IGNATIUS DONNELLY:
An Inventory of His Family Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
Part or all of this collection is restricted.
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OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Donnelly, Ignatius, 1831-1901, creator. | |
| Title: | Ignatius Donnelly and family papers. | |
| Dates: | 1812-1973 (bulk 1855-1901). | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: |
 Correspondence, literary materials, pamphlets,
speeches, diaries, scrapbooks, financial records, research note cards, and other
materials documenting Donnelly's long and active career as townsite speculator at
Nininger (Dakota County, Minn.), politician, author, editor and publisher of three
newspapers, lieutenant governor of Minnesota (1860-1863), member of Congress
(1863-1869), member of the Minnesota Senate (1874-1878, 1891-1893) and House (1887,
1897), and a national leader in third-party movements. Donnelly's correspondents
were numbered by the hundreds and ranged from day laborers and local politicians to
figures of national and international fame. | |
| Quantity: | 40.1 cubic feet. (39 boxes, 2 partial boxes, 17 oversize folders, unboxed, 1 folder in reserve, and 172 microfilm reels). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
| Date | Event |
| 1831 | November 3, Ignatius Donnelly born in Moyamensing, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| 1839 | Donnelly's father, Philip C. Donnelly, graduated from the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. |
| 1841 | Dr. Philip C. Donnelly died. |
| 1849 | Donnelly graduated from Central High School and began the study of law with Benjamin H. Brewster. |
| 1850 | Donnelly's book of poems, The Mourner's Vision, published. |
| 1853 | Donnelly admitted to the Philadelphia bar. |
| 1855 | Made his political debut in a speech before a Democratic meeting in Philadelphia. Married Katharine McCaffrey. |
| 1856 | Visited Minnesota twice. With John Nininger and others, organized the Emigrant Aid Association and established the townsite of Nininger, Minnesota. Began publication of the Emigrant Aid Journal. Ignatius C. Donnelly born. |
| 1857 | Donnelly and family emigrated from Philadelphia to Nininger. Defeated as Republican candidate for Minnesota legislature. |
| 1858 | Again defeated for legislature. Town of Nininger incorporated. Mary Donnelly born. |
| 1859 | Elected lieutenant governor of Minnesota on Republican ticket. Published The Sonnets of Shakespeare. |
| 1860 | Stanislaus J. Donnelly born. |
| 1861 | Re-elected lieutenant governor. Was acting governor at the outbreak of the Civil War. |
| 1862 | Elizabeth Donnelly born. Donnelly elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, Republican ticket. |
| 1863 | Began first term in House. |
| 1864 | Elizabeth Donnelly died. Donnelly re-elected to House. |
| 1866 | Re-elected for third term. |
| 1870 | Lobbyist in Washington for railroad interests. |
| 1871 | Began career as lecturer on lyceum circuit. |
| 1872 | Campaigned for Greeley and Democratic ticket in elections. Met George B. Smith, who introduced him to idea that Francis Bacon wrote the Shakespeare plays. |
| 1873 | Organized lodge and became lecturer for Patrons of Husbandry. Published Facts for the Granges. Elected to legislature on Anti-Monopoly ticket. Served until 1878. |
| 1874 | Donnelly and others established the newspaper Anti-Monopolist. |
| 1876 | Donnelly temporary chairman and keynote speaker, Greenback Labor Party convention, Indianapolis, Indiana. Elected to legislature, Greenback ticket. Invested in land in Stevens County, Minnesota. |
| 1878 | Unsuccessful candidate, Greenback and Democratic tickets, for U. S. House of Representatives. Defeated by William D. Washburn. |
| 1879 | Donnelly contested Washburn's election. Lost the suit. |
| 1881 | Ignatius C. Donnelly entered Jefferson Medical College. |
| 1882 | Atlantis: The Antediluvian World published. Donnelly obtained facsimile copy of the First Folio (1623) of Shakespeare plays. |
| 1883 | Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel published. Mary Donnelly married George (Murray) Giltinan. |
| 1884 | Donnelly narrowly defeated as Democratic candidate for U. S. House of Representatives. |
| 1885 | Unsuccessful candidate for appointment as Surveyor General of Minnesota. Stanislaus Donnelly admitted to bar. |
| 1886 | Elected to legislature. Spokesman for Farmers' Alliance. |
| 1887 | Donnelly's mother, Catharine Gavin Donnelly, died. Stanislaus Donnelly married Jennie O'Brien. |
| 1888 | The Great Cryptogram published. Donnelly visited England. Ignatius C. Donnelly continued medical studies in London and Vienna. Donnelly an unsuccessful candidate for U. S. Senate against William D. Washburn. |
| 1889 | Donnelly state lecturer and organizer for the Farmers' Alliance. |
| 1890 | Elected to legislature and president of Minnesota Farmers' Alliance. Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century published. |
| 1891 | Chairman of resolutions committee, National Alliance Union convention, Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Huguet published. Awarded one dollar damages and court costs in libel suit against St. Paul Pioneer Press. |
| 1892 | Wrote preamble and much of platform, and keynote speaker at People's Party convention, Omaha, Nebraska. Donnelliana: An Appendix to "Caesar's Column" and The Golden Bottle, or the Story of Ephraim Benezet of Kansas published. Elected to the legislature. |
| 1893 | Founded the newspaper, Representative. |
| 1894 | Katharine McCaffrey Donnelly died. |
| 1895 | In Memoriam, Mrs. Katharine Donnelly and The American People's Money published. |
| 1896 | Donnelly elected to legislature. |
| 1897 | Ignatius C. Donnelly married to Marie Kimball. Donnelly awarded $1,000 and costs in libel suit against the St. Paul Pioneer Press. |
| 1898 | Donnelly married Marion Olive Hanson. George Giltinan died. |
| 1899 | The Cipher in the Plays and on the Tomb-stone published. |
| 1900 | Donnelly candidate for Vice-president of the U. S. on the Populist ticket. |
| 1901 | Ignatius Donnelly died January 1 of a heart attack. |
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
The Ignatious Donnelly and family papers consist of both original material and microfilmed portions. The bulk of orginal items was microfilmed by 1968 (microfilm M138) and is therefore closed to general use. Microfilm M138-A is a set of research note cards created while preparing original items for microfilming (M138). Supplemental microfilm M177 is of items received after 1968. There is also a non-microfilmed addition, pertaining largely to Donnelly's later years and his family.
As for M138, much correspondence in the late 1850s relates to Nininger, being especially full on means of enticing immigrants thither and on townsite development. That of the 1860s includes much discussion of railroad land grants, other improvements to transportation and communications, administration of Indian affairs, and development of the West. Many letters reveal the views of Donnelly or his correspondents on such topics as nativism, slavery, reconstruction, Catholicism, civil-service reform, the tariff, agricultural societies and fairs, and the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy.
The 1870s correspondence is very full on the Granger movement, on Horace Greeley's presidential campaign, on Donnelly's paper The Anti-Monopolist, and on local politics. There is also information on journalism, on land policies, on lyceums, and on the vast amount of lecturing that occupied much of Donnelly's time. In Donnelly's later years his correspondence was particularly concerned with the Farmers' Alliance and the Populist party.
ARRANGEMENT
These documents are organized into the following sections:
| Microfilm M138 | ||
| Microfilm M138-A | ||
| Microfilm M177 | ||
| Manuscript Material | ||
| Closed Originals | ||
OTHER FINDING AIDS
Microfilm M138 described in: Helen McCann White, Guide to a Microfilm Edition of the Ignatius Donnelly Papers (St. Paul, 1968). A copy of this guide is available in the repository (filed as M138) and in pdf format.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Access Restrictions:
Access to and use of reserve materials requires the curator's permission.
