Autograph letter signed written in response to recipient's request for information regarding the whereabouts of family member Christopher. Hill describes his partnership in a land claim with "Chris" on farmland in Red Wing, Minnesota, between November 1855 and September 1856, and Chris's relocation to Superior, Wisconsin, where he was hired as a member of the surveying party of the northern section of the St. Croix and Lake Superior Railroad. Hill briefly describes his own position as a clerk and draftsman; his unmarried status; and his agreement with the recipient that a visit to the West would be interesting to him. Hill provides Chris's address in a postscript. The letterhead contains a printed woodcut view of "St. Anthony, Minnesota, [now part of Minneapolis] on the Mississippi."
Description:
St. Paul, Minnesota resident; surveyor and draftsman.
Subject (Geographic):
Red Wing (Minn.)--Description and travel, Saint Anthony (Hennepin County, Minn. : 1855-1872)--Pictorial works, and Saint Paul (Minn.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Hill, A. J.--(Alfred James),--1823-1895, Hotten, John, and St. Croix & Lake Superior Railroad
The letter to the Attorney General in Washington describes the situation of gentile federal officials under a Mormon governor and their inability to enforce the laws of the United States.
Description:
William W. Drummond, associate judge, Utah Territory, 1854-57.
Subject (Geographic):
Utah--Politics and government
Subject (Name):
Cushing, Caleb,--1800-1879, Drummond, William W, and United States.--Attorney-General
Written on a pictorial lettersheet with a view of San Francisco in 1854 (Peters, California on Stone, No. 37), the letter tells about the city's cosmopolitan population and some of the entertainment found around the city, including a performance of Norma by Madame Bishop.
Description:
See Joseph Armstong Baird Jr.'s California's Pictorial Letter Sheets, 1849-1869, no. 239.
Subject (Geographic):
San Francisco (Calif.)--Description and travel. and San Francisco (Calif.)--Pictorial works.
Vol. 2 of 2 letterbooks containing copies of correspondence between the English delegation to the negotiations of the Treaty of Nymegen and Sir Joseph Williamson, secretary of state, and other members of the Cabinet, giving detailed accounts of events and policies.
Description:
Blank pages i-xx at front and back not digitized., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Phillipps MS 8773.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Foreign relations--1660-1714
Subject (Name):
Jenkins, Leoline,--Sir,--1623-1685, Temple, William,--Sir,--1628-1699, and Williamson, Joseph,--1633-1701
Howe Peter Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo (1788-1845) was educated at Eton and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he befriended Lord Byron. After succeeding to his father's title in 1809, in 1810-11 he toured the Mediterranean and the Levant, sending home over 1,000 archaelogical specimens from Morea and the Greek lslands. He was arrested on his return to Malta for "abducting" two Navy deserters who had captained his hired ship and later served four months in Newgate upon his conviction. In 1834-35 Sligo was Governor General of Jamaica and vigorously enforced the British decrees on the emancipation of slaves, later publishing "Jamaica under the Apprentice System, by a Proprietor" (1836).
Subject (Geographic):
Greece--Description and travel, Greece--History--1453-1821, Istanbul (Turkey)--Description and travel, Mediterranean Region--Description and travel, Turkey--Description and travel, and Turkey--History--1683-1829
Subject (Name):
Byron, George Gordon Byron,--Baron,--1788-1824--Friends and associates, Glendining, George, and Sligo, Howe Peter Browne,--Marquess of,--1788-1845
Subject (Topic):
Classical antiquities--Collectors and collecting--Mediterranean region, Grand tours (Education), Pashas, and Travelers' writings, English
