Manuscripts

John M. Thayer and Gilbert Adams letters to Edwards Pierrepont

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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1875.
Call number: mssHM 82437-82438
Creator: Thayer, John M (1820-1906)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Swann Printed & Manuscript Americana Sale 2391, Lot 374, by the William Reese Company, September 17, 2015.

John Augustus Sutter letter to Edward M. Kern

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Sutter writes that his stay in Sacramento was longer than anticipated, upon his receiving two separate subpoenas to appear in the United States District Court in San Francisco. The remainder of the letter is concerned with mutual acquaintances.

mssHM 20663

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John Franklin Miller letter to Wayne McVeagh

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Letter from John Franklin Miller to Wayne McVeagh, written on United States Senate Chamber letterhead. The letter originally accompanied documents relating to the appointment of Ralph Ellis as U.S. Marshal of California.

mssHM 21335

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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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John Greenwood Meadows letter to Eleanor M. Hand

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An autograph letter, with envelope, written to "Dear Nellie" who lived in Wisconsin. The letter, written from Fort Lyon in Colorado Territory at the height of the Civil War, describes the tumultuous circumstances of the 9th Wisconsin Light Artillery, then serving as part of the post's garrison after the Union Army had withdrawn all regular troops to conduct the campaigns against the Confederate insurrection. Meadows apologizes to Eleanor Hand, who would later become his wife, for his lack of letters, but goes on to express his feelings for her, and discusses whether he should re-enlist. Meadows also outlines his episodes of detached duty to posts such as Fort Larned, Kansas, and protecting the settlers and overlanders from the perceived threat of hostile Native Americans.

mssHM 84109

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John Kern letter to Richard H. Kern and Edward M. Kern

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In this letter to his brothers (the letter is addressed to "Dick & Ned"), John Kern writes of various business matters, including the journal of a Henry King which was said to have been given to Captain John C. Frémont, but then lost. John Kern hopes his brothers might have some information regarding the diary's whereabouts. Dated 1850, May 30-31.

mssHM 20654

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John Adams, Philadelphia, letter to Abigail Adams, Braintree, Massachusetts :

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Letter regarding Adams' extended separation from his family in which he lists the multiple tasks involved in the founding of the new nation. Contemporary copy of a letter that was intercepted by the British.

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John M. Thayer and Gilbert Adams letters to Edwards Pierrepont

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