Clarence Bagley papers, 1864-1931

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Bagley, Clarence, 1843-1932
Title
Clarence Bagley papers
Dates
1864-1931 (inclusive)
Quantity
9.70 cubic feet (26 boxes) plus one oversized folder
Collection Number
0036
Summary
Papers of a pioneer, historian, journalist, author, publisher, collector, and public official of Washington
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

Open to all users.

Request at UW

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

From his arrival in Seattle in 1860 until his death in 1932 at the age of eighty-eight, Clarence Bagley was concerned with the growth of Washington as a Territory and State in general, and Seattle's growth as a city in particular. Soon after their arrival and his father's appointment as University Commissioner, Bagley became a clerk in the Surveyor General's office in 1866, shortly after his marriage to Alice Mercer.

This move brought him directly into politics and into the printing trade as well. While working in the Surveyor General's office in Olympia, Bagley came under the tutelage of Randall Hewitt, owner of the Territorial Republican and the Temperance Echo. With L. G. Abbott he bought the Echo in 1868 but sold his interest shortly thereafter and took employment with the Commercial Age, organ of the Republican Party. When this newspaper was discontinued in 1870, he returned to Seattle, remaining until May 1871, when he became deputy in the internal revenue office, holding the position until 1873. While in this office he worked with the Puget Sound Courier, finally buying it in 1873, and emerging as Territorial Printer for the next ten years. He sold the Courier and the printing office in 1884, returning to Seattle to stay in 1885 after a brief interval in Portland as a deputy collector of internal revenue.

By now a confirmed publisher, Clarence Bagley joined with others and purchased the Post-Intelligencer in 1886, which he managed until L. S. J. Hunt took it over that same year. Other ephemeral ventures followed, one in banking and one again in newspapers, joining with Homer Hill for two years in publishing the Daily Press.

In 1890 he was elected to the House of Delegates of the City Council from where he fought open gambling and Seattle's "open town" policy with the result that doors were barred on many of the "gambling hells. " Following upon this experience in elective office he acted as an adviser in writing the 1893 city charter, contributing clauses affecting assessments for local improvements.

From 1893 until his appointment as Secretary of the Board of Public Works in 1900, he worked in the City Comptroller's office. He continued as Secretary of the Board until his retirement in 1929. These experiences in city government and his ever-present concern for governmental efficiency led him to become candidate in 1909 for the Republican nomination for councilman from the Eighth Ward. He announced his candidacy in letters to friends, but did not actively canvass his ward for votes. He stressed his alarm with what, in his opinion, was a growing trend toward mismanagement and extravagance in city affairs. Promising a "square deal, " Bagley felt this could be changed with a business-like economy and management terminating in better, cleaner government.

The election itself, with its many side issues, was unsettling for him as he associated political reporting with what he considered to be honestly partisan, and took exception to the methods used by 1910 newspapermen, not only in his own case but on behalf of all the candidates. He lost the election to Elbert F. Blaine, and explained that the loss was due to his association with the "City Hall Gang, " whom the voters had rejected completely.

Until this point in his career, he appears to have been a public servant first and a historian second. Now his interest in historical writing resurfaced. He had begun two years previously to edit the manuscripts of William I. Marshall's Acquisition of Oregon. Marshall, whom Bagley had met in 1905, had devoted twenty years to disproving the "Whitman Saved Oregon" myth, and after his death in 1906, Bagley and Thompson Coit Elliott, both interested in seeing the work published, joined to edit the manuscript and to assist the widow financially.

Despite feeling that his position with the Board of Public Works took too much time away from historical study, he stayed on as Secretary, editing Marshall's work for publication in his spare time; it appeared in 1911. This was followed by publication of articles in historical quarterlies and journals, and in 1916, The History of Seattle appeared, culminating more than two years of research.

With publication of this work, Clarence Bagley's often-expressed dream of writing the history of his region was becoming a reality. He had little sympathy for writers who romanticized the facts of history into fiction that bore little or no resemblance to actuality. However, his view of "actuality" was restricted by rigid adherence to the "pioneer code" on the one hand and self-imposed limitations on the other, as he illustrated in a letter to Edmond S. Meany in 1911:

"Sometime I shall write a history of Seattle, and while what I shall say will be the truth I shall not give all the truth. I shall rake up no old stories of evil. "

His activities were not confined to writing. He gave his time freely in efforts to organize pioneer societies and similar groups, frequently being called upon for speeches and public appearances in connection with pioneer-inspired celebrations.

In 1905 he had become deeply involved in a dispute between the historical societies of Seattle and Tacoma. Consolidation of effort and location under the aegis of the State was suggested by the Seattle group when its members (including Meany, Cornelius Hanford, Thomas Burke, Roger S. Greene and John P. Hoyt) decided that the Tacoma society was "dead. " Most of the members of the Seattle group had aided in founding the Washington State Historical Society in 1891. But the early years turned into a struggle for mere existence which Bagley et al regarded as a hindrance to accomplishment of the Society's original purposes of collection and preservation of historical source materials. This suggestion revitalized the slumbering rivalry of the two cities and the battle was joined. Bagley became the unofficial spokesman for the Washington University State Historical Society which had been newly founded. In a letter to Professor J.N. Bowman of the State Normal School in Bellingham, he explained:

"Experience had proved that the Societies thus allied with State Universities have done the best work, and that this will be true here."

Proposals of merger were not accepted by Tacoma, and the Washington State Historical Society remained a separate body. Unallied with the Tacoma group in either effort or ideals, Bagley was elected president of the Washington University State Historical Society, and under his leadership the work of collecting and preserving original data was begun. His vision of a central repository for historical research materials was challenged once again in 1915, when the King County Historical Society sought allocation of land on University-owned property.

In a letter to Winlock W. Miller of Seattle, Bagley called for a "concert of action in historical efforts, " insisting that "I have seen so many similar efforts live a precarious existence and finally die from slow decay that I may be permitted to express doubts as to the long life or active work of the present one."

In the public mind Bagley symbolized Pacific Northwest history in many ways. The post-office delivered letters to him addressed merely "Historian, Seattle, Washington;" newspapers of the city began to refer to him affectionately as "Pop, " and the Seattle Chamber of Commerce directed all of its inquiries on historical matters to his desk in City Hall.

In 1929 he brought out his History of King County. With retirement, articles and pamphlets began to appear with regularity. Indian Myths of the Northwest, "compiled, annotated and expurgated" as he wrote to a friend, was published in 1930.

Plans for future publications simmered. Clarence Bagley began 1932 with letters to friends expressing enthusiasm for his many historical projects, and often a small boast regarding his health. He was proud of the two-mile walk he took each day from his home on Seattle's Queen Anne hill "to town, rain or shine. " But a lingering cold developed into pneumonia, and on February 17, 1932, "Pop" Bagley died.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Correspondence, legal documents, historical writings, speeches, and reports 1864-1931. His historical collection includes materials on Washington territorial Indian wars, the Hudson's Bay Company, anti-Chinese sentiment in Seattle, and early banking in Seattle and Puyallup, Washington. Also includes Bagley's copy of his book The Acquisition and Pioneering of Old Oregon, 1924, with clippings and letters pasted within.

Other Descriptive InformationReturn to Top

Major publications of Clarence Bagley:

  • The Acquisition and Pioneering of Old Oregon. Seattle, Argus Print, 1924. 41 p.
  • Along the Oregon Trail in 1852; Reminiscences of an Overland Journey from Illinois to the Oregon Country 72 Years Ago. [New York City, Motor Travel, 1924] (From Motor Travel, v, xv, nos. 10, 11, 12, January to March, 1924, pp. 13-20, 11-16, 11-18 respectively.)
  • History of King County, Washington. Chicago, Seattle, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1929. 3 v.
  • History of Seattle from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. Chicago, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1916. 3 v. also: Supplement in 1916, "Seattle. "
  • In the Beginning: A Sketch of Some Early Events in Western Washington While It Was Still a Part of "Old Oregon." Seattle, Lowman and Hanford, 1905. 90 p.
  • Indian Myths of the Northwest. Seattle, Lowman and Hanford, 1930. 148 p.
  • Pioneer Seattle and Its Founders. [Seattle? 1924?] 17 p.
  • Pioneer Seattle and Its Pioneers. Seattle, 1928. 17 p. [This is the same as Pioneer Seattle and Its Founders but it includes photographs]
  • Early Catholic Missions in Old Oregon. 2 vols. Seattle, Lowman and Hanford, 1932.
  • Charters of the City of Seattle Beginning With the Original Charter of 1869 and Embracing All Subsequent Charters With Each and Every Amendment Thereto Compiled and Arranged Chronologically. Seattle, Record Publishing Co., 1910.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Arranged in three accessions:

  • Accession No. 0036-001, Clarence Bagley papers, 1864-1931
  • Accession No. 0036-002, Clarence Bagley papers, 1924
  • Accession No. 0036-003, Clarence Bagley papers, undated

Processing Note

Notes written by Judith M. Johnson.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

 

Accession No. 0036-001: Clarence Bagley papers, 1864-1931Return to Top

9.49 cubic feet ( 25 boxes)
Arrangement: Arranged in 2 parts:
  • Purchased papers and collected materials
  • Donated materials

Scope and Content: Correspondence, legal documents including abstracts, deeds, indentures, and financial records of the Lake Washington Coal Company and the Seattle Coal Company; historical writings; speeches; and reports reflecting his career as historian and collector; Territorial printer, 1873-84; newspaper publisher, 1868-89, and secretary of the Seattle Board of Public Works, 1900-29. His historical collection includes materials on Washington territorial Indian wars, the Hudson's Bay Company, anti-Chinese sentiment in Seattle, and early banking in Seattle and Puyallup, Washington.

Sharp delineation of young Clarence Bagley's character and activities, as well as the social and economic motivations that inspired them, may be found in the voluminous correspondence between father and son during the twenty-odd years when Clarence Bagley was in Olympia. Weekly letters, exchanged from 1862 until the middle 1870s, are rich in commentary on politics, business, and society. Here the researcher will discover a tempestuous, impatient and often hot-headed son urging his father into political activity and real estate ventures (the Bagleys were part-owners of a coal mine on which they hoped to realize a profit by selling their interests at the opportune time; and both father and son speculated on property in King and Thurston Counties); while letters from Reverend Bagley to his son contain steadying advice and occasional urgings to declare his allegiance to the Church.

Hints of what actually transpired between Clarence Bagley and Selucius Garfielde, as the latter's political career waned, are found in the letters which Garfielde wrote to Bagley. Although Bagley did not consistently preserve his outgoing correspondence until 1903, there are many of the details of the earlier years in letters to his father and in the retrospective exchange of letters with Edward Huggins (former Hudson's Bay Company employee and later owner of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company). Although Huggins was older and their contacts had been few during the time of Huggins's residence at Fort Nisqually, the younger Bagley in later years came to regard him as a contemporary. They had shared an experience, as pioneers, that set them apart from friends met later in life. Between 1903 and Huggins's death in 1907, more than three hundred letters passed between them. As a result, the Huggins-Bagley exchange of letters is a rich source of historical and anecdotal material about many of the more prominent figures of early Puget Sound history.

Shortly after Huggins's death, Bagley acquired another, equally prolific correspondent in Thompson Coit Elliott. Their previously mentioned partnership in editing and publishing Marshall's Acquisition of Oregon soon developed into a warm friendship. Elliott was an investment banker in Walla Walla, president of the Inland Empire Historical Society, and treasurer of Whitman College from 1895 to 1900. Because of his involvement with Bagley in publication of Marshall's work, Elliott drew bitter criticism from officials at Whitman College, who were at that time attempting to acquire the Fort Walla Walla site for further expansion of the school. Elliott held that the college was trading on the Whitman myth to accomplish what he termed a "land grab. "

From about 1911 onward, a temperate moderating spirit seems more evident in Clarence Bagley's letters. With the exception of issues on the national level of politics, he became mellow and tolerant to a degree that amazed even himself.

"... I am a very strong partisan, but of late years am more inclined to look on both sides of the ticket, except on National questions. There I am a bed rock Republican and it would be a very bad nomination indeed to make me not vote the ticket straight. "

Although he never yielded to his father's promptings to join the Methodist Church, he had been raised in an atmosphere of prejudice and dislike for missionaries of the Roman Catholic Church and agents of the Hudson's Bay Company. Beginning as early as the family's stay in Salem, the young Bagley had become fast friends with the children of the early Protestant missionaries, and had imbibed their slanted opinions regarding both Catholics and Hudson's Bay Company people. Yet in his later correspondence, Bagley seemingly could not resist pointing to the humor of his situation. He had just completed writing and editing a publication for the Roman Catholic Church, and in a note to George H. Himes, president of the Oregon Historical Society, describing his work, he concluded, "... all of this done by a son of a Protestant Clergyman will have Bishop O'Dea's approval. "

In his correspondence with Himes, he displays a natural and relaxed approach. Subtle wit, with himself often its prey, pervades the letters. His undiluted opinions on national politics, which had replaced local politics in his thoughts after 1914, appear most frequently in his letters to Himes. If he had labeled himself a "bed rock Republican" in 1904, by the end of the war he had become even more firmly entrenched in his ideas of Americanism when the specter of "Bolshevism" seemed to materialize in the strikes and riots of 1918 and 1919. Perhaps in reaction to the General Strike of 1919, which had just shaken Seattle's complacency, he mounted an attack on the alien element in the population. He declared to Himes:

"... Every 'Red,' I. W. W., Bolshevic [sic], or whatever the traitors or enemies of our government go by, they should be deported at once, and laws passed so stringent that they and their kind can never again come here. "

In municipal affairs Bagley grew uneasy about the growth of City Light under J. D. Ross' driving leadership. He really did not approve of municipal ownership of electric power, so two years after his retirement, he congratulated Mayor Edwards for firing Ross and volunteered support in the event of a recall movement being instigated against Mayor Edwards. (The Mayor was recalled.)

The varied paths which Clarence Bagley followed in his eighty-eight years, most of which are illuminated in his papers, lead to a unique distillation of another, in many ways less complex, era of American life and enterprise. It is the purpose of this necessarily limited exposition of the many facets of the Bagley papers to provide the researcher with an adequate introduction to their potential as a source of Puget Sound and Northwest history.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Acquisition Info: Purchased from Clarence Bagley in February in 1919, and donated by the Bagley-Mercer Company on April 6, 1959.

