Manuscripts

Manuscripts, documents, and photographs

Description: This series includes poems, short stories, a receipt (recipe), and other manuscripts. There is a short diary kept by Otho E. Michaelis during the Atlanta campaign in 1864, the pages of which were torn from his chess record book. Also included is a manuscript written by an unknown author entitled "Life on the Plains" which is an early draft of a talk about life in the Army while stationed at Fort Shaw, Montana, in the 1870s. This series also includes financial documents and material dealing with American football and athletics; U. S. Army correspondence, orders, vouchers, and autograph notes. The photographs include a tintype, cartes de visite, card photographs, snapshots, and stereographs; with subjects including family, friends, soldiers, a biplane, and various locations.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1840-1926
Call number: mssWoodbridge
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Correspondence

Manuscripts

The correspondence in the collection is predominantly that of Francis Woodbridge, Eliza Kercheval Woodbridge, Otho E. Michaelis, Kate Woodbridge Michaelis, and Frank Woodbridge, their large extended families, friends, military and business associates. The letters are in good condition except for many of the letters from the 1830s and 1840s which have some degree of water damage. A large portion of the personal letters are crosswritten which was typical in the 19th century. The letters also contain modern annotations, circled words, numbers, and other markings made by previous owners or dealers. The correspondence includes letters dealing with personal, domestic and world affairs; and letters written by children and teenagers to their families and friends. There are a significant number of letters and telegrams written in May to June 1890, in response to the unexpected death of Otho E. Michaelis.

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Poems, songs, manuscripts, documents, printed material, and photographs

Manuscripts

A collection of 2,822 items from 1896 to 1950, which consists primarily of correspondence to Florence R. Keene from other California literary figures. Correspondents in the collection include: Don Blanding, Thomas Pollock Brown, Stanton Arthur Coblentz, Robin Lampson, John Steven McGroarty, Rosalie Moore, Hazel Snell Schreiber, and Ella Young. There is also some manuscript material, including articles, limericks, poems, and short stories, by Florence Keene and others, as well as 10 photographs and ephemera. The collection also includes two small manila envelopes of unprocessed Christmas cards from California poets to Florence R. Keene.

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Manuscript, Correspondence, Documents and Photographs

Manuscripts

This collection consists of one manuscript by Richard F. Burton, and letters and documents, by, among others, Isabel Burton, Richard Burton, Verney Lovett Cameron, William Marcus Coghlan, J. A. Froude, Charles George Gordon, J. A. Grant, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Quentin Keynes, Alexander William Kinglake, David Livingstone, Mary Lovell, Victoria L. Maylor, Edwards H. Metcalf, Edward Henry Palmer, Bernadette Rivett, Stephen Tabachnick, John Hanning Speke, Henry M. Stanley, and William H. Wood. The collection also includes artwork, lithographs, maps, photographs, printed material and Burton related research material gathered by Burke Casari.

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Walter G. Sprague letters and financial documents to Eliza Kercheval Woodbridge

Manuscripts

A collection of correspondence, documents, manuscripts, photographs, and ephemera related to the Woodbridge and Michaelis families of Vermont and Michigan. The collection covers three generations of men and women who served in the American military during the 19th century; it documents several military campaigns against indigenous peoples in Florida, Michigan, the Dakotas, Montana, and elsewhere. The papers also describe the Army's role in scientific exploration and discovery, technological development, involvement in American political affairs, and the expansion of the United States from the 1830s to the 1880s. Also addressed are the internal conflicts that existed within the Army's officer corps, including its class structure and the constant pursuit of advancement followed by officers; and the relationship between the Army and American society. Courtship letters as well as correspondence between wives and husbands reveal the evolving patterns of relationships between men and women. Other subjects in the collection include: engineering, health and medical care, and the lives of women and children whose husbands and fathers served in the American military.

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Autograph letter fragments, unidentified manuscript fragments, miscellaneous items

Manuscripts

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Visual Materials

Image of a knight chess piece in the shape of a horse head against a black and red chess board; orange with blossoms at lower right.

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Manuscripts, documents, and photographs

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