Manuscripts

Stiefel family papers

Image not available

Description: This small group consists of three photographs, one letter, and two military records related to the Stiefel family from 1862-1918. HM 83912 (a): Reinhard Stiefel's appointment as 5th Corporal of Company E of the 6th Regiment of Minnesota Volunteer and discharge as Sergeant, 1862-1865. HM 83912 (b): photograph of Reinhard Stiefel in his sergeant's uniform, approximately 1864. HM 83912 (c): photograph of Stiefel family and other passengers on or near the "Rubio" incline car at the Echo Mountain station in Los Angeles County, California, 1913. HM 83912 (d): photograph of Armistice Day celebration on Nicollet Street and 7th Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 11, 1918. HM 83912 (e): letter from a World War I Canadian soldier in France with the initials L.A.C. to Florence Fried of Toronto, Ontario. In the letter, they thank Fried for a care package received in a field hospital, December 25, 1918.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1862-1918.
Call number

Ida Husted Harper papers

Manuscripts

The collection consists primarily of letters gathered by Ida Husted Harper relating to the women's suffrage movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of these letters are to suffragists Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton; senders include Frederick Douglass, Lucy Stone, Samuel May, Sallie Holley, Francis Jackson, William Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Tilton, Wendell Phillips, George F. Train, Mary Livermore, Victoria Woodhull, Clara Barton, Mary Booth, Wendell Phillips Garrison, Fanny Villard, Felix Adler, Julia Ward Howe, Annie Besant, Angelina Grimke Weld, Frances E. Willard, Kate Field, Jane Stanford, and Robert Dale Owen, among others. Other correspondents in the collection include Theodore Parker, Gerrit Smith, William T. Stead, Abigail Mott, and Lydia Mott. There is one letter from Susan B. Anthony to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1872 November 5 (HM 10549). In addition, there are a number of letters in the collection to Ida Husted Harper, most of them regarding her biography of Susan B. Anthony and the suffrage movement. Harper's correspondents include Eugene V. Debs, Frances E. Willard, Carrie Chapman Catt, Julia Ward Howe, Mary Livermore, Amalia Condert, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida Tarbell, Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (aka "Dorothy Dix"), Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alva E. Belmont, and Anna Howard Shaw. Materials created by US presidents in this collection include James A. Garfield autograph letter signed to Sara Andrews Spencer, 1880 January 19 (HM 10571); William McKinley typescript letter signed to Ida Husted Harper, 1898 February 27 (HM 10649); William H. Taft typescript letter signed to Ida Husted Harper, 1904 February 11 (HM 10704). The collection contains eight letters from Theodore Roosevelt to: Susan B. Anthony, 1898 December 12 (HM 10654) typescript letter signed with autograph corrections Ida Husted Harper, 1918 February 7 (HM 10723) typescript letter signed with autograph corrections Ida Husted Harper, 1918 May 22 (HM 10724) typescript letter signed with secretarial signature Ida Husted Harper, 1918 June 1 (HM 10725) typescript letter signed Ida Husted Harper, 1918 September 16 (HM 10727) typescript letter signed with autograph corrections, postscript; includes transcription of typescript Ida Husted Harper, 1918 October 31 (HM 10729) typescript letter signed Ida Husted Harper, 1919 January 3 (HM 10731) typescript letter signed; enclosure is TR letter to George H. Moses on same date; includes Harper note regarding letter George H. Moses, 1919 January 3 (HM 10570) typescript copy; enclosure of letter to Harper on same date

mssHM 10497-10731

Image not available

Lewis White correspondence

Manuscripts

This small group consists of four letters (1862) and four empty envelopes (1920s). The first letter dated March 15, [1862], describes the regiment's journey from Hancock, New York to Washington, D.C. White writes the departure was delayed because "one of the boys set the barracks on fire." There was a mud march to the campsite where there was "nothing to eat" and "no straw for our beds but one blanket." The second letter dated June 13, 1862, describes a camp near Richmond, Virginia, where they "are right here in the jaws of the rebels." He recounts battlefield casualties, a skirmish at the White House Landing, and a soldier who "shot his thumb" to "get away." In the third letter, White reports he had been sick with "Chill fever" for ten days. He also describes the battle of White Oak as told by an Irish soldier from his company. In the final letter, dated August 6, 1862, he proudly announces "I am now chosen colors corporal one that goes with the colors into battle the most dangerous place in the regiment." The four empty envelopes were sent from Ida E. White of Parish, New York to Lewis J. White (1877-1934) a banker in Ely, Minnesota.

mssHM 75844 (a-e)

Image not available

Leonard F. Ross papers

Manuscripts

This collection consists of four items relating to Leonard F. Ross' Civil War career, including two communications from Ulysses S. Grant. Grant's autograph letter signed dated 1861 December 4 (HM 69444) discusses confiscations from Missouri citizens and instructions for dealing with marauding Confederates; the contemporary copy of his 1862 October 5 letter (HM 69445) recaps a dispatch from General William S. Rosecrans detailing the movement of federal troops during the pursuit of Confederate General Earl Van Dorn's forces at Corinth, Chewalla and Ripley, Mississippi on 1862 October 3-4. Also present is a receipt from Henry P. Noble to Ross for a payment for a horse, 1863 April 28 (HM 69446), and an undated copy of "Foraging Parties Instructions," with Ross' note "Please read to the guards" (HM 69447).

mssHM 69444-69447

Image not available

Leonard F. Ross papers

Manuscripts

mssHM 69444-69447

Image not available

Marsh family papers

Manuscripts

Includes a certificate of enlistment in the New York Governor's Guard for Mordecai L. Marsh, 1822; U.S. Civil War and other material for Louis S. Marsh, 1856-1863, and correspondence and material relating to Austin L. Marsh, 1915-1923. Collection contains six letters from Theodore Roosevelt to Austin L. Marsh, 1912-1918 (mssHM 42500-42505).

mssHM 42486-42507

Image not available

Harry Balfe papers

Manuscripts

Items in this collection primarily relate to the Panama Canal, dating from 1900 to 1915. There are nine letters from the following senders: William McKinley's secretary, George B. Courtelyou; chief engineer of the Panama Canal, George W. Goethals; Admiral George Dewey; President Theodore Roosevelt, 1908 April 24 (facsimile, HM 76524); William H. Taft as Secretary of War, 1908 June 2 and June 6 (facsimiles, HM 76525 and HM 76526); Reverend J. F. Carson of Brooklyn, New York; and Will Rogers. In addition, there are a few items about horse showing including a photograph of a horse and two awards won by Balfe's horse "Maximum" in 1915, given by the National Horse Show Association of America. The ephemera includes Balfe's 1914 passport, a newspaper clipping, and a document appointing Tom Wentz Balfe to Captain in the U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service in 1918. A number of items in this collection are facsimiles.

mssHM 76518-76526

Stiefel family papers

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

Ida Husted Harper papers

Lewis White correspondence

Leonard F. Ross papers

Leonard F. Ross papers

Marsh family papers

Harry Balfe papers