Columbia Manuscript Collections

The records contain a logbook of trips on the Missouri River, giving financial account, conditions, and distances of trips; an advertisement of trips to the Idaho gold fields. Consists of negative photostats and typed copies.

The collection contains one advertisement of New England Colony located in Daviess and Caldwell Counties, Missouri. Descriptions of crops, minerals, soils, climate, lumber, and price of land.

Copy of the notarization, recorder's statement for Cooper County, charter granted by the State of Missouri, and minutes of the board of directors' meeting, 3 March 1877.

To E.L. Pigg, Jefferson City, Missouri, from Washington, D.C., concerning early mail routes between Richmond and Liberty, Missouri. Includes a list of postmasters at Richmond, 1822-1935, and at Liberty, 1822-1934.

Unidentified record book listing amounts received from boarders, November 15, 1813-March 9, 1814, St. Louis. Reference to Colonel William H. Ashley.

A check written on the banker J.P. Richards, Hannibal, Missouri, for $600.

To a friend in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from Stockholm, Sweden, April 12, 1791. Description of a naval battle in which the Swedish fleet was victorious over Russian ships.

To his brother from Mexico, Oct. 23, 1846. Concerning the trip to Mexico and conditions there during the Mexican War.

A Revolutionary War bond issued by the State of Massachusetts Bay to Thomas Drowne for the price of thirteen pounds six shillings.

Bulletins entitled "Write Now," dealing with current problems and distributed by a nonprofit organization located in New York City.

Anatomical Record, published under auspices and support of Wistar Institute. Minutes of meetings with decisions on policies to be followed by Record editor; letter to Horace Jayne advising him of vote of thanks extended by editorial board for establishing Record and regretting his withdrawal; minutes of meeting held by editors; various journals published by Institute.

First-prize essays written in competition for the William Jennings Bryan Prize at the University of Missouri, 1901, 1902, 1906, 1908, 1909, 1913, 1914, and 1925.

The collection contains three essays submitted at the University of Missouri for the Oliver L. Steele Prize: Daniel L. Brennan, “The Obligations of American Citizenship;” Robert D. Watt, “The Social Obligations of American Citizenship;” and Mary Lois Pyles, “Social Obligations of American Citizenship.”

Essays submitted for the William S. Woods Prize at the University of Missouri.

Mimeographed reports prepared in cooperation with other agencies on various areas in Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkansas. Reports include descriptions of communities including population, facilities, and services available.

Account, tax and assessor record books of a Boone County, Missouri, farmer, lawyer, deputy sheriff, tax collector, sheriff, treasurer, representative, and Columbia mayor. Also includes the account book (1855-1858) of Thomas J. Gillaspy, constable of Jefferson Township, Monroe County, Missouri.

Printed minutes of bi-monthly meetings.

Minutes of meetings, records, and papers of the Board.

The records of the University of Missouri, College of Agriculture include records and correspondence of students, faculty, and the administration mostly during the tenure of Dean Frederick B. Mumford.  The records document programs such as Farmers’ Week, College exhibits at the Missouri State Fair, and cooperation with the U.S. Council of National Defense during World War I. 

A letter written to Mr. and Mrs. William Cave, Columbia, Missouri, from Chihuahua, Mexico, April 4, 1847. A soldier with Colonel Doniphan’s expedition into Mexico during the Mexican War describes army activities and general conditions. Also typed copy.

The scrapbook contains clippings from unidentified newspapers of the Civil War period largely concerning the Buchanan-Fillmore election, slavery, states’ rights, speeches, and other issues of the time.

Charter of a service club.

Picture of deep water commissioners leaving Kansas City on the MISSOURI on the way to St. Louis, 22 May 1923. Two photographs of an unidentified man.

Award given to the University of Missouri for its leaf tobacco exhibit.

Plats of village of Little Prairie, New Madrid District, 1806, and of town of New Madrid, 1810.

Printed history of church located in Dade County, MO, compiled at time of the centennial celebration. Includes lists of members, ministers, and elders and deacons. Also contains photographs and reminiscences of church events by members.

Financial records of a town and gown club.