Container(s) Description Dates
Purchased papers and collected materials
Arrangement: Arranged in 7 series:
  • Incoming correspondence
  • Outgoing correspondence
  • Legal documents
  • Mining companies
  • Writings
  • Pioneer letters
  • Other pioneer materials
Acquisition Info: Purchased from Clarence Bagley in 1919.
Incoming correspondence
Individual name folders
Box/Folder Accession
1/1 0036-001
Abernethy, Alexander Smith
4 letters
1878
1/2 0036-001
Allen, Carrie L.
4 letters
1900, 1906
1/3 0036-001
Allen, J.S.
3 letters
1906
1/4 0036-001
Allen, John Beard, 1845-1903
4 letters
1882, 1883, 1887
1/5 0036-001
Andrews, Clarence Leroy, 1862-1948
10 letters
1898, 1903-1905
1/6 0036-001
Andrews, Lyman Beach, 1829-1913
12 letters
1865-1875
1/7 0036-001
Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918
16 letters
1882-1895
1/8 0036-001
Barnard, William E.
1 letter
1866
1/9 0036-001
Bartlett, N.H.
1 letter
1876
1/10 0036-001
Beach, Louis P., 1833-1873
4 letters
1867-1868
1/11 0036-001
Berry, Haidee L.
3 letters
1883-1884
1/12 0036-001
Brents, Thomas Hurley, 1840-1916
8 letters
1880, 1883
1/13 0036-001
Brown, Beriah
3 letters
1873, 1874
1/14 0036-001
Burke, Thomas, 1849-1925
3 letters
1903, 1908, 1916
1/14b 0036-001
B Miscellaneous
1/15 0036-001
Carr, J. Tyler
9 letters
1863-1871
1/16 0036-001
Carr, Ossian J.
4 letters
1875
1/17 0036-001
Chapman, Memory Noble, 1845-1889
7 letters
1865-1877
1/18 0036-001
Coulter, Samuel, 1831-
6 letters
1870-1873
1/19 0036-001
Davies, Griffith
3 letters
1883
1/20 0036-001
Eells, Edwin
21 letters
1905-1917
1/21 0036-001
Eells, Myron, 1843-1907
10 letters
1902-1906
1/22 0036-001
Elder, A.R.
3 letters
1869-1874
1/23 0036-001
Evans, Elwood, -1898
4 letters
1868, 1882
1/24 0036-001
Feinler, Franz J.
3 letters
1910, 1911
1/25 0036-001
Ferry, Elisha Peyre, 1825-1895
2 letters
1894
1/26 0036-001
Frost, Robert
4 letters
1894-1906
1/27-28 0036-001
Garfielde, Selucius, 1822-1881
29 letters
1866-1874
1/29 0036-001
Gowey, John F.
1 letter
1889
1/30 0036-001
Graham, David
3 letters
1864-1875
1/31 0036-001
Greene, Roger Sherman, 1840-
8 letters
1916-1926
1/32 0036-001
Grubbs, F.H.
9 letters
1905-1909
1/33 0036-001
Hammond, William
1 letter
1873
1/34 0036-001
Hanford, Clarence, 1857-
3 letters
1880
1/35 0036-001
Hayden, James R., 1837-
3 letters
1870-1889
1/36-44 0036-001
Himes, George H.
143 letters
1880-1931
2/1 0036-001
Hopkins, C.B.
13 letters
1889-1898
2/2 0036-001
Howay, Frederick William
6 letters
1913-1926
2/3 0036-001
Hoyt, John P.
2 letters
1896
2/4-17 0036-001
Huggins, Edward, 1832-1907
186 letters
General Notes: letters in 14 folders
1903-1907
2/18 0036-001
McElroy, Harry B., -1928
6 letters
1896-1919, 1923
2/19 0036-001
McGilvra, Oliver C., 1867-
4 letters
1904, 1907
2/20 0036-001
McGraw, John Harte, 1850-1910
4 letters
1903-1908
2/21 0036-001
McMicken, William, 1827-1899
3 letters
1877-1898
2/22 0036-001
McNaught, James
1 letter
1881
2/23 0036-001
Mann, Champion B., 1844-1929
17 letters
1895-1905
2/23b 0036-001
Marshall, William I.
8 letters
1905-1914
2/23b 0036-001
Marshall, (Mrs.) William I
62 letters
1905-1914
2/24 0036-001
Meigs, George Anson, 1820-1897
2 letters
1862, 1870
2/25 0036-001
Milroy, V.A.
1 letter
1900
2/26 0036-001
Minor, Thomas T., -1889
2 letters
1876, 1881
2/27 0036-001
Moore, C.W.
11 letters
1895, 1909, undated
2/28 0036-001
Murphy, John Miller
8 letters
1886-1913
2/29 0036-001
Oliphant, E P.
1 letter
1870
2/30 0036-001
Oregon Historical Society
3 letters
1905, 1921
2/31 0036-001
Owings, Nicholas H.
5 letters
1880-1899
2/32 0036-001
Parker, John G.
4 letters
1903-1904
2/33 0036-001
Porter, Nathan S.
3 letters
1903
2/34 0036-001
Power, James
4 letters
1874-1880
2/35 0036-001
Prosch, Thomas Wickham, 1850-1915
3 letters
1899-1906
2/36 0036-001
Rasin, V.M.
1 letter
1889
2/37 0036-001
Reed, Thomas M
7 letters
1867-1903
2/38 0036-001
Richardson, Edwin C.
8 letters
1867-1894
2/39 0036-001
Richmond, Francis
6 letters
1904-1905
3/1 0036-001
Seattle, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
3 letters
1909
3/2 0036-001
Sahm, S.P.
1 letter
1875
3/3 0036-001
Sinclair, William B.
1 letter
1870
3/4 0036-001
Squire, Watson C., 1838-1926
2 letters
1890
3/5 0036-001
Stevens, Hazard, 1842-1918
3 letters
1901, 1910
3/6 0036-001
Stone, Corliss P., 1838-
5 letters
1870, 1895
3/7 0036-001
United States Internal Revenue Service, Washington (Territory)
11 letters
1865, 1866
3/8 0036-001
United States World's Columbian Commission
1 letter
1893
3/9 0036-001
Washington (State), University
4 letters
1908, 1921
3/10 0036-001
Washington (State) miscellaneous
2 letters
1889, 1923
3/11 0036-001
Washington State Historical Society
11 letters
1905, 1906
3/12 0036-001
Weir, Allen, 1854-
5 letters
1880-1903
3/13 0036-001
Whitworth, George Frederic, 1816-1907
7 letters
1866-1870
3/14 0036-001
Wisconsin State Historical Society
3 letters
1906, 1911
3/15 0036-001
Wyckoff, Ambrose Barkley, 1848-
3 letters
1908-1909
3/16 0036-001
Yesler, Henry L., 1810-1892
3 letters
1866
Miscellaneous name folders
Scope and Content: One letter per name unless otherwise indicated.
Box/Folder Accession
3/17 0036-001
Adams, Edward F.
1884
3/17 0036-001
Albertson, Robert Brookman
1901
3/17 0036-001
Alden, A.E.
1882
3/17 0036-001
Angle, Grant E.
1886
3/17 0036-001
Atkinson, John F.
2 letters
1875, 1907
3/17 0036-001
Atwood, A.
1904
3/18 0036-001
Bagley, Katherine
2 letters
1884
3/18 0036-001
Barnes, G.A.
1867
3/18 0036-001
Beal, C.
undated
3/18 0036-001
Bigelow, D.R.
1867
3/18 0036-001
Bingham, Kate Stevens
1901
3/18 0036-001
Blaine (E.P.) & DeVries, [attorneys] Seattle
1894
3/18 0036-001
Bradshaw, Charles Miner
1891
3/18 0036-001
Brainerd, Erastus
1904
3/18 0036-001
British Columbia, Provincial Archives [R.E. Gosnell]
1908
3/18 0036-001
Brown, D.B.
2 letters
1867
3/18 0036-001
Brown and Son, Seattle
1876
3/18 0036-001
Bryan, E.
2 letters
1867, 1870
3/18 0036-001
Buchanan, Thomas F.
1870
3/18 0036-001
Buifinch, James T.A.
2 letters
undated
3/19 0036-001
Calhoun, George V.
1893
3/19 0036-001
Callow, William
2 letters
1886
3/19 0036-001
Carrere
1890
3/19 0036-001
Cavanaugh, Thomas H.
1889
3/19 0036-001
Chapman, Jennie [Mrs. Memory N.]
1905
3/19 0036-001
Cook, Francis H.
2 letters
1879, 1880
3/20 0036-001
Davis, Brad W.
1889
3/20 0036-001
Denny, David T.
1901
3/20 0036-001
Denny, Rolland H.
1905
3/20 0036-001
Dodge, John
1866
3/20 0036-001
Dolph, Joseph N.
1884
3/20 0036-001
Donaldson, Thomas Blaine
1903
3/20 0036-001
Dunbar, R.O.
1889
3/21 0036-001
Eells, W.C.
1906
3/21 0036-001
Elliott, Thompson Coit
2 letters
1919, 1924
3/21 0036-001
Everett, City Clerk
1903
3/22 0036-001
Faray, W.P.
1890
3/22 0036-001
Fares, Joseph
2 letters
1866, 1867
3/22 0036-001
Fenton, William D.
1905
3/22 0036-001
Finkboner, C.C.
1875
3/23 0036-001
Gale, J.N.
1887
3/23 0036-001
Galliher, Milas
1893
3/23 0036-001
George, M.C.
2 letters
1922
3/23 0036-001
Gill, John K.
1909
3/23 0036-001
Gilliam, William H.
1901
3/23 0036-001
Gordon, Elden M.
1919
3/23 0036-001
Grant, Frederick James
undated
3/23 0036-001
Grant (Frederick James) Memorial Association
1896
3/23 0036-001
Greer, G.H.
1871
3/23 0036-001
Guyot, Fred
1897
3/24 0036-001
Harris, George W.
1870
3/24 0036-001
Henry, J.D.
2 letters
1903
3/24 0036-001
Hewitt, R.H.
1864
3/24 0036-001
Hicks, W.E.
2 letters
1903
3/24 0036-001
Hill, Nathaniel D.
1903
3/24 0036-001
Hill, William Lair
2 letters
1893
3/24 0036-001
Horton (Dexter) and Company, Seattle
1881
3/24 0036-001
Hunt, Leigh S.J.
undated
3/25 0036-001
Jenner, Charles K.
2 letters
1888, 1890
3/25 0036-001
Jones, William P.
1882
3/25 0036-001
Joslyn, A.J.
1912
3/25 0036-001
Joslyn, E.S.
1870
3/25 0036-001
Kellogg, G.
1916
3/25 0036-001
Kendrick, Rodney C.
1895
3/25 0036-001
Ketzler, P.C.
1904
3/25 0036-001
Kubel, E.F.
1879
3/26 0036-001
Lansing, Grace Moffett
1908
3/26 0036-001
Leggett (Thomas B.) & Company, New York
1861
3/26 0036-001
Lindsley, (Mrs.) A. Denny
1904
3/26 0036-001
LittleJohn, A.J.
1903
3/26 0036-001
Lewis, Perry
1904
3/26 0036-001
Lord, Harry C.
1917
3/26 0036-001
Lowman and Hanford Stationery and Printing Company, Seattle
1908
3/27 0036-001
McMicken, Maurice
1907
3/27 0036-001
Magee, (Mrs.) Charles
2 letters
1903
3/27 0036-001
Mapel, R.
1882
3/27 0036-001
Marsh, (Mrs.) Robert J.
1905
3/27 0036-001
Marshall, (Mrs.) William I.
1906
3/27 0036-001
Maxwell, G.G.
1869
3/28 0036-001
Mills College, California
1889
3/28 0036-001
Monson, Fred W.
2 letters
1893, 1894
3/28 0036-001
Moore, H.H.
1903
3/28 0036-001
Moore, Miles Conway
1889
3/28 0036-001
Moores, Charles B.
2 letters
1911, 1927
3/29 0036-001
Moultray, W.R.
1880
3/29 0036-001
Myrick, M.L.
1905
3/29 0036-001
Newland, R.G.
1880
3/29 0036-001
New York University
1912
3/29 0036-001
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
1883
3/29 0036-001
Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, Portland
1880
3/30 0036-001
Parker, Frank J.
2 letters
1913, 1920
3/30 0036-001
Pierce County Pioneer and Historical Association
1931
3/30 0036-001
Piper, Thomas H.
2 letters
1897, 1898
3/31 0036-001
Rabnett, L.S.
undated
3/31 0036-001
Radebaugh, R.F.
1884
3/31 0036-001
Reitze, Chester N.
1923
3/31 0036-001
Roberts, W.H.
2 letters
1884
3/31 0036-001
Rogers, E.R.
1903
3/31 0036-001
Runez, Carl H. [?]
1925
3/32 0036-001
Saunders, H.M.
1877
3/32 0036-001
Schafer, Joseph
1903
3/32 0036-001
Scott, Harvey W.
2 letters
1890, 1903
3/32 0036-001
Seattle Civil Service
1896
3/32 0036-001
Seattle Board of Public Works
1899
3/32 0036-001
Seattle Labor Carnival
1903
3/32 0036-001
Seattle Chamber of Commerce
1904
3/32 0036-001
Seattle Post
1880
3/32 0036-001
Seattle Savings Bank
1894
3/32 0036-001
Shackelford, (Mrs.) R.S.
1904
3/32 0036-001
Shannon, George S.
1886
3/32 0036-001
Shaser, W.S.
1910
3/32 0036-001
Smith, H.A.
1867
3/32 0036-001
Snowden, Clinton A.
1910
3/32 0036-001
Snyder, Alfred
1879
3/32 0036-001
Steel, George A
1879
3/32 0036-001
Stone, Fred P.
1883
3/32 0036-001
Stone, N.J.
1895
3/32 0036-001
Steward, G.H.
1878
3/32 0036-001
Struve, Henry G.
1874
3/33 0036-001
Talkington, H.L.
1916
3/33 0036-001
Thomas, C.E.
1928
3/33 0036-001
Treadway, A.J.
2 letters
1867, 1868
3/33 0036-001
Treen, L.A.
1884
3/33 0036-001
Trimble, W.J.
1914
3/33 0036-001
Trumbull, C.G.
1910
3/34 0036-001
Vawter, William
1881
3/34 0036-001
Venen, L.P.
1894
3/35 0036-001
Wahkiukum County Auditor
2 letters
1876, 1877
3/35 0036-001
Walling, A.G.
1888
3/35 0036-001
Ward, Dillis B.
2 letters
1867, 1868
3/35 0036-001
Ward, Mark R.
1880
3/35 0036-001
Weed, G.A.
1883
3/35 0036-001
The West Shore [magazine], Portland.
1883
3/35 0036-001
Wheat, Jonathan R.
1881
3/35 0036-001
Whitworth, J.E.
1869
3/35 0036-001
Whitworth, John M.
2 letters
1869, 1873
3/35 0036-001
Williams, George
1905
3/35 0036-001
World's Work
1905
3/36 0036-001
Yantis, John V.
1876
3/36 0036-001
Young, A.B.
2 letters
1869, 1876
Box/Folder Accession
3/37 0036-001
Letter from an unidentified author
1 letter
1908
3/38 0036-001
Letters in which Bagley is referred to
5 letters
1869-1910
3/39 0036-001
Letters introducing Bagley
5 letters
1862, 1890
3/40 0036-001
Fragments of letters, memos, etc.
8 items
Box/Folder Accession
4/1-20 0036-001
Outgoing correspondence
20 folders containing 323 letters
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
General Notes: The outgoing correspondence series of Part 2: Donated materials, should be used in conjunction with this series.
1867-1931
Legal documents
1865-1897
Box/Folder Accession
5/1 0036-001
Power of attorney, John A. Suffern to Arthur A. Denny, notarized by Bagley
1865
5/1 0036-001
Agreement between Samuel Coulter (agent for Commercial Age Printing and Publishing Association) and Bagley
Scope and Content: Regarding publication of Commercial Age newspaper for the interests of the Republican Party and Selucius Garfielde.
1869
5/1 0036-001
Acknowledgement of indebtedness, Bagley to Susannah R. Bagley
1882
5/1 0036-001
Memorandum of agreement between Bagley and Homer M. Hill regarding Press Publishing Company, Seattle
1891
5/1 0036-001
Memorandum of receipt of goods from Hubert H. Bancroft
1897
Box/Folder Accession
5/2 0036-001
Mining Companies
9 items
Scope and Content: Papers of the Lake Washington Coal Company, Seattle Coal Company and stock certificates in other mining companies.
circa 1868-1870
Writings
Scope and Content: Miscellaneous writings by Bagley.
Box/Folder Accession
5/2a 0036-001
Manuscripts of various addresses by Bagley
4 items
undated
5/3 0036-001
Articles regarding Chief Seattle, Angeline, first settlement at Alki Point, notes on early printers in the Territory, criticism of Whitman Myth.
4 items
undated
5/4 0036-001
Oregon Trail articles
2 items
undated
5/5 0036-001
Pioneer reminiscences; missionary notes, etc.; notes regarding sale of University lands.
6 items
undated
Pioneer letters
Box/Folder Accession
5/6 0036-001
From: Alexander, William (Whidbey Island)
1862
5/6 0036-001
From: Anderson, J.W. (Olympia); To: Marsh, Edwin
1862 April 29
5/6 0036-001
From: Applegate, Jesse (Yoncalla); To: Allan, George T.
1854 May 31
5/6 0036-001
