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Aaron Burr journal

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Description: Burr's private journal that he kept during his self-imposed exile.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1809-1812.
Call number: mssHM 844 (1-4)
Creator: Burr, Aaron (1756-1836)(Opens in new tab)
Additional description: The portion from from Aug. 5 to Nov. 22 is missing; the manuscript begins in the middle of the entry for Nov. 22, 1808 (with the words "widow of a British officer peut-etre 32...").
Provenance: Purchased with the manuscript collection of William K. Bixby, 1918. Aaron Burr gave the manuscript to Matthew Livingston Davis (1773-1850) who published it in 1838. Ca. 1847, Davis gave the manuscript to Henry Jarvis Raymond (1820-1869), and Raymond's widow handed it over to her brother-in-law, Robert D. Benedict who offered it for sale in 1901. In July 1901, the London-based antiquarian book and fine arts dealers Benjamin Franklin Stevens and Henry John Brown offered it to William K. Bixby.

Aaron Burr letters to John Vanderlyn, Amsterdam and New York, (bulk 1811, Aug. 7-Sept. 22)

Manuscripts

14 letters that Burr wrote to John Vanderlyn, an American neoclassical artist and Burr's protegé, between Aug. 7 and Sept. 22 from Amsterdam. The letters discuss various commissions and unfinished business that Burr had asked Vanderlyn to attend to, including two portraits of his daughter Theodosia.

mssHM 21816-21833

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Aaron H. Hyde letters to John Hyde

Manuscripts

In these letters to his father, Aaron Hyde writes of the difficult time he has been having in California. In HM 16597, dated 1851, January 26, he writes that the miners are "disappointed" and that business in San Francisco is "dull." He laments that "California is a very bad place to make and carry out plans." In HM 16598. Aaron reports that he has come into business with a Mr. Cilley, who will be delivering the letter by hand when he returns to New Hampshire to gather his family for relocation to California. Aaron says he will come home himself in a year or two if the business does not work out.

mssHM 16597-16598

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Griffith Evans journal

Manuscripts

The journal that Evans kept during his travels to Fort Stanwix and Fort McIntosh. There are also some miscellaneous accounts, promissory notes, etc., dated April and May 1785.

mssHM 608

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Loudoun memorandum books

Manuscripts

Pocket notebooks containing memoranda and journal entries that Earl of Loudoun kept after he was appointed to America, during his service in the colonies, and the wake of his recall to London in March 1758. The entries record Loudoun's interactions with British and colonial authorities, including his patron Duke of Cumberland; letters sent and received; his orders, directives, and instructions as well as note various private meetings, diversions, etc.

mssHM 1717 (1-12)

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Farmer's journal

Manuscripts

The journal and account book that Foote kept from 1841 through 1873. He started the journal in 1841, "the first year of my agricultural life, for the purpose of recording, in general, my labors and their results." The journal details works and activities of Foote's farm, including his agricultural "experiments," and contains records weather and natural disasters. The account book, in addition to household and farm expenses, contains records of payments to Williams College, purchases of books, subscriptions to local and national magazines and newspapers, expenses related to the activities of Berkshire agricultural societies, etc.

mssHM 66141

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Journal of a voyage up the Elbe on the frigate Proserpine accompanying Thomas Grenville to Berlin as British Ambassador: manuscript

Manuscripts

This is a journal kept by Edward Fisher during his trip on board the HMS Proserpine. He talks about the voyage, the shipwreck, and the crew and passengers' walk across the ice to safety.

mssHM 30305

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