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San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Manuscript and typewritten poems by David Starr Jordan. Includes 'The Bubbles of Saki' and 'Viverols,' as well as a collection of poems called 'To Barbara' (Jordan's daughter with his second wife Jessie Louise Knight) and which include 'A Castle in the Air,' 'A Castle in Spain,' When Man Shall Come,' 'Men Told Me, Lord,' and 'Altruism.'
mssHM 74118-74125
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Manuscripts
Manuscript poems by Henry David Thoreau copied in the hand of Thoreau's sister Sophia E. Thoreau. Contents: Haze (page 1a); The Funeral Bell (pages 1a-b); Voyagers Song. 1837 June (page 2a); Change Not (page 2b); A Rural Scene, afternoon in May (page 3a); The Ark (page 4a); Enoch (page 4a); The Prayer (page 4b); "Every little spring flows on …" (page 5a); "My feeble bark has reached the shore…" (Michelangelo) (page 6a). At the top of page 1 there is a penciled note of authentication by F. B. Sanborn. A leaf containing 2 pages of penciled notes about books, in Sophia Thoreau's hand, is laid with the above.
mssHM 13190
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Manuscripts
Manuscript (holograph), some written in pencil, of poems, an essay on "Gratitude" (February 24, 1838), and fragments from a commonplace book.
mssHM 13201
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23612
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137682
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45596