From: Armstrong, Martha (Vancouver, Washington Territory); To: Castro, Abbie
1862 February 16
5/6 0036-001
From: Armstrong, Martha (Columbia County, Oregon); To: Castro, Abbie
1862 April 6
5/6 0036-001
From: Atkins, H.A.; To: Horton, Dexter
1868 February 4
5/6 0036-001
From: Avery, John W. (Sacramento); To: Plummer, George
1863 April 24
5/7 0036-001
From: Bagley Susannah Rogers (Salem, Oregon); To: Whipple, Andrew
1855 May 8
5/7 0036-001
From: Ball, Harry M. (Tacoma); To: Nichol, W.H.
1892 January 18
5/7 0036-001
From: Battle, C.C. (Brownsville, Tennessee); To: Lane, Joseph
1854 December 17
5/7 0036-001
From: Beach, L.P. (Portland); To: Struve, Henry G.
1873 February 3
5/7 0036-001
From: Begg, Alex (Tacoma); To: Henry, Francis
1889 September 13
5/7 0036-001
From: Bonser, Rebecca (Columbia County, Oregon); To: "Dear Children"
1862
5/7 0036-001
From: Brannan, Joseph (Seattle); To: Simmons, Michael T.
1862 December 26
5/7 0036-001
From: Beach, Louis P. (Umatilla, Oregon)
undated
5/7 0036-001
From: Barnard, William E. (Seattle); To: Blinn, Marshall
: photocopy
1865 October 2
5/8 0036-001
From: Cain, A.J. (Madison, Indiana)
1857
5/8 0036-001
From: Carr, Ossian J. (Seattle); To: Dickenson, O.
1880? January 23
5/8 0036-001
From: Carr, Ossian J. (Seattle)
1856?
5/8 0036-001
From: Cashmere, Joseph (Olympia); To: Chisholm, Collin
1870 Septmeber 10
5/8 0036-001
From: Chappellier, Joseph (Cowlitz Prairie)
1866
5/8 0036-001
From: Clagett, Charles W. (Washington, D.C.); To: Denny, Arthur A.
1893 August 22
5/8 0036-001
From: Clancey, Charles K. (Olympia); To: Baldwin
1866 May 13
5/8 0036-001
From: Clarke, J.P. (Olympia); To: Boone, Edward D.
1870 March 26
5/8 0036-001
From: Cullom S.M. (Washington, D.C.); To: Pinkham, A.J.
1898 December 20
5/9 0036-001
From: Denny, Arthur A. (Seattle); To: Chapman, W.W.
1857 October 12
5/9 0036-001
From: Denny, Arthur A. (Olympia); To: Mercer, Thomas
1862 February 14
5/9 0036-001
From: Denny, Arthur A. (Olympia); To: Mercer, Thomas
1862 March 17
5/9 0036-001
From: Denny, Arthur A. (Olympia); To: Plummer, George
1864 November l
5/9 0036-001
From: Denny, D.T. (Seattle); To: North End Bank
1893 July 26
5/9 0036-001
From: Dickson, Campbell & Company (Victoria, British Columbia); To: Wright, Thomas
1863 January 7
5/9 0036-001
From: Dowell, B.F. (Jacksonville, Oregon Territory); To: United States District Court
1855 August 4
5/9 0036-001
From: Doyle, James A.; To: Drew, Michael S.
1871 January 5
5/9 0036-001
From: Drummond, Willis (Washington, D.C.); To: United States General Land Office, Olympia
1871 November 15
5/9 0036-001
From: Dubeau, L.L. (Cowlitz); To: McFadden, O.B.
1870 November 10
5/10 0036-001
From: Edna; To: Andrews, Clarence L.
1893 July 14
5/10 0036-001
From: Eells, Thomas (Washington, D.C.); To: Mercer, Thomas
1879 March 7
5/10 0036-001
From: Fay, R.C. (Coupeville); To: Munsen, J.H.
1869 May 25
5/10 0036-001
From: Gove, Warren (Union City)
1875
5/10 0036-001
From: Graham, Walter (Paso Robles)
1870
5/11 0036-001
From: Hall, S.W. (Olympia); To: Evans, Elwood
1873 January 21
5/11 0036-001
From: Haller, George M. (Port Townsend); To: United States Post Office, Seabeck, Washington Territory
1876 July 27
5/11 0036-001
From: Halstead, A.
1864
5/11 0036-001
From: Hill, John (Elm Grove)
1857
5/11 0036-001
From: Hill, W. Lair (Oakland, California); To: Folger, ?
1893 March 1
5/11 0036-001
From: Horton (Dexter) & Company (Olympia); To: Pickering, William
1875 October 12
5/11 0036-001
From: Huntington, C.A. (Olympia)
1866
5/11 0036-001
From: Huntington & Son (near Monticello, Washington Territory); To: Judge Lombard
1869 June 11
5/12 0036-001
From: Jones, Daniel (Seattle); To: Moore, C.W.
1895 January 14
5/12 0036-001
From: Jordan, John T. (Seattle); To: King County Probate Court
1867 February 2
5/12 0036-001
From: Jordan, John T. (Vallejo, California); To: Hubbs, Paul V.
1869 January 7
5/12 0036-001
From: Kennedy, James K. (Walla Walla); To: Beach, Louis P.?
1870 April 2
5/12 0036-001
From: King, David (Burgh-Hill, Ohio)
1861
5/12 0036-001
From: Ladd, Reed & Company (Portland); To: Smith, A.C.
1860 June 20
5/12 0036-001
From: Lea, Jason B. (Mount Coffin, Washington Territory); To: Henry, Frank
1878 February 15
5/12 0036-001
From: Loveland, William R. (Mokelumni City, Washington Territory); To: Holstead, John
1864 November 2
5/13 0036-001
From: McBride, John R. (Washington, D.C.); To: Adams, E.M.
1862 February 17
5/13 0036-001
From: McGuire, M.A. (Crawford, Pennsylvania)
undated
5/13 0036-001
From: Marsh, Edward (Olympia); To: Scarburer, David
1868 January 25
5/13 0036-001
From: Marsh, Edward (Olympia); To: Scarburer, David
1868 February 21
5/13 0036-001
From: Mattice, George W.
188?
5/13 0036-001
From: Minto, John (Oak Mills, Oregon Territory); To: Crockett, Samuel D.
1854 September 18
5/13 0036-001
From: Minto, John (Salem, Oregon); To: Prosch, Thomas
1909 October 3
5/14 0036-001
From: Naher, Charles (Seattle); To: United States Post Office, Seabeck, Washington Territory
1884 November 27
5/14 0036-001
From: Nash, L.B. (Seattle)
1879
5/14 0036-001
From: Newkirk, W.L.
undated
5/14 0036-001
From: Owings, Nathaniel H. (Olympia); To: Holton, Charles H.
1879 October 30
5/15 0036-001
From: Pearce, Thomas (Eola)
1866
5/15 0036-001
From: Percival, S.W. (Olympia); To: Marsh, Edward
1863 May 21
5/15 0036-001
From: Phillips, David (Seattle)
1855
5/15 0036-001
From: Pickering, William (Olympia); To: Lincoln, Abraham
1863 December
5/15 0036-001
From: Pumphrey, W.H. (Seattle); To: Walker, (Mrs.) J.M.
1879 April 11
5/16 0036-001
From: Richmond, T. (Tyndall, South Dakota); To: Atwood, A.
1904 December 12
5/16 0036-001
From: Robinett, L.S. (Crawfordsville, Oregon)
undated
5/16 0036-001
From: Rupell, T.S. (Seattle); To: United States Post Office, Seabeck, Washington Territory
1860 August 24
5/16 0036-001
From: Sander, F.E. (Puyallup); To: Hartman, John P.
1894 September 8
5/16 0036-001
From: Schwabacher Brothers (Seattle); To: Miller, Mary M.
1882 June 12
5/16 0036-001
From: Smith, Albert C. (Olympia); To: Marsh, Edward
1862 May 18
5/16 0036-001
From: Smith, Albert C. (Olympia); To: Tilton, James
1858 September 16
5/16 0036-001
From: Smith, Victor (Port Angeles); To: United States Post Office, Seabeck, Washington Territory
1862 November 14
5/16 0036-001
From: Struve, Henry G. (Portland); To: Scott, ?
1873
5/16 0036-001
From: Stuart, C.E.; To: Douglas, James
1851 December 8
5/16 0036-001
From: Titlow, A.R. (Tacoma); To: Hartman, John P.
1894 September 14
5/16 0036-001
From: Turner, L. (Seattle); To: Hartman, John P.
1894 August 29
5/16 0036-001
From: Turner, L. (Seattle); To: Hartman, John P.
1894 September 1
5/17 0036-001
From: United States General Land Office (Washington, D.C.); To: United States Land Registry Office, Olympia
1872 February 13
5/17 0036-001
From: United States General Land Office (Washington, D.C.); To: United States Land Registry Office, Olympia
1882 June 26
5/17 0036-001
From: United States Office of Indian Affairs (Washington, D.C.); To: Bell, William N.
1883 July 23
5/17 0036-001
From: United States Land Office (Olympia); To: Burrows, Matilda
1885 April 30
5/17 0036-001
From: United States Land Office (Olympia); To: Holstead, John
1872 October 4
5/17 0036-001
From: United States Land Office (Colfax); To: Mattice, G.W.
1883 March 16
5/17 0036-001
From: United States Land Office (Olympia); To: Morgan, David W.
1884 November 29
5/17 0036-001
From: United States Land Office (Olympia); To: Morgan, David W.
1886 October 14
5/17 0036-001
From: United States Land Office (Olympia); To: Pickering, William
1863 November 28
5/17 0036-001
From: United States Land Office (Olympia); To: Purcell, James C.
1879 September 10
5/17 0036-001
From: United States Land Office (Olympia); To: Purcell, James C.
1880 March 22
5/17 0036-001
From: United States Land Office (Olympia); To: Strickler, W.A.
1871 December 2
5/17 0036-001
From: United States Post Office (Washington, D.C.); To: Owings, N.H.
1873 July 14
5/17 0036-001
From: United States Post Office (Washington, D.C.); To: Owings, N.H.
1873 January 21
5/17 0036-001
From: United States Post Office, Post Gamble (Port Gamble, Washington Territory); To: United States Post Office, Seabeck, Washington Territory
1871 July 10
5/17 0036-001
From: United States Post Office, Post Gamble (Port Gamble, Washington Territory); To: United States Post Office, Seabeck, Washington Territory
1877 July 5
5/18 0036-001
From: Vaillant, J. (Folsom, California); To: Sinclair, William B.
1860 September 23
5/18 0036-001
From: Washburn, Andrew; To: United States Land Registry Office, Olympia
1869 February 27
5/18 0036-001
From: Washington Surveyor General (Washington Territory); To: Jameson, William
1875 October 18
5/18 0036-001
From: Williamson & Kellogg (Seattle); To: [Warin] William
1881 September 6
5/18 0036-001
From: Wollweber, Otto (Reardon, Washington); To: Eells, Edwin
1911? February 11
5/18 0036-001
From: Wright, C.W. (Seattle); To: United States Post Office Seabeck, Washington Territory
1879 April 28
5/19 0036-001
Cruise of U.S.S. New Orleans, written to Seattle Times.
General Notes: Copy
1916
5/20 0036-001
Excerpts from two letters of Henry H. Spalding
General Notes: Copies
1866
5/21 0036-001
Letters regarding Hudson's Bay Company
19 letters
Scope and Content: Including letters to James Douglas, Angus McDonald, Peter Skene Ogden, Isaac Ingalls Stevens; and letters from Douglas, Charles E. Stuart, Amory Holbrook, George Simpson.
1841-1884
5/22-22A 0036-001
Letters collected and copied by Bagley regarding Indian Wars
1850-1887
5/23 0036-001
Letter from Reverend Myron Eells to Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "The Object of Dr. Whitman's Famous Midwinter Journey"
20 pages
1881 May 28
5/24 0036-001
Three writings by Maurice Fitzgerald
Scope and Content:
  • "The Modoc War"
  • "The Apache Indian Boy"
  • "The Reason for John Phillips Ride"
undated
Other pioneer materials
Box/Folder Accession
5/25 0036-001
Bills and receipts relating to Edward Huggins, Hudson's Bay Company, etc.
20 items
1853-1869
5/26 0036-001
Documents relating to anti-Chinese demonstrations in Seattle
1886
5/27 0036-001
Financial miscellany concerning various parties
approximately 15 items
1855-1871
5/28 0036-001
Fragments of diaries
3 items
1841, 1848
5/29 0036-001
"History of Indian Affairs Among the Nez Perces" by Henry H. Spalding.
51 pages
Scope and Content: Copied from Pacific, May 25, 1865, by William I. Marshall.
circa 1865
5/30 0036-001
Legal miscellany concerning various parties
18 items
1847-1880
5/31 0036-001
Miscellany
5 items
undated
5/32 0036-001
Nomination of Joseph M. Glasgow for municipal judge by King County Republican Party
1892 October 11
5/33 0036-001
Petition by employees of Isaac Carson's logging camp, Steilacoom, disclaiming "political purpose" as reason for their employment.
circa 1870
5/34 0036-001
Renton (William) and Howard, King County, Washington Territory claim for loss against Henry L. Yesler.
1858 February 15
5/35 0036-001
Seabeck, subscription lists
1854, 1868
5/35 0036-001
Seabeck, poll book
1867 June
5/36 0036-001
Seattle, list of Union League members
undated
5/36 0036-001
Seattle, subscription list
1854 October 31
5/37 0036-001
Shipping documents relating chiefly to Hudson's Bay Company
approximately 25 items
Scope and Content: Including deposition of H.A. Goldsborough regarding seizure of the steamer Beaver, dated November 19, 1852.
1849-1865
5/38 0036-001
Two articles by Ezra Meeker
: carbon copies
Scope and Content:
  • "Hudson's Bay Company"
  • "Landing of the Pilgrims at Alki Point"
1851
6/1 0036-001
Bound volume of miscellaneous indentures, deeds, etc. concerning various parties.
undated
6/2 0036-001
Account book, Seattle First National Bank
1 volume
circa 1883
6/3 0036-001
Letter press book, Seattle First National Bank
1 volume
1894 March 10-1985 April 3
Donated materials
Arrangement: Arranged in 14 series:
  • Incoming correspondence
  • Outgoing correspondence
  • Sale documents
  • Financial miscellany
  • Legal documents
  • Memorabilia
  • Memoranda
  • Notes
  • Speeches and reports
  • Bagley as Secretary of Board of Public Works, Seattle, Washington
  • Bagley family papers
  • Collected materials
  • Miscellaneous selections
  • Oversized materials
Acquisition Info: Gift of the Bagley-Mercer Company and Cecil Bagley in 1959.
Incoming correspondence
Box/Folder Accession
7/1 0036-001
Adventure (magazine)
6 letters
1920-1930
7/2 0036-001
Allbright, Amy
4 letters
1915-1928
7/2 0036-001
Allen, Carrie L.
4 letters
1928
7/4 0036-001
Allen (Geo. W.) & Conner, Seattle
3 letters
1931
7/5 0036-001
Allied Printing Trades Council, Seattle
4 letters
1931
7/6 0036-001
Anderson, Ellen
4 letters
1925-1931
7/7 0036-001
Andrews, Clarence Leroy, 1862-1948
15 letters
1894-1932
7/8 0036-001
Andrews, Judge Rowley
4 letters
1913-1916
7/9 0036-001
The Argus (magazine) Seattle
5 letters
1905-1931
7/10 0036-001
A Miscellaneous
28 letters
Scope and Content: 1 letter per name unless otherwise noted
Box/Folder Accession
7/10 0036-001
Abbott, M.D.
1908
7/10 0036-001
