Manuscripts

Paul James Lindberg papers, (bulk 1870-1880)

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Description: Lindberg's correspondence and daybooks that he kept in 1872-1880. The daybooks contain his rather florid reflections and maxims on history, literature, science, and theology, his poetry, and scattered recollections of his life. They also record the minutia of the life in a veteran's home, his family, and attempts to secure a military pension and find a job. The letters to Lindberg from his friend, Charles A. Lane of Mount Union, Ohio, a local music teacher deal with poetry and other literary interests and discuss the affairs of Mount Union College and Youngstown college. Also included are letters from other friends and family of Lindberg's, and his letters to various addresses, chiefly applications for various jobs, free railway passes, etc.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1868-1893.
Call number: mssLindberg collection
Creator: Lindberg, Paul James (active 1848-1880)(Opens in new tab)

James Monro Forbes papers

Manuscripts

Experience of a Union soldier as related in Forbes' letters to his sister Auretta Forbes, a school teacher in Mount Carroll, Ill.

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James Nowland papers, (bulk 1848-1885)

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Personal correspondence of James Nowland, chiefly letters written by him to his father and sisters back in England and his wife Helen Augusta Parker Nowland. The letters detail his life in Maine and New Brunswick and recount his Civil War experience. Also included is a copy of the General Order No. 1 issued by Winfield Scott as the commander of the army in Mexico (1847, Jan. 15), and a few family documents

mssHM 26961-27030

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William Eve papers, (bulk 1880-1891)

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This small group of items consists of letters, sketches, photographs, a photograph album and ephemera (and are arranged in that manner, then chronologically). The majority of these items deal with Eve's railroad trip from New York to Salt Lake City and his time in Salt Lake City, Ibapah, and Gold Hill, Tooele County, Utah as well as Soda Springs, Idaho. In Eve's letters, which are written to his parents, he details his trip West including a tragic collision with a wagon that killed men and horses, the scenery he passes, and his arrival in Salt Lake City. He also talks about mining, sheep herding, farming, seeing the boxer Jim Corbett fight, the Blackfeet (Siksika) Indians and life in the West. Throughout all of his letters, which he is writing to entice his family to also come to America, Eve compares America and its people to England and its people. His sketches include things he sees in the West such as several American Indians, a miner's drill, a coyote, scorpion, and a locust. One of his letters contains a small panorama drawing of Gold Hill, Utah. The collection contains several notes and sketches from Eve's time in London. There are also three letters to William Eve by his sister Elizabeth Eve; these are written from New York City in the early 20th century. The photographs are of Eve family members around the turn of the century. The photograph album contains photographs from a flood in Salt Lake City in 1926 and some pictures of the family camping. The ephemera is a 1959 issue of the Utah American Legion's publication "Utah Legionnaire."

mssHM 70876-70888

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Paul W. Merrill papers

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The collection consists of Paul Willard Merrill's correspondence files from the years 1922-1961 during his time at the Mount Wilson Observatory. Correspondents include: Walter Sydney Adams, Robert Grant Aitken, Leon Campbell, George Ellery Hale, the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the U.S. Bureau of Standards.

mssMerrill papers

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1870-1880

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A collection of 225 items from 1864 to 1897, which consists chiefly of letters to and from Swett's wife, Laura R. Swett, and son, Leonard Herbert Swett. The early letters have passing references to Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Swett's dealings in the cotton trade during the Civil War. The later letters describe Leonard Herbert Swett's participation in the U.S. Geological Survey of the Utah Plateau Region under Captain Clarence E. Dutton in 1880 and his later work for the XIT Ranch in 1886 during the formative period of Western Texas. Because the Swetts were also friends of General and Mrs. George A. Custer, passing references to them appear throughout the collection.

mssHM 50227-50449

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James F. Mercer papers, (bulk 1735-1763)

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A collection of over 120 letters, manuscripts, and documents (previously bound in three-quarter calf and paper-covered boards by "Seton Bookbinder Edinburgh" (Robert Seton III, 1844-1905)) related to James F. Mercer and his death at Fort Oswego, New York, in 1756 and the settling of his estate after his death..

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