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Guide to the William McKendree Gwin Papers, 1833-1897
BANC MSS C-B 378  
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Materials In Part I

 

Bancroft, George, (1800-1891)

 

To Sylvester Mowry (copy) (1830-1871) ca. 1860

 

Bassano, Napoléon Joseph Hugues Maret, Duc de, (1803-1898)

 

To Mary (Bell) Gwin Feb. 29, 1866

 

Bayard, William

 

To Gwin Aug. 15, 1850

 

Boynton, Sylvanus C.

 

Proposed memorandum of agreement with Collis P. Huntington. 1864

 

Copy of agreement with Gwin and Sharon re Panama projects. Feb. 4, 1884

 

Agreement with wife to share with Gwin property on Isthmus of Panama, translated into Spanish and certified in Washington. Mar. 5, 1884

 

To Gwin June 24, 1884

Aug. 28, 1885

 

To Gwin (son), written and signed by W. H. Ritter and Andrew Wesley Kent (photocopy only) Apr. 10, 1895

 

Buchanan, James, (1791-1868)

 

To Gwin Feb. 18, 1849

May 15, 22, Dec. 26, 1850

Mar. 30, 1853

 

Call, Wilkinson, (1844-1910)

 

To Evan J. Coleman (copy) (photocopy only) Sept. 30, 1885

 

To Gwin (son) and Evan J. Coleman (son-in-law) (photocopy only) Sept. 15, 1885

 

To William Collins Whitney (copy) Aug. 14, 1885

 

Carmick, E. H.

 

To Gwin Nov. 9 (incomplete), 17, 26, Dec. 7, 19, 1883

Apr. 21, Dec. 2, 4 (2 letters), 6, 9, 1884

Jan. 6, Feb. 11, 16, Mar. 11, 27, 30, Apr. 4, 6, 1885

 

Claiborne, John Francis Hamtramck, (1809-1884)

 

To Gwin Sept. 14, 1878

Mar. 4, 1879

 

Colburn, R. T.

 

To Gwin Feb. 18, 28, Mar. 1, 1884

 

Davis, Jefferson, (1808-1889)

 

To Gwin Nov. 27, Dec. 6, 1875

 

Everett, Edward, (1794-1865)

 

To Gwin Mar. 7, 1854

 

Farragut, David Glascow, (1801-1870)

 

To Gwin Jan. 20, Aug. 8, 1857?

 

Field, Stephen Johnson, (1816-1899)

 

To Gwin May 17, 1884

 

Fillmore, Millard, (1800-1874)

 

To Gwin Dec. 21, 24, 1850

 

Frémont, John Charles, (1813-1890

 

To Gwin May 8, ca. 1850

Oct. 20, 1852

 

Garland, Augustus Hill, (1832-1899)

 

To Wilkinson Call (copy) Aug. 12, 1885

 

Gwin, William McKendree, (1805-1885)

 

To Chester Alan Arthur (draft) 1884

 

To Thomas Hart Benton (draft) Dec. 1853?

 

To William Eaton Chandler (draft) 188?

 

To Mr. & Mrs. Gwin (parents) (photocopy only) Oct. 10, 1833

 

To Carrie Gwin (photocopy only) June 30, 1885

 

To William M. Gwin (son) (photocopies only) July 6, 1884

Mar. 21, July 7, 1885

 

To James Buchanan Jan. 31, 1859

 

To A. A. Kincannon Feb. 17, 1847

 

To Gregory Yale Mar. 19, 1860

 

To ? July 24, 1850

 

To E. Curtis July 13, 1851

 

To ? Oct. 26, 1853

 

To J. W. Maudeville Mar. 18, 1857

 

To ? Apr. 13, 1844

 

Incomplete draft of memorial from the Senators and representatives elect from California requesting admittance of California as a state 1850?

 

Incomplete draft of proposed agreement concerning the construction of a railroad across the Isthmus of Panama 188?

 

Estimated cost of the Isthmus Pacific Railway, with a copy with some changes in figures in S. C. Boynton's handwriting 1884?

 

To Board of directors of the Isthmus Pacific Railway Co. (photocopy only) July 30, 1884

 

To Charles Jean Tristan Montholon, Marquis de Montholon (incomplete draft) Oct. 15, 1865

 

To Napoléon III (drafts) Jan. 5, Sept. 12 or 21, 1864

July 3, 1865

 

Rules and regulations for carrying into effect the treaty between France and Mexico (3 drafts) 1864?

