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Aaron Martin U.S. Civil War letters

Collection

Identifier: MS 0031

Abstract: Correspondence from Aaron Martin to his family regarding personal matters, the U.S. Civil War, and army life.

Dates: 1862 - 1865

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Albert Sherrad Campbell U.S. Civil War account

Collection

Identifier: MS 0314

Abstract: The manuscript consists of four notebooks, written in the hand of Albert Sherrad Campbell at St. Louis, Missouri, covering the early months of the U.S. Civil War. Included are descriptions of battles and other political and military events.

Dates: 1861 - 1862

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Aldous Huxley letters

Collection

Identifier: MS 0498

Abstract: Personal letters between Aldous Huxley, Maria Huxley, Eva Hermann and Martha Saxton. Letters largely refer to personal topics including the death of Martha Saxton's husband, Gene. Aldous Huxley was the brother of renowned biologist and former Rice Institute faculty member Julian Huxley.

Dates: 1936-1943

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Alexander Hobbs Diary and Bible

Collection

Identifier: MS 0370

Abstract: The Hobbs diary records his experiences as a volunteer recruit in New England, his participation in the Battle of Galveston, and his life as a prisoner in Houston, 1862-1863.

Dates: 1861 - 1863

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Alexander N. Shipley Military Commissions

Collection

Identifier: MS 0328

Abstract: Five commissions recording the military promotions of Alexander N. Shipley from 2nd Lieutenant (1858) to Brevet Lieutenant Colonel (1866), and containing either authentic or stamped signatures of U. S. Presidents (James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson); also included is a smaller document relating to Shipley’s promotion to Brevet Lieutenant Colonel .

Dates: 1858 - 1866

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Allen and Morris Business Ledger

Collection

Identifier: MS 0221

Overview This collection contains the business ledger of the firm of Allen and Morris, showing transactions for services and sundries with various persons and companies, including the Confederate States of America. The firm was located in Prattville, Alabama, and the ledger’s entries date from June 27, 1862 to November 15, 1864.

Dates: 1862 - 1864

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

American Defense Group records

Collection

Identifier: MS 0353

Overview This collection contains correspondence, memos, organizational and reading lists, and budget information regarding an organization called the American Defense Group. The Group consisted largely of professors from three California institutions who were interested in assisting the American war effort by reading foreign-language domestic publications and reporting editorial comments to U.S. Naval Intelligence.

Dates: 1941 - 1944

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Americas collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 0518

Abstract: Original letters, broadsides, pamphlets, printed materials and books documenting the 19th century and early 20th century political and cultural relationships between the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, Cuba, Spain, and Portugal.

Dates: 1811-1920

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Anderson-Greenwood Family History records

Collection

Identifier: MS 0534

Overview Benjamin and Mary Greenwood Anderson of Houston, Texas, were experienced genealogists and traveled extensively to collect their family history records, as well as on numerous collateral lines. Family connections reached into the East Coast, Northeast, Midwest, South, and into Europe. Benjamin Anderson founded Anderson-Greenwood and Co. in 1945, intending the company to design and manufacture aircraft. After the Korean War, the firm switched to valve design and developed the first line of...

Dates: 1850-2004

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Andrew Forest Muir papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 0017

Abstract: This material includes correspondence, research and genealogical notes which reflect the interests of historian and Rice University professor Andrew Forest Muir. They relate to 19th century Texas and Houston history; free African Americans in Texas pre-Civil War; the life and death of William Marsh Rice; the growth of the Catholic, Anglican, and Episcopal Churches in the 19th century via missionary work in Texas and Hawaii; and Hawaiian history, specifically clergymen in Hawaii. These research...

Dates: ca. 1916-1969

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

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Aaron Martin U.S. Civil War letters

Albert Sherrad Campbell U.S. Civil War account

Aldous Huxley letters

Alexander Hobbs Diary and Bible

Alexander N. Shipley Military Commissions

Allen and Morris Business Ledger

American Defense Group records

Americas collection

Anderson-Greenwood Family History records

Andrew Forest Muir papers

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