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Personal Correspondence with Family and Friends

S3-1/7: This folder contains the following documents,

  • A - Letter from [A.?] Johnstone to "Miss Burns." Social letter with references to Arizona and Westward ho! Movement; awareness of world events; advocates "outdoor exercise." [light copy; difficult to read] Handwritten, 1 leaf, 4 pages, 10 July 1880.
  • B - Letter from "Ben" to "Mousey." Personal letter between an uncle and niece (possibly Burns' daughter?)-notation in another's handwriting that it was written by Ben Atkinson. Handwritten, 1 sheet, 2 leaves, 4 pages, 13 July 1880.
  • C - Letter from A. Johnstone to "Miss Burns." The letter is of a general nature and discusses the weather in Washington and the area of Wilmington at the time. Handwritten, 1 sheet, 2 leaves, 4 pages, 10 September 1881.
  • D - Letter (possibly from Burns' daughter or daughter-in-law) to their children. This letter is written in an unusual printed case probably intended for reading ease by children and is a farewell note in advance of a trip she and her husband were about to take. Handwritten, 1 leaf, 2 pages, 23 July 1890.
  • E - Letter from "Grand Papa" to "Burns & Sweet Pau-line." The letter apparently from General Burns to his (grand?) children, written in the printed case that his wife used (possibly she wrote it for him) from a hotel in New York. Letter thanks them for a letter and sends best wishes. Handwritten, 1 leaf, 2 pages, 9 November 1890.
  • F - Letter from "Grand Papa" to "My Dear Grand Boy." A get well note to his grandson and message to the mother of the child also. Handwritten, 1 leaf, 2 pages, 2 May 1891.
  • G - Message from A. B. Hancock to Burns. Difficult to read the message on a black-bordered calling card. Handwritten (3 in X 3 in card), 1 leaf, 2 sides, 12 July 1889.
  • H - Message (fragment) to Burns. This is the same type of stationery as in item 4/7 but it is unsigned. The message is incomplete. Handwritten, 1 leaf (4 in X 6 in card), 2 sides, 5 September 1887.
  • I - Message from [Ellen? Nellie?] M. McClellan to Burns. The message is written on black-bordered cards like items 4/7 and 4/8. Handwritten, 1 sheet, 2 leaves, 4 pages, 23 March [1887?].
  • J - Note from Burns to "Grand Boy." Small block-print note sympathizing with the child having the measles. Handwritten, 1 sheet, 2 leaves, 3 pages, 1 May 1891.
  • K - Letter from young Burns to "My dear grand-pa." The letter expresses that it is his first day out of bed in a week. Reverse side has a note from "Mama" discusses a gift for her son and mentions that perhaps Burns could find a "Sibley Tent" where he was. Handwritten, 1 leaf, 2 pages, 5 May 1891.
  • L - Letter from Burns to "Grand-Boy." Script letter from Burns acknowledging receipt of two letters and complimenting the child's improving reading ability. Apparently the child asks about getting a Sibley Tent and Burns says it is an "impossibility" as none has been made for "twenty-five years" other than one for the World's Fair at Philadelphia. Handwritten, 1 leaf, 2 pages, 7 May 1891.
  • M - Letter from Burns to "My Darling Mab." This letter, it seems, is written to his daughter (or sister?) and concerns her suitor who is pushing for marriage. Handwritten, 2 leaves, 4 pages, 22 November 1891.
  • N - Letter from L. Burns Magruder to "Grand-Pa." Short letter from the grandchild about rain, but with a sentence asking for a picture of the tent. Handwritten, 1 leaf, 1 page, 7 December 1891.
  • O - Letter from L. Burns Magruder to "My dear Grand-pa." The child's note describes illnesses in the family. Mentions his mother having the "grippe" and "Frawline" then goes on to mention that "Nana keeps well and sends her love." Is it possible that Burns' wife lived with her daughter separate from Burns? The letter also mentions that the child is sad "we didn't have a war with Chili." Handwritten, 2 leaves, 2 pages, 14 February 1892.
  • P - Letter from Burns to "Grand-Boy." The letter mentions that he is glad the child did not have whooping cough and then stresses the importance of reading and education. Handwritten, 1 leaf, 1 page, 10 March 1892.
  • Q - Letter from [T?] W. Willett to "Miss Burns." This is a very ambiguous letter that expresses sympathy for her loss and the writer mentions attending a funeral but the deceased is not named. The letter is two-part and the second part refers to some real estate in South Carolina but it is hard to discern whether she is wishing to sell or buy and has sought his advice in the potential transaction. Handwritten, 2 leaves, 3 pages, 30 April 1892.
  • R - Letter from Burns to "Dear Grand-Boy." Block-print note about the measles. Perhaps the date is written in error? One might refer to the letter item 4/10 and compare the context and writing in later letters. Handwritten, 1 leaf, 2 pages, 5 May 1892 (1891?).

S3-1/8: This folder contains the following documents,

  • A - Letter from B. L. Prince to "Miss Mab. Burns." Love letter. Handwritten, 3 leaves, 3 pages, 19 October 1892.
  • B - Letters from F. Montgomery to Mrs. Burns. The first of two letters mailed together expresses sympathy for the death of General Burns then immediately goes into a lengthy discussion on a person beginning to develop a cotton gin. One might infer that there is an investment opportunity available. The second letter refers to a cotton gin on her island… which seems to be for sale. Handwritten, 6 leaves, 12 pages, 5 November 1892-12 November 1892.
  • C - Note from Pauline Magruder to "my dearest Brother." A personal note telling of her having a bad cold and that her mother and that she had a long letter from "mother and Mrs. Tracy." Concludes with "I have to go to chapel now." Handwritten, 2 leaves, 3 pages, 18 November 1895.
  • D - Letter from Pauline Magruder to "My dearest Auntie." A social letter from Pauline Magruder on her 13th birthday written, apparently, from the seaside. Handwritten, 2 sheets, 4 leaves, 4 pages, 24 July 1899.
    E* E - Letter from B. L. Prince to "My dear Friend." Letter discussing cattle affairs and friendship. See item 3/19 of this series. Handwritten, 3 leaves, 3 pages, September 1899.
  • F - Letter from B. L. Prince to "My dear Friend." Letter very pragmatically discusses an optimum time to marry "that is if we ever intend to marry," then discusses cattle prices. Handwritten, 3 leaves, 3 pages, 1 October 1900.
  • G - Letter from Pauline Magruder to "Taunte" (Aunt). The first half of the letter is in French; she is in France studying French. Handwritten, 2 sheets, 4 leaves, 8 pages, 25 January 1902.
  • H - Letter from B. L. Prince to "My dear Friend." Letter sounds as though this man is losing patience with the indecision on the part of the young woman. This letter gives full financial disclosure that he can "afford" to marry. Handwritten, 7 leaves, 7 pages, 13 February 1902.
  • I - Letter from L. Burns Magruder to "Dear Auntie Mab." Letter from West Point is social and tells of his fun with the other cadets in the snow. Handwritten, 1 sheet, 2 leaves, 4 pages, 18 February 1902.
  • J - Letter from Pauline Magruder to "Ma Chere Taute." The entire letter was written in French except for closure. Handwritten, 3 leaves, 6 pages, 22 June 1902.
  • K - Letter from "L. Burns Burns" to "My dear Auntie Mab." Note from West Point refers indirectly to a mishap and to the possibility of lending "the sword" to the West Point library for display. Handwritten, 1 sheet, 2 leaves, 4 pages. 29 October 1902.
  • L - Letter from "L. Burns Magruder" to "My dear Auntie Mab." Note from West Point refers to the Christmas gift she sent and asks why "Nana" doesn't write. Handwritten, 1 sheet, 2 leaves, 4 pages. 29 December 1902.
  • M - Letter from B. L. Prince to "My dear friend." Suitor still in pursuit of Auntie Mab; ups his financial status by saying in the letter, "I thought that $50,000. And yourself for a wife would be more than any man could wish for." Handwritten, 5 leaves, 5 pages, 18 January 1903.
  • N - Letter from L. Burns Magruder to Mabelle Burns. Note from West Point refers to a "precious burden" his mother had been carrying, the secret that Auntie Mab was getting married? He extends his congratulations saying that he "did not think [she] would take the step." Other mentions of "the sword" being lent to the West Point library for display. Handwritten, 1 sheet, 2 leaves, 4 pages. 29 October 1902.
  • O - Letter from "Belle" to Mabelle Burns. Letter from Paris reprimands Mab for not writing and implies there is outside influence. The writer expresses much stress about living in France and worries about Burns' illness. Handwritten, 1 leaf, 2 pages, 24 April 1903.
  • P - Note from Lloyd Burns Magruder to "My dear Auntie Mab." A short note expressing that he is busy in school at West Point. Handwritten, 1 sheet, 2 leaves, 4 pages, 8 April 1904.
  • Q - Letter from [Virge?] to Mab. This is apparently from a friend who is very interested in the members of the Burns family-expresses concern over young Burns having Typhoid and very ill. Handwritten, 2 sheets, 3 leaves, 6 pages, 25 May 1904.
  • R - Letter from [Virge?] to Mab. The letter mentions family members and a desire to see all of them. Handwritten, 1 sheet, 2 leaves, 4 pages, 13 March 1905.
  • S - Letter from Burns to Mab. The letter discusses impending graduation and mentions his studying Gettysburg and recollections of going there with his grandfather as a child. Handwritten, 2 sheets, 4 leaves, 8 pages, 2 May 1905.
  • T - Letter from Burns to "My dear Grandpa". This is an undated letter from Burns when he was apparently just learning to write in cursive. The letter thanks his grandfather for the gift of a bicycle. Handwritten, 1 sheet, 2 leaves, 2 pages, No date, but judging from previous letters, circa 1892.
  • U - Letter from Charles Beatty Moore to "Cousin Mab." This letter seems to be from a relative who attended West Point with young Burns. The letter references several other family members. Handwritten, 1 sheet, 2 leaves, 4 pages, 11 May 1902.
  • V - Letter from Pauline to "Auntie Mab." An undated letter that must have been written shortly after she arrived in Paris because she mentions that she is not yet proficient enough in French to write a letter. Handwritten, 2 sheets, 4 leaves, 8 pages, circa 1901.
  • W - Letter from "Papa" to "Auntie Mab." A small, undated letter (only "Dec 5th") appears to be from the General and was written on a trip to New York. The letter is ambiguous but states that Burns has just come in on his tricycle so it must have been written in the early 1890s. Handwritten, 1 sheet, 2 leaves, 4 pages, circa 1890.

