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Description: The majority of the letters in this collection are written to James O'Meara. The authors include many prominent newspaper and railroad individuals from California, Oregon and Nevada, including: Andrew Jackson Bryant, James V. Coffey, Charles De Young, James William Denver, Stephen J. Field, Laura De Force Gordon, Barclay Henley, James McClatchy, James Willis Nesmith, Harrison Gray Otis, Philip A. Roach, William S. Rosecrans, and Talbot Howard Wallis. There is also one item about American politician John Whiteaker.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1869-1886.
Call number: mssOMeara
Creator: O'Meara, James (1825-1903)(Opens in new tab)
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James O'Meara letters

Manuscripts

The majority of the letters in this collection are written to James O'Meara. The authors include many prominent newspaper and railroad individuals from California, Oregon and Nevada, including: Andrew Jackson Bryant, James V. Coffey, Charles De Young, James William Denver, Stephen J. Field, Laura De Force Gordon, Barclay Henley, James McClatchy, James Willis Nesmith, Harrison Gray Otis, Philip A. Roach, William S. Rosecrans, and Talbot Howard Wallis. There is also one item about American politician John Whiteaker.

mssOMeara

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McKing - Yarnell and Unknown authors, ephemera

Manuscripts

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Allum - McClatchy

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mssOMeara

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Manuscripts

The majority of this collection is made up of letters by Howard Reynolds to Alice Reeves Reynolds both before and after their marriage in 1903 (1894-1921), although there is half of a box of letters by Alice to Howard (1901-1911). In these letters, one can follow their courtship and marriage. Howard often talks about his business and his travels (especially throughout the American west) and Alice talks about her life as a teacher, social events, trips, health, etc.

mssReynolds

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Information about the collection and the Grosh family

Manuscripts

The bulk of the collection consists of letters that John W. Grosh wrote to his mother Sarah Lorentz Grosh, sister Fanny Grosh Bender, and brother Jacob L. Grosh in the course of his military service. Regular and richly detailed letters were posted from Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia; there are no letters for the period between August 20 and October 15, 1862. The group also includes a few letters from Jacob L. Grosh to his brother and letters from Fanny's uncles Daniel J. Grosh and William H. Grosh. The letters contain a small "diary for the month of May 1862 Co. A. 79th Regiment P.V." and a pencil drawing titled "Interior of Tent No. 2 of Co. A 79th Regt. P.V. Encampment near Nashville, Tenn. March 16 1862." Also included is manuscript titled "History of the Campaign for the spring of 1864 by the 66th N.Y. V. Vols. Written by Edward H. Cornell on the 21st of December 1864" (this is most likely Edward H. Connell, of Co. I; he enlisted under that name and changed it to Cornell at the time of the discharge in 1865). There is one letter written by John W. Grosh while in prison (1863, October 24) letting his mother know that his death was a false report and that he was alive and has been "treated as well as a prisoner of war can expect." Several of Grosh's letters are written on illustrated (patriotic) stationery or have an illustrated envelope.

mssGRO

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Genealogical information about Captain Gaspar de Armas

Manuscripts

The collection consists of the original records of 93 trials from the archives of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Mexico. The testimony of these trials (for heresy, blasphemy, violation of ecclesiastical vows, witchcraft, Judaism, and other charges) reveals much information about ethnic groups and manners and customs in colonial Mexico. Also included are facsimiles of portions of the Libro Primero de Votos. There is also a booklet done by José Guadalupe Posada, "Biblioteca del Nino Mexicano: La Victoria de Tampico y el Martir de Cuilapa," 1900.

HM 35126.

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