Aberdeen Superintendent of Schools
1931
7/10 0036-001
Agnew, James
2 letters
1897-1898
7/10 0036-001
Albertson, A.H.
1931
7/10 0036-001
Albrecht, F.E.
1926
7/10 0036-001
Alki School, Seattle
1928
7/10 0036-001
Alki Women's Improvement Club
undated
7/10 0036-001
Allen, M.C. (Mrs. John Beard)
1915
7/10 0036-001
Allen, Orrin Peer
2 letters
1906
7/10 0036-001
Allmond, Douglass
1928
7/10 0036-001
Alverson, Blanche Treen
3 letters
1929
7/10 0036-001
American Legion, Department Adjutant
1929
7/10 0036-001
American Necropolis Company
2 letters
1916
7/10 0036-001
American Surety Company of New York
1931
7/10 0036-001
Ames, Mrs. H.H.
1928
7/10 0036-001
Anderson, Edmund
1929
7/10 0036-001
Anderson, George P.
1926
7/10 0036-001
Anderson, J.W.
1922
7/10 0036-001
Anderson, Phoebe Prosch
1923
7/10 0036-001
Art Marble Company, Seattle
1924
7/10 0036-001
Ashton, James M.
1911
7/10 0036-001
Atkinson, Edward
1909
7/10 0036-001
Atkinson, John
1907
7/11 0036-001
Babson, Joseph Ney
5 letters
1896-1910
7/12 0036-001
Backus, Manson Franklin, 1853-1935
2 letters
1930
7/13-16 0036-001
Bagley, Alice Mercer, 1848-1926
78 letters
1866-1905, undated
7/17-30, 8/1-16 0036-001
Bagley, Daniel, 1818-1905
60 letters
1862-1885, undated
8/17 0036-001
Bagley, Ethel
1890-1899
8/18 0036-001
Bagley, Myrta
4 letters
1882-1890
8/19 0036-001
Bagley, Rena
16 letters
1879-1893
8/20-22 0036-001
Bagley, Susannah Rogers, 1819-1913
55 letters
1866-1883
8/23 0036-001
Bailey, Almira
5 letters
1928-1931
8/24 0036-001
Barkhuff, William D.
4 letters
1924-1928
8/25 0036-001
Ben Franklin Club, Seattle
6 letters
1924-1929
8/16 0036-001
Bixby, J.W.
1892
8/27-28 0036-001
Blethen, Alden Joseph, 1846-1915
30 letters
1903-1914
8/29 0036-001
The Bon Marche, Seattle
4 letters
1924-1931
8/30 0036-001
Bonney, William Pierce, 1856-
19 letters
General Notes: See also: Washington State Historical Society
1915-1931
8/31 0036-001
Boulet, J.B.
4 letters
1908-1915
8/32 0036-001
Bowman, J.N.
9 letters
1904-1906
8/33 0036-001
Brainerd, Erastus, 1855-1922
2 letters
1905, 1906
8/34 0036-001
Brosnan, C.J.
6 letters
1917-1924
8/35 0036-001
Brown, Ashmun Norris, 1872-1948
3 letters
General Notes: See also: Mead, Albert E.
1906-1908
8/36 0036-001
Bulfinch, John T.A.
3 letters
1910
8/37 0036-001
Bullen, Henry L.
5 letters
1908-1911
8/38 0036-001
Bush, A.N.
8 letters
1916-1926
8/39-40 0036-001
B Miscellaneous
43 letters
Scope and Content: 1 letter per name unless otherwise noted
Box/Folder Accession
8/39 0036-001
Bagley, Alice Claire
1929
8/39 0036-001
Bagley, Horace
1925
8/39 0036-001
Bagley, Martha
1865
8/39 0036-001
Bailey, E.H.
1911
8/39 0036-001
Baker, Gertrude Johnson
1931
8/39 0036-001
Baker, Jonathan W.
2 letters
1926
8/39 0036-001
Baker, Richard D.
1931
8/39 0036-001
Balch, Albert
undated
8/39 0036-001
Ballard High School, Seattle
1927
8/39 0036-001
Banks, Lyman T.
1924
8/39 0036-001
Banks, Mary
2 letters
1903, 1914
8/39 0036-001
Bass, Daniel W.
1923
8/39 0036-001
Bates, James H.S.
1931
8/39 0036-001
Batwell, E.A.
1927
8/39 0036-001
Beals, Walter B.
undated
8/39 0036-001
Beeler, Adam
1926
8/39 0036-001
Bell, John B.
1903
8/39 0036-001
Bertelson, Ernest B.
1932
8/39 0036-001
Bierschenk, H. Madeline
1924
8/39 0036-001
Bissett, C.P.
1913
8/39 0036-001
Blankenship, George E.
undated
8/39 0036-001
Bogue, Elizabeth Frye
1911?
8/39 0036-001
Bolton, Frederick E.
1932
8/39 0036-001
Boston Public Library
1923
8/39 0036-001
Bothwell, James
1903
8/39 0036-001
Bouillon, A.V.
1928
8/40 0036-001
Bourne, Edward G.
2 letters
1903, 1905
8/40 0036-001
Bowlby, John Quincy Adams
1906
8/40 0036-001
Bowles, George H.
1926
8/40 0036-001
Boyce, Robbin
2 letters
1909, 1918
8/40 0036-001
Bringhurst, Harry W.
2 letters
1916, 1922
8/40 0036-001
Brady, James H.
1910
8/40 0036-001
Brown, M.F.
1929
8/40 0036-001
Bruce, Robert
2 letters
1931
8/40 0036-001
Bryan, J.
1870
8/40 0036-001
Bucklin, Sanford
2 letters
1927
8/40 0036-001
Butterfield, Ida K.
1917
9/1 0036-001
Carr, J. Tyler
5 letters
1864-1869
9/2 0036-001
Carr, Lucie W.
14 letters
1862-1875
9/3 0036-001
Carr, Ossian J.
11 letters
1863-1882
9/4 0036-001
Chapman, Jennie (Mrs. Memory Noble)
3 letters
1889-1912
9/5 0036-001
Chapman, Memory Noble, 1845-1889
1874
9/6 0036-001
Chehalis Free Public Library
3 letters
1910-1911
9/7 0036-001
Clark, Guy F., -1923.
5 letters
1918-1920
9/8 0036-001
Clise, Herbert R., 1859-
1 letter
1909
9/9 0036-001
Cotterill, George Fletcher, 1865-1958.
1 letter
1906
9/10 0036-001
The Counting House, Boston
4 letters
1931
9/11 0036-001
Coutant, Sara Eastman
4 letters
1929-1932
9/12 0036-001
Curtis, Edward S.
5 letters
1904-1912
9/13-15 0036-001
C Miscellaneous
54 letters
Scope and Content: 1 letter per person unless otherwise noted
Box/Folder Accession
9/13 0036-001
Cadmus Book Shop, New York
2 letters
1923, 1930
9/13 0036-001
Calhoun, George V.
1893
9/13 0036-001
Canada Department of Marine and Fisheries
1910
9/13 0036-001
Cannon, Joseph
1908
9/13 0036-001
Cannon, Miles
1921
9/13 0036-001
Canse, J.M.
2 letters
1911, 1919
9/13 0036-001
Carde, Mrs. William
2 letters
1927
9/13 0036-001
Carey, Charles H.
1927
9/13 0036-001
Carkeek, Vivian M.
1908
9/13 0036-001
Carkeek, Emily L.
undated
9/13 0036-001
Carroll, P.P.
1905
9/13 0036-001
Case, Otto
1913
9/13 0036-001
Case, R.A.
2 letters
1918, 1919
9/13 0036-001
Caton, Gladys Mann
undated
9/13 0036-001
Carroll, Harry W.
1920
9/13 0036-001
Century History Company, Inc., New York
1922
9/13 0036-001
Chamberlain, George E.
1918
9/14 0036-001
Chandler, Frederick B.
1912
9/14 0036-001
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company
1928
9/14 0036-001
Children's Orthopedic Hospital, Seattle
3 letters
1923, 1929
9/14 0036-001
Christian Science Publishing Society
1926
9/14 0036-001
Civil Service League, Seattle
1927
9/14 0036-001
Clark (Arthur H.) Company, Glendale, California
1931
9/14 0036-001
Clark, Grace Hawley
undated
9/14 0036-001
Clark, J.E.
1884
9/14 0036-001
Clarke, M.M.
1911
9/14 0036-001
Clarke, W.F.
1909
9/14 0036-001
Collins, Josiah
1911
9/14 0036-001
Community Hotel Corporation of Seattle
1924
9/14 0036-001
Congdon, George Clinton
1923
9/14 0036-001
Conner, W.W.
1928
9/14 0036-001
Conover, Douglas C.
1914
9/14 0036-001
Continental Coal Company, Seattle
2 letters
1928, 1929
9/15 0036-001
Cooper, Mrs. Thomas
1921
9/15 0036-001
Covington, L.J.
2 letters
1910
9/15 0036-001
Coryell, G.K.
1909
9/15 0036-001
Costello, Gilbert S.
1919
9/15 0036-001
Cranston, Lida E.
1909
9/15 0036-001
Crawford, Clara M.
undated
9/15 0036-001
Crawford, Clayton
1923
9/15 0036-001
Creagh, Harry
1924
9/15 0036-001
Crittenden, Byrd Mock
1912
9/15 0036-001
Crow, Louise
1928
9/15 0036-001
Crowell Publishing Company
1929
9/15 0036-001
Curtis (Asahel) Photo Company, Seattle
1930
9/15 0036-001
Curtis Publishing Company
1923
9/15 0036-001
Cushman, Francis W.
1908
9/16 0036-001
Denman, A.H.
6 letters
1929
9/17 0036-001
Denny, Arthur Armstrong, 1822-1899
1 letter
1865
9/18 0036-001
Dill, Clarence C.
1 letter
1924
9/19 0036-001
Dix, I.F.
2 letters
General Notes: See also: Pacific Telephone & Telegraph; Seattle Chamber of Commerce
1929-1930
9/20 0036-001
Donthit, Mary Osborn
3 letters
1904
9/21 0036-001
Doubleday, Page & Company, Publishers, New York
3 letters
1905
9/22 0036-001
Drury, Wells, 1851-1932
12 letters
1870-1931
9/23 0036-001
Dovell, W., 1843-1932
2 letters
1907
9/24 0036-001
D Miscellaneous
21 letters
Box/Folder Accession
9/24 0036-001
Daniel, Sister
3 items
1930
9/24 0036-001
Daughters of the American Revolution
1920
9/24 0036-001
Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington, Pasco
1928
9/24 0036-001
David, O.J.
1929
9/24 0036-001
Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles
1928
9/24 0036-001
Denny, Lenna
1908
9/24 0036-001
Dexter Horton National Bank
1927
9/24 0036-001
Dickerson, Mahlon A.
2 items
1926
9/24 0036-001
Dolph, Joseph M.
1882
9/24 0036-001
Donaldson, Thomas Blaine
1903
9/24 0036-001
Donworth, George
1915
9/24 0036-001
Dort, Sophia Frye
undated
9/24 0036-001
Driscoll, William D.
1924
9/24 0036-001
Dudley, Mrs. E.L.
1888
9/24 0036-001
DuPont (E.I.) de Nemours & Company, Tacoma
2 items
1914, 1921
9/24 0036-001
Dupont Woman's Club
1921
9/24 0036-001
Dye, Eva Emery
2 items
1905
9/25 0036-001
Edwards, Frank, 1874-
2 letters
1931
9/26 0036-001
Elder (Paul) & Company, San Francisco
3 letters
1931
9/27-36 0036-001
Elliott, Thompson Coit, 1862-1943
191 letters
1905-1932
9/37 0036-001
Ellis, Glenn S.
6 letters
1924-1925
9/38 0036-001
Ellison, R.S.
3 letters
1924-1927
9/39 0036-001
Erskine, Robert Chase, 1876-
3 letters
1912
9/40 0036-001
E Miscellaneous
9 letters
Box/Folder Accession
9/40 0036-001
Eberstadt (Edward), New York
1928
9/40 0036-001
Eckstein, Nathan
1930
9/40 0036-001
Engh, Flora Pearson
1930
9/40 0036-001
Engle, Mabel
2 items
1928
9/40 0036-001
Epstein, Henry
1899
9/40 0036-001
Evesmith, Hansen
2 items
1925
9/40 0036-001
Ewing (Henry C.) & Company, Seattle
1926
9/41 0036-001
Fares, Henry
3 letters
1920, 1922
9/42 0036-001
Frederick & Nelson, Seattle
3 letters
1925, 1927
9/43 0036-001
Freemasons, Daniel Bagley Lodge, Seattle
2 letters
1921, 1925
9/44 0036-001
F Miscellaneous
20 letters
Box/Folder Accession
9/44 0036-001
Falk, Nancy Ann
undated
9/44 0036-001
Farrar, Victor J.
2 items
undated
9/44 0036-001
Fedderly, E.O.
1930
9/44 0036-001
Federation of State and Provincial Societies of Long Beach, California
2 items
1926
9/44 0036-001
First Methodist Episcopal Church, Seattle
1925
9/44 0036-001
Fish, M.A.
2 items
1855
9/44 0036-001
Fisher, R.J.
1909
9/44 0036-001
Fishers, S.A.
1890
9/44 0036-001
Fitts, J.W.
1912
9/44 0036-001
Flick, James P.
1927
9/44 0036-001
Fort Dalles Historical Society
1908
9/44 0036-001
Foster and Kleiser Company
1922
9/44 0036-001
Fowler, Charles A.
1928
9/44 0036-001
Freeman, Miller
1923
9/44 0036-001
Frost, Nellie
2 items
1918
9/44 0036-001
Frye, Charles H.
2 items
1916
9/45 0036-001
Ganzert, Frederick W.
4 letters
1929
9/46 0036-001
Gill, Hiram C., 1866-
1 letter
1914
9/47 0036-001
Gilman, Luthene Clairmont, 1857-1942
2 letters
General Notes: See also: Great Northern Railway Company
1925
9/48 0036-001
Gilstrap, William H.
5 letters
1904-1914
9/49 0036-001
Ginet, Joseph H.
4 letters
1916-1928
9/50 0036-001
Gleason, Charles S., 1861-
3 letters
1903, 1905, 1910
9/51 0036-001
Gosnell, R.E.
3 letters
1908-1909
9/52 0036-001
Graham, David
12 letters
1866-1906, undated
9/53 0036-001
Great Northern Railway Company
7 letters
1926-1930
9/54 0036-001
Green, Joshua, 1869-
2 letters
1928-1929
9/55 0036-001
Greene, Roger Sherman, 1840-
1 letter
1916
9/56 0036-001
Griffith, Frank S.
2 letters
1896, 1913
9/57 0036-001
G Miscellaneous
22 letters
Box/Folder Accession
9/57 0036-001
Galer, William
1905
9/57 0036-001
Gannett, Henry
1904
9/57 0036-001
Gardner, Grace Christiansen
1932
9/57 0036-001
George, M.C.
1924
9/57 0036-001
Gilbert, J.J.
1910
9/57 0036-001
Gill, John
1913
9/57 0036-001
Gill, (J.K.) Company, Portland
1930
9/57 0036-001
Glass, (Mrs.) R.C.
2 items
1926, 1929
9/57 0036-001
Gordon, Charles
1928
9/57 0036-001
Gordon, Elden M.
2 items
1919, 1928
9/57 0036-001
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island
1912
9/57 0036-001
Gorman, T.J.
2 items
1910, 1911
9/57 0036-001
Gowen, Herbert H.
1917
9/57 0036-001
Gunn, W. Chalmers
3 items
1931
9/57 0036-001
Grant, Vernon
1923
9/57 0036-001
Gundlach, Eva C.
1896
9/57 0036-001
Guy, G.O.
10/1 0036-001
Hadley, Roy O.
7 letters
1923-1929
10/2 0036-001
Hammons, Frederick Dent
11 letters
1918-1927
10/3 0036-001
Hanford, Cornelius Holgate, 1849-1926
3 letters
1915-1926
10/4 0036-001
Himes, George H.
8 letters
1908-1932
10/5 0036-001
Holcomb, Ira G.
7 letters
1919-1929
10/6-7 0036-001
Holman, Frederick Van Voorhies, 1852-1927
30 letters
1908-1925
10/8 0036-001
Howay, Frederick William
17 letters
1910-1929
10/9-10 0036-001
Huggins, Thomas
30 letters
1908-1930
10/11 0036-001
Hull, Roy C.
9 letters
1921-1931
10/12 0036-001
Humphrey, William E., 1862-1934
16 letters
1903-1916
10/13 0036-001
Hunt, Herbert, -1917
3 letters
circa 1916-1917
10/13 0036-001
Hylebos, P.F.
45 items
1908, 1910
10/15-16 0036-001
H Miscellaneous
Box/Folder Accession
10/15 0036-001
Hadley, Lin H.
1924
10/15 0036-001
Hall, May
1921
10/15 0036-001
Hallinen, Thomas F.
1909
10/15 0036-001
Halstead, Elizabeth
1865
10/15 0036-001
Hamburger-Davis Benefit Committee
1923
10/15 0036-001
Hanford, Ada Levering
1926
10/15 0036-001
Hanson, Howard A.
1928
10/15 0036-001
Hardie, Marjorie
1911
10/15 0036-001
Harris, Warren
1866
10/15 0036-001
Hartman, John P.
2 items
1903, 1911
10/15 0036-001
Hayden, John L.
1917
10/15 0036-001
Hazeltine, Miron J.
1890
10/15 0036-001
Heaton, George
2 items
1912
10/15 0036-001
Heine Piano Company, Seattle
1900
10/15 0036-001
Henry, Laura Hewitt
1928
10/15 0036-001
Hesketh, Robert B.
1926
10/15 0036-001
Hill, E.K.
1895
10/15 0036-001
Hill, Samuel
2 items
1908, 1921
10/16 0036-001
Hitchman, Robert B.
2 items
1927
10/16 0036-001
Hoge, James D.
1916
10/16 0036-001
Holcomb, Marguerite E.
1921
10/16 0036-001
Holman, Alfred
2 items
1919, 1923
10/16 0036-001
Hopkins, C.B.
2 items
1900, 1907
10/16 0036-001
Hough, Emerson
