Columbia Manuscript Collections

Papers of a Missouri state forester and professor of forestry at the Universities of Wisconsin and Missouri, who served with the U.S. Forest Service as an industrial examiner in forest products during World War I. Includes his pamphlet library on forest preservation.

Correspondence and lists used in preparations for commemorative activities on the centennial of the admission of women to the University. Program bulletins, posters, press releases, copies of speeches delivered, photographs, and biographical materials on distinguished alumnae.

Files of the pavilion manager, containing correspondence from construction to demolition of the Missouri pavilion. Also press releases, financial reports, promotional material, security reports, contracts, blueprints and photographs.

Material compiled by W.R. Carter about the University of Missouri and the College of Normal Instruction, now the College of Education. Includes typescript excerpts from the Appendix to the House and Senate Journal of the 24th General Assembly of Missouri, 1868; Board of Curators annual report, 1867; William F. Switzler's HISTORY OF BOONE COUNTY, MO, 1882; and University catalogues, 1867-1917.

Personal papers of Davis consisting of letters sent by Davis to his mother Gertrude while he was in the army during World War I. Photographs depict him and his family, and group photographs of Davis's army units. Two volumes of church records document the Providence Baptist Church in Johnson County, Missouri. Other records document the genealogy of Davis's family through newspaper clippings and a photocopy of family records.

Personal account of life as a child and youth on farms and ranches in northern Michigan, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, and New Mexico. Discussion of a horse drive he was part of in the fall of 1887.

Discusses political background and actions of University personnel and committees involved in construction planning. Financial details and construction problems are discussed.

Letters, clippings, speeches, journals, reports, and miscellaneous papers of a delegate-at-large to the Missouri constitutional convention, 1943-1944. Pertains to the convention and the work of the Constitutional Convention Study Committee after the adoption of the 1945 Missouri constitution.

Letters of an Andrew County family, Southern sympathizers during the Civil War. Early letters from Thomas Bedford describe the gold rush, travel, and life in California, abolitionist agitation and prejudice against the North. Letters from A.M. Bedford, Johnson's Island, describes life as a prisoner of war. Later letters describe Reconstruction life. 141 letters.

The papers of Stephen Bailey contain a discharge from the Civil War of Stephen D. Bailey, Pierce City, MO, 1865. Also included are miscellaneous papers relating to a veteran's pension, 1890, and information explaining Missouri military organizations.

The papers of Romulus E. Culver contain letters from Culver, who marched with Doniphan in the Mexican War, from the New Mexico Territory, and from individuals gathering information about Culver's death at the hands of Mexican insurgents in Mora, NM. Also included are miscellaneous documents, an interview with William Matney, and receipts.

Six letters from Daniel Fogle to his wife while he was on an exploratory expedition to western Missouri and Kansas.

Letter to a colleague describing St. Louis.

Six Civil War letters to his wife from a member of the 18th Missouri Regiment. Xeroxed and typed copies.

Official correspondence; lists of missing after the battle of Shiloh; request for change from infantry regiment to cavalry. The unit was also known as Morgan's Rangers and in 1864 was changed to the 18th Regiment, Veteran Volunteers.

Seven letters concerning Price's role at the Battle of Shiloh.

Three miscellaneous letters relating only to family matters.

Eight letters Jennings wrote to his fiancée, while stationed at Corinth, MS.

Deed of lot number 66 to Ann Gentry.

Ann Gentry's commission as postmaster of Columbia, Boone County, MO.

Typescript copy of personal experiences in Red Cross work at the Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, army camp.

To Thomas McMichael, Evansburg, PA, Aug. 8, 1861.

Letter to her father telling of her living conditions and what it is like to live in an area where fighting is continually going on. Describes Battle of Athens.

Nineteen Civil War letters; letters to and from Irwin Walley, Long's son-in-law; miscellaneous family papers; and photographs of the opening of the Oklahoma Territory, 1891.

Article based on Rabbi Eppstein's diary.

History of the Robidoux and Messmore families, childhood memories of farm life in nineteenth-century Middle West, and comments on contemporary Kansas City.

