George LeRoy Brown correspondence and other papers relating to Pine Ridge Agency
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 28
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Circa thirty letters, most autograph, signed, to George LeRoy Brown, primarily concerning his term as acting Indian agent of Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota. Brown's dispute with writer and activist Charles Eastman is particularly well documented. Brown collected letters from Indian rights activists, jurists, military officers, and friends supporting his case and congratulating him on Eastman's resignation. Also present is a copy of his letter to T. J. Morgan, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, requesting Eastman's removal. Other letters and newspaper clippings document the 1893 killing of four white cowboys at Pine Ridge by a group of Sioux who were also at the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. Correspondents include Richard Henry Pratt, founder of Carlisle Indian Industrial School; Herbert Welsh, founder of the Indian Rights Association; Byron M. Cutcheon, politician; William Hobart Hare, Episcopal bishop and missionary; and George Bliss Sanford, colonel in the United States Army. Other contents include correspondence and reports from Brown's time as professor of military science at Delaware College.
Description:
George LeRoy Brown (1849-1921) was acting Indian agent at the Pine Ridge Agency from 1891 to 1893, following the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. An 1872 graduate of West Point, Brown served as professor of military science at Delaware College, later the University of Delaware, from 1889 to 1891. At the Pine Ridge Agency, Brown was accused by Charles Eastman, a Dakota physician, of misusing agency land and embezzling reparations payments, while Brown accused Eastman of insubordination. Two investigations exonerated Brown and forced Eastman out of his position. Following his term at the Pine Ridge Agency, Brown was promoted to colonel in the United States Army, served in Cuba and the Philippines, and taught military science at American colleges. and Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2011.
Subject (Geographic):
Pine Ridge (S.D.)
Subject (Name):
Brown, George LeRoy, 1849-1921
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians--Government relations, Indian agents--South Dakota, and Indian reservations--South Dakota
American literature--20th century, American poetry--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors--United States--20th century, Gay authors, LGBTQ resource, Poets, American--20th century--Archives, and Poets--United States--20th Century
Caresse Crosby papers relating to the World Constitutional Convention and the World Man Center
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 3
Image Count:
21
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Papers include correspondence and other materials relating to the peace efforts in the mid to late 1960s of the World Constitutional Convention and the World Man Center, a proposed peace center in Cyprus, established in collaboration with Cyprus President Makarios, architect Buckminster Fuller, and the World Academy of Art and Science.
Description:
Caresse Crosby (1892-1970), poet and publisher. and Gift of William Kelly Simpson, 2007.
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
Accompanied by: The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New : newly translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised ...London: Henry Hills and John Field, 1660. Ownership and presentation inscriptions include "Dorothy Harvey her book Giuen me by my uncell Nicholas Jun 15 1686. Pray for NH, he pray for thee;" "Given to Anne the Hon.ble Ly. Middeleton by Mrs. Caroline Acton, Decr. 1836;" and "Jane Anne Broke from her Godmother Anne Hon.ble Lady Middleton July 28 1860." Bound in black gilt-panelled morocco, with a six-compartment gilt spine. Marbled endpapers. and Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing several works in verse and prose apparently composed by Dorothy Calthorpe. The volume opens with three poems in couplets: "Philismena to Philander," "Philander to Philismena," and "In commendations of a country Life it being so innocent," and a short prose "Discription of the Garden of Edden." These are followed by a longer prose narrative: "A Short History of the Life and Death of Sir Ceasor Dappefer, or els a pleasent histtory of Jewlious and Dorinda the truth of it was so lately represented that some of those worthy persons are stil liueing and ownes what is here repated." The story, which Calthorpe claims is based on the lives of her father and grandfather, traces the business success and courtships of a father and son. "A Castell in the aire, or the pallace of the man in the moone" is a prose work containing both religious reflection and descriptions of "visiones" of Roman gods, eagles and celestial gardens.
Description:
Binding: contemporary speckled calf., Dorothy Calthorpe was probably connected to the Calthorpe family of Ampton in Suffolk, but she has not been further identified., Inscription on first page: A red marble Chappel Erected by my hand. Dorothy Calthorpe Jun 20 1684. Accompanied by a drawing of a chapel. Both in red ink., Inscription on front pastedown: Dorothy Calthorpe., Inscription on last page: Dorothy Calthorpe. I begane this book Janewary the 20 in the yeare 1672., Inscription on recto of front flyleaf: Anne L'Estrange Sa Livre. Mars 27 1738., and Purchased from Sotheby's on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2006.
Subject (Name):
Cowlthorp family and Middleton family
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English--18th century, English fiction--17th century, English fiction--Women authors, English poetry--17th century, English prose literature--17th century, Pastoral poetry, English, Religious literature, English, and Women authors
The diary was probably written by a private or noncommissioned officer of Company A of the 1st Regiment of Oregon Mounted Volunteers. It describes the march from The Dalles to the support of Maj. Chinn on the Umatilla River and the Indian campaign in the Walla Walla Country. The diary gives details of the country and records the movements of the regiment during the Yakima War. The death of Peu-Peu-Mox-Mox is described.
Description:
Gift of William Robertson Coe. and Original binding.
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon--Description and travel, Umatilla River Valley (Or.)--Description and travel, Walla Walla County (Or.)--Description and travel, and Washington (State)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Mercer, K. B., Peu-Peu-Mox-Mox, and United States. Army. Oregon Mounted Volunteers, 1st