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Letters (Correspondence)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 129 Collections and/or Records:

John K. Houston letters to George W. Shaw

 Collection
Identifier: M1611
Scope and Contents

Houston's letters from various camps and posts in California and New Mexico to George W. Shaw, lawyer in Geneseo, Ill., and friend from boyhood.

Dates: 1856-1874

John Lucian Savage Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M1713
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Collection contains a photocopy of letter written from China by Savage to friends, Charles and Eve Craig, describes his work in China.

Dates: 1944

John W. Cooper Letter to W. M. Newton

 Collection
Identifier: M909
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Collection contains a letter from Cooper to W. M. Newton describing early Denver, locations of businesses and streets circa 1859.

Dates: July 11, 1911

Judge Robert L. "Beau" Patterson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: ARL261
Scope and Contents

One OVBox with Judge Patterson's personal belongings (robes, gavel, nameplate). Includes correspondence, awards, event programs and articles.

Dates: 1986-2008

Julia Anna Archibald Holmes Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WH184
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Collection contains research material gathered by Agnes Wright Spring in editing the book: A bloomer girl on Pike's Peak, 1858 (Denver, Colo. : Western History Dept., Denver Public Library, c1949). Includes Mrs. Spring's notes and correspondence, typescript of the book, book reviews, and a radio play based on it by Myron Smith (University of Denver, 1950).

Dates: 1850-1950

Julia Brewster Douglas Letter to Ina T. Aulls, July 14, 1934

 Collection
Identifier: M199
Scope and Contents

Letter to Ina T. Aulls, Denver Public Library, July 14, 1934, tells about a monument near Evergreen, Colo. placed by Colorado Association of Nurserymen to honor C.C. Parry, the "real discoverer" of the Engelmann spruce.

Dates: July 14, 1934

Kemp Goodlow Cooper Letters to C. F. Brady, April 26 & May 1, 1887

 Collection
Identifier: M160
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Collection contains two letters from Kemp Goodlow Cooper, Denver, Colo. to C. F. Brady, Yuma & Hyde, Colo. (1887); letters on Denver Republican stationery to agent canvassing subscriptions and advertising in eastern Colorado. One mentions hiring of journalist Stanley Stokes to write a series of promotional articles.

Dates: 1887

L. R. Ogden Letter

 Collection
Identifier: M436
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Letter to Ogden in Englewood, Colo. from unidentified resident of Breckenridge, Colo. about Breckenridge businessman John Kleinfelter who made charms and stickpins from native gold; handwritten account of bicycle trip over Agentine Pass, including b&w image.

Dates: Check date

Letter

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS -M641
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Writes about Weld County, Colo. homesteader Katherine "Rattlesnake Kate" Slaughterback and encloses copy of his poem: Rattlesnake Kate's lament (originally written ca. 1909).

Dates: Check date

Letter, 1850 Nov. 17, Benicia, [Calif.] to John Caperton, San Francisco, Calif

 Collection
Identifier: C Mss -M397
Scope and Contents

Discusses his purchase of "one half of the Benicia Markett" and other financial matters.

Dates: Check date

Letter, 1854 Apr. 18, Bear Gulch, Santa Clara Redwoods, Calif., to his mother

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS -M535
Scope and Contents

Describes his life in San Francisco Bay region and ways of getting mail.

Dates: Check date

Letter, 1880 May 23

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS -M636
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Letter from Leadville, Colo. to his wife tells about journey from Denver to Buena Vista (the "end of the railroad") and then on to Leadville, where he got a job at 2 1/2 dollars a day. Leadville generally described as a "Dredfull wicked place" of saloons and gambling. However, he had attended a little Baptist church and felt he could "do without drink".

Dates: Check date

Letter, 1897 Sept. 22, Thomasville, Colo., to Wm. Carsin [i.e. Carson?], Aspen, Colo

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS -M649
Scope and Contents

Asks help in locating "Mr. Lawerance the engineer" to repair his mill.

Dates: Check date

Letter, 1904 Aug. 30, Washington, [D.C.] to Will [Bennett, Denver, Colo.

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS -M547
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Reminiscences about boyhood friends in Colorado including the Bennett boys. Mentions his own family and encloses photograph of Arbor Lodge in Nebraska City, Neb. (family home of his father J. Sterling Morton, founder of Arbor Day).