Telegram - Alclair Mays Pleasant Birth Announcement

Item 47 - Envelope with Western Union Telegraph Co. printed on the front. The addressee is listed as Mrs. Sallie Garcer, Kingsville. Dated May 1, 1906

Item 48 - Telegram to Mrs. Sallie May Garcer from James Mifflin Mays, dated May 1, 1906

Item 49 - Envelope with Gulf Oil Corporation letterhead. Handwritten note on the front of envelope reads - “Telegram to my grandmother Sallie Carcia, who was working as a cook in the Horan Hotel in Kingsville, from my father announcing my birth, May 1, 1906. Alclair.” (Undated)

Illustrated European Periodicals of African Military Expeditions

  • US TxAM-C C000564
  • Collection
  • 1821-1906

This collection includes over 11 different groupings of approximately 1 to 10 issues in each grouping. The latter half of the collection includes illustrations of African and African Americans in European periodicals.

Edward Everett Papers

  • US TxAM-C C000024
  • Collection
  • 1846-1906

This collection dating from 1846 to 1906 (bulk: 1846-1847) consists chiefly of handwritten letters, journal entries, a memoir, a proof copy of a report from the U. S. Secretary of War on Army operations in Texas and on the Rio Grande during the Mexican War (1846-1848), as well as plans, maps and nine hand-colored copies of lithographic engravings drawn by Everett, which vividly chronicle southwest Texas cultural as well as military history during the late1840s.

Series 1, Letters (1847-1863), mainly handwritten in ink by Edward Everett to his brother, Samuel W. Everett, from 1846-1847, while Everett was serving in San Antonio de Bexar with the U. S. Army during the Mexican War. A few letters from other correspondents pertain to Everett's disability and eventual official discharge from the Army. Three letters written in the period 1852-1863 are about business or from family members.

Series 2, Journal and Memoir (1846-1899) contains three sets of journal entries for Sept. 1846-Jan. 1847. All are handwritten in ink on loose sheets of paper. The memoir, also handwritten in ink, on machine-ruled paper measuring about 8 x 5 inches, covers the years 1846-1848, with additional material added and dated, on at least one page, with 1899. This memoir is edited in pencil by Everett, evidently for publication, since one note suggests that the memoir was donated in 1899 to the Quincy Historical Society, later known as The Illinois Historical Society. The memoir was actually published, at least part, or possibly all of it, under the title "Military Experience," in Transactions of the Illinois Historical Society for 1905.

Series 3, Engravings, Maps, and Plans (ca. 1846-1849) includes nine copies of lithographed illustrations drawn by Edward Everett and engraved by C. B Graham Lithographers in Washington, D.C. The engravings were to be published in a report on U.S. Army operations in Texas during the Mexican War. A proof copy of this 67-page report, titled Report of the Secretary of War, communicating ... the Operations of the Army of the United States in Texas and the Adjacent Mexican states on the Rio Grande (31st Congress, 1st Session, Senate. Executive Document 32), published in 1850, is annotated throughout by Everett in pencil. For this publication Everett was at least responsible for eight illustrations: seven engravings of the San Antonio de Bexar area, including the Alamo church, as well as locations in Mexico; a plan of the ruined Alamo as it was in 1846, before being renovated according to Everett's direction, as a U. S. Army supply depot and workshops.

Engravings include nine copies of the lithographed prints. Notations made in ink on the separate prints, and on p. [4] of the proof copy of the published government report, indicate that: illustrations numbered for publication 2, 3-6 were engraved from original drawings made by Everett; those numbered 1, 7-8 were engraved from drawings made by Everett based on pencil sketches by other individuals, particularly no. 1 titled "Watch Tower Near Monclova," which was drawn by Everett from a sketch by Lieutenant McDowell of the U.S. Army.

Everett's proofs of the lithographic prints have all been exquisitely hand-tinted, in contrast to the severe black-and-white reproductions in the printed report. Of the nine hand-colored prints, two are duplicates of two illustrations, one titled "Church Near Monclova," and the other "Watch Tower Near Monclova." These identical prints are each hand-colored in two versions, apparently to represent the depicted buildings' appearances during the daytime, as well as at dusk or sunset.

Maps include one copy of a published map, possibly also by Everett, though it has been attributed to Josiah Gregg, which also appeared in the 1850 Army Operations report, titled "Map Showing the Route of the Arkansas Regiment from Shreveport La. to San Antonio de Bexar Texas," which is annotated with a penciled in route drawn from San Antonio to Austin, and a town location labeled "New Braunsfels." Also included are two manuscript versions of a map by Edward Everett, one copy titled "Plan of the Vicinity of Austin and San Antonio, Texas."

Plans are represented by two copies of an illustration drawn by Everett for the 1849 Army operations report showing plans of the Alamo before the renovation, titled "Plans of the Ruins of the Alamo near San Antonio De Bexar, 1846." Also present is one manuscript plan, titled "Plan of San Antonio de Bexar, Texas, 1848," which is labeled as "Drawn from recollection by E. E." The legend states that locations number 1-5 on the plan show, for instance, the spot near the Plaza in town where Everett received his disabling gunshot wound in the leg, the Hospital where he convalesced, and the Quartermaster's Office, to which he was assigned to work after being declared disabled from active service in the field.

A handwritten loose-leaf page kept with the proof copy of the report is titled "Index to Col. Hughes Report," and lists subject divisions and page numbers, though these divisions are not present in the published report by Hughes.

Thus Everett's accounts of frontline actions in the Mexican War mainly rely on reports from occasional volunteer soldiers or scouts, or Mexican nationals, returning back to Texas from the front lines of battle in Mexico. As much as he is able, however, Everett produces very detailed accounts of the various battles and skirmishes in and around the Texas-Mexico border, including battles at Monterrey, Saltillo, San Luis, Camargo, Buena Vista, Vera Cruz, and Tampico, recording a large number of casualties on both sides.

Of particular interest is Everett's extensive first-hand description of the ruins of the Alamo, and how it was converted for U.S. Army use as a military headquarters, according to plans drawn up by Everett. He deplores the vandalism already wreaked by relic seekers and stressed the respect shown to the mission church by the U. S. Army restorers, who refused to plunder it for building stone but instead merely cleaned away the debris. In the process, skeletons were uncovered, which Everett assumes to be from the time of the siege and Battle of the Alamo in 1836. Everett's accounts of frontier life in the rather rambunctious confines of San Antonio, complete with ambushes, shootouts, rough and ready court trials, and various local characters are often riveting.

Everett also pictures the moods and attitudes of the soldiers toward a variety of issues. Everett describes their arduous marches, unsavory living conditions, often dire medical care, and the cruel climate tormenting them. Having been left behind in San Antonio with all the stores rejected by the army, which had proceeded on into Mexico, Everett's men were faced with nursing broken down mules and horses back to usefulness, salvaging wagon parts from several damaged ones to make a serviceable one, and generally, trying to make do with what could be had in the vicinity, or easily transported from the Quartermaster at New Orleans.

