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You are now my enemy ; a brief monograph regarding the friendship & correspondence of two journeymen, including what drew them together, what split them apart, & how their trade reunited them

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    Ephemera and clippings regarding gardening

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    This collection consists of two series: the Grace Nicholson papers (2,926 items) and addenda (1,444 items). The papers consist primarily of correspondence, while the addenda is primarily notes. Both relate to Grace Nicholson and her work in the fields of Native American and Asian art. There are many letters from Native Americans to Nicholson and extensive diaries and notes that Nicholson kept on her buying trips through Native American territory, especially of the Karok, Klamath, and Pomo Indians. Subject matter includes Native American legends, folklore, vocabulary, tribal festivals, basket making, business in art trade, and living conditions. There is also a considerable amount of correspondence from China, Japan, and Korea between Nicholson and her buyers. Among the subjects covered are Chinese art and architecture, Japanese art, Korean art, Javanese textiles, Siamese art, Philippine art, life and social conditions in Asia, and the business of trading Asian art. Being a well-known dealer in Native American and Asian art, Nicholson was in contact with many artists, such as Frederick Arthur Bridgman, W. Herbert Dunton, Sadakichi Hartmann, Elizabeth Conrad Hickox, Louise Merrill Hickox, Grace Carpenter Hudson, George Wharton James, Lilian Miller, Hovsep T. Pushman, Joseph Henry Sharp, and Millard Sheets. Nicholson also purchased materials for institutions such as the Field Museum of Natural History, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art, the Pasadena Art Museum, and the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, California. Her intimate relationships with Native Americans give particular insight into their lives and culture. Historians and academics sought her out, including Alfred Lewis Kroeber, Charles Fletcher Lummis, and Clinton Hart Merriam. Nicholson also received letters from political figures such as Frederick Webb Hodge, Herbert Hoover, Hiram Johnson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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    "Were You Born in December?"

    Manuscripts

    This collection consists of two series: the Grace Nicholson papers (2,926 items) and addenda (1,444 items). The papers consist primarily of correspondence, while the addenda is primarily notes. Both relate to Grace Nicholson and her work in the fields of Native American and Asian art. There are many letters from Native Americans to Nicholson and extensive diaries and notes that Nicholson kept on her buying trips through Native American territory, especially of the Karok, Klamath, and Pomo Indians. Subject matter includes Native American legends, folklore, vocabulary, tribal festivals, basket making, business in art trade, and living conditions. There is also a considerable amount of correspondence from China, Japan, and Korea between Nicholson and her buyers. Among the subjects covered are Chinese art and architecture, Japanese art, Korean art, Javanese textiles, Siamese art, Philippine art, life and social conditions in Asia, and the business of trading Asian art. Being a well-known dealer in Native American and Asian art, Nicholson was in contact with many artists, such as Frederick Arthur Bridgman, W. Herbert Dunton, Sadakichi Hartmann, Elizabeth Conrad Hickox, Louise Merrill Hickox, Grace Carpenter Hudson, George Wharton James, Lilian Miller, Hovsep T. Pushman, Joseph Henry Sharp, and Millard Sheets. Nicholson also purchased materials for institutions such as the Field Museum of Natural History, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art, the Pasadena Art Museum, and the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, California. Her intimate relationships with Native Americans give particular insight into their lives and culture. Historians and academics sought her out, including Alfred Lewis Kroeber, Charles Fletcher Lummis, and Clinton Hart Merriam. Nicholson also received letters from political figures such as Frederick Webb Hodge, Herbert Hoover, Hiram Johnson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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    Deeds and other documents regarding purchase of property at 46 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena

    Manuscripts

    This collection consists of two series: the Grace Nicholson papers (2,926 items) and addenda (1,444 items). The papers consist primarily of correspondence, while the addenda is primarily notes. Both relate to Grace Nicholson and her work in the fields of Native American and Asian art. There are many letters from Native Americans to Nicholson and extensive diaries and notes that Nicholson kept on her buying trips through Native American territory, especially of the Karok, Klamath, and Pomo Indians. Subject matter includes Native American legends, folklore, vocabulary, tribal festivals, basket making, business in art trade, and living conditions. There is also a considerable amount of correspondence from China, Japan, and Korea between Nicholson and her buyers. Among the subjects covered are Chinese art and architecture, Japanese art, Korean art, Javanese textiles, Siamese art, Philippine art, life and social conditions in Asia, and the business of trading Asian art. Being a well-known dealer in Native American and Asian art, Nicholson was in contact with many artists, such as Frederick Arthur Bridgman, W. Herbert Dunton, Sadakichi Hartmann, Elizabeth Conrad Hickox, Louise Merrill Hickox, Grace Carpenter Hudson, George Wharton James, Lilian Miller, Hovsep T. Pushman, Joseph Henry Sharp, and Millard Sheets. Nicholson also purchased materials for institutions such as the Field Museum of Natural History, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art, the Pasadena Art Museum, and the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, California. Her intimate relationships with Native Americans give particular insight into their lives and culture. Historians and academics sought her out, including Alfred Lewis Kroeber, Charles Fletcher Lummis, and Clinton Hart Merriam. Nicholson also received letters from political figures such as Frederick Webb Hodge, Herbert Hoover, Hiram Johnson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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    Wilfred Partington Papers

