Manuscripts

William D. Gutman letters to Charles Scott

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Description: These letters document William D. Gutman's failed efforts, in Pittsburgh, Chicago and Portland, Oregon, to profit from the business of organizing and equipping parties of gold seekers to travel from the United States to the Klondike region of Canada's Northwest Territories. The letters are written to his friend Charles Scott of Woodburn, Oregon. Six of the seven letters were written in January 1898.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1897-1898.
Call number: mssHM 83843-83849
Creator: Gutman, William D(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from McBride Rare Books, July 2019.

Charles William Watts papers

Manuscripts

A collection of 91 items from 1897 to 1963, which consists chiefly of letters written by Charles William Watts to his wife and daughter between 1897 and 1900. The letters are written from Alaska, including Juneau, Sheep Camp, Skagway, the Yukon River Valley, Dawson, and the Klondike River Valley. Watts's letters describe the Klondike gold rush and life in Alaska and in the Yukon. The collection also contains a photograph of Charles William Watts with a group of hunters and various clippings. There are also a few letters and notes written in 1963 by Lee Rohrbough.

mssHM 48341-48427

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William Lawrence Austin letters to Joseph Burn Austin

Manuscripts

Five letters written by William Lawrence Austin to his father dealing with the Leadville Colorado silver rush of 1878-1879. One of the letters contains a sketch. Some are on J. B. Grant & Co's Smelting Works letterhead. Four of the letters were written from Leadville (one from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.)

mssHM 81295-81299

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Note from Charles Herries

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This collection contains 44 letters written by William Herries to his English relatives during his journey across the Atlantic Ocean to New York and his travels around America including Washington D.C., Pittsburgh, Kentucky, the Indiana and Louisiana territories, New Orleans, and Spanish Florida. Herries writes about people he meets including President Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, James Wilkinson, and John Jacob Astor. He also describes his various economic endeavors including attempts as a fur trader, general merchant, trader of enslaved persons, and land speculator before his acquisition and operation of the Montesano plantation near Fort Baton Rouge and his eventual ruin following the short-lived West Florida Republic. There is a note from Charles Herries from approximately 1816 stating that he had recently received word that William Herries had died three or four years previously. An unsigned and undated note lists all of Herries's stops from New York to New Orleans.

mssHerries

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William Herries correspondence

Manuscripts

This collection contains 44 letters written by William Herries to his English relatives during his journey across the Atlantic Ocean to New York and his travels around America including Washington D.C., Pittsburgh, Kentucky, the Indiana and Louisiana territories, New Orleans, and Spanish Florida. Herries writes about people he meets including President Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, William Pultney, and John Jacob Astor. He also describes his various economic endeavors including attempts as a fur trader, general merchant, trader of enslaved persons, and land speculator before his acquisition and operation of the Montesano plantation near Fort Baton Rouge and his eventual ruin following the short-lived West Florida Republic. There is a note from Charles Herries from approximately 1816 stating that he had recently received word that William Herries had died three or four years previously. An unsigned and undated note lists all of Herries's stops from New York to New Orleans.

mssHerries

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Samuel D. Snowden letter to Alvin T. Smith

Manuscripts

In this letter, Snowden asks Alvin Smith to please take care of certain affairs for him in Oregon, chiefly concerning land claims, while Snowden is in California. He also writes of how Oregon men are faring in the quest for gold around Sutter's Fort.

mssHM 16377

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Charles W. Drury letters

Manuscripts

In the letters, Drury talks of gold mining and discoveries, the transcontinental railroad, shipping lines opening up travel to China and Australia, the Walker expedition of 1853 to Sonora, the future of Mexico and Hawaii as American territories, and California politics and climate.

mssHM 75088-75089

William D. Gutman letters to Charles Scott

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