Manuscripts
Thomas Moore letter to James Carpenter
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Moore & Bixby wool book
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Book containing the annual sheep shearings of Moore & Bixby, from San Justo Rancho and Saca Ranch in San Benito County, California. With notes about amounts gathered, sold, prices, and contitions of the wool. The volume is mostly blank.
mssHM 84343
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Walter Moore Leman letters to Nathan Porter
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Three letters sent by Walter Moore Leman from California and Nevada to Nathan Porter between 1870 and 1871. The first letter, sent from San Juan, California, asks Porter for a monetary loan since the traveling theatre is not as successful as Leman had hoped. The second letter was sent from Virginia City, Nevada, and describes the theatre's travels and success in Nevada, and a sketch of a "Washoe Canary" driven by "John Chinaman." The final letter, dated 1871, describes the experiences of Leman's son Walter, who had to cancel a sea voyage due to illness.
mssHM 48447-48449
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L. C. Green letter to Amy Carpenter
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A letter from L. C. Green, a New Yorker visiting Brazil, to a cousin named Amy Carpenter. This letter, probably written from Rio de Janeiro, provides considerable commentary about Brazilian scenery, social classes, slavery, and the impact of the substantial numbers of Americans who passed through Brazil on their way to the California Gold Rush.
mssHM 83455
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William E. Carpenter papers
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Contains the Army Record of William E. Carpenter. Fair copy of the Civil War diary kept in Aug. 1862 to July 1865, preceded by an 1871 account book (100 leaves). Both manuscripts fill approximately a half of a blank account book. The diary deals chiefly with camp life: foraging, rations, typhoid fever, hospitals, furloughs, elections of officers, inspections, encounters with Confederate prisoners, war news and rumors; desertions; news about other regiments including newly organized colored troops; "chat" with Ulysses S. Grant. There is also infomration on operations of Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign, including siege and surrender of Vicksburg. Also included are William E. Carpenter's insignia of the Grand Army of the Republic, Civil War leaflets with the texts of "The Veterans are Coming!," by L. Grennan, and "Triumphal March of General Grant's Grand Army", two copies of a leaflet "History of Regimental Colors of the 124th Regiment Ill. Vol. Infantry," by J.H. Howe. (Republican Print: Galbsburg, Ill, s.d.), newspaper clippings, and postcards. Accompanied by the following manuscripts: discharge certificate of William E. Carpenter (HM 60954), "Statistics of the 124th Regt. From Sept. 10 1862 to Aug. 11, 1863) (HM 60955), and the reply to a questionnaire distributed by the U.S. Bureau of Pensions (1904) (HM 60952).
mssHM 60952-60955
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Dorothea Moore letters
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The collection consists of letters from Dorothea Moore to her first husband, Charles Fletcher Lummis. They describe the life of a woman in medical college in the 1880s and bring out a little-known period in the life of Charles Fletcher Lummis.
mssMoored
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Notes from the letters of Thomas Moore to his music publisher, James Power
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