The Robidoux family papers consist of a journal and notes of Julius C. Robidoux; biographical sketches of Joseph Robidoux, III, the founder of St. Joseph, MO; family letters, a translation of a French Creole song; and Buchanan County marriage records.

Reuben E. McDaniel diary of a trip from Virginia to St. Louis, MO, 1836. Delia Richerson McDaniel diary of a trip from Caroline County, VA, to Boonville, MO, 1841. Also her diary of a trip from Boonville to Virginia in 1843.

From Provost Marshall's Office requiring Price to furnish provisions for six Rebel prisoners.

Invoice of clothing issued to Captain C.L. Holsapple, 1865, and letter written to Victoria Holsapple from S.W. Hull, Camp Reno, WI, 1864.

Notes while awaiting trial for the robbery of the Corydon, IA, bank in November 1872.

Muster-out roll of company organized at Warrenton, MO, September 23, 1864, and discharged at Benton Barracks, St. Louis, August 2, 1865.

Minutes of meetings of town board.

The collection contains a diary recording movements of the 10th Missouri Cavalry, Company R.

The papers of John Lomax contain Civil War letters and letters regarding family genealogy.

Records of a Columbia, Missouri, organization, which advocated prison reform and prisoner rights and sought to educate the public on prison conditions. Sponsored by KOPN Radio. Collection includes records of Zebra Sunrise radio program, correspondence from inmates, inmate periodicals and literary journals, and subject files on prisons, prisoners, and the criminal justice system. See also Collection No. 3111.

Copies of folk music and ballads recorded and transcribed by folklorist Max Hunter.

Gradebooks from American and European history courses.

The papers of Walter E. Meyer contain materials collected and used by Meyer in several suits on behalf of the minority stockholders of St. Louis Southwestern Railroad (Cotton Belt).

The papers of Mason Vaugh contain correspondence and reports. Vaugh was the second person to receive a degree in agricultural engineering from the University of Missouri and for thirty-six years served as a Presbyterian lay missionary in India.Biographical material, index to publications, correspondence, articles, research materials, and miscellaneous pamphlets.

The collection contains tuition receipts and brief description of the college.

Valuation of ten people enslaved by William Spradlin, September 29, 1849, and their disposition to various heirs.

The collection contains a personal account book.

The papers of James R. Lackland contain miscellaneous correspondence and family papers, and accounts to 1874.

The collection contains a letter to Elliott's parents from California, April 5, 1850, describing his experiences in the gold rush.

Letters and papers concerning Roark's employment on the Missouri, Gasconade, and Osage Rivers, 1896-1917; federal employees. Two river guide booklets; Missouri rivers, 1901, Ohio River, n.d. Broadside on the State Democratic Convention, St. Louis, 1940. Two David Lawrence clippings on federal wage controls, 1942.

The papers of Moses Trader contain the diary of Trader, a Methodist circuit preacher in Ohio; and some biographical material.

Lists of members and their activities, issued annually by John E. Norton.

Miscellaneous letters and letter fragments; one letter from Spasskae, Siberia.

Twenty-one letters containing only family news.

Two notebooks of letters: An Account of My Private Pecuniary Affairs," 1855-1859, and a book of letters to and from Charles F. Ruff, 1859-1862. Collection contains two maps: a sectional of Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad and lands granted to Pacific, MO, by the Pacific Railroad.

Civil War diary, February-August 1864, and muster-out roll of a captain in Company L, 8th Regiment, Missouri State Militia.

Garriott was a member of Company G, 18th Missouri Volunteer Cavalry; was in the Army of the Tennessee; and was with General Sherman on his march to the sea. Some details of the march through Georgia. 55 letters.

Five letters to Mrs. Davidson from her family. Four Civil War letters containing mostly family news; one letter concerning the death of Stout B. Davidson.

Letter and pamphlet on Confederate Missouri batteries at the Battle of Vicksburg. Blueprint of the Vicksburg National Military Park; proposed inscriptions for Missouri batteries. Muster rolls, a muster and pay roll, and an order book of Dawson's 3rd Missouri Battery (also called St. Louis Battery and McDonald's Battery), C.S.A., with the army of the West's General and Special Orders.

