Collection of approximately 76 drawings and sketches made by Brown in watercolor, oil, pastel, wash, pencil and ink. Thirty-one drawings depict army forts and western scenery, including Ringgold Barracks, Los Morus, Port Isabel, and San Jose, Texas; Forts Dalles and Nachess and Mt. Hood, Oregon Territory; Forts Stillicum and Taylor, Washington Territory. and The two volume diary is a corrected typescript containing extracts from a diary Brown kept from 1849 to 1859, and includes 24 ink and wash drawings. Brown describes towns, forts, and missions in Texas and the Pacific Northwest; travels by land in Texas; conflicts with Indians in Texas, Oregon, and Washington; cholera and typhoid epidemics; travelling with his family; marching to Arkansas; spending time with Robert E. Lee; and travelling to the Pacific Coast via steamer. The 24 ink and wash drawings depict the front of the Alamo and the mission of La Conception, San Antonio; Mexican women making tortillas; breakfast on the march; the head of Las Morus River; officer's quarters at Ringgold Barracks, Fort Vancouver, and Fort Dalles; "Chenoweth, chief of Dog-River Indians, hung at Cascades"; and "Cut-Mouth John, friendly Cayuse Scout".
Description:
Accompanied by a container list (in box 1)., Brown, an army surgeon and self-taught artist, served at several military posts in Texas and the Pacific Northwest in the 1850s. During the Civil War he served with the Army of the Potomac and in the Assistant Surgeon General's office in Louisville., and Purchased from Charles Apfelbaum on the Winlock William Miller, Jr. Memorial Fund, 1997, and from William Reese Company on the Winlock William Miller Jr. Memorial Fund, 1998.
Subject (Geographic):
Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)--Pictorial works, Fort Dalles (Dalles, Or.)--Pictorial works, Fort Naches (Or.)--Pictorial works, Fort Ringgold (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Fort Ringgold (Rio Grande City, Tex.)--Pictorial works, Fort Vancouver (Wash.)--Pictorial works, Hood, Mount (Or.)--Pictorial works, Oregon--Description and travel, Oregon--Pictorial works, Port Isabel (Tex.)--Pictorial works, Texas--Description and travel, Texas--Pictorial works, Washington--Description and travel, and Washington--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Brown, Joseph B., 1822-1891, Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870, and United States. Army Military life
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Texas, Indians of North America--Wars--1815-1875, Indians of North America--Wars--Oregon, Indians of North America--Wars--Washington (State), Missions, Spanish--Texas--Pictorial works, Pacific Coast Indians, Wars with, 1847-1865, and Voyages to the Pacific coas
Autograph diary containing brief entries for most days of the year 1790. Subjects include Ford's daily activities; the weather; travel to and from Bridgetown; church services; social events with other planters; the arrival and departure of the packet boats from England; and purchases and other financial transactions.
Description:
Annotations on blank leaves in the printed almanac section of the volume concern weather; social appointments; and ship arrivals and departures., Bound with and inscribed in Perch's pocket almanac, calculated by Mr. Thomas Donohue....Barbados: Printed by Tho. Wtt. Perch, MDCCXC [1790]., Entries made from both front and back of volume., Purchased from Ken Spelman, Ltd. on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2011., and Sir Francis Ford (1758-1801) was the only son of the Barbados planter Francis Ford of Lears (1717-1772). He was educated at Lincoln's Inn and St. John's College, Cambridge, and married Mary Anson, daughter of George Anson (1731-1789) in 1785.. Created baronet in 1793, Ford was MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1793-1796. He died in Barbados in 1801 and left his estate to his son, Francis Ford (1787-1839).
Autograph manuscript diary of the greater part of Baird's journey by stage, ship, and railroad from Serbin, Texas to Trinidad, Colorado Territory in June of 1867, which he notes on the title page is "affectionately dedicated to his beloved wife and children." Baird's route included New Orleans, Louisiana; Jackson, Mississippi; Memphis, Tennessee; Columbus, Kentucky; Cairo, Illinois; St. Louis, Missouri; and Kansas City, Junction City, and Salina, Kansas. He describes the scenery, weather, hotels, and individuals he meets along the route. His Confederate sympathies are reflected in bitter comments regarding the destruction of property by Union soldiers during the war and the freed slaves he enounters. He closes "volume first of my diary and narrative" in Salina, Kansas, and notes that he will complete the balance as soon as he can. The diary entries are followed by The Lord's Prayer, Psalm XXV, and notes regarding distances between points along the travel route.
Description:
Spruce M. Baird was born in Glasgow, Kentucky in 1814, and taught school there prior to moving to Texas before the Civil War. He practiced law in Nacogdoches, Texas, served as judge in Santa Fe County (in what became New Mexico), was Indian agent to the Navajos, and was appointed attorney general of New Mexico. Baird returned to Texas during the Civil War and served as a regiment commander in the Confederate army. In 1867 he moved to Trinidad, Colorado where he opened a law office. He died at Cimarron, New Mexico in 1872. He was married in 1848 to Emmacetta Bowdry of Kentucky and was the father of Andrew Bowdry Baird.
Subject (Geographic):
Illinois--Description and travel, Kansas--Description and travel, Kentucky--Description and travel, Louisiana--Description and travel, Mississippi--Description and travel, Missouri--Description and travel, Tennessee--Description and travel, and Texas--Description and travel
Subject (Topic):
Railroad travel--United States and Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Holograph diary written by a young Irish woman during her stay at Bath in the fall and winter of 1796-97. She describes visits to the Pump Room and the New Room; concerts at the Harmonic Society, balls, walks on the Promenade and drives in the countryside; flirtations, suitors and gossip; and sightings of celebrities, including Mrs. Fitzherbert, the Prince of Wurtemburg, and Lady Sydney. Second volume contains a transcription of the first made by Walter C. Pepys in 1906.
Description:
Laid in: TLS from Emily Driscoll to James Marshall Osborn, 1954 May 21, accompanied by a typescript describing the diary., The unnamed diarist later married William Lecky, an M.P. from County Donegal., and Tipped in: ALS from Ceuta Thompson to Walter C. Pepys; Conway, 1907 Sep 7.
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England)--Amusements, Bath (England)--Description and travel, and Bath (England)--Social life and customs
Wantage, Harriet Sarah Loyd-Lindsay, Baroness, 1837-1920
Call Number:
Osborn d315
Image Count:
65
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Holograph diary kept intermittently by Harriet Sarah Loyd from her sixteenth birthday in 1853 until May of 1858. Topics include family life, friends and social events such as dances and country house visits, travel in England and on the Continent, and personal reflections
Subject (Name):
Wantage, Harriet Sarah Loyd-Lindsay, Baroness, 1837-1920.