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Claude Houghton Oldfield papers
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Houghton family papers
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A small group of Houghton family correspondence. Included are: two letters that Thomas Houghton wrote home from Andover, Mass. (1789, Apr. 21 and 1791, July 24); a letter to Houghton from his daughter Elizabeth (1790, Apr. 4, London); a document appointing Thomas Houghton, Jr. administrator of his father's estate (1797, July 12); citizenship certificate issued to John Harding, a papermaker, native of Great Marlow (Buckinghamshire) who had arrived to Andover from England in 1802 (1808, Apr. 28); three letters (1816-1829) addressed to Mary Agnes Houghton, including a letter of appreciation from the Salem East India Marine Society for her donation of "a medal of the Duke of York;" and a letter addressed to Abraham Marland regarding the estate of Thomas Houghton, Jr.
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Sherman Otis Houghton papers
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The collection consists primarily of correspondence regarding the publication of History of the Donner Party by Charles Fayette McGlashan, 1879. Persons represented in the collection by three or more pieces include: Tamsen Donner, Richard C. Kerens, and Charles Fayette McGlashan. There are also two letters from Jessie Benton Frémont to Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, a petition written to President Benjamin Harrison recommending Sherman Houghton for the office of Judge of the U.S. Circuit Court, Ninth District, and a copy of "The California Regiment of 1847" by Albert Gallatin Brackett. There are also nine certificates belonging to Sherman Houghton for various military and political achievements.
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Claude Gernade Bowers papers
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Primarily correspondence between Claude Gernade Bowers and lawyer Theodore Fred Kuper while Bowers was ambassador to Spain and Chile. Subjects covered include the Spanish Civil War, politics and government of the United States, and United States foreign relations. Also included are two typed manuscripts of Bowers's book My Mission to Spain (approximately 1939 and 1945); and a typed manuscript of My Life, published posthumously in 1962 as My Life: the Memoirs of Claude Bowers. There is also a small amount of publishing related correspondence, photographs, and two books by Spanish politician Manuel Azaña (1880-1940): Plumas y Palabras (1930) and Una Política 1930-1932 (1932).The 2024 addendum contains correspondence from Claude Gernade Bowers to Terry Kuper Gray Kirker, the daughter of Theodore Fred Kuper. Also included are newspaper clippings, a photograph of Bowers, and autographed copies of Bowers' books Beveridge and the Progressive Era (1932), Pierre Vergniaud: Voice of the French Revolution (1945) The Young Jefferson (1945), and My Mission to Spain (1954).
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Eliza Poor Donner Houghton Papers
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The collection contains correspondence, notebooks, manuscripts, land tracts, scrapbooks, cartes-de-visites and ephemera. Although the majority of the material in the collection deals with the Donner Party, several items written by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton deal with California history. These items are chiefly about the discovery of gold in California in 1849 and its effect on American history and the development of California as a state. In addition to Eliza, nine other Donner Party members are represented in this collection, both in correspondence and photographs. The collection contains 89 cataloged items, including 49 pieces of correspondence and three oversize items. The collection spans the period 1820-1978, but the bulk of the material is from 1900-1920. About half of the 49 pieces of correspondence (1910-1918) deal with the planning, building and dedication of the Pioneer (Donner) Monument; most of this correspondence consists of letters between Eliza Poor Donner Houghton and C. W. Chapman, the Chairman of the Donner Monument Committee. There are also seven letters (1820-1842) by Tamsen Donner to her sister Elizabeth Eustis Poor, of which six were written before Tamsen's marriage to George Donner. The letter from Eliza to "My Children" was written immediately after her visit in 1884 with John Baptiste Trudeau, during which he gave his account of events at the mountain camps, his relationship with the Donners, his last words with George and Tamsen Donner, and his rescue by the third relief party. This letter contains material that Eliza did not publish in her book. The notebooks and manuscripts, all written by Eliza, deal either with the Donner Party or the history of California. There is an incomplete handwritten draft of The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate. Although this draft is missing sections of the published book, it contains material that does not appear in the published version. The scrapbooks (1860-1920) contain mostly news clippings concerning Sherman Houghton's political career in California, although there are some clippings concerning the Donner Party.
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Claude Gernade Bowers papers, (bulk 1932-1953)
Manuscripts
Primarily correspondence between Claude Gernade Bowers and lawyer Theodore Fred Kuper while Bowers was ambassador to Spain and Chile. Subjects covered include the Spanish Civil War, politics and government of the United States, and United States foreign relations. Also included are two typed manuscripts of Bowers's book My Mission to Spain (approximately 1939 and 1945); and a typed manuscript of My Life, published posthumously in 1962 as My Life: the Memoirs of Claude Bowers. There is also a small amount of publishing related correspondence, photographs, and two books by Spanish politician Manuel Azaña (1880-1940): Plumas y Palabras (1930) and Una Política 1930-1932 (1932). The 2024 addendum contains correspondence from Claude Gernade Bowers to Terry Kuper Gray Kirker, the daughter of Theodore Fred Kuper. Also included are newspaper clippings, a photograph of Bowers, and autographed copies of Bowers' books Beveridge and the Progressive Era (1932), Pierre Vergniaud: Voice of the French Revolution (1945) The Young Jefferson (1945), and My Mission to Spain (1954).
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