Papers of a Missouri congressman (1885-1891), governor (1893-1897), and U.S. senator (1903-1918). Includes information on Stone's early career in Nevada, MO; the 1908 senatorial election; his senatorial career; and his death.

Series of love letters between Richard Harrison Gentry of Columbia, MO, and Mary Wyatt of Pinckney, MO. Includes one letter from Dorothy Gentry to her brother, Richard, while he was a student at the University of Arkansas in 1837.

To B. Frank Venable, Jefferson City, MO, from Washington, D.C., June 1, 1862.

Expresses concern over brother Robert, who is under the command of General Beauregard; speaks of daily visits of James S. Rollins, friend of her sister Vinnie; and refers to lack of gaiety and dances in Washington.

Contains baccalaureate and other addresses by President James Shannon of the University of Missouri, some correspondence on religious matters, and family history and genealogy.

Appointment to voter registration board of the 9th Senatorial District of Missouri and instructions to law officers on procedure to follow in registering white and African American voters in 1870, with emphasis on allowing African Americans to register if qualified.

Plat of the university showing buildings and streets. Buildings are numbered, but not named.

Bills of sale for property, cattle and enslaved people, tax receipts, court proceedings, bonds, and court testimony.

The papers contain records of fruit shipped from Federal Point, Florida, between 1880 and 1896. Also a mailing list dated 1907.

The collection contains notes on poultry production, probably from an agriculture course.

The records contain an official department record, 1912-1926; minutes of Missouri chapter of the American Chemical Society; notes on equipment of Schweitzer Hall; and minutes of Missouri Beta Chapter of Pi Delta Nu, women's chemistry organization.

Two letters written by B.V. Mayes, St. Louis, to his cousin Nancy McMahon in Henderson, KY. Both letters concern family matters and Mayes's dislike of St. Louis. He remarks on the absence of any American women in the city and on the poor living and working conditions he faces as a clerk in a mercantile house.

Pamphlet commemorating fiftieth anniversary of founding of bank. Includes biographical data on officers, history of bank, and photographs of officers, employees and facilities.

Announcements of policy and general information. Also some correspondence pertaining to the Western Historical Manuscripts Collection, directed by W. Francis English who later became dean of Arts and Science.

Information on Sample Orr and his family gathered by Justus R. Moll for the writing of an article. Orr, born in Tennessee, came to Missouri in 1852 and was the Constitutional Unionist candidate for governor in 1860. After the Civil War he moved to Montana and finally to Idaho. Correspondence is primarily between Moll and Orr's daughter, Katie Orr Chapman.

Correspondence, pictures, clippings, and pamphlets dealing with Henry George's theory of the single tax on land and how to apply it.

To Mary Fry from "Camp in the Wilderness," Aug. 21, 1862.

To his wife concerning personal matters and expressing the hope that the war will be over soon.

To Charles Haley, Sullivan County, MO, from Dade County, MO, Aug. 12, 1847. Tells his father about the condition of the land, and crops and timber in Dade County.

Four letters from relatives of Nancy McMahon, from Maury County, TN, and Henderson County, KY. Letters concern family matters. See also Mayes-McMahon Family, Letters, 1815-1816 (C0940).

Letters of the Imboden family in Lake Providence and Locust Grove, LA, to their Dunklin relations in Fredericktown, MO, concerning family matters. Also included is a store account, 1833, in the name of Captain John Dunklin.

Contains four deeds conveying property in Arkansas and Missouri: 1856, Polk County, MO; 1861, Benton County, AR; 1876, Independence County, AR; and 1882, Izard County, AR.

The papers contain two land deeds, one dated 1854 and signed by President Franklin Pierce, and the other dated 1860 and signed by President James Buchanan.

Inventory of Missouri murals, arranged alphabetically by county. Information includes location, owner, artist's name, date, dimensions, description and condition of mural, published material about the artist, and photographs.

Siegmar Muehl translated and edited the writings of Muench, who immigrated to the U.S. with the Giessen Emigration Society in 1834, and was a liberal thinker. He settled in Missouri, farmed, and wrote extensively. These papers contain translations as well as photocopies of Muench's work and are part of the German Heritage Archives.

