Manuscript Collection: Miscellaneous Papers
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This contains various letters from different people, different times, and different locations, on different topics. Perhaps most noteworthy is a diary dated December 15, 1816 to January 22, 1817. This is a bound diary with "Rufus Hatch, Bowling, VT" on inside front cover. (Rufus Hatch was born in Wells, Maine in 1832 and died in 1893. In 1851 he moved to Rockford, Illinois. He was a financier and promoter.) Note on opposite page says "This contains some memos of my brother Henry's passage etc.". About half the pages are blank. The remainder contain an account of a voyage from the mouth of the Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico. Two loose sheets describe the writer's trip from Burlington, Vermont to the mouth of the Ohio. The diary generally mentions effects of the New Madrid earthquake of 1811, the Chickasaw Bluffs, Fort Picaney, Spanish Fort and Cypress Bend.
Access Restrictions
Available by appointment only at the Helmerich Center for American Research (HCAR) with the exception of materials with donor restrictions. Contact Library staff in advance to inquire if materials exist pertaining to your research interests.
Use Restrictions
Please contact the Rights and Reproduction Department for information on publishing or reproducing materials included in these records. Permission will be granted by the Gilcrease Museum as the owner of the physical materials, and does not imply permission from the copyright holder. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain all necessary permissions from the copyright holder.
Provenance
The Gilcrease Foundation acquired these materials before 1964 and is housed in the Helmerich Center for American Research (HCAR). The library currently receives most materials through community donation, board members, artists and the acquisition of manuscript collections.
Staff, interns, and volunteers of the Thomas Gilcrease Library and Archive have contributed to the organization and maintenance of the files since the collection passed to the City of Tulsa in the 1950s.