correspondence
Found in 781 Collections and/or Records:
Owen Brown letters
Collection includes correspondence, primarily to Owen Brown from various members of the Brown family, regarding family history and a book on the Tabitha Moffat and Clark Brown family by Ella Spooner; and some miscellaneous family documents. Owen Brown was the great-grandson of Tabitha Moffat Brown.
Robert Brown collection
Collection consists largely of photocopies of articles by Robert Brown published in various scientific journals, 1868-1870, on botany, medicinal plants, birds, geology and Native American use of medicinal plants in the Pacific Northwest. Also included is a photocopy of a manuscript letter from Archibald Menzies to Robert Brown.
Bryant family papers
William P. Bryant papers
Collection includes typescript and photocopied manuscript letters to William P. Bryant, travel documents, and papers relating to his appointment as the first chief justice in the Oregon Territory; microfilm of the same materials, with additional correspondence and documents; biographical information; and original documents.
William G. Buffum papers
Miscellaneous manuscript correspondence, receipts, bills, notes, and legal documents of a farmer and merchant in Yamhill County, Oregon.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton papers
Collection includes photostat manuscript letters regarding the Hudson's Bay Company and the governance of British Columbia; and photostat manuscript records of imports and exports from British Columbia and Vancouver Island to England. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) was Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Marshal P. Burnett papers
Harry James Burnham papers
Collection includes correspondence, 1892-1952; financial papers, 1909-1952; notes, primers and ephemera, 1902-1947, used by Harry James Burnham's wife, Carrie Wilson Burnham, while a teacher with Gilliam County School District No. 3; correspondence and tax returns of Harry J. Wiseman, 1921-1924.
Burnside Community Council records
Unprocessed collection consisting of miscellaneous records of the Burnside Community Council, which provided services to unhoused and low-income people in Portland, Oregon, and operated a shelter called Baloney Joe's. The collection also includes photographs related to the organization's services and activities, and issues of publications including Hobo News, Pipeline, and These Homeless Times.
J. Elliott Busey collection on Marjorie Smith
Marjorie Smith (born 1921) married Oliver Kermit Smith on August 22, 1952, and was later tried and acquitted as an accomplice to his murder. Collection consists of materials regarding Marjorie Smith's trial, collected and maintained by her attorney, J. Elliott Busey. Materials include a scrapbook, correspondence, witness statements, and estate papers.