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Charles Broughton papers
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Charles Augustus Keeler papers
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A collection of approximately 1,700 items from 1895 to 1944; it consists of personal, business, and literary papers, notebooks, a scrapbook, and ephemera. Correspondents represented in the collection include: Gertrude Franklin Atherton, Mary Hunter Austin, Francis F. Browne, Luther Burbank, John Burroughs, Gelett Burgess, Bliss Carman, John Vance Cheney, Ina Donna Coolbrith, Mary Mapes Dodge, Mary Hallock Foote, Richard Watson Gilder, Herbert Hoover, Julia Ward Howe, James H. Hyslop, George Wharton James, David Starr Jordan, Joseph LeConte, Jack London, Charles Fletcher Lummis, Edwin Markham, Bailey Millard, John Muir, Yoň Noguchi, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Theodore Roosevelt, Horace Elisha Scudder, Lucy Poate Stebbins, George Sterling, Charles Warren Stoddard, Sun Yat-Sen, Bayard Taylor, and Woodrow Wilson.
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Charles Janin Papers
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The collection consists of letters, manuscripts (including diaries and mining reports), photographs and maps related to the career of mining engineer Charles Janin (1873-1937). Subject matter in the collection focuses on minerals, mines and mining, especially in California, Mexico, Alaska, Canada, Russia (including Siberia), and Central and South America. There is information about gold, silver, platinum, and tin mining as well as gold dredging, including a Commission for the Study of Gold in the U.S. by the United States Department of the Interior (Box 23, Folders 11-12) and a 1909 letter from Rossiter Worthington Raymond to Louis Janin regarding the professional ethics and legal problems common to mining engineers (Box 20, Folder 3). Notable material related to Siberia includes a 1918 Memorandum relative to the Necessity for Action by the Allied Governments in Siberia by the American Committee of Engineers in London (Box 1, Folder 7); five letters, dated 1929-1931) from Ennis C. Whitehead to Janin relative to projected flying trip across Siberia (Box 25, Folder 8); and correspondence from George S. Dyer relative to gold mining in Siberia, dated 1917-1936 (Box 4, Folder 23). In addition, there are papers related to the transfer of platinum to the United States from Siberia in the correspondence of Grigorio Benenson (Box 2, Folder 12); Arnold C. Hansen (Box 5, Folder 31); Norman C. Stines (Box 22, Folder 23), as well as responses from Janin to these individuals (see Box 7, Folder 25; Box 9, Folder 6; and Box 13, Folder 15), and in notes on platinum (Box 39, Folder 5). The collection also contains materials on Russian life and politics (including the Revolution of 1917). There are also materials on the history of the Santa Ynez Valley in California, including irrigation project papers (Box 21, Folders 6-8), and a piece, "Some Recollections of Early Days in the Santa Ynez Valley" by Janin (Box 14, Folder 24). Persons represented in the collection include Samuel Insull (14 pieces in Box 6, Folder 21), Vannoy Hartrog Manning (18 pieces in Box 17, Folder 19), and Montifiore G. Kahn (35 pieces in Box 15, Folder 16). The collection includes a letter to Janin from John Powers Hutchins related to pre-World War II in Europe (Box 6, Folder 14). Single letters from William Randolph Hearst, Harold L. Ickes, and William Gibbs McAdoo may also be found in the collection. There is also scattered correspondence from various Janin family members. Businesses or government agencies represented in the collection include the Ingersoll-Rand Company of California, Lena Goldfields, Ltd. (Lenskoe zolotopromyshlennoe tovarishchestvo), and the U.S. Department of the Interior. Although the collection consists basically of mining papers, it will also be of interest to researchers investigating Europe during World War I, Russia and Siberia at the time of the Revolution of 1917, or social and political affairs in the various parts of the world where mining engineers traveled and are intelligent observers, and from which they write letters to each other.
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William Buckland letter to John Stevens Henslow
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In this four-page handwritten letter, Buckland talks about an excavation in Ely, Cambridgeshire. Henslow was working on it at the time but Buckland also knew the site. Buckland goes into detail about the strata of the "Great Gault Pit," and sketched the pit for Henslow (in pencil, with labels in ink). Buckland also talks about other geology issues as well as a skeleton of a megatherium (an ancient giant sloth) that Henslow found.
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L.P. Schmidt papers
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The L.P. Schmidt papers contain correspondence pertaining to the United States' efforts in the Pacific during the Second World War in 1944 and 1945. The collection includes 17 letters written by L.P.Schmidt. James R. Page received 16 of these while the other was received by Annis Van Nuys Schweppe. Because James R. Page kept these letters and donated them to the Huntington Library, letters addressed to Captain Schmidt are not included in this collection. Includes map of bombing targets in the Pacific Ocean.
mssHM 80260-80277
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Ann Renaudet Chevalier letter to Charles Willson Peale
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This autograph letter signed is addressed to Mr. Peale at the Museum (Peale retired from the museum in 1810, this letter may be for him or one of his sons who replaced him). Chevalier writes, "Sir, Please to receive in your Museum a little pensionnary that came last night to take refuge in the house where I live: It is a screetch-owl of the smallest and beautiful kind, I had always been told that such birds were ominous creatures; but the contrary I now find in the opportunity this offers me, by presenting you with it, to do something with that perhaps may prove agreeable to you. I am with respect, Anne Renaudet Chevalier."
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Aldous Huxley oral history papers
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This collection contains audio cassette interviews and transcripts of interviews conducted by David K. Dunaway with twenty-six people who knew or came into contact with English writer Aldous Huxley and his family. The collection was created by Dunaway for his book Aldous Huxley Recollection (1995) and comprises a total of 31 interview transcripts and 36 audio tapes. A majority of the interviewees are people who knew Huxley while he lived in California and, for the most part, cover his life after 1937. There is some material on his early life but it amounts to a very small part of the overall collection. The following individuals are represented in the papers: Don Bachardy (b. 1934); Sidney Field (1905-1988); Juliette Huxley (b. 1896); Mark Trevenen Huxley; Christopher Isherwood (b. 1904); Mary Loos; Burgess Meredith (b. 1908); Lawrence Clark Powell (b. 1906). Topics discussed in the collection include: the Bates method of othopics, hallucinogenic drugs, LSD, marijuana, mescaline, and pacifism. Persons discussed in the collection include: W.H. Auden, Don Bachardy, Vanessa Bell, H. Abigail Bok, Charlie Chaplin, George Dewey Cukor, Sidney Field, Greta Garbo, George Gershwin, Rose de Haulleville, Gerald Heard, Edwin Powell Hubble, Julian Huxley, Juliette Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, D.H. Lawrence, Frieda von Richthofen Lawrence, Mary Loos, Burgess Merdith, Naomi Mitchison, Lawrence Clark Powell, Siegfried Sassoon, Bernard Shaw, Lytton Strachey, Igor Stravinsky, Virginia Woolf, and Jake Zeitlin.
mssHM 56877-56907