 

Éclaircissement sur le projet de colinisation des états de Sonora et de Chihuahua (French translation of plan for colonizing Sonora) Mar. 1864

 

Memorandum on the colonization of Sonora [prepared for Napoléon] Mar. 1864?

 

Memorandum on the colonization of Sonora [prepared for Napoléon] (draft of a French translation) Mar. 1865?

 

Gwin, William McKendree, Estate of

 

Contract with Sylvanus C. Boynton (photocopy only) May 29, 1886

 

Hamblen, Samuel

 

To Dr. W. M. Gwin at Fort Jackson near New Orleans 1865-1866, typescript extract from Hamblen's autobiography ca. 18?

 

Haviland, John Von Sontag?

 

Metrical description of a fancy ball given in Washington 19th Apr. 1858, dedicated to Mrs. Senator Gwin (printed book) 1858

 

Huntington, Collis Porter, 1821-1900

 

To Gwin Nov. 30, 1883

 

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

 

Friend (printed newspaper extra) 1835

 

To Gwin July 3, 1834 (photocopy only)

Dec. 25, 1840

Jan. 27, May 17, June 15, 1841

Jan. 16, 1843

May 9, 1845

 

Keasbey, A. Q.

 

To Gwin Nov. 22, 1884

May 7, 1885

 

Loysel, C.

 

Military Passport for Gwin Jan. 18, 1865

 

MacGinnis and Blackwell

 

To Gwin (son) (photocopy only) Mar. 17, 1897

 

Mann, Ambrose Dudley, 1801-1889

 

To Gwin Aug. 29, 1876

 

Money, Hernando de Soto, 1839-1912

 

To Gwin Apr. 17, 1885

 

Morny, Charles Auguste Louis Joseph, Duc de, 1811-1865

 

To Gwin Mar. 6, 1865

 

Napoléon III, 1808-1873

 

To Gwin Mar. 10, 1866

 

Paris. Corps Municipal

 

Invitation for the Gwin family to the Fête de la Ville June 1867

 

Pomeroy, Samuel Clarke, 1816-1891

 

To Gwin Aug. 24, 1884

Sept. 1, 1885

 

Prentice, George Denison, 1802-1870

 

To Mary (Bell) Gwin Apr. 2, 1866

 

Richardson, Joseph

 

To E. H. Carmick Feb. 20, 1884

 

To Samuel Clarke Pomeroy Oct. 28, 1884

 

Ringgold, Cadwoleoer(?), 1802-1867

 

To Gwin May 26, 1853

 

Rucks & Yerger, firm

 

To F. S. Hunt Jan. 14, 1843

 

Sharon, William, 1821-1885

 

To Chester Alan Arthur (copy) ca. 1884

 

To Gwin Jan. 18, 1884

 

Slidell, John, 1793-1871

 

To Gwin Apr. 22, 1850

 

Tyler, John, 1793-1862

 

To Gwin Dec. 12, 1850

 

Tyler, John A.

 

To Gwin Mar. 18, 1853

 

U.S. Treasury Dept.

 

To Gwin. Signed by James Guthrie. From the T. W. Norris Collection Oct. 3, 1854

 

Vera Cruz (District) Mexico. Prefectura Política

 

Passport for Gwin from Vera Cruz to Mexico City June 28, 1864

 

Walker, Robert John, 1801-1869

 

To Gwin Feb. 20, 1849

 

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

 

To Gwin Dec. 31, 1850

Jan. 31, 1851

 

Weed, Smith M.

 

To Gwin July 6, 1885

 

Wise, Henry Alexander, 1806-1876

 

To Gwin Dec. 25, 1850

 

Galley proof of biographical sketch of Gwin published in: Alonzo Phelps: Contemporary Biography of California's Representative Men... ca. 1880

Materials in Part III

 

Claiborne, John Francis Hamtramck, 1809-1884

 

To Thomas Hartley Crawford, 1786-1863 Aug. 25, Nov. 5, 1843

 

To Ralph Graves Aug. 25, 1843

 

To Gwin Mar. 10, 15, 1845

 

To James Madison Porter, 1793-1862 Nov. 5, 1843

 

Clayton, P.

 

To Orlando Brown, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Mar. 30, 1850

 

Colbert, Pitman

 

To Orlando Brown Mar. 27 (2 letters)

Mar. 30, 1850

 

Corwin, R. G.