According to Everett, communications on the Texas frontier often proceeded through "solitary express riders." He describes Mexican culture co-existing with "the Indians" and their horse-stealing. He also gives an excellent but pejorative account of the Texas Rangers and their activities, calling them desperados. Everett describes Mexican Generals Santa Anna, Torrejón, and Woll, the exceedingly unpopular U. S. Army Colonel Churchill, officers George W. Hughes, 1st Lieutenant W. B. Franklin, 2nd Lieutenant F. T. Bryan, General Zachary Taylor ("Old Rough and Ready"), General Winfield Scott, and General James Morgan, Captain J. H. Prentiss, Brigadier General John E. Wool, Major General Worth, Captain James Harvey Ralston, Captain L. Sitgreaves, as well as Edward Everett's own two brothers Charles Everett and Samuel W. Everett (Sam).

Full of absorbing narrative and elusive details often lost in larger historical works, the content of Everett's narratives and letters may be summed up in his own words from the handwritten memoir: "Mine is not a tale of battles, or of the movements of great armies, but the details will show some of the hardships and vicissitudes of a soldier's life, the exposure to which causes a greater sacrifice of life than that ensuing from wounds of death received from the enemy."

Everett, Edward

Miscellaneous Letters, Memos, and Clippings

This series includes newspaper clippings, including three items thought to be from circa 1906 concerning the Alamo, its survivors, and its history, and a copy of Edward Everett's obituary. Miscellaneous documents include a copy of a House Bill for financial relief due to Everett's disability incurred while serving in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War, and other miscellaneous printed pieces referring to him.

Robson Correspondence and Photographs

This box contains the following:

  • Photograph of Robson outside of a military tent. Handwritten note on the back: "grey in Honda Spanish American War Quarter Master Sgt.".
  • Photograph portrait of Robson at A&M College.
  • Photograph of Bill (unknown) at A&M College in front of a pillar of an unknown building.
  • Correspondence, "Dear Father" from "Son" C. Guy Robson. October 24, 1897 (3 pages)
  • The Battalion Stationary envelope addressed to Judge W. S. Robson in La Grange, Texas. May 28, 1898
  • Headquarters Corps of Cadets, College Station, TX. Commandant approved by the President, the Corps of Cadets appointments made belonging to any class during the class upon the opening of the next session. June 10, 1896 (3 pages)
  • Invitation letter from the Corps of Cadets of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas to the "Thanksgiving Hop" complimentary to the Football Team on November 29, 1907, in College Station, TX
  • Correspondence dating "Gentleman" from "The Claim Prwarder" A. J. Moorhead. July 2, 1901 (1 page)

C. G. Robson Collection

  • US TxAM-C 1261
  • Collection
  • 1896-1907

This collection contains photographs and correspondence of Master Sargent C. G. Robson.

Robson, C. G.

Cherokee Freedman Collection

  • US TxAM-C C000304
  • Collection
  • 1900-1907

The Cherokee Freedmen Collection housed at Cushing Memorial Library and Archive is composed of written interviews of African Americans and Native Americans conducted by the United States Department of the Interior’s Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes. The Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes also became known as the Dawes Commission, after its chairman Senator Henry Dawes of Massachusetts. The interviews, testimonies, and affidavits relate to the applications of African Americans that were denied enrollment as Cherokee Freedmen during the Dawes Commission. The collection encompasses over 500 documents from 30 different applications affecting over 100 people. Most of the documents are filed with their original envelopes. The documents in the Cherokee Freedmen Collection are dated from 1900 to 1907. Most of the hearings were conducted at Fort Gibson or Muskogee, Oklahoma. There is a high degree of intertextuality between the files regarding people and places mentioned.

In addition to the interviews, there are also interdepartmental letters between various commissioners and the Secretary of the Interior, and notices to applicants and their lawyers. The collection offers a primary source on the arbitration involved in the decision of who did and did not count as Cherokee Freedmen, as well as frontier life in general both before and after the war. The language used vividly reveals the prevailing racial attitudes of the day, chiefly toward African Americans and Native Americans; casual use is made of pejorative terms, and open prejudice is occasionally voiced. All of the applications that are contained within the Cherokee Freedmen Collection housed at Cushing Library were rejected, denying the applicants citizenship to the Cherokee Nation.

In 1866, each of the Five Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles) that had sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War entered treaties with the United States to abolish slavery in the Native American Territory and established provisions that addressed the status and rights of the freed slaves and people of African descent that lived among the Five Tribes. Since the Cherokee Nation sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War, the United States’ punishment for the Cherokee Nation was to give “all the rights of a native Cherokee” to all freed slaves who still lived within the Cherokee Nation.

In 1877, the Dawes Act (also called the General Allotment Act) was passed under President Grover Cleveland, allowing the federal government to break up tribal land to try to force Native Americans to assimilate. The federal government took the 150 million acres of land that was already controlled by the tribes. The commission's mission was to divide tribal land into 160-acre plots which were then divided among the members of the tribe. As part of this process, the Commission either accepted or rejected applicants for tribal membership based on whether the tribal government had previously recognized the applicant as a member of the tribe and other legal requirements. Applicants were categorized as Citizens by Blood, Citizens by Marriage, Minor Citizens by Blood, New Born Citizens by Blood, Freedmen (African Americans formerly enslaved by tribal members), New Born Freedmen, and Minor Freedmen. Once the land was divided amongst the citizens of the Native American Nations, the United States government sold the surplus tribal lands to non-Native Americans for a profit.

Many of the testimonies include personal histories, sometimes dating as far back as the 1830s, and great detail is given on the moving of slaves to and from the Cherokee Nation during the Civil War. Notable pieces include accounts of runaway slaves returning to their separated families, individual reactions to Emancipation, and a letter directly to the Secretary of the Interior personally written by an applicant, requesting that her case be re-opened. The letter, polite and heartfelt but clearly frustrated, is spelled phonetically. Many of the applicants in the collection are related to one another. For example, Henry Albert is the son of Martha Albert, who was a freed slave of the Cherokee Nation. Henry Albert was over the age of 21, he had to apply to be enrolled as a Cherokee Freedmen for himself and his children. Since Henry was born free, most of the information contained within the file is based on his mother, Martha Albert’s testimony, and other witnesses who testified on her behalf or on behalf of the Cherokee Nation. The investigation on whether Martha Albert was truly a freed slave of the Cherokee Nation or not determined whether or not her children, grandchildren, nieces, and nephews would also be eligible to be enrolled as Cherokee Freedmen. The files of Henry Albert, Barnes Family, and Lula Knalls all contain copies of Martha Albert’s testimonies. Another interesting letter that allowed for the subject listing to include "Leonid Meteor Showers" refers to one elderly woman's age which was determined by the fact that she was 16 "the year the stars fell". The commissioner noted that that was in 1832, and he was there himself. The following year, '33, was the year that the Leonid shower was officially "discovered” and caused something of a panic in the eastern US; no one knew what meteors were, yet!

Several of the locations mentioned were Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, Muskogee, Oklahoma, and Fort Smith, Arkansas. As well as Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the capitol of the Cherokee Nation, and Goingsnake District, now Adair County, Oklahoma, which was the location of the Goingsnake Massacre. Occasionally the communities cited in the interviews have since become ghost towns, been absorbed into larger cities, or changed names. Many of the testimonies also included interviews with both Confederate and Union soldiers.

A few historical figures were involved in the Cherokee Freedmen trials. Namely, Ethan Allen Hitchcock served as the United States Secretary of the Interior under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt from 1899 to 1907. Also, the attorneys for the Cherokee Nation, James Davenport and W.W. Hastings (in all likelihood, William Wirt. referenced as "W. W. Hastings" in transcripts, but a William Wirt Hastings, of Cherokee heritage and from Oklahoma, was an attorney who worked in private practice, as the attorney general for the Cherokee Nation, and then as the national attorney for the Nation from 1907. The dates do match up, and there is a W. W. Hastings Hospital in Tahlequah, given by William Wirt when he was in Congress, as a gift) both of whom later served as U.S. Representatives for Oklahoma.

The affidavits, correspondence, and any support materials are arranged in alphabetical order by the surname of the applicant. Note: File 22 is in critical need of preservation.

United States. Department of the Interior.

J. M. Barrie Letter

  • US TxAM-C 666
  • Collection
  • 1907

This collection contains one handwritten letter dated 1907 from J. M. Barrie to Miss Riding (1 folio; 1 typed transcription; 1 page with signature).

Wool and Felt Caps

This box contains:

  • One black wool baseball hat with "Class of [19]08" inscribed in orange stitching. Donated by George T. Burndrett, Class of 1908 in Electrical Engineering.
  • Two navy blue felt caps, military-style with "AMC" and laurel wreaths decorated on the front (date unknown).
  • One military-style navy blue felt cap with Texas pins decorated on the front (date unknown)
  • Tan Freshman hat (Corps of Cadets), donated by Ross H. Anderson, Class of 1977.

