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Title: M-051: Thomas Jefferson Collection
Description: This collection consists of two pieces of correspondence by Thomas Jefferson, former President of the United States.

Title: Thomas Jefferson Handwritten Document
Date: 1819-05-30
Description: 1 document, May 30, 1819, D. S., transcribing the agreements made to widen a canal and create a reservoir by the Rivanna Company. Original minutes of the Rivanna company were taken by N. H. Lewis and transcribed by Jefferson to this document.

Title: Carte Nouvelle de la Louisiane, et de la Riviera de MISSISIPI, de'couverte par fell Mr. de La Salle
Date: 1713
Description: Map appears in Henri Joutel's Journal Historique du Dernier Voyage que Feu M. de LaSale Fit Dans le Golfe de Mexique... Published by Chez E. Robinot, 1713.

Title: Plan of St. Lewis
Date: 1826
Description: autres Rivieres Affluentes &c. Paris: Bertrand, 1826. Scale of 200 Fathoms.

Title: St. Louis Levee
Description: St. Louis levee, 1890's. Grand Republic (second), Belle of Calhoun, ?, City of New Orleans. Photographed by Henry Stark, Jr. of St. Louis.

Title: Map of the Country of the Illinois
Date: 1826
Description: Collot’s maps of Louisiana were made in 1796 and were most likely planned for military intrigues and colonial conquest, but the work transcended its purpose in thoroughly documenting the earliest settlements of the Illinois Country. These plans were the most detailed to their time.

Title: Thirteenth Annual Report of the New-York Ladies' Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Date: 1857
Description: Together with the List of Officers and Managers, Committees, Constitution of the Society, and By-Laws of the Board

Title: Fifth Session of the Taunton Baptist Association
Date: 1840-08
Description: Held in the Meeting-House of the First Baptist Church in Swansea

Title: Narrative Journal of Travels From Detroit Through the Great Chain of American Lakes, to the Sources of the Mississippi River
Date: 1821
Description: Performed as a member of the expedition under Governor Cass in the Year 1820

Title: Police Guide and Directory of St. Louis
Date: 1884
Description: A tourist guide and directory for the year 1884, it is authored by a nine year veteran of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Force and contains maps of commuter railroad lines, descriptions of resorts and businesses along each of these lines, and illustrations of prominent buildings and attractions throughout the city.

Title: Speech of Mr . Harmanson, of Louisiana, on the Independent Treasury Bill
Date: 1846-04-01

Title: Memorial of the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Rail Road Co. to Congress asking aid in the completion of their road.
Date: 1862, 1862

Title: The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad Company to the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company and W. H. H. Miller
Date: 1899-08-01

Title: Kansas Controversy
Date: 1856-04-07
Description: Speech from Senator Geyer discussing the movement to form the Kansas territory into a state and the issues of slavery management related to the process.

Title: Minutes of the Muskingum Baptist Association, 1815
Date: 1815-08
Description: Begun and held at Friendship Church, Licking County (Ohio)

Title: Communication From the Secretary of State, Transmitting Report of the Curator of the State University
Date: 1855

Title: Report of Benj. H. Latrobe, president of the Pittsburgh & Connellsville R.R. Co. to the Committee of the City Councils...
Date: 1862, 1862

Title: A View of the Lead Mines of Missouri
Date: 1819
Description: 1819 study of the natural history of the Missouri and Arkansas Territories and the resources to be found there.

Title: Complete Pocket Guide to Interesting and Important Places in the City of St. Louis, Missouri
Date: 1882
Description: Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the City, Brief Notices and Descriptions of Places and Objects of Interest, Distances To and From Them, Together With an Amusement Directory, Church Directory, Park Directory, and a Most Ample and Interesting Street Railway Directory. Illustrated With Map and Engravings. Also known as Gilmore's Guide to St. Louis., The digitization of this directory was made possible through the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Missouri State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.

Title: Letter from Governor William Henry Harrison to Captain Daniel Bissell, October 8, 1806
Page From: info:fedora/umsl:39462
Date: 1806-10-08
Description: Letter from William Henry Harrison to Daniel Bissell in October of 1806. Harrison tells Bissell of his actions with regard to the case of Zebulon Pike.
Text: No 8 Grouseland 8th. Oct. 1806. Dear Sir You must by this time suppose me one of the Worst Correspondents in the World & I have no inclination to deny the charge for all my friends tell me so & what every one believes must be true. I wrote to you however about Six Weeks ago by Colo. Vigo did but as that Gentleman not visit your post as he intended when he set out from this place
Show moreNo 8 Grouseland 8th. Oct. 1806. Dear Sir You must by this time suppose me one of the Worst Correspondents in the World & I have no inclination to deny the charge for all my friends tell me so & what every one believes must be true. I wrote to you however about Six Weeks ago by Colo. Vigo did but as that Gentleman not visit your post as he intended when he set out from this place
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