Letters and documents of Harry Balfe, 1837-1935.

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Letters and documents of Harry Balfe, 1837-1935.

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The majority of the items are about the Panama Canal. There are nine letters; which were written by William McKinley's secretary George B. Courtelyou; chief engineer of the Panama Canal George W. Goethals; Admiral George Dewey; President Theodore Roosevelt; William Howard Taft (as Secretary of War); Reverend J. F. Carson of Brooklyn, New York; and Will Rogers. The letters are arranged alphabetically by author (some of them are facsimile copies). There are a few items about horse showing including a photograph of a horse and two awards won by Balfe's horse "Maximum" in 1915 (given by the National Horse Show Association of America). The ephemera includes Balfe's passport (1914), a newspaper clipping, and a document appointing Tom Wentz Balfe to Captain in the US Army Chemical Warfare Service (1918).

16 items, several are facsimiles.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Rogers, Will, 1879-1935

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Goethals, George W. (George Washington), 1858-1928

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Born in 1858 in Brooklyn, New York, Goethals graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1880. Goethals was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1907 when he was appointed chief engineer for the construction of the Panama Canal.. Under his management construction was completed in 1914, about one year early. From the guide to the George Washington Goethals Letter MSS. 0575., 1918 March 27, (University Libraries Division of Special Collecti...

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Carson, J. F. (John Fleming), 1860-1927

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