McInnis News Clippings and Miscellaneous

2-1: Typescripts Letters - 1879-1895
2-2: Phostatic copies - 1879, 1889-1890
2-3: Various fiscal and financial records (census, some salaries, etc.) - 1880-1886
2-4: A&M Invitations and programs - 1876, 1878-1885, 1887-1890, 1892, 1894
2-5: Prairie View programs, invitations, and Annual Report - 1887, 1884, 1889
2-6: Newspaper clippings - 1887-1890
2-7: Newspaper clippings - 1891-1896
2-8: Newspaper clippings - Feb-May 1908
2-9: Newspaper clippings - June 1-15, 1908
2-10: Newspaper clippings - June 16-30, 1908
2-11: Newspaper clippings - July 1908-1909
2-12: Miscellaneous publications - 1887-1908
2-13: Calculus IV exercise book - Undated
2-14: Arithmetic III notebook - Undated

Theodore Dreiser Letters

  • US TxAM-C 665
  • Collection
  • circa 1908

This collection contains handwritten letters from Dreiser dated around 1908, each to one of the following individuals, "My Dear Kelly" (1 folio with a typed transcript), "Dear Kelly" (1-page, TLS), "Dear Duffy" (1-page, ALS with a typed transcript), "My Dear Duffy" (1-page, ALS with a typed transcript), and Mr. Henry Phillips (1-page, TLS). Also included in the collection is one dedication page torn out from a book with Dreiser's autograph.

Louis L. McInnis Papers

  • US TxAM-C 1357
  • Collection
  • 1872-1908

The Louis L. McInnis Papers contains correspondence, along with other miscellaneous papers relating to Louis Lowry McInnis’ time in office at Texas A&M College. Items include some personal correspondence, along with university correspondence from Texas A&M College and Prairie View College during the period of 1872 to 1908.

McInnis, Louis Lowry, 1855-1933

McInnis Correspondence

1-1: Correspondence - 1877-1878
1-2: Correspondence - 1879
1-3: Correspondence - 1880
1-4: Correspondence - 1881
1-5: Correspondence - 1882
1-6: Correspondence - 1883
1-7: Correspondence - 1884
1-8: Correspondence - 1885
1-9: Correspondence - 1886
1-10: Correspondence - 1887
1-11: Correspondence - 1888
1-12: Correspondence - 1889
1-13: R. C. Beale Speech - 1889
1-14: Correspondence - June-July 1890
1-15: Correspondence - July-December 1890
1-16: Correspondence - 1891
1-17: Correspondence - 1892
1-18: Correspondence - 1893
1-19: Correspondence - 1894-1898
1-20: Correspondence - 1907-1908

Jesse L. Easterwood Notebook

  • US TxAM-C 11
  • Collection
  • 1908-01-26-1909-02-06

This collection consists of one notebook (housed in a phase box), measuring approximately 10 x 8 inches, containing 49 leaves of machine ruled paper, in cloth over cardboard covers, which was manufactured with two-hole punched metal fasteners.

The front cover design shows: at the top "…A. & M. COLLEGE…, COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS"; in the center, a black and white picture depicting the Old Main building on the Texas A & M College campus, measuring 4.5 x 4 inches; below picture, "Department of" with a ruled space filled in by hand with ink the word "Horticulture," and "Name" with a ruled space filled in by hand in ink with the name "Jess Easterwood."; at center bottom, "PUBLISHED BY, W. M. WELCH MFG. COMPANY, 100 LAKE ST., CHICAGO, WELCH'S PATENT AUTOMATIC FASTENER." The name "EASTERWOOD" and other initials, etc. are scrawled in ink or pencil on the front cover as well.

Most of the notebook's leaves are filled in on the recto page only with class notes written by hand in either pencil or ink, labeled as taken from lectures. A few pages are filled with scrawled names and phrases, repeated over and over, the phrases usually in some way related to the lecture notes, but often just variations on Easterwood's name or initials.

One exception found on leaf 19 is the beginnings of a draft letter, dated January 25, [19]08, to his father, noting that Easterwood has been recently ill for a "protracted" period of time. Lecture notes in roughly the first half of the notebook pertain to Animal Husbandry [l. 1-14; l. 15-18 & 20 are blank], especially causes, symptoms, and treatment of conditions such as colic, heaves, constipation, dysentery, catarrh of stomach and bowels in livestock, while the latter half are concerned with a class labeled "Horticulture 4" [l. 21-49; the top half of l. 45 is torn out], particularly the cultivating of fruit trees and the marketing of their produce.

Aside from presenting an interesting taste of curriculum offerings at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College in the early twentieth century, some of the notebook's scrawled asides give a quite colorful glimpse into the mind of a restless and enterprising cadet straying from the lecture in progress.

Easterwood, Jesse L., 1888-1919

Smythe Papers

1/1: Collection Guide

1/2: History of Smythe Family (typed)

1/3: Smythe Family Genealogical Chart

1/4: Letters, 1880; 1888; 1895; 1909

1/5: Undated Notes and Letters

1/6: Notebook owned by H. G. Smythe

1/7: Smythe Bros. Drugstore Notebooks

1/8: Medical Notebook

1/9: Picture Postcards

1/10: Photographs

1/11: Photographs

1/12: Bryan Daily Eagle, Vol. 1, No. 1. 1889

1/13: Funeral Notice for Dr. D. Port Smythe (1889)

1/14: Letters

1/15: Biography of Dr. Conrad Rettig, ancestor of Mrs. R. E. Barthold's husband.

Percival Pollard Publishing Contract

  • US TxAM-C 645
  • Collection
  • 1909

This collection contains the legal contract with The Neale Publishing Company to publish Pollard's manuscript, "Their Day in Court" (February 24, 1909).

Sir James Bryce Letters

  • US TxAM-C 661
  • Collection
  • 1882-1910

This collection consists of four handwritten letters from Sir James Bryce dated from 1882 to 1910, each addressed to one of the following: the President of the Board of Trade PASSAIC, W. Riding (1 folio with a typed transcript), "My dear Stillman" (1 folio with a typed transcript), and Fred P. Noble (1 folio with a typed transcript).

William Wallace Burns Papers

  • US TxAM-C C000023
  • Collection
  • 1848-1910

This collection consists mainly of correspondence (1858-1888) in which Brigadier General William Wallace Burns, of the United States Army, gives detailed accounts of Civil War battles fought during the Peninsular Campaign (March-August 1862), particularly the Seven Days Battles (June 25 - July 1, 1862 ), including Peach Orchard, Allen's Farm, Savage Station, Glendale, Nelson's Farm, and Malvern Hill. Burns discusses topics such as military strategy, troop movements, military surgeons, weather conditions during battles, building pontoon bridges, building defense works and, and capturing Confederate works. One letter is present from the Mexican-American War (1846-1848).

Also included is personal correspondence with high-ranking officials such as President Abraham Lincoln, U. S. Secretary of War Charles Stanton, General Henry W. Halleck, General Winfield Scott Hancock, General George McClellan, General William Starke Rosecrans, and Major General Edwin Vose Sumner, as well as Emil Schalk who was a war journalist. The latter correspondence concerns political viewpoints on the causes of the war, primarily slavery, as well as the conduct and outcome of the war.

Some correspondence (1888-1904) was written just before and after Burns' death among family members, notably his grandchildren Lloyd Burns Magruder, who was a cadet at the United States Military Academy, and Pauline Magruder, as well as William Wallace Burns' sister Mabelle Burns, usually called "Mab." A substantial group of letters to Mabelle Burns is from her suitor for marriage, B. L. Prince. A few of the family letters from Pauline Magruder to her Aunt Mabelle Burns are written in French from Paris, France.

Also present is a substantial group of copies of military orders and official reports focused on Burns' thwarted ambitions to become Major General, and lead a Division in the Army of the Cumberland under the command of General Rosecrans. Apparently Burns believed political maneuverings of high governmental officials obstructed his promotion to Major General and precipitated his resignation as Brigadier General in 1863.

A few financial records and documents from legal proceedings are included concerning disputed rights to the "Sibley Tent," an invention whose patent royalties were eventually shared by Burns with Henry Hastings Sibley. Also present are a few documents concerning Texas real estate transactions.

Burns, William Wallace, 1825-1892

Autograph Letters, Notes and Quotations, and Other Abolitionist Materials

ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed

  • Benjamin Bacon. Bacon was an original member of the Anti-Slavery society.

    ALS to autograph seeker C.L. Farrington (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). October 2, 1873. 1 p.

  • Henry Ward Beecher. Beecher was a social reformer, clergyman, and the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

    Partial ALS, n.p., Undated. 1 p. "It is his way. It does us all good to have someone who piles on the screws - especially when we know at bottom he is most friendly."

