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
The correspondence between Charles Athearn and his family urges people interested in settling in Kansas Territory to consider the Wolf Creek and Neosho River area, where he has taken a site. Letters describe the weather, crops, the future prosperity o...
Subject (Geographic):
Kansas--History--1854-1861
Subject (Name):
Athearn, Caleb and Athearn, Charles G
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life--Kansas and Slavery--Kansas
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
Mary Elizabeth Phillips papers relating to James Fenimore Cooper
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | 3-4
Image Count:
55
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Papers consist of a draft, typescript, corrected, and other materials relating to Phillips's work on James Fenimore Cooper. Other materials include a bibliography of works relating to Cooper held by Rudolf Drescher, a memorandum of agreement between P...
Description:
Gift of Mary M. Bean, 2010.
Subject (Name):
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851, Dodd, Mead & Company, John Lane Company, and University Press (Cambridge, Mass.)
Subject (Topic):
American literature--19th century, Authors and publishers--United States, Authors, American--19th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, and Publishers and publishing--United States
Mary Elizabeth Phillips papers relating to James Fenimore Cooper
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 5
Image Count:
27
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Papers consist of a draft, typescript, corrected, and other materials relating to Phillips's work on James Fenimore Cooper. Other materials include a bibliography of works relating to Cooper held by Rudolf Drescher, a memorandum of agreement between P...
Description:
Gift of Mary M. Bean, 2010.
Subject (Name):
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 and John Lane Company
Subject (Topic):
American literature--19th century, Authors and publishers--United States, Authors, American--19th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, and Publishers and publishing--United States
Collection consists of correspondence, writings and other material by and about H. G. Wells. Box 1 contains autograph and typescript letters, signed, from Wells to friends, editors, and others including the writers Grant Allen, Philip Guedalla, Upton...
Description:
Acquired by gift and purchase, 1945-1983. For more information consult the appropriate curator.
Art, French--20th century, Authors, French--20th century, Gender identity in art, Lesbian artists--France, LGBTQ resource, Photographers--France, Photography, Artistic--France, Surrealism--France, Women photographers, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, French, and World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Channel Islands--Jersey
Art, French--20th century, Authors, French--20th century, Gender identity in art, Lesbian artists--France, LGBTQ resource, Photographers--France, Photography, Artistic--France, Surrealism--France, Women photographers, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, French, and World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Channel Islands--Jersey
Copy, possibly in Father Xavier de Mora's own hand, of an exchange of letters between himself and Father Eusebio Francisco Kino. In the first, dated October 3, 1696, Father Xavier de Mora criticizes Father Kino's failure to obey orders and his handlin...
Description:
Purchased from Dawson's Los Angeles on the Henry Raup Wagner Fund, 1965.
Subject (Name):
Jesuits, Kino, Eusebio Francisco,--1644-1711, San Francisco de Xavier Mission (Sonora, Mexico), and Xavier de Mora, Francisco
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 (Topic):
Authors, English--20th century--Archives and Women authors--England.
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 (Topic):
Authors, English--20th century--Archives and Women authors--England.
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 (Topic):
Authors, English--20th century--Archives and Women authors--England.
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 (Topic):
Authors, English--20th century--Archives and Women authors--England.
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 (Topic):
Authors, English--20th century--Archives and Women authors--England.
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 (Topic):
Authors, English--20th century--Archives and Women authors--England.
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 (Topic):
Authors, English--20th century--Archives and Women authors--England.
Because of conflicting reports on the conditions of the missions in Sonora, Father Polici examines the situation himself. He recommends sending skilled priests and more soldiers into the area, building of churches and houses, a greater development of ...
Subject (Geographic):
Pimería Alta (Mexico and Ariz.)--History
Subject (Name):
Diáz de Theran, Juan, Kino, Eusebio Francisco,--1644-1711, Manga, Juan Mateo,--1670-1726?, Nicolaza, Domingo, Oddon, Ambrosio, Pacheco, Francisco, Polici, Oracio,--1654-1713, Saeta, Francisco Javier,--1664-1695, and Salvatierra, Juan María de,--1648-1717
Subject (Topic):
Apache Indians, Missions--Pimería Alta (Mexico and Ariz.), and Pima Indians
United States. Army. Military Division of the Missouri Williams, Robert, fl. 1876
Published / Created:
1876 July 16
Call Number:
WA MSS S-1025 Un3124
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
General Crook planned an ambitious campaign against the Sioux Indians for the summer of 1876. In this dispatch, General Sheridan provides information on movements of hostile Indians, assignments and movements of United States troops, and availability ...
