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Cardella E. Brown letterpress copybook and autograph albums

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Description: Three volumes belonging to Cardella E. Brown. The first is a letterpress copybook containing approximately 100 outgoing personal letters Brown wrote from 1859 to 1861 while he was living in Hartford, Connecticut and working as a clerk at Connecticut Mutual Insurance Company. The letters are addressed to Brown's parents, siblings, a cousin, and other family members and friends. The detailed and candid letters are written in a conversational tone devoid of usual epistolary formalities. The letters comment on a wide range of topics, including Brown's personal life and sexuality, goings on in Hartford, and state and national politics of the 1860 election year. He talks in detail about Stephen A. Douglass, the anticipated secession of South Carolina, the Buchanan administration, and the hanging of John Brown.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1857-1866.
Call number: mssHM 83477-83479
Creator: Brown, Cardella E (1841-1896)

Ford Madox Brown correspondence

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A collection of letters related to Ford Madox Brown; the majority of which are addressed to Brown or his wife, Emma Hill Brown. Although the correspondence spans a twenty-two-year period, the vast majority of the letters were written between November and December of 1874. The Brown's only son, Oliver Madox Brown, died in 1874 at the age of nineteen, and the majority of the correspondence relates to his passing and the family's grief over his loss. Correspondents include George Price Boyce, Moncure Daniel Conway, Thomas Gordon Hake, William John Hennessy, Alfred J. Hipkins, Philip Bourke Marston, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti, Frederic Shields and Frederic George Stephens.

mssHM 45380-45442

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Ford Madox Brown correspondence

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mssHM 45380-45442

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Joseph Bradford Hardon letterpress copybook

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This volume contains correspondence (357 letters) documenting Hardon's efforts to gather investors who would buy into the development of La Plata Mining District near Durango Colorado from October 20, 1894 to October 16, 1900. The majority of the letters were written from Boston and are addressed to business partners Finney Jones, Adolph Montandon, and Hugh Owens (there are 81 different recipients to Hardon's letters in total).

mssHM 81274

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Letterpress copybooks

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Although the Thomas E. Gibbon papers consists of four series with subseries, the entire collection is essentially one series. Gibbon's professional endeavors as a businessman, lawyer, and political activist are found throughout the entire collection. There is also material related to highways, power development, irrigation, real estate in Hollywood, California, mining and oil ventures in California, Arizona, and Nevada.

mssGibbon

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Memorandum books of John Brown

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The first notebook contains John Brown's autograph of the "Articles of Enlistment and by-laws of Kansas Regulars, made and established by the commander, A.D. 1856," list of the names and dates of enlistment, "List of Volunteers either engaged or guarding Horses during the fight of Black Jack or Palmyra, June 2, 1856, " and 'List of names of the wounded in the Battle of Black Jack (or Palmyra) and also of the Eight who held out to receive the surrender of Capt. Pate and Twenty-Two men on that occasion, June 2, 1856." The text fills 10 leaves of an 85 leave notebook. On f. 83, there is a pencil note dated "May 9, 1859" concerning "Cutter badly injured before the fight of Osawatomie." The second notebook contains sundry records of expenses, accounts, etc. for 1843-1846 when John Brown, in partnership with Simon Perkins, was engaged in sheep ranching and wool business in Akron, Ohio. Included are records of household expenses, expenditures associated with sheep and wool business, etc. Also included are scattered records of payments associated with the John Brown's litigation.

mssHM 845

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Frank Mason Brown diary

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Eighteen pages of the volume are Brown's diary entries for June 19 to July 6. He describes the group's activities as they made their way down the Colorado River, starting at Cataract Canyon and ending at Marble Canyon. Brown details their progress down the river and the scenery around them. He describes the Dirty Devil River, Glen Canyon, the San Juan River, and the Grand Canyon; he briefly mentions Robert Brewster Stanton. The other seventeen pages are notes Brown made regarding the natural resources (timber, petroleum, minerals, coal) of the Colorado River region.

mssHM 64276

Cardella E. Brown letterpress copybook and autograph albums

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