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How we climb to the stars and the Lick observatory. : A lecture and guide book

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    Two photograph albums: California and Lick Observatory

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    The addenda contains correspondence, business papers, estate material, diaries, account books, scrapbooks, photographs, and other material related to the work and family of James D. Hague. Other Hague family members represented in the addenda include Marian Hague, his son William Hague, and Mary Hallock Foote. Subjects included in the collection: Clarence King, mining, engineering, Guano Island, South Seas (Oceania), Japan, and the Lick Observatory. Also found in the addenda is a small group of papers of Horace F. Cutter of San Francisco, a friend of Clarence King; and a small group of papers of Edward Singleton Holden, who was an astronomer and Hague family friend. Holden was director of the Lick Observatory, president of the University of California, and librarian of West Point. The addenda also contains unprocessed folders and boxes of ephemera and realia including a chemical set, ore specimens, and printed material; photographs in Boxes 57-63 were transferred to the Photo Archive.

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    Lectures and sermons

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    A collection of 266 items which consists of personal and professional papers of George Wharton James; the collection includes correspondence, lectures, sermons, articles, 2 scrapbooks, photographs, and ephemera (1871-1921). The manuscripts cover such topics as the Grand Canyon, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Native Americans, American literature and humor, religion, overseas travels, and biographical pieces on Jesse Benton Fřmont, William Ewart Gladstone, Lilla Leighton Lindley, William McKinley, Queen Victoria, and others. The correspondence includes letters and other material relating to the Robert Browning Centenary and letters from applicants for summer school at Echo Mountain, near Pasadena, California. The Addenda consists of letters and poems sent to James; the poems were probably intended for publication in Land of sunshine or Out west magazine and included are pieces by, among others, Thomas Bracken, Frona Eunice Wait, and Helen Hunt Jackson. The ephemera includes programs, lecture announcements, clippings and other printed material.

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    Early lectures and sermons

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    Early lectures from England (approximately 1880) and Nevada (1882-1883).

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    Early lectures and sermons

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    Early lectures from Nevada.

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    The guiding light ... in two parts

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