1923
10/16 0036-001
Horrell, Nell
1930
10/16 0036-001
Howd, Cloice R.
2 items
1923, 1924
10/16 0036-001
Howell (John) Books, San Francisco
1931
10/16 0036-001
Hoyt, John P.
1889
10/16 0036-001
Hubbart, Mrs. James E.
1925
10/16 0036-001
Huber, Val
2 items
1920, 1922
10/16 0036-001
Huggins, Mrs. Edward
1907
10/16 0036-001
Hunt, Harry I.
1926
10/16 0036-001
Hurst, Mrs. P.F.
1930
10/16 0036-001
Hutchinson, Charles J.
1925
10/10-17 0036-001
Johnson, Albert W.
3 items
1931-1932
10/18 0036-001
J Miscellaneous
3 items
Box/Folder Accession
10/18 0036-001
Jenner, Earle R.
1909
10/18 0036-001
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Church, Utah
1925
10/18 0036-001
Jory, John W.
1932
10/19 0036-001
King County Board of Commissioners
3 items
1928-1931
10/20 0036-001
King County Graduate Nurses Association
3 items
1925-1926
10/21 0036-001
Kinnear, George, 1836-1912
1 item
1911
10/22 0036-001
K Miscellaneous
8 items
Box/Folder Accession
10/22 0036-001
Kee, Clara
1931
10/22 0036-001
Kennedy, M.H.
1890
10/22 0036-001
Kind Words Club, Seattle
2 items
1923, 1924
10/22 0036-001
Kitchell, Laura Hall
1930
10/22 0036-001
Knights of Pythias, Grand Lodge of Washington
2 items
1928
10/22 0036-001
Kruse, Irene M.
undated
10/23 0036-001
Lister, Ernest, 1870-1919
1 item
1913
10/24 0036-001
L Miscellaneous
11 items
Box/Folder Accession
10/24 0036-001
Lamping (Sam G.) Harris & Wilton, Seattle
1923
10/24 0036-001
Latimer, Earl H.
1929
10/24 0036-001
Lee, Guy Carleton
2 items
1903
10/24 0036-001
Lee, William H.
1905
10/24 0036-001
Libby, Mrs. S.D.
1869
10/24 0036-001
Lincoln High School, Seattle
1908
10/24 0036-001
Livesley, Mrs. Pessis A.
1931
10/24 0036-001
Longsworth, M.A.
2 items
1905
10/24 0036-001
Lowman & Hanford, Seattle
1923
10/25 0036-001
McCormick, Robert Laird, 1847-1911
2 items
1905-1906
10/26 0036-001
McElroy, Harry B., -1928
11 items
1922-1927
10/27 0036-001
McGilvra, Oliver C., 1867-
3 items
1923-1925
10/28 0036-001
Mack International Motor Truck Corporation
5 items
1923-1927
10/29 0036-001
McMicken, William, 1827-1899
1 item
1887
10/30-31 0036-001
Mann, Champion B., 1844-1929
46 items
1869-1929
10/32 0036-001
Marquis (A.N.) Company, Chicago
3 items
1931
10/33 0036-001
Marsh, E. (Registers Office, Olympia)
1 item
1868
10/34 0036-001
Marshall, (Mrs.) William I.
12 items
1922-1927
10/25 0036-001
Masters, Joseph G.
3 items
1930-1931
10/36 0036-001
Mead, Albert Edward, 1861-1913
5 items
1906, undated
10/37-38 0036-001
Meany, Edmond Stephen, 1862-1935
31 items
1903-1932
10/39 0036-001
Meeker, Ezra, 1830-1928
2 items
1909
10/40 0036-001
Miller, John Franklin, 1862-1936
7 items
1916-1929
10/41 0036-001
Miller, Winlock W., Sr.
1 item
1915
10/42 0036-001
Miller, Winlock W., Jr.
6 items
1928-1931
10/43 0036-001
Molloy, (Mrs.) C.H.
3 items
1924
10/44 0036-001
Monson, J.A.
9 items
1868-1919, undated
10/45 0036-001
Moore, Charles M
4 items
1923-1931
10/46 0036-001
Moran, Robert, 1857-1943
1 item
1915
10/47 0036-001
Moreland, J.C.
2 items
1912
10/48-50 0036-001
M Miscellaneous
55 items
Box/Folder Accession
10/48 0036-001
McAdam, William
1922
10/48 0036-001
McAlister, Carrie L.
1926
10/48 0036-001
McArdle, L.D.
2 items
1911, 1912
10/48 0036-001
McClure, Elizabeth A.
1928
10/48 0036-001
McClurg (A.C.) & Company, Chicago
2 items
1911
10/48 0036-001
McCullough, Fred D.
1911
10/48 0036-001
McElroy, Carrie M.
1928
10/48 0036-001
McGee, J.G.
1909
10/48 0036-001
McGill, Maude H.
1921
10/48 0036-001
McGuire, M.A.
undated
10/48 0036-001
McNaught, M.
undated
10/48 0036-001
McNeff, Katherine
1906
10/48 0036-001
McWilliams, Mary
1927
10/49 0036-001
Macy, George
1929
10/49 0036-001
Marion, Armand F.
1931
10/49 0036-001
Marquette, Ruby R.
2 items
1929
10/49 0036-001
Martens, Owens
undated
10/49 0036-001
Martin, Vira W.
1921
10/49 0036-001
Mason County Auditor
1903
10/49 0036-001
Martin (M.R.) & Company, Tacoma
1926
10/49 0036-001
Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants
1913
10/49 0036-001
Mayfield, R.N.
1927
10/49 0036-001
Meisinger, E.F.G.
2 items
1912
10/49 0036-001
Merriam, C. Hart
1917
10/49 0036-001
Metropolitan Business Club
2 items
1928
10/49 0036-001
Metropolitan Press Printing Company, Seattle
2 items
1930, 1931
10/49 0036-001
Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul
4 items
1912, 1925, 1931
10/50 0036-001
Monson, F.H.
1918
10/50 0036-001
Monson, Lillian
2 items
1894, 1899
10/50 0036-001
Montana State Library
1906
10/50 0036-001
Montgomery, Robert
1925
10/50 0036-001
Moores, Charles B
1904
10/50 0036-001
Moore, William Hickman
1916
10/50 0036-001
Moran Brothers Company, Seattle
1902
10/50 0036-001
Morrison, L. Gertrude
1931
10/50 0036-001
Morse, Mary G.
1925
10/50 0036-001
Moulton, Martha
1926
10/50 0036-001
Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Company, Seattle
1906
10/50 0036-001
Mountaineers Club, Tacoma
undated
10/50 0036-001
Munday, Charles F.
1927
10/50 0036-001
Munson, Albert J.
1924
10/50 0036-001
Murphy, Charles B.
1913
10/50 0036-001
Murphy, Ignatius I.
1932
10/50 0036-001
Museum Book Store, London
1930
11/1 0036-001
National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.
3 items
1931
11/2 0036-001
New York Public Library
16 items
1913-1931
11/3 0036-001
Northern Pacific Railway Company
6 items
1928-1930
11/4 0036-001
N Miscellaneous
10 items
Box/Folder Accession
11/4 0036-001
National Aeronautical Association, Seattle Chapter
1929
11/4 0036-001
National Aeronautical Association
1930
11/4 0036-001
National Bank of Commerce, Seattle
1915
11/4 0036-001
Nettleton, Clark
1918
11/4 0036-001
Niendorff, Hazel Wood
1929
11/4 0036-001
North Coast Transportation Company, Tacoma
1927
11/4 0036-001
North Dakota State Historical Society
2 items
1915
11/4 0036-001
Northrup, B.L.
1880
11/4 0036-001
Nudd, Ben F.
1928
11/5 0036-001
O'Dea, Edward John, 1856-1932
3 items
1909-1931
11/6 0036-001
Oleson, Frank, -1932
6 items
1905-1932
11/7 0036-001
Olympic Hotel, Seattle
4 items
1924-1926
11/8 0036-001
O'Neil, Mary A.
14 items
1912-1928
11/9 0036-001
Oregon Historical Society
3 items
General Notes: See also: Young, Frederick G.
1903-1912
11/10 0036-001
Oregon Improvement Company, Seattle
2 items
1897
11/11 0036-001
Oregon State Library, Salem
4 items
1912-1924
11/12 0036-001
Ostrander, A.B.
3 items
1925
11/13 0036-001
O Miscellaneous
7 items
Box/Folder Accession
11/13 0036-001
Ober, Sara Endicott
2 items
1931, 1932
11/13 0036-001
Optomist Club, Seattle
1923
11/13 0036-001
Oregon Trail Memorial Association, Inc.
2 items
1931
11/13 0036-001
Osborne, Carrie M.
1930
11/13 0036-001
Owings, Nicholas H.
1896
11/14 0036-001
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, Seattle
17 items
1923-1931
11/15 0036-001
Park, George Hamilton
20 items
1910-1931
11/16 0036-001
Parker, Frank J.
27 items
1908-1923
11/17 0036-001
Parry, Will H., 1864-1917
4 items
1913
11/18 0036-001
Parsons, Flora
4 items
1905
11/19 0036-001
Pell, Monte
4 items
1929-1930
11/20 0036-001
Pendexter, Hugh, 1875-1940
3 items
1924
11/21 0036-001
Phelps, Byron, 1842-
2 items
1925, 1928
11/22 0036-001
Pierce, Frank Richardson, 1887-
2 items
1920
11/23 0036-001
Piles, Samuel Henry, 1858-1940
2 items
1908
11/24 0036-001
Pinkham, A.S.
3 items
1909
11/24 0036-001
Pioneer Association of the State of Washington
7 items
1903-1927
11/26 0036-001
Plowden, W.D.
13 items
General Notes: See also: Statute Law Book Company
1911-1916
11/27 0036-001
Poindexter, Miles, 1868-1946
1 item
1910
11/28 0036-001
Porter, Nathan S.
1 item
1915
11/29 0036-001
Prosch, Edith
6 items
1915-1918
11/30 0036-001
Prosch, Thomas Wickham, 1850-1915
7 items
1908-1914
11/31 0036-001
Puget Mill Company, Port Gamble (Edwin G. Ames)
1 item
1903
11/32 0036-001
Puget Sound Power & Light Company, Seattle
4 items
1922-1929
11/33-34 0036-001
P Miscellaneous
41 items
Box/Folder Accession
11/13 0036-001
Pacific Coast Coal Company, Seattle
2 items
1928
11/13 0036-001
Pacific Coast Syrup Company, Seattle
1913
11/13 0036-001
Pacific Fisherman magazine, Seattle
1916
11/13 0036-001
Palladino, L.B.
2 items
1911
11/13 0036-001
Palmer, Victor E.
1902
11/13 0036-001
Palmer, W.D.
1881
11/13 0036-001
Pan-American Exposition, 1901
1901
11/13 0036-001
Parker, F.N.
1918
11/13 0036-001
Pasco, Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington
1927
11/13 0036-001
Patton, William
2 items
1911, 1912
11/13 0036-001
Payne, Thomas
1906
11/13 0036-001
Peirce, W.H.
2 items
1896, 1899
11/13 0036-001
Pelly, B.
1908
11/13 0036-001
Pendleton, Oregon, Commercial Association
1925
11/13 0036-001
Percival, H.A.
1924
11/13 0036-001
Peterson, H.F.
1903
11/13 0036-001
Philadelphia Free Library
1913
11/13 0036-001
Pickering, William W.
2 items
1930
11/34 0036-001
Pierce, Frank
1893
11/34 0036-001
Pigott, H. C.
1923
11/34 0036-001
Pigott-Washington Printing Company, Seattle
1928
11/34 0036-001
Pioneer Association, Pierce County
1915
11/34 0036-001
Piper, Edgar B.
1923
11/34 0036-001
Piper, O.A.
1929
11/34 0036-001
Piper, Thomas H.
1899
11/34 0036-001
Pirret, (P.K.) & Company, Tacoma
1929
11/34 0036-001
Place, W.N.G.
1925
11/34 0036-001
Polk (R.L.) & Company, Publishers
1911
11/34 0036-001
Pratt, John W.
1903
11/34 0036-001
Presbytery of Puget Sound
2 items
1908
11/34 0036-001
Preston, H.A.
2 items
1904
11/34 0036-001
Prindle, E.H.
1903
11/34 0036-001
Protzman, Eugene C.
1907
11/34 0036-001
Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company
1929
11/35 0036-001
Quick, Wilbur F.S.
5 items
1927-1931
11/36 0036-001
Railway & Marine News Publishing Company, Seattle
3 items
1916-1931
11/37 0036-001
Rich, J.M.
3 items
1930-1931
11/38 0036-001
R Miscellaneous
7 items
Box/Folder Accession
11/38 0036-001
Rainier Printing Company, Seattle
1929
11/38 0036-001
Raker, John E.
1925
11/38 0036-001
Raymond, Edna D.
1905
11/38 0036-001
Reid, F.W.
1868
11/38 0036-001
Rhodes, Seattle
1931
11/38 0036-001
Ross, Thomas
1931
11/38 0036-001
Rourke, F.J.
1914
12/1 0036-001
Schafer, Joseph, 1867-1941
4 items
1903-1915
12/2 0036-001
Seattle Board of Public Works
2 items
1931
12/3 0036-001
Seattle City Council
4 items
1913-1930
12/4 0036-001
Seattle Civil Service Employee's Retirement System
2 items
1929
12/5 0036-001
Seattle Law Department (Scott Calhoun, Corporation Counsel)
2 items
1906, 1911
12/6 0036-001
Seattle Mayor's Office
4 items
1904-1928
12/7 0036-001
Seattle Chamber of Commerce
22 items
1924-1931
12/8 0036-001
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
5 items
1903-1930
12/9 0036-001
Seattle Times
3 items
General Notes: See also: Blethen, A.J.
1903-1927
12/10 0036-001
S Miscellaneous
32 items
Box/Folder Accession
12/10 0036-001
St. Paul Public Library
1911
12/10 0036-001
St. Regis Hotel, New York
1930
12/10 0036-001
Salvation Army, Inc.
1932
12/10 0036-001
Schafer Brothers Logging Company, Montesano
1932
12/10 0036-001
Seattle Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
1909
12/10 0036-001
Seattle, Brighton School
1928
12/10 0036-001
Seattle Health Commissioner
1909
12/10 0036-001
Seattle Young Men's Republican Club
1929
12/10 0036-001
Seattle and Renton Railway
1900
12/10 0036-001
Seattle Dexter Horton National Bank (First)
1930
12/10 0036-001
Seattle Genealogical Society
undated
12/10 0036-001
Seattle Historical Society
2 items
1918, 1924
12/10 0036-001
Seattle Press Club
2 items
1912, 1925
12/10 0036-001
Seattle, Port of
1918
12/10 0036-001
Seattle Public Schools
1928
12/10 0036-001
Seattle Real Estate Board
1932
12/10 0036-001
Seattle Star newspaper
1927
12/10 0036-001
Shackelford, R.S.
1906
12/10 0036-001
Shaw, George C.
1931
12/10 0036-001
Shelton, Mary E.
1880
12/10 0036-001
Simmons, C.C.
undated
12/10 0036-001
Smith, Adeline H.
1931
12/10 0036-001
Southern Pacific Lines
1928
12/10 0036-001
Sparks, C.A.
1923
12/10 0036-001
Sportsmen's Association of Seattle
1931
12/10 0036-001
Starr, Frederick
1925
12/10 0036-001
State Mutual Life Assurance Company, Seattle
1931
12/10 0036-001
Statute Law Book Company
General Notes: See also: W.A. Plowden correspondence
1916
12/10 0036-001
Stevenson, W.A.
1927
12/10 0036-001
Stratton, Lewis & Gilman, Seattle
1894
12/11 0036-001
Thurston County Pioneer and Historical Society
5 items
General Notes: See also: Weir, Allen
1912-1915
12/12 0036-001
T Miscellaneous
9 items
Box/Folder Accession
12/12 0036-001
Temple, Virgil and Richard
1931
12/12 0036-001
Temporary Washington Monument Committee
1931
12/12 0036-001
Thexton, Thomas
1922
12/12 0036-001
Thomas, E.H.
1931
12/12 0036-001
Thurston County Pioneer's Association
1930
12/12 0036-001
Toronto University
1911
12/12 0036-001
Toronto University Library
1912
12/12 0036-001
Trick and Murray, Seattle
1927
12/12 0036-001
Tucker (Wilmon) and Hyland, Attorneys, Seattle
1915
12/13 0036-001
United States Post Office, Seattle (C. M. Parsons, Postmaster)
3 items
1932
12/23 0036-001
University of Washington Alumni Association
10 items
1925-1930
12/24 0036-001
University of Washington Library
10 items
1903-1931
12/25 0036-001
University of Washington Regents
1 item
1905
12/14 0036-001
U Miscellaneous
12 items
Box/Folder Accession
12/14 0036-001
Union Oil Company, Seattle
1931
12/14 0036-001