Microfilmed originals (M138: 38 boxes and 17 folders) are closed to general use.
Use Restrictions:
Quotation or publication beyond the fair use provisions of the copyright law of Ignatius Donnelly's letter to Jay Cooke, February 15, 1871, that appears on Microfilm M177 requires the permission of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Microfilm Production:
M138: St. Paul, Minn. : Minnesota Historical Society, 1966-1968. 167 reels; 35 mm.
M138-A: St. Paul, Minn. : Minnesota Historical Society, 1988. 4 reels; 16 mm.
M177: St. Paul, Minn. : Minnesota Historical Society, ca. 1989. 1 reel; 35 mm.
Microfilm available for sale or interlibrary loan from the Minnesota Historical Society.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Ignatius Donnelly and Family Papers. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession numbers: 1775A7; 1784; 2248; 3686; 3825; 3870; 3877; 4124; 4915; 4959; 5712; 5915; 6261A; 6310; 7049; 7483; 8109; 8130; 8456; 8635; 8777; 8817; 8882; 9322; 9326; 9364; 9431; 9776; 10,264; 10,320; 10,413; 10,564; 10,633; 10,874; 10,889; 11,099; 11,589; 11,711; 12,133; 12,407; 13,047; 13,095; 13,433; 13,960; 16,187; 16,305
Processing Information:
Processed by: Kathryn A. Johnson, May 1980, October 1982, October 1984; Deborah M. Kahn, December 1987, May 1989; Christopher G. Welter, May 2010
Catalog ID number: 990017333020104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
MICROFILM M138
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, literary materials, pamphlets, volumes (including diaries and memorandum books, letter books, scrapbooks, and financial records), and supplemental material relating to Donnelly's life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and to his family life and career in Minnesota as lieutenant governor, congressman, legislator, editor and publisher of three newspapers, founder of two towns, national third party leader, and author.
Microfilm M138 is also described in Helen McCann White's published guide. The guide provides biographical data on Donnelly, information on the Society's acquisition of the papers, a description of the microfilmed portions, a selected bibliography of manuscript and published sources on Donnelly, and selected lists of authors and subjects.
Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers
| Donnelly's Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers include letters to Donnelly, copies of letters sent by Donnelly, bills, receipts, cancelled checks, and other financial records, legal documents, notes and drafts of speeches, articles and poems, clippings from newspapers and magazines, some maps and plats, and other miscellaneous items. | |||||||||||||
| Most of these records were kept by Donnelly for many years in bundles in the drawers beneath the bookcases in the study of his home at Nininger. More than two hundred bundles, comprising the bulk of the correspondence and miscellaneous papers, were given to the Society by Mrs. Marion Donnelly Woltman and Professor Henry L. Woltman in 1914. When the papers were arranged the next year, a file of letters of a personal nature was returned to Mrs. Woltman. Most of these letters appear to have been returned to the collection in gifts from Mrs. Woltman in later years. | |||||||||||||
| When in the 1930s many Donnelly volumes were given to the Society, a number of loose clippings were removed and placed in a separate file. These clippings, bearing the old number of the volume from which they were taken, have been interfiled in the correspondence along with a large file of previously disarranged clippings that came to the collection at various times. Some of these incomplete or defective clippings have been replaced, in microfilming, by more complete pages from the Society's newspaper files. Photocopies of three other newspapers, the St. Louis Republic (July 22, 1896) and the St. Louis Globe Democrat (July 22 and 23, 1896), were supplied by the St. Louis (Missouri) Public Library. | |||||||||||||
| The papers are filed and microfilmed in chronological order, with a few exceptions. Financial papers of the 1850s are often filed in monthly folders rather than by individual dates within the month. Subscription lists, which appear to be for the newspaper Representative, are all filed under date of April 19, 1893 (roll 107); several reports on the Ignatius Donnelly and Family Papers, for various dates, are filed under date of December 13, 1909 (roll 132). Enclosures, no matter what their date, have been filed after the item with which they were enclosed. Over the years, however, many enclosures have become separated from the letters that enclosed them, and if they are in the collection at all, are filed and filmed in chronological order wherever they appear. | |||||||||||||
| Special mention should be made of Donnelly's speech notes. He frequently repeated his speeches in different places at different times. The notes are filed under one date and photocopies of the first page of the speech are filed under dates in other years when Donnelly repeated the speech, referring the reader to the original notes. Frequently, too, Donnelly put notes for two different speeches on the two sides of his note paper. The notes on one side for one speech are filmed together; then the note pages were turned over and rearranged to film the notes for the second speech. | |||||||||||||
| Donnelly often drafted the answer to a letter on the back page of a letter received. When the date of the letter and the date of the answer are widely separated or a large number of letters intervene between the date of the letter received and its answer, a photocopy of the answer is placed in chronological order in the file and the answer is thus filmed twice. | |||||||||||||
| The reader is advised to use undated items and items which are dated in brackets with some caution. Since it was not possible in the preparation of these papers for microfilming to spend the time necessary for a full study of these dates, particularly for the period after 1889, there may be errors in dating. | |||||||||||||
| Nine letters of the 1890s appear in the Ignatius Donnelly and family papers as photostats of originals in the Henry Demarest Lloyd and Luman H. Weller Papers in the collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Madison, Wisconsin). These letters, listed below, are reproduced here with the permission of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and the reader is cautioned not to use them or quote from them without obtaining permission from that Society. | |||||||||||||
| Donnelly to Henry Demarest Lloyd: May 30, 1893; May 26, May 28, 1895; August 11, 1898. Donnelly to Luman H. Weller: June 10, July 23, August 6, 1891; January 18, April 16, 1892. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 1 | Undated and 1812, 1836-0ctober 1855. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 2 | November 1855-September 1856. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 3 | October 1856-March 14, 1857. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 4 | March 16-August 1857. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 5 | September 1857-July 1858. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 6 | August 1858-June 1859. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 7 | July 1859-August 1860. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 8 | September 1860-September 1861. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 9 | October 1861-May 1862. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 10 | June-September 1862. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 11 | October 1862-February 1863. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 12 | March-June 1863. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 13 | July-November 1863. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 14 | December 1863-January 10, 1864. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 15 | January 11-February 15, 1864. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 16 | February 16-March 20, 1864. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 17 | March 21-April 25, 1864. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 18 | April 26-June 8, 1864. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 19 | June 9-July 31, 1864. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 20 | August-November 1864. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 21 | December 1864-January 15, 1865. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 22 | January 16-February 15, 1865. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 23 | February 16-May 1865. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 24 | June-December 10, 1865. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 25 | December 11, 1865-January 31, 1866. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 26 | February-March 1866. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 27 | April-May 22, 1866. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 28 | May 23-July 14, 1866. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 29 | July 15-November 1866. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 30 | December 1866-January 1867. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 31 | February-March 23, 1867. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 32 | March 24-July 1867. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 33 | August-December 1867. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 34 | January-February 15, 1868. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 35 | February 16-March 1868. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 36 | April-May 10, 1868. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 37 | May 11-June 11, 1868. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 38 | June 12-July 1868. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 39 | August-November 15, 1868. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 40 | November 16, 1868-March 1869. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 41 | April-November 1869. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 42 | December 1869-March 1870. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 43 | April-August 1870. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 44 | September-December 1870. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 45 | January-November 1871. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 46 | December 1871-May 1872. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 47 | June-November 1872. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 48 | December 1872-July 1873. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 49 | August-December 1873. