North America -- British Empire -- Colony of Connecticut -- Groton -- Fort Hill, North America -- British Empire -- Colony of Connecticut -- Mystic, North America -- British Empire -- Colony of Connecticut -- Mystic River, North America -- British Empire -- Colony of Rhode Island -- Charlestown, North America -- British Empire -- Colony of Rhode Island -- Narragansett -- Narragansett Rock, North America -- British Empire -- Colony of Rhode Island -- Quacataug, North America -- Indian Country -- Narragansett Territory -- Quacataug, North America -- Indian Country -- Pequot Territory -- Mystic Fort, North America -- United States of America -- State of Connecticut -- Groton -- Fort Hill, North America -- United States of America -- State of Connecticut -- Mystic -- Pequot Avenue, North America -- United States of America -- State of Connecticut -- Mystic River, North America -- United States of America -- State of Rhode Island -- Charlestown, North America -- United States of America -- State of Rhode Island -- Narragansett Pier -- Narragansett Rock, North America -- United States of America -- State of Rhode Island -- Quacataug, and Unknown
Subject (Name):
Hill, Mr, Paul (Narrag), John, 1731-1794, Stanton, Joseph, Col., 1739-1882, Unknown, and Williams, Col
Audubon, John Woodhouse, 1812-1862 Lambert, John B. (John Booth), -1849 Lambert, John S Trask, John B. (John Boardman), 1824-1879
Published / Created:
[19--]
Call Number:
WA MSS S-2348 L174
Image Count:
29
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Typescript carbon, corrected, transcript of letters and a document relating to the Lamberts' overland journey and John S. Lambert's stay in California in 1849-1851. There are four letters from John B. Lambert to his father describing his trip to New Orleans, and Texas by boat. This is followed by a letter from John B. Trask, the company's doctor, describing John B. Lambert's death, accompanied by a sworn statement declaring John B. Lambert's temperate and exemplary habits, signed by John B. Trask, J.W. Audubon, and Joseph Lambert. There are four letters from John S. Lambert to his wife Rachel describing his life in California, which includes a reference to the 1850 San Francisco fire.
Description:
Acquired with the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana. and John S. Lambert and John B. Lambert of New Canaan, Connecticut, traveled to California in early 1849 with a company of men under Col. Henry L. Weed and John Woodhouse Audubon, John James Audubon's son. The Lamberts' relationship is unknown. They traveled the southern route to California, and at Rio Grande, Texas John B. Lambert was the first member of the company to die of cholera. John S. Lambert went on to California, where he mined and worked as an express courier through 1851.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Description and travel, California--Gold discoveries, and San Francisco (Calif.)--Fire, 1850
Subject (Name):
Audubon, John Woodhouse, 1812-1862, Lambert, John B. (John Booth), -1849, Lambert, John S., Trask, John B. (John Boardman), 1824-1879, and Weed, Henry L.
Subject (Topic):
Cholera--West (U.S.) and Overland journeys to the Pacific--1849
Manuscript, on paper, in the hand of John Stow, of the opening section of John Leslie's Historie of Scotland. This copy ends in the middle of the account of the year 1512.
Description:
From the library of Sir Henry St. George. Phillipps MS 13761. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., In English., Layout: single column of 46-48 lines., and Script: mixed cursive.
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland--History--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Leslie, John, 1527-1596. Historie of Scotland., Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Ownership., St. George, Henry,--Sir,--1625-1715--Ownership., and Stow, John,--1525?-1605.
Subject (Topic):
Antiquarians--Great Britain., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Four ALS (August 21 and November 22, 1903, May 24, 1904, and June 16, 1905), to "My dear Mr. [Joseph Henry] Gest," director of the Cincinnati Art Museum, and one ALS with envelope postmarked March 8, 1905, addressed to his friend and former painting teacher Frank Duveneck, Art Museum, Eden Park, Cincinnati, Ohio. Sharp's letters to Gest describe his life in Montana, the progress of his work, orders for painting supplies, and news of Mrs. Sharp and mutual friends. The 1904 letter, written from San Francisco, relates that he has delivered his work to Mrs. Hearst. In his letter to Frank Duveneck, Sharp asks advice on painting technique, describes activities of the local Indians, and includes a pencil sketch of a Crow woman. With the exception of the 1904 letter, the letters were written from Montana on Crow Agency Hotel and J. D. Sherburne, U.S. Licensed Trader, Browning, Montana, letterheads.