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    The collection includes manuscripts by Wilfred Partington, James Agate, Jessie Conrad, R. B. Cunninghame Grahame, John Kirkby, and H. D. C. Pepler; these manuscripts include articles, essays, personal narratives, poems, and short stories. The correspondence mainly relates to Partington's work with the Bookman's journal, his books about Sir Walter Scott, and his various literary endeavors. The papers consist of the following series: 1. Manuscripts (Boxes 1-3) are arranged alphabetically by author and title. This series includes articles, essays, personal narratives, poems, and short stories. The majority of the manuscripts are by Partington but other authors include: James Agate, Jessie Conrad, R. B. Cunninghame Grahame, John Kirkby, and H. D. C. Pepler. Box 2 contains Partington's Letter-Books (Vols. I & II), that cover the years 1919 to 1936; many of the originals of these letters are in the collection, though some have been removed as previously noted. Box 3 also includes original artwork by Alec Buckels, Victor B. Neuburg and William Palmer Robbins. 2. Correspondence (Boxes 4-25) is arranged alphabetically by author. This series includes correspondence mainly relating to Partington's work with the Bookman's Journal, his books about Sir Walter Scott, and his various other literary endeavors. The main subjects of these letters reflect the work and interests of Partington, including bibliography, forgery, and the authors Joseph Conrad, Sir Walter Scott, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and Thomas James Wise. There is a significant group of letters by Partington, mainly carbon copies, in response to other correspondents in the collection; there is also a small group of letters from Partington's family and friends. Some of the letters written between from 1918-1939, do refer to the difficult financial times experienced by many people in Britain. Some of the later letters describe life during World War II, but, interestingly, many of the letters written between 1939 and 1945, make no mention of the war, so, at least for some correspondents, their lives and work went on as usual, or, they strove to make life as normal as possible. Notable correspondents include: Arthur St. John Adcock, P.B.M. Allan, Edwin J. Beinecke, Jessie Conrad, Edward Gordon Craig, Walter De la Mare, John Drinkwater, E. M. Forster, John Galsworthy, Philip Gosse, Florence Hardy, Rupert Hart-Davis, A. E. Housman, William Ibbett, Alan Keen, Rudyard Kipling, John Kirkby, James Laver, James McBey, John Masefield, Walter Maxwell-Scott, Henry W. Meikle, H. V. Morton, John Murray, Alfred W. Pollard, Una Pope- Hennessey, A. S. W. Rosenbach, Bernard Shaw, Upton Sinclair, M. H. Spielmann, Margaret Farrand Thorp, Hugh Walpole, and Alexander Strahan Watt. 3. Research Files (Boxes 26-27) are arranged alphabetically by subject. These files contain autograph notes by Partington and John Kirkby, printed material, newspaper clippings, and the envelopes used by Partington to arrange the material. The Files cover Agate-Yellow Book and include files on both subjects and people. Whenever possible, Partington's titles and arrangement were retained. 4. Ephemera (Box 27, folders 53-73) is arranged by subject, then alphabetically by author and title. This series includes book covers, acknowledgment letters for donated material, printed proof sheets, misc. autograph notes by Partington, and five unidentified photographs. This series also includes Partington's original 1920, subpoena to testify in the Criminal Libel Trial of Douglas v. Savage.

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    Joseph Oliver Carter Papers

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    The collection consists of 177 letters, two manuscripts, 1 piece of ephemera and 17 newspaper clippings. The majority of the collection is correspondence written to Joseph Oliver Carter (there are only two letters written by him, one of which is to Queen Liliuokalani). Notable participants include: Joseph K. Aea, attorney for the Queen; Calvert T. Bird, attorney for the James Campbell estate; Charles Reed Bishop; J. A. Cummins, Hawaiian royalty and businessman; attorney Clarence Woods DeKnight; journalist Julian Hawthorne; Hawaiian diplomat and politician Curtis Pi'ehu 'Iaukea; Prince David Kawananakoa; William Kinney, Hawaiian businessman; G. W. MacFarlane, attorney for the Queen; reporter Julius A. Palmer; Abigail Campbell Parker, widow of James Campbell and mother of Princess Abigail Kawananakoa; Senator Richard F. Pettigrew; Hawaiian Chief Justice Alexander George Morison Robertson; Hawaiian politician Robert W. Shingle; Hawaiian minister David Willis Keliiokamoku White; Albert Shelby Willis, United States Congressman and Minister to Hawaii; and Charles Burnett Wilson, Marshall of Kingdom of Hawaii and Royal Guard. Most of the collection is about Queen Liliuokalani, her property and finances, and politics in Hawaii including the 1893 revolution and its consequences for Carter, Hawaiian annexation by the U.S., the Hawaiian government and royalty. (Letters between Carter and Senator Pettigrew are all about the Hawaiian government and annexation by the U.S. as are the letters between Carter and his friend Ned McFarlane.) Other subjects include: James Campbell and his estate; Samuel Mills Damon; Benjamin Franklin Dillingham; Sanford B. Dole; Princess Kaiulani; Princess Abigail Campbell Kawananakoa; education in Hawaii; the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum; Punuhou School; Chinese and Japanese immigrants in Hawaii; Mormons in Hawaii; and sugar growing and tariffs. The letters by L. M. Keaunui and S. K. Mahoe to Queen Liliuokalani are in Hawaiian. The two manuscripts consist of a copy of a resolution made by C. Brewer & Co. stating that it is in full support of the provisional government of Hawaii and that any officer or employee that shows "any other disposition on the part of the Company as against the said Government, such action is disavowed by us as Stockholders…" and a printed copy of the "Proposed Investigation of the Government of the Territory of Hawaii: Hearing Before the Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs United States Senate," from 1932, January 16. The ephemera consists of a sheet of paper with three signatures including the Governor of Maui, John M. Kapena. The 17 newspaper clippings are about the Hawaiian Princess Abigail Kawananakoa, the possible statehood of Hawaii, and the Virgin Islands.