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 50 | January-April 1874. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 51 | May-July 24, 1874. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 52 | July 25-September 1874. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 53 | October 1874-February 1875. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 54 | March-August 22, 1875. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 55 | August 23-November 1875. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 56 | December 1875-February 1876. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 57 | March-August 1876. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 58 | September 1876-April 1877. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 59 | May-October 1877. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 60 | November 1877-February 1878. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 61 | March-July 1878. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 62 | August-November 15, 1878. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 63 | November 16, 1878-May 1879. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 64 | June 1879-February 1880. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 65 | March-September 1880. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 66 | October 1880-August 1881. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 67 | September 1881-April 10, 1882. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 68 | April 11-July 1882. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 69 | August-December 1882. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 70 | January-June 1883. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 71 | July-December 1883. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 72 | January-August 15, 1884. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 73 | August 16-November 1884. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 74 | December 1884-April 1885. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 75 | May-October 1885. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 76 | November 1885-May 1886. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 77 | June-September 1886. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 78 | October-December 1886. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 79 | January-April 1887. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 80 | May-August 1887. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 81 | September-October 1887. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 82 | November 1887-February 10, 1888. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 83 | February 11-May 14, 1888. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 84 | May 16-September 1888. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 85 | October-December 1888. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 86 | January-March 15, 1889. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 87 | March 16-June 1889. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 88 | July-September 20, 1889. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 89 | September 21-November 1889. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 90 | December 1889-February 10, 1890. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 91 | February 11-April 10, 1890. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 92 | April 11-June 14, 1890. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 93 | June 16-September 1890. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 94 | October-December 5, 1890. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 95 | December 6, 1890-January 15, 1891. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 96 | January 16-February 1891. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 97 | March-April 1891. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 98 | May-July 10, 1891. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 99 | July 11-September 20, 1891. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 100 | September 21-November 1891. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 101 | December 1891-January 1892. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 102 | February-March 1892. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 103 | April-June 1892. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 104 | July-September 1892. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 105 | October-December 1892. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 106 | January-March 10, 1893. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 107 | March 11-April 1893. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 108 | May-July 15, 1893. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 109 | July 17-0ctober 1893. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 110 | November 1893-February 1894. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 111 | March-May 1894. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 112 | June-September 1894. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 113 | October-December 1894. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 114 | January-May 1895. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 115 | June-September 1895. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 116 | October 1895-January 1896. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 117 | February-June 1896. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 118 | July-October 1896. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 119 | November 1896-February 15, 1897. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 120 | February 16-April 15, 1897. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 121 | April 16-July 1897. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 122 | August-December 1897. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 123 | January-May 1898. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 124 | June-September 1898. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 125 | October 1898-January 1899. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 126 | February-May 1899. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 127 | June-October 1899. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 128 | November-December 1899. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 129 | January-March 1900. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 130 | April-July 1900. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 131 | August 1900-May 1901. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 132 | June 1901-November 1943. | |||||||||||
Literary Materials
| Donnelly's Literary Materials include manuscripts of published books, unpublished manuscripts for two books, essays, a short story, articles, speeches, and many research and reading notes. The manuscripts are largely Donnelly's own, although a few appear to be the work of other persons. Printed materials relate largely to the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy. | |||||||||||||
| The papers in this section are items which did not easily fit into the chronological order of Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers. Many are undated, and many seemed significant enough as literary manuscripts to warrant their arrangement in this separate category. | |||||||||||||
| Despite this separate section of Literary Materials, there are many other items of literary interest throughout the Ignatius Donnelly and family papers. There is much related information in the Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers, in the Volumes, and in the Library Pamphlets. | |||||||||||||
| Many of the literary materials in this section came to the Minnesota Historical Society long after the bulk of the Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers was given in 1914. These materials came in little or no order after years of neglect in the Donnelly home at Nininger. Among them was a genealogy and history of the Donnelly family which consisted of incomplete fragments of a more extensive manuscript. Mr. Philip C. Donnelly (St. Paul, Minnesota) loaned the Society his more complete copy of this manuscript for photographing in this microfilm edition. Several pamphlets and circulars were also borrowed from the Society's library collections and included among the Bacon-Shakespeare printed material. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 133 | Miscellaneous, undated. | |||||||||||
| Miscellaneous undated materials include notes, extracts from readings, and fragments of essays on such subjects as country life, the tariff, virtue, marriage, legal matters and women's rights. There is a short story, "The Lady Emilie: A Tale of the Norman Conquest;" a draft of an article, “The Human Face;" an unfinished novel, “The Devil’s Needle;” research and reading notes on Atlantis; and an incomplete manuscript, "The Ancient Races of America," which may have been part of a speech. | |||||||||||||
| Caesar's Column, 1889. | |||||||||||||
| Dated materials include the incomplete manuscript (1889) of Donnelly's novel, Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century (Chicago, 1890) published under the pseudonym, Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D. | |||||||||||||
| My Journal, 1878-1900. | |||||||||||||
| A manuscript of excerpts, made by Donnelly, from his diaries and memorandum books. A preface is dated July 29, 1891. The four separately numbered parts that follow are (1) January 14, 1866-July 22, 1891 (no entries July 16, 1874-April 19, 1877); (2) July 24-December 31, 1891; (3) 1899; (4) 1900. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 134 | Donnelliana, undated. | |||||||||||
| Includes an incomplete manuscript of the book, Donnelliana: An Appendix to "Caesar's Column," Excerpts from the Wit, Wisdom, Poetry and Eloquence of Ignatius Donnelly, Selected and Collated with a Biography, by Everett W. Fish, M.D. (Chicago, 1892). Much of the manuscript is in the handwriting of Donnelly and John A. Giltinan. It consists of irregular pieces of paper arranged in two parts. The first part ("S") includes data found in part 1 of the book. The second section ("D") contains much of part 2 of the book. | |||||||||||||
| The Golden Bottle, undated. | |||||||||||||
| The second item on the roll is the manuscript of The Golden Bottle or The Story of Ephraim Benezet of Kansas (St. Paul and New York, 1892). | |||||||||||||
| Ireland and the Irish people, undated. | |||||||||||||
