The papers consist primarily of correspondence. Letters to Adolph Sutro in the 1860s and 1870s document his attempts to build the Sutro Tunnel with assistance from federal legislation and foreign capital. Letters from the 1880s are personal, covering...
Description:
Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), mining engineer, mayor of San Francisco, 1894-98.
Subject (Geographic):
California and San Francisco.
Subject (Name):
Lynch, Edward., Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898., and Sutro Tunnel Company.
Approximately 65 manuscript letters, signed, relating to Simeon Baldwin or sons Ebenezer Baldwin and Roger S. Baldwin, 1788-1867. Circa 50 letters are addressed to Simeon Baldwin and pertain to his time as a city clerk, congressman, and judge in New H...
Description:
Simeon Baldwin (1761-1851) (Yale 1781) was born in Norwich in the Connecticut Colony and practiced law in New Haven. In 1790, he was elected New Haven city clerk--he served this position until his election as a Federalist to the United States Eighth C...
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut., United States., Connecticut, New Haven (Conn.), and Washington (D.C.)
Subject (Name):
Baldwin, Ebenezer, 1790-1837., Baldwin, Roger S. 1793-1863. (Roger Sherman),, Baldwin, Simeon, 1761-1851., Baldwin, Simeon E. 1840-1927. (Simeon Eben),, and Baldwin family.
Subject (Topic):
Clerks, Judges, Legislators, and Politics and government
Signed and dated holograph manuscript reports in French by Beaumont de Brivazac concerning French interests in America. Twelve reports written between December 1817 and May 1819, document and analyze the political, diplomatic, and economic affairs of...
Description:
Louis C. Hubert, called Comte de Beaumont de Brivazac, was an espionage agent for Louis XVIII, and submitted secret diplomatic reports to Elie Decazes while living in London. He published a work entitled L'europe et ses colonies en decembre 1819, con...
Subject (Geographic):
England., France., Arctic regions, Northwest Passage, Canada, Great Britain, Spain, America, United States, France, and South America
Subject (Name):
Buchan, Captain., Beaumont de Brivazac, comte de, 1746-1821., and Ross, John, Sir, 1777-1856.
Subject (Topic):
Espionage, Spies, Discovery and exploration, British, Politics and government, Foreign relations, Colonies, and History
Collection contains: "Discorso sulla Potesta del Principe," a bound autograph manuscript with a table of contents in the hand of Fulgenzio Micanzio, Sarpi's disciple, with notes in Greek and Hebrew added in red ink in an unidentified hand; seventeenth...
Description:
Venetian theologian, scholar and patriot.
Subject (Geographic):
Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872 and Ubaldini, Roberto, fl. 17th century.
Autograph letters, signed, official documents, notes and a case file documenting various aspects of French rule in the West Indies, almost entirely dating from the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. Manuscripts include a lengthy letter by "M...
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Haiti., France, America., Haiti, Martinique., and West Indies, French.
Subject (Name):
Delahun, C., Noailles, Louis Marie, vicomte de, 1756-1804., and Rochambeau, Donatien Marie Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de, 1750-1813.
Subject (Topic):
Law, Slavery, Colonies, Administration, History, and Politics and government
Holograph diary kept by Porcher while commander of the HMS Sparrowhawk during its voyage from England to British Columbia by way of South America, through the Straits of Magellan, from Callao to the Hawaiian Islands, and from Honolulu to Esquimalt Har...
Description:
British naval officer who entered the service in 1837, was appointed captain in 1868, retired in 1872, and died in Germany in 1878. Porcher served on various ships on voyages to Australia, the Orient, and the Middle East, where he prepared drawings fo...
