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  Hutch Stevens correspondence

  Manuscripts

  The collection consists of correspondence written by Hutch Stevens and his siblings (including Matilda Stevens Cooper), that deal with family events both before and after his death. The letters discuss several mining towns and/or camps, including Alhambra Mine, Altman, Cripple Creek, Divide, Leadville, Victor, Geneva Mine, Colorado; Fitting, Lovelock, Nevada; Lead, South Dakota; and Warren, Idaho. There are also typed transcripts of most of the letters, although they contain significant omissions of text; the originals should be consulted.

  mssHM 57963-58018

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  Correspondence

  Manuscripts

  Box also contains the letter transcriptions.

  mssHM 57963-58018

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  Correspondence

  Manuscripts

  The oral history tapes and transcriptions, together with the correspondence, that make up this collection were created by Peter A. Brazeau during the course of his research for his oral history biography of Wallace Stevens: Parts of a world: Wallace Stevens remembered (1983). Brazeau, a member of the English Department faculty of St. Joseph College, wrote to and interviewed dozens of Stevens' relatives, friends, neighbors, employees, business colleagues, and literary associates and acquaintances in order to elicit their recollections about the poet.

  mssHM 53675-54279

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  Milton B. Stevens Correspondence

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  This collection contains 62 letters from twenty-six different authors, including Milton B. Stevens, C. K. Dixon and Byron Whitcomb, in mining camps and cities throughout Northern California illustrating aspects of the Gold Rush experience, chiefly from 1849-1864. Milton B. Stevens is the most prolific figure in this collection, as he wrote fifteen of the letters in the collection and was the addressee of twenty. There are, however, twenty-five other authors in these letters, including four women, two of them writing from California. Other significant authors in this collection are: Abbey Stevens (5 letters), Byron Whitcomb (7 letters), and C. K. Dixon (9 letters). The letters mention various mining camps throughout Northern California, such as Fosters Bar, Galena Hill, Murderers Bar, Pilot Hill, Salmon Falls, Weber Creek, and the Klamath River Valley mines. The letters illustrate several aspects of the Gold Rush experience: the journey to California through South America; life in California and the gold camps; gold discoveries, or the lack thereof; the techniques and equipment used in mining; loneliness and longing for home. The letters from Milton B. Stevens' mother tell of the experience of the miners' families back at home in the East. The letter dated 1954 was written by Stephen C. Lyon, who at one time owned the collection. Eighteen of the letters have handwritten or typed transcripts.

  mssHM 59471-59532

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  Ed Emery letter to W. L. Cox

  Manuscripts

  Emery writes of the pending shipment of goods, and of a few details of the town of Cripple Creek.

  mssHM 30954

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  Stevens T. Mason letter to Wallace Stevens

  Manuscripts

  HM 80440: Carbon copy letter dated December 8, 1936 from Stevens T. Mason to Wallace Stevens about the meaning of Stevens' poem "Owl's Clover."

  mssHM 80440-80441