33 ALS to Freaner from friends and associates, some of them Army officers and government officials, and 5 copies of letters he wrote to others. Eleven letters are from John Maginnis; these discuss Delta business and the court of inquiry, other New Orleans newspapers, and the reaction of people in New Orleans to the dispatches he sent from Mexico. Other letters regard payment of loans made to others, a projected mail line in the Gulf, municipal elections in New Orleans, and news from the United States when Freaner was out of the country. Correspondents include General D. E. Twiggs, General Robert Patterson, Francis M. Dimond, and Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro. With an incomplete draft of an article, notes taken of Major Hobbie about English steamers in the Gulf, and a receipt for sales made by Freaner while he was auctioneer in Vera Cruz in June and July, 1848.
Description:
Freaner, a correspondent for the New Orleans Delta during the Mexican War, signed his dispatches from the front "Mustang." He also carried the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to Washington, and became involved in a quarrel between General Winfield Scott and General Gideon Pillow that resulted in the convening of a court of inquiry. After the war, Freaner spent some time in the United States and then seems to have worked in Mexico with a General Smith, perhaps General Persifor Smith, who was commander of the Pacific Division until 1850., John Maginnis was Freaner's editor at the New Orleans Delta., Purchased from Alta California Bookstore on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana., and Some letters torn, affecting text.
Subject (Geographic):
New Orleans (La.)--Description and travel and New Orleans (La.)--Newspapers
Subject (Name):
Dimond, Francis M., Freaner, James L., Maginnis, John, Patterson, Robert, 1792-1881, Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 1806-1878, Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866, Tasistro, Louis F. (Louis Fitzgerald), 1808-1868, and Twiggs, David Emmanuel, 1790-1862
Subject (Topic):
American newspapers--Louisiana--New Orleans, Mexican War, 1846-1848--Periodicals, and Mexican War, 1846-1848--Treaties
20 ALS and 2 statements of account and 1 receipt. 13 of the letters and the other three items are between Sage, his publishers Carey & Hart,and their successor Henry C. Baird & Co., and largely concern the dispute over his copyright fees. Three letters from his mother Jerusha Sage, to Rufus just after he moved from Middletown, Connecticut to Marietta, Ohio, contain news of local events. There are two letters from Rufus to his mother dated early 1836, one describing his trip to New York on his way to Ohio, and another describing Marietta. Two undated letters from his mother recount Middletown news, and one other letter is from his cousin Martha P. Sage, dated June 23, 1837.
Description:
Gift of Thomas W. Streeter, 1962. and Rufus B. Sage wrote "Scenes in the Rocky Mountains," published by Carey & Hart in 1846, based on his experiences of traveling in the West. Martha P. Sage, Rufus' cousin, was a schoolteacher in northeast Pennsylvania.
Subject (Geographic):
Marietta (Ohio) and Middletown (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Baird, Henry Carey, 1825-1912, Carey & Hart, Sage, Jerusha Butler, Sage, Martha P., and Sage, Rufus B., 1817-1893
20 ALS and 2 statements of account and 1 receipt. 13 of the letters and the other three items are between Sage, his publishers Carey & Hart,and their successor Henry C. Baird & Co., and largely concern the dispute over his copyright fees. Three letters from his mother Jerusha Sage, to Rufus just after he moved from Middletown, Connecticut to Marietta, Ohio, contain news of local events. There are two letters from Rufus to his mother dated early 1836, one describing his trip to New York on his way to Ohio, and another describing Marietta. Two undated letters from his mother recount Middletown news, and one other letter is from his cousin Martha P. Sage, dated June 23, 1837.
Description:
Gift of Thomas W. Streeter, 1962. and Rufus B. Sage wrote "Scenes in the Rocky Mountains," published by Carey & Hart in 1846, based on his experiences of traveling in the West. Martha P. Sage, Rufus' cousin, was a schoolteacher in northeast Pennsylvania.
Subject (Geographic):
Marietta (Ohio) and Middletown (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Baird, Henry Carey, 1825-1912, Carey & Hart, Sage, Jerusha Butler, Sage, Martha P., and Sage, Rufus B., 1817-1893
33 ALS to Freaner from friends and associates, some of them Army officers and government officials, and 5 copies of letters he wrote to others. Eleven letters are from John Maginnis; these discuss Delta business and the court of inquiry, other New Orleans newspapers, and the reaction of people in New Orleans to the dispatches he sent from Mexico. Other letters regard payment of loans made to others, a projected mail line in the Gulf, municipal elections in New Orleans, and news from the United States when Freaner was out of the country. Correspondents include General D. E. Twiggs, General Robert Patterson, Francis M. Dimond, and Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro. With an incomplete draft of an article, notes taken of Major Hobbie about English steamers in the Gulf, and a receipt for sales made by Freaner while he was auctioneer in Vera Cruz in June and July, 1848.
