Columbia Manuscript Collections

To William H. Bell, St. Louis Arsenal, from St. Louis Arsenal, January 8, 1849. Request for a discharge because his wife's poor health is adversely affected by undesirable living quarters. Detailed description of crowded, damp, unfinished living units.

Court order by Daniel Boone requiring Robert Mosby to pay James Meriwether for court attendance and traveling expenses in the case of Robert Mosby vs. Thomas Johnson and Henry Garrett, April 1787. Account receipt to Elizabeth Ash from Squire Boone, May 8, 1784. Includes positive and negative photostats.

Two letters (April 20 and June 18) from a schoolteacher in Saline County, MO, to George Peter of Darnestown, MD, describing life in central Missouri, including a cholera epidemic, opportunities for purchasing land and farming, politics, and teaching.

To Secretary of War [Jefferson Davis], Washington, D.C., from Jefferson City, MO, May 15, 1854.

Letter from Governor Sterling Price to Secretary of War Jefferson Davis requesting the delivery of eighty muskets and related material from the arsenal at St. Louis to Captain Madison Miller of St. Louis.

Miscellaneous church bulletins.

To Beverly [Thompson], [Arrow Rock, MO], from Boonville, [MO], Nov. 1, 1864. Horror of war in Missouri, "a bone of contention." Fire destroyed a block on Main Street in Boonville. General Price camped in Boonville, stripped town and country of cattle, forage, and staple goods. Best citizens have fled, friends joining both armies. Family information.

To William Carson, from Fayette, MO, Aug. 12, 1841. Informs Carson that Claiborne Fox Jackson wants to hire Ben for two months at $12.50 per month, and Jackson will provide clothes.

Pension papers of the widow of Lewis P. Elson, a private in Company I, 49th Missouri Volunteer Infantry.

Barton writes that he is unable to "go to Fayette, St. Louis or Kaskaskia" since he wishes "to visit in a S.W. direction." He also writes that he is "willing to resume [Alcorn] or Hickman," at Hayden's option. Barton was one of the first U.S. senators from Missouri, serving from 1821 to 1831.

Tornado policy on house for Archibald McLemone with the Home Insurance Company, New York, 1886-1891. Fire and lightning insurance for Jasper S. McConnell on horses, mules, and dwelling house with the Farmer's Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Dade County, MO, 1910-1915, 1917-1922.

Chattel mortgage for stock and farm machinery to Triplett of Triplett, Chariton County, MO, from Jeff Pennington, Carroll County, MO, 5 August 1899, and thirty-eight promissory notes to Triplett.

Biographical sketches of Schenck and John S. McCune. Letter to Anna McCune proposing marriage. Schenck's resignation as superintendent of the Female Hospital, St. Louis. Scrapbook of McCune-Schenck clippings and family photographs.

Diaries written by Fike while a student in McKendree College, IL; while a soldier in the Civil War; and about his migration to and life in Warrensburg, MO, and his work in Kansas City, MO, and various cities in the West.

Diaries written by Miss Fike while a student at the State Normal School at Warrensburg, MO, and during her post-graduate life at home and at work.

The papers of Charles and Elizabeth Schwartz document their lives as wildlife conservationists and enthusiasts in Missouri. The collection contains the manuscript of The Wild Mammals of Missouri, published articles and newspapers, artwork, research, and photographs.

Accounts due, personal notes, inventories of land held in Boone and contiguous counties, rents received for the hiring out of enslaved individuals, salaries paid out, lists of production of tobacco of slaves for two years, and personal letters to family and friends.

Letters written to Major Robinett's family during World War II, while he served with the 3rd Division, Marine Corps, in New Zealand and the Pacific. Also a biographical sketch.

Papers of a Democratic governor of Missouri, 1949-1953. Includes correspondence, reference material, speeches, and miscellaneous material.

Medical account books and records of a general practitioner in Nevada, MO. Descriptions of service, medication, fee, and amounts paid. Notes on drugs, metric charts, obstetrics records and records of births and vaccinations.

Miscellaneous correspondence, legal papers, photographs, genealogy, mementos, accounts, books, and diary of Fannie Blair Long and family. Includes settlement of Isaac Long estate, Keswick, VA.

Correspondence and records of budgets, income and expenditures. Requests by departments for funds, and allocations or refusals by committee. Payment vouchers to guest lecturers and annual reports of committee.

Correspondence and other papers of a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from New Hampshire. Arranged chronologically.