  • William Birney. Birney was Union Army general during the Civil War, and was noted for encouraging thousands of free black men to enlist.

    ALS to Lewis Cist (Paris). March 8, 1852. 1 p.

  • Phillips Brooks. Brooks was an Episcopal clergyman and the author of O Little Town of Bethlehem.

    ALS to Mrs. Waters (Boston, Massachusetts). February 3, 1886. 1 p.

  • Blanche K. Bruce. Bruce, the child of plantation owner and his house slave, was the first African-American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate, representing Mississippi during the Reconstruction era.

    ALS to Harry Hause (Washington, D.C. ), thanking his "host" after a recent visit. November 16, 1886. 2 p.

  • Benjamin Butler. Butler was a Massachusetts politician and Union General.

    ALS to David R. Godwin (Washington, D.C. ). June 12, 1876. 1 p.

  • William Channing

    ALS to Mrs. Chapman (Boston, Massachusetts), apologizing for sending a manuscript he suggests is unworthy of Liberty Bell, the journal of the American Antislavery Society. October 23, 1845. 1 p.

  • David Lee Child. Child was the husband of writer and reformer Lydia Maria Child.

    ALS to J. Bailey, arranging a meeting. n.p., July 17, 1829. 1 p.

  • Thomas Clarkson. Clarkson was one of the most important British abolitionists of the late 18th century.

    ALS to John B. Murray who served as Brigadier General in the Union Army, and later helped establish Memorial Day. (Playford Hall, England), arranging a visit. April 15, 1842. 2 p.

  • Cassius Marcellus Clay

    AQS, "Life, Liberty, and Love". n.p., 1860. 1 p.

  • George H. Cook. Cook was a professor of chemistry at Rutgers University whose geological survey of New Jersey became the predecessor for the U.S. Geological Survey.

    ALS regarding the purchase of a telescope (New Brunswick, New Jersey). August 27, 1863. 2 p.

    ALS (New Brunswick, New Jersey), regarding teaching science to future clergymen. May 3, 1865. 2 p. "I am every day stirred up by their fears lest they should learn something which would render their faith weak or unsound. It is a hard lesson for men to learn that one belongs to the finite the other the infinite…."

  • Daniel De Vinne

    ALS (Rye, New York). April 8, 1850. 2 p.

  • Orville Dewey

    ALS to Elizabeth Arnold (Paris). April 26, 1842. 2 p.

  • G. M. Emerson

    ALS to Joseph Kidder (Boston, Massachusetts). June 27, 1863. 1 p.

  • David Francis

    ALS to Governor Samuel T. Armstrong (Boston, Massachusetts). March 4, 1835. 2 p.

  • William Lloyd Garrison

    Copy of Wendell Phillips letter in Garrison's hand, August 1852. 1 p.

    ALS, responding to an invitation to speak at the New England Woman Suffrage Association. May 10, 1859. 2 p. "Where my hear and heart are in this matter you need no assurance from me, but I dare not, now, give you a positive pledge."

    AQS, "Liberty for each, for all, and for ever!". January 1, 1872.

    Post-mortem examination of Garrison, containing the results of the autopsy and account of the disease leading to his death. 3 p.

  • Joshua R. Giddings

    ALS to anti-slavery politician Charles Sumner, regarding New England delegates to the Peace Convention in Paris. June 8, 1849. 1 p. "Our Free Soil movement is on the advance in this state. Our forces are consolidating, and we are making preparations for the election in October…"

    AQS, n.p., regarding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Undated. "When the Representative of a State is struck down the people feel the blow."

    With one additional ALS.

  • Francis Gillette

    Letter sent from Gillette to an unknown woman, seeking her services as a school teacher for a recently built school in Bloomfield, Connecticut. July 25, 1851.

  • Sarah and Angelina Grimke, and Theodore Dwight Weld

    Three Autographs on one page, n.p., Undated (circa the 1870s). RARE

  • R. R. Gurley. Gurley was a Clergyman and the U.S. Commissioner to Liberia.

    ALS (Washington, D.C.). August 24, 1832. 1 p.

  • R. G. Hazard

    ALS to William Pitt Fessenden, July 28, 1864. 2 p.

  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

    ALS, regarding hymns. July 23, 1908. 2 p.

  • Samuel Gridley Howe

    ALS (Boston, Massachusetts) June 7, circa the 1870s. 1 p.

    Invitation from the Perkins Institution for the Blind, announcing a meeting of the Trustees. Embossed to be read like Braille. Obituary from the Providence Journal included.

    With three additional ALS.

  • William Jackson

  • William Jay

    ALS, thanking an anonymous man for a ticket and discussing introduction for a speaker (Sumner). November 23, 1854. 1 p.

    ALS, discussing lot rentals. (New York). December 19, 1835. 1 p.

  • Oliver Johnson

    Autograph Poem Signed, "The Peace of God", n.p., Undated. 2 p.

    AQS, "God is wrath, even as he is love". (New York). January 8, 1886. 1 p.

    ALS to Rev. William Hayes Ward (Orange, New Jersey) pleading for work. February 2, 1879. 4 p. "I tell you frankly that I am in a dire strait. I have struggled hard for almost three years to get my paper on a paying basis…I look now into the faces of my dear wife and child with anxiety much as I never before experienced…".

    ALS to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (New York), regarding abolitionist Moncure Conway. October 6, 1885. 3 p. "I very much regret my inability to join in person the good company of friends and admirers of Mr. Moncure D. Conway, over which you are called to preside on Friday evening next. I greatly honor him for his high position in the world of thought and am moreover deeply indebted to him for light and inspiration upon many important subjects. In point of fidelity to his convictions and the boldness with which he has uttered them, he has set an example worthy of general imitation. I am glad he has returned to his native land, and I desire to lend my voice to the chorus of welcome that will greet him on the occasion to which I have referred. May his light still increase in brightness, and his hand grow strong for the work before him."

    AQS, "Thanks be to God! Not a slave in all the Land!" (Clifton Springs). September 15, 1889. 1 p.

    ALS to an anonymous Charles, discussing a speech that was sent but was incomplete. 1 p.

    ALS, of payment sent for an article, (New York). December 31, 1866. 1 p.

  • Jean Kina. Kina was a Haitian revolutionary leader and former slave.

    Note Signed, warrant for rations. September 12, 1795. Exceptionally rare autograph.
    Winslow Lewis.

    ALS, request for letter to see someone in London. Envelope addressed to Winslow Lewis. March 1872. 1 p.

    Invitation and ALS, expressing his father's inability to accept an invitation due to being absent from the city. May 7, 1872. 1 p.

  • J. L. Lovejoy

    ALS, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 28, 1839. 1 p.

  • Zachary Macaulay

    ALS, regarding the disposition of an estate. Macaulay was the leader of a Parliamentary effort to end slavery in Britain. October 10, 1823. 4 p.

  • Samuel May

    ALS to H.W. Clarke, regarding Civil War relief efforts. (Syracuse, New York). March 10, 1863. 2 p.

    Copy of a letter from Samuel May, (Syracuse, New York). January 8, 1866. 1 p.

  • James M. McKim

    ALS. 2 p.

  • Edward Joy Morris

    Note signed, regarding a Whig gathering Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 18, 1844. 1 p.
    ALS, giving dates of his service in Congress (Washington, D.C.). February 8, 1858. 1 p.

    Letter signed (possibly clerically), thanking an unidentified woman for a likeness of her husband, who gave Morris advice during his time in Liberia. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). August 9, 1863. 1 p.

    Letter signed (possibly clerically), mentioning favorable news regarding diplomatic appointments to Liberia. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). May 22, 1866. 1 p.

  • Theodore Parker

    ALS to Miss H.E. Horn regarding Goethe (West Roxbury, Massachusetts). October 15, 1846. 3 p.

    Two additional ALS, three ANS, and one cabinet card.