Description:
Freaner, a correspondent for the New Orleans Delta during the Mexican War, signed his dispatches from the front "Mustang." He also carried the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to Washington, and became involved in a quarrel between General Winfield Scott and General Gideon Pillow that resulted in the convening of a court of inquiry. After the war, Freaner spent some time in the United States and then seems to have worked in Mexico with a General Smith, perhaps General Persifor Smith, who was commander of the Pacific Division until 1850., John Maginnis was Freaner's editor at the New Orleans Delta., Purchased from Alta California Bookstore on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana., and Some letters torn, affecting text.
Subject (Geographic):
New Orleans (La.)--Description and travel and New Orleans (La.)--Newspapers
Subject (Name):
Dimond, Francis M., Freaner, James L., Maginnis, John, Patterson, Robert, 1792-1881, Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 1806-1878, Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866, Tasistro, Louis F. (Louis Fitzgerald), 1808-1868, and Twiggs, David Emmanuel, 1790-1862
Subject (Topic):
American newspapers--Louisiana--New Orleans, Mexican War, 1846-1848--Periodicals, and Mexican War, 1846-1848--Treaties
33 ALS to Freaner from friends and associates, some of them Army officers and government officials, and 5 copies of letters he wrote to others. Eleven letters are from John Maginnis; these discuss Delta business and the court of inquiry, other New Orleans newspapers, and the reaction of people in New Orleans to the dispatches he sent from Mexico. Other letters regard payment of loans made to others, a projected mail line in the Gulf, municipal elections in New Orleans, and news from the United States when Freaner was out of the country. Correspondents include General D. E. Twiggs, General Robert Patterson, Francis M. Dimond, and Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro. With an incomplete draft of an article, notes taken of Major Hobbie about English steamers in the Gulf, and a receipt for sales made by Freaner while he was auctioneer in Vera Cruz in June and July, 1848.
Description:
Freaner, a correspondent for the New Orleans Delta during the Mexican War, signed his dispatches from the front "Mustang." He also carried the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to Washington, and became involved in a quarrel between General Winfield Scott and General Gideon Pillow that resulted in the convening of a court of inquiry. After the war, Freaner spent some time in the United States and then seems to have worked in Mexico with a General Smith, perhaps General Persifor Smith, who was commander of the Pacific Division until 1850., John Maginnis was Freaner's editor at the New Orleans Delta., Purchased from Alta California Bookstore on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana., and Some letters torn, affecting text.
Subject (Geographic):
New Orleans (La.)--Description and travel and New Orleans (La.)--Newspapers
Subject (Name):
Dimond, Francis M., Freaner, James L., Maginnis, John, Patterson, Robert, 1792-1881, Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 1806-1878, Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866, Tasistro, Louis F. (Louis Fitzgerald), 1808-1868, and Twiggs, David Emmanuel, 1790-1862
Subject (Topic):
American newspapers--Louisiana--New Orleans, Mexican War, 1846-1848--Periodicals, and Mexican War, 1846-1848--Treaties
33 ALS to Freaner from friends and associates, some of them Army officers and government officials, and 5 copies of letters he wrote to others. Eleven letters are from John Maginnis; these discuss Delta business and the court of inquiry, other New Orleans newspapers, and the reaction of people in New Orleans to the dispatches he sent from Mexico. Other letters regard payment of loans made to others, a projected mail line in the Gulf, municipal elections in New Orleans, and news from the United States when Freaner was out of the country. Correspondents include General D. E. Twiggs, General Robert Patterson, Francis M. Dimond, and Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro. With an incomplete draft of an article, notes taken of Major Hobbie about English steamers in the Gulf, and a receipt for sales made by Freaner while he was auctioneer in Vera Cruz in June and July, 1848.
Description:
Freaner, a correspondent for the New Orleans Delta during the Mexican War, signed his dispatches from the front "Mustang." He also carried the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to Washington, and became involved in a quarrel between General Winfield Scott and General Gideon Pillow that resulted in the convening of a court of inquiry. After the war, Freaner spent some time in the United States and then seems to have worked in Mexico with a General Smith, perhaps General Persifor Smith, who was commander of the Pacific Division until 1850., John Maginnis was Freaner's editor at the New Orleans Delta., Purchased from Alta California Bookstore on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana., and Some letters torn, affecting text.
Subject (Geographic):
New Orleans (La.)--Description and travel and New Orleans (La.)--Newspapers
Subject (Name):
Dimond, Francis M., Freaner, James L., Maginnis, John, Patterson, Robert, 1792-1881, Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 1806-1878, Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866, Tasistro, Louis F. (Louis Fitzgerald), 1808-1868, and Twiggs, David Emmanuel, 1790-1862
Subject (Topic):
American newspapers--Louisiana--New Orleans, Mexican War, 1846-1848--Periodicals, and Mexican War, 1846-1848--Treaties
33 ALS to Freaner from friends and associates, some of them Army officers and government officials, and 5 copies of letters he wrote to others. Eleven letters are from John Maginnis; these discuss Delta business and the court of inquiry, other New Orleans newspapers, and the reaction of people in New Orleans to the dispatches he sent from Mexico. Other letters regard payment of loans made to others, a projected mail line in the Gulf, municipal elections in New Orleans, and news from the United States when Freaner was out of the country. Correspondents include General D. E. Twiggs, General Robert Patterson, Francis M. Dimond, and Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro. With an incomplete draft of an article, notes taken of Major Hobbie about English steamers in the Gulf, and a receipt for sales made by Freaner while he was auctioneer in Vera Cruz in June and July, 1848.
