George Suckley's correspondence with family, Isaac Stevens, and colleagues, describes the Stevens expedition to survey a northern route for a Pacific railroad in 1853, his life on the west coast 1854-56, the northwest Indian wars of 1854-58, and an 1859 overland journey to Utah with troops in 1859. Some letters document a controversy with Stevens over publication of Suckley's natural history of Washington Territory.
Description:
Accompanied by several leaves from Isaac Stevens's Narrative and Final Report, 1860, which describes the railway survey from Fort Owen to Vancouver., Dr. George Suckley, born in New York, graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York and became an army doctor. In 1853 he joined the Isaac I. Stevens railway survey as surgeon and naturalist and served in the Indian wars and at Fort Steilacoom as an assistant surgeon until 1858. The following year he was back east but returned across the Plains with recruits for the Utah regiment., and Gift of William Robertson Coe.
Subject (Geographic):
Washington (State)--Description and travel and West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Stevens, Isaac Ingalls,m1818-1862, Suckley, George, 1830-1869, Suckley, John H, and Suckley, Mary
Subject (Topic):
Railroads--Washington (State)--Surveying and Yakama Indians--Wars, 1855-1859
Zachary Taylor's letters concern his nomination for president by the Whig Party and the Whig Party of Oneida County, New York. The letter to Jonathan R. McFee, dated Jul 13, 1848, is a character reference for John M. Clayton, a supporter of the Whig party (WA MSS S-1044;T219). The other letter, to W. D. Butterfield, dated Sep 24, 1848, acknowledges receipt of the copy of resolutions passed by Whigs of Oneida County, N.Y. (WA MSS S-1045;T219).
Subject (Geographic):
United States--Politics and government--1815-1861
Subject (Name):
Butterfield, W. D., Clayton, John M. (John Middleton), 1796-1856, McFee, Jonathan R., Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850, Whig Party (Oneida County, N.Y.), and Whig Party (U.S.)
Zachary Taylor's letters concern his nomination for president by the Whig Party and the Whig Party of Oneida County, New York. The letter to Jonathan R. McFee, dated Jul 13, 1848, is a character reference for John M. Clayton, a supporter of the Whig party (WA MSS S-1044;T219). The other letter, to W. D. Butterfield, dated Sep 24, 1848, acknowledges receipt of the copy of resolutions passed by Whigs of Oneida County, N.Y. (WA MSS S-1045;T219).
Subject (Geographic):
United States--Politics and government--1815-1861
Subject (Name):
Butterfield, W. D., Clayton, John M. (John Middleton), 1796-1856, McFee, Jonathan R., Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850, Whig Party (Oneida County, N.Y.), and Whig Party (U.S.)
The papers, primarily correspondence, deal with the rights of Indians to the land in the reservation under the treaty of 1868 and the agreement of 1882, the influx of settlers under President Arthur's executive order of Feb. 27, 1885, and the rights of settlers dispossessed by President Cleveland's proclamation of April 17, 1885.
Subject (Name):
Indian Rights Association
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians--Government relations--1869-1934 and Dakota Indians--Reservations
Binding: Seventeenth Century (?). Brown leather over pasteboard, the front and rear cover decorated with gold-tooled frames., Pale red headings; pale red numbering of the letters in artt.1-111. 2-line plain initials (Capitalis) in ... at the opening of the various texts (3-line initial at the opening of art. 112). On f. 1r 8-line historiated white vinestem initial D (Jerome writing in his study), incorporated in a three-margins left border in the same style, featuring birds, a putto, a theatre mask and in the lower horizontal section a coat of arms (altered?) held by two putti., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Textualis with elements of Southern Gothica Textualis. Running headlines in rapid Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva on ff. ...... . The scribe Dominicus (or Donatus?) de Attavantis (see f. 238v) is not recorded., and Some errors in contemporary foliation.
Subject (Name):
Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters and Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Manuscript on paper containing letters by or related to Lapo da Castiglionchio (d. 1381), and his family: 1) Lapo da Castiglionchio, Letter, written in 1377, to his son Bernardo, canon of the cathedral of Florence, then 14 years old, containing an elaborate treatise in three parts dealing with political and historical questions. 2) Bernardo da Castiglionchio (1363-1383), Letter to his father Lapo, in which he thanks him for the education and protection his father has provided and in particular for the extensive letter he has written in reply to his questions. 3) Bernardo da Castiglionchio, Second letter to his father Lapo, of about the same time, in which he resumes the theme of the nobility of the Castiglionchio family and provides a panegyric of his father with details about his career. 4) Francesco da Castiglionchio (second half of the fourteenth century), Letter to his father Alberto, brother of Lapo, written 8 June 1381 or slightly later. Describes the coronation of Charles III, King of Naples and Sicily (1381-1386) by Pope Urban VI in the church of St. Peter in Rome on 2 June 1381, an event in the preparation of which Lapo had an important role. 5) Francesco da Castiglionchio, Second letter to his father Alberto staying at Verona, dated 17 July 1381 and relating the death of Alberto's brother Lapo, which happened in Rome on 27 June of the same year after a short illness, a couple of weeks after the coronation of Charles III, which had been so important for the improvement of the Castiglionchio family. 6) Niccolò Acciaiuoli (1310-1365), Extracts from a letter, dated 26 Dec. 1364, to the Florentine merchant Angelo Soderini (d. 1377) established in Avignon.
Description:
Binding: Seventeenth century (?). Brown leather with artificial cross grain over cardboard. Blind-tooled spine with four raised bands and gold-tooled inscription in the second compartment: “CASTIGLIONCHIO / EPISTOLE”. Below a small oval paper label with the number “7” in red ink. Yellow spine., Headings and explicit formulas in pale red ink; marginal captions and notes in the same colour or in black; paragraph marks in pale red ink. 4-line initials (Capitalis) in blue (missing f. 2v), at the opening of each art. and of the subdivisions of art. 1. On f. 1r 7-line white vinestem initial integrated into left margin border of the same style. In the lower margin, in a wreath, the Volognano-Castiglionchio coat of arms: silver, with four chains azure in saltire and castle azure. Running headlines in pale red Capitalis in art. 1 only., On the author, a Florentine poet, friend of Petrarch, professor of Canon Law, lawyer, diplomat, politician, see Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, v. 22 (1979), pp. 40-44., and Script: Copied by one hand in careful Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria. The first line of each text and some headings are in Capitalis.
Subject (Geographic):
Florence (Italy)--History
Subject (Name):
Castiglionchio, Lapo da,--d. 1381
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Nobility--Italy
Letters from Baldwin and Shilton to John B. and William Simpson, reporting expenses incurred in fulfilling their contract with the garrison there. In the letters they also make passing references to one company in the garrison heading out to fight Sitting Bull, one of which is dated two months before the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Description:
Purchased from Hickory Ledge Books on the William Robertson Coe Fund, 1967. and T. W. Baldwin and Daniel P. Shilton were partners working as sutlers at Fort Wadsworth, Dakota Territory (later Fort Sisseton, South Dakota). The Simpson brothers lived in New York City; John B. Simpson was Shilton's uncle. Baldwin and Shilton obtained loans from the Simpsons to set up as sutlers at Fort Wadsworth. They also owned a store in Waubay, thirty miles away.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Sisseton (S.D.) and Waubay (S.D.)
Subject (Name):
Baldwin & Shilton, Baldwin, T. W., (Thomas W.), Shilton, Daniel P., Simpson, John B, Simpson, William, and United States--Army--Supplies and stores