"A New Map of the River Mississippi from the Sea to Bayagoulas," c. 1750.

Letter in response to an article, "Cowboy and Cattlemen," by Lewis Atherton in the MONTANA MAGAZINE, 1961. Robinett relates stories of early cattlemen he knew in Texas, particularly of one Bill Washington. Also Atherton's response.

Green Clay, a member of the U.S. foreign service, served as secretary of legations in St. Petersburg and later in London. His journal primarily contains description of various places in Russia and England. Clay also refers to "Lincoln's fratricidal war" and gives a lengthy description of Czar Alexander II.

Articles of association, by-laws, house rules, members, officers, and committees of a club to promote social intercourse and intellectual culture.

1885 bulletin of classes at the Akinsville Institute in Versailles, MO, and 1876 bulletin of the Hooper Institute in Clarksburg, MO.

Paper prepared for Professor R.C. Smith of the School of Forestry, University of Missouri. Includes photographs.

Letters pertain to the renting and selling of land in the Missouri Ozarks during the Great Depression years.

At age 24, Mary Dwight Eaman spent a year traveling around the world with her cousin, Mary A. Eaman. Traveling westward, they made stops in Hawaii, Japan, China, Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East, Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, and New York City. The journal, correspondence, photographs, and postcards in the collection relate specifically to this trip.

Medical course notebooks, miscellaneous course notes, and prescriptions of Isadore Anderson of Kansas City, Missouri. One notebook from 1910-1911 pertains to treatments given to his various patients.

To Lewis Atherton, Columbia, MO.

Recollections of lumbering activities in the Doniphan, MO, area.

Six fraternity newsletters issued by University of Missouri chapters of FarmHouse, Kappa Alpha, Alpha Tau Omega, Sigma Phi Epsilon, and Acacia.

Memoranda and correspondence concerning the establishment of the naval V-12 program at the University of Missouri during World War II.

The Junius L. Meriam Papers consist of photographs and a scrapbook primarily describing and depicting Meriam's views on elementary education. He was a professor at the University of Missouri School of Education and superintendent of the university laboratory schools from 1904-1924.

Record of court proceedings, marriages, and stray livestock. Cases concern settlement of debts, loan repayments, estates, land ownership, and assault and battery. Volume was begun by William H. Dunnica, the first justice of the peace (1821-1823), as a mercantile accounts record.

To [T.A. Brady, Columbia], MO, from [West Covina, CA], Nov. 7, 1962.

Letter about Mrs. Merrill's grandfather, Major James B. Ruckel, and his possible connection with the construction of the original University buildings.

Broadside setting forth the proceedings of the Texas meeting at the capital of Mississippi. General Quitman of the committee appointed to report resolutions expressive of the views of friends of reannexation of Texas, chaired the meeting.

Letters, reports, and legislative papers of a Democratic state representative from Boone County, 1949-1952, and state senator, 19th district, 1953-1960. In the 1960 Democratic primaries Spencer was an unsuccessful candidate for the attorney general nomination.

Correspondence, writings, and collected materials of Alvord, professor of history at the universities of Illinois and Minnesota; and his wife, writer and former curator of the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis. The collection includes territorial documents and Ste. Genevieve records; LIBERTY TRIBUNE papers; Missouri state and county records; and Civil War and military papers.

One-thousand-dollar bond.

Background on the prisoner George Ring, arrested in connection with cotton smuggling. Explains where his belongings can be found.

Letters pertaining to the Whig Party, particularly in Missouri. Originals in the Library of Congress.

The Virginia Southwood Family Papers contain the genealogical record of Virginia Southwood's family, the diaries of George Ward Litts, and the Civil War correspondence between teacher Susan Griggs and some of the Union soldiers who had attended her school in Wolcottville, Indiana.

Miscellaneous financial papers, 1874-1909, primarily pertaining to C.S. Browning's activities as a cattleman transferring livestock between Texas and Missouri. The account book, 1850-1908, was kept by C.M. Thomas, an auctioneer in Wellington and then Warrensburg, MO.

The papers of O.T. Coleman contain his World War I correspondence from Camp Funston, KS; England; France; and Germany. The collection also includes clippings and pictorial images regarding World War I and Coleman's diaries as a soil extension agent at the University of Missouri.