Correspondence, pamphlets, speeches, and newsclippings related to Lozier's legal, agricultural, and political careers. Research notes for and copies of Lozier's two historical novels (check contract if publication request occurs). Campaign papers of Lue C. Lozier.

Negative photostats of letters from Wibaux, who immigrated from France to Montana in 1881, to his brother Joseph. Includes business letters and contract re. His cattle ranch and gold mine, newspaper articles, photographs and Joseph's notes. English translation follows each item.

The collection contains news clippings about the University of Missouri College of Agriculture and Experiment Station, undated but probably from ca. 1900-1910.

Diary of service with the Missouri Infantry, 18th Regiment (Morgan's Rangers), during the Civil War, 24 August 1864-1 June 1865. Financial records of the United Moderns, 1902-1903. Records of J.E. Rockwood, referee in bankruptcy for the District of Montana, 1907-1914. Farm accounts, 1868, 1870.

Records of town meetings, ordinances, financial transactions, and elections.

Financial records, including receipts and disbursements. Members' names given upon receipt of dues.

Engineers and mechanics pocketbook, 1853, and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, 1886.

The papers consist of two translated copies of the book, The State of Missouri; An Account with Special References to German Immigration, 1859, written by Friedrich Muench, an influential German writer and later Missouri politician. The translations were done by Elsa Nagel from the original German, and include one handwritten and one typed copy.

Saline County treasurer's book, 1848; Laurie's store accounts from Boonville, MO, 1837-1838; Saline County probate court records, 1858-1862.

Student essays in German, French, and English from Central High School, Kansas City.

Personal, business, and family correspondence of a St. Louis lawyer and Democratic politician who was counsel and later president of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and was active in civic affairs.

St. Louis Whiskey Ring. Microfilm of newspapers, O.E. Babcock papers, B.H. Bristow papers, LIFE OF EMORY STORRS (1886), pardon papers. Barton-Turner letters, 1874-1875. Internal Revenue booklets, 1872, 1873, 1948. CENTENNIAL SOUVENIR, ACADEMY OF THE VISITATION, ST. LOUIS, 1933.

Tombstone inscriptions compiled by Clair V. Mann from cemeteries in Crawford, Dent, Maries, Phelps, Pulaski, and Texas Counties in Missouri.

Material relating to the Trigg family of Boonville, MO; the papers of Harvey Bunce, Cooper County civic leader and vice-president of the Tebo and Neosho Railroad; and Charles Van Ravenswaay's correspondence and research notes on various families, institutions, historic sites and events in Cooper and Howard Counties, and miscellaneous material related primarily to Boonville, MO.

The collection contains copies of papers of James Harris, farmer and justice of the peace, Clay County, Missouri, and family. Includes personal correspondence from friends and family and miscellaneous financial and legal documents such as receipts, contracts, court orders, inventories, land deeds, and wills.

The collection contains news clippings, poems, articles of interest and personal memorabilia.

The collection contains oaths of loyalty; reports of E. Anson More, quartermaster general of Missouri; and special orders from the adjutant general's office. All concern members of the Missouri Militia from various regiments and companies.

The collection contains a paper submitted to the contest of the Soil Improvement Committee of the National Fertilizer Association.

The collection contains a paper submitted to the contest of the Soil Improvement Committee of the National Fertilizer Association.

The collection contains a report on promotion of alfalfa planting in Bates County.

The collection contains a paper submitted to the contest of the Soil Improvement Committee of the National Fertilizer Association.

The collection contains a paper submitted to the contest of the Soil Improvement Committee of the National Fertilizer Association.

The collection contains a paper submitted to the contest of Soil Improvement Committee of the National Fertilizer Association in a National Soil Improvement Program contest of the American Society of Agronomy.

The collection contains an entry prepared by a St. Charles County extension agent.

The collection contains Rhea's entry in the National Dairy Improvement Contest, 1931. Includes photographs, pamphlets, and correspondence as well as text.