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Fetterman (Wyo.) and Fort Laramie (Wyo.)
Subject (Name):
Coates, Edwin M., Crook, George, 1828-1890, Drum, Richard C. (Richard Coulter), 1825-1909, Merritt, Wesley, 1834-1910, Nickerson, James D., Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888, United States. Army. Cavalry, 3rd, United States. Army. Cavalry, 5th, United States. Army. Cavalry, 7th, and United States. Army. Military Division of the Missouri
Subject (Topic):
Cheyenne Indians, Dakota Indians, Indians of North America --Wars --1866-1895, and Ute Indians
Documents relating to the estate of John Hallett, a landowner in Barbados, written in manuscript in unidentified hands, most dated at Barbados: copy of an agreement, dated 1700, relating to Hallett's marriage to Sarah Andrews; copy of Hallett's will, ...
Subject (Geographic):
Barbados--Politics and government--18th century and Barbados--Social conditions--18th century
Subject (Name):
Alleyne, John Gay, 1724-1801, Andrews, William, plantation owner, Cogen, William, Crichlow, Henry, Elder, James, Hales, Sarah, Hallett, John, Lamb, Matthew, Sir, 1705-1768, Patient Mary (Ship), Raymond, Robert Raymond, Baron, 1673-1733, Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773, and Sutton, Edmund
Collection contains letters from Christopher Isherwood to his brother, Richard Isherwood, and his mother, Kathleen Machell Smith Isherwood. The letters describe his life in America, his efforts to become a United States citizen, and his involvement wi...
Subject (Name):
Isherwood, Richard.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English--20th century--Archives and English literature--20th century
Eight copies of typed transcriptions, some carbon, of letters written from France, 1915-1916 and n.d.; copy of a TL from Eliot Norton to the editor of an unidentified publication, n.d.; and copy of a typed list of equipment necessary for ambulance vol...
anno Domini Mcccclxxxxvi die xii Iulii [12 July 1496]
Call Number:
2017 +317
Image Count:
808
Alternative Title:
Correspondence
Description:
BEIN 2017 +317: Capital spaces, some with printed or manuscript guide-letters. Capitals supplied in red or blue. Capital strokes in red, blue, green or yellow. Rubricated throughout in red or blue. Contemporary manuscript notes.
Twenty-four pieces of correspondence written by Pound during his hospitalization at St. Elizabeths in Washington, D.C. Letters to Mac Low contain opinions on literature, literary scholarship, and politics. Some typed letters, dating from 1951, include...
Description:
Ezra Pound (1885-1972), American poet.
Subject (Name):
Mac Low, Jackson , Pound, Dorothy, Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972--Political and social views, Pound, Omar S, and Saint Elizabeths Hospital (Washington, D.C.)
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century, Antisemitism, and Poets, American--20th century--Archives
"Il a été tiré à part 30 exemplaires numérotés de 1 à 30 qui constituent l'édition originale"--T.p. verso.
Publisher:
Paragraphes littéraires de Paris,
Subject (Name):
Foucault, Michel,--1926-1984--Ms. notes., Foucault, Michel,--1926-1984--Presentation inscription from F.-J. Ossang., Gadet, Daniel., and Ossang, F. J.,--1956---Presentation inscription to M. Foucault.
ALS illustrated with a small diagram concerning Faccio's work on the problem of determining longitude, and "on the theory of the Moon," which he had previously discussed with Isaac Newton.
Description:
Purchased from Emily Driscoll on the Library Associates Fund, 1968.
Subject (Geographic):
Moon--Orbit
Subject (Name):
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 and Whiston, William, 1667-1752
Manuscripts include Dr. Johnson's opinion on Lord Chesterfield's letters, apparently unpublished in this form, and a dream John Hoole had about Dr. Johnson three months after his passing.
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:
Captions devised by cataloger. Letters dated using postage marks on accompanying envelopes.
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
