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David C. Weber letter to Martin Ridge
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Collection of articles and offprints on the history of the American West written by Dr. Martin Ridge
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Collection of offprints, journal articles and individual journal issues, dating from 1978 to 2003 containing contributions or written by Dr. Martin Ridge. Includes Ray Allen Billington: Memorial Tribute, April 18, 1981. Some issues and copies are duplicated. Journals represented include: Indiana Magazine of History; Southern California Quarterly; Pacific Historical Review; Journal of American History; New Mexico Historical Review; Journal of the Early Republic; Journal of the West, and Montana: the Magazine of Western History.
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David Blair letter to Hannah R. Wilson
Manuscripts
A letter that David Blair wrote to a female friend of his back home. The letter describes the battlefield at Perryville and his arrival at the hospital, including a harrowing description of hasty amputations that "looked more like cutting up hogs than anything."
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David Coverstone letters
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Set of letters written to David Coverstone in Shenandoah County, Virginia, by acquaintances in California. The first 8 letters were sent by Andrew Cullers between 1874 and 1887, when he was living in Colusa, Leesville, and Little Stony, California. Cullers writes throughout of life in California, including his first impressions, land he has purchased, agricultural prospects, and the price of produce and livestock. He also comments frequently on Southern politics, including his refusal to take an oath of allegiance in Missouri ("I refused to swallow the damnable teste [sic] oath," he wrote on May 10, 1874), his firm stance as a Democrat and hatred of Republican politics and Ulysses S. Grant in particular, and a poem he composed on the death of Robert E. Lee. There are also 9 letters sent by Milton M. Ritenouer to David and Harvey Coverstone from 1853-1856. Ritenouer writes from Virginia of securing passage to California, from the Isthmus of Panama about his journey, and from Columbia, California, about working in the gold mines, lacking enough water to run his claims, and how much profit his fellow miners have made. One of the letters is also signed by Joseph Keyser. Also included is a letter from Morgan, Charles and Sons in New York, written on New York Steamship Line via Nicaragua letterhead and regarding a sea voyage (1857).
mssHM 16840-16857
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David Wood letter to William J. Hiles
Manuscripts
An autograph, signed letter from David Wood, a member of the West Virginia 1st Cavalry Regiment; he is writing to a former member of the regiment, William J. Hiles. The letter is written from Camp Russell, Virginia, and contains news of many fellow soldiers in the regiment, some of whom have had horses shot out from under them or had been wounded in various battles; Wood also mentions some who have been ill and left the Army or have deserted. The letter is beginning to tear along the folds and there is an old repair along the top of the letter. Enclosed with the letter is the back only of a pictorial envelope.
mssHM 84102
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C. C. Felton cover of letter to George B. Emerson
Manuscripts
This is just the cover to a letter by Felton to fellow educator George Barrell Emerson. It includes Felton's wax seal and his signature: "C. C. Felton." The Library does not have the letter.
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David Starr Jordan letter to Arthur M. Ellis
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Typed, signed letter from David Starr Jordan at Stanford University to Los Angeles lawyer and writer, Arthur M. Ellis. In the letter, Jordan discusses biology, evolution, and literature by various evolutionists and naturalists including: Charles Darwin, J. Arthur Thomson, Stanford professor Dr. W. W. Thoburn, and Henry F. Osborn. The letter is accompanied by a pamphlet listing books by David Starr Jordan, and two printed poems by Jordan ("Unarmed and Unafraid" and "There Was A Man").
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