| This is a collection of notes, clippings, and manuscripts in three parts: (1) "A Genealogy and History of the Donnelly Family—compiled and written by Ignatius Donnelly with a survey of the History of Ireland," a manuscript owned by Philip C. Donnelly, St. Paul, Minnesota, and loaned to the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) for copying in this microfilm edition of the Ignatius Donnelly and family papers. The manuscript was written in 1896 from notes collected during more than thirty years. (2) Miscellaneous notes, including pages which were either withdrawn from the larger manuscript above, or intended to be included in it. (3) Three groups of miscellaneous clippings, apparently used in the preparation of the manuscript above. There is also a list of letters (filed in the Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers) used by Donnelly in this research. | |||||||||||||
| In Memoriam, Mrs. Katharine Donnelly, undated. | |||||||||||||
| The manuscript of Donnelly's book published in St. Paul in 1895. It is followed by pages of notes on Mrs. Donnelly and her ancestors. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 135 | Shakespeare-Bacon controversy, undated. | |||||||||||
| Miscellaneous notes; "The Misfortunes of Arthur;" "Tamburlaine;" "The Man Shakespeare," lecture notes; Terence, notes on the Latin dramatist; reading notes on Kuno Fischer's book, Francis Bacon of Verulam. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous, 1873-1930. | |||||||||||||
| "The Authorship of Shakespeare," a lecture (January 1873); "First rough copy of notice of finding of Bacon's cipher in the Shakespeare plays as amended by Appleton Morgan. Copied by Stan" [1886?]; "Original decipherment of Bacon-Shakespeare," notes [1886?]; "Extracts from Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton" (May 23, 1887); Notes in reply to a pamphlet by Dr. Alexander Nicholson [1888?]; "Is there a Cipher in the Shakespeare Plays?" by R.S.P. [1889?]; "Francis Bacon's Cipher in the Plays and on the Tombstone" [1891?]; Henry IV, Second Part, notes (undated and April 2, 1895); Imaginary Conversations with Francis Bacon and other Authors (1898); "Shakespeare's Tomb-Stone" [March 1898?]; Mailing Lists for The Great Cryptogram and The Cipher (undated and 1899); “The Bacon Shakespeare Controversy," lecture and notes by Marion Donnelly Woltman (1930). | |||||||||||||
| Cipher studies, undated and 1887, 1889. | |||||||||||||
| The first pages are merely computations—additions and subtractions of the numbers used in Donnelly's search for the cipher. Following are undated and then dated pages in which Donnelly attempted to apply number formulas to individual sections and lines of the Shakespeare plays. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 136 | Cipher studies, 1890-1899. | |||||||||||
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| M138 | 137 | The Cipher in the Plays, undated. | |||||||||||
| The incomplete manuscript for Donnelly's book, The Cipher in the Plays and on the Tombstone (Minneapolis, 1899). A table of contents has been compiled and precedes the manuscript and relates the manuscript chapters to those of the printed book. Miscellaneous notes and supplementary drafts by Donnelly have been filed and photographed after each pertinent chapter. | |||||||||||||
| The Cipher in Ben Jonson’s Works, [1899.]. | |||||||||||||
| This manuscript was originally intended to be chapters 21-33 of The Cipher in the Plays and on the Tombstone. A table of contents compiled by the microfilm editor precedes the manuscript. | |||||||||||||
| Printed material, undated and 1859-April 14, 1888. | |||||||||||||
| Material on the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy, including Donnelly's essay, “The Sonnets of Shakespeare” (St. Paul, 1859). Many of the dated clippings were supplied to Donnelly by an English clipping service and most of them concern the publication of The Great Cryptogram. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 138 | Printed material, April 15, 1888-1901. | |||||||||||
| Many of the items are clippings of news stories about Donnelly's book The Great Cryptogram, his visit to England (1888), his defense of the Bacon thesis thereafter in articles and lectures, the publication of his book The Cipher in the Plays and on the Tombstone (1899), and a revival of interest in the Baconian theory at the time of his death in 1901. | |||||||||||||
Volumes
| Microfilm M138 also contains 130 volumes (1847-1903). They are miscellaneous (volumes 1-3); diaries and memorandum books (volumes 4-68); address books (volumes 69-70); letter books (volumes 71-78); financial records (volumes 79-97); scrapbooks (volumes 98-126); and literary scrapbooks (volumes 127-130). | |||||||||||||
| The volumes came to the Society at various times and at long intervals between 1901 and 1954. Some were kept in the library while the rest were filed with the manuscript papers. A few volumes had never been cataloged and some others that were cataloged were closed to the public. In preparing the collection for microfilming, all volumes were brought together and put in the order in which they are now listed. | |||||||||||||
| There are page numbers in some of the volumes; others have none. In some of the letter books, pages are numbered on one side while the letter is copied on the other side, and some letter press copies are reproduced more than once on differently numbered pages. Numbered pages are missing in other volumes. Blank pages are generally not filmed. A few volumes are indexed and the indices are filmed at the beginning of the volumes in which they are found. Memorabilia such as tickets, programs, maps, etc., found between pages of volumes are photographed where they were found. Such material in flap pockets of the diaries and memorandum books was copied at the beginning or end of the volume in which it was found. | |||||||||||||
| Paper in some volumes is mildewed, tattered, torn or insect eaten; pencil writing is often smudged, and ink writing, particularly in letter books, often seeps through to adjacent pages. Many newspaper clippings are badly deteriorated. For some of them a clear copy was substituted from the Society's newspaper files. For many, however, it was only possible to indicate the name of the newspaper and date of the clipping and to attempt with various photographic techniques to make as clear a copy as the original allowed. Oversize items folded in volumes were unfolded and photographed where they were found. Many clippings in the scrapbooks are pasted on the pages of volumes of government reports. There, and in the diaries and memorandum books, they are pasted on the pages in almost every conceivable way, sometimes over writing, and many are discolored by the glue or paste used. | |||||||||||||
| The title of a volume is not a clear indication of all that the volume contains. Diaries and memorandum books, for example, contain clippings, financial records of cash received, bills paid, daily personal and family expenses, records of farm work done and contracts with farm workers, pages of jokes and anecdotes and reading notes used in Donnelly speeches and literary endeavors, election returns, railroad time tables, county maps, lists of appointments, lecture engagements, and subscribers to Donnelly newspapers, year-end reflections, as well as the traditional day-to-day entries. Some diaries are devoted almost entirely to political affairs. | |||||||||||||
| The term "Memorandum Book" covers a great diversity of materials, too, but all have some personal notes in Donnelly's handwriting to distinguish them from the scrapbooks which are largely only clippings, although the distinction between the two categories is sometimes very fine. | |||||||||||||
| A few scrapbooks, for example, also contain letters, notes, programs, tickets, badges, menus, broadsides, business cards, circulars, etc., in addition to clippings. | |||||||||||||
| The reader who has difficulty reading some of the entries in the diaries and memorandum books is referred to a transcription of parts of these volumes in the Literary Materials. In 1891 Donnelly hired a stenographer to copy parts of many of these entries. The transcription, entitled "My Journal," was edited by Donnelly and is found on roll 133. Another edited transcription of large parts of the diaries (not a part of this microfilm) was made by Theodore Nydahl and is part of the MHS library collection. | |||||||||||||
| Even the dates of Donnelly volumes must be accepted with caution. Although the inventory dates describe the bulk of entries for that volume, it may also contain other scattered items and entries for other years. Significant information for other years in particular volumes is noted in the inventory below. | |||||||||||||
| Similarly, Donnelly may have intended to reserve some volumes for special subjects, such as the Nininger town site letter books or the Farmers Alliance scrapbooks. When the bulk of entries relate to a special subject, that fact is indicated in the inventory. In general, however, one may expect to find a great variety of personal, political, or literary information in almost any volume. | |||||||||||||
| Following the last volume (roll 163) are microfilmed catalog cards that list significant materials by or about Donnelly in the manuscript collections held by the Minnesota Historical Society at the time these papers were microfilmed. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 139 | Miscellaneous volumes: | |||||||||||
| Volume 1: High school notebook, English literature, 1848. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 2: German exercise book, 1852-1853. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 3: Court docket, Donnelly legal cases, 1852-1856. | |||||||||||||
| Diaries and memorandum books: | |||||||||||||
| Volume 4, 1856. | |||||||||||||
| Includes some entries for 1855. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 5, 1856. | |||||||||||||
| Journey to Minnesota. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 6, 1856. | |||||||||||||
| Narrative of journey to Minnesota, compiled in 1871 on the back of share certificates, Union Land Hotel Company. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 7, 1857. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 8, 1859. | |||||||||||||
| Includes financial records, May-August 1857. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 9, 1859. | |||||||||||||
| Includes jokes and anecdotes, 1859-1870. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 10, 1862-1870. | |||||||||||||
| Largely political notes. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 140 | Volume 11, 1863. | |||||||||||