Correspondence and official reports relating to the standards and accreditation of Missouri schools and junior colleges. Relate to entrance requirements, curriculum, and faculty standards. Claude A. Phillips, chairman.

Three manuscripts by Alta S. Coggins, pen name Carolyn Coggins. CAROLYN COGGINS' COMPANY COOKBOOK, SUCCESSFUL ENTERTAINING AT HOME, LANCE AND HIS FIRST HORSE.

Newspaper clippings, unpublished articles, and miscellaneous notes by Parry while International News Service foreign correspondent in Japan.

Minutes of Advisory Council meetings and reports from Scope Committees and Advisory Council board of directors relating to enrollment, curriculum, budget, and research, 1953-1960. Correspondence and bulletins on agricultural programs and alumni awards.

Papers relating to procurement and distribution of U.S. Army surplus equipment, 1946. Arrangements and itinerary for commencement day, 1950.

Papers and correspondence relating to coordination of the Visiting Asian Professors' Program. Annual reports, recommendations, orientation, schedules, and financial arrangements. Arthur J. Robins, School of Social Work, University of Missouri, was coordinator.

Remarks of the Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives at the opening session of the 73rd General Assembly, Jefferson City, January 6, 1965.

Necrology presented as part of the program of recognition by the College of Agriculture faculty honoring former employees, 20 November 1962.

Papers of a feature writer for Universal News Service, women's editor for Associated Press, columnist for Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, assistant professor of journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia, editor of the Missouri Republican, and freelance writer. Material on ghostwriting assignments and freelance articles for newspapers and magazines.

Letters from Neil A. Baker, Confederate soldier, to his wife, Sarah Jane Baker, and his daughter, Emma, Chatham County, NC, November 1861 to February 1863.

Correspondence between three Confederate soldiers, their father, Allen K. Jones of Jacks Creek, TN, and friends in Tennessee.

Civil War letters by Union and Confederate soldiers, battle report, 1861, and directive, 1860.

Catalogues, graduation certificate, and papers concerning Butler, IL, public school system.

Copies of form letters and contracts used by the South-Western Stage Company. Includes rules and regulations for road agents, station agents, drivers, shopmen, and barnmen.

Papers of Quartermaster's Department, Philadelphia, PA.

Four notebooks compiled while a candidate for a B.S. degree at the University of Missouri. Lectures by David R. McAnally, English history; Joseph G. Norwood, physics; Samuel S. Laws, metaphysics; and George C. Swallow, zoology.

Correspondence and business papers of Lawrence Derby Bass and Abraham E. Ellis of Boone County, Missouri.

Copy of keynote address of Congressman Thomas B. Curtis of Missouri's 2nd District, made at the Republican State Convention.

Includes press release summarizing the speech.

One poster, "Vote 'No' for Governor," used as campaign literature during the Missouri Democratic Primary, 1964.

Copies of letters from Robert A. Rowland to his wife Olive in Howard County, MO, while he was enroute (1849) and in California (1850) and during his imprisonment and banishment to Illinois during the Civil War. Also includes miscellaneous letters from other family members and newspaper article describing death of and memorial services for I.N. Rowland (1893).

A memorial necrology published by the University of Missouri honoring students and alumni who died in the service of the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II.

Booklet of the proceedings of the Forest Land Use Conference, held in Washington, D.C.

Papers concerning policy and programs of Agricultural Extension Service. Includes history of the Agricultural Extension Service and statement of policy and function of the College of Agriculture, University of Missouri.

Recollections of formative work in developing farm management at the University of Missouri and in the county extension service. Account of the development of the Doane Agricultural Service, of Doane's work for the Hoover Commission, and of the investigation of federally supported research.

Speeches and miscellaneous reports by Kelleter, forest supervisor of Clark National Forest, MO, concerning the U.S. Forest Service in Missouri, with emphasis on the Clark National Forest and rehabilitation of the Ozark region.

To his children from Stanford, Lincoln County, KY, n.d.

Concerning his health, family news, and death of family friend. Reports that Wendford Kinley had returned from a trip to Missouri, no details of trip. Awaits letter.

Miscellaneous papers about the ceremony to commemorate the Chamizal Convention of 1963, which settled the border dispute between Mexico and the U.S. over the Chamizal area.

Copies of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and miscellany concerning Chomeau, Roswell M. Field and Eugene Field, activities at the University of Missouri, and social gossip.

To Walter Williams, Columbia, MO, from Cape Girardeau, MO, Feb. 16, 1910.

