Mary Downing Barnes papers, 1890-1898.

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Mary Downing Barnes papers, 1890-1898.

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Correspondence concerning her historical researche, including letters from Hubert Howe Bancroft and others on his staff; notes and manuscripts of some of her writings on Indians and western history; newspaper clippings and articles; some reports written by her students at Stanford University; course materials for courses taught at Stanford; misc. pictorial material; index cards (bibliography ? contour map of Indian burial mount at Castro Station, Calif. (1893). Collection also includes: 2 letters to Earl Barnes, Mary's husband, one of which is from John Thomas Doyle; 4 letters to David Starr Jordan, President of Stanford University, from various individuals, including Edwin Allen Sherman; 2 letters to Prof. Walter Miller from Josephine D. Johnson; 1 letter from Will Sparks to Archie Rice; letter (contemporary copy) from Dr. W. J. Hall to Mrs. Hall, Pyong Yang [Korea], Oct. 8, 1894, containing descriptions of scenes of the Chinese-Japanese War which he had witnessed in his trip from Seoul to Pyon Yang. [From internal evidence it seems likely that Dr. Hall was a Christian missionary.].

1 carton, 1 box, 1 oversize folder.

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