United Pacific Casualty Insurance Company, Seattle
1931
12/14 0036-001
United States Interior, Department of, Reclamation Service
2 items
1915
12/14 0036-001
United States Library of Congress
1913
12/14 0036-001
United States Navy, Branch Hydrographic Office, Seattle
1928
12/14 0036-001
United States Navy, Bureau of Construction and Repair
1921
12/14 0036-001
United States War Department, Adjutant General's Office
1926
12/14 0036-001
United States War Department, District Engineer, Portland
2 items
1915
12/14 0036-001
United States War Department, Quartermaster General
1926
12/14 0036-001
United States Chamber of Commerce
1929
12/33 0036-001
University of Washington ASUW
undated
12/33 0036-001
University of Washington Law School
1927
12/33 0036-001
University of Washington Printing Department
2 items
1915
12/15 0036-001
V Miscellaneous
3 items
Box/Folder Accession
12/15 0036-001
Vagel, Kate
1864
12/15 0036-001
Vincent, W.D.
2 items
1928
12/16 0036-001
Walkinshaw, Robert Boyd, 1884-
9 items
1929-1931
12/17-19 0036-001
Ward, Dillis Burgess, 1838-
55 items
1862-1885
12/20 0036-001
Washington Mill Company, Hadlock, Washington
1 item
1894
12/21 0036-001
Washington State Historical Society
19 items
General Notes: See also: Bonney, Will P.
1906-1930
12/22 0036-001
Washington State Library
4 items
1906-1912
12/26 0036-001
Watt, Roberta Frye
3 items
1931
12/27 0036-001
Wehn, James A., 1882-
2 items
1928, 1930
12/28 0036-001
Weir, Allen, 1854-
3 items
General Notes: See also: Thurston County Pioneer & Historical Society
1903-1915
12/29 0036-001
Wheeler, O.D.
4 items
1911-1912
12/29 0036-001
Whipple West, Jane
undated
12/30-31 0036-001
Whipple, Wayne
34 items
1903-1931
12/32 0036-001
Whitworth, George F., 1816-
9 items
1869-1894
12/33 0036-001
Wickersham, James, 1857-1939
1 item
1904
12/34 0036-001
Wilder's (Frank J.) Bookshop, Boston
6 items
1914-1922
12/35 0036-001
Williams, John H.
9 items
1914-1916
12/36 0036-001
Woodruff, Samuel C.
3 items
1908, 1925, 1929
12/37 0036-001
Worthington & Jenner Agency, insurance, Seattle
3 items
1930
12/38-40 0036-001
W Miscellaneous
52 items
Box/Folder Accession
12/33 0036-001
Waltham Watch Company, Waltham
1928
12/33 0036-001
Ward, Clarence
1929
12/33 0036-001
Ward, Mrs. Kirk C.
undated
12/33 0036-001
Washington State College Library
1911
12/33 0036-001
Washington (State) Bureau of Statistics
1909
12/33 0036-001
Washington (State) Education Department
2 items
1923
12/33 0036-001
Washington (State) Efficiency Department
1924
12/39 0036-001
Webb, George W.
1925
12/39 0036-001
Welch, Berniece
1931
12/39 0036-001
Wells Fargo & Company, Express
1918
12/39 0036-001
Wells, Lillian Sykes
1926
12/39 0036-001
West, Ella J.
1929
12/39 0036-001
West, William F.
1867
12/39 0036-001
West Coast Lumbermen's Association
2 items
1928, 1929
12/39 0036-001
Western Public Works Contractors Association
2 items
1927, 1928
12/39 0036-001
Western Union Telegraph Company
1928
12/39 0036-001
Wheeler, Walter S.
1927
12/39 0036-001
Whipple, A.J.
undated
12/39 0036-001
Whipple, Attis Andrew
1928
12/39 0036-001
Whipple, B.T.
1905
12/39 0036-001
Whipple, Clara
1869
12/39 0036-001
Whitcomb, R.
1926
12/39 0036-001
White, Clarence L.
1926
12/39 0036-001
White, Harry
2 items
1905
12/39 0036-001
White, Roy W.
1926
12/39 0036-001
Whitney, Alfred C.
2 items
1912
12/39 0036-001
Whitworth, F.H.
undated
12/39 0036-001
Whitworth, Nancy
1872
12/39 0036-001
Who's Who in Washington State
1927
12/40 0036-001
Willard, Daniel E.
1912
12/40 0036-001
Willis, Park Weed
1929
12/40 0036-001
Winchell, F.G.
1918
12/40 0036-001
Winders, C.H.
1920
12/40 0036-001
Winship, P.D.
2 items
1923, 1925
12/40 0036-001
Wisconsin State Historical Society
2 items
1912, 1927
12/40 0036-001
Wittier, E.F.
1901
12/40 0036-001
Women's City Club, Seattle
1928
12/40 0036-001
Woodmen of the World
1928
12/40 0036-001
Woods, Henry
1911
12/40 0036-001
Wyckoff, Ambrose Barkley
1909
12/41 0036-001
Young, Frederick George, 1858-1929
11 items
General Notes: See also: Oregon Historical Society
1904-1913
12/42 0036-001
Y Miscellaneous
Box/Folder Accession
12/42 0036-001
Yakima County, Engineer
1930
12/42 0036-001
Young, J. Arthur
1932
12/43 0036-001
Enclosures
14 items
Arrangement: Filed by name of recipient
Box/Folder Accession
12/43 0036-001
To: Andrews, Clarence Leroy; From: Telegraph & Telephone Age, New York
1927 November 21
12/43 0036-001
To: Barry, (Rev.) J. Neilson; From: Hays, Samuel H
1912 February 20
12/43 0036-001
To: Denny, Rolland H; From: Million, E. C. (attorney)
1900 December 18
12/43 0036-001
To: Denny, Rolland H; From: Dickerson, Mahlon A.
1926 September 23
12/43 0036-001
To: Graves, A.J.; From: Seattle, A-Y-P Exposition
1908 June 13
12/43 0036-001
To: Hadley, Roy O.; From: Beriah Brown
undated
12/43 0036-001
To: Harper, Paul C; From: Harper (Wm P.) & Son
1907 May 23
12/43 0036-001
To: Hassenmiller, K. Lyndon; From: Douglas, Paul Howard
1923 July 12
12/43 0036-001
To: Mann, Champion B; From: Hitchcock, D.W.
1901 July 23
12/43 0036-001
To: Pioneer Printing Company, Seattle.; From: Morse, Mary G.
1925 April 9
12/43 0036-001
To: Snowden, Clinton A; From: Cushman, Francis W.
1908 February 9
12/43 0036-001
To: Thompson, Reginald Heber; From: Blackman, John W.B.
1915 August 2
12/43 0036-001
To: Thompson, Reginald Heber; From: Blackman, John W.B.
1915 August 7
12/44 0036-001
Letter of introduction
Scope and Content: Written to Marion E. Hay from Pliny L. Allen
1912
12/45 0036-001
Letters from unidentified parties
28 items
various dates
Box Accession
13-15 0036-001
Outgoing correspondence
approximately 1500 letters
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically.
1864-1932
Box/Folder
16/1 0036-001
Sale documents
4 letters
Scope and Content: Papers relating to the sale of the Bagley Collection to the University of Washington Library in 1919. Includes bill of sale and itemized list of books.
16/2-4 0036-001
Financial miscellany
13 bound volumes
circa 1877-1918
Box/Folder Accession
16/2-4 0036-001
Check registers
13 volumes
1908-1918
16/2-4 0036-001
Invoices
approximately 25 items
various dates
16/2-4 0036-001
Receipts
approximately 40 items
various dates
16/2-4 0036-001
Tax notices, tax receipts
approximately 30 items
circa 1877-1917
16/5-6, 17/1-2 0036-001
Legal documents
approximately 85 items; 4 folders (1 folder pre-1889)
Scope and Content: Miscellaneous abstracts, deeds, indentures, etc., concerning Bagley and various parties.
various dates
17/3-5 0036-001
Memorabilia
approximately 120 items
Scope and Content: Clippings, photos, invitation, programs, etc.
undated
17/6 0036-001
Memoranda
14 items
Scope and Content: Miscellaneous memos, etc.
undated
Notes
Box/Folder Accession
17/7 0036-001
Clippings, notes, etc., regarding Bagley's work on the Whitman Myth
various dates
17/8 0036-001
Clippings, photos, etc., regarding Chief Seattle
various dates
17/9-18 0036-001
Extracts from printed material
approximately 130 items
various dates
18/1-11 0036-001
Historical notes by Bagley
approximately 150 items
various dates
18/12 0036-001
12 historical notes copied by Bagley
2 items
various dates
18/13 0036-001
Historical notes; genealogies
11 items
various dates
18/14 0036-001
Historical writings, "Hall & Holliday" with copy of article by Ezra Meeker
various dates
18/15-16 0036-001
Material on Chief Seattle and Princess Angeline
various dates
18/17-19 0036-001
Miscellaneous historical writings
various dates
19/1 0036-001
Regarding Seattle history
various dates
19/2 0036-001
The Chiricahua, manuscript of a novel
various dates
19/3 0036-001
Unsigned manuscripts, probably by Bagley.
various dates
19/4 0036-001
Loo-Low-Can -- Lo-Kout by Bagley
various dates
Box/Folder Accession
19/5 0036-001
Speeches and reports
10 items
various dates
19/6 0036-001
Bagley as Secretary of Board of Public Works, Seattle, Washington
approximately 25 items
Scope and Content: Miscellaneous correspondence, etc., relating to Board of Public Works
various dates
Bagley family papers
Box/Folder Accession
19/7a 0036-001
Statement (genealogical) about Susannah Rogers Bagley by Clarence Bagley
undated
Bagley, Alice Mercer (1848-1926)
Correspondence
Box/Folder Accession
19/7b-9 0036-001
Incoming from Susannah Rogers (Whipple) Bagley
circa 1867-1883
19/7b-9 0036-001
Incoming from various parties
23 letters
circa 1867-1926
19/7b-9 0036-001
Outgoing to various parties
27 letters
1867-1884
Bagley, Cecil C.
Box/Folder Accession
19/10 0036-001
Incoming correspondance from various parties
2 items
1922, 1928
19/11 0036-001
Miscellany concerning Cecil Bagley
various dates
Bagley, Susannah Rogers (Whipple), 1819-1913
Incoming correspondence
Box/Folder Accession
19/12 0036-001
Anna
5 letters
undated
19/13 0036-001
Bogan, Edna
3 letters
1887-1890
19/14 0036-001
Carr, Lucie
11 letters
1864-1903
19/15 0036-001
Carr, Myra
5 letters
1880-1903
19/16 0036-001
Mann, Champion B.
4 letters
1864, 1904-1905
19/17 0036-001
Thompson, Bertha W.
3 letters
1898-1906
19/18 0036-001
West, Ella J.
7 letters
1897-1909
19/19 0036-001
West, Jane
3 letters
1873
19/20 0036-001
Whipple, Ambrose J.
11 letters
1883-1906
19/21 0036-001
Whipple, Hannah
3 letters
1906, 1912
19/22 0036-001
Whipple, N.
3 letters
1867
19/23-24 0036-001
Miscellaneous parties
33 letters
undated
Box/Folder Accession
19/25 0036-001
Outgoing correspondence to various parties
3 letters
undated
Box/Folder Accession
19/26-28 0036-001
Correspondence, incoming to and from various members of the Bagley family
approximately 60 letters
undated
Collected materials
Box/Folder Accession
20/1 0036-001
Letter to Samuel Royal Thurston from Daniel H. Lownsdale regarding disputed territorial claims with the Judson's Bay Company
35 pages
General Notes: Original
1849 August 10
Meeker, Ezra M., 1830-1928
Correspondence
Box/Folder Accession
20/2 0036-001
From: Howard, Minnie F.
1926 February 3
20/2 0036-001
From: Lutz, J. E.
1913 January 8
20/2 0036-001
From: McLoughlin Union High School
1927 February 5
20/2 0036-001
From: Meeker, Jerry
1904 May 28
20/2 0036-001
From: Miller, Daniel B.
1924 December 19
20/2 0036-001
To: Allen, H.P. et al.;
19?? February 27
Box/Folder Accession
20/3 0036-001
Legal documents
Scope and Content: Relating to Ezra and members of the Meeker family (titles, deeds, etc.)
circa 1877-1896
Mercer, Thomas, 1813-1898
Box/Folder Accession
20/4 0036-001
Letter from Mercer to "Dear Children"
undated
20/4 0036-001
Indenture from Thomas Mercer to David S. Maynard regarding purchase of land in Town of Seattle
1857 October 26
Box/Folder Accession
20/5 0036-001
Miller, Mary M.
Scope and Content: 7 letters directed to or concerning Mrs. Miller
1882-1886
Pioneer materials collected by Bagley
Box/Folder Accession
20/6 0036-001
Financial miscellany
4 items
Scope and Content: Including account book of Denny (A.A.) Iron Mine with Dexter Horton & Company, and balance sheet of Stringham (T.H.) & Company
1873
Legal documents
Box/Folder Accession
20/7 0036-001
Bankruptcy notice, Gardner Kellogg
1873
20/7 0036-001
Land sale between Charles W. Lawton and Washington (Territory) University
1872
20/7 0036-001
Land sale between Christopher C. Thompson and Sarah V. Brannan
1860
20/7 0036-001
Easement agreement between G.L. Keller and John Langston
1882
20/7 0036-001
Land sale between John Miller and Anna Wadleigh
1882
20/7 0036-001
Indenture between John F. Lynch and William D. Wood
1883
20/7 0036-001
Indenture between Hunt O. Hills and Henry Bankson
1867
20/7 0036-001
Land sale between Benjamin F. Ball and J.M. Johns
1874
20/7 0036-001
Land sale between William and Sarah Renton and L. R. Buiberson
1882
20/7 0036-001
Cemetery deed for William L. Barnard at Washelli Cemetery
1886
20/7 0036-001
Extract from the law of February 28, 1891
1891
Letters
Box/Folder Accession
20/8 0036-001
To: Beardsley, R.T.; From: Kips, W. Ingraham
1867 September 20
20/8 0036-001
To: Denny, Arthur Armstrong; From: Clagett Charles W.
1893 June 7
20/8 0036-001
To: General Land Office Commissioner; From: United States Interior Deptartment
1890 December 19
20/8 0036-001
To: Kelly, Michael; From: Kellogg, Gardner
1873 June 12
20/8 0036-001
To: Nichol, W H.; From: Washington (State) Horticulture Board
1892 August 30
20/8 0036-001
To: Robens, Joseph; From: Pierce, Thomas
1881 February 19
Puyallup, First National Bank, correspondence
Box/Folder Accession
20/9 0036-001
Incoming
circa 1890-1895
Box/Folder Accession
20/9 0036-001
Bisson, F., South Prairie
1982 October 12
20/9 0036-001
Boatman, E.A., Orting
1894 April 24
20/9 0036-001
Crowley, Sullivan & Grosscup, Tacoma, attorneys
1895 July 11
20/9 0036-001
Cudahy (Michael) Packing Company, Seattle
1895 July 15
20/9 0036-001
Horton (Dexter) & Company, Seattle
1890 October 18
20/9 0036-001
Lee (Frank P.) & Bowden, Seattle
1892 December 14
20/9 0036-001
National Bank of Commerce, Tacoma
1891 May 25
20/9 0036-001
Northern Pacific Railroad Company, Lakeview
1892 October 10
20/9 0036-001
Ouimette, E.N.
1894 March 26
20/9 0036-001
Sumner Bank, (Paulhamus, William H., cashier)
1894 April 23
20/9 0036-001
Wells, Fargo & Company, San Francisco
1890 December 15