 

To Orlando Brown Jan. 24, 1850

 

Crawford, Thomas Hartley, 1786-1863

 

To Gwin Jan. 11, 1843

 

Memorandum to John Canfield Spencer, 1788-1885 Jan. 21, 1843

 

Davis, Jefferson et al

 

To John Buchanan Floyd, 1807-1863 Dec. 16, 1851

 

Eugénie, Empress Consort of Napoléon III, 1826-1920

 

To Charlotte, Empress Consort of Maximilian (excerpts), 1840-1927 Sept. 28, 1865

 

Ewing, Thomas, 1789-1871

 

To Orlando Brown Mar. 8, June 26, 1850

 

Gwin, William McKendree, 1805-1885

 

Bill to U.S. for mileage allowance June 1847

 

To James Buchanan Jan. 8, 26, 1848

Dec. 29, 1850

Mar. 27, May 2, Dec. 22, 1853

July 23, 1854

Dec. 5, 1856

1857?

 

To Lewis Cass June 4, 1858

 

To John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne June 3, 11, Sept. 25 (2 letters), 28, Oct. 9 (2 letters), 14, Nov. 5, 26, 1839

Jan. 22, Feb. 1, 8, June 11, Aug. 13, Nov. 7, 25, 1840

Jan. 10, May 8, Aug. 8, 24, 31, Sept. 8, Oct. 5, Nov. 8, 1841

Mar. 10, 19, July, Dec. 19, 1842

Jan. 3, 18, 23, Feb. 19, Apr. 11, May 13, June 4, 10, 22, 28, 1843

1844?

 

Articles of copartnership entered into by J. F. H. Claiborne, John D. Freeman and Gwin Oct. 14, 1839

 

Promissory note Oct. 14, 1839

 

Legal paper delegating power of attorney to Claiborne for firm of Halsey & Gwin Oct. 15, 1839

 

Legal transaction for firm of Gwin and Freeman Oct. 24, 1839

 

Marshal's report Feb. 20, 1840

 

Appointing Claiborne as deputy marshal Apr. 3, 1840

 

Instructions for Col. Claiborne Aug. 5?, 1842

 

Memorandum of agreement signed by Gwin, Claiborne & Halsey May 28, 1844

 

To Crawford, Thomas Hartley Aug. 19, 1842

Jan. 3, July 4, Dec. 31, 1843

 

To Corwin, Thomas Jan. 13, Mar., Apr., June 14, 1851

 

To John D. Freeman Jan. 9, 1844

 

To Halleck, Peachy & Van Winkle firm Nov. 29, 1855

 

To Abram Stevens Hewitt Hodge Oct. 3, 1876

Feb. 18, 1858

 

To A. A. Kincannon Jan. 28, 1843

May 1, 1844

 

To Daniel Lowe Aug. 29, 1842

 

To Willliam Learned Marcy Sept. 12, 1853

 

To H. Northrop Feb. 5, 1842

 

To James Knox Polk Aug. 27, Nov. 5, 1842

July 11, 30, 1844

 

To John Cook Rives May 22, 1854

Feb. 16, 1860

 

To J. S. Skinner Nov. 16, 1841

 

To R. Smith Sept. 19, 1847

 

To Jesse Speight Apr. 20, 1845

 

To John Canfield Spencer Jan. 13, 1843

 

To Samuel Jones Tilden Nov. 21, 1875

July 26, Aug. 7, 8, Nov. 22, 1876

 

To U.S. Treasury Dept. Dec. 6, 1848

 

To Robert John Walker Aug. 28, 1847 (2 letters)

 

To Daniel Webster Dec. 23, 1841

Jan. 3, 1842

Dec. 12, 1851

June 6, 1852

 

Johnson, Reverdy, 1796-1876

 

To Thomas Ewing Jan. 3, 1850

 

McCulloh, James William

 

To Gwin June 24, 1848

 

Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, 1832-67

 

To Napoléon (excerpts) Dec. 27, 1864

 

Murray, James

 

To Gwin July 15, 1842

 

Soddard, D. C.

 

To Orlando Brown Jan. 12, 1850

 

Stoeckl, Eduard de, Baron

 

To Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich Gorchakov Jan. 4, 1860

 

Tilden, Samuel Jones, 1814-1886

 

To Gwin Aug. 12, 1876

 

U.S. Treasury Dept.

 

Report to Thomas Ewing Jan. 1, 1850

 

Walker, Robert John, 1801-1869

 

To Denis Prieur & Alcée La Branche May 7, 1847

 

Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796

 

Certificate commending Lt. Col. Louis de Fleury (copy) July 25, 1779