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Samuel Hall letter to Davies Gilbert
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Samuel Augustus Gilbert letters
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The letters, which Gilbert wrote to his sisters, span fourteen years and cover his various travels and work throughout Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia, and more specifically Cape Cod, Charleston, Galveston, Matagorda, Corpus Christi, and Mount Vernon. The first eleven letters discuss briefly Gilbert's work with the U.S. Coast Survey and Alexander Dallas Bache, but are mainly personal in nature with discussions of his family and friends. The two Civil War era letters are written from Camp Platt, W.V., and Mount Vernon, Va.; in these letters he discusses troop movements, his experiences with the people of the south, and his opinion of the war, the "rebs," and "Father Abraham."
mssHM 66182-66194
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Juan W. Shore letter to Gilbert Claiborne
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Letter to Gilbert Claiborne regarding the release of the son of Ygnacio Alvarado (1853, January 22). HM 79059.
mssHM 79059-79061
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Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, Virginia, letter to William Davies :
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Jefferson discusses a letter received from Baron von Steuben regarding new recruits and requests assistance from Colonel Davies to provide articles for them.
mssHM 25045
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J. J. (Joseph John) Thomson letter to Gilbert Stead
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Letter by Thomson to fellow British physicist Gilbert Stead. The letter reads as follows "Dear Mr. Stead, It was a very great pleasure to me to receive your letter for I remember very well how much I owed to your help during the time I was on the Commission. I hope it will not be long before we meet again. Yours very sincerely, J. J. Thomson." The letter was written in Cambridge.
mssHM 80254
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John M. Thayer and Gilbert Adams letters to Edwards Pierrepont
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John M. Thayer wrote his letter (dated 1875, September 25, and 13 pages long) from Cheyenne, Wyoming to United States Attorney General Edwards Pierrepont, to protest his removal of the U.S. Marshal of the territory. Pierrepont had replaced Gilbert Adams with Frank Wolcott (best known for his later unsavory role in the Johnson County War). Thayer provides numerous examples of the capricious form of justice practiced in the territory. HM 82437.
mssHM 82437-82438
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Samuel Petrie letter to Edmund Burke
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Handwritten copy of a letter to Edmund Burke from Samuel Petrie in Paris, France (autograph letter unsigned). The letter describes a meeting between Petrie and Benjamin Franklin and their discussion of English and American relations. Page 1 marked "copy." Endorsed on verso: "Copy of my letter to Edmd. Burke Esqr. Jany. 4th. 1778."
mssHM 23309