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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rev. Robert Bartley Taylor : born August 2, 1865, died November 19, 1904
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Personal and professional papers Ward Hill Lamon. The collection contains source materials for biography of Lincoln, including three volumes of materials purchased from William Henry Hendon in 1869 and the correspondence related to the purchase; unpublished typescript of Lamon's history of the Lincoln administration, and other papers relating to his historical work, including items that concern the controversy over the Life of Abraham Lincoln. Also included are papers that cover Lamon's own life and career: numerous letters addressed to Lamon seeking Lincoln's patronage; papers relating to the his attempt to organize a brigade of Unionist Virginians in 1861, the office of the U.S. Marshal of the District of Columbia (1861-1865); a political attack on Lamon in 1862 by abolitionist senators over the continued enforcement of the fugitive slave law; Lamon family and finances (including wartime speculation and dealings in Colorado mining properties); Illinois political news, etc.
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of correspondence and manuscripts of Edwin Bliss Hill. Manuscript material in the collection includes: 63 poems by Bertha Grant Avery and manuscripts by Joseph E. Babson, Edwin Bliss Hill, Frank Holme (including 22 volumes of diaries), and Vincent Starrett. Items of note include a typescript of a suppressed chapter from Life on the Mississippi by Samuel Langhorne Clemens and a letter from Edward Waldo Emerson about Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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