A brief but interesting letter from an important period in US–Indian relations, with mention of William Clark. George Gibson, then the Commissary General of Subsistence responsible for feeding the military, informs Lieutenant A.M. Wright that “deputation of Indians amounting to 28 persons will pass Mackinw on their return from the.....
![Item #5920 Historical Notes of Burlington [Connecticut.] Written by J.C. Hart in 1871, formerly a...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5920_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1603137583)
An archive of materials bearing on the early history of Burlington, Connecticut, particularly interesting for its accounts of many citizens of whom little or nothing would otherwise be known. At the center of this archive is the manuscript text Historical Notes of Burlington by one Mr. J. C. Hart (1792–1881).....
Muster roll of the 3rd Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, a unit celebrated for doing battle with the famed Quantrill’s Raiders in the Department of Missouri during the US Civil War. Listed here are the names of two Medal of Honor Recipients, the brothers James and George Pond. As a family the.....
![Item #3904 The Making of an American. [With two autograph letters inserted]. Jacob A. Riis](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3904_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1560462960)
The autobiography of social reformer Jacob Riis, along with two letters from Riis to influential Ellis Island immigration doctor Victor Safford. First published in 1901, this is a 1902 printing. Riis’s autobiography begins with his youth in Denmark (including his initially one-sided bond with his beloved wife Elizabeth), and his.....
![Item #2806 [Letter of Invitation to Sam Houston]. John Willis](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2806_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1560462958)
An intriguing letter to Sam Houston as a U.S. Senator, from a party of Virginia democrats, docketed by Houston. This is an ostensibly routine invitation to a July 28th and 29th 1848 mass meeting at the Orange Co., Virginia Court House, written by several prominent Virginia Democrats. Though the real.....