Outgoing
Box/Folder Accession
20/9 0036-001
To: Vaughn & Morris, Tacoma [with reply]
1894 March 21
20/9 0036-001
To: Horton (Dexter) & Company, Seattle
1894 April 13 and 20
Box/Folder Accession
20/10 0036-001
Transcript of letters regarding pre-emption claim of William A. Jepson
6 pages
circa 1865
20/11 0036-001
Translation of Notice on the Territory and on the Mission of Oregon, by A.M. Blanchet
3 copies
circa 1847
20/12 0036-001
Tribute to John H. Mitchell by Henry G. Struve
4 pages
undated
20/13 0036-001
Ward, Dillis Burgess
Scope and Content: 2 letters from Ward to "Brother and Sister", 1863; 1 incoming letter to Ward from the Oregon Historical Society
1863, 1922
Miscellaneous selections
Volume 1
Box Accession
21 0036-001
Extracts from the Missionary Herald
Scope and Content: Includes information on the Hudson's Bay Company; Henry H. Spalding; William H. Gray; Marcus Whitman and the Whitman massacre; letters dealing with missionary life, and relations with the Indians.
circa 1836-1882
21 0036-001
Extracts from Niles Register
Scope and Content: Regarding Oregon territory and settlers.
circa 1823-1844
21 0036-001
Extracts from Annals of Congress
Scope and Content: Regarding exploration and claiming of Oregon Territory.
1820-1846
21 0036-001
Extracts from Wilke's Explorations
Scope and Content: Wilke's special report on Oregon.
1841
21 0036-001
Two letters from Charles Wilkes to the Secretary of the Navy
General Notes: Copies
1841 May 15; 24 November 24
21 0036-001
Miscellaneous reviews from English papers
Scope and Content: Regarding Oregon exploration and settlement of the west
circa 1832
21 0036-001
Missionary letters (with index)
circa 1838-1847
Volume 1A
Box Accession
21 0036-001
Pioneer reminiscences , by Samuel Hancock
General Notes: Copy - typescript
Scope and Content: Written at Whidbey's Island, Washington Territory.
1860 February 17
21 0036-001
Letter fromWilliam Fraser Tolmie to Fayette McMullan,
typescript
Scope and Content: Regarding Leschi, a chief of the Nisqually. Duplicate in Volume 9.
1858 January 12
21 0036-001
Indian War in 1855-1856, in Washington and Oregon, by Granville Haller.
typescript
Scope and Content: Original with Haller papers, Mss H142.
Volume 2
Box Accession
21 0036-001
Addresses to the Pioneer Association relative to the markers on the Oregon Trail
typescript
Scope and Content: Addresses by Clarence B. Bagley, George H. Himes, Edmond S. Meany
21 0036-001
Letters concerning the Indian wars
typescript
Scope and Content: Isaac I. Stevens, James Tilton, Michael T. Simmons, Elwood Evans, Francis A. Chenoweth, etc.
1857 February 1-August 13
21 0036-001
Jason Lee diary
typescript
1844 July 25-September12
21 0036-001
Copy of "Memorial to Congress adopted by Provisional Government of Oregon, June 28, 1845. "
Scope and Content: Labeled "documentary evidence" in Hudson's Bay Company versus United States of America.
1845
21 0036-001
"From the Diary of Mary R. Walker (Fort Boise) "
typescript
1838 August
21 0036-001
"From the Diary of Rev. Elkanah Walker (Fort Colville)"
1838 September-1842 November
21 0036-001
Letter to the Rev. David Greene
typescript
1843 January 23
21 0036-001
Lectures by the Reverend Henry H. Spalding, "Early Oregon Missions..."
9 lectures ( typescript)
undated
21 0036-001
Letter to "Editor, Statesman" from William McBean
typescript
1866 March 12
21 0036-001
Note on Jason Lee, from the works of Stephen Olin, late president of Wesleyan University
undated
21 0036-001
Report of Jason Lee to Missionary Board, New York
typescript
1844 July 23
21 0036-001
Letter Jason Lee to Missionary Board, New York
typescript]
1844 July 23
21 0036-001
Copy of articles in New York Daily Tribune relating to "Mercer Girls" expedition
typescript
1865 October 6 and 1866 January 18
21 0036-001
Protestant Missionary Labors in Oregon- (Quotes from Dr. Stephen Olin.) Extracts from Sketch of the Cowlitz Mission, 5 February 1840, by the Rev. M. DeMers; also 1844, 1847. Whitman massacre, 28 November 1847; resume of Catholic missionary efforts in Oregon.
various dates
21 0036-001
Extract from Rush's residence at the Court of London, regarding United States claim to Oregon Territory.
undated
Volume 2A
Box Accession
21 0036-001
Typescript of extracts from The Great Company, by Beckles Willson, concerning the Hudson's Bay Company
undated
21 0036-001
Excerpts from Daniel Williams Harmon's Journal
typescript
1800-1819
21 0036-001
Extracts from Narrative of a journey across the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River, etc. , by John K. Townsend
typescript
1839
21 0036-001
Territorial Growth of the United States, by Bagley
undated
21 0036-001
Extracts from newspapers, documents, letters, etc., regarding early days in Oregon Territory
typescript
undated
21 0036-001
Extracts from St. Louis Republican regarding early overland trips
undated
21 0036-001
Various letters to William I. Marshall, relative to collection of pioneer material.
undated
21 0036-001
Reprints of letters from M.M. McCarver, Peter H. Burnett
1843
21 0036-001
Extract from New Orleans Picayune
1843 November 21
21 0036-001
Copies of letters from the Oregon Territory appearing in the New York Herald
typescript
1844-1845
21 0036-001
Extracts from Christian Advocate and Journal regarding Mission to Flat Head Indians-Jason Lee, etc.
1833-1840
Volume 3
Box Accession
21 0036-001
Who Saved Oregon, by F.H. Grubbs
typescript
undated
21 0036-001
Chronicle of land acquisitions to United States from 1783
typescript
undated
21 0036-001
History of Indian Affairs among the Nez Perces, by Henry H. Spalding, from Pacific
typescript
1865
21 0036-001
Proceedings of the Fox Island Reservation Treaty
typescript
1856 August 4
21 0036-001
Statement of operations of Washington Territory Volunteer forces regarding Cedar River Watershed
1856-1857
21 0036-001
Department of Interior instructions to Governor Isaac I. Stevens
typescript
1853 May 9
21 0036-001
2 letters from G.H. Atkinson to American Board of Missions, Oregon City, regarding disposition of mission properties
typescript
1858 November 20; 1859 September 7
Volume 4
Box Accession
22 0036-001
Cornelius Holgate Hanford's opinion on Missionary Stations in Oregon (United States Circuit Court, District of Washington, Western Division)
copy
1890
22 0036-001
The State of Washington Addition to Seattle
Scope and Content: Legal documents relating to acquisition of original University properties. Dedication of original grant to Seattle for establishment, location and maintenance of the University.
1891
22 0036-001
Auction bill for sale of Puget Sound Agricultural Association wool in London
1848 July 3
22 0036-001
Speech of William E. Humphrey in House of Representatives
typescript
Scope and Content: Text of report from Charles Wilkes, commander of exploring expedition (to Puget Sound and Washington Territory), 1840-1842, to Navy Department. Printed in the Congressional Record at Humphrey's request. (Also typewritten copy of Wilkes report)
1911 July 15
22 0036-001
Letters from the Reverend Elkanah Walker to the Reverend David Greene
typescript
1843 January 23, 1842 October 3
22 0036-001
Our First Indian War, by Clarence B. Bagley.
Scope and Content: Including typescript of letter from James Douglas to George Abernethy, dated December 8, 1847.
undated
22 0036-001
Chief Seattle was of the Nisqually Nation, by Clarence B. Bagley; excerpts from Contributions to North American Ethnology, by George Gibbs
typescript
undated
22 0036-001
Tribute to memory of Commissioner Grahame of the Hudson's Bay Company, written by Roderick Campbell
typescript
undated
22 0036-001
2 letters from Peter Skeen Ogden and James Douglas to William Fraser Tolmie
typescript
1846 May 22, 1847 July 27
22 0036-001
Article written to the Tacoma Ledger by C. B. Bagley: "State Historical Matters "
1905
22 0036-001
William Fraser Tolmies diary
typescript
1833 May 2-August 10, 1833 August 10
22 0036-001
Letter from Ezra Meeker to the House Committee on Libraries, Pittsburg, regarding erection of granite markers on the Oregon Trail
typescript
Scope and Content: Typescript of address by Meeker to citizens of Seattle (circa 1906-1907), detailing his pilgrimages to inspire people to donate to the project.
1908 February 5
22 0036-001
Brief history of founding of the University of Washington, by Clarence B. Bagley
Scope and Content: Includes detailed accounts of people involved in the establishment of buildings, etc.
undated
Volume 4A
Box Accession
22 0036-001
Address on Washington and Oregon history by Clarence B. Bagley
undated
22 0036-001
Account of an Early Visit to the Present Site of Seattle and Vicinity, by Colonel Isaac N. Ebey
typescript
Scope and Content: In form of a letter to Michael T. Simmons, dated September 1, 1850.
1850
22 0036-001
Oregon Mission, typescript of articles from The Friend
1846
22 0036-001
Letter from Daniel H. Lownsdale to Samuel R. Thurston, with introduction by C. B. Bagley
undated
22 0036-001
Biographical sketch of Thomas Stowell Phelps, (1822- )author of Reminiscences of Washington Territory
1882
22 0036-001
Translation of an address from the French (on Canadians in Willamette Valley), translated by P.J. Frein.
undated
22 0036-001
Petition to the city council of Olympia from Dudley S.B. Henry
typescript
undated
22 0036-001
Eliza and the Nez Perce Indians, by the Reverend Eels
undated
22 0036-001
Introduction to the Biography of George Bush, by Professor Ayer
undated
22 0036-001
Resume of Newspaper History in Washington and Oregon Territory, by C. B. Bagley.
undated
22 0036-001
"The First Settler" : Letter from John P. Richmond to Editor, Seattle Weekly Chronicle
1883 September 11
Volume 5
Box Accession
22 0036-001
Letter to unidentified party from Edward Jay Allen
typescript
1916
22 0036-001
Miscellaneous newspaper clippings regarding Coast Indian tribes, habits, etc.
undated
Volume 6
Box Accession
22 0036-001
"Mercer Girls" story
Scope and Content: Including letter from Asa S. Mercer to Clarence B. Bagley, dated November 12, 1901. Also list of members of the Mercer party.
1901
22 0036-001
Henry Villard history in Washington Territory by C. B. Bagley
undated
22 0036-001
Early settlers in Puget Sound Area , by C. B. Bagley.
undated
Volume 7
Box Accession
22 0036-001
The Indian War of 1855-1856 in Washington and Oregon, by Granville O. Haller, (in 4 parts)
General Notes: Original manuscript in author's handwriting.
undated
22 0036-001
The Early Impressions and Later Confessions of a Native Puget Sounder, by Mrs. Sarah Allister McAdams. Original manuscript in Author's handwriting.
undated
Volume 8
Box Accession
22 0036-001
Washington donation claims-alphabetical and geographical lists
various dates
Volume 9
Box Accession
22 0036-001
Address by Ezra Meeker, March 2, 1903, on 50th anniversary of Washington Territory, and miscellaneous speeches by Miles C. Moore, T. M. Vance, Herman D.C.row, William E. Humphre, Glen N. Ranck.
1903
22 0036-001
Typescript of Medicine Creek Treaty
Scope and Content: Includes ratification by Senate and President Franklin Pierce. Joint resolution by Territorial government (16 January 1857) relative to Gov. Stevens proclamation of martial law in Pierce and Thurston counties (typescript).
1854 December 26
22 0036-001
A Reminiscence of '56 : How a Port Townsend Man Offered, Unaided, to Build the Northern Pacific Railroad, by James G. Swan
typescript
undated
22 0036-001
Excerpt from Tacoma Daily News
Scope and Content: "John Flett reviews some statements of an alleged missionary."
1884 March
22 0036-001
Excerpts from Hudson's Bay Co. journal of 1839, regarding site and building of the Indian Mission at Nisqually.
1839
22 0036-001
Oregon Missions-excerpts from the New York Christian Advocate and Journal
1839-1841
22 0036-001
Pacific Pine Lumber Company, San Francisco. Trade agreement for Pine Manufacturer's Association
1880 December
22 0036-001
How the boys went to St. Elias-fiction, author unknown.
undated
22 0036-001
Application of Lee Fong for a writ of habeas corpus
circa 1902
22 0036-001
Letter to Robert Harris, President, Northern Pacific Railroad, 20 January 1887, from John Jay McGilvra (?).
1887 20 January
22 0036-001
Letter to George W. Manypenny, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, from Isaac Stevens, regarding Medicine Creek Treaty
1854 December 30
22 0036-001
Records of the proceedings of the commission to hold treaties with the Indians in Washington Territory and Blackfoot country
1854 December 7
22 0036-001
Letter to Fayette McMullan from William Fraser Tolmie, 12 January 1858, regarding Leschi. [Duplicate of copy in Volume 1A]
Box Accession
23 0036-001
Bill heads
undated
Oversized materials
package:oversize Accession
24 0036-001
Scrapbook of Manuscripts
undated
24 0036-001
Testimonial from Seattle Board of Public Works
undated
Box Accession
25 0036-001
Notes
Scope and Content: Notes of city and county expenditures relating to personnel and contractors, health department and epidemics, and maintenance of properties and cemeteries.
1853-1930

