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Robert Honyman journal

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Description: A daily record of a journey by horseback, stage, and packet from Virginia to New England and return. The subject matter contains a description of the roads, the countryside, crops; business conditions in the cities visited, prices of food and lodging, political conditions, war prepartions in Boston, church services and political meetings; descriptions of the layout of cities and buildings; references to prominent persons and others whom he met en route; mentions the annoucement of "the dreadful news of the comencement of the war by the affair of Lexington" April 27, while in Baltimore.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1775, March 1-April 28.
Call number: mssHM 818
Creator: Honyman, Robert (1747-1824)(Opens in new tab)

Robert Burton journal

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In the journal, Burton recorded his various medical appointments. He included patient name, diagnosis, services rendered, and payments received. There is also some pages dealing with daily life and travels. The four additional items include two pages of quotations and two ledger pages. The journal is written in pencil and some of the handwriting has faded and is illegible.

mssHM 74091

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Robert Hunter journal of an English Traveler

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Contains the observation of an English traveler to America, including a classic word picture of George Washington.

mssHM 963

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Mae Donovan Dihel diary of a trip to Mexico City

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Diary kept by Donnie Dihel while on her trip from Lexington, Kentucky, to Mexico City in 1938. The author makes several comments about the conditions she saw due to the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas. She also makes several comments regarding the African Americans she saw during her travels as well as the people of Mexico. Accompanied by a letter to Mae Donovan Dihel and a family-related clipping, 1937 and 1951.

mssHM 84013

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Joel Robert Chappell letters

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Two letters written to Joel Robert Chappell shortly before his death. The first, dated January 24, 1876, was written by H.L. Binford, a Los Angeles real estate broker who had also lived in Jackson, Tennessee. Binford writes of the restoration of his own health after moving to California, the temperance of the climate, and the successes of local farmers and business professionals. The second letter was written by H. Stephens in Los Angeles and dated February 19, 1876, the day after Chappell's death. In the letter Stephens writes of the availability of timber ("taken as a whole the country is not well wooded"), housing conditions, the cost of land, and sea passage to San Francisco. He also advises Chappell to buy a small amount of land and to save enough money to live on for a year.

mssHM 73669-73670

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D.J. Barber journal

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The journal titled "Notes on Travel" covers the period from Sept. 19 to the end of December of 1859. It begins with a detailed description of the trip to New York, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Virginia, and North Carolina; the latter portion includes discussion of the state's economy and social customs. The largest portion of the journal describes Augusta, Union Point, and Queensborough, Ga. The journal richly details the conditions of Negro slaves and their customs, including long descriptions of a prayer meeting, a wedding, and "corn shucking;" political life, (including an account of a Democratic meeting in Augusta, the state elections and discussion of the role of the Know-Nothing party in local politics); his debates with local planters about slavery; the mores, local customs, social life, economics, education, and religious practices (Barber was a Methodist.) Also included is a short glossary of Southern terms (ff. 78-78v).

mssHM 68483

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Journals

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A collection of the personal and professional papers of Edward Davis Townsend. Included in the collection are official and private correspondence, chiefly letters addressed to him, military records, journals, memoirs, and a few photographs. Two journals cover the 2nd Seminole War from 1837 to 1838, and his service in California from 1851 to 1856. The latter was incorporated into a memoir entitled "A Trip to California;" both accounts are accompanied by pencil sketches. An unfinished memoir covers Townsend's life and career until the beginning of the Mexican War. The collection also contains a group of personal and political correspondence of Elbridge Gerry, including pieces related to his diplomatic and political career from 1772 to 1814, and the correspondence of Ann Thompson Gerry and Eliza Gerry Townsend. Also included are a copy of Samuel Auchmuty's 1761 sermon on 1 John 5:7, and contemporary copies of Jefferson Davis's letters to his wife Varina Howell Davis from 1861 to 1865. The collection also includes a spool of thread with a hidden note in it, 1861 February 10, and a cotton ball from the steamer Emma, which was loaded with cotton when its crew burned it at Fort Pulaski on August 31, 1862, to prevent its capture by the Union forces under the command of William B. Barton.

mssHM 41695

Robert Honyman journal

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