Manuscripts

Frank Wheeler map of Claremont, Califorina

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Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1905.
Call number: mssHM 84329
Creator: Wheeler, Frank(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Acquired from Dellquest's Rare Books, July 1948.
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Wheeler, Frank. Letter to John Dustin Bicknell. Claremont, Calif

Manuscripts

The collection consists primarily of correspondence related to the professional activities of John Dustin Bicknell, who was a partner in several Los Angeles law firms. In addition, the collection also includes 51 bound volumes (19 letter books, account books, journals, etc.), six rolled documents and maps, and two photographs.

mssBicknell papers

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Nathaniel Wheeler correspondence

Manuscripts

This collection consists of 76 letters, the majority addressed to Nathaniel S. Wheeler at various "Wild West" duty posts such as Fort Bliss, Texas and Fort Craig, New Mexico. The collection is organized chronologically.

mssHM 81470-81546

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Nathaniel S. Wheeler papers

Manuscripts

This collection primarily consists of letters to and from Nathaniel S. Wheeler at various duty posts such as Fort Craig, New Mexico, and Fort Lyon, Colorado. Wheeler's wife, Nellie F. Stanley, writes mostly about daily and family life in Enfield, New Hampshire. Out west, Wheeler writes about his health, the weather, conditions of the trail, and encampment. In a letter dated September 28, 1867, Wheeler describes a congressional committee to meet tribal leaders of local indigenous people at Fort Larned, Kansas. He writes about chasing and hunting buffalo. The remainder of the letters are from friends and family writing from various locations in the United States. William Langley Seran writes about farming in Kansas and J.A. Mitchell from Memphis, Tennessee, complains about working conditions and his cattle being thin. There is an undated notebook consisting of a list of purchased goods.

mssHM 81576-81597

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Nathaniel S. Wheeler papers

Manuscripts

mssHM 81576-81597

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W. H. Wheeler letters to his father

Manuscripts

Three autograph letters written from Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming Territory; the letters were written over a three month period in 1871. W. H. Wheeler wrote to his father with great enthusiasm about the many opportunities for prosperity he sees surrounding him in Wyoming and Utah territories. Although especially enthusiastic about the possibilities of outfitting miners hoping to exploit the region's mineral wealth, he also describes in detail the fabulous returns being made through the sales of mining claims in Utah as well as the steadily rising values of building lots in Evanston, Wyoming. Wheeler worked in the city's Union Pacific office, but was anxious to quit his desk job and to become a Western businessman in mining and outfitting ventures; in the letters, Wheeler requests money from his father for these ventures while extolling the many opportunities of realizing great profits. Two of the letters are written on Union Pacific stationary or forms and all three are in fragile condition with tearing along the folds.

mssHM 84048

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The letters of private Wheeler

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Frank Wheeler map of Claremont, Califorina

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