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Diaries -- [Diary for trip to Calif.]
Manuscripts
The Hong family papers were organized into six series with sets of subseries. 1) You Chung Hong series (Business, Chinatown, Chinese American Citizens Alliance, education, legal, personal, and political activities). 2) Mabel Hong series (Education, personal, and community activities). 3) Nowland C. Hong series (Chinese American Citizens Alliance, personal, and political activities). 4) Roger S. Hong series (Business, Chinatown, education, personal, and community activities). 5) Ephemera series. 6) Oversize Series. The Hong family papers were organized into six series with sets of subseries. 1) You Chung Hong series (Business, Chinatown, Chinese American Citizens Alliance, education, legal, personal, and political activities). 2) Mabel Hong series (Education, personal, and community activities). 3) Nowland C. Hong series (Chinese American Citizens Alliance, personal, and political activities). 4) Roger S. Hong series (Business, Chinatown, education, personal, and community activities). 5) Ephemera series. 6) Oversize Series. The Hong family photos were organized into five series with sets of subseries. 1) You Chung Hong photo series (Photographic and textual files). 2) Mabel Hong photo series (Photographic and textual files). 3) Nowland C. Hong photo series (Photographic and textual files). 4) Roger S. Hong photo series (Photographic and textual files). 5) Oversize photo series.
mssHong Family papers
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Diary
Visual Materials
The Greene and Greene Collection contains a wide variety of materials, from Greene and Greene ancestor, architect/engineer James Sumner's "Memo of the Timber wanted for the Steeple in Providence," dated 1775, and a diary of a European grand tour from 1829 to 1931 by an English ancestor of Charles Greene's wife, Alice, to drawings and photographs of Greene and Greene works from the time of construction through the close of the 20th century. The bulk of the collection dates from 1889 to 1975. Photographs comprise most of the records documenting their architecture. There is a small number of architectural drawings; most of the firm's drawings are housed at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, New York City, with a smaller collection of drawings from the estate of Charles Greene at the Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley. The collection is organized into four series: I. Personal papers, II. Office records, III. Job (project) records (including furniture), and IV. Related research materials. In general, the papers and records of both brothers have been kept together for the periods in which they were living together as students and young men, and for the period when they were partners in the firm of Greene and Greene. Within each series, the organization follows the separate lives and works of each brother from the dates at which they diverge. Although the collection has been assembled from many different sources, most items have a unique accession number identifying the donor, so that the researcher can easily identify the source of most documents.
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Diary
Manuscripts
Daily diary entries of a young man living and working in Bath, January-August 1769, recording weather, his health, relations with friends, thoughts of various young ladies of his acquaintance, philosophical musings, sermons heard (the diarist's father was a preacher), attendance at chapel (hears Charles and J. Wesley), and a very little about his work or business as a "turner" and/or perhaps in creating or copying stone statuary
mssHM 62593
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Diary
Manuscripts
Diary and memorandum book of a Boston merchant, probably Peter Verstille. The diarist sailed from Boston to London in October 1768, onboard the Amazon. The largest portion of the diary covers his stay in London from early December 1768 to late April 1769. Much of it is devoted to politics and political debates, especially John Wilkes and the Middlesex elections (the diary opens with an account of the Brentford riot on Dec. 8, 1768), and American policies of the cabinet. The author also recounts his visits to the relatives (one of whom asked him "whether people in America talk'd English"), sightseeing and social life -- coffeehouses, the Old Bailey, Parliament, St. Paul's cathedral, the Tower, etc (including admission fees). Included is a detailed account of a moderated debate at a "Temple Bar Disputing Club" on "whether or not it was to the honour of Britain to tax America." He frequently mentions "John Olds," probably John Olds (1725-1782) of Hartford and Thomas Bromfield (1734-1816), a Boston merchant who had settled in London in 1760. An intensely religious person, he attended services at various London churches, including George Whitefield's Tabernacle; the diary contains detailed records of sermons and preachers. This portion ends with a record of his voyage to Boston onboard the Paoli; he arrived to the city on June 19, 1769.
mssHM 175