| Volume 12, 1863. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 13, 1864. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 14, 1864. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 15, 1865. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 16, December 1865-1866. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 17, 1866. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 141 | Volume 18, 1867. | |||||||||||
| Volume 19, 1868. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 20, 1868. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 21, 1869. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 22, 1870. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 23, 1871. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 142 | Volume 24, 1872. | |||||||||||
| Includes financial records, 1855. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 25, 1872. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 26, 1873. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 27, 1874. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 28, 1875. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 29, 1876. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 143 | Volume 30, 1877. | |||||||||||
| Largely clippings on a variety of subjects. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 31, March-June 12, 1877. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 32, June 12-September 3, 1877. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 33, September 4-December 31, 1877. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 34, January-August 10, 1878. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 35, August 10-December 1878. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 36, January-June 23, 1879. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 37, June-December 1879. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 144 | Volume 38, January-July 1880. | |||||||||||
| Volume 39, August-December 1880. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 40, January-July 1881. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 41, August 1881-January 1882. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 42, February-July 1882. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 143 | Volume 43, July-December 1882. | |||||||||||
| Volume 44, January-June 1883. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 45, June-December 1883. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 46, January-July 1884. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 47, July-December 1884. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 48, January-June 1885. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 146 | Volume 49, June-December 1885. | |||||||||||
| Volume 50, January-May 1886. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 51, June-December 1886. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 52, 1886. | |||||||||||||
| Includes financial records, November 1879-1880. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 53, January 1887-January 1888. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 147 | Volume 54, February-December 1888. | |||||||||||
| Volume 55, 1889. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 56, 1890. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 57, January-July 1891. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 148 | Volume 58, July-December 1891. | |||||||||||
| Volume 59, January-July 1892. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 60, August-December 1892. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 61, January 1893-January 1894. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 62, February 1894-February 1895. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 63, March-December 1895. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 149 | Volume 64, 1896. | |||||||||||
| Volume 65, 1897. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 66, 1898. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 67, 1899. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 68, 1900. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 150 | Political address books: | |||||||||||
| Volume 69, undated. | |||||||||||||
| By Minnesota county. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 70, 1863-1866. | |||||||||||||
| Gives names, addresses and occupations of persons to whom books and other publications were sent. | |||||||||||||
| Letter books: | |||||||||||||
| Volume 71, August 18-September 24, 1856. | |||||||||||||
| In Nininger, Minnesota. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 72, September 25, 1856-May 11, 1857. | |||||||||||||
| In Nininger, Minnesota. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 73, September 26, 1856-April 29, 1857. | |||||||||||||
| No entries December 16, 1856-March 4, 1857. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 151 | Volume 73, May 1, 1857-June 10, 1858. | |||||||||||
| Copies of letters from June-December 1858 are filed in Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 74, December 21, 1858-November 26, 1859. | |||||||||||||
| No entries between May and Nobember 1859. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 75, September 14-November 20, 1889. | |||||||||||||
| Includes Farmers' Alliance correspondence. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 152 | Volume 75, November 22, 1889-April 7, 1890. | |||||||||||
| Volume 76, March 30, 1890-1892. | |||||||||||||
| Includes Farmers' Alliance correspondence. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 153 | Volume 77, April 7, 1890-October 25, 1896. | |||||||||||
| Includes Farmers' Alliance correspondence. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 78, April 24, 1897 - August 9, 1899. | |||||||||||||
| Scattered dates, only one for 1899. | |||||||||||||
| Financial records: | |||||||||||||
| Other financial records including bills, receipts, and canceled checks on loose pages are filed by date in Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 79: Expense account book, July-December 1855. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 80: Daybook, 1856. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 81: Ledger, 1856. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 82: Daybook, January 1857-February 1860. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 154 | Volume 83: Notes and bills receivable and payable register, July 1857-August 1859. | |||||||||||
| Volume 84: Ledger, 1857-1881. | |||||||||||||
| Includes records for the Emigrant Aid Journal. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 85: Ledger, Anti-Monopolist, 1875-1878. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 86: Daybook, Anti-Monopolist, 1876-1877. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 87: Ledger, 1877-1884. | |||||||||||||
| Includes accounts with Harper and Brothers (1882-1890) for sales of Atlantis and with Appleton and Company (1884-1888) for sales of Ragnarok. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 88: Daybook, Representative, May-December 1895. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 155 | Volume 89: Household account book with William B. Reed, November 1872-November 1873. | |||||||||||
| Volume 90: Household account book with Frank Yanz, May 1878-January 1879. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 91: Household account book with Kranz Brothers, August 1896-December 1896. | |||||||||||||
| Another account book with Kranz Brothers is filed in Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers (October 11, 1894) and contains entries up to October 16, 1896. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 92: Bank deposit book, First National Bank of Hastings, February 1873-January 1876. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 93: Bank deposit book, Commonwealth National Bank, March 21, 1881. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 94: Bank deposit book, Savings Bank of St. Paul, March-July 1883. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 95: Bank deposit book, First National Bank of Hastings, April 1891-July 1901. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 96: Bank deposit book, Irish-American Bank of Minneapolis, April 1895-February 1896. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 97: Check stub register, June 1902-January 1903. | |||||||||||||
| Scrapbooks: | |||||||||||||
| Volume 98, 1847[?]-1863. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 99, 1856-1871. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 100, 1856-1871. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 101, 1866-1871. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 156 | Volume 102, 1870-1871. | |||||||||||
| Includes one item, 1866. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 103, 1870-1873. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 104, 1873. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 105, 1873-1884. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 157 | Volume 106, 1884-1888. | |||||||||||
| Includes some items for 1880. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 107, January-March 1887. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 108, 1888-July 1890. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 109, 1889. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 158 | Volume 110, 1889-1890. | |||||||||||
| Volume 111, 1889-1890. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 112, 1889-1890. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 113, 1889-1890. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 114, March-September 1890. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 115, 1890-1892. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 159 | Volume 116, July 1890-May 1891. | |||||||||||
| Volume 117, May-November 1891. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 118, January-March 1892. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 160 | Volume 119, April-July 1892. | |||||||||||
| Volume 120, June-August 1892. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 121, 1892-1893. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 122, 1893. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 161 | Volume 123, 1894. | |||||||||||
| Volume 124, 1895-1896. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 125, 1896. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 126, 1882-1897. | |||||||||||||
| Includes a variety of miscellaneous and Eleanor Donnelly items. | |||||||||||||
| Literary scrapbooks: | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 162 | Volume 127: Atlantis and Ragnarok, 1881-1887. | |||||||||||
| Includes some political clippings. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 128: The Great Cryptogram (1), 1884-1888. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 163 | Volume 129: The Great Cryptogram (2), 1888-1891. | |||||||||||
