William H. Gilbert diaries

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  Samuel Augustus Gilbert letters

  Manuscripts

  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

  Manuscripts

  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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  Diary of Gilbert Dunlap Greer [microform]: 1888-1895

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  Microfilm of the diary of Gilbert Dunlap Greer, along with various family biographies and notes. The majority of the film consists of Greer's 1888-1895 diary. It records his mission to the Lamanites and Pima Indians in 1888, including time he spent in Pima (he also learned the Pima language) and Papuga villages, lists of names of those baptized, and feeling an earthquake. The latter portions of the diary recall his life around Springville and St. Johns, Arizona, where he writes of plowing and ditch digging, attending to schools, and attending church meetings. Also included on the microfilm is a one page typescript of a portion of Greer's 1879 diary; a short biography of Greer; an essay entitled One Hundred Years by Grace Greer Nuttall, who recounts the story of the Greer family, primarily Nathanial Greer and Nancy Ann Terry Roberts, and their life in Texas, the death of Nathaniel from cholera in Kansas, and the family's move to Utah, as well as recalling her own departure for a mission to Texas in 1946; a biographical sketch of Gilbert Greer's mother, Catherine Ellen Camp (1837-1929) by his sister Margaret Ellen G. Pulsipher; and various family notes and genealogies.

  MSS MFilm 00223 item 06

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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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  Matthew Gilbert Upton papers

  Manuscripts

  Letters and articles by Matthew Gilbert Upton of San Francisco, California. Includes some material related to the Customhouse in San Francisco.

  mssHM 19271-19292

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  James Hoyt diary

  Manuscripts

  Reverend James Hoyt kept this diary while living in Washington, D.C. right after the end of the American Civil War. He writes in detail about his work with the United States Christian Commission including visiting hospitalized soldiers and handing out supplies. Hoyt also writes about attending a memorial service for President Abraham Lincoln, visiting Mary Surratt's house, where she and John Wilkes Booth and conspirators had met, and going to the courthouse during their trial and seeing Surratt in the courtroom. He describes in detail two encounters he had with angry, drunk soldiers. On June 6, a group of soldiers from the 75th Indiana stormed the supply tent accusing Hoyt and his fellow ministers of giving preferential treatment to African American soldiers. On June 8, Hoyt and the ministers were harassed by a group of soldiers from the 17th Ohio with the same complaint. One soldier had a club and struck the tent, and one minister was thrown to the ground. The last few pages of the volume contain notes on specific soldiers Hoyt ministered to, inscriptions by his fellow chaplains, and notes on the history and organization of William Tecumseh Sherman's army. With a complete typed transcript and index. Includes 18 printed pages. The diary contains racist language.

  mssHM 84018