Description:
American artist, who, after being commissioned by the California philanthropist Mrs. Phoebe Hearst to paint Plains Indians and scenes of Indian life, lived with his wife Addie Byram Sharp from 1902 to 1910 at Crow Agency, Montana, and travelled and painted throughout the West. and Purchased from Midland Rare Books on the William Robertson Coe Fund, 1962.
Subject (Geographic):
Crow Agency (Mont.) and Montana--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Crow Agency Hotel, Duveneck, Frank, 1848-1919, Gest, Joseph Henry, Hearst, Phoebe Apperson, 1841-1919, Sharp, Addie Byram, Sharp, Joseph Henry, 1859-1953, Sherburne, J. D, and United States Bureau of Indian Affairs--Crow Agency
Subject (Topic):
Artists--United States, Crow Indians--Social life and customs, Indians of North America--Montana--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Montana--Social life and customs, and Painting, American--Montana
Manuscript copy in Spanish of a 1793 Spanish land grant by Louisiana Governor Francisco Louis Hector Carondelet to Don Joseph Valliere, and signed by Carlos Trudeau, Royal and Private Surveyor of the Province of Louisiana. The grant contains a map showing the location of the land on the White River in the present-day states of Arkansas and Missouri, and is impressed with the seal of the State of Louisiana, certified in English, dated December 7, 1840, and signed by L. Bringier, Surveyor General of Louisiana. The land grant copy is accompanied by an English translation of the grant and copies in an unidentified hand of three letters regarding the property including that of John Wilson to W. A. Bradley, Washington City (October 17, 1841); a letter to Wilson from [Beragency?], New Orleans (undated); and to John Wilson from H. H. Williams, New Orleans (June 19, 1841).
Description:
Joseph Valliere was a Captain in the Spanish Army and served in Louisiana; he died in 1799. and Purchased from Fred A. Rosenstock on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1975.
Subject (Name):
Bradley, W. A, Bringier, Louis, Louisiana.--Governor (1791-1797 : Carondelet), Louisiana.--Surveyor General's Office, Trudeau, Charles, Valliere, Joseph,---approximately 1799, Williams, H. H., and Wilson, John,--active 1841
One holograph diary kept by Lewis, Sep. 1848-Jan. 1849, with entries discussing George's departure.
Description:
Gift of and purchased from Randolph Hill, 1958. and The Griggs family settled in Sutton, Massachusetts, where Thomas Griggs, a blacksmith, purchased land in 1775. Thomas's son, John Griggs, d. 1850, had eleven children, including Lewis, b. 1813, who worked in Boston and in Cincinnati as a merchant; Joseph Franklin, 1822-1897, founder of Western University of Pennsylvania; and George 1826-1891, who went to California in 1849 with the Boston and California Mining and Trading Joint-Stock Company.
Autograph manuscript journal documenting Carter's life in the Chilean cities of Conquimbo and Valpariso, as well as his preparations to return to Great Britain in the summer of 1831. Subjects include Carter's dislike of the "dullness and sameness" of life in the two small towns; local events related to the uprising of 1830; social engagements; and the cost of living for a consular official in Chile. The journal also contains lists of servants' wages; Carter's furniture and personal property; and relative prices in Valpariso and Coquimbo.
Description:
Binding: original quarter-parchment over blue boards., Matthew Carter was first appointed British Consul to the Chilean port of Coquimbo in 1825 and held that post until at least 1835., Ownership inscription by Matthew Carter on recto of front flyleaf; other ownership inscriptions on same page and on front pastedown., and Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2007.
Subject (Geographic):
Chile--Description and travel., Chile--Economic conditions., Chile--Foreign relations--Great Britain., Chile--History--1824-1920., Coquimbo (Chile)--Description and travel., Great Britain--Foreign relations--Chile., and Valparaíso (Chile)--Description and travel.