Houck sent Williams Spanish documents relating to Missouri and a complimentary copy of his book, SPANISH REGIME IN MISSOURI. No enclosures now with letter.

Military motorcycle permit.

To Abraham and Elizabeth Sublett, from Todd County, Minnesota, 22 May 1883. Letter to aunt and uncle regarding going to spend the summer trading with the Indians in Canada.

Photograph of portrait of the Reverend John Lathrop, ancestor of John Hiram Lathrop (1799-1866), president of the University of Missouri, 1841-1849, 1865-1866. Genealogical data on Lathrop family written on back.

Photograph of the jury that acquitted Frank James at Gallatin, MO.

Mock initiation certificate of the Order of the Deep; U.S. Naval Academy graduation diploma; two U.S. Navy commission certificates; and photograph of U.S. ships WYOMING, UTAH, and DELAWARE.

Reports by President Richard Henry Jesse to the Board of Curators and its executive board, January 1893-December 1894.

Miscellaneous correspondence concerning families in Ohio, Michigan, Vermont, and Missouri relating to family and social gossip, weather, livestock, crops, road construction, and teaching in a private school.

The collection contains minutes concerning the election of delegates to the Callaway County convention and of candidates for township offices.

The collection contains pamphlets, handbills, broadsides, and form letters issued by opponents and supporters of the proposed constitution, 1945. The material was issued by the Missouri Committee for the New Constitution and the Association Against the Proposed Constitution.

The papers of the Royal D.M. Bauer family contain miscellaneous legal and personal papers relating to the Royal D.M. Bauer, Edward Clark Bauer, and S. John Anderson families.

The papers of Andrew J. Knight contain miscellaneous legal papers concerning the purchase and transfer of land in Kirksville, Adair County, MO, and Lawrence County, Dakota Territory. Also included are poems and essays.

The records of the University of Missouri Department of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology primarily contain correspondence of Homer E. Dale, chairman of the department.

The papers of O.T. Coleman contain speeches and articles by a soil specialist with the Agricultural Extension Service of the University of Missouri and director of Missouri county soil testing laboratories.

The papers of William Jasper Spillman contain correspondence and papers concerning the establishment of the William J. Spillman Farm Management Fund at the University of Missouri. Also included are two unpublished calculus manuscripts by W.J. Spillman.

World War I military papers of a member of the U.S. Army Medical Reserve Corps.

The papers of the Missouri Society for Sociology and Anthropology contain correspondence, newsletters, and programs concerning the formal organization of the Society and its annual meetings.

Personal and public papers. Emphasis is on John Deere and Company, agricultural problems and legislation in the 1920s and 1930s, and foreign trade policies of the New Deal. Also material concerning America First, Republican Party politics, and Peek's post World War I reconstruction activities.

Papers of a Democratic governor of Missouri, 1957-1961.

The collection contains an account book of an Arrow Rock, MO, grocery and dry goods merchant. The book also contains recipes and newspaper clippings regarding weddings and deaths of prominent Saline County citizens, 1881-1904.

Papers of University of Missouri administrator Thomas A. Brady, including copies of speeches, programs from speaking engagements, and correspondence regarding such events.

Family papers of Brown family of Ashland, Centralia, and Hartsburg, MO, including birth, marriage, and death records. Records removed from mutilated Bible, New Liberty Baptist Church, Ashland, MO.

Dance program, diagram of order of dances, list of chaperones, and list of dance committee members.

Correspondence between H.H. Page, Bates County farmer, and various state and federal officials. Page complains of suspected communist sympathies and activities of displaced persons employed on his farm.

Minutes of committee of six members of the Board of Curators appointed to select the location of the proposed School of Mines and Metallurgy, 6 October-9 December 1870.

The papers of the Jackson and related families of Barry County, Missouri, contain land deeds, tax receipts, correspondence, and ledger entries.

To Thomas Blount, Nov. 24, 1807.

Letter to chairman of congressional committee on aggressions from secretary of the Navy concerning corrections of errors and an omission in previous report to Blount concerning the Chesapeake-Leopard affair, June 22, 1807.

Pamphlet edited by the League of Women Voters, Columbia, MO, 1965. Includes list of recreational facilities and organizations, outlines needs of Columbia, and suggests solutions.

Profile of a nutritionist and home economist who was first chief of the Bureau of Home Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1923-1943. The biographical sketch was contributed by E. Neige Todhunter to the JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION. Also announcement of presentation of the Mary Rourke Memorial Award to nutritionist Doris Lauder.