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    Lincoln Clark papers

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    This collection contains the letters of Lincoln Clark, his wife, Julia Annah Clark, and their family, with the bulk of the collection consisting of Clark's letters to his wife. The correspondence was accumulated by Mrs. Clark and her side of the family the Smith and Williams families. Also included is a genealogical chart and a family history written in 1942 by Julia Lincoln Ray Andrews. Other correspondents besides family members include Rev. Joseph Howe (1747-1775); John H. Tice, a meteorologist from St. Louis (Mo.) Jane Currie Blaikie Hoge, Howard Crosby, William Anderson Scott, Alexander T. McGill, Le Roy Clark Cooley, Maria Mitchell, Harry Norman Gardiner, James Dwight Dana. Daniel Warren Poor, George Washington Cable, Mary Watson Whitney, Jonathan Baldwin Turner, Meta Lander (Margaret Oliver Woods Lawrence), Washington Gladden, Rutherford B. Hayes, Cordelia Agnes Greene, Charles Henry Oliphant, William E. Gladstone, Catherine Mary Phillimore, and others.Persons represented by five or more pieces: Mary Ann (Ball) Bickerdyke, 5 pieces Catharine Lincoln Clark, 31 pieces Julia Annah (Smith) Clark, 47 pieces Lincoln Clark, 368 pieces Isabel A. Pratt, 10 pieces Sarah C. (Smith) Robinson, 5 pieces Pandius Theodore Ralli, 9 pieces Erastus Smith, 10 pieces Sarah C. (Williams) Smith, 19 pieces William Williams, 9 pieces Lincoln Clarks' letters are written during his many absences riding the circuit in Alabama between 1837 and 1847; trips back east; their two-year separation between 1846 and 1848; his stay in Washington, D.C., in 1852-1853; and his business travels in the 1850s and 1860s. The letters discuss Lincoln Clark's professional and political career; Mrs. Clark's work at home and involvement in charities, their religious feelings, their children's upbringing and education, the fate of their slaves; financial troubles, especially in the wake of the 1857 panic, the Civil War, the U. S. Sanitary Commission, etc. Also included are five letters written between 1854 and 1861 by Frederick Clark and his wife Charlotte, Lincoln Clark's former slaves who immigrated to Liberia in 1856. Also included is correspondence of Julia Clark's parents and grandparents, her sisters Dorothy Williams Smith Holbrook, Rachel Bardwell Smith Holbrook, and Catharine Amelia Smith Jones, a cousin Caroline W. Porter, and her daughters. William Williams's letter written in 1758 to his then sweetheart Dorothy Ashley discusses the proper relationship of faith and reason; a long letter of February 1, 1800, describes, in great detail, the passage by the Massachusetts legislature of the Act Providing for Public Worship of God, which Williams had sponsored. The 1816 letter from a cousin, Sarah T. Williams Newton, wife of Edward Augustus Newton (1785-1862), from Calcutta discusses Christian missionaries in India and Indian society. The letters from Julia Annah Clark Ray describe her studies at Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut. The letter from Alfred Wright (July 4, 1825) discusses his work as a missionary to the Choctaw Nation. The correspondence of Caroline W. Porter includes letters from her friends and admirers, including Thomas R. Ingalls (1798-1864), the future president of Jefferson College and then (in 1816-1818), a West Point cadet, and Pandias Theodore Ralli (1819-1882) who later became a director of the firm Ralli Bros. Some notable items include: Clark, Lincoln. To Mrs. Clark: a gossipy letter from Washington, D. C. "I dined at Col. King's [William Rufus King] on Friday... it was a real state dinner - no ladies - I was never behind the curtain where great men relaxed before..." Jan. 26, 1852 Clark, Lincoln. To Mrs. Clark: "Iowa is not worth bargaining with, if she could be bargained with, because her political strength is so small..." Washington, June 6, 1852 Clark, Lincoln. To Mrs. Clark, regarding a visit to James Buchanan at Wheatland. Philadelphia, Feb. 10, 1857. Correspondence of Mrs. Lincoln Clark and her daughter Catharine, having to do with their war service on the U. S. Sanitary Commission, 1864-1865

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