Correspondents include Confederate General Braxton Bragg, Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Confederate General John Bell Hood, Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, and Confederate States Senator from Texas, Louis Trezevant Wigfall.

mssJO

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Francis Augustus Bishop papers

Manuscripts

The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, and documents, including 54 volumes (31 diaries, 2 letter books, and various account books), and 2 maps related to the life and activities of engineer Francis Augustus Bishop. Subject matter includes the Placerville and Sacramento Railroad (1865-1877), the California and Nevada Railroad (1881-1882), and various water and hydraulic mining companies in the Placerville, California, area between 1853 and 1855. There are two documents which deal with the Lander Wagon Road Survey of 1857.

mssBP

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Charles A. Thackston letterbook

Manuscripts

Letterbook of outgoing letters sent by San Francisco merchant Charles A. Thackston from May 15, 1852, to February 13, 1853. Most of the correspondence relates to Thackston's business contacts in New York, and references shipping, power of attorney, and notes on various residents of San Francisco. Some of the correspondence appears to be personal, possibly written to Thackston's brother. In a bound letterbook labeled "Leonora Thackston, Scrap Book, 1870."

mssHM 75059

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