Manuscripts, in a single hand, of Blagden's correspondence with Lord and Lady Palmerston. 71 letters are addressed to Lord Palmerston and 27 to Lady Palmerston. The letters discuss personal affairs, including the health of Lord Palmerston, his trave...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, France, Great Britain., France., India, and Śrīraṅgapaṭṭaṇa (India)
Subject (Name):
Blagden, Charles, Sir, 1748-1820., Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821., Palmerston, Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount, 1739-1802., Palmerston, Mary (Mee) Temple, Viscountess, 1754-1805., Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814., Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799., and Wurmser, Dagobert Sigmund, graf von, 1724-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Art, Collectors and collecting, Science, History, Foreign relations, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville letters and report on the French and Indian War, 1756-1757
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Describes Louis-Antoine de Bougainville's voyage to Canada, the situation at Montreal, plans for an expedition southward, his relationship to Montcalm, and news of the war.
Description:
In pencil on [p. 1]: [erased notations].
Subject (Geographic):
Canada --History --1755-1763, Five Nations, and United States --History --French and Indian War, 1755-1763
Subject (Name):
Bougainville, Jean-Pierre de, 1722-1763 and Montcalm de Saint-Veran, Louis-Joseph, marquis de, 1712-1759
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville letters and report on the French and Indian War, 1756-1757
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Describes Louis-Antoine de Bougainville's voyage to Canada, the situation at Montreal, plans for an expedition southward, his relationship to Montcalm, and news of the war.
Description:
In colored pencil on [p. 1]: 9.
Subject (Geographic):
Canada --History --1755-1763, Five Nations, and United States --History --French and Indian War, 1755-1763
Subject (Name):
Bougainville, Jean-Pierre de, 1722-1763 and Montcalm de Saint-Veran, Louis-Joseph, marquis de, 1712-1759
Manuscript, in a single secretary hand, of copies of correspondence to and from Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, regarding his actions in Ireland in 1599. The manuscript begins with a letter from Bacon to Essex after Essex's censure in 1599, suggestin...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Bacon, Anthony, 1558-1601., Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603., Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1566-1601., Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646, and Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, Earl of, 1573-1624.
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Treason, Court and courtiers, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
Oregon Superintendent of Indian Affairs correspondence
Container / Volume:
Box 5 | Folder 4
Image Count:
147
Abstract:
After March 13, 1872, many of the letters are addressed to his successor, T. D. Odeneal
Description:
5 volumes and typed transcript stored in 5 boxes.
Subject (Geographic):
Siletz Indian Reservation (Or.) and Warm Springs Indian Reservation (Or.)
Subject (Name):
Applegate, Ivan D., 1840-1918, Boyle, William Henry, Clum, Henry R, Cornoyer, Narcisse A., 1820-1909, Dyar, Leory S, Knapp, Orson Claudius, 1887, Lafollett, Charles, Meacham, A. B. (Alfred Benjamin), 1826-1882, Odeneal, T. B, Palmer, Joel, 1810-1881, Parker, Ely Samuel, 1828-1895, Smith, John R., active 1870-1872, United States. Office of Indian Affairs, and Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897
Subject (Topic):
Indian agents--Oregon, Indian reservations--Oregon, Indians of North America--Oregon--Government relations, Klamath Indians--Reservations, Modoc Indians--Wars, 1873, Siletz Indians, and Umatilla Indians--Reservations
American Horse, Dakota Chief, 1840-1908 Foster, Charles, 1828-1904
Published / Created:
1880-1896
Call Number:
WA MSS S-903 (folio)
Image Count:
56
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Letters written for American Horse regarding early customs of the Sioux, their cultural advancement, and the tragedy at Wounded Knee Creek. Accompanied by a letter about Charles Foster's position on Indian affairs and a letter from Mrs. James Landy to...
Subject (Name):
American Horse, Dakota Chief, 1840-1908--Portraits, Foster, Charles, 1828-1904, Landy, Edwin F, and Landy, James
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians--Pictorial works, Dakota Indians--Social life and customs, Indians of North America, and Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890
[TLS from Mary H. Lincoln to Max Babb, Washington, D.C., 1933 April 26]
Description:
BEIN Za B816 862 Copy 2: Author's autograph presentation copy to Abraham Lincoln. Letter from Mary Lincoln laid in. B binding.
Publisher:
Carleton,
Subject (Name):
Babb, Max, Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Presentation inscription from C.F. Browne, Lincoln, Mary H, and Ward, Artemus,--1834-1867--Presentation inscription to A. Lincoln
Six autograph letters (1853-1856) from August Scharf and his wife to her parents in Hermann [Missouri?] written after their arrival in California. The letters discuss their ranch, August's work in the mines, trouble with Elisabeth's brothers, financia...
