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Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Francis W. Squires diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1638
Scope and content

Diaries are concerned with family affairs, farm work, rural social life, politics, genealogy, the author's service in the Union Army during the Civil War, and his duties as a Justice of the Peace; include daily notations on temperature, humidity, rainfall and other changes in the weather.

Dates: 1840-1897.

Gerard Hendrik Matthes papers

 Collection — Box 43: [Barcode: 31924113866549]
Identifier: 3017
Abstract

Professional papers of Gerard Hendrik Matthes, a hydraulic engineer and member of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Dates: 1822-1957.

Howe family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6373
Abstract

Correspondence from Almon A. Jaynes to Grace Howe. WWI letters to Grace Howe from a number of soldiers. Twenty-six daily diaries of Grace Howe, 1905-1935. Photographs of Grace Howe, her sister Josephine Howe, A. A. Jaynes, among others.

Dates: 1861-1935.

John P. Sanderson diary

 Collection — Manuscript box 33 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065253936]
Identifier: 1232
Scope and content A typescript of the diary of Col. John P. Sanderson who served in the 13th Infantry Division of the United States Army during the Civil War. It includes accounts of the role he and his division played in the Kentucky and Tennessee campaigns in 1863. A large portion of the diary is devoted to his description of the Battle of Chickamauga. Also of interest are Sanderson's assessments of such prominent figures of the period as James A. Garfield, U. S. Grant, and Abraham Lincoln. The diary...
Dates: 1863-1864.

Teed family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064926136]
Identifier: 2110
Scope and content

Four diaries, 1864, 1865, 1867, and 1892, of Alonzo D. Teed, Union Army soldier; one letter and receipts concerning his duties as a collector of school taxes, 1868. Also, three unidentified diaries, 1868, 1890, and 1892, of a relative or associate of Teed's; and two account books listing dry goods and other sales and purchases.

Dates: 1864-1908.

Willard Dickerman Straight papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1260
Abstract

Microfilmed papers of Willard D. Straight consist of personal and official correspondence, both original and typescript copies, and reports chiefly concerning his association with the Chinese Imperial Customs Service (1902-04). Documented is his employment with Reuters during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05); with the United States Department of State in Korea and Manchuria (1904-09); and with Edward H. Harriman, Jacob H. Schiff, and J.P. Morgan and Company (1904-09).

Dates: 1825-1925.