| Volume 130: Caesar's Column, 1890. | |||||||||||||
| MHS catalog cards (Ignatius Donnelly), undated. | |||||||||||||
Library Pamphlets
| Most significant of the Donnelly holdings in the MHS library are seventy-seven volumes of pamphlets—containing in addition to pamphlets, legal and governmental reports, programs, clippings, sections of newspapers, broadsides, circulars, other miscellaneous printed materials and a few manuscript items. Donnelly himself sorted and arranged these materials for binding in 1890 and presumably chose the titles by which the volumes are identified. Volumes 1-72 were presented to the library in 1914 by Mrs. Marion Donnelly Woltman and Professor Henry L. Woltman. Volumes 73-77 were the gift of Mrs. Woltman in 1947. | |||||||||||||
| Some of the volumes have tables of contents, although they are not always entirely accurate. A few of the inclusive dates given for volumes are incorrect. Correct dates are given in brackets in the roll inventory below. Some volumes contain extraneous items unrelated to the subject indicated by the volume title. A few titles are confusing: for example, volumes identified as relating to the 39th and 40th Congresses appear to be largely items collected by Donnelly during his congressional service. Volumes labeled "Miscellaneous" may contain items relating to special subjects covered in other volumes. In fact, almost any generalization about the contents of the volumes is apt to be misleading. | |||||||||||||
| Only selected pages (not the complete volumes) have been microfilmed. Copied for each volume are the following: the spine and cover; the table of contents where one is part of the volume; and the title page of each item in each volume, or in some cases, either the first page or enough of an oversize page to enable the reader to obtain the title. | |||||||||||||
| The items are copied in the order in which they appear in each volume, but the reader is cautioned that the penciled numbers in the right-hand corner of many items are not always a correct indication of sequence, since some items were overlooked by whomever made this index. The reader should also note the possibility that some of the items in the Library Pamphlets are duplicated in other places in the Ignatius Donnelly and Family Papers. It was not possible, in preparing the collection for microfilming, to make the exhaustive search necessary to point out such duplication. | |||||||||||||
| A citation to any item found among these pamphlet volumes should give the title of the item and the Donnelly pamphlet volume number in which it is found. | |||||||||||||
| On the microfilm following the selected pages from the Library Pamphlets are copies of catalog cards showing the MHS library holdings of books and other printed items relating to Donnelly. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 164 | Volumes 1-3: [Pennsylvania], [1839-1856]. | |||||||||||
| Volumes 4-11: Minnesota, [1855-1890]. | |||||||||||||
| Volumes 12-15: General land office reports, 1849-1854. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 16: Miscellaneous, [1847-1859]. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 17: Political, [1859]-1860. | |||||||||||||
| Volumes 18-25: War time pamphlets, [1860-1866]. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 26: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, [1865?]. | |||||||||||||
| Volumes 27-29: Reconstruction period, [186-?]. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 165 | Volume 30: Speeches on impeachment, [1868]. | |||||||||||
| Volumes 31-33: Miscellaneous, 1856-1870. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 34: Political, 1863-[1866]. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 35: Internal commerce, 1863-1866. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 36: Financial, 1864. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 37: Naval, 1863-1866. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 38: Sanitary and benevolent, 1863-1865. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 39: Scientific, 1863-1866. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 40: Miscellaneous, 1863-1866. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 41: Miscellaneous, 1863-1864. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 42: Political, 1865-1867. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 43: Railroads and commerce, 1865-1867. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 44: Political manuals and congressional directories, 1862-1868. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 45: Miscellaneous, 1865-1867. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 46: Miscellaneous, 1866-1867. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 47: Political, [1856]-1867. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 48: Financial, 1868- [1869]. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 49: Railroads, [1867-1869]. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 50: Miscellaneous, [1867-1869]. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 51: Presidential campaign of 1868, 1868. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 166 | Volume 52: Financial, 1868-1870. | |||||||||||
| Volume 53: Tariff, 1865-1870. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 54: Railroads, [1867]-1870. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 55: Pacific Railroad reports, [1867-1870]. | |||||||||||||
| Volumes 56-60: Second session, 39th Congress, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Volumes 61-68: Second session, 40th Congress, undated. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 167 | Volume 69: Donnelly vs. Washburn, contested election, 1878-1880. | |||||||||||
| Volume 70: Political, 1870-1890. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 71: Labor and capital, [1870]-1890. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 72: Tree culture and source of the Mississippi, [1874-1887]. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 73: Curious pamphlets, [1864-1888]. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 74: The Farmers' Alliance, [1870]-1890. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 75: Miscellaneous, [1877-1886]. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 76: Personal pamphlets of Ignatius Donnelly, [1872-1889]. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 77: Speeches and personal papers of Ignatius Donnelly, [1848]-1868. | |||||||||||||
| Minnesota Historical Society library catalog cards, undated. | |||||||||||||
Supplemental Material
| These manuscript items were contained in a scrapbook belonging to Mrs. Katherine (nee Giltinan) Bowen, a granddaughter of Ignatius Donnelly. Photocopies were made, microfilmed as supplemental material to M138, and interfiled in Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers (Closed Originals). Notes made on the items by Mrs. Bowen are in purple ink. | |||||||||||||
| The items include cards, invitations, programs and letters chiefly of autograph interest. The photocopies are arranged and filmed in chronological order. The correspondents are listed here alphabetically: John C. Breckinridge, Benjamin H. Brewster, David Paul Brown, General Andrew G. Curtin, Mrs. Mary B. (William Jennings) Bryan, Charles Darwin, James A. Garfield, Henry George, William E. Gladstone, Horace Greeley, H. W. Halleck, Oliver W. Holmes, Joseph Jefferson, William Lochren, Justin McCarthy, James Whitcomb Riley, William H. Seward, Edwin Sherman, William T. Sherman, William H. Smith, John H. Stevens, Adolph Sutra, Walt Whitman, and Fernando Wood. | |||||||||||||
| Many, though not all, of these originals have since been acquired by the MHS and are described in Manuscript Material. | |||||||||||||
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| M138 | 167 | undated and 1852-1898. | |||||||||||
MICROFILM M138-A
The research note cards reproduced on this microfilm enhance access to the microfilm edition (M138) of the Ignatius Donnelly and Family Papers by providing more detailed information on individual manuscript items, authors, and subjects than could be included in the published guide. However, because these cards are selective rather than all-inclusive, some items, persons, and subjects represented in the papers are not necessarily represented in these note cards.
The cards are divided into two series: 1) chronology cards; and 2) author and subject cards. All of the author and subject cards and some of the chronology cards were created in the 1960s during the production of the microfilm edition; most of the chronology cards were made under the auspices of the Society at some earlier time.
The chronology cards abstract the contents of selected manuscript items and/or identify the dates on which significant events occurred. They are filed in a single chronological sequence by year, month, and day. In general, cards referring to undated items are filed before those with dates, and cards with partial dates appear before those that are fully dated. Each card usually includes the date and author of the item referred to and an abstract of its contents or the date and a description of the event. Sometimes the number of pages and the place at which a letter was written also are indicated.
Author cards identify an item or selected items written by a particular individual; subject cards identify an item or items pertaining to a person or topic. The author and subject cards are arranged in a single alphabetical sequence by name and subject. Multiple cards for the same person or subject are in chronological order. In general, each card includes information on the author(s), date(s), and contents of the item(s) to which it refers. A card may contain biographical and/or historical information on an author or a subject.
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| M138-A | 2 | 1873-1876. | |||||||||||
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| M138-A | 3 | 1877-1900. | |||||||||||
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| M138-A | 3 | Author and subject cards: | |||||||||||
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MICROFILM M177
Microfilm M177 includes original items in possession of both the Minnesota Historical Society and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). The latter retains literary rights to its item and should be contacted regarding permission to quote from or publish the item.
This supplemental microfilm was compiled after the completion of microfilm M138 and should not be confused with the "supplement" described on page 24 of Helen McCann White's published guide.
