Category: Of Note

Refined by: (Author) Julie Miller

Argument taking place among men on crowded skiffs, with larger sailing vessels and mountains in background

Of Note: Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra’s Nootka Sound Journal

January 12, 2023

In 1792 Spanish-Peruvian naval officer Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra sailed up the coast of North America to meet with George Vancouver and the leaders of the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island. His journal is in the Manuscript Division.

Posted in: Early America, Hispanic and Latino History, Of Note

Handwritten copy (with deletions crossed out and additions added) of the first few sentence of Jefferson

Of Note: Thomas Jefferson Thinks Again: A New Letter about Logan, Cresap, and the Yellow Creek Massacre

September 8, 2022

Posted by: Julie Miller

In 1797 Vice-President Thomas Jefferson learned that the perpetrator of the Yellow Creek Massacre was not the man he had named in his Notes on the State of Virginia. A letter newly acquired by the Manuscript Division tells the story.

Posted in: Early America, Native American History, Of Note, Politics

Refined by: (Author) Julie Miller