Manuscripts
Bodman family papers, (bulk 1893-1938)
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Julia Bodman and Edward W. Bodman papers
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Collection of correspondence between Edward W. Bodman, his wife, Julia Bodman, and his mother Grace Bodman. There is also a diary by Julia Bodman, kept while traveling through France, Italy, and England in 1907. There are several journals and other manuscripts by Edward W. Bodman's father, Luther Whitney Bodman, also kept while traveling abroad.
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Nicoll family papers, (bulk 1820-1910)
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Letters, manuscripts, documents, photographs, ephemera. Family and business correspondence of John Nicoll (1756-1831), Charles Nicoll (1797-1831), Charles Edward Nicoll (1838-1916), Edward Bishop Nicoll (1868-1962), and other members of the Nicoll family regarding family affairs, political and literary news. The letters of Charles Nicoll to his wife describe construction works on canals in Montague and Greenfield, Mass., where he worked in the 1830-40's. The papers of Edward B. Nicoll include the journal of the automobile trip that he and Emma Matilda Nicoll, his wife, undertook in August of 1909 from Los Angeles to San Francisco.
mssHM 59300-59414, HM 59417
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Sargeant Prentiss Knut papers, (bulk 1865-1938)
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A collection of 2,700 items from 1830 to 1972; it contains professional papers and personal, professional, and family correspondence of Sargeant Prentiss Knut. Included is material related to the Civil War claims regarding family property and other litigation, including the settlement of Lily Barret Knut's estate. The collection also contains material from Knut's professional and political career. Also included is correspondence of the Barret and Knut families, biographical information, notebooks, typewritten copies of the diaries of Dr. Rush Nutt (1805) and Rittenhouse Nutt (1834), newspaper clippings and ephemera.
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McNair family papers, (bulk 1835-1943)
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A collection of approximately 5000 items from 1760 to 1964, which is related to multiple generations of the McNair family of Pennsylvania and California. The collection consists of family correspondence, diaries, business records, legal papers, scrapbooks, estate papers, photographs, prints, and ephemera. Included in the collection is material for Thomas McNair, Thomas Speer McNair, and his children: Thomas Ferguson McNair, William Righter McNair, Jean Ferguson McNair, Rebecca Sharon McNair, and James Birtley McNair. Subjects covered in the collection include: Princeton University; University of California, Berkeley; Irish American families; Pennsylvania commerce, education, history, mining, and railroads; Freemasons; Southern California citrus industry, and history; World War I and World War II. Notable people in the collection include, among others: Simon Cameron, Ernest Dawson, and Charles Fletcher Lummis.
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Widney family papers, (bulk 1868-1935)
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The collection of 45 items consists primarily of diaries, reminiscences and legal documents that relate to Widney family history and the history of Los Angeles and its environs during the last quarter of the 19th century. Subjects include: Widney-Workman family history, the Mormons in Illinois, an overland journey to California in 1856 (recorded in a journal kept by Sarah Johnston Barnes), the anti-Chinese riot of November 1871 in Los Angeles, and education and religion in late 19th century Los Angeles. There is also a typescript copy of Boyle Workman's book, The City that Grew, which traces the history of Los Angeles from the time of the Workman-Rowland party to 1935; additionally, there is a scrapbook of newspaper clippings related to the book. Persons represented in the collection include Sarah Johnston Barnes, Robert Maclay Widney, Mary Barnes Widney, Martha Frances Widney Workman, and Boyle Workman.
mssHM 51131-51152
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Jeannette G. W. Kelsey family papers, (bulk 1865-1930)
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A collection of the papers of the Kelsey family of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania from 1851 to 1948; the papers include correspondence, a memoir and a diary, printed volumes, photographs, and ephemera. The voluminous correspondence of Jeannette G. W. Kelsey, her husband, children, extended family, friends, social connections, and business people covers the literary, intellectual, cultural, political, and business topics of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Subjects covered in the collection are American and British politics; the expatriate community in Europe; family relations; World War I; the Catholic Church; and business affairs. There is a small amount of material related to the businesses and estate of Jeannette's father Cadwallader C. Washburn. Correspondents include, among others, Bessie Rayner Belloc, John Murray Brown, Julia Pitt Byrne, Annie Fields, Fola La Follette, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Ida Vernon, and Cyrus Woodman.
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