Letter signed Lindsey Carson, Lakeport, Cal., to Col. N.G. Elliott. Your last letter is at hand and also the paper giving the history of the Baptist Church in Howard and adjoining counties. Also came the paper giving the history of our old native County. Almost as soon as done the telegraph flashed across the glorious result of your State Election. I was expecting something good from old Mo. but was not prepared for so much at one time. Long and dark has been the night of our defeat, our old Banner has been trampled in the dust for the last fourteen years. The next fight will now come up between the Rads and the (said to be) dead Democratic Party. Lengthy political opinions. News of friends in California. Individuals mentioned: Father Ebenezer Rodgers, Pioneers of the Baptist Church, Butler, Uncle Sash Bynum, Ben, John D. Thompson, Davidson, Charley and William Smith, John G. McManus, Ransom Powell, Moses Briggs, George Wear, Uncle Elias and his boys, Uncle Leas, Samuel Swope, Jesse W. Whitton, and Friend Morrison. Places mentioned: Sonoma County, Heraldsburg, Ukiah City, Mendocino County; Hollister, Monterey County; and San Francisco. , 1874 Nov 15

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The collection includes correspondence relating to the mule, horse, and cattle trade; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Pike's Peak; and California. It also includes muster rolls and other materials of the 1st Company, 14th Regiment, 1st Battalion, Missouri Militia from the Mormon War of 1838, in which Elliott was commander; slavery papers, land deals, and medical and merchandise bills; transactions concerning the outfitting of the Santa Fe trade; promissory notes; papers relating to Howard County, including materials regarding runaway enslaved people, estates, criminal matters, and a certified list of registered voters of Franklin election district (October 28, 1872); account books containing notes on mules purchased, expenditures, deposits, and other financial notes; figures on cattle shipment; a recipe book; some materials relating to the Civil War; several bound volumes that include two account books of C.L. Elliott in Quincy, Illinois, in partnership with Robert C. Spencer (after May 1, 1885), consisting of nine separate accounts of varied business interests, including livestock, grain and produce, real estate, and lumber, 1885-1886; four account books of Hugh Elliott regarding general stores in Boonville (1848), Lyons (1849), and Estill (1870, 1899-1912), Missouri; a ledger of grocery and general merchandise accounts of the firm N.G. and J.W. Elliott, in Boonville, Missouri, 1837-1839, with clippings regarding 1844 Howard County elections; and a ledger of mule, horse, and cattle trade business of Elliott and Smith (Newton G. Elliott and William Smith, partners), Boonville, 1853, with partnership dissolution agreement, 1854.