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Twainiana notes from the annotations of Walter Bliss
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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 majority of the collection is verse and prose, almost all of which was authored by Bliss Carman (1861-1929). One poem was authored jointly by Carman and Mary Perry King (b. 1865), and two are credited entirely to King. The collection also contains correspondence, the majority of which is addressed to Carman. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Walter Gilman Page, Charles J. Rosebault, Dudley Allen Sargent, and Charles Hanson Towne.
mssCarmanb
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Manuscripts
The Carey Bliss files comprise the bulk of the collection. The articles and research files contain work created by Carey Bliss while he was a student at Pomona College and while he was a curator at the Huntington library. The correspondence covers his work as a curator, including a single thank you letter from Richard Nixon for the repair of the Nixon's family bible. The lecture files contain notes for a course that Carey Bliss taught at the University of Southern California on the history of books and printing. These notes include a sheet of papyrus in the folder for lectures three and four. The Rounce & Coffin Club files pertain to Carey Bliss's longstanding membership. The files contain meeting invitations and information on exhibitions prepared by the club, including the annual Western Books Exhibition.
HIA 34.35
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Manuscripts
This notebook contains Jonathan Bliss's notes on medical practice; the notebook was kept by Bliss in 1723 and 1724. The volume contains excerpts from the following prominent 17th and 18th century medical texts: Giorgio Baglivi's, The practice of physick; Ysbrand van Diemerbroeck's Anatome corporis humani; and Thomas Fuller's Pharmacopoeia extemporanea among others. The excerpts teach the medical theory of humorism, and occasionally include direct quotes from Hippocrates and Galen. They also describe numerous common medical problems and diseases from apoplexy and cancer to toothache and wounds, and also include treatments. The treatments usually include instructions for preparing herbal or other compounds as prescriptions, naming many ingredients from mercury to spearmint to vinegar. Often the excerpts feature "clinical" case studies of a patient with the relevant problem, and testify to the effects of the recommended treatments. It is believed Bliss lived in the United States at the time he kept the notebook; perhaps Massachusetts.
mssHM 74094
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Manuscripts
Material relates to administration of the will of John Worthington and Bliss family beneficiaries.
mssHM 15849-15863
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Manuscripts
Letter to "Editor: Boston Post", 1890 March 8 (mssHM 35549). Letter to Chandler, 1896 August 8 (mssHM 35550). Letter to Henry Holt, 1908 February 19 (mssHM 35551). Letter to The New York Independent, 1909 July 30 (mssHM 35552). Letter to Laurens, 1900 October 29 (mssHM 35553). Letters to Susan Hayes Ward, 1893-1900 (mssHM 35554-35598). Letters to William Hayes Ward, 1890-1894 (mssHM 35599-35601).
mssHM 35549-35601