Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 (SC 1222)

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1222. Letter written by Henry Clay, Ashland, Kentucky, to Henry Henion(?), Rushville, New York. Clay responds to a letter received from the Rushville Tippecanoe Club regarding his opinion of the presidential contest between Martin Van Buren and William Henry Harrison

Letter from Thomas Goodwin to James B. Finley

Goodwin responds to a letter received from Finley requesting payment of some kind (real estate transaction?). Goodwin tells Finley that money is in short supply, but he can pay him $200 if Finley comes to see him in early April. Abstract Number - 748https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/finley-letters/2255/thumbnail.jp

Supplementary Offense Report, August 21, 1954, Bay Village Police Department

Hubach and Drenkhan filed this report regarding a letter received from Chicago. William Corrigan called police to advise that he had received a carbon copy of a letter from Miss J.R.P. from Chicago. The letter stated that she had seen a man in the early morning of July 4 in front of the Sheppard home. Bay Village Police had not received a copy of this letter and sent Corrigan\u27s copy to the Cleveland Police to follow up

Letter from Shadrack Bostwick to James B. Finley

An eloquent letter from Rev. Shadrack Bostwick (itinerant preacher who located in 1805, but continued to serve as a local preacher in Canfield), expressing thanks for a letter received from Rev. Finley. He has fine memories of serving God together on the Western Reserve. He talks about Christian love and the joy they will experience when they meet again after death. Abstract Number - 7https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/finley-letters/1006/thumbnail.jp

William Duer to John Matthews, April 29, 1782

William Duer wrote from the Office of Finance to John Matthews, Governor of South Carolina. He wrote acknowledging a letter received at Jacksonburgh and said he was happy the Governor would be sending Accounts of Expenditures for January, February, and March. Once those reports were received and he spoke with Mr. Hall, William would have been able to judge a system the state had adopted.https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/lhc_1780s/1078/thumbnail.jp

Letter from Dorothy Gwinn for Senator Langer to Ruby Fox Regarding Enrollment Issue, May 19, 1952

This letter, dated May 19, 1952, from Dorothy Gwinn on behalf of United States (US) Senator William Langer to Ruby Fox of Billings Montana, makes reference to a letter received from Fox regarding the refusal of the Tribal Business Council to enroll three of her children, despite enrolling her oldest child. Gwinn writes that Langer is checking into the matter and that she will hear from Langer\u27s office as soon as a report is available. See also: Letter from Senator Langer to Dillon S. Myer Regarding Ruby Fox Enrollment Issue, May 19, 1952https://commons.und.edu/langer-papers/1894/thumbnail.jp

Mr. John Muir\u27s Reply to a Letter Received from Hon. James R. Garfield in Relation to the Destructive Hetch-Hetchy Scheme.

