Manuscripts

John Roberts letters

Image not available

Description: The collection consists of ten letters to Roberts and a receipt for payments by Roberts to Sumner Black Coal, an Arapaho. The authors of the letters include Reverend Franklin Spalding, Missionary Bishop of Colorado; Reverend Ethelbert Talbot, Missionary Bishop of Wyoming, and Idaho; Reverend J. B. Funsten; and George H. Sands, a Major in the U.S. Cavalry and commanding officer at Fort Washakie, Wyoming. The correspondence deals with affairs on the reservation, its residents, staff, and finances. More specifically, Reverend Franklin Spalding asks about the progress of Sherman Coolidge, an Arapaho priest and John Roberts' assistant.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1885-1909.
Call number: mssHM 83982-83992
Creator: Roberts, John (1853-1949)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from McBride Rare Books, March 2021.

Captain John H. Roberts letter to S.D. Saulisburry

Manuscripts

This letter by Roberts is addressed to S.D. Saulisburry (a misspelling of S.D. Saulisbury, who served on the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors from 1893 to 1897). In this letter he asks about possible forest fires in the area as well as the classification of a "Grand Victory Rock" and various specimens of unidentified material.

mssHM 84086

Image not available

Clarence D. Herriott letter

Manuscripts

Autograph letter on stationery of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha (Oriental Steamship Company), written by the Reverend Clarence Herriott to his brother Paul aboard the ship SS America Maru, near the Hawaiian Islands, on his way to missionary work in China. Herriott comments upon his encounters with Chinese steerage passengers, his perceptions of the Chinese as a race, and his missionary work among them. He also refers to his brother's future.

mssHM 83465

Image not available

Robert Whitney Waterman letter to William Buel Franklin and autographed photograph

Manuscripts

HM 21322 is a letter to General Franklin, written on December 3, 1890. Waterman enclosed receipts for $5,125 of aid to Veterans Home at Yountville, and writes that "with this ceases my officials acts as Governor of California." He informs Franklin that his successor, H. H. Markham, will be inaugurated on January 8, 1891. HM 21323, dated December 6, 1890, contains an autographed photograph of Waterman and an autographed note bearing the words "Business before Pleasure." The recipient of both is not indicated. The letter and the note are written on pages with printed letterhead of the Executive Department of the State of California.

mssHM 21322-21323

Image not available

Edward Tiffin et al, Ohio, letter to Thomas Jefferson

Manuscripts

Autograph letter signed. Recommendation for the Christianizing of Native Americans with Reverend William Wood as missionary. Signed by 44 individuals. (2 pages)

HM 5979

Image not available

Robert Turnball letter to Reverend John Beers

Manuscripts

In this letter, Turnbull talks about a trip he is going to take to Los Angeles (he writes from San Diego County) to look at some land. He also talks about several land grants in southern California including Rancho La Puente and Rancho Azusa; he also describes San Gabriel Valley in general and mentions some water problems in the area. The letter includes a hand-drawn map of the area surrounding Azusa and the La Puente Rancho. On the map, Turnbull writes "The land lying between Spadra [Pomona] and the Gov lands opposite Booth Ranch is the Rancho La Puente the Grant of whom your uncle bought" and "the squatters take the water out a the mouth of River carry across Dalton's Ranch on to the Gov lands the surplus reaching the Booth Ranch."

mssHM 75112

Image not available

Holly Roberts : works 1989 to 1999

Rare Books

"Roberts' odyssey with the painted photograph began in the mid-1970s. She found that painting over a slick photographic surface, she was able to manipulate the paint -- scrape it, scratch it, even wipe it away -- with the luxury of never losing the underlying image. A modern pioneer of the method, Roberts ups the ante with an understanding of human dynamics just short of psychic and a technique that appears unstudied, but is in fact, quietly accomplished. The combination results in a deeply resonant imagemaking, both haunting and profound"--Publisher's description.

653217

John Roberts letters

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

Captain John H. Roberts letter to S.D. Saulisburry

Clarence D. Herriott letter

Robert Whitney Waterman letter to William Buel Franklin and autographed photograph

Edward Tiffin et al, Ohio, letter to Thomas Jefferson

Robert Turnball letter to Reverend John Beers

Holly Roberts : works 1989 to 1999