Box Mixed Collections 1

 Container

Contains 113 Results:

Letter to captains Frost and Nixon from D. Loring, 1806 May 6

 File — Box: Mixed Collections 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

"Autographed letter signed. Belpre. D. Loring to Capt. Samuel Frost. Taxes set for non-residents in 1804, but word not received until after the effective date. Thus all who did not pay are subject to a double tax and a penalty. Taxes are now 40 cents per 100 acres. Even now does not know what the last Legistlature did about new taxes. Adds a postscript saying that the Louisiana Purchase will be of no great advantage to the nation." - from dealer description

Dates:1806 May 6
Found in: Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections / Ohio Land Company Papers

Letter to captains Frost and Nixon from D. Loring, 1808 May 30

 File — Box: Mixed Collections 1, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents

"Autographed letter signed. Belpre. D. Loring to Capt. Samuel Frost. Sickly weather. Many robberies of the mails from the eastward may account for non-receipt of letters." - from dealer description

Dates:1808 May 30
Found in: Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections / Ohio Land Company Papers

Circular addressed to Thomas Nixon and Jonathan Nichols in Framingham signed by Benjamin Putnam and George Turner, 1820 October 10

 File — Box: Mixed Collections 1, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Ohio Land Company Papers includes primarily letters and postcards related to the Ohio Company land buying and selling activities, especially those by Samuel Frost and Otis Nixon of Framingham, Massachusetts.

Dates:1820 October 10
Found in: Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections / Ohio Land Company Papers

Letter from Otis Nixon to Warren Nixon, 1823 October 28

 File — Box: Mixed Collections 1, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents "Autographed letter signed. Otis Nixon to his brother Warren Nixon in Framingham, Massachusetts. Morgan. He is a school-teacher and writes that opportunities are there but you receive only half the agreed pay and even then prices are so high that what he gets is no good. There is neither money nor goods in the vicinity; corn is 12-1/2 cents a bushel, the poorest the county ever saw, and he wants to go back to civilization and stop living like an Indian in the wilderness." - from dealer...
Dates:1823 October 28
Found in: Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections / Ohio Land Company Papers

Letter from Otis Nixon to Warren Nixon, 1842 April 18

 File — Box: Mixed Collections 1, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents

"Autographed letter signed. Otis Nixon to Warren Nixon. Watertown. A very forward spring, fruit trees in bloom and gardens planted. Some concerning the settlement of their father's estate. Framingham bills are worth 5% more than Ohio bills." - from dealer description

Dates:1842 April 18
Found in: Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections / Ohio Land Company Papers

Letters, 1843 - 1848

 File — Box: Mixed Collections 1, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents Includes "letters from Otis to Warren Nixon during the period from March 1843 to April 1848 in which he discusses the weather, crops, the prices of foods (wheat at 16 cents a bushel, oats at 12-1/2 cents, pork from $1.50 to $2.00 a side). Times were hard, many could not get enough money to pay taxes. In 1846 he thinks he may have to bring suit to disposses a Black family living on some of his land. He seems to have a good-sized farm. In 1848 he has health problems, but works occasionally at...
Dates:1843 - 1848
Found in: Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections / Ohio Land Company Papers

Tearsheet, "Printer-Publisher Husband and Wife Team Create Hand-crafted Limited Editions", 1967 February

 Item — Box: Mixed Collections 1, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Loujon Press documents include letters, news clippings, posters, and ephemera related to this small press.

Dates:1967 February
Found in: Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections / Loujon Press documents

"New Henry Miller Edition Is First Albuquerque Venture" news clipping, 1970 October 31

 Item — Box: Mixed Collections 1, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Loujon Press documents include letters, news clippings, posters, and ephemera related to this small press.

Dates:1970 October 31
Found in: Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections / Loujon Press documents

"Henry Miller Book in the Works," Tucson Daily Citizen news clipping, 1966 December 26

 Item — Box: Mixed Collections 1, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Loujon Press documents include letters, news clippings, posters, and ephemera related to this small press.

Dates:1966 December 26
Found in: Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections / Loujon Press documents

Loujon Press reprint of newspaper article, "Downpour Swamps Webb Printery"

 Item — Box: Mixed Collections 1, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Loujon Press documents include letters, news clippings, posters, and ephemera related to this small press.

Dates:1932 - 1970
Found in: Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections / Loujon Press documents