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Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay letter to Charles Knight
Manuscripts
A.L.S. from Thomas Babington Macaulay, to Charles Knight, concerning Macaulay's decision to cease writing for Knight's Quarterly Magazine; letter published in Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay, Vol. 1, page 189.
mssHM 80325
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James Wolfe collection of letters, autographs, and drawings
Manuscripts
Letters, manuscripts, autographs, drawings, and prints related to James Wolfe, collected for their autograph value. Most of the letters are addressed to Wolfe's mother and concern's his effects and papers. The correspondents include Thomas Bell, Wolfe's aide-de-camp; Welbore Ellis, the 1st Baron of Mednip; Philip Hardel, a London goldsmith; Thomas Fisher, an executor of Wolfe's estate; William Pitt, the Elder, , and Samuel Francis Swinden, Wolfe's tutor, George Warde and Charles Warde. Also included are letters from Mrs. Wolfe to Wolfe's friend William Weston (1740, Dec. 16); Lord Shelbourne to Wolfe (1758, January); Wolfe's fiancee, Katherine Lowther to Mrs. Wolfe (1759, Oct. 25), and a note, in the hand of Thomas Bell, written at Montmorenci instructing "Major Dalling to come to Headquarters with both the captured women").
mssHM 9667-9695
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James William Smith letters
Manuscripts
The three James William Smith letters are addressed to his brother J. Edward Smith. The first letter, dated August 4, 1842, was written during his voyage to Hawaii on the brig "Sarah Abigail" and describes his journey thus far. The other letters are from 1845 and discuss the Hawaiian government and politics; a land scheme related to Peter Allen Brinsmade and Ladd & Co.; Koloa, Hawaii; fellow Christian missionaries on the island; King Kamehameha III; and Albert F. Judd. Also included is an albumen print of James William Smith dated 1873
mssHM 63640-63643
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Montgomery Meigs letters to Montgomery C. Meigs and Louisa Meigs
Manuscripts
This small group includes three autograph letters of Montgomery Meigs, one to his mother Louisa (incomplete), one to his father of the same name, and one fragment (probably to one of his parents). The letters are illustrated with three small sketches. Also included is a color map of the Prairie Bay, Otter Tail Lake and environs in Minnesota. Two of the letters have typescripts.
mssHM 82579-82582
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W. H. Wheeler letters to his father
Manuscripts
Three autograph letters written from Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming Territory; the letters were written over a three month period in 1871. W. H. Wheeler wrote to his father with great enthusiasm about the many opportunities for prosperity he sees surrounding him in Wyoming and Utah territories. Although especially enthusiastic about the possibilities of outfitting miners hoping to exploit the region's mineral wealth, he also describes in detail the fabulous returns being made through the sales of mining claims in Utah as well as the steadily rising values of building lots in Evanston, Wyoming. Wheeler worked in the city's Union Pacific office, but was anxious to quit his desk job and to become a Western businessman in mining and outfitting ventures; in the letters, Wheeler requests money from his father for these ventures while extolling the many opportunities of realizing great profits. Two of the letters are written on Union Pacific stationary or forms and all three are in fragile condition with tearing along the folds.
mssHM 84048
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Walter R. Spooner letters
Manuscripts
This small group of three letters addressed to Walter R. Spooner from his uncle, Sam[ue]l, in Gibsonville, California, discuss hydraulic mining
mssHM 56919-56921