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David P. McCafferty letter to Alexander Pogo, 1893-
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Ella P. Starkweather letter to "Mrs. Dwight and Family,"
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This letter was written by Ella P. Starkweather, a school teacher, living in the town of Bridgewater, now part of South Dakota. Starkweather describes her experiences in Dakota Territory to her friends back home. To her surprise, she likes the school where she is teaching. There are new series of books, a school room that is large and pleasantly furnished. She writes that some of her students could benefit from a lesson on cleanliness: "...a few would be rendered much more attractive by a vigorous application of soap suds..." Regarding life on the frontier, she writes: "You may imagine the people here are sick of the country, and I can hardly give you an idea how happy and contented they all seem to be. They say the most scant time for provisions they have known is since I came and I know of no one suffering." She also touches upon the weather and the farmers. "The country looks lovely, farmers who had seed here and sown find everything encouraging." Near the end of the letter, she describes her layover in Sheldon, Iowa for five days and her amusement regarding a car half-filled with Bohemian immigrants.
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A. P. Watt letters regarding Jack London
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The first letter was written by Mary-Cécile Logé, a French book translator. In the letter she declines to translate White fang due to the similarity of its "most important scenes" to those in The call of the wild. She states that Paris editors agree with her and that the book would have to be condensed to "one-third of its actual length" to be published in French. She sends back eight guineas to be forwarded to London. She also inquires after the rights to translate a new Robert Hitchens novel. In English (1908, May 13, HM 81227).
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College essays of Henry David Thoreau
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Manuscript (holograph, signed) of essays created while Henry David Thoreau was a student at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Contains: Of Keeping a Private Journal, [1835, January 7] (pages 1-3) ; Whether the Cultivation of the Imagination Conduce to the Happiness of the Individual, 1836 September (pages 4-7); [On the variety of energy in men] (pages 8-10); [On the anxieties and delights of a discoverer] (pages 11-13); Explain the Phrases, - A Man of Business a Man of Pleasure, a Man of the World (pages 14-16); [On becoming what others think us to be] (pages 17-18); [On Henry N. Coleridge's book, Introductions to the study of the Greek classic poets], 1836 October 1 (pages 19-26); [On the advantage and disadvantages of foreign influence on American literature], incomplete, 1836 April (pages 29-30).
mssHM 934
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David Shaw Shrode letter to W. S. Shrode
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In this letter to his brother, Shrode talks about life in Texas and the South. He also states that he has had "California fever for some time" and that he has plans to go that next Spring.
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David Saville letters to "My beloved wife"
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In these two letters addressed to "My Beloved Wife," David Saville writes that he hopes to make enough money in San Francisco to "make us independent and pay all our obligations." As business is slow, he has become homesick, as he has "too much time on my hands." He writes "if only Congress would pass a Rail Road bill it would give us new life." Dated 1860, May 14 (HM 16640) and June 1 (HM 16641).
mssHM 16640-16641
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David C. (David Colbreth) Broderick letter to John W. Forney
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Broderick has forwarded a package of letters sent by Forney, and says Forney should have time to copy the names before the departure of the next steamer to California.
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