Departmental recommendations for salary increases made to the dean, as well as budget statistics and salary information from other campuses.

Lists of persons by county and district selective service boards whose cards were held by those boards. Arranged alphabetically by county.

To [N.B.] Allen, Jefferson City, MO, from St. Louis, MO, Feb. 25, 1885.

Request for the support of Allen, a member of the Missouri legislature, for a bill providing for collection of historical documents. Walsh was secretary for the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis.

To Nancy C. Prewitt, Columbia, MO, from Ely, VT, May 6, 1970.

Dartmouth College senior requesting letters to congressmen in opposition to the involvement of U.S. troops in Cambodia.

Recounts his religious experiences and association with Methodist churches of Audrain County, and Mexico, MO. Describes Civil War split in church.

Letters to Samuel H. Sutherland, a Missouri University student, from his parents, reporting local news in St. Clair County. A letter from Samuel from Shreveport, LA, in 1865, tells his post-Civil War plans.

Correspondence, training information, and track meet programs of the University of Missouri track and cross-country coach Thomas W. Botts.

Written to Cornelia Vernatti, Montgomery City, MO, by a clerk in Company L, 5th Regiment, Missouri Volunteers, from Camp George H. Thomas, Georgia, and Camp Hamilton, Kentucky. Descriptions of camp life and his duties.

Papers pertaining to shipment of yellow corn from Kansas to New Orleans.

Genealogical research in preparation for the book TEARIN' THROUGH THE WILDERNESS, MISSOURI PIONEER EPISODES, 1822-1885 by Marie Oliver Watkins and Helen Hamacher Watkins, a genealogy of the descendants of Charles Allen Watkins and Henrietta Rives of Ray County, MO.

Records of the Boone Circuit Court in three cases against Joseph Smith, Jr., Caleb Baldwin, Parley P. Pratt, King Follett, and others resulting from the Mormon War. Others are on file in the Circuit Court Office, Boone County, MO.

Three letters from Sacramento, CA, to Charlotte Prince and Mrs. L.D. Foot of Flushing, NY, describing gold mines and Sutter's Fort, and one express company receipt for 37 ounces of placer gold.

The collection contains six letters written from a steamboat on the Missouri River, a camp on Blue River, and Sacramento, California, to family describing overland travel, gold mining, and camp life. Also included are resolutions by friends to the memory of Wilson, who died enroute home, and a copy of "The California News," 14 February 1852, with letter from George B. [ ].

The collection contains reminiscences describing memories of early childhood, teaching experiences, and life after her marriage until her husband's death. Also included is an obituary of Cornelia C. White.

The collection contains reminiscences of his first trip away from home, and itinerary across the plains to California, and descriptions of people met, work in the mines, enlistment in the army and subsequent service, and the return home in 1864.

The collection contains descriptions of early lumbering events beginning with the Treaty of Prairie du Chien in 1825, Indian troubles, early successes and failures, description of logging camp and operations, persons involved, and the Beef Slough feud and Chippewa Dam fight.

The papers of James Lane Allen contain a manuscript describing Mrs. Stowe's "Uncle Tom" at home in Kentucky. Also included is a letter to R.W. Gilder, editor of CENTURY MAGAZINE, concerning the manuscript, and a copy of the CENTURY MAGAZINE, October 1887, containing the article.

Sixty-four letters written by Carvill, his wife and daughter to relatives in London from various places in the South, describing family and economic matters, Mexican War, Civil War, Oregon and Maine boundary disputes, and slavery.

The papers of Jacob Eggen contain notes and reminiscences of the history of Highland, IL, as well as notes of an artillery soldier. Manuscripts are written in German script.

The papers of the Gourgas family contain letters of Adele Gourgas, daughter of a Swiss immigrant, to her brother John Mark Gourgas relating her impressions of and experiences in the Millersburg-Lexington, KY, region and Cincinnati, OH, where she moved with her husband John Dubois in 1819. Also included are letters from Jacob Gourgas to his brother John Mark and other papers of family interest. The letters are in French.

Papers from Kem's term as Republican U.S. senator from Missouri. Bulk of material is constituent correspondence.