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ALS, 1900 February 12 : London, to Mr. [Samuel G.] Blythe.

University of San Diego - Copley Library
2 p. ;
Clemens writes to Mr. Blythe telling him of a young man who called upon him " & to lack delicacy" informed him that his "Christian Science article had cost the Cosmopolitan 10,000 subscribers."
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ALS, 1830 December 3 : New York, to and unnamed correspondent.

University of San Diego - Copley Library
4 p. ;
Gallatin writes, "Had I my choice, I would prefer a pure metallic currency, and private Banking Houses, as in London ... who might with perfect freedom receive money on deposit ... and deal in exchange, but not issue notes or in any respect interfere with the currency ... But I am equally adverse to any issue ofpaper money by Government, and still more so to its converting the Treasury into a Banking, trading Company.
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LS, 1847 May 31 : U.S. Frigate U. States, Porto Praya, Cape Verda, to J.C. Reynolds Esq, Secretary at the U.S., Legation at Madrid.

University of San Diego - Copley Library
2 p. ;
Read, Commander of the U.S. Naval forces off the coast of Africa replies to a communication from Reynolds which appraises him of the danger to U.S. commerce "if the Mexican agent in England and Spain should succeed in persuading the subjects of those nations to fit out Privateers." He replies that he has received the same intelligence and " ... I am directed to send the sloop of War "Marion" (Commander Simonds) to Gibraltar for the purpose mentioned ..."
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ALS [1897] to Frank Bliss, American Publ. Col. Hotel Metropole, Vienna.

University of San Diego - Copley Library
2 p. (adjoining)
This choice letter to his publisher demands significant publication revisions to be made to a popular humorous book at the last moment.
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ALS, 1781 March 30, Albany, to unknown.

University of San Diego - Copley Library
1 p. ;
Regarding the readmittance of two lieutenants into the army.
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ALS, 1774 October 16, Philadelphia, to Thomas Mumford.

University of San Diego - Copley Library
4 p. ;
Mumford was a merchant and agent for the Secret Committee of Congress in 1776. This letter describes the work of the first Continental Congress from August 1773 until the date of this letter.
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ALS, 1780 August 21, Camden, S.C., to Thomas [Townshend].

University of San Diego - Copley Library
1 1/4 p. ;
Five days after his military triumph over the Americans at Camden, Corwallis writes about his victory over Horatio Gates.
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ALS, 1764 December 25, New York, to Colonel [John] Bradstreet.

University of San Diego - Copley Library
1 p. ;
Concerns payment to men of Bradstreet's regiment.
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ADS, 1779 March 30, Kingsferry, to Major General Alexander McDougall.

University of San Diego - Copley Library
1 p. ;
Continental Army Captain Lane petitions for an honorable discharge after four years of service, relating his inability to support his wife and family in Massachusetts, in part "occasioned by the Depreciation of the Currency, and the Daily in-hanced prices of all the Necessaries of Life."
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LS, 1814 April 19 : to Loan Office, New York.

University of San Diego - Copley Library
1 p. ;
"Enclosed are duplicate receipts for Eighty thousand Dollars of Treasury Notes ..."
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