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Title: M-013 Maryland Land Grant
Date: 1733-05-01
Description: Royal land grant to Richard Brooks pertaining to 22 acres in Maryland.

Title: Saint Louis Lyceum Meeting Record
Date: 1838
Description: The meeting record of the Saint Louis Lyceum is a large hand-written book recording the institution's founding constitution, by-laws, and meeting minutes as recorded by various elected secretaries. It documents the organizations membership, lectures, and debated questions from 1838 into the 1840s.

Title: M-022: August Chouteau Journal
Description: Great Britain and suppression of Indian hostilities. The journal is a fragment of Chouteau's "Narrative of the Settlement of St. Louis." It is the only eyewitness documentation on the activities surrounding the founding of St. Louis. A literal translation from the original manuscript by J. Givin Brown and J. Wilmer Stith was published by the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association in 1857 in the

Title: J. L. McFeeters Journal
Description: The J.L. McFeeters Journal 1904 collection consists of a single journal that Capt. J.L. McFeeters wrote in daily. Entries include details on the weather and river water levels but also include details of Capt. McFeeters personal and work life. Capt. McFeeters discussed the deaths of political figures and friends, ship fires on the Edgar Cheery and Mayflower, and his bank account records. Capt. McFeeters also references W.L. Sibert several times who was promoted from Caption to Major by President T. Roosevelt in 1904. Capt. McFeeters worked on a snag boat in 1904.

Title: M-380: Hungarian March
Date: 1867
Description: Framed musical score for Franz Liszt's Hungarian March, composed for the coronation of Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, as King of Hungary in 1867.

Title: Minutes of 10-24-1962 Meeting
Date: 1962-10-24, 1962-10-24
Description: Minutes of a meeting held in the executive conference room of the P&LE building regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis and the P&LE Railroad.

Title: M-313 Rev. John B. Meachum Collection

Title: Corporate histories of Camas Prairie Railroad and Washington & Idaho Railroad (subsidiaries).
Date: 1920, 1920

Title: Verified Satement of John W. Barriger
Date: 1971, 1971-12-10
Description: Written testimony by John W. Barriger relating to an emergency freight rate surcharge for 1972.

Title: Cookbook, ca. 1865
Date: 1865
Description: This manuscript cookbook contains hand-written recipes as well as tipped in newspaper clippings on the creation of household goods and home remedies.

Title: M-021: Henry G. A. Caspers Journal
Date: 1846-06-13
Description: Henry G.A. Caspers was corporal, later promoted to sergeant, in the artillery company of Capt. Fischer, organized in St. Louis, Missouri. At Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, the company was mustered into the service of Col. Kearney. Most of Casper's military service was served in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico, during the time of the Mexican War. This journal dates from June 13, 1846 - December 1848. Caspers included lists of company members; duties and battles; plus references to Col. Doniphan's victory at Chihuahua, Mexico; General Kearney's march to California; and the murders of Santa Fe Governor Bent in Taos, New Mexico., 1 small leather-bound, handwritten volume. 34 pp.

Title: M-078: Quincy Library [Illinois] 1841-1857
Date: 1841
Description: Handwritten record of books purchased by Quincy Library [Illinois], date and price, 1841-1857.

Title: Saint Louis Lyceum Circulation Record
Description: Circulation record for the Saint Louis Lyceum, a subscription library and debating club in St. Louis that existed from 1838 to 1851. The record indicates that 870 members borrowed 10,983 volumes from the institution at an unknown time.

Title: M-393: Sale of Real Estate Broadside and Manuscript
Date: 1831-02-14
Description: I Jno. K. Walker Sheriff as hereby certify that caused to be put up at the following named places a copy of this advertisement twenty days before the sale -- before the 30th day of March 1831 at the court house doors, at Fashnughty Barber Shop, at the Missouri Hotel at the city Hotel, at the Green Tree Tavern in the city of St. Louis, at Phillys Tavern in Bonhomnic, at Blacksmith Shop 5 miles east of Manchester, at -- Store in Manchester, at Lamisi Store in same place, -- McDonald's Mill in St. Ferdinand Township at Owens Station at Thomas Shop, at Connelly Grocery in Florissant, and at I. Aubuchon's -- same village, one at H. Jofo Tavern on Florissant Road -- at Darny -- Loc -- -- in St. Louis Township. Ten of the most public places in the county. Shff cost $5.00 Jno. K. Walker Shff.

Title: M-008 Thomas Hart Benton Collection
Date: 1858, 1858
Description: Created by Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858); early senator from Missouri who served six terms equaling thirty years in office. Included are the handwritten lecture, "Progress of the Age," delivered at the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association, 1850; 1 letter from 1829; and 2 letters from 1858, one from J.B. Brant concerning Benton's health. Senator Benton was among the first of many illustrious figures to speak at the St. Louis Mercantile Library on November 14, 1850. This particular speech, presented to the Library by Senator Benton, himself, and several letters make up the Mercantile's small collection of primary materials by or concerning Thomas Hart Benton

Title: Lecture on the Progress of the Age
Date: 1850, 1850
Description: Speech given at the St. Louis Mercantile Library in 1850.

Title: Letter from John Rogers to B&O Railroad for post as Assistant Superintendent
Date: 1828-05-12, 1828-05-12
Description: Letter from John Rogers, a machinist based in Baltimore, to be an Assistant Superintendent for the B&O Railroad.

Title: Letter from Peter Cooper Feb 15, 1856
Date: 1856-02-15, 1856-02-15
Description: Letter from Peter Cooper in response to the recipient's letter about eye surgery.

Title: Letter from Moncure Robinson to B&O Railroad January 16, 1828
Date: 1828-01-16, 1828-01-16
Description: Letter from Moncure Robinson to the B&O Railroad about the position of chief engineer and his thoughts on the railroad's construction.

Title: Manuscript from Philip E. Thomas to B&O Board of Engineers
Date: 1828-09-09, 1828-09-09
Description: Directive from the President of the B&O Railroad, Philip E. Thomas, to the Board of Engineers of the B&O Railroad directing them to locate the route of the railroad from the valley of the Patapsco River to the dividing Ridge (Parr's Ridge) between it and the Monocacy River.

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