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Joseph Heller letter to Paul Hardacre
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Joseph Lane letter to Joseph S. Ruckel
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Lane writes to Joseph Ruckel regarding the acquisition of a patent for Ruckel. However, as Ruckel did not fill out his name properly on land warrant forms, Lane writes "if I do not succeed, you will know the fault is not mine." Includes printed clipping with a biography of Joseph Lane, with the handwritten date "1987."
mssHM 29248
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William Lawrence Austin letter to Joseph Burn Austin
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William Lawrence Austin wrote this letter to his father, Joseph Burn Austin, in the midst of the Leadville silver boom. Leadville had been founded only two years earlier, but not all is well. Lawrie writes to his father in South America from a smelting works in Leadville, Colorado, seeking financial help. "My dear Papa, Can't you borrow the money to keep Cecil at Yale under a guarantee from me to pay it back with interest? It is really too bad for me to be taking all these chances...I am overworked, under paid, & tied up in such a way, than a human being can't be expected to stand it." One of his co-workers, Abarci, left some time ago and two more are going to leave the smelting works soon. He suggests, "Now I'll give you the boys' plan & you can see what a temptation it is to me. They intend to start an assay office up town, then add on a store, to consist of simply miner supplies, then do a general professional business besides. We will be working for ourselves..." He is confident that "...we will make the strongest team in the country." Lawrie is in despair because he must endure the dangers of the smelting works and shortchange his own future by attending to his brother's needs first, a brother who spends his time reading novels and his money on "pleasure seeking." He states, "You don't know how interesting life has been becoming for me, & I must stay in the poisonous fumes of furnaces, & give up every thing...I have to look far enough into the future, anyhow, in order to see a blue sky, but to think that I must give up my Leadville, & start again at some future day, possibly in some camp, & certainly without one cent to back me is very hard Papa." He concludes, "You must pay some attention to my case, as well at Cecil's. You could not keep one man in a hundred as you are keeping me, & there will be a final blow up, if you keep on, & that I want to avoid if possible." The letter is simply signed "Lawrie."
mssHM 80808
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Letter from Arabella Huntington to Caroline Holladay
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it very hard to realize that I shall never see or hear that dear face & voice again. Time as yet has helped me very little, but I get through the days one by one. I am not well, have had a cold that won't go away - as I can not go out, I am sending you a check also one for Harriet with which get something to please your selves. Write to me some times & tell me what you are doing.
msssHEH 422
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Letter from Arabella Huntington to Caroline Holladay
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A letter from you is a great pleasure. With best love to you. ____ the babies and your mother. I am always, affectionately Belle. Kiss Harriet for me I am very fond of her.""Monday December 1, My dearest Caroline I am sending you this by Edward who leaves in a day or so. We were surprised but very glad to see him. Have been in town for just two weeks & I find
msssHEH 422
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Thomas Starr King letter to Charles Warren Stoddard
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King sends his regrets that he will be unable to meet Stoddard, and hopes Stoddard will understand that King's hastily pencilled criticisms are a sign of King's high opinion of Stoddard's work: "It is because you have strong powers & good capacities that I speak of Blemishes for than excellences." With two bits of printed ephemera, one a clipping from an unknown source containing a short biography of Thomas Starr King.
mssHM 29246
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Charles S. (Charles Sanders) Peirce letter to Welch, Bigelow & Co
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This letter to the printers Welch, Bigelow & Co. reads as follows: "Gentlemen, I enclose herewith the proof of page 85. I still retain the proof of page 84 because you have not returned me the copy of (661) (662) and (663) which come on that page. Yours truly, C. S. Peirce." The letter was written in Washington, DC and on "U.S. Coast Survey Office" letterhead.
mssHM 79889