  • William W. Patton

    ALS, answering his sister, who was evidently skeptical of the anti-slavery movement's methods (New York). September 16, 1839. 4 p.
    Transcript: "Dear Sister,
    Dr. Bates a few moments ago handed me your letter & I hasten to reply. And this I do the more readily because I feel confident that a satisfactory answer can be given to your questions. You wish to know, what good all this agitating will do?
    I could first ask what good cause or what great moral reform action ever succeeded without agitation. How did our Savior & the apostles endeavor to propagate the gospel? Was it not by traveling extensively over the known world & promulgating the truth? Was it not by rebuking sin everywhere & under all forms - proclaiming the utter wickedness of the human heart - denouncing idolatry as folly & wickedness & holding up the cross as the only hope of a lost world? They spoke the truth also sternly & made no compromise with wrong. In rebuking the Jews for their treatment of the Savior they said, whom 'ye have take by wicked hands have crucified and slain' 'But ye denied the Holy One & the Just & desired a murder to be granted unto you.' And while the church followed their example, almost miraculous success attended their efforts.
    Again when Papacy threw her mantle of gloom over the church - when a deathlike stupor had seized the disciples of the cross, what aroused them, save the trumpet tones of Luther & his associates, spurning with indignation the idea of Papal supremacy & infallibility. They awoke the plebian & the senator - the peasant & the king - how? By agitation. And the happy results we feel every day.
    Alcohol had slain its thousands - the drunkards hell was fast filling up. We were branded abroad as a nation of drunkards. How is it that such a change as we now see has been wrought? Why is it that one state after another is prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquor & we stand far in advance of the rest of the world on this subject? It has been accomplished by agitation.
    Nearly one millions of slaves groaned beneath West Indian bondage & the slave traders covered the ocean, sailing under the flags of all civilized nations yet not a voice uttered warning or rebuke; but now how different the sight. The freeman lifts his free arms to heaven & thanks his God & the abolitionists of England the lash is beneath his feet, & the chain rent asunder falls to the ground. And how was this brought to pass. By the agitation of such men as Wilberforce, Clarkson & Sharpe. Years did they agitate, & now God has brought about the result.
    And now, shall we follow the path which Experience points out, or (monstrous anomaly) leave sin to cure itself.
    But permit me to mention of our plans & opinions. First, we believe the slaveholder has a conscience, aye a conscience, slumbering though it may be. This conscience we would address. We would show him that though he may not distinctly be aware of it, yet in reality he is robbing his fellow man - treading under foot precious rights & [curtailing love on many such]. Do you say, that he will not hear & is only enraged; so does the rum seller stop his ears or assail you in his rage when you tell him, he is filling up the drunkards grave, & feeding the fires of the drunkards hell. But in his cooler moments, his conscience will whisper, it is all true. Is it right so to speak to the rum seller & to hope for beneficial results, then is it right thus to address the slaveholder & equally to anticipate the time when Slavery's expiring groan shall scare be heard for the songs of the emancipated.
    Secondly. We believe, if we can convince the slaveholders that free labor is far more profitable to the South than is slave labor, that their self interest will liberate the slaves. To establish this position we have a mass of overwhelming arguments & facts.
    Thirdly. We believe that the South has a sense & a deep sense of honor. What then will she do, when a worlds scorn shall scathe her. When to be a slaveholder shall be as counted a foul spot on a mans character. Lynching & bowie knives will ill contend against the brand of shame. Was not Robinson acquitted of the murder of Helen Jewett & yet he dared not, he could not reside in this city. Why? Because every body believed him quietly & infamy had marked him as her own.
    Fourthly. We believe that the South wishes to live securely. Therefore we point her to a nation of enemies growing up in her midst. We mention her hopeless condition in case of a war & thus wish to show that it is always unsafe to do wrong.
    'Why then do you labor at the North?' Because in several of the so called free states slaves are yet held. Because a burning, withering prejudice is bowing the colored man to the earth, blighting his hopes for time & often for eternity. Because the free colored man is shut out of our schools & our colleges & put in a place of degradation in the courts of God! Because no mechanic will take him for an apprentice & no merchant receives him as a clerk. Because if the colored man was elevated & it was seen that he could hold stations of honor & respectability such a grief of universal condemnation would go forth against slavery as will cause it to vanish from the earth. Because several of the nominally free states permit slaveholders from the South to hold slaves within their bounds for 6 or 9 months, & others lay heavy fines & imprisonment upon those who aid the panting fugitive. Because the North has the majority in Congress & hence the power & obligation to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, in Florida, also to break up the slave trade between the states, which is the main thing that renders slavery profitable in Delaware, Maryland & Virginia, which being removed these states would be forced to emancipate their slaves. Because the Northern church has palliated this crime & failed to rebuke it, while at the same time it has influence sufficient to cause its members at the South to renounce slavery. (See my last letter about communing with slaveholders) Because in a word, slaveholders as a general thing will never listen to us, as long as so many uphold them at the North.
    But says, the objector, 'I have seen a great deal of quarreling & disturbance arise from so much agitation.' Well, what then. This is not denied, but what does it prove? That it is wrong to continue because incidental disturbances arise? Why then did not Paul stop when he was mobbed wherever he went? Why did Peter & John continue so fanatical, when they were scourged for Christs sake? Did not Christ tell us to expect trouble whenever truth grappled with error. Math. X:34,6. Could we expect a system which is so bored by the civil passions of the heart to be given up without a severe & protracted struggle?
    Such is my answer, given as briefly as possible, to your questions. Had I time, I might sustain my position by many more arguments. But I have tried to be brief. If my answer is not satisfactory to Miss Bonny & others, please as soon as possible specify wherein I have failed. I have not undertaken to show how bad slavery is, inasmuch as I took it for granted that she allowed its wickedness. Therefore my attention has been confined to a general statement of our plan & the reasons for it. May God teach us all right that we may do what is well pleasing to him. For it matters little whether we have mans condemnation or not, so long as the smile your Savior is on us. Mother sends her love. I have had a cold for 4 weeks. The Dr. forbids to sing or speak much. The Plans look quite well & has one pedal to another alongside of it. Last Wednesday I went on to Uncle Mag office & on Saturday brough[t] Ludlow, & Aunt Catharine home. Had a very pleasant time there & got most well of my cold, but was put almost entirely [back by singing & talking yesterday (Sabbath).] Write soon."

    AQS, "He that doeth good is of God; but he that doeth evil hath not seen God" (Chicago, Illinois). February 14, 1877. 1 p.

    With one additional ALS.

  • Wendell Phillips

    AQS, "Count that day lost / Whose low descended sun / Sees at the thy hand / No worthy action done / These lines John Brown taught to each his children." September 1871. 1 p.

    Four additional AQS, two ANS, two ALS, and a Cabinet card.

  • Parker Pillsbury

    ALS (Concord, New Hampshire). September 8, 1896. 2 p. "I joined Mr. Garrison in the tenth year of his warfare, and I hope and think he would say I never deserted him in any of his finest battles on whatever field. And I hope ere long to meet him under other and brighter skies, to renew our conquests upward and onward…"

  • A. M. Powell

    ANS, on Office of the National Anti-Slavery Standard stationary (New York). June 26, 1866. 1 p.

  • F.B. Sanborn

    ANS (Boston, Massachusetts) January 11, 1910. 1 p.

  • Gerrit Smith

    An 1864 Note Signed, three ALS (one mounted on an acidic page from the autograph album), and an 1848 printed speech on land reform. (5 items total)

  • Henry B. Stanton

    ALS, sending a manuscript for publication. October 17, 1844.

    ALS, n.p., Undated. 1 p. "…why would it not be a good plan for some of our New York stump orators to 'change works' with some of yours? Some of your Conscience Whigs can do great good, very great good, in the central & western parts of this state. They would have great influence with the Whigs of this region. In return for them, let some of your Barnburners go there. Their noble enthusiasm would wear off prejudices which you Whigs have to contend, and they might make deep inroads upon Hunkerism in Massachusetts…"

  • Thaddeus Stevens

    ALS, February 17, 1861. 1 p.

  • Alvan Stewart

    ALS, from an early political abolitionist regarding his publication and the legal assault on slavery. June 16, 1845. "I did not receive your letter until Saturday night & I hasten to answer it. The Argument I delivered in eleven hours before the Sup. Court of N. Jersey I think eminently calculated for lawyers [?] & those wise men constructing society courts the muse who[?] and the exponents of the law & Constitution. It covers all the questions under the federal Constitution as well as N. Jersey, I have had lawyers men who were my political enemies order fifty of these. The Argument will be as I understand 45 to 50 compact pages, & are $125.00 at per thousands at the office. In fact it is altogether the most labored production of my life, & covers our entire question, under all aspects, as my adversaries compelled me by their attacks to give a history of & define the Liberty party - its objects, aims, the course of slavery in different ages, demonstrating the declaration of independence a practicality & showing condition of slave states, as compared with free, showing 6 millions ruined, 3 of Black & 3 of poor Southern whites…"

  • P. F. Streeter

    ALS (Baltimore, Maryland). August 22, 1861. 4 p. "This city is quiet, but feelings are bitter, and the secessionists believe 'Old Jeff' [Jefferson Davis] will be here before long. I do not agree with them. Troops are beginning to arrive and encamp on our hills. A great hospital is to be established here. These things will create some activity. As to my own prospects, they are not very bright. I shall lose many secession pupils, and some will not be able to send; but I hope to have some new ones, and enough to justify me in going on."

  • Charles Sumner

    Newspaper clipping discussing a dispute.

    Autograph Manuscript outline of studies in history. 3 p.