Description:
Freaner, a correspondent for the New Orleans Delta during the Mexican War, signed his dispatches from the front "Mustang." He also carried the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to Washington, and became involved in a quarrel between General Winfield Scott and General Gideon Pillow that resulted in the convening of a court of inquiry. After the war, Freaner spent some time in the United States and then seems to have worked in Mexico with a General Smith, perhaps General Persifor Smith, who was commander of the Pacific Division until 1850., John Maginnis was Freaner's editor at the New Orleans Delta., Purchased from Alta California Bookstore on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana., and Some letters torn, affecting text.
Subject (Geographic):
New Orleans (La.)--Description and travel and New Orleans (La.)--Newspapers
Subject (Name):
Dimond, Francis M., Freaner, James L., Maginnis, John, Patterson, Robert, 1792-1881, Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 1806-1878, Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866, Tasistro, Louis F. (Louis Fitzgerald), 1808-1868, and Twiggs, David Emmanuel, 1790-1862
Subject (Topic):
American newspapers--Louisiana--New Orleans, Mexican War, 1846-1848--Periodicals, and Mexican War, 1846-1848--Treaties
33 ALS to Freaner from friends and associates, some of them Army officers and government officials, and 5 copies of letters he wrote to others. Eleven letters are from John Maginnis; these discuss Delta business and the court of inquiry, other New Orleans newspapers, and the reaction of people in New Orleans to the dispatches he sent from Mexico. Other letters regard payment of loans made to others, a projected mail line in the Gulf, municipal elections in New Orleans, and news from the United States when Freaner was out of the country. Correspondents include General D. E. Twiggs, General Robert Patterson, Francis M. Dimond, and Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro. With an incomplete draft of an article, notes taken of Major Hobbie about English steamers in the Gulf, and a receipt for sales made by Freaner while he was auctioneer in Vera Cruz in June and July, 1848.
Description:
Freaner, a correspondent for the New Orleans Delta during the Mexican War, signed his dispatches from the front "Mustang." He also carried the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to Washington, and became involved in a quarrel between General Winfield Scott and General Gideon Pillow that resulted in the convening of a court of inquiry. After the war, Freaner spent some time in the United States and then seems to have worked in Mexico with a General Smith, perhaps General Persifor Smith, who was commander of the Pacific Division until 1850., John Maginnis was Freaner's editor at the New Orleans Delta., Purchased from Alta California Bookstore on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana., and Some letters torn, affecting text.
Subject (Geographic):
New Orleans (La.)--Description and travel and New Orleans (La.)--Newspapers
Subject (Name):
Dimond, Francis M., Freaner, James L., Maginnis, John, Patterson, Robert, 1792-1881, Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 1806-1878, Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866, Tasistro, Louis F. (Louis Fitzgerald), 1808-1868, and Twiggs, David Emmanuel, 1790-1862
Subject (Topic):
American newspapers--Louisiana--New Orleans, Mexican War, 1846-1848--Periodicals, and Mexican War, 1846-1848--Treaties
33 ALS to Freaner from friends and associates, some of them Army officers and government officials, and 5 copies of letters he wrote to others. Eleven letters are from John Maginnis; these discuss Delta business and the court of inquiry, other New Orleans newspapers, and the reaction of people in New Orleans to the dispatches he sent from Mexico. Other letters regard payment of loans made to others, a projected mail line in the Gulf, municipal elections in New Orleans, and news from the United States when Freaner was out of the country. Correspondents include General D. E. Twiggs, General Robert Patterson, Francis M. Dimond, and Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro. With an incomplete draft of an article, notes taken of Major Hobbie about English steamers in the Gulf, and a receipt for sales made by Freaner while he was auctioneer in Vera Cruz in June and July, 1848.
Description:
Freaner, a correspondent for the New Orleans Delta during the Mexican War, signed his dispatches from the front "Mustang." He also carried the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to Washington, and became involved in a quarrel between General Winfield Scott and General Gideon Pillow that resulted in the convening of a court of inquiry. After the war, Freaner spent some time in the United States and then seems to have worked in Mexico with a General Smith, perhaps General Persifor Smith, who was commander of the Pacific Division until 1850., John Maginnis was Freaner's editor at the New Orleans Delta., Purchased from Alta California Bookstore on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana., and Some letters torn, affecting text.
Subject (Geographic):
New Orleans (La.)--Description and travel and New Orleans (La.)--Newspapers
Subject (Name):
Dimond, Francis M., Freaner, James L., Maginnis, John, Patterson, Robert, 1792-1881, Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 1806-1878, Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866, Tasistro, Louis F. (Louis Fitzgerald), 1808-1868, and Twiggs, David Emmanuel, 1790-1862
Subject (Topic):
American newspapers--Louisiana--New Orleans, Mexican War, 1846-1848--Periodicals, and Mexican War, 1846-1848--Treaties