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Henry Clay Family Papers, 1732-1927, (bulk 1814-1852)

Title: Henry Clay Family Papers 1732-1927 (bulk 1814-1852)

Personal, official, and family correspondence, speeches, writings, business records, legal files, biographical material, printed matter, and other papers chiefly documenting the public career and private life of statesman Henry Clay (1777-1852), United States secretary of state and representative and senator from Kentucky; his son, James B. Clay (1817-1864), diplomat, United States representative from Kentucky, and Confederate sympathizer; and other members of Henry Clay's family.

ArchivalResource: 18,850 items; 75 containers; 30 linear feet; 24 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000010 View

LeConte, John L. (John Lawrence), 1825-1883. Papers, 1812-1897

Title: John L. (John Lawrence) LeConte papers, 1812-1897

This collection contains mostly entomological material, with much information on the description and identification of particular insects, entomological collections, and the study of entomology in Europe and the United States. In addition, there are materials on medicine and hospitals during the American Civil War, on the Corps of Topographical Engineers, the United States Army, on natural history in the United States, and on the LeConte's family. Some letters are written to President Rutherford B. Hayes and concern the Commissionership of Agriculture, for which LeConte was considered, but not appointed. Letters of John Eatton LeConte and Joseph LeConte are included.

ArchivalResource: 7.7 Linear feet, Ca. 1900 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.L493-ead.xml View

Doane, Gustavus Cheyney, 1840-1892. Fort Ellis and Gustavus C. Doane collection, 1865-1930.

Title: Fort Ellis and Gustavus C. Doane collection, 1865-1930.

Papers collected by the Museum of the Rockies pertaining to both Fort Ellis and Lt. Doane, including the complete handwritten report of Doane regarding the Howgate expedition of 1880; quartermaster and ordnance returns from the 2nd Cavalry signed by Doane and Lt. E.J. McClernand at various posts including Fort Ellis and Fort Maginnis, Montana Territory, and the Presidio, San Francisco, Calif.; military returns from the 1st battalion, Mississippi Marine Brigade (1865-1867); ledger book (1876) from John H. Kuhle, Fort Ellis; file of correspondence by Mary H. Doane; and various printed materials pertaining to military matters and the Grand Army of the Republic.

ArchivalResource: 0.8 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70923547 View

Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926. Letter : Washington, D.C., to Wayne MacVeagh, Washington, D.C., 1881 Oct. 13.

Title: Letter : Washington, D.C., to Wayne MacVeagh, Washington, D.C., 1881 Oct. 13.

Letter signed. Relates to the prosecution of Captain [Henry William] Howgate.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81403102 View

Gustavus C. Doane Papers, 1860-1939

Title: Gustavus C. Doane Papers 1860-1939

The Gustavus C. Doane Papers consist of personal and military correspondence, orders, reports, property returns, receipt books, research notes; and photographs. Subjects to which the papers pertain are: Indian wars including the Sioux, Nez Pearce, and Apache; the exploration of the Rocky Mountain area, especially Yellowstone National Park, the Snake River, and the Judith Basin areas; the Howgate polar expedition of 1880; the development and promotion of the Doane Centennial Tent; the history of the Second United States Cavalry.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv78588 View

Charles Babbage selected correspondence, 1827-1871, 1827-1871

Title: Charles Babbage selected correspondence, 1827-1871 1827-1871

Mentioned in these letters are personal affairs, experiments, Babbage's calculating machine, and his "Bridgewater Treatise," second edition.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Microfilm reel(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.H.S.Film.15-ead.xml View

Doane, Gustavus Cheyney, 1840-1892. Gustavus C. Doane papers, 1860-1939.

Title: Gustavus C. Doane papers, 1860-1939.

Personal and military correspondence, orders, reports, property returns, receipt books, and research notes.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154689161 View

Howgate, Henry W. The genesis of an Arctic expedition : a narrative of the preliminary work of the American Arctic Expedition of 1881, 1881.

Title: The genesis of an Arctic expedition : a narrative of the preliminary work of the American Arctic Expedition of 1881, 1881.

Typescript of Howgate's report, in which he describes his activities related to the planning of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-1884. Includes an addendum by Ida Howgate.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.2 ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42068888 View

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874

Title: Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Letters to Charles Sumner, lawyer, Republican senator from Massachusetts, and anti-slavery campaigner; with a smaller number of letters from Sumner to others.

ArchivalResource: 33 cartons (43.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00232/catalog View

United States. Army. Signal Corps. Division of Telegrams and Reports for the Benefit of Commerce and Agriculture. U.S. Signal Office circulars, 1870-1873.

Title: U.S. Signal Office circulars, 1870-1873. [1870-1873]

ArchivalResource: 2 v. ; 21- 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46980832 View

Fort Ellis and Gustavus C. Doane Collection, 1865-1930

Title: Fort Ellis and Gustavus C. Doane Collection 1865-1930

The Fort Ellis and Gustavus C. Doane Collection contains papers collected by the Museum of the Rockies pertaining to both Fort Ellis and Lieutenant Doane, including: the complete handwritten report of Doane regarding the Howgate expedition of 1880; quartermaster and ordnance returns from the Second Cavalry signed by Doane and lieutenant E.J. McClernand at various posts including Fort Ellis and Fort Maginnis, Montana Territory, and the Presido, San Francisco, California; military returns from the first battalion Mississippi Marine brigade 1865-1867; prescription book from Dr. John H. Kuhle, Fort Ellis, 1876; file of correspondence by Mary L. Doane; various printed materials pertaining to military matters and the Grand Army of the Republic.

ArchivalResource: .8 linear feet

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv88983 View

Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871. Selected correspondence, 1827-1871.

Title: Selected correspondence, 1827-1871.

Mentioned in these letters are personal affairs, experiments, Babbage's calculating machine, and his "Bridgewater Treatise," second edition.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17270536 View