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United States. Board of Choctaw Commissioners. Letter : Yazoo, Mississippi, to the President of the United States, 1844 Dec.

Title: Letter : Yazoo, Mississippi, to the President of the United States, 1844 Dec.

Bound holograph draft of a letter to President John Tyler regarding the claims of the Choctaw Indians under the 1830 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, and the difficulties encountered in removing all the Indians to the west. Contains considerable revisions to the text throughout.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (23 p.)

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Rush, Samuel,. Notebook, 1859.

Title: Notebook, 1859.

This notebook contains short essays on various topics, such as public singers ("the Mountebanks of the Voice"), the embarrassments of public men (Daniel E. Sickles and Philip Barton Key), songs, wit, wealth, suicide, Benjamin Rush, "that little sneak Kossuth," and modern authors ("the present wretches of the pen").

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 116 p.).

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Occasional glimpses at the world, 1824, 1824

Title: Occasional glimpses at the world,1824 1824

In this volume Rush comments on persons and events of the time, mentioning Robert Walsh, John Vaughan, Lafayette, James Rush, Peter S. Du Ponceau, and William Currie. Rush also comments on the Franklin Institute, and the American Philosophical Society.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Volume(s), 1 volume, 156 p.

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United States. Board of Choctaw Commissioners. Letter : Yazoo, Mississippi, to the President of the United States, 1844 Dec.

Title: Letter : Yazoo, Mississippi, to the President of the United States, 1844 Dec.

Bound holograph draft of a letter to President John Tyler regarding the claims of the Choctaw Indians under the 1830 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, and the difficulties encountered in removing all the Indians to the west. Contains considerable revisions to the text throughout.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (23 p.)

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United States. Board of Choctaw Commissioners. United States Board of Choctaw Commissioners papers, 1844-1881 (bulk 1844-1845).

Title: United States Board of Choctaw Commissioners papers, 1844-1881 (bulk 1844-1845).

Autograph draft letters, reports, decisions, petitions, and a portion of daily proceedings and hearings of the U.S. Board of Choctaw Commissioners, most of them in the hand of Samuel Rush and written at Yazoo, Mississippi. Seven holograph draft letters, six of them written by the Board in 1844-1845, to other attorneys, the Attorney General, the President of the United States, the latter in the form of a report of the commission. One letter, dated 1881 Jul 12, is a cover letter from the Secretary of the Interior to the Attorney General forwarding a petition of the Choctaw Indians, which is not present. The drafts of petitions and opinions (1845 and undated) contain the Commission's questions for the Attorney General, and the opinion of the Attorney General, concerning powers of attorney made by Choctaw claimants. The daily record of proceedings and hearings begins on Jan. 30, 1845 (page 264) and goes through the end of the Commission's work on June 17, 1845 (page 380). Accompanied by a subscription for Old Uncle Aaron, headed by a sketch of a man driving a cart, dated Dec 16 1844.

ArchivalResource: 0.21 linear ft. (1 box)

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Samuel Rush notebook, 1859, 1859

Title: Samuel Rush notebook, 1859 1859

This notebook contains short essays on various topics, such as public singers ("the Mountebanks of the Voice"), the embarrassments of public men (Daniel E. Sickles and Philip Barton Key), songs, wit, wealth, suicide, Benjamin Rush, "that little sneak Kossuth," and modern authors ("the present wretches of the pen").

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Volume(s), 1 volume, 116 p.

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Rush, Samuel, 1795-1859. Occasional glimpses at the world, 1824.

Title: Occasional glimpses at the world, 1824.

In this volume Rush comments on persons and events of the time, mentioning Robert Walsh, John Vaughan, Lafayette, James Rush, Peter S. Du Ponceau, and William Currie. Rush also comments on the Franklin Institute, and the American Philosophical Society.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (156 p.).

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William L. Clements Library. Richard Rush papers, 1812-1856.

Title: Richard Rush papers, 1812-1856.

The Richard Rush papers contain the incoming and outgoing correspondence of Richard Rush, on topics such as the War of 1812, family news, and political views.

ArchivalResource: 31 items.

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United States. Board of Choctaw Commissioners. United States Board of Choctaw Commissioners papers, 1844-1881 (bulk 1844-1845).

Title: United States Board of Choctaw Commissioners papers, 1844-1881 (bulk 1844-1845).

Autograph draft letters, reports, decisions, petitions, and a portion of daily proceedings and hearings of the U.S. Board of Choctaw Commissioners, most of them in the hand of Samuel Rush and written at Yazoo, Mississippi. Seven holograph draft letters, six of them written by the Board in 1844-1845, to other attorneys, the Attorney General, the President of the United States, the latter in the form of a report of the commission. One letter, dated 1881 Jul 12, is a cover letter from the Secretary of the Interior to the Attorney General forwarding a petition of the Choctaw Indians, which is not present. The drafts of petitions and opinions (1845 and undated) contain the Commission's questions for the Attorney General, and the opinion of the Attorney General, concerning powers of attorney made by Choctaw claimants. The daily record of proceedings and hearings begins on Jan. 30, 1845 (page 264) and goes through the end of the Commission's work on June 17, 1845 (page 380). Accompanied by a subscription for Old Uncle Aaron, headed by a sketch of a man driving a cart, dated Dec 16 1844.

ArchivalResource: 0.21 linear ft. (1 box)

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