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I shock myself : the autobiography of Beatrice Wood
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Mary Beatrice Fox papers
Manuscripts
The Mary Beatrice Fox papers consist of maps, land papers, diaries, correspondence, and documents related to the Fox family and the greater Pasadena, California area from 1789 to 1961. Of note in the collection are the diaries of Mary Beatrice Fox, from 1889 to 1909, and those of her mother, Sarah Mary Baker Fox, from 1889 to 1899. These diaries illustrate life in the Los Angeles and Pasadena areas during this period. The collection also contains two letters from Julia Morgan, which were written from Paris, 1896 and 1898, and one 1862 letter from C. Meinerth to Charles James Fox regarding photography.
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Wood, Henry Ellsworth. I Remember
Manuscripts
The collection contains manuscripts by Henry Ellsworth Wood, letters written by various authors, photographs, negatives, ephemera, an assay book, and photograph albums and scrapbooks. The collection spans several generations of the Wood family, focusing on the personal life and business activities of Henry Ellsworth Wood. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, including some 300 pieces from Henry Ellsworth Wood to his wife, Belle Matteson McGinnis Wood. These letters, composed over the fifty year period of their marriage, cover a wide range of aspects of their lives, including their immediate and extended family, their day-to-day activities, trips to visit family and friends, financial hardships, mining affairs in Colorado and Canada, and assorted business activities. Four generations of the Wood family are represented in the correspondence, including 69 letters composed between 1853 and 1856 by William Cowper Wood, his parents and siblings. The collection includes various drafts of Henry Ellsworth Wood's reminiscences of his childhood and early days in Leadville, the most comprehensive manuscript of this type being "I Remember." Also of note is the manuscript "Colorado in 1868," reproduced with commentary by Henry Ellsworth Wood from a notebook kept by his father, William Cowper Wood, during the 1868 John Wesley Powell expedition. The collection contains one assay book kept by Maurice Hayes between the years 1873 and 1878. Maurice Hayes arrived at Leadville no later than 1873, serving as one of the first assayers in the area and many early Leadville notables are entered in this record book. There are also several scrapbooks and photograph albums, approximately 1868 to approximately 1921.
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Beatrice Borchardt collection
Manuscripts
This collection contains the papers of Beatrice Spring Borchardt, chiefly relating to her research into her family's history, which included members of the Spring, MacKaye, Johns, and Peet families. Manuscript materials include unpublished drafts of biographical works by Borchardt about the family including writer Cloudesley Johns and his friendship with author Jack London; drafts of an autobiography by her grandmother Rebecca Buffum Spring; Borchardt's own unpublished biography of Spring entitled "Lady of Utopia"; a childhood journal (14 pages) of Arthur Loring MacKaye, dated from 1872 to 1885; a typescript copy of a poem, "Moods of Madness: Words," by Francis S. Saltus; and some miscellaneous pieces by Johns and his mother, Jeanie Spring MacKaye Peet, Rebecca Spring, and others. Correspondence chiefly consists of letters dating from the late 1940s to the 1950s between Borchardt and cousins about family history and some earlier letters of Johns, Herbert Peet, Arthur Loring MacKaye, Benton MacKaye, as well as family friend Florence Moore Kreider. There are also some letters between Johns and Charmian London, chiefly dating from the mid 1930s to the 1940s, as well as some correspondence of Jeanie Spring MacKaye Peet and Rebecca Spring dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There are some printed items about family members as well as twelve photographs, including an 1897 card photograph of the Spring home at 504 North Soto Street in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles; a cyanotype photograph of Rebecca Spring with two women; studio portraits of Spring family members and one of Cloudesley Johns in 1900; and a snapshot of a Forest Theatre Production in Carmel, California (approximately 1915?). The earliest dated item is a copy in the handwriting of Rebecca Spring of a letter from Margaret Fuller, dated April 10, 1846. There is also a single letter from Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Jeanie Spring MacKaye Peet and a letter from Charles Warren Stoddard to Arthur Loring MacKaye, dated December 6, 1896.
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[Wood, Beatrice]
Visual Materials
One portrait of a woman (possibly Ms. Wood), two portraits of a man in uniform, and one view of Ms. Wood's ceramics.
photCL MLP 4078
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Wood, Henry Ellsworth. 1 letter to Katharine Earle Wood and Oliver Ellsworth Wood
Manuscripts
The collection contains manuscripts by Henry Ellsworth Wood, letters written by various authors, photographs, negatives, ephemera, an assay book, and photograph albums and scrapbooks. The collection spans several generations of the Wood family, focusing on the personal life and business activities of Henry Ellsworth Wood. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, including some 300 pieces from Henry Ellsworth Wood to his wife, Belle Matteson McGinnis Wood. These letters, composed over the fifty year period of their marriage, cover a wide range of aspects of their lives, including their immediate and extended family, their day-to-day activities, trips to visit family and friends, financial hardships, mining affairs in Colorado and Canada, and assorted business activities. Four generations of the Wood family are represented in the correspondence, including 69 letters composed between 1853 and 1856 by William Cowper Wood, his parents and siblings. The collection includes various drafts of Henry Ellsworth Wood's reminiscences of his childhood and early days in Leadville, the most comprehensive manuscript of this type being "I Remember." Also of note is the manuscript "Colorado in 1868," reproduced with commentary by Henry Ellsworth Wood from a notebook kept by his father, William Cowper Wood, during the 1868 John Wesley Powell expedition. The collection contains one assay book kept by Maurice Hayes between the years 1873 and 1878. Maurice Hayes arrived at Leadville no later than 1873, serving as one of the first assayers in the area and many early Leadville notables are entered in this record book. There are also several scrapbooks and photograph albums, approximately 1868 to approximately 1921.
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Wood, Belle Matteson McGinnis. 1 letter to [Oliver Ellsworth Wood or Lawrence Matteson Wood]
Manuscripts
The collection contains manuscripts by Henry Ellsworth Wood, letters written by various authors, photographs, negatives, ephemera, an assay book, and photograph albums and scrapbooks. The collection spans several generations of the Wood family, focusing on the personal life and business activities of Henry Ellsworth Wood. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, including some 300 pieces from Henry Ellsworth Wood to his wife, Belle Matteson McGinnis Wood. These letters, composed over the fifty year period of their marriage, cover a wide range of aspects of their lives, including their immediate and extended family, their day-to-day activities, trips to visit family and friends, financial hardships, mining affairs in Colorado and Canada, and assorted business activities. Four generations of the Wood family are represented in the correspondence, including 69 letters composed between 1853 and 1856 by William Cowper Wood, his parents and siblings. The collection includes various drafts of Henry Ellsworth Wood's reminiscences of his childhood and early days in Leadville, the most comprehensive manuscript of this type being "I Remember." Also of note is the manuscript "Colorado in 1868," reproduced with commentary by Henry Ellsworth Wood from a notebook kept by his father, William Cowper Wood, during the 1868 John Wesley Powell expedition. The collection contains one assay book kept by Maurice Hayes between the years 1873 and 1878. Maurice Hayes arrived at Leadville no later than 1873, serving as one of the first assayers in the area and many early Leadville notables are entered in this record book. There are also several scrapbooks and photograph albums, approximately 1868 to approximately 1921.
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