Accession No. 0036-002: Clarence Bagley papers, 1924Return to Top

.21 cubic feet (1 box)

Scope and Content: Bagley's book The Acquisition and Pioneering of Old Oregon, 1924, with clippings and letters pasted within. Letters comment on errors in spelling and dates, and also include biographical information on Bagley. Correspondents include Robert Bruce, George H. Himes, Frederick V. Holman, and Clarence Mulford.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Accession No. 0036-003: Clarence Bagley papers, undated (1863 originals)Return to Top

1 oversize folder
Arrangement: Arranged as received.

Scope and Content: Photostatic copies of three letters in the collection of Clarence B. Bagley. The letters are from Henry L. Yesler to his partner in San Francisco, George F. Plummer, dated May 15, August 30, and November 16, 1863. The letters pertain to the expansion of their sawmill, the product of which was traded for merchandise in San Francisco. These goods were in turn traded from their general store to the populace for logs, grain and cash. Their grist mill converted grain into flour. Another partner in the business was Arthur A. Denny, also one of the founders of Seattle.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Custodial History: These photostatic copies were framed for display when received, one frame of which included a typed caption. The originals of the letters are not a part of the Clarence Bagley papers, although the provenance and date appear to be the same as those of the original collection.

Acquisition Info: Donor: Bagley-Mercer company, 1956

Processing Info: Partially processed. Removed from frames and stored in oversize folder

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Banks and banking--Washington (State)--History--Sources
  • Chinese--Violence against--Washington (State)--Sources
  • Frontier and pioneer life--Washington (State)--Sources
  • Historians--Washington (State)--Seattle--Archives
  • Pacific Coast Indians, Wars with, 1847-1865--Sources
  • Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)

Personal Names

  • Bagley family--Correspondence
  • Bagley, Alice Mercer, 1848-1926--Correspondence
  • Bagley, Clarence, 1843-1932--Archives
  • Bagley, Daniel, 1818-1905--Correspondence
  • Bagley, S. R. (Susannah Rogers), 1819-1913-- Correspondence
  • Elliott, T. C. (Thompson Coit), 1862-1943--Correspondence
  • Garfielde, S. (Selucius), 1822-1883--Correspondence
  • Huggins, Edward, 1832-1907--Correspondence
  • Marshall, William I. (William Isaac), 1840-1906-- Correspondence
  • Plummer, George E.--Correspondence
  • Ward, Dillis Burgess, 1838-1922--Correspondence
  • Yesler, Henry L.  (Henry Leiter),  1810-1892--Correspondence

Corporate Names

  • Hudson's Bay Company
  • Seattle (Wash.). Board of Public Works

Geographical Names

  • King County (Wash.)--History--19th century--Sources
  • Seattle (Wash.)--History--19th century--Sources
  • Washington (State)--History--19th century--Sources

Occupations

  • Historians

Titles within the Collection

  • Acquisition and pioneering of old Oregon