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Henry D. Barrows letter to Anna L. Reed
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Autograph letter signed. Regarding honors. (1 page and signed envelope). Also includes two letters: Edward J. Reed to William Gladstone (3 pages) and E.W. Hamilton to Edward J. Reed (1 page), both 1884 October 22, both with envelopes signed by Gladstone.
mssShapiro
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Letter written by Reed to Captain Culver regarding the cancellation of a meeting they were expected to attend.
mssHM 74826
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In this letter, Cory informs Reed that the $48 owed to José Benito Ramírez for attending to Henrico Variepa during an illness will be applied to Variepa's estate.
mssHM 31527
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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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Buchanan wrote this letter in response to a letter he received from writer Ella Higginson requesting information on Indians in Alaska and Alaska in general. Buchanan suggests she read some of the Bulletins published by the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology, as well as various works by Miner Bruce, Henry Henshaw, Otis Mason, and Dr. Sheldon Jackson. Higginson, who was from Washington, published her book Alaska, the great country three years later.
mssHM 68055
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Letter from Henry Scamman to Francesca Allen, providing comments about Scamman's family, his varied activities, and his hopes that Francesca would visit him in the spring. Scamman also writes about going to Sacramento to fight a tax-related bill and hunting quail. With envelope.
mssHM 83979