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John P. Nicholson letter to James Grant Wilson
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John Page Nicholson papers and Civil War collection
Manuscripts
John Page Nicholson's collection of Civil War manuscripts. Included are items created during the war - official reports, dispatches, communications, soldiers' letters, diaries, maps, etc., and manuscripts written after the war, such as veterans' memoirs, regimental histories, poems, copies of war diaries, etc. Included are Nicholson's own Civil War letters and a typescript copy of the diary that he kept during his military service. Also included are correspondence and papers accumulated by Nicholson during his work on the translation of Comte de Paris' book, his service with the Legion of Honor and his work for the Board of Commissioners on Gettysburg Monument.Materials created by U.S. presidents include: James A. Garfield autograph letter signed to E.B. Andrews, 1863 April 14 (NI 68); Ulysses S. Grant, Oxford, Mississippi, autograph letter signed to John C. Pemberton, 1862 December 5 (NI 755); Ulysses S. Grant, before Vicksburg, autograph letter signed to John C. Pemberton, 1863 March 2 (NI 756); Ulysses S. Grant, Culpeper, autograph note signed to Edward Davis Townsend, 1864 April 18 (NI 1); Rutherford B. Hayes autograph letters signed to John Page Nicholson, 1885 April 25, 1889 March 1, 1890 May 27 (NI 797, NI 798, NI 209); William H. Taft, New Haven, typescript letters signed to John Page Nicholson, 1913 (NI 923-925). Items NI 1, NI 68, and NI 209 are in A Collection of Autograph Letters and Notes of the General Officers in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865 (Philadelphia: John Page Nicholson, 1896), volumes 1 and 3.
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John Parker Davis letter to Albert B. Paine
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A letter from John Parker Davis to Albert B. Paine in response to questions posed by Paine for his biography of Thomas Nast. Thomas Nast (1840-1902) was born in Germany and became the most famous 19th century American cartoonist and caricaturist. Davis goes on at great length describing his memories of Nast and corrects various facts and anecdotes Paine might include in the biography. Davis also includes reminiscences of other famous engravers and historical figures such as Solomon Eytinge and Abraham Lincoln. The letter is autograph with typewritten pages inserted between various pages; some autograph pages have been trimmed with loss of text. Accompanying the letter is a typewritten list of names and dates of persons mentioned in the letter; there is also a slip of paper with the number 397, perhaps a lot number from an auction sale as the letter does have penciled manuscript dealer notations.
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Schofield, John McAllister to James Grant Wilson
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Hiram Barney's political, business, legal, and family papers concern a wide variety of subjects including real estate, primarily in Iowa, and New York; court cases (often pertaining to debt collection) and other legal services; politics generally, but especially patronage distribution; family affairs, business transactions concerning the Erie and other canals; small railroads (largely in the Lake Plains region); Mexico and Mexican-American relations; the Civil War; U.S. Customs Service. Barney's correspondence contains numerous references to the anti-enslavement movement in the North, the Civil War, Republican Party politics, and Barney's friendship with Abraham Lincoln. Also found throughout this portion of the collection are transportation papers dealing with Barney's interest in connection with the opening up of waterways, the railroad, and the telegraph from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. Among the correspondents are William C. Bryant, William A. Butler, Salmon P. Chase, Charles P. Clinch, Erastus Corning, Edward C. Delavan, William P. Fessenden, John Jay, David W. Kilbourne, Eugene Kozlay, Abraham Lincoln, Edward L. Pierce, Matias Romero, Horatio Seymour, William T. Sherman, Edward D. Smith, Breese J. Stevens, Lewis Tappan, William D. Waterman. Real estate papers concern mostly the Half-Breed Tract between the Mississippi and Des Moines rivers. Which includes signed documents of land indentures by specific Indigenous tribal members of the Sak and Fox (Meskwaki) Nation with papers pertaining to the first Anglo proprietors and settlers. Related to Barney's real estate documents are Francis Scott Key's papers. Legal papers extend from 1825 to 1888 and includes articles of partnership, court cases, powers of attorney, and notes for collection. New York Custom House papers cover the general operations, patronage, and personnel of the Custom House, as well as records of the fraud investigations conducted by the U.S. Treasury Department.
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Wilson, James Grant to John McAllister Schofield
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Hiram Barney's political, business, legal, and family papers concern a wide variety of subjects including real estate, primarily in Iowa, and New York; court cases (often pertaining to debt collection) and other legal services; politics generally, but especially patronage distribution; family affairs, business transactions concerning the Erie and other canals; small railroads (largely in the Lake Plains region); Mexico and Mexican-American relations; the Civil War; U.S. Customs Service. Barney's correspondence contains numerous references to the anti-enslavement movement in the North, the Civil War, Republican Party politics, and Barney's friendship with Abraham Lincoln. Also found throughout this portion of the collection are transportation papers dealing with Barney's interest in connection with the opening up of waterways, the railroad, and the telegraph from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. Among the correspondents are William C. Bryant, William A. Butler, Salmon P. Chase, Charles P. Clinch, Erastus Corning, Edward C. Delavan, William P. Fessenden, John Jay, David W. Kilbourne, Eugene Kozlay, Abraham Lincoln, Edward L. Pierce, Matias Romero, Horatio Seymour, William T. Sherman, Edward D. Smith, Breese J. Stevens, Lewis Tappan, William D. Waterman. Real estate papers concern mostly the Half-Breed Tract between the Mississippi and Des Moines rivers. Which includes signed documents of land indentures by specific Indigenous tribal members of the Sak and Fox (Meskwaki) Nation with papers pertaining to the first Anglo proprietors and settlers. Related to Barney's real estate documents are Francis Scott Key's papers. Legal papers extend from 1825 to 1888 and includes articles of partnership, court cases, powers of attorney, and notes for collection. New York Custom House papers cover the general operations, patronage, and personnel of the Custom House, as well as records of the fraud investigations conducted by the U.S. Treasury Department.
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Judah P. Benjamin letter to John Sherman
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In this letter to the head of the House Ways and Means Committee, Judah Benjamin copies a letter from Sylvester Mowry, a member of the boundary commission in charge of surveying the California-Nevada boundary. Noting the "great value" of the Washoe and that the "people of the Washoe are very anxious to have the work done." Mowry asks that the funding for the survey be increased from $55,000 to 100,000.
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John B. Wilson letter to Emma Moore Wilson
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Letter from John Bordeaux Wilson to his mother Emma Moore Wilson, written shortly after Wilson had joined the engineering corps of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1868. In the letter, written at Fort Sanders, Dakota Territory, Wilson writes of his dissatisfaction with being removed from Colonel Joseph Opdyke Hudnutt's company and placed instead with a Mr. Lawrence's party, which he writes will "operate much further west" than the other and work east for 250 or 300 miles from the Green River until they meet the other parties. He notes that Colonel Hudnutt's party was headed for the North Platte while John O'Neill's party would work at Medicine Bow, and gives a description of the various supplies carried by each party. The remainder of the letter describes Wilson's attempts to stay warm in his tent and the meals that he has been given. With envelope, marked "Union Pacific Railway Company, Engineer's Office, Fort Sanders - Dakota."
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