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Letters patent to Barbry Nance McClurg
Letters patent, granting Barbary Nance McClurg 3000 acres on the North side of Tennessee River in Virginia. Given by Governor Patrick Henry, dated November 18, 1786; copied in 1837?
Letters received by Edward Weston
The collection consists of 141 letters and related items bound together in a single volume and received by Edward Weston (1703-1770, Under-Secretary of State for the Northern Province, and editor of the London Gazette) from diplomats and governmental agents on the Continent, during the Wars of the Austrian Succession. The letters mostly concern military and political matters.
Letters received by Seumas O'Sullivan
Letters to James Starkey, addressed to him as Seumas O'Sullivan, mostly dating from when he was editor of The Dublin Magazine. The letters are arranged alphabetically by writer; most items are addressed to "Starkey" or "James Starkey."
Letters received by Sir William Simpson from John Trenchard, Thomas Gordon, and others
A collection of letters received by Sir William Simpson from John Trenchard, Thomas Gordon, and others in the first quarter of the 18th century. Individuals were writing from several places in England, including Somerset (Abbotts Leigh and Bath); London (Whitehall and Huntercombe); Hereford, Herefordshire; and from Brackenstown, County Dublin, Ireland.
Letters received chiefly from Civil War soldier Randolph Sry in Company G of the 4th Iowa Infantry Regiment
A collection of five letters, dated 1863 to 1865, written to Ith S. Beall of Ringgold County, Iowa. Four of the letters are from Beall's associate and fellow Ringgold County resident Randolph Sry, serving in Company G of the Civil War's 4th Iowa Infantry Regiment. Sry writes from Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina.
Letters regarding Lawrence, Kansas history
These two letters, solicited by Lawrence, Kansas resident Paul R. Brooks, are from Samuel Newell Simpson and Samuel C. Smith--two of Kansas Territory's earliest settlers in the free-state cause. Simpson recounts his participation in the Battle of Franklin in 1856. Smith [a member of the New England Aid Company's first party of emigrants to Kansas Territory] comments on the Territory's political events of 1856.
Letters, Sketches of Myron A. Waterman
The Myron A. Waterman Collection consists primarily of sketches. It also includes two letters addressed to Waterman from T. A. McNeal, dated February 17, 1933 and June 25, 1936, thanking him for articles, etc.
Letters to Aaron Johnson
Approximately 39 letters, dated 1863-1868, written to Aaron ("Aron") Johnson from various friends and family, many of whom were soldiers stationed in the South during the Civil War. Many letters are addressed to Mary Johnson as well.
Letters to Catherine H. Smith, and official military announcement of his death
Five letters from George W. Smith to his mother. The sixth item are regimental orders announcing Smith's death.
Letters to Geoffrey Elborn
Harold Acton (1904-1994) was a British writer and scholar who lived and studied in Beijing, China and Florence, Italy. This collection includes an autographed letter and postcard written by Harold Acton to Scottish writer and historian Geoffrey Elborn in 1978. The letter is dated January 19, 1978 and discusses a recent meeting. In the postcard, dated April 22, 1978, Acton notes a tentative date for a future meeting.
Letters to Geoffrey Elborn
Letters to Grace Hasson (Mrs. Henry) Pitcher, chiefly World War I letters from her brother James Hasson (Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, 51st Infantry, 6th Division, Company M)
This collection of sixteen letters is comprised chiefly of those written by World War I soldier James Hasson to his sister Grace. A native of Kansas, Hasson writes from France of his combat experiences with Company M of the U.S. Army's 51st Infantry, recounting German air raids, his hospitalization from machine gun wounds, his engagement in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, and his company's bewilderment at cessation of enemy gunfire on Armistice Day.
Letters to Harriet M. Kemper Morrison, predominantly from Lionel A. Anderson
Letters to John B. Kellogg and his wife Anna Kellogg (Troy, N.Y.)
These sixty-two letters, written from 1857 to 1873, are to John B. Kellogg and his wife Anna of Troy, New York. Letters to John Kellogg, a cashier with Troy's Central National Bank, relate chiefly to land investments in Kansas and Nebraska. Those to his wife Anna are from family and friends.
Letters to Lord Aberdeen
Dame Emma Albani (1847-1930) was a Quebec-born singer whose career developed in New York State, Italy, and Britain; she later toured Europe, earning great acclaim. This collection contains two letters written while Albani was in England, to John Gordon Campbell, first marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (1847-1934).
Letters to Minnie Hite Moody
These three letters, dated 1937, 1938, and 1941, were written by newspaper editor and writer William Allen White to Minnie Hite Moody, a columnist with the Atlanta Journal from 1938-1943, and a published author of poems, short stories, and novels. White writes in response to Moody, offering encouragement and aid in her writing efforts.
Letters to Paul S. Seybolt
These two letters were written by newspaper editor and author William Allen White in response to a request that a book entitled Kansas Poetry, which he received from Paul S. Seybolt of West Medford, Massachusetts, be autographed. White comments on the ages at which he wrote his several poems which were published in the book and speculates that Seybolt's is the only copy extant.
Letters to Richard Henry Roberts
This collection contains 73 letters, the bulk of which were written to Richard Henry Roberts by members of his family during the Civil War. There are also miscellaneous manuscripts written by and to Emily Swan before her marriage to Richard Henry Roberts.
Letters to Robert H. Miller
Letters to Robert H. Miller, editor of the Liberty Tribune, Liberty, Missouri, together with other communications intended for publication. ca. 1840-1870.
Letters to Robert Sherwood
These two letters are from prominent journalist and writer William Allen White to noted playwright and Franklin D. Roosevelt speech-writer Robert Sherwood. White, who in May 1940 co-founded a political action group encouraging U.S. aid to Great Britain in its defense against Adolf Hitler, writes in these letters of U.S. measures being sought by the Committee and his concerns for America's allies.
Letters to Sarah Martin
These two letters, dated 1932 and 1933, were written by Emporia Gazette editor William Allen White to Sarah Martin, a former employee of the Gazette, who was employed in New York City at the time of his writing.
Letters to Stephen Gaselee from different correspondents
Bibliographical and literary correspondence of Sir Stephen Gaselee (1882-1943).
Letters to the banking firm of Hussey, Dahler & Company from Leavenworth, Kansas businesses
A collection of seventeen letters written to the banking firm of Hussey, Dahler & Company from Leavenworth, Kansas businesses (primarily those engaged in banking and insurance), 1867-1870.
Letters to W.E. Glover
These letters were written by Mary Louise Glover, wife of Topeka, Kansas architect W.E. Glover, to her husband while he was away on business travel. Also included is a rendering done by W.E. Glover while he worked as part of Glover and Newcomb Architects in Topeka.