Scope and Contents

The collection contains an 1860 diary to the Pikes Peak gold rush region; memoirs of Aurelius T. Bartlett, dated March 20, 1890, describing his Civil War service; official papers relating to Bartlett’s Civil War service; and other Bartlett family papers.

Scope and Contents The collection contains letters written by James Bradley and a journal kept by Charles Bradley. There are also copies and transcripts of these items along with Bradley family information. The James Bradley letters date from November 1863 to May 1864 and 1869; there are no letters from 1865 to 1868. The Charles Bradley journal dates from January 1869 to January 1876 with one entry added on 14 September 1913. There is one folder of letters written by James Bradley to either his...

Scope and Contents The diary contains daily entries beginning on May 27, 1861, in Iowa and ending on December 25, 1861, in St. Louis at Benton Barracks. The pages are numbered from 1 to 119; misnumbered pages resulted in no page 63. There are two entries for December 25, one of which is out of order on page 93. The diary’s binding has failed, and the pages are loose. Wright’s friend Henson Thomas wrote two brief diary entries on July 2nd and August 7th on the endpaper in the back of the volume. On...