Holograph manuscript diary, written by Ralph W. Pope while employed as a telegrapher in British Columbia by the Collins Overland Telegraph Company. The diary describes his experiences as a member of an exploring party in the Fraser River region led by Franklin Leonard Pope, and his work in constructing telegraph lines in the region and as a telegrapher in Quesnel.
Description:
Manuscript diary is written from both directions and in both orientations.
Subject (Geographic):
British Columbia--Discovery and exploration, Fraser River Region (B.C.)--Description and travel, and Quesnel (B.C.)
Subject (Name):
Butler, James L, Collins Overland Telegraph Company, Pope, Frank L.--(Franklin Leonard),--1840-1895, and Pope, Ralph W
Colorado Territory National Silver Mining Company of Baltimore City
Published / Created:
1860-1885
Call Number:
WA MSS S-2587 C714
Image Count:
46
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence, minutes, and a manuscript copy of the 1868 charter of the Colorado Territory National Silver Mining Company of Baltimore City. The materials identify company officers and employees, and document the company's operation and mining business. Seven of the 11 letters present are from John Fillius, the company's Colorado mining superintendent, reporting from Georgetown, Colorado, and Denver, Colorado. His letters to the Board of Directors and to Dr. Henry Boggs of Baltimore describe the output, conditions, and expected expansion of the company's Colorado mines; plans to develop various lodes in Colorado, including the Illinois and the Choctaw; and a dispute with John Tomay over the company's ownership of one of the mines, which eventually led to legal action against Tomay and his colleague "Mr. Hughes" in 1882. One letter from Fillius is on letterhead of the Baltimore Tunnel Company, and provides a list of tunnels with a report of the quality of their output. A letter from Tomay in January 1875 describes various lodes in Georgetown, and letters from other correspondents in 1860, 1880, and 1883, concern the development and worth of the company's mining properties in Colorado. The minutes, which appear to have been torn out of a ledger and are incomplete, span from 1869 to 1873 and document the proceedings of the Colorado Territory National Silver Mining Company of Baltimore City's Board of Directors.
Description:
Purchased from Michael Ginsberg Books on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2006. and The Colorado Territory National Silver Mining Company of Baltimore City was incorporated in Washington, D.C., on November 19, 1868. The Company, managed by a board of seven directors, was formed to procure, transport, prepare, and bring to market in Maryland "minerals from the Colorado Territory."
Subject (Geographic):
Baltimore (Md.)--Commerce and Georgetown (Colo.)
Subject (Name):
Baltimore Tunnel Company, Colorado Territory National Silver Mining Company of Baltimore City, Fillius, John, and Tomay, John--Trials, litigation, etc
Manuscript on paper of Michele Bettini (Sixteenth century), Commedia ovvero storia del Crocefisso. The unrecorded author was warden of the "Company of the Evangelist" in Rome, which used to stage edifying plays. The present play in verse (the Prologue only is in prose) was performed in1541 and in 1563. It deals with charity.
Description:
Binding: Contemporary paper cover, which is too small for the manuscript., Original foliation in Roman numerals. Corners and edges defective; the leaves waterstained., and Script: Copied by one hand in a careful Humanistica Libraria/Formata under Gothic influence.
Subject (Name):
Bettini, Michele
Subject (Topic):
Christian drama, Italian, Italian drama (Comedy), Italian poetry--16th century, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of Leonardo Bruni, Commentaria rerum graecarum (De principatu Graeciae), preceded by Bruni's letter to Angelo Acciaiuolo.
Description:
Binding: Twentieth century, Italy. Rigid vellum case with a green, gold-tooled label on spine: "L. Bruni De principatu graeciae. Sec. XV"., Purchased from Hoepli of Milan in 1955 by L. C. Witten who sold it in the same year to Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in round humanistic bookhand by two scribes who use somewhat different physical formats. Scribe I) ff. 1r-16r, written above top line, with initials for paragraphs set apart from the text between outer vertical bounding lines. Scribe 2) ff. 16v-26v, written below top line and leaving blank the final line of written space., and Two illuminated initials on ff. 1r and 2r, 5-line and 3-line, gold on blue, green and pale mauve ground with white vine-stem ornament and grey-green dots. On f. 1r vine-stem ornament on blue ground extends into inner margin (3-lines) to form partial border. Possibly by the same artist who executed the initials in Marston MS 257.
Subject (Geographic):
Greece--History
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library