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Engelmann, Henry. Explorations of Capt. Jas. H. Simpson, T.E., U.S.A. in 1859 / Geology by H. Engelmann.

Title: Explorations of Capt. Jas. H. Simpson, T.E., U.S.A. in 1859 / Geology by H. Engelmann. [1859?]

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81463949 View

Simpson, J. H. (James Hervey), 1813-1883. Abstract of disbursements on account of survey of N.W. lakes (Green Bay survey) made during the 2nd & 3rd quarter of the year : ms., 1843.

Title: Abstract of disbursements on account of survey of N.W. lakes (Green Bay survey) made during the 2nd & 3rd quarter of the year : ms., 1843.

List of financial disbursements regarding expenses for survey party by Capt. William G. Williams in account with Lt. James Hervey Simpson at Green Bay, Wis., May 19-Sept. 30, 1843. These disbursements reflect expenses, mostly concerning provisions, transportation, and general supplies. Listed are date, voucher no., name of person paid, reason for payment, and amount.

ArchivalResource: 3 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48726618 View

Couser, Jacob,. Camp Floyd materials, 1859-1900.

Title: Camp Floyd materials, 1859-1900.

This collection includes 11 documents and letters related to activities at Camp Floyd (Fort Crittenden), Utah, in the aftermath of the Utah Expedition (1857-1858). Materials include lists of men and property employed at both Rush Valley and Camp Floyd, several letters from Parmenas Taylor Turnley to Bennett Smith describing transfer operations from Rush Valley to Camp Floyd as well as the need for added security against supply theft, and an itinerary of James Hervey Simpson's travels from Carson Valley to Camp Floyd. Also included is a letter from Ben Holladay describing the moving of supplies from Carson Valley to Camp Floyd. In addition to the Camp Floyd materials, the collection also contains a folder of ephemera (bank deposit slips, receipts from the Oregon and California Railroad Company, and promissory notes) relating to the business dealings of Willis Dunegan (Dunagan, Dunigan) and his relatives.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

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Holmes, Annamaria Pemberton, fl. 1852-1853,. Holmes family papers [manuscript], 1721-1891.

Title: Holmes family papers [manuscript], 1721-1891.

Papers of the Holmes and related Pemberton and Laurence families. The papers consist chiefly of family correspondence and also include poems, sermons, diaries, baptismal records, wills, and genealogies. Letters of Annamaria Pemberton Holmes chiefly convey family and social news, 1835-1837. The journals of Charlotte Isabaella Holmes describe an extended stay in Le Havre and Dunkirk, France, 1849-1851, and family life in England, 1880. Her letters, 1853-1883, describe life in England. The farm diary, 1861, of Edward Anderson Holmes, has a few scattered mentions of national events. His correspondence includes descriptions of surveying on Minnesota roads in the 1850s, land deals in Wisconsin, his Civil War service including essays and chronology about his capture in the third battle for Winchester, Va., with the 21st Virginia Cavalry, and imprisonment at Johnson's Island, Ohio. The collection also contains copies of poems, some original poems, lists of books read, personal and regimental accounts of provisions including fodder for horses and rations for prisoners, and lists of correspondents. The collection also contains poems of Joseph Henry Hendon Holmes, 1816, and a note giving a horse to his daughter, 1819. Letters of Maryanne Pemberton Holmes to Edward Anderson Holmes, 1852-1853, convey family and social news, and comment on life in the United States where sons Edward and George were living. The collection also includes miscellaneous writing by her including notes on property, an evening prayer, codicils to her will listing bequests, and brief diary entries on son Edward's schooling, 1838-1845. Of interest are her notes on Demerara [now Guyana], where her husband served as Judge Advocate General, including references to Doll Thomas, references to slaves both in general and in their employ, prices from account books, a translation of a South American Indian song, and lists of native plant and animal species, with two small sketches of a flamingo and a trumpeter bird. Also notes on her estate by R. T. Wilkinson, 1883-1884. Letters to Sallie Campbell Starritt (Mrs. Edward Anderson) Holmes contain news of family and friends including a very brief reference to the breaking of the bank in Charlottesville, 1876, and a letter from her son Edward Buchanan Holmes, a student at the University of Virginia in 1890. Papers of John and Mary Laurence include copies of their wills, 1731 and 1736. Papers of Elizabeth Pemberton, sister of Maryanne Pemberton Holmes, include letters describing a tour of the Lakes district, 1819, and instructions regarding her property, together with her will, 1851. Also of interest are prayers, poems and sermons of Dr. Stephen Pemberton and a series of letters to family discussing finances and theology.

