Box 1 contains the letters and broadside. Box 2 contains preservation photocopies made by the library. and Correspondence and papers created by Zachary Taylor relating to his military activities. The correspondence includes autograph letters, signed, and letters, signed, by Taylor to military and government correspondents, including Thomas W. Ringgold; Jefferson Davis; James K. Polk; Roger Jones, Adjutant General of the United States Army; and Thomas Sidney Jessup. Also included is an autograph letter, signed, to Judge Thomas Butler of Louisiana regarding Taylor's reflections on the Battle of Buena Vista against Mexican forces commanded by Antonio López de Santa Anna, 1847 March 6, and letters describing Taylor's travels to his family members, including his daughter, Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Taylor Dandridge and his brother, Hancock Taylor. The papers also include a printed broadside proclamation, signed by Taylor, beginning "Proclamacion por el general comandante del Exercito de los Estados Unidos de America a la nacion Mejicana" and regarding the Mexican War, circa 1846.
Description:
Gift of Frederick W. Beinecke, 1960-1971. Purchased from Morrill on the William Robertson Coe Fund No. 1, 1963 and from Western Hemisphere, Inc. on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1969. Source information is recorded on the folders. and Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) was the 12th President of the United States (1849-1850) and an American military leader with a four-decade career that ended with victories during the Mexican War.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Ringgold, Thomas W
Subject (Topic):
Politicians--United States and Soldiers--United States
Box 1 contains the letters and broadside. Box 2 contains preservation photocopies made by the library. and Correspondence and papers created by Zachary Taylor relating to his military activities. The correspondence includes autograph letters, signed, and letters, signed, by Taylor to military and government correspondents, including Thomas W. Ringgold; Jefferson Davis; James K. Polk; Roger Jones, Adjutant General of the United States Army; and Thomas Sidney Jessup. Also included is an autograph letter, signed, to Judge Thomas Butler of Louisiana regarding Taylor's reflections on the Battle of Buena Vista against Mexican forces commanded by Antonio López de Santa Anna, 1847 March 6, and letters describing Taylor's travels to his family members, including his daughter, Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Taylor Dandridge and his brother, Hancock Taylor. The papers also include a printed broadside proclamation, signed by Taylor, beginning "Proclamacion por el general comandante del Exercito de los Estados Unidos de America a la nacion Mejicana" and regarding the Mexican War, circa 1846.
Description:
Gift of Frederick W. Beinecke, 1960-1971. Purchased from Morrill on the William Robertson Coe Fund No. 1, 1963 and from Western Hemisphere, Inc. on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1969. Source information is recorded on the folders. and Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) was the 12th President of the United States (1849-1850) and an American military leader with a four-decade career that ended with victories during the Mexican War.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Ringgold, Thomas W
Subject (Topic):
Politicians--United States and Soldiers--United States
[Autograph letter signed] to William Walsh (1663-1708), [early 1691] digitized at high resolution. Accompanying material digitized at medium resolution., Accompanied by: Butler's note (1833 Jan 12) presenting the letter to Sir Henry Dryden; an inaccurate printed version of the letter; ALS (ca. 1710) from Honor Dryden to her cousin Sir Erasmus Dryden (1669-1710); some 19th century notes on Dryden and Walsh., and Dryden criticises Walsh's "Dialogue concerning Women" (published in 1691) and an epigram that later appeared in Walsh's "Letters and Poems" (1692) with Dryden's suggested revisions.
Alternative Title:
[Autograph letter signed] to William Walsh (1663-1708), [early 1691].
Description:
Imperfect: mutilated with some loss of text. and The letter was presented to Sir Henry Dryden in 1833 by Samuel Butler (1774-1839), Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry.
Box 1 contains the letters and broadside. Box 2 contains preservation photocopies made by the library. and Correspondence and papers created by Zachary Taylor relating to his military activities. The correspondence includes autograph letters, signed, and letters, signed, by Taylor to military and government correspondents, including Thomas W. Ringgold; Jefferson Davis; James K. Polk; Roger Jones, Adjutant General of the United States Army; and Thomas Sidney Jessup. Also included is an autograph letter, signed, to Judge Thomas Butler of Louisiana regarding Taylor's reflections on the Battle of Buena Vista against Mexican forces commanded by Antonio López de Santa Anna, 1847 March 6, and letters describing Taylor's travels to his family members, including his daughter, Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Taylor Dandridge and his brother, Hancock Taylor. The papers also include a printed broadside proclamation, signed by Taylor, beginning "Proclamacion por el general comandante del Exercito de los Estados Unidos de America a la nacion Mejicana" and regarding the Mexican War, circa 1846.
Description:
Gift of Frederick W. Beinecke, 1960-1971. Purchased from Morrill on the William Robertson Coe Fund No. 1, 1963 and from Western Hemisphere, Inc. on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1969. Source information is recorded on the folders. and Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) was the 12th President of the United States (1849-1850) and an American military leader with a four-decade career that ended with victories during the Mexican War.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Topic):
Politicians--United States and Soldiers--United States