[Reminiscences]. Notes from My Notebooks. A Few Interesting, and Many Perhaps Uninteresting Experiences in the Life of an Engineer. With Some Comments and Discussions by Robert Brewster Stanton, A.M. Civil and Mining Engineer [title by Stanton]

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{"value"=>"<p>These notes contain memories of Stanton's childhood in Mississippi, Louisiana, and at Chillicothe, Ohio; of his father, Robert Livingston Stanton (1810-85); of his aunt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), and of various other family members; of the Civil War years in Washington, D.C., his meetings with President Lincoln and Lincoln's death, his work as a volunteer nurse; surveying in Indian Territory for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad and for the Cincinnati Southern Railway in Eastern Tennessee; characters met with in the West, the customs of the hill people of the Cumberland Plateau, the origin of moonshine and the flora of the region.</p> <p>[Note by Mrs. Burchard dated Aprril 1945 places the period of the writing of these notes from c.1909 to Stanton's death in 1922].</p> <p>note Inserts include: Autograph MS., pp. 1-180, 1-157 with a few letters (from family, etc) mainly to RBS and other documents illustrating the text inserted or pasted in. In red buckram portfolio.</p>"}

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1. Reminiscences of President Lincoln, by Robert Livingston Stanton
2. A Reminiscence of Jay Cooke, by Robert Livingston Stanton
3. The Rise, Reign, and Fall of King Cotton, a poem by Robert Livingston Stanton in fifty-four stanzas dtd. Danville, Ky
4. Printed circular letter from Robert Livingston Stanton as president of Miami University to the Board of Trustees setting forth the history of his administration and his proposal to resign
5. Robert Livingston Stanton's 5th Annual Report and resignation as president of Miami University
6. Receipt for deed of 20 acres of land in the township of Turin [N.Y.] on the Black River. New York
7. Letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton at New York to RBS
8. Notebook kept by Robert Brewster Stanton as “historian” of the class of 1871 at Miami University
9. Correspondence, between RBS and Allston Ellis (president of Miami University) regarding Stanton's attendance at the University's Centennial celebration