ArchivalResource: circa 1000 items.

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Fort Sutter collection, 1845-1862.

Title: Fort Sutter collection, 1845-1862.

The collection contains letters, documents and 3 maps, in English and Spanish, mounted in 39 bound volumes. An additional volume contains a printed introduction to the collection. Subjects covered in the collection include: Edward M. Kern and his activities at Fort Sutter, chiefly between 1846-47; the Bear Flag Revolt and subsequent military actions; Indian insurrections; the establishment of mail service in California; relief of the Donner Party; and Kern's attachment to the 3rd and 4th Frémont Exploring Expeditions. One of the volumes contains engravings of drawings by Edward and his brother, Richard Kern, made during the Simpson and Sitgreaves Expeditions in the region of the Zuni, Little Colorado, Colorado, and Gila Rivers in 1849-53.

ArchivalResource: 161 pieces.

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Young, Brigham, 1801-1877. Letters regarding Richard H. Kern, 1854-1859.

Title: Letters regarding Richard H. Kern, 1854-1859.

Contemporary copies of letters regarding a ring belonging to Richard H. Kern, which was recovered in the aftermath of the Gunnison Massacre. In the first letter from Brigham Young to Edward Griffin Beckwith and Robert Murray Morris, Young writes that Indian agent Major S.B. Rose had just returned from Fillmore City, where he acquired from the Pauvan Indians a U.S. Rifle, "one finger ring, marked with K. and having a bloodstone," and part of a brass odometer. Young continues that he is sending the items on to Beckwith and Morris via interpreter D.B. Huntington (1854). The second letter is from James Hervey Simpson to Young, inquiring after the whereabouts of the ring recovered by George W. Bean and that if no one had done so he would like to return it to Kern's family (1858). The final letter is from Young to Simpson telling him that he had already sent the ring to Beckwith and Morris (1859).

ArchivalResource: 3 letters.

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Simpson, J. H. (James Hervey), 1813-1883. Letter : to R. H. Kern / by J. H. Simpson, 1850 Dec 10.

Title: Letter : to R. H. Kern / by J. H. Simpson, 1850 Dec 10.

Transmitting a copy of a lithograph made from Richard Kern's drawing of Santa Fe.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. ; 25 cm.

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Simpson, J. H. (James Hervey), 1813-1883. Utah Territory Map, 1859.

Title: Utah Territory Map, 1859.

Map of the route followed by Capt. Simpson's expedition from Camp Floyd to Fort Bridger in 1858, and from Camp Floyd across the Great Basin of Utah and through Nevada in 1859. The map has been inlaid and forms the central portion of the "Map of Utah Territory...Compiled in the Bureau of Topographical Engineers...1858." An inscription notes the map was a gift to Maj. Frederick Dodge, who helped James Simpson with information about the Indians and their languages.

ArchivalResource: 58 x 13 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702128291 View

Engelmann, George, 1809-1884. George Engelmann papers, 1831-1914.

Title: George Engelmann papers, 1831-1914.

This is a collection of chiefly letters and botanical notebooks. Lecture notes and Engelmann's doctoral thesis are among the earliest papers. A series on herbaria and collectors includes plant exchange lists and other records concerning the Bernhardi and Engelmann herbaria and early plant collections coordinated by Engelmann in the western United States. The botanical notebooks are primarily notes on species from the botanical literature, herbarium specimens, and live plants in field and garden. Drawings and manuscripts by Engelmann, Arthur Schott, Paulus Roetter and others, and correspondence are found throughout. The correspondence (primarily letters to Engelmann) relates to botany, botanical surveys and expeditions sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and other U.S. government agencies. Letters discuss the following expeditions: the Emory expedition in New Mexico, the Fremont expedition in the Rocky Mountains and California, Hayden expedition on the upper Missouri River and Colorado, and the Nicollet, Powell, Simpson, Wheeler, Whipple and Wilkes expeditions. Many of the letters include descriptions of local and national politics. There is extensive correspondence with Smithsonian representatives.