Subject (Geographic):
British Columbia., British Columbia, Vancouver Island (B.C.), Esquimalt (B.C.), and Northwest Coast of North America
Subject (Name):
Porcher, Edwin Augustus., Seymour, Frederick, 1820-1869., Great Britain. Royal Navy., and Sparrowhawk (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels, Voyages to the Pacific coast, Mines and mineral resources, Coal mines and mining, Gold mines and mining, Lumber trade, Indians of North America, Commerce, Description and travel, Politics and government, Social life and customs, Missionaries, and Fur trade
Holograph diary kept by Porcher while commander of the HMS Sparrowhawk during its voyage from England to British Columbia by way of South America, through the Straits of Magellan, from Callao to the Hawaiian Islands, and from Honolulu to Esquimalt Har...
Description:
British naval officer who entered the service in 1837, was appointed captain in 1868, retired in 1872, and died in Germany in 1878. Porcher served on various ships on voyages to Australia, the Orient, and the Middle East, where he prepared drawings fo...
Subject (Geographic):
British Columbia., British Columbia, Vancouver Island (B.C.), Esquimalt (B.C.), and Northwest Coast of North America
Subject (Name):
Porcher, Edwin Augustus., Seymour, Frederick, 1820-1869., Great Britain. Royal Navy., and Sparrowhawk (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels, Voyages to the Pacific coast, Mines and mineral resources, Coal mines and mining, Gold mines and mining, Lumber trade, Indians of North America, Commerce, Description and travel, Politics and government, Social life and customs, Missionaries, and Fur trade
Holograph diary kept by Porcher while commander of the HMS Sparrowhawk during its voyage from England to British Columbia by way of South America, through the Straits of Magellan, from Callao to the Hawaiian Islands, and from Honolulu to Esquimalt Har...
Description:
British naval officer who entered the service in 1837, was appointed captain in 1868, retired in 1872, and died in Germany in 1878. Porcher served on various ships on voyages to Australia, the Orient, and the Middle East, where he prepared drawings fo...
Subject (Geographic):
British Columbia., British Columbia, Vancouver Island (B.C.), Esquimalt (B.C.), and Northwest Coast of North America
Subject (Name):
Porcher, Edwin Augustus., Seymour, Frederick, 1820-1869., Great Britain. Royal Navy., and Sparrowhawk (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels, Voyages to the Pacific coast, Mines and mineral resources, Coal mines and mining, Gold mines and mining, Lumber trade, Indians of North America, Commerce, Description and travel, Politics and government, Social life and customs, Missionaries, and Fur trade
The papers are almost entirely concerned with Macartney's embassy to Russia in 1764-1767, and include notes, memoranda, drafts of the trade treaty he negotiated, and a final copy; accounts of travel in Russia and general descriptions of the country, i...
Description:
George Macartney was born in Ireland and educated at Trinity College. In 1764, Lord Holland proposed him as envoy extraordinary to Saint Petersburg for the negotiation of a trade treaty. Knighted before departing England, Macartney returned in 1767 af...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Great Britain, Russia., Russia, and Siberia (Russia)
Subject (Name):
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796. and Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Diplomatic and consular service, British, Diplomatic and consular service, Russian, Diplomats, Commerce, Foreign relations, Politics and government, Court and courtiers, and Description and travel
The collection consists of journals, financial documents, account books, correspondence, photographs and maps that document the professional and personal life of George W. Conover. The bulk of the material dates from the turn of the twentieth century,...
Description:
George W. Conover (1848-1936), a native of Philadelphia, was a merchant, rancher and Indian agent in southwestern Oklahoma. From 1870 to 1873 he worked at the Indian commissary at Fort Sill, after which he moved to the area of Andarko to become a ranc...
Subject (Geographic):
Oklahoma., Andarko (Okla.), Caddo County (Okla.), Indian Territory., Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indian Reservation (Okla.), Oklahoma, Wichita Reservation (Okla.), and Indian Territory
Subject (Name):
Conover, George W., 1848- and Conover, Tomasa.
Subject (Topic):
Businessmen, Caddo Indians, Comanche Indians, Delaware Indians, Indian agents, Kiowa Indians, Land settlement, Indians of North America, Ranchers, Statehood (American politics), Wichita Indians, Government relations, Land tenure, Indian reservations, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