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| M177 | 1 | Advertisement sheet, 1891[?]. | |||||||||||
| Concerns campaign books about People's Party and James B. Weaver. | |||||||||||||
| Notice, 1894. | |||||||||||||
| For an Alliance meeting to organize a local grain growers' association. | |||||||||||||
| Letter: Donnelly to Jay Cooke, February 15, 1871. | |||||||||||||
| Original in possession of Historical Society of Pennsylvania. | |||||||||||||
| Restricted. Quotation or publication beyond the fair use provisions of the copyright law requires the permission of the the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. | |||||||||||||
| Letter: "Rose" to her sister Kate, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Letter: Alice Robertson to "Vincenta," undated. | |||||||||||||
| Describes Donnelly materials she has found. | |||||||||||||
| Newspaper clippings, undated. 20 items. | |||||||||||||
| Topics include a poor wheat crop, growing of black walnuts, the land office, election returns, farmers and free trade, and an article on Ignatius Donnelly. | |||||||||||||
| Photographs: the Donnelly home at Nininger, undated. 4 items. | |||||||||||||
| Newspaper: Daily Minnesotan, August 24, 1860. | |||||||||||||
| Article: Donnelly piece in News Ledger, April 20, 1876. | |||||||||||||
| Certificate: Catholic Total Abstinence Society, Diocese of St. Paul, Minnesota, [188-]. | |||||||||||||
| Newspaper clippings, 1880-1881. 6 items. | |||||||||||||
| On Republican Party election returns and on Henry Demarest Lloyd's exposure of the Standard Oil Company. | |||||||||||||
| Speech: Zebulon B. Vance, February 14, 1882. | |||||||||||||
| Made in United States Senate about tariff and internal revenue laws. | |||||||||||||
| Letter: Donnelly to Miss Alice Goodrich, July 28, 1883. | |||||||||||||
| Certificate, March 1885. | |||||||||||||
| Katherine J. Donnelly's membership card for the Sacred Heart Union in Behalf of the Catholic Protectory and Industrial School (Arlington, New Jersey), with image of St. Catherine on back. | |||||||||||||
| Passport: Dr. Ignatius Donnelly, August 14, 1888. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous Ignatius Donnelly receipts, 1871-1884. | |||||||||||||
MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL
The non-microfilmed portion of the Ignatius Donnelly and Family Papers includes correspondence, clippings and printed material, volumes, and maps.
Topics include Donnelly's marriage to Marion Hanson (1897); his literary and political activities; his death in 1901; and the Ignatius Donnelly Memorial Association. There are also a number of incomplete (and in some cases, untitled) drafts of manuscripts documenting Donnelly family history and Donnelly's career; and fragments of manuscripts by Donnelly on a variety of subjects.
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| 149.H.8.1B | 39 | Correspondence: | |||||||||||
| Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, February 6, 1864. Photocopy. | |||||||||||||
| A joint letter written by Cyrus Aldrich, William Windom, and Ignatius Donnelly inviting Chase to a dinner in Washington, D.C., honoring the First Minnesota Regiment. | |||||||||||||
| Original in the National Archives (Record Group 56, Records of the Treasury Department). | |||||||||||||
| Judge Friend J. Whitlock, March 2 and August 14, 1886. | |||||||||||||
| Donnelly outlines the strategy of the Farmers’ Alliance to overthrow the James J. Hill faction at the Minnesota State Democratic Convention. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous, undated and 1888-1945. | |||||||||||||
| Correspondence addressed to Ignatius and Marion Donnelly (1888-1900), including a note to Donnelly from William E. Gladstone (April 13, 1888); Ignatius Donnelly Memorial Association president's remarks at the annual meeting (1941) and form letters (1945); copy of the letter to Attorney General J. A. A. Burnquist from the Association relating to the deeds to the Donnelly home in Nininger. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous, undated and circa 1851-1898. | |||||||||||||
| Correspondents include Josh Billings, Benjamin Harris Brewster, David Paul Brown, Andrew G. Curtin, Henry George, William Gladstone, Winfield Scott Hancock, John S. Hart, Archbishop John Ireland, Joseph Jefferson, William Lochren, Justin McCarthy, John Sherman, William Henry Smith, John H. Stevens, Adolph Sutro, Archbishop Alexander Tache, and Ferdinand Wood. | |||||||||||||
| Microfilmed versions of Brewster, Brown, Curtin, George, Gladstone, Jefferson, Lochren, McCarthy, Sherman, Smith, Stevens, Sutro, and Wood are also available in M138: Supplemental Material. | |||||||||||||
| Reserve 102 | Miscellaneous, 1852-1896. 9 items. | ||||||||||||
| Restricted. | |||||||||||||
| Correspondents include John C. Breckinridge, Mary B. (Mrs. William Jennings) Bryan, Charles Darwin, James A. Garfield, Horace Greeley, James Whitcomb Riley, William H. Seward, and William T. Sherman. | |||||||||||||
| Microfilmed versions of all these letters are also available in M138: Supplemental Material. | |||||||||||||
Digital version of John C. Breckinridge's correspondence
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Digital version of Mary B. (Mrs. William Jennings) Bryan's
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Digital version of Charles Darwin's correspondence
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Digital version of James A. Garfield's correspondence
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Digital version of Horace Greeley's correspondence
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Digital version of James Whitcomb Riley's correspondence
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Digital version of William H. Seward's correspondence
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Digital version of William T. Sherman's correspondence
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| 149.H.8.1B | 39 | Ignatius Donnelly and Marion Hanson, 1897-1898. | |||||||||||
| Donnelly-Hanson marriage, circa 1898. | |||||||||||||
| Letters written to the couple from friends and family. | |||||||||||||
| Reserve 102 | Donnelly-Hanson marriage: William Jennings Bryan, February 15, 1898. | ||||||||||||
Digital version of William Jennings Bryan's correspondence
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| 149.H.8.1B | 39 | Death of Ignatius Donnelly, 1901. | |||||||||||
| Letters to Marion Donnelly from friends and associates and a few letters from Donnelly's sister, Eleanor; printed and manuscript copies of Marion Donnelly’s poem memorializing her husband. | |||||||||||||
| Eleanor and Eliza Donnelly to Marion Donnelly, 1901-1902. | |||||||||||||
| Marion Woltman, 1934-1960. | |||||||||||||
| Concerns the possible publication of the Donnelly journals by either the Minnesota Historical Society or the University of Minnesota, and the acquisition of Donnelly materials by the Society and the University. | |||||||||||||
| Clippings and printed material: | |||||||||||||
| Bacon-Shakespeare controversy, undated and 1916-1926. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous, undated and 1898-1973. | |||||||||||||
| Marion Donnelly's calling cards; list of books in Donnelly's Bacon-Shakespeare library; blueprint of Nininger plat; advertising brochures for Donnelly's books; photocopy of Ignatius and Marion Donnelly's marriage certificate; newspaper clippings relating to their marriage; a reprint of a newspaper clipping on the Donnelly Memorial Home and Park; and a printed report issued by the Ignatius Donnelly Memorial Association. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous: scrapbook, 1875-1940. 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Newspaper clippings and miscellaneous items removed from a scrapbook that may have been kept by a member of the Donnelly family. Items include mounted clippings relating to the death of Ignatius Donnelly (1901); the memorial pamphlet on Donnelly's death (1901); a poem by Eleanor Donnelly (1906); an unidentified handwritten menu (1875); a newspaper clipping from the Montreal Star (1898) describing Donnelly's visit to that city; a letter (1901, photographic copy) from Marion Hanson Donnelly to A.C. Clausen about employment for her father; newspaper articles (1927-1940) about Donnelly's literary works, historical information on Nininger, and on attempts to restore the Donnelly home in Nininger. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous: Philip C. Donnelly scrapbook, 1862-1963. 1 volume and 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous newspaper clippings and music programs compiled by members of the Donnelly family (1869-1901) and a folder of newspaper clippings (1923-1959) relating to Ignatius Donnelly's career and his home in Nininger. | |||||||||||||
| Manuscripts, undated and July 16, 1898. | |||||||||||||
| Includes photocopies of incomplete Donnelly biography and several manuscripts (both complete and not), including "Conversation" (July 16, 1898), "Chapter 1," "Mr. Donnelly's Remarks," and "The Origins of Atlantis and Ragnarok." | |||||||||||||
| Financial records and related material, undated and 1855-1890. | |||||||||||||
| Mainly receipts for various businesses and hotels. | |||||||||||||
| Volumes: | |||||||||||||
| Names of Ignatius Donnelly's friends and acquaintances, August 17, 1886. | |||||||||||||
| Names of persons connected with the Farmers' Alliance, October 16, 1889. | |||||||||||||
| Book of Thoughts, April 8, 1890. | |||||||||||||
| Contains only newspaper clippings. | |||||||||||||
| Dr. Huguet, 1891. | |||||||||||||
| In Memoriam, Mrs. Katharine Donnelly, 1895. | |||||||||||||
CLOSED ORIGINALS
Restricted. By 1968, the bulk of the Ignatius Donnelly and Family Papers had been microfilmed as M138. These originals are closed to general use.
