ALS written by Captain Stuart from Fort Smith on the eastern boundary of the Arkansas frontier, to his commanding officer at Fort Gibson, expressing his regret that he and Arbuckle do not agree on the need for troops at Fort Smith. Stuart states that...
Description:
Purchased by Goodspeed's Book Shop, Inc., on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 1982.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Smith (Ark.)
Subject (Name):
Arbuckle, Matthew, 1776-1851, Stuart, John, active 1837, United States Army Infantry Regiment, 7th, and United States Army--Military life--History--19th century
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life--Arkansas, Indians of North America--Arkansas, and Soldiers--United States
ALS regarding Fontenelle’s activities on behalf of the American Fur Company during his absence from Fort Union on the north bank of the Missouri River five miles above the mouth of the Yellowstone, between June and September, 1832. Fontenelle informs ...
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Union (N.D.)
Subject (Name):
American Fur Company, Drips, Andrew, Fontenelle, Lucien, McKenzie, Kenneth, 1797-1861, and Vanderburgh, William H.
An autograph letter signed from an itinerant actress Eleonora Garrell in a travelling theatre troupe, dated 13 December 1764 from the White Lion Inn in Halifax. An affectionate, teasing letter in which the writer reports on her employment with the "Sc...
Description:
Surname may be Garrell?
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Farrell, Eleonora. and Whitley, James Augustus, ca. 1724-1781.
Autograph letter in the third person from Edward Edwards to Richard Bull. Edwards "begs [Bull's] acceptance of the inclosed portrait", presumably the etched portrait of Thomas Kirgate that is mounted beside this letter
Montfaucon writes to Baluze (in exile) about the state of printing business in Paris and with general news of "la republique des lettres". He notes volumes recently published or in press, including: Lodovico Antonio Muratori’s Anecdota Graeca, Origen’...
ALS relating news of the Navajo attack on Fort Defiance, Arizona Territory, April 30, 1860, and discussing Donaldson's views on relations between the United States and the Navajos. The letter is bound with a typed transcript.
Description:
Gift of Frederick W. Beinecke, 1960.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Defiance (Ariz.)
Subject (Name):
Donaldson, James Lowry, 1814-1885 and Mayer, Brantz, 1809-1879
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Arizona--Government relations, Indians of North America--New Mexico--Government relations, Indians of North America--Wars--Arizona, Navajo Indians--Government relations, and Navajo Indians--Wars
ALS regarding the six percent duty which was collected from United States citizens on merchandise brought into New Mexico Territory from the United States.
Description:
Lieutenant Colonel John Macrae Washington was a commander of the 9th Military Department of the United States Army and served as civil and military governor of New Mexico from October 1 to October 23, 1849. Some biographical sources list Washington a...
Subject (Geographic):
New Mexico--Politics and government--1848-1950 and Santa Fe (N.M.)--Commerce
Subject (Name):
Alvarez, Manuel, 1794-1856 and Washington, John Macrae, 1797-1853
ALS mentioning Cusick's ill health and his intention to print a manuscript, possibly relating to Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations, in Lewiston, New York, rather than send it to Spafford.
Description:
David Cusick was an Iroquois (Tuscarora) writer, physician, and painter. He published Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations in Lewiston, New York, in 1827. Cusick died ca. 1840.
Subject (Name):
Cusick, David, -ca 1840. Sketches of ancient history of the Six Nations, Cusick, David, -ca. 1840, and Spafford, Horatio Gates, 1778-1832
Subject (Topic):
Indian authors--New York (State)--19th century, Indians of North America--New York (State), and Tuscarora Indians
Commanding the Utah expedition, Albert Johnston arrived at Fort Leavenworth on September 11, 1857. The following day, he ordered to Fitz-John Porter to keep twenty mounted infantry at Fort Kearny in case of Indian attacks on that vicinity.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Kearny
Subject (Name):
Johnston, Albert Sidney, 1803-1862, Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901, United States. Adjutant-General's Office, and Utah Expedition (1857-1858)
As Colonel of the 2d Regiment Cavalry, Albert Johnston compares the physical equipment of the various Texas forts and suggests Fort Mason as the best location to station the cavalry in order to protect settlements from Indian raids.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Belknap (Tex.), Fort Chadbourne (Tex.), Fort Mason (Mason, Tex.), Fort McKavett (Tex.), and Texas--History--1846-1950
Subject (Name):
Cooper, Samuel, 1798-1876, Johnston, Albert Sidney, 1803-1862, Steen, Enoch, d. 1880, and United States--Army--Cavalry, 2nd
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Texas. and Military bases--Texas
An autographed letter signed (partially rubbed off) discussing family matters and financial concerns to his relative the Hon. Thomas Symonds at his seat at Pengethly in Herefordshire. Written on the verso of Vertue's engraving of "The west prospect o...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Name):
Vertue, George, 1684-1756. and Symonds, Thomas, Dr.
A letter discussing the inequalities and lack of scale in the brevet system which affects many of the men fighting in the Mexican War. General Kearny is disturbed that Lt. Elwell has not received a brevet promotion for his heroic service and harshly c...
Subject (Name):
Boone, Nathan, 1782-1857?, Elwell, Richard S., Gibbs, Alfred, Graham, Lorimer, Harney, William Selby, 1800-1889, Kearny, Philip, 1815-1862, Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870, Mason, Richard Barnes, 1797-1850, Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866, United States. Army --Promotions, United States. Army. Cavalry, 1st, United States. Army. Cavalry, 2nd, and Worth, William Jenkins, 1794-1849
