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[Will] 27 Feb. 1830-11 Sept. 1837
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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
The collection consists primarily of letters addressed to William Sotheby, mostly from literary friends. Subject matter includes William Sotheby and his writings, contemporary writers and his friends, and European travel. The collection also contains five poems by Sotheby. Correspondents in the collection include: Joanna Baillie, Anna Barbauld, Sarah Bartley, Sir George Beaumont, Mary Berry, Lady Dacre, Catherine Bury, Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Duchess of Devonshire, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Humphry Davy, Sir William Drummond, Peter Elmsley, Sir Henry Charles Englefield, Catherine Maria Fanshawe, Thomas Grosvenor, Arthur Henry Hallam, Henry Hallam, William Howley, Alexander von Humboldt, Washington Irving, George Lamb, Sir Thomas Lawrence, J.G. Lockhart, Mary Somerville, Robert Southey, Agnes Strickland, François Talma, John Taylor, Dawson Turner, John Wilson, and William Wordsworth.
mssSY
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190534
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608664
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Manuscripts
This collection is what is known as an autograph collection and Kane spent years, not only collecting autographs of famous people on his own, but also acquiring the collections of other autograph seekers. This material spans multiple centuries and formats: from a 15th century manuscript on vellum to a 1951 typewritten letter. The collection includes accounts, letters, photographs, poems, government papers and royal proclamations, signed by, among others, actors and actresses, authors, explorers, kngs, magicians, queens, politicians, scientists, singers, and soldiers. Many of the famous people in this collection are also to be found in other manuscript collections in the Huntington Library.
KAL 1033
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This collection consists of the correspondence of clergyman, scholar, insurance counsel and prison reformer, Charlton T. Lewis (1834-1904), of West Chester, Pennsylvania, New York City, NY, and Morristown, New Jersey. Also includes correspondence from the family of his wife, Nancy Dunlap McKeen of Brunswick, Maine, dated 1797-1915.
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The collection includes manuscripts for essays, novels, and monographs of collected columns as well as screenplays and television scripts. In the correspondence there is a large series of letters written by Al Martínez to his wife, while serving with the U.S. Marines in the Korean War. The voluminous ephemera include research materials and clippings of Martínez's columns through the years.
mssMZ 1-922