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Loomis, Augustus Ward. Augustus Ward Loomis papers, 1803-1897.

Title: Augustus Ward Loomis papers, 1803-1897.

Collection includes letters to relatives in Cazenovia, New York, from Augustus Ward Loomis and his wife, Mary Ann, Presbyterian missionaries to Chekiang Province, China (1845-1849), Indian Territory (1852), and to the Chinese in San Francisco (1865-1867). These letters are mainly concerned with the Loomis' religious views and activities, their impressions of the places to which they traveled, in particular Hong Kong, Canton, Chusan, and Ningpo, China; Chicago and Galesburg, Illinois; St. Charles, Missouri; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Cowetah and Tullahassee, Oklahoma; and with their evaluation of the Chinese and the Creek and Cherokee Indians. They also mention such events and issues as the defeat of Winfield Scott in the presidential election of 1852 and the election of Gerrit Smith to Congress in the same year, the volume of the migration to California and Oregon (1852-1853), the railroad fever in St. Louis (1853), the question of slavery and whether it was right to buy slaves and allow them to work for their freedom, the assassination of Lincoln, and the capture of Jefferson Davis. Also included are papers (1803-1849) of Ward's father, Seba Loomis, among them deeds for lands in Coventry, Connecticut, and Cazenovia, New York; a survey of his farm in Road Township, Madison County, New York; debtors' writs from Tolland County, Connecticut; a blacksmith's apprenticeship indenture from Windham County, Connecticut; and his will.

ArchivalResource: .4 cubic ft.

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OAC Review Index (University of Guelph). Private lives of Class '12 members, OAC Review, v.49, no.8, Midsummer 1937, p. 526-540, 542.

Title: Private lives of Class '12 members, OAC Review, v.49, no.8, Midsummer 1937, p. 526-540, 542. 1937.

ArchivalResource: 16 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/629703463 View

Dawson, William. Receipt for Thomas Jefferson's insurance policy with the Mutual Assurance Society [manuscript], n.d.

Title: Receipt for Thomas Jefferson's insurance policy with the Mutual Assurance Society [manuscript], n.d.

The receipt is agent William Dawson's copy of the Mutual Assurance Society policy held by Jefferson and acknowledged by Jefferson to be identical to his own.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647840597 View

Dawson, William. Papers, 1874-1989.

Title: Papers, 1874-1989.

Letters from William Dawson, Silver City, Idaho, to his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Dawson, England; and one letter from Mrs. Audrey Elizabeth Addeson, Edinburg, Scotland, to the editor of the Preston Citizen (Preston, Idaho) providing biographical information on William Dawson.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42927659 View

Cook, James, 1728-1779. Journal of H.M.S. Resolution [manuscript].

Title: Journal of H.M.S. Resolution [manuscript]. 1772-1775.

This copy is in the hand of Cook's clerk, William Dawson, and the title page records: "Captain James Cook's Voyage from The Year 1772 to July 1775 given to me by Himself, Bristol". (See J. C. Beaglehole ed. "The Journals of Captain James Cook" (1961), II, ccxxii.) This copy was presented to the National Library of Australia by H.M. King George VI to commemorate the proposed visit to Australia in 1952 by H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth and H.R.H. Duke of Edinburgh. The visit was cancelled because of the death of King George VI and the accession of Queen Elizabeth. Bound photocopy of manuscript journal (transcript) of second expedition to the Pacific in H.M.S. Resolution during which Cook discovered or re-discovered most of the Polynesian Islands and proved that the supposed Southern Continent could not exist north of Latitude 60D N.

ArchivalResource: 473 p. fol.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225836201 View

Cantwell, James, 1843-1922. Some memories of the handcart companies of 1856, 1856.

Title: Some memories of the handcart companies of 1856, 1856.

A handwritten reminiscence of Cantwell's journey with the 1856 Willie Handcart Company.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (65 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20804398 View

William Dawson scrapbook 1827 [manuscript]

Title: William Dawson scrapbook 1827 [manuscript]

One volume scrapbook in poor condition.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/726648841 View

Dawson, William. Memorandum of events on the North Australian Expedition [microform] : under the command of Augustus C. Gregory Esq. / by William Dawson, stockman in the service, 10 July 1855-31 March 1856.

Title: Memorandum of events on the North Australian Expedition [microform] : under the command of Augustus C. Gregory Esq. / by William Dawson, stockman in the service, 10 July 1855-31 March 1856. [1855-1857]

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/223018048 View

Dawson, William,. Receipt for Thomas Jefferson's insurance policy, n.d.

Title: Receipt for Thomas Jefferson's insurance policy, n.d.

The receipt is agent William Dawson's copy of the policy held by Jefferson and acknowledged by Jefferson to be identical to his own.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31448277 View