    Document Signed, regarding a railroad. February 5, 1845. 1 p.

    Autograph Quotation, "Whether on the gallows high, or in the battle's van, the fittest place for a man to die, is where he dies for man." n.p. Undated.

    Four additional ANS, and one photo with a clipped signature affixed.

  • Lewis Tappan

    ALS, regarding a case before the Presbytery. February 26, 1841. 1 p.

  • George Thompson

    ALS to Oliver Johnson, July 13, 1865, 2 p.
    Clipped signature and AQS "To America!" (Salem, Massachusetts). December 6, 1850. (tipped on the left side onto acidic paper)

  • Francis Todd

    Letter from Todd to an attorney regarding a transaction of $1000 in Newbury Port. June 11, 1842.

  • John Weiss. Unitarian minister

    ALS, to a younger unidentified colleague (New York). November 21, 1852. 4 p. "My Dear Friend,
    I have been trying very hard to think that I can come to Washington, for I should like to do it. But I am forced to decline it, for a variety of reasons which press upon me. Rev. Bowen will have left us, and no one will take his place at present: so that the entire responsibility of study will come upon me. If I preach at all away from home, it will be for Rev. Bowen's installation at Williamsburg. Then, the journey and preaching would use me up for a week: a thing not to be considered, if any one were here to take care of the [evening] Sunday. The besetting difficulties are too great even for my strong desire to come.
    I rejoice that you are going to be settled at Washington: and I have no doubt that you can say there just what you please. My advice to you would be to go on as you have begun, making your Anti-slavery occasionally, at timely moments, just as strong as you have made it previous to your call. The most that a man can desire is to have the liberty to speak a timely word at some conjuncture which enhances its meaning and prevents it from being spent upon the air. If a man waits for the chances which must inevitably occur in our legislation, and so long as the power of slavery seeks its opportunity, he will have the satisfaction of bearing his testimony at the most useful moment for his own conscience and for the cause of truth. All else, relating to any special topic, is comparatively aimless, lacking the time's enforcement - which justifies it from the charge of dilettantism and superfluity of independence by bringing the evil up to be hit, and marking every hit a palpable one. Particularly in Washington, where people hear of effects being produced by speaking strongly to the point at some critical moment, I should judge it to be the best cause for the preacher of anti-slavery truth to watch the providential chances, and concentrate this special moral energy of his upon the evil when it has a '[name].'
    Let me desire for you every success and spiritual blessing, and though distant from us may you yet feel the sympathy of all who believe as you do, who will be ready to countenance for you, and who will feel strengthened by your efforts."

    With one additional ALS.

  • Elizur Wright

    ALS, regarding becoming an auxiliary to the National Liberal League. August 31, 1880. 2 p.

  • Other letters

    Ones addressed to famous autograph collectors Lewis Cist and William Buell Sprague, are from Francis Gillette (Senator from Conn.); William Jackson; William Jay (2 letters); Winslow Lewis; J. C. Lovejoy; James Miller McKim (2 ALS); A.M. Powell; and Francis Todd.

Abolitionists' Archive

  • US TxAM-C C000553
  • Collection
  • 1795-1910; Undated

The collection contains over 100 rare letters, autograph quotations, and photographs from 50 major figures in the American antislavery struggle, including several rare autographs from key British abolitionists. Many of the individuals noted provided selfless support, financially, morally, and wrote on behalf of the abolishment of the 'peculiar' institution of slavery. Some of the well-known abolitionists include Henry Ward Beecher, Blanche K. Bruce, William Channing, William Lloyd Garrison, Joshua R. Giddings, the Grimke sisters, Gerrit Smith, Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, and Lewis Tappan, one of the leading financial supporters of the Amistad Africans.

The collection contains photographs and newspaper clippings of these 50 prominent abolitionists.

Building Loan Payment Receipt

Item 28 - Receipt from Eli Peoples to James Mifflin Mays for payment towards a building loan. Written on The Palace Bar letterhead, with the inscription “Green River - The Whiskey Without a Headache” printed underneath. Dated June 9, 1911

March to the Brazos Photograph Album

  • US TxAM-C 700
  • Collection
  • 1909-1911

The March to the Brazos photographic scrapbook album contains photographs from 1909 to 1911 "March to the Brazos" Corps of Cadets tradition along with Texas A&M College Campus views, Campus tents, along with military campsites, and social events.

Charles H. Alvord Papers

  • US TxAM-C 1167
  • Collection
  • 1909-1911; undated

This collection contains papers dealing with agricultural topics at the A&M College of Texas during Alvord's service from 1899-1945, along with a picture of the first General Agricultural and Livestock Train in Texas (1910).

Alvord, Charles H.

Correspondence, Documents, and Photos

1/1: General information about C. H. Alvord and his collection

1/2: Letters from D. B. Cofer to C. H. Alvord

1/3: Letters from C. H. Alvord to D. B. Cofer

1/4: Letter from D. B. Cofer to E. J. Kyle

1/5: "The Beginning of the College Courses in Agricultural Engineering"

1/6: "Memorandum Concerning Correspondence Courses in Agriculture and Horticulture"

1/7: "Memorandum on the Visit of President Howard Taft to Texas and A&M in 1909"

1/8: "Some Early Impressions of the A&M College"

1/9: Records of various Board of Directors meeting at A&M College, 1910-1911

1/10: "An Agricultural Train in Texas"

1/11: Photograph and negatives of the First General Agricultural and Live Stock Train operated in Texas, September 1910

F. G. Kenyon Letter

  • US TxAM-C 656
  • Collection
  • 1912-03

This collection contains a one-page handwritten letter to F. A. Bather from F. G. Kenyon dated March 23, 1912, thanking Bather for the use of a Browning letter (1-page ALS with typed transcription and photocopy of the letter). Also included is one page of notes by Kenyon on The Pied Piper.

YMCA Building Cornerstone Collection

  • US TxAM-C 820
  • Collection
  • 1912

This collection contains items that were removed in 2011 from the time capsule in the YMCA building's cornerstone.

H. B. Stoddard Collection

  • US TxAM-C 1152
  • Collection
  • 1880-1912; Undated

This collection contains items pertaining to the life of Henry Bates Stoddard. Stoddard served on a committee designed to head the local effort to locate a proposed girls' industrial school at A&M. Stoddard was once considered for the Presidency of A&M College of Texas in 1902.

The collection contains many petitions from various citizens of Texas to the Board of Directors of Texas A&M. The petitions request the consideration of H. B. Stoddard to fill the vacant position of President of the College. (Stoddard did not, ultimately, become President.) Included herein is also Stoddard's handwritten will to his daughter and sister-in-law, a picture of Stoddard, two letters written to him, and several other items.

Stoddard Materials

1-01 Contains the Summary

1-02: Certificate of H. B. Stoddard to Colonel on May 20, 1880.

1-03: General Order announcing the command of H. B. Stoddard at the newly founded Camp Ross on May 14, 1888

1-04: Contains a Petition to the Board of Directors of Texas A&M College Stations from the citizens of Galveston, Texas.

1-05: Contains a Petition to the Board of Directors of Texas A&M College Station from the citizens of Bell Country, Texas.

1-06: Contains a Petition to the Board of Directors of Texas A&M College Station from the citizens of Robertson County, Texas.

1-07: Contains a Petition to the Board of Directors of Texas A&M from various citizens of Texas.

1-08: Letter to General H. B. Stoddard from B. Sbisa written on June 5, 1901

1-09: Letter to H. B. Stoddard from Joseph D. Sayers, written on May 18, 1912

1-10: Photo of H. B. Stoddard

1-11: Will of H. B. Stoddard, written in October 1905

Building Supply Receipts

This folder contains receipts from Eli Peoples to James Mifflin Mays for building supplies.

Item 21 - Receipt, dated December 23, 1910

Item 22 - Receipt, dated March 13, 1911

Item 23 - Receipt, dated August 19, 1911

Item 24 - Receipt, dated August 19, 1911

Item 25 - Receipt, dated October 13, 1911

Item 26 - Receipt, dated January 8, 1912

Item 27 - Receipt, dated January 8, 1912

J. Oscar Morgan Papers

  • US TxAM-C 1147
  • Collection
  • 1911-1912

This collection contains papers of Dr. J. Oscar Morgan who was a Professor of Agronomy at A & M College of Texas in the early 1900s. Few exact dates could be identified, but some of the papers are dated around 1911-1912.

There is no information about whether these papers were ever published as articles, or whether they were used only in the classroom.