Eight diaries and various diary pages of a corporal in Company K, Indiana Infantry, 20th Regiment. The last Diary contains entries about life in Topeka, KS, 1912-1913. Bound copy of diary edited by the Wilsons in WHMC reference library.

See also collection 169, James C. Stephens Papers, 1863-1875.

"The Doings of the Daughters," satirical minutes of the Columbia, MO, circle written and submitted by Mrs. John Rogers (Betty) Cockran, October 13, 1965.

Printed notices of funerals of James Brannum and William S. Stone.

To Walter Williams, Washington, D.C., from Washington, D.C., Apr. 27, 1931.

Regrets not being able to see Williams. Acknowledges his note and sends copy of National Geographic's book on Washington. Reference to future "more complete" issue on Washington. No enclosures are now with the letter.

Two electrical engineering diplomas issued to Fyfer by the Department of Engineering, University of the State of Missouri, June 1893. Diplomas signed by R.H. Jesse, president, and faculty member of the departments of engineering, physics and math.

Degrees granted by the University of Missouri: Doctor of Medicine issued to Samuel H. Sutherland, 1886; Bachelor of Letters and teaching certificate issued to Virginia Sutherland, 1896; and Bachelor of Laws issued to Charles Elmer Covert, 1897. Also a certificate of attendance, Bible College of Missouri, 1897; and photograph of University of Missouri School of Law class, 189[6].

Teaching diploma issued to Frank R. Austin by the College of Normal Instruction, University of the State of Missouri, June 1875. Diploma signed by E.Z. Ripley, principal, and Daniel Read, president.

The collection contains three bills for use in Japan during American occupation following World War II.

The papers of Laura Redden Searing, a poet and author whose works appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines, consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and Searing’s writings.  Also included are correspondence, publicity clippings, and photographs of Searing’s daughter, Elsa Searing McGinn.

Correspondence of the Office of Food Purchasing Agent, Central Food Stores. Chief correspondent is Ollie B. Robinson, food purchasing agent and assistant to the director of purchasing.

The Dougherty letter book contains letters from Dougherty, fur trader, interpreter, and Upper Missouri Indian agent, to William Clark, superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis, various U.S. Army officers, Indian agents, interpreters and fur traders, U.S. War and Treasury Department officials, Missouri politicians, and private citizens.

The collection contains poems, receipts, documents, newspapers and correspondence concerning business, law, appointments, teaching, politics, insurance, pensions, land, health, cholera, medicine, weather, news of friends and relatives, degrees, autographs, letter of introduction, and the Civil War: secession, orders and battles.

Family papers of a resident of Albemarle County, VA. Three letters and two receipts concerning accounts, hiring employees, and local and family news.

Fourteen letters solicited, 1854-1858, by D.L. Perkins for their autograph value from cabinet members, U.S. senators and representatives, U.S. Supreme Court justice and university presidents. 1827 letter is a recommendation of Perkins by Francis Wayland, president of Brown University.

Document confirming John Riddle's claim to land in St. Louis, MO, under the 1815 Act of Congress aiding the victims of the 1811-1812 New Madrid, MO, earthquakes.

Three letters concerning a dispute over a New Madrid land grant, certificate #204, claimed by Raphael Lesieur.

Two letters between Samuel Shepard of Selma, AL, and his brother, John A., of Norfolk, CT. They concern business, family, friends, health and the life of a Yankee peddler in Alabama. Negative photostats.

Bill of lading issued to Samuel Shepard by Saxton & Webb, New York, for a shipment of clocks.

The papers of Charles P. Leverich contain three letters to Leverich from New Orleans, concerning business, sugar market, frost, and the shipment and insurance of liquors.

Letters to the editor and publisher of NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER, Baltimore, MD, from northeastern congressmen requesting reports of the tariff convention in New York, 1831. Also a letter from Louisiana requesting Niles to mention the state's efforts towards improvements.

Letters to J.S. Edwards, U.S. Commissioner of Pensions, from U.S. congressmen concerning pension problems of their constituents.

Letters of J.C. Spencer to John V.S. Pruyn, lawyer in New York, concerning land, costs, and the release of Mrs. James's dower. Also a letter written by Spencer while secretary of the treasury concerning a deposit with a pension agent in Albany, NY.

Two documents concerning the transfer of land title by Elias Barcroft to Elias Rector for Amos Rawls in the Missouri Territory, 1817. One document has a notation that it was recorded in the Saline County, MO, court, 1837.