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Daniel Smith journal
Collection — Box: 80
Identifier: MS-SC1415
Scope and Contents
Journal kept while traveling recounts the days on board, the sea life seen, the different vessels seen on the sea, the weather, specific incidents on board and the different fish caught for eating. Describes the sights he sees as they near New Orleans, hunting in the woods along the Mississippi, and the trip up to Shawneetown.
Dates:
Created: 1820 - 1821
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Frederick S. Mojonnier diary of a voyage to America
Collection — Box: 60
Identifier: MS-SC1059
Scope and Contents
Typed transcript of diary kept by Mojonnier on the family's trip. Briefly details each day of their trip by stage, sleigh and train to Havre, France where they spent several days before sailing. On board ship he details the weather, any family problems, passenger problems, sea life they observe, a ship wreck and their entrance into the Mississippi with the help of a tug boat. He describes the boat they take to St. Louis and the sights he sees along the way.
Dates:
Created: Undated
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
John W. Smith letters
Collection — Box: 81
Identifier: MS-SC1431
Scope and Contents
Letters home to Thomas from Tennessee and Arkansas. Gives a description of Memphis, Arkansas and the hot springs in Arkansas. Discusses life on and the business of the boat. Very descriptive explanation of why steamboating is "a doggs life". Mentions family often. Discusses his plans to stop the river and go into "business".
Dates:
Created: 1852 - 1859
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Mississippi River list of steamboats
Collection — Box: 60
Identifier: MS-SC1056
Scope and Contents
List of steamboats and their captains running on the upper Mississippi during the years 1847-1855, taken from the shipping books of S.S. Phelps and Co. and McKinney and Adams both of Oquawka, Illinois.
Dates:
Created: 1921
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Samuel Humes Porter letter
Collection — Box: 67
Identifier: MS-SC1200
Scope and Contents
Letter to New York Governor Horatio Seymour regarding the support for McClellan shown among Democrats at the convention, the dissatisfaction in the Mississippi valley towards Lincoln and his policies and the fallacious story that General Cass is supporting Lincoln. Asks for acknowledgement of the letter because "Lincoln's postmasters ... sometimes looking into other people's letters."
Dates:
Created: September 21, 1864
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Samuel Miller journals
Collection — Box: 60
Identifier: MS-SC1049
Scope and Contents
An account of each trip to retrieve the body of each of his sons. He travelled by boat, the first trip on rivers and the second by ocean, most of the way and mentions the boats they pass, the cities where they stop, the countryside, farms and plantations, the effects of war on all of these, problems along the way, weather, what he eats, a shooting at one hotel, the return trip and the burial of his sons.
Dates:
Created: 1863 - 1865
Found in:
Manuscript Collection