Description:
August Scharf, his wife Elisabeth, and her three brothers made an overland journey to California in 1853 from Hermann (possibly Hermann, Missouri, a German settlement). The Scharfs lived in Grizzly Flat, where they had a farm and had shares in a gold ...
Subject (Geographic):
California--Gold discoveries and Hermann (Mo.)
Subject (Name):
Scharf, August and Scharf, Elisabeth
Subject (Topic):
German Americans--California and Gold mines and mining--California--El Dorado County
Correspondence of C. A. Dawson Scott and her daughter Marjorie Watts. The bulk of the letters from Dawson Scott to her daughter date from 1920 to 1921. The lengthy letters, written in diary form, contain details of Dawson Scott's divorce, her writing,...
Subject (Name):
Bagnold, Enid and PEN (Organization)
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English--20th century--Archives, Spiritualists--England., and Women authors--England.
Two typescript letters (signed), dated 1943 August and December, discussing Fondane's personal circumstances, a planned article, and Tristan Tzara, written only months before Fondane was imprisoned and died in Auschwitz in 1944.
Description:
Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French poet and philosopher.
Subject (Name):
Fondane, Benjamin,--1898-1944, Ribemont-Dessaignes, Georges,--1884-1974, and Tzara, Tristan,--1896-1963
Subject (Topic):
Dadaism, French literature--20th century, Poets, Romanian, and Romanian literature--Jewish authors
Fred Benjamin Millett Correspondence is comprised of incoming letters from American and British authors dating from 1933 to 1950. The authors write in response to Millet's request for information while preparing his books: Contemporary British Literat...
Description:
Fred Benjamin Millett (1890-1976), professor of English and Head of the Honors College at Wesleyan University.
Subject (Name):
Millett, Fred B. (Fred Benjamin), 1890-1976
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, English--20th century, Bio-bibliography, and English literature--20th century
Correspondence of C. A. Dawson Scott and her daughter Marjorie Watts. The bulk of the letters from Dawson Scott to her daughter date from 1920 to 1921. The lengthy letters, written in diary form, contain details of Dawson Scott's divorce, her writing,...
Subject (Name):
Čapek, Karel, 1890-1938
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English--20th century--Archives and Women authors--England.
Colby (Family) Colby, Clara Dorothy Bewick, 1846-1916 Colby, L. W. (Leonard Wright), 1846-1924
Published / Created:
1865-1877
Call Number:
WA MSS S-3163 C6725
Image Count:
55
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Eleven autograph letters, signed, from Leonard Wright Colby and Clara Dorothy Bewick Colby to Rowel and Abigail Livingston Colby, parents of Leonard Wright Colby. The letters concern Leonard and Clara's attempts to establish a home and business in Bea...
Description:
Clara Dorothy Bewick Colby (1846-1916), women's rights activist, journalist, newspaper publisher, and lecturer; married Leonard Wright Colby.
Subject (Geographic):
Beatrice (Neb.)--Social life and customs--19th century
Subject (Name):
Colby and Sale, Colby family, Colby, Abigail Livingston, 1813-1905, Colby, Clara Dorothy Bewick, 1846-1916, Colby, L. W. (Leonard Wright), 1846-1924, and Colby, Rowel, 1809-1894
Letter book containing Kirke's dispatches from Tangier while in command of command of Lord Plymouth's regiment and later as governor of Tangier (1681-1683) to Secretary Jenkins and to the Lords of the Treasury
Description:
Percy Kirke (1646?-1691), British army officer and governor of Tangier from 1681-1683.
Subject (Geographic):
Tangier (Morocco) and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Kirke, Percy, 1646?-1691., Jenkins, Leoline, Sir, 1623-1685., and Great Britain. Treasury.
The Walter O. Evans Collection of James Baldwin is comprised of a typescript draft of Baldwin's Another Country (New York: Dial Pub., 1962) and correspondence sent from Baldwin to Mary Garin-Painter, David Adams Leeming, and Eugene Lerner dating from ...
Description:
Purchased from Walter O. and Linda Evans on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund and the Sinclair Lewis Fund, 2013.
Subject (Geographic):
United States--Race relations
Subject (Name):
Garin-Painter, Mary
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century--Archives, African American authors--France--Paris., African American civil rights workers, African Americans--Civil rights--20th century., American literature--France--Paris., Americans--Turkey--Istanbul--Intellectual life., Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Turkey--Istanbul., Expatriate artists--France--Paris, and LGBTQ resource