Dates: Check date

Letter, 1908 Sept.22, Montrose, Colo. to T.M. McKee, Atche[e], Colo

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS-M402
Scope and Contents

Writes to interest Tom McKee in locating and photographing grave of Ute chief Ouray. Mentions visiting site of the crimes of "Albert" Packer. Discusses a proposed "Santa Fe Trail" monument on Cochetopa Pass and a proposed automobile road from Pueblo to Gunnison, along with local news from Montrose.

Dates: Check date

Letter, 1917 April 1, San Antonio, to Edmund Seymour, New York City

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Identifier: C MSS -M414
Scope and Contents

Describes his part in the handcuffing of Billy the Kid at Mesilla, N.M. in March "1882" [i.e. 1881]. Later Jones helped prevent robbery of a stagecoach between Las Cruces and Rincon, N.M.

Dates: Check date

Letter, 1930 Aug. 18, Kansas City, Mo. to Comrade Dietriech [i.e. Dietrich?

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS -M613
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Letter discusses party activities in Colorado, Missouri, Utah, Wyoming.

Dates: Check date

Letter, 1944 Jan. 2, Los Angeles, to R.W. Hanington, Denver, Colo

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS -M612
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Letter describes Petersen's work in Aspen, Colo. 1914-1915 unwatering the Mollie Gibson, Free Silver, and Smuggler mines, properties of the Smuggler Leasing Company.

Dates: Check date

Letter, 1950 Mar. 9, Salt Lake City, to James Gehres, Nephi, Utah

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS -M454
Scope and Contents

Letter in response to high school student's inquiry about Utah gambling law.

Dates: Check date

Letter, 1955 June 4, Seattle, Wash. to Caroline Bancroft, Denver, Colo

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS -M616
Scope and Contents

Tells of his relatives John H. Pickel and Hugh C. McCammon at Caribou City and silver mine in Boulder County, Colo. 1869-1870.

Dates: Check date

Letter, 1968 Dec. 4, Washington, [D.C.] to James [i.e. John] T. Eastlick, Denver, Colo

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS-M405 M79-1452
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Letter on White House stationery thanking Librarian, Denver Public Library, for use of Wyer Auditorium to premiere the film: Not as a privilege.

Dates: Check date

Letter, 1973 Jan. 31, San Carlos, Ca. to Karl W. Mehlmann, Denver, Colo

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS -M600
Scope and Contents

Sends 1898 photo of Brown Palace Hotel, Denver, Colo. to the hotel general manager. Mentions his parents moving to Denver in 1880s.

Dates: Check date

Letter from George to Rhoda, July 10, 1871

 Collection
Identifier: M284
Scope and Contents

Letter from Greeley, Colorado Territory from a member of the locating committee for a "Milwaukee colony." Speculates on the possibility of raising stock in Colorado.

Dates: July 10, 1871

Letter from Muddy Creek, Colorado

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS -M550
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Informal family letter from Mary Jane to father & mother, brothers & sisters. Written on letterhead of J.J. Thomas, wholesale and retail dealer in coal, lime, brick, etc., South Pueblo, Colo. Printed on verso: Birds eye view of Pueblo, South Pueblo & Pueblo Colony, Colorado, 1874 ... Drawn and published by E.S. Glover, Colorado Springs.

Dates: Check date

Letter to Ann from Mollie

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS -M536
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Informal letter from Portland, Or. tells about keeping house, friends and family, and the independence of women.

Dates: Check date

Letters

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Identifier: C MSS -M614
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Writes to father in Ohio Telling of family (Wife carrie and baby, brother Clay), and farming activities.

Dates: Check date

Letters

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Identifier: C MSS -M546
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Letters to cousin Lottie in Spencer, N.Y. written from South Pass (1870) and Laramie City (1873), W.T. Tells about his mother's appointment as justice of the peace (the first woman so to serve).

Dates: Check date

Letters

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Identifier: C MSS -M639
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Three letters to his mother from the midwest, including one from Council Bluffs, Iowa (1859) on his way to the "Pikes Peak" mines. Two letters (1874) to his wife, written from Pueblo and Colorado Springs.

Dates: Check date

Letters, 1951 October 27 & November 20, Walden, Colorado, to Alys Freeze, Denver, Colorado

 Collection
Identifier: M30
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Two typed letters concern Dexter, Colo. and early North Park history. One of the letters is on the verso of a typed letter from Mrs. Freeze (Nov. 16, 1951).

Dates: 1951

Letters from Bill Nye to Major Pond

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS -M576
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Letters written on the lecture circuit to his agent and manager in New York. As a lecturer, Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye often appeared with Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley.

Dates: Check date