Colorado Territory National Silver Mining Company of Baltimore City
Published / Created:
1860-1885
Call Number:
WA MSS S-2587 C714
Image Count:
46
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence, minutes, and a manuscript copy of the 1868 charter of the Colorado Territory National Silver Mining Company of Baltimore City. The materials identify company officers and employees, and document the company's operation and mining business. Seven of the 11 letters present are from John Fillius, the company's Colorado mining superintendent, reporting from Georgetown, Colorado, and Denver, Colorado. His letters to the Board of Directors and to Dr. Henry Boggs of Baltimore describe the output, conditions, and expected expansion of the company's Colorado mines; plans to develop various lodes in Colorado, including the Illinois and the Choctaw; and a dispute with John Tomay over the company's ownership of one of the mines, which eventually led to legal action against Tomay and his colleague "Mr. Hughes" in 1882. One letter from Fillius is on letterhead of the Baltimore Tunnel Company, and provides a list of tunnels with a report of the quality of their output. A letter from Tomay in January 1875 describes various lodes in Georgetown, and letters from other correspondents in 1860, 1880, and 1883, concern the development and worth of the company's mining properties in Colorado. The minutes, which appear to have been torn out of a ledger and are incomplete, span from 1869 to 1873 and document the proceedings of the Colorado Territory National Silver Mining Company of Baltimore City's Board of Directors.
Description:
Purchased from Michael Ginsberg Books on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2006. and The Colorado Territory National Silver Mining Company of Baltimore City was incorporated in Washington, D.C., on November 19, 1868. The Company, managed by a board of seven directors, was formed to procure, transport, prepare, and bring to market in Maryland "minerals from the Colorado Territory."
Subject (Geographic):
Baltimore (Md.)--Commerce and Georgetown (Colo.)
Subject (Name):
Baltimore Tunnel Company, Colorado Territory National Silver Mining Company of Baltimore City, Fillius, John, and Tomay, John--Trials, litigation, etc
Manuscript on paper of a commonplace book. The work contains four sections. (1) "Loci animadvertendi in legendi epistolis, ad quos etia[m] om[n]ia quae annotaderis referenda sunt." This lists types of epistles under eight headings, or "libri," but the extensive framework is very incompletely annotated. (2) "Here are written divers notes phrases words & sentences collected out of severall bokes. 15 Novembr 1586. A[nn]o Reg.ie Eliz. 28." This is actually a seventeen-page selection from the "A Touchstone for the Time" section of George Whetstone's A Mirrour for Magistrates.... (London, 1584). It is preceded by a two-line entry quoting Mary Queen of Scots as saying at Fotheringay, "I come not as a criminal." (3) "Epistolae commendatiae Praecepta," summarizing extracts from the Epistolae of Paulus Manutius. (4) "Quaedam collecta ex liber The Breviarie of Health, compiled by Andrew Boorde." Eight pages of various entries in English from Boorde's work, including descriptions of and remedies for "scurffe," greensickness, "sikness of the prisones, "chappe," and nosebleed.
Description:
Binding: 18th century full calf, blind stamped, spine banded with gilt decorations., Bookplate: Maurice Johnson of Spalding, 1735., Bound with: 17th century manuscript on paper of legal precedents in a chancery hand. Most are from the reign of James I. The name "Richarde Wolfe" appears in an Italic hand on the last page., Ex libris Maurice Johnson. Purchased from Arthur Freeman on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2002., In English and Latin., Several copies of prayers throughout in a later hand., Spine title reads, "M.S.S. 1586.", and Title page for volume (supplied by Johnson) in red and black lettering attributes the commonplace book to "Richardum Ogle Eq. Aur."
Subject (Name):
Manuzio, Paolo,--1512-1574 and Whetstone, George,--1544?-1587?
Subject (Topic):
Law--Great Britain, Medicine, Popular, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Rhetoric, Renaissance
Chauncy family sermons, book inventory and commonplace book
Container / Volume:
Box 5
Image Count:
288
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Bound commonplace book kept by Elnathan Chauncy (Harvard Class of 1661), begun in his senior year at Harvard (volume 5).
Description:
Charles Chauncy, non-conformist minister originally from England, second Harvard president, and father of Isaac, Ichabod, Barnabas, Nathaniel, Elnathan, and Israel Chauncy., Israel Chauncy was a minister in Bridgeport (then Stratford), Connecticut. When his brother Nathaniel died, Israel agreed to raise his nephew Nathaniel in exchange for the use of books from their father's library which had passed to his brother. Israel Chauncy was one of the founders of Yale College, and his nephew Nathaniel was the first graduate of Yale College., and Purchased from The Owl at the Bridge on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2001.
Subject (Geographic):
Cambridge (Mass.)
Subject (Name):
Brinsmade, Zachary, d. 1667, Chauncey family, Chauncy, Charles, 1592-1672, Chauncy, Israel, 1644-1703, Chauncy, Nathaniel, approximately 1639-1685, Harvard College (1636-1780)--Students, Mitchel, Jonathan, 1624-1668, and Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707
Huntington, Hezekiah Kellogg, Israel Whiting, Charles
Published / Created:
November 6, 1752 and September 23, 1752
Collection Title:
American Indian Collection (1647-1940)
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic):
North America -- British Empire -- Colony of Connecticut -- New Hartford -- Norfolk, North America -- British Empire -- Colony of Connecticut -- New London, North America -- British Empire -- Colony of Connecticut -- Norwich, North America -- United States of America -- State of Connecticut -- New Hartford -- Norfolk, North America -- United States of America -- State of Connecticut -- New London, and North America -- United States of America -- State of Connecticut -- Norwich
Subject (Name):
Huntington, Isaac, Loomis, Israel, Robbins, John, and Whiting, Charles
Series I, Owen Franklin Aldis Gift, Other Papers. Includes a written agreement with Samuel G. Goodrich regarding editorial work on The Token in 1829. and The Nathaniel Parker Willis collection consists of letters, manuscripts, photographs, and printed ephemera related to Nathaniel Parker Willis.
Description:
Accompanied by a container list (in box 1)., Acquired by gift and purchase from various sources., and Nathaniel Parker Willis, journalist and poet.
Subject (Name):
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860 and Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867
Subject (Topic):
American literature--19th century and Authors, American--19th century--Archives
George LeRoy Brown correspondence and other papers relating to Pine Ridge Agency
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 21
Image Count:
3
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
George LeRoy Brown correspondence and other papers relating to Pine Ridge Agency
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 44
Image Count:
5
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