UQL DIAGR OF (SEE PRECEDING PAGE.) MR. JOHN MUIR\u27S MI CEIVED FROM HON, IN RELATION TO T METCIMSLSTfC] A LETTER RE- ES R. GARFIELD E DESTRUCTIVE Y SCHEME. Hon. Jas. R. Garfield, Secretary of Interior, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: I have just received your letter on my return from Southern California, where I have been calling attention to the Yosemite National Park, and the persistent efforts now being made in Congress to obtain permission to destroy the Hetch-Hetchy Valley, one of its most wonderful and useful features. You have had ample opportunity to know where I stand on this whole Hetch-Hetchy question from my published writings. In general my views are in accord with those of Hon. E. A. Hitchcock, your immediate predecessor, who in 1903 denied this same application for the invasion of the Yosemite National Park, saying: It is proposed to convert Lake Eleanor and Hetch-Hetchy Valley, respectively, into reservoirs for the storage of a water supply for the city. Both are admittedly scenic features of the Yosemite National Park. . . . Hetch-Hetchy Valley is widely known for its wonderful natural conditions and marvelous scenic interest. . . . The Valley proper is about three and one-half miles long and of a width varying from one quarter to three quarters of a mile. The rugged granite walls, crowned with domes, towers, spires and battlements, seem to rise almost perpendicular upon all sides to a height of two thousand five hundred feet above this beautiful emerald meadow. . . . If natural scenic attractions of the grade and character of Lake Eleanor and Hetch-Hetchy Valley are not of the class which the law commands the Secretary to preserve and retain in their natural condition, it would seem difficult to find any in the park that are, unless it be the Yosemite Valley itself. In the absence of the clearest expression to the contrary, it is inconceivable that it was intended by the Act of February 15, 1901, to confer any authority to be exercised for the subversion of those natural conditions which are essential to the very purposes for which the park was established. Presumably the Yosemite National Park was created such by law because of the natural objects, of varying degrees of scenic importance, located within its boundaries, inclusive alike of its beautiful small lakes, like Eleanor, and its majestic wonders, like Hetch-Hetchy and Yosemite Aalley. It is the aggregation of such natural scenic features that makes the Yosemite Park a wonderland which the Congress of the United States sought by law to preserve for all coming time as nearly as practicable in the condition fashioned by the hand of the Creator—a worthy object of national pride and a source of healthful pleasure and rest for the thousands of people who may annually sojourn there during the heated months. Having in view the ends for.which the Park was established and the law which clearly defines my duty in the premises, I am constrained to deny the application. I also agree with Hon. John W. Noble, another former Secretary of the Interior, who, in a letter to Hon. Frank W. Mondell, M. C, Chairman Committee Public Lands, said: Upon the policy of surrendering the Hetch-Hetchy Valley and its surroundings to the use of the city of San Francisco for water supply, allow me to express to you my conviction that such appropriation should not be made. Permit me also to recall that during the Harrison Administration these reservations, in connection with Yosemite Park, were discussed and advanced, with the system then inaugurated of protecting our natural and wonderful scenery and our forests and other resources. It took labor and moral courage to withstand the fierce opposition of local interests to do this. Among the most important reservations secured were these now asked for a city to be abandoned. It ought not to be done. The city has abundant water supply other than the reservoir to be constructed here, and it is not necessary to give this up. I am also in sympathy with the following statement by Mr. J. Horace McFarland, President of the American Civic Association, in his address delivered May 14. 1908, before the White House Conference on the Conservation of Natural Resources: The national parks—all too few in number and extent—ought to be held absolutely inviolate, as intended by Congress. Intrusions for questionable water-supply needs, against the unselfish protests of those whose love of country cannot be impugned, should not be permitted. Also with the President who, in speaking of the Yellowstone Park in his Annual Message to Congress, said: This, like the Yosemite, is a great wonderland and should be kept as a national playground. In both all wild things should be protected and the scenery kept wholly unmarred. Also in general with the views of the. AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB SIERRA CLUB OF CALIFORNIA APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB OF BOSTON MAZAMAS OF PORTLAND MOUNTAINEERS OF SEATTLE AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION AMERICAN SCENIC AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY The more I study your decision upon the application of the City of San Francisco for the Hetch-Hetchy Valley and Lake Eleanor sites, a marked copy of which you enclosed for me, the greater seems the mistake you have made in allowing the city to destroy any part of the Park on any pretext whatever. Nor can I see justice from any point of view in giving away, as you have done, to less than half a million citizens that which belongs to and is needed by more than eighty millions. You say that Mr. Pinchot has given this matter the most careful consideration, and is in full accord with your action in granting the right to the city. Unfortunately, Mr. Pinchot never saw the Hetch- Hetchy Valley or the great Tuolumne Canon above it, and therefore his opinion should have very little weight against that of hundreds of mountain lovers who have long enjoyed and appreciated its wonders. Anyhow, Mr. Secretary, though devoutly differing with you on this important matter, I am still, with sincere respect, Faithfully yours, 3. The Hetch-Hetchy Valley is a wonderfully exact counterpart of the great Yosemite. 4. The Grand Canon of the Tuolumne is one of the finest canons in America with its wonderful cascades and waterfalls and tremendous cliffs and walls. 2. The upper Tuolumne Valley is the widest, smoothest, most serenely spacious, and in every way the most delightful pleasure park in all the High Sierra. —John Muir. The scenery is particularly grand. . . . Through this section of the park, wood, water, and grass abound, making it a paradise for campers. —Report of U. S. Engineers. I know of no place more delightful. . . . The scenery is nowhere more glorious.\u27\u27—Dr. Joseph Le Conte—the late eminent scientist. See diagram on last page. The shaded portion represents substantially the area of the Tuolumne drainage which would be affected by the Hetch-Hetchy grant. On the question of the impossibility of using the park as a collecting ground for a municipal water supply and also allowing the public to travel over and enjoy it, Mr. J. Horace McFarland, President of the American Civic Association, who has given the subject of sanitation in relation to civic water supplies extensive and careful consideration, says: Moreover, if this valley is given up for this purpose, whether or not it is so stated, inevitably in the future all the tributary watershed supplying the water impounded must be given up to the purpose of the water supply of the City of San Francisco, and therefore must be removed completely from public use.https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/1297/thumbnail.jp

Letter from James B. Finley to Brother Jordan

Finley (Presiding Elder, Dayton District) responds to a letter received from Brother Jordan. Finley had recently preached at Jordan\u27s church. Jordan wrote to complain about Finley\u27s sermon, which he interpreted to be pro-slavery. A remark of Finley\u27s was misinterpreted as advocating the abuse of Negroes. Finley writes forcefully that he is not pro-slavery. Because he does not believe in abolitionism, he is frequently slandered as a pro-slavery man. On a second matter, Finley met with the Board of Stewards at the church and was greatly insulted by remarks about the amount of his pay. I have never been so rudely treated by any set of stewards in my life. Abstract Number - 975https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/finley-letters/1960/thumbnail.jp