Manuscripts

Autograph and manuscript fragment collection

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Description: This small group of material is made up of autographs (of both identified and unidentified people), fragments, and miscellaneous letters. The identified autographs include: Albert, Prince Consort to Queen Victoria; Queen Caroline of Great Britain; Anna Esipova; and several 19th century American politicians such as Galusha Grow, Joseph W. Keifer, Michael C. Kerr, William Pennington, and Samuel J. Randall. The collection also contains miscellaneous material that was removed from books here at The Huntington. There are also several letters with unidentified authors. The collection also includes a manuscript by Eliphalet Spencer of Suffield, Connecticut, dated 1771, which seems to be Spencer practicing his signature and handwriting.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1706-1892.
Call number: mssAutographcollection
Provenance: Purchased from A.A.A., November 1925.

Autograph letter fragments, unidentified manuscript fragments, miscellaneous items

Manuscripts

A collection of correspondence, documents, manuscripts, photographs, and ephemera related to the Woodbridge and Michaelis families of Vermont and Michigan. The collection covers three generations of men and women who served in the American military during the 19th century; it documents several military campaigns against indigenous peoples in Florida, Michigan, the Dakotas, Montana, and elsewhere. The papers also describe the Army's role in scientific exploration and discovery, technological development, involvement in American political affairs, and the expansion of the United States from the 1830s to the 1880s. Also addressed are the internal conflicts that existed within the Army's officer corps, including its class structure and the constant pursuit of advancement followed by officers; and the relationship between the Army and American society. Courtship letters as well as correspondence between wives and husbands reveal the evolving patterns of relationships between men and women. Other subjects in the collection include: engineering, health and medical care, and the lives of women and children whose husbands and fathers served in the American military.

mssWoodbridge

Summa de poenitentia et matrimonio : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

f. 1 blank; ff. 1v-232; f. 232v blank. [Raymond of Pennafort] [Summa de poenitentia]. Incipit: Quoniam inter crimina ecclesiastica Symoniaca heresis primum optinet locum, Videndum est quid sit symonia. W. Crimina ecclesiastica sunt quorum cognitio pertinet ad ecclesiasticum iudicem. Explicit: Nota maritus expensas necessarias et utiles in rebus dotalibus factas, puta quia domum refecit potest repetere, voluntarias vero debet perdere. Scriptor qui scripsit cum christo vivere possit. Latin. Abbreviation of Raymond of Pennafort's Summa de Poenitentia and the added 4th book on Matrimony, in which quotations from Pennafort are identified by "M" and the material borrowed or paraphrased from William of Rennes' gloss is identified by "W." See K. Pennington, "Summae on Raymond de Pennafort's 'Summa de Casibus' in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich," Traditio 27 (1971) 471-80, in particular the reference to Clm 7821 on p. 476.1 Kaeppeli, SOPMA 3407.

mssHM 57

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English admirals autograph collection

Manuscripts

Volume of bound autographs and correspondence by British admirals including Earl Richard Howe. Some letters have typescripts.

mssHM 60665

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Legal autographs and portraits

Manuscripts

Autographs and portraits of eminent British Chief Justices, judges, and lawyers, including: Charles Abbot, John Comyns, William Cowper, Lord Eldon, George Hardings, Edward Thurlow, John Nicholl, James Allan Park, Spencer Perceval, George Maule, Joseph Jekyll, John Hatsell, and more.

mssLAP

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Collection of autographs

Manuscripts

Collection of signatures and autographs assembled ca. 1888, probably by Lewis P. Child of New York. Included are clipped signatures of presidents, vice-presidents, congressmen, jurists, generals, clergymen, artists and other celebrities. Included are four brief notes from Abraham Lincoln to the Treasury Department (1864-1865) and letters from Daniel Stevens Dickinson to George W. Scranton (1853, May 16); Alfred B. Street to L. Odell (1860, Dec. 15); A.J. H. Duganne to A. J. Odell (1867, July 16); Edwards Pierrepont to "My Dear Mr. Taylor" (1874, July 10); Whitelaw Reid to Hugh Auchinloss (1874, Oct. 8); Henry Codman Potter to Lewis P. Child (1888, July 22), William Scharfernberg to "My Dear Madam," (n.d.); Samuel P. Warren to Lewis P. Child (n.d.) Also included is a collection of bills of exchange issued between 1806 and 1808 in Virginia, New York, and Barbados, including a draft issued to John Gough from William Claus, the acting trustee of the Six Nations (1808, Nov. 2).

mssHM 46553

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Autographs, notes, sale catalogue, dealer information, and manuscripts

Manuscripts

A collection of manuscripts, correspondence, volumes, autographs, photographs, and ephemera collected by Mary W. T. Dickinson. The manuscripts include French military orders (1678) and a document signed by Charles II, King of England (1662). The volumes are both literary and historical, most with some type of illustration. The collection also includes a small amount of personal correspondence and a larger amount of correspondence with dealers and the Henry E. Huntington Library concerning her collection.

mssDickinson

Autograph and manuscript fragment collection

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