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| 146.C.19.3B | 1 | Clippings and papers, undated. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| Correspondence and miscellaneous papers: | |||||||||||||
| 1812, 1836-February 1857. 13 folders. | |||||||||||||
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| 146.C.19.4F | 2 | March 1857-May 1860. 19 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.C.19.5B | 3 | June 1860-December 1862. 16 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.C.19.6F | 4 | January 1863-February 1864. 18 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.C.20.1B | 5 | March-December 1864. 25 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.C.20.2F | 6 | January 1865-February 1866. 19 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.C.20.3B | 7 | March 1866-January 1867. 20 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.C.20.4F | 8 | February 1867-February 1868. 19 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.C.20.5B | 9 | March 1868-May 1869. 19 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.C.20.6F | 10 | June 1869-February 1872. 21 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.16.1B | 11 | March 1872-May 1874. 21 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.16.2F | 12 | June 1874-March 1876. 26 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.16.3B | 13 | April 1876-November 1878. 25 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.16.4F | 14 | December 1878-May 1882. 26 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.16.5B | 15 | June 1882-July 23, 1884. 18 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.16.6F | 16 | July 24, 1884-October 1886. 27 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.16.7B | 17 | November 1886-April 13, 1888. 26 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.16.8F | 18 | April 14, 1888-July 1889. 23 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.16.9B | 19 | August 1889-September 1890. 23 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.16.10F | 20 | October 1890-August 1891. 26 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.17.1B | 21 | September 1891-August 1892. 26 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.17.2F | 22 | September 1892-November 1893. 25 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.17.13B | 23 | December 1893-May 1895. 30 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.17.4F | 24 | June 1895-December 1896. 21 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.17.5B | 25 | January 1897-January 1898. 21 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.17.6F | 26 | February 1898-October 1889. 23 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.17.7B | 27 | November 1899-December 1901. 26 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.17.8F | 28 | 1902-1943. 3 folders. | |||||||||||
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| +18 | 1 | undated, 1849-1869. 24 items. | |||||||||||
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| +18 | 2 | 1870-1880. 21 items. | |||||||||||
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| +18 | 3 | 1881-1892. 36 items. | |||||||||||
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| +18 | 4 | 1893-1895. 6 items. | |||||||||||
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| +18 | 5 | 1896-1901. 28 items. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.17.8F | 28 | Literary materials: | |||||||||||
| General, undated. 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Caesar's Column, 1889. | |||||||||||||
| Journals, undated. 4 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Donnelliana, undated. 3 folders. | |||||||||||||
| The Golden Bottle, undated. 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
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| 146.E.17.9B | 29 | The Golden Bottle, undated. 1 folder. | |||||||||||
| Donnelly genealogy, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Notes on Ireland and the Irish people, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Manuscripts of Katherine McCaffrey Donnelly, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Bacon-Shakespeare controversy, undated and 1873-1930. 10 folders. | |||||||||||||
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| 146.E.17.10F | 30 | Bacon-Shakespeare controversy, undated and 1859-1899. 17 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.18.1B | 31 | Bacon-Shakespeare controversy, 1888-1901. 14 folders. | |||||||||||
| The Cipher: 1st complete proof, October 21, 1899. | |||||||||||||
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| +18 | 6 | Galley: The Great Cryptogram, undated. | |||||||||||
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| +18 | 7 | Galley: Doctor Huguet, undated. | |||||||||||
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| +18 | 8 | Galley: Ragnarok, undated. | |||||||||||
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| +18 | 9 | Galley: The Great Cryptogram, undated. | |||||||||||
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| +18 | 10 | Galley: Atlantis, undated. | |||||||||||
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| +18 | 11 | Galley: Ragnarok, undated. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.18.2F | 32 | 1-46. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.18.3B | 33 | 47-76. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.18.4F | 34 | 77-87. | |||||||||||
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| 142.E.19.1B | 35 | 88-103. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.18.5B | 36 | 104-120. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.18.6F | 37 | 121-127. | |||||||||||
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| 146.E.18.7B | 38 | 128-130. | |||||||||||
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| +18 | 12 | Items removed from volumes 52, 100, 101, 14 items. | |||||||||||
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| +18 | 13 | Items removed from volumes 102-105, 24 items. | |||||||||||
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| +18 | 14 | Items removed from volumes 108-110, 113-114, 35 items. | |||||||||||
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| +18 | 15 | Items removed from volumes 115-121, 34 items. | |||||||||||
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| +18 | 16 | Items removed from volumes 122-124, 24 items. | |||||||||||
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| +18 | 17 | Items removed from volumes 125-127, 130, 16 items. | |||||||||||
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| 130.A.13.3B | 1 | Research note cards. Approximately 2475 note cards in 1 shared box. | |||||||||||
| These cards were created during the production of the microfilm. This box includes similar cards from three other microfilmed manuscript collections held by the Minnesota Historical Society. | |||||||||||||
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| 130.A.13.4F | 2 | Research note cards. Approximately 5060 note cards in 1 shared box. | |||||||||||
| These cards were created during the production of the microfilm. This box includes similar cards from one other microfilmed manuscript collection held by the Minnesota Historical Society. | |||||||||||||
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Agriculture -- Societies, etc.
- Agriculture -- Minnesota.
- Catholics -- United States.
- Civil service reform -- United States.
- Currency question -- United States.
- Dakota Indians -- Wars, 1862-1865.
- Education -- United States.
- Elections -- Minnesota.
- Forests and forestry -- United States.
- Indians of North America -- Government relations.
- Irish Americans.
- Journalism.
- Land companies -- Minnesota.
- Lectures and lecturing -- United States.
- Lyceums -- United States.
- Nativism.
- Newspaper publishing -- Minnesota.
- Poetry.
- Railroad land grants -- United States.
- Railroad law -- Minnesota.
- Railroad law -- United States.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- Slavery -- United States.
- Tariff -- United States.
- Temperance.
- Persons:
- Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell), 1821-1875.
- Bryan, Mary Baird, 1861-1930.
- Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925.
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
- Donnelly family.
- Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881.
- Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872.
- Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916.
- Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Authorship -- Baconian theory.
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891.
- Organizations:
- American Protective Association.
- Anti-Monopoly Party of Minnesota.
- Democratic Party (Minn.)
- Farmers' Alliance of Minnesota.
- Greenback Labor Party (U.S.)
- Ignatius Donnelly Memorial Association.
- National Grange.
- Populist Party (U.S.)
- Republican Party (Minn.)
- Places:
- Minnesota -- Emigration and immigration.
- Minnesota -- Newspapers.
- Minnesota -- Politics and government -- 1858-1898.
- Nininger (Minn.)
- Philadelphia (Pa.)
- Saint Paul (Minn.)
- Stevens County (Minn.)
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
- United States -- Social life and customs.
- West (U.S.)
- Document Types:
- Indexes.
- Microforms.
- Occupations:
- Authors -- Minnesota.
- Legislators -- Minnesota.
- Politicians -- Minnesota.
- Titles:
- Anti-monopolist (Saint Paul, Minn.).
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