Manuscripts

Samuel Ten Eyck letter to Origin B. Throop

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Description: In this letter, Samuel Ten Eyck writes to his friend, Origin B. Throop, back home in Schoharie, New York, offering a description of the Mexican port city of Guaymas, Sonora, giving his assessment of Mexican attitudes towards Americans, and describing his experiences in the Fraser River Gold Rush.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1859, April 27.
Call number: mssHM 83104
Creator: Ten Eyck, Samuel(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from The Wayfarer's Bookshop, July 2016.
Dimensions: 27 cm :

Original Letters of Sir Walter Scott

Manuscripts

An autograph list in an unknown hand of the Original Letters of Sir Walter Scott, including addressee, date, place of origin and important content. The list also contains 7 blank pages for a total of 15 pages and two autograph notes about the provenance of the list.

mssHM 68516

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Origin and progress of the American rebellion in the year 1776, in a letter to a friend

Manuscripts

A late variant of a Loyalist narrative published in Peter Oliver's Origin & Progress of the American Revolution: A Tory View, ed. Douglas Adair and John A. Schutz (San Marino: Huntington Library, 1961).

mssHM 550

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Samuel B. (Samuel Beach) Axtell letter to Theodore F. Dwight

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Axtell speaks highly of Dwight's family, saying "The name of Dwight is also one which always challenges respect." He writes that he encloses a speech, but the speech is not included with the letter.

mssHM 29220

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Samuel Benedict Reed letters

Manuscripts

This typescript of letters written by Samuel B. Reed to his wife covers six years of Reed's work for the Union Pacific Railroad Company. In the letters, he details his group's work surveying parts of Utah, Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, and Wyoming while searching for a practical route for the railroad, as well as the construction of the railroad tracks. He discusses the people involved including Frank Case, James A. Evans, Grenville Dodge, Oliver Ames, Thomas Clark Durant, and Sidney Dillon. Reed spent much time in Salt Lake City and became friends with Brigham Young and in his letters, he talks a lot about his many conversations with Young. Reed also discusses his group's interactions and experiences with the Ute and Shoshoni Indians. The typescript also includes copies of reports written by Reed.

mssHM 66497

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Samuel W. Messerne letter

Manuscripts

In the letter, which is written from the mining town of Murderer's Bar and addressed to "Theodore," Messerne advises his friend not to come up to the Northern California mines unless he can find himself a good business partner; he also requests that he bring "some sulphur and cream of tarter."

mssHM 63814

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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

Samuel Ten Eyck letter to Origin B. Throop

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