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Betty Moore's journal
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Moore, Bettie to James M. Tiernan
Manuscripts
The collection, which contains 10,844 items, consists of correspondence, letter books, manuscripts, speeches, diaries, account books, published articles, legal papers, financial statements and business records. The 10,528 pieces of correspondence are chiefly addressed to James De Barth Shorb, James M. Tiernan and Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb. The 17 letter books are related to the business and financial affairs of Shorb and Benjamin Davis Wilson. The 75 manuscripts consist of items chiefly written by Shorb and Wilson family members. The 224 items in the Business Papers include material related to Shorb's many companies including the San Gabriel Wine Company. The following subjects are covered in the Shorb collection: the Shorb, Wilson, and Patton families, David Jacks, Mariano Vallejo, Santa Catalina Island, the Mount Wilson Observatory, California government and politics, African Americans and the Chinese in California, agriculture, the citrus fruit industry, Indians of California, irrigation, lend tenure, mining, railroads, ranching, water rights, and the wine industry. The collection also documents the history and development of the following California cities: Alhambra, Elsinore, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Ramona, San Gabriel, San Marino, and Wilmington.
mssShorb papers
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Lummis-Moore
Manuscripts
The collection of 864 pieces consists of correspondence and the personal papers of Ina Donna Coolbrith (1842?-1928). It is primarily made up of materials dated after 1906, as many of her manuscripts and mementos were destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco fire. There is correspondence to Ina Donna Coolbrith in the collection, and materials concerning the Congress of Authors in San Francisco (1915). There are two boxes of ephemera at the end of the collection.
mssIC
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Ann Moore journals, (bulk 1756-1760)
Manuscripts
Journals kept by Ann Moore during her two voyages in Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York (Aug. 1756 - Jan. 1757, and Dec. 1757 - Apr. 1758), and her voyage to England (Sept. 1760-June 1763). The manuscripts also contain Anne Moore's poetry, a copy of a letter to her from her "dear friend and tender companion" Alice Jackson (1778) and "A short testimony of Ann Moore concerning her friend and companion, Alice Jackson, deceased," family records, a copy of a letter from Elizabeth Prosser to her son (1798), and "a copy of a Prophecy for Ann More" (1783)
mssHM 66134-66136