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Date of ingest: 13 April 2023

Description: A collection of letters and documents formerly in the possession of Idaho's first Governor, and U.S. Senator, acquired from Mr. J. A. Harrington of Boise, Idaho, and presented to the University Library in February 1935. It was transferred to the Special Collections and Archives Department in 1990. The collection consists of a small series primarily of correspondence with a limited number of business papers mixed in. The material ranges in date from 1867 to 1900, although the bulk of the collection is for the years 1877-1878. There is some business correspondence, but the vast majority of the collection concerns Indian affairs: the Birch Creek Massacre and Nez Perce Wars, in particular.