Box 2
Contains 146 Results:
Typescript of news clipping from Missouri Republican – reasons given by St. Louis visitor for not liking St. Louis – mainly, unmarked streets., 1855 Apr 14
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Letter signed Anson F. Ashley, St. Louis, to Father. Regarding buying farmland, Thanksgiving. I hope that you had a good Thanksgiving time of it. There are not New England people enough in the west to make much of that day., 1855 Nov 24
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Recollections of St. Louis by Thomas L. Rodgers., 1857-1860
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Letter signed Mollie E. Shebb, St. Louis, to Lizzie. You will appreciate this letter because of the view of our great City of the West. [Excellent colored lithograph letterhead of St. Louis waterfront.], 1857 Mar 1
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Letter signed Will [J.W. Denver], St. Louis, to My dear wife [L.C. Denver], Wilmington, Ohio. I have obtained from Matt the verses he mentioned addressed to Sallie F-----. You will find them exquisitely unintelligible. The English poets from Chaucer to Byron insisted that there could be no real poetry without the “unities.” If this be so then these lines must be real poetry, for they unite in themselves more paradoxes, more nonsense, and more unintelligible rhyme than can anywhere else be found in the same space. It is evident that [the author] is a “goner” and if Miss Sallie don’t find out who he is soon, and take compassion on him, I fear there will soon be work for the Coroner. Regarding St. Louis. This city is much changed since 1850. Some of the streets then noted as fashionable promenades are now crowded with wagons and drays and the business-like appearance of the people hurrying to and from dispels all ideas of fashionable recreation. Individuals mentioned: Matt and Hon. James H. Hughes. Places mentioned: Leavenworth., 1857 Aug 22
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Letter signed Edw. Miller, Chief Engineer, Pacific Railroad, St. Louis, to Samuel J. Reeves, Vice-President Phoenix Iron Company. Regret company could not meet your draft which fell due here yesterday at house of J.H. Lucas & Company. They have stopped payment and closed their doors. The currency here is frightfully disorganized and notes of adjoining states is entirely discredited. Very few brokers are left to buy and sell. Mr. McPherson expects to meet your next note punctually. Yesterday was the darkest day financially that St. Louis has ever known. Five large private banking houses have already stopped and the rest are suffering runs. Even Harrison Chouteau & Vallee has failed. 800 men were thrown out of employment. I am almost afraid to look in a newspaper. Individuals mentioned: Mr. Lucas. Places mentioned: Cambria and Philadelphia., 1857 Oct 6
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Letter signed Edw. Miller, St. Louis, to Samuel J. Reeves. Regarding notes which fall due. After this date our liabilities mature so rapidly that it is doubtful if they can be met promptly. We had some expectation of disposing of your last note. I do not doubt that you will be paid in full but “these evil times may cause you delay & inconvenience.” Banks chartered by the State continue to pay specie. No bank will receive the notes of any other. Our circulation consists of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Kentucky money. We have hopes that the extra session of the legislature will relieve us. Our railroad troubles are caused mainly by the low price of State Bonds. Individuals mentioned: Mr. McPherson. Places mentioned: New England. [Purchased from Frederic Welty, Philadelphia, June 1939, $2.50.], 1857 Oct 22
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Radio script, “John Butterfield’s Overland Express.”, 1858
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Letter signed William McLennan, St. Louis, to Dear Sandy, Scotland. When I arrived at Toronto there was hundreds going idle for want of employment, and thousands of emigrants arriving daily…Traveled about 3000 miles in the United States but time was very dull…owing to the great suspending of the Bank. But now times is better. I like this part of the States…Sent Louis is a very fine city and very large. There is a great deal of business on the River with steamboats to all parts of the United States. It’s a good country I believe. Land is the best speculation. I got work in this city; we are working now at the steamboat building, wages 2 dollars per day…a dollar is four shillings sterling., 1858 Jan 29
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Letter signed J.V. Huntington, St. Louis, to Hon. Jas. S. Green. In reply to your letter and concerning politics in Missouri. It is fully clear here that we Catholics owe nothing whatever either to the Democratic Party or the public men of Missouri. Circumstances have compelled me to make a change in my plans and I plan to return to New York which has become the center of Catholic journalism, as it is of the literary movement generally. If I receive the appointment to Rome, or any other, it will be as a New Yorker. All that I ask of Missouri is here testimony to my character and services. By supporting me in defiance of interested and short sighted clamor and generally gaining this appointment for me as the candidate of the Catholic hierarchy and laity you would have struck a blow for the party and the state of the greatest importance. Entire Catholic emigration which will soon be pouring into Missouri would have gained, and an important favor [torn] to the Southern party, represented by Missouri, would have been made on the Catholics of the entire Union., 1858 May 6
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.