Correspondence and Telegrams

2/1: A Cover Letter Called "Letters and Telegrams Concerning the Recent Conditions at College"
2/2: To B. Youngblood from T. P. Clonts, 1913-01-03
2/3: To Levi G. Brown from Marteyson, 1913-01-27
2/4: To R. T. Milner from Heldeugels, 1913-01-30
2/5: To R. T. Milner from T.S. Wyche, 1913-01-06
2/6: To E. J. Kyle from J. P. Marteyson, 1913-01-21
2/7: To R. T. Milner from F. D. Haden, 1913-02-02
2/8: To R. T. Milner from Marteyson, 1913-02-02
2/9: To R. T. Milner from B. H. Oxford, 1913-02-02
2/10: To R. T. Milner from Johns Roan, 1913-02-02
2/11: To R. T. Milner G. H. Wyane, 1913-02-02
2/12: To R. T. Milner from J. R. Davidson, 1913-02-02
2/13: To the Alumni of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas from R. J. Windrow, 1913-02-02
2/14: To R. T. Milner to W. L Carwil, 1913-02-02
2/15: To R. T. Milner from C. Charword, Feb 2nd 1913-02-02
2/16: To R. T. Milner from W. Player, 1913-02-03
2/17: To R. T. Milner from R. H. Johton, 1913-02-03
2/18: To R. T. Milner from J. Hollingsworth, 1913-02-03
2/19: To R. T. Milner from C. J. Moore, 1913-02-03
2/20: To R. T. Milner from R. Milhollanard, 1913-02-03
2/21: To S. Freiend from Charles B. Metcalfe, 1913-02-03
2/22: To R. J. Windrew on R. T. Milner, 1913-02-03
2/23: To Milanous from C. Pickens, 1913-02-03
2/24: To R. T. Milner from Professor M. Fraeock, 1913-02-03
2/25: To R. T. Milner from John Froude, 1913-02-03
2/26: A Telegram to R. T. Milner from Chairman L. D. Callaway, 1913-02-03
2/27: To R. T. Windrow from J. L. Short, 1913-02-03
2/28: A Telegram to R. T. Milner from R. E. Schaefer, 1913-02-03
2/29: To R. T. Milner from Eilseir, 1913-02-03
2/30: R. T. Milner from J. Shornhill, 1913-02-03
2/31: To R. T. Milner from R. E. Smith, 1913-02-03
2/32: To R. T. Milner from W. Sockwilling, 1913-02-03
2/33: To R. T. Milner from J. M. Jordan, 1913-02-03
2/34: To R. J. Window from B. Yeasory, 1913-02-03
2/35: To R. T. Milner from F. Gelaring, 1913-02-03
2/36: To R. T. Milner from C. W. Fray, 1913-02-11
2/37: To R. T. Milner from E. O. Deal, 1913-02-03
2/38: To R. J. Windrow from Lauslen, 1913-02-03
2/39: To R. T. Milner from W. B. Baxter, 1913-02-03
2/40: To R. T. Milner from J. F. Baker, 1913-02-03
2/41: To the Alumni of Texas A&M University from J. O. Burt, 1913-02-03
2/42: To R. T. Milner from M. Rannyan, 1913-02-03
2/43: To R. J. Windrow from James Croane, 1913-02-03
2/44: To R. T. Milner from the Dean of Baylor University, 1913-02-04
2/45: To R. T. Milner from A. Sherley, 1913-02-04
2/46: To R. T. Milner from M. A. Hopson, 1913-02-04
2/47: To R. T. Milner from Lon D. Mars, 1913-02-04
2/48: To R. T. Milner from John B. Long, 1913-02-04
2/49: To R. T. Milner from W. W. Lawson, 1913-02-04
2/50: To R. T. Milner from G. S. Patterson, 1913-02-04
2/51: To R. T. Milner from F. A. Partial, 1913-02-04
2/52: To R. T. Milner from A. W. Off, 1913-02-04
2/53: To R. T. Milner from Lon G. Kitsch, 1913-02-04
2/54: To R. T. Milner from J. Q. Tabor, 1913-02-04
2/55: To R. T. Milner from Glen L. Sneed, 1913-02-04
2/56: To R. T. Milner from G. Whaley, 1913-02-04
2/57: To R. T. Milner from J. H. Grove, 1913-02-04
2/58: To R. T. Milner from J. D. Ford, 1913-02-04
2/59: To R. T. Milner from J. E. Ballard, 1913-02-04
2/60: To Colonel Milner from Henry Bernstein, 1913-02-04
2/61: To R. T. Milner from P. B. Billet, 1913-02-04
2/62: To R. T. Milner from C. E. Borat, 1913-02-04
2/63: To R. T. Milner from K. K. Leiden, 1913-02-12
2/64: To R. T. Milner from B. F. Looney, 1913-02-19
2/65: To R. T. Milner from J. M. Perdence, 1913-02-05
2/66: To the Alumni Association from Guss Newton, 1913-02-05
2/67: To R. T. Milner from M. Tilson, 1913-02-05
2/68: To R. T. Milner from H. B. Stoddard, 1913-02-05
2/69: Empty
2/70: To R. T. Milner from S. Webb, 1913-02-05
2/71: To R. T. Milner from A. L. Ward, 1913-02-05
2/72: To the Dallas Alumni Association from J. H. McDonough, 1913-02-05
2/73: To R. T. Milner from J. Lee Cooper, 1913-02-05
2/74: To R. T. Milner from J. L. Euband, 1913-02-05
2/75: To R. T. Milner from Henry E. Elaod, 1913-02-05
2/76: To R. T. Milner from W. N. Boyle, 1913-02-05
2/77: To R. T. Milner from V. P. Armstrong, 1913-02-05
2/78: To R. T. Milner from W. F. Colquitt, 1913-02-05
2/79: To R. T. Milner from T. F. Thompson, 1913-02-06
2/80: To R. T. Milner from E. S. Stockwell, 1913-02-06
2/81: To R. T. Milner from J. B. Cranfill, 1913-02-06
2/82: To R. J. Windrow from J. H. Pirie, 1913-02-07
2/83: To R. T. Milner from R. R. River, 1913-02-07
2/84: To R. T. Milner from J. S. Wood, 1913-02-07
2/85: To R. T. Milner from President of Baylor, 1913-02-07
2/86: To R. T. Milner from D. H. Cason, 1913-02-07
2/87: To R. T. Milner from W. J. Columan, 1913-02-08
2/88: To R. T. Milner from Frank J. Hall, 1913-02-08
2/89: To R. T. Milner from R. T. Holloway, 1913-02-08
2/90: To R. T. Milner from N. B. Morris, 1913-02-08
2/91: To R. T. Milner from Harway C. Stiles, 1913-02-08
2/92: To R. T. Milner from J. M. Watson, 1913-02-08
2/93: To the Alumni Association from E. C. Arnold, 1913-02-08
2/94: To R. T. Milner from J. A. Adams, 1913-02-08
2/95: To R. T. Milner from J. Boruder Sr., 1913-02-08
2/96: To R. T. Milner from B. F. Haynes, 1913-02-12
2/97: To the Local Alumni Association from R. W. Yarbrough, 1913-02-13
2/98: To R. T. Milner from Walton, 1913-02-16
2/99: To R. T. Milner from H. C. Zinglmann, 1913-02-09
2/100: To R. T. Milner from S. M. Cuiltam, 1913-02-10
2/101: To R. T. Milner from G. H. Herrson, 1913-02-10
2/102: To R. T. Milner from F. W. Russel, 1913-02-10
2/103: To R. T Milner from M. F. Kelly, 1913-02-12
2/104: To R. T. Milner from Brooke Smith, 1913-02-10
2/105: To R. T. Milner from Henry C. Evans, 1913-02-03
2/106: To R. T. Milner from C. M. Cocke, 1913-02-10
2/107: A Telegram to R. T. Milner from Chas B. Metcalfe, 1913-02-11
2/108: To R. T. Milner from Cora Young, 1913-02-11
2/109: To R. T. Milner from Z. T. Fulmore, 1913-02-11
2/110: A Telegram to R. T. Milner from T. J. McMillan, 1913-02-10
2/111: A Telegram to R. T. Milner from C. G. Truitt, 1913-02-14
2/112: A Telegram to R. T. Milner from the Citizens of Henderson, 1913-02-14
2/113: A Telegram to R. T. Milner from Walter D. Adams, 1913-02-14
2/114: To R. T. Milner from N. S. Johnson, 1913-03-03
2/115: To R. T. Milner from A. J. Coleman
2/116: A Telegram to Prof. D. W. Spence from R. T. Milner
2/117: A Telegram to R. T. Milner from S. O. Scott

William A. Yates Papers

  • US TxAM-C 1193
  • Collection
  • 1913; Undated

This collection mostly contains information on Wiliam Watson, his life, and his work as a nurseryman working with growing roses, and fruit trees in Texas. Other items in the collection include a nursery catalog circa 1910 (possibly Watson's?), and the Brenham Banner Press September 9, 1926 issue containing several articles written by Yates.

Yates, William A.

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