ArchivalResource: 39 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61772595 View

Simpson, J. H. (James Hervey), 1813-1883. James H. Simpson and family papers, 1825-1932.

Title: James H. Simpson and family papers, 1825-1932.

Personal and family letters, newspaper clippings, genealogical and biographical data, and memorabilia of Simpson, a U.S. Army engineer and his family. Included is a letter from William T. Sherman (1869).

ArchivalResource: 47 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122587865 View

Hill, A. J. (Alfred James), 1833-1895. Alfred J. Hill papers, 1855-1895.

Title: Alfred J. Hill papers, 1855-1895.

Extracts, field notes, and related data created or compiled by Hill and relating to topographical and geographical surveys of Minnesota.

ArchivalResource: 2.75 cu. ft. (7 boxes, incl. 36 v.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122416496 View

Hill, Alfred James, 1833-1895. Hill (Alfred James) papers, 1855-1895 [microform].

Title: Hill (Alfred James) papers, 1855-1895 [microform].

Surveyor's field notes, tracings, plats, and maps of regions, rivers, portages and the Red River Valley including the original notes of James H. Simpson, etc.; extracts of geographical information by Hill from the journals of explorers of the upper Mississippi Valley, 1680-1871; itineraries of old Minnesota roads; diagrams of United States land survey; records of elevations in Minnesota; geographical nomenclature of Minnesota.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes including 34 vols.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14516970 View

Leonard, Levi O., 1854-1942. Papers of Levi O. Leonard 1839-1941 (Part 2).

Title: Papers of Levi O. Leonard 1839-1941 (Part 2).

ArchivalResource: Papers, 32.5 linear ft. (65 boxes)Photographs, 4 linear ft. (8 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233106082 View

Lee, William. Notes taken while on a journey across the plains from Washington to Genoa, Carson Valley, Utah Ter., 1858-1859.

Title: Notes taken while on a journey across the plains from Washington to Genoa, Carson Valley, Utah Ter., 1858-1859.

Diary, Apr. 11, 1858-Oct. 25, 1859, kept as scientific assistant on Captain J.H. Simpson's expedition to Utah and across the Great Basin from Camp Floyd to Genoa, and return to Washington, D.C., with sojourns at Fort Bridger, Camp Floyd and Genoa.

ArchivalResource: Partial microfilm reel (37 exposures) : negative (Rich. 112:8) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26798485 View

Lee, William. Notes taken by William Lee while on a journey across the plains, [19--?].

Title: Notes taken by William Lee while on a journey across the plains, [19--?].

Transcript of a journal kept by William Lee from April 11, 1858 to Oct. 25, 1859, while on Captain Simpson's expedition to Utah and across the Great Basin from Camp Floyd to Genoa, Nevada, returning to Washington, D.C. with sojourns at Fort Bridger, Camp Floyd and Genoa.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (57 leaves) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52635276 View

Kern, Richard H., 1821-1853. Letter : Santa Fe, N.M., to [Samuel George Morton, Philadelphia, Pa.], 1850 July 3-4.

Title: Letter : Santa Fe, N.M., to [Samuel George Morton, Philadelphia, Pa.], 1850 July 3-4.

July 3-4, 1850, letter from Kern in Santa Fe to Samuel George Morton, an eminent Philadelphia physician and naturalist, regarding his activities and interest in the archeology and ethnology of the Southwest.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (8 p.) ; 21 cm. + envelope

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38861639 View

Colby, R. Ames. Fort Snelling (Minn.) maps, 1815-1965.

Title: Fort Snelling (Minn.) maps, 1815-1965.

Maps, plans, and blueprints (78 items) of the fort, its buildings, the Fort Snelling Military Reservation, and its environs. Among them are photocopies and microform aperture cards from National Archives Record Groups 49, 75, 77, 92, and 94.

ArchivalResource: 13 folders, containing 123 items; 117 aperature cards.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313832072 View