Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
At the Pines : Swinburne and Watts-Dunton in Putney
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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 of correspondence and manuscripts from 1843 to 1910. The topics of the material include education (in particular Eton College and Working Men's College), studies in English language and literature, and the work and interests of Frederick James Furnivall. There is also some ephemera. Correspondents include: Henry Barthorp, Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Henry Bradshaw, Robert Browning, Robert Shergold Browning, Viscount Edward Cardwell, Derwent Coleridge, William Johnson Cory, William Francis Cowper-Temple, Sir John Francis Davis, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, William Ewart Gladstone, Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy, Thomas Hughes, William Holman Hunt, Thomas Henry Huxley, Henry Arthur Jones, Charles Kingsley, David Laing, James Russell Lowell, John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow, Vernon Lushington, Sir Frederic Madden, David Masson, Frederick Denison Maurice, Mary Elizabeth Braddon Maxwell, George Meredith, John Stuart Mill, Lady Euphemia Chalmers Gray Ruskin Millais, Sir John Everett Millais, Richard Monckton Milnes (1st Baron Houghton), Henry Morley, Friedrich Max Muller, Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, John Murray, George Frederick Samuel Robinson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Ruskin, Sir John Robert Seeley, Alfred Tennyson, Emily Sellwood Tennyson, Connop Thirlwall, Richard Chenevix Trench, Albert Way, Hensleigh Wedgwood, James Pillans Wilson, and Charlotte Mary Yonge.
FU 866-927
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Manuscripts
With envelopes.
RFB 1363-1365
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Manuscripts
With envelopes.
RFB 1366-1378
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of manuscripts by 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 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 are also letters by Partington, mainly carbon copies, and a small group of letters from his family and friends. The collection also includes his research files and a small amount of ehpemera.
mssPAR 1-1402
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Manuscripts
Archival and manuscript portion of the Sanford and Helen Berger collection. In addition to the papers of William Morris and his associates, the collection also includes materials on nineteenth and twentieth century British Pre-Raphaelites, fine Printing and private presses -- Kelmscott Press, (including the Kelmscott Chaucer), and the Doves Press, architects, illustrators, and the Arts & Crafts movement .
MOR 577