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Letter from Shidzuyo Miyake to Renichi Fujimoto, 1910 July 1

Letter from Shidzuyo Miyake to Renichi Fujimoto dated 1910 July 1. In the letter Shidzuyo describes receiving a letter containing a set of beautiful fruit paintings and provides updates about her brothers, Etsuji and Saburo. She asks about a small knife in a postcard she received from Renichi and then continues on to express her desire to move to the United States. Shidzuyo married Masuo Yasui in 1912.
Translation Note: The letter has been translated into modern Japanese and English.

Yasui, Shidzuyo, 1886-1960

Letter from Abigail Scott Duniway to the editor of the O. A. C. Barometer

Letter from Abigail Scott Duniway to the editor of the O. A. C. Barometer

A letter from Abigail Scott Duniway to the editor of the Oregon Agricultural College (O.A.C.) Barometer requesting that they run an appeal to voters in their paper in advance of the 1908 election to vote on an equal suffrage amendment for the state of Oregon. The letter is written on the letterhead for the Oregon State Equal Suffrage Association.

Duniway, Abigail Scott, 1834-1915

Letter from Oregon Equal Suffrage Association

Letter from Oregon Equal Suffrage Association

A letter addressed to “Dear Friend,” from members of the Oregon Equal Suffrage Association asking voters to vote yes on the equal suffrage amendment in the 1906 Oregon elections. The letter is signed by Abigail Scott Duniway, Mrs. Henry Waldo Coe, Charlotte M. Cartwright, Sarah A. Evans, and Esther C. Pohl.

Oregon Equal Suffrage Association

Letter from Delazon Smith to Mary Shepherd Smith

Letter from Delazon Smith to Mary Shepherd Smith

Letter written by Delazon Smith to his wife, Mary Shepherd Smith on February 14, 1859. The letter announces the admission of Oregon as a state in the Union. It also includes an account of Smith drawing lots with Joseph Lane for the length of their senatorial terms.

Smith, Delazon

Lorenzo Lorain correspondence

Lorenzo Lorain correspondence

Twenty-one letters written by Lorenzo Lorain between 1855 and 1861. The letters contain descriptions of Lorain’s military service, including yellow fever epidemics, the forced removal of Native peoples from the western region of the Oregon Territory to the Coast Reservation, and his photography. The letters are addressed from West Point Academy, Aspinwall, Fort Dalles, San Francisco, Fort Walla Walla, Fort Umpqua, and Camp Day near the Klamath Basin. The correspondents include Lorain’s father, Dr. Henry Tilden Lorain, and his sisters, Mary Jane Ashman and Martha (Merty) Eliza Lorain.

Lorain, Lorenzo

Letter from Narcissa Whitman to Clarissa Prentiss, 1847 July 4-August 23

Letter from Narcissa Whitman to Clarissa Prentiss, 1847 July 4-August 23

Letter from Narcissa Whitman to Clarissa Prentiss about possibility of Edward Prentiss and Jane Prentiss coming to Oregon Territory, missionary activities including efforts to purchase Waskopum mission at The Dalles, Euro-American emigrants, and Native peoples' reaction to incoming emigrants

Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss, 1808-1847

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