Correspondence concerning the applications of Black people for admission to the University of Missouri during the years of transition from a segregated to an integrated institution.

Copies of letters and clippings concerning the Christian Civic Foundation of Missouri, formerly called the Temperance League of Missouri. They deal primarily with the liquor issue raised in the Missouri gubernatorial race in 1956.

Materials pertaining to a social fraternity at the University of Missouri. Includes a list of members, 1869-1913.

Letters to and from the Settoon family of the Louisiana delta country concerning family and financial matters. The documents relate to property matters, including enslaved people.

Correspondence with William James concerning the Meramec Iron Works and other ore deposits in Missouri in which James was buying stock.

The originals are in the files of Dun and Bradstreet, New York.

Material from various University offices which handle business operations. Early material is from the secretary's office.

The Payne-Broadwell Family papers contain the business, personal, and legal papers of Moses U. Payne and his nephew Moses M. Broadwell. Moses U. Payne resided in Boone County, MO, from 1823 to 1895. Moses M. Broadwell's papers contain significant family letters and revealing correspondence from the Civil War and from the Reconstruction era. Also present are miscellaneous papers of the Oliver C. Roby family.

Invitation to attend the execution of George McKeever at the county jail in Fulton, MO. Mourning envelope addressed to Miss Annabel Brooks, New Bloomfield, MO.

Speech delivered at the reenactment of the marriage of Lucy James and William A. Rucker, held at the Federal Soldiers' Home in St. James, MO, which was formerly the James family mansion, Dunmoor. Refers to the James family, the Maramec Iron Works, and the establishment of Dunmoor as the Federal Soldiers' Home.

Letters from Elizabeth Welty near Monte Vista and Lockett, CO, to her sister Ida in Missouri. Mention household, farming, and family matters; price of fruit and cereal crops; crop conditions; and hard times.

Minutes and correspondence.

Notebooks kept by a state veterinarian listing calls and symptoms of cattle examined.

Diploma issued by the University of Missouri and the St. Louis Medical College.

Lecture notes for courses in celestial mechanics taught by See at the University of Chicago.

Letter giving custody of his son, Will Ford, to Mrs. Will Cunningham and Miss Scebie.

Minutes of a women's organization.

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers concerning faculty, facilities, alumni, curriculum, and department bulletins.

Bulk of the material consists of bulletins and reports of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Extension Service.

Account books of the Faculty Union, located at 15 Allen Place, Columbia, Missouri.

The State Historical Society of Missouri Typescript Collection consists of typescripts of articles and manuscripts donated over the years to the Historical Society.

Correspondence and business papers of Lisbon and Lewis M. Applegate of Keytesville, MO. Letters from George W. Applegate in California, 1848-1873, describing prospects for ranching, gold mining, and wine-making ventures; politics; and impact of Civil War and abolitionists. Civil War in Missouri; politics in Missouri and Chariton County; economic conditions and opportunities in Chariton County.

Papers contain correspondence, deeds, and financial statements of the family of Moses Barth, a Rocheport, Boone County, MO, merchant. Bulk of the material is correspondence between family members concerning their general welfare and business matters. Several letters written during the Civil War describe economic conditions and confrontations with Confederate guerrillas in the Rocheport area.

Correspondence of members of the Bingham family of Virginia and then of Missouri and Texas. References to friends, deaths, marriages, travel prices, estates and personal affairs of the Bingham family.

Diary kept by Henry Vest Bingham during his trip from Virginia to Missouri. Descriptions of St. Louis and St. Charles, MO, and the country through which he traveled. Published in MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW, Vol. 40.

Correspondence and miscellaneous geological and historical notes of an engineer, geologist, and professor of geology at the University of Missouri. Scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings relating to the history of Texas and Missouri.

Business correspondence, miscellaneous accounts, receipts and legal papers of a businessman and merchant of St. Francisville, MO. Material concerning local elections and poll books. Names of electors and how they voted in the national election in 1864.

Correspondence, miscellaneous papers, Civil War claims, printed materials, and account books.