Manuscripts

1893 April-1922; watercolor drawing; and ephemera

Description: Includes watercolor-pencil drawing of coast [possibly Devon] and 9 miscellaneous items, chiefly notes, fragments, and typescript transcriptions, manuscripts.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1855-1904.
Call number: mssCB
Creator: Cobbe, Frances Power (1822-1904)(Opens in new tab)
Additional description: Correspondents include Mary Carpenter, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Charles Darwin, Earl of Shaftesbury, James Anthony Froude, Keshub Chunder Sen, James Martineau, Theodore Parker, Felix Pecaut, and others.
Provenance

1890 February-1893 March

Manuscripts

Letters addressed to Frances Power Cobbe cover women's suffrage and rights; antivivisection, her work in Bristol and her moral and religious writings; comments on her books and articles.

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Frances Power Cobbe correspondence

Manuscripts

Letters addressed to Frances Power Cobbe cover women's suffrage and rights; antivivisection, her social work in Bristol, and her moral and religious writings; comments on her books and articles. Correspondents include Mary Carpenter, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Charles Darwin, Earl of Shaftesbury, James Anthony Froude, Keshub Chunder Sen, James Martineau, Theodore Parker, Felix Pecaut, and others. Bray, Caroline (Hennell). 1895, May 21. Re: George Eliot. Cobbe, Charles, Abp. of Dublin. To his son, Charles Cobbe. 1750, Mar. 17. Letter of advice on going abroad. Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge. 1875, May 7. Re: vivisection. Froude, James Anthony. Interesting series of letters. Galton, Sir Francis. 1877, Aug. 27. Re: motives for murder. Kesavachandra Sena. 1878, Apr. 26. Re: the marriage of his young daughter. Montefiore, Claude G. 1882, Dec. 4. On inter-racial marriage with Jews. Parker, Theodore. 1848, May 5. On religion. Russell, John, styled Viscount Amberly. 1874, Nov. 10 & 25. Letter about Frances Power Cobbe's essay on Mill. Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred (Balfour). 1890, Jan. 10. On premonitions, telepathy, and hallucinations. Spencer, Herbert. 1872. Criticism of Miss Cobbe's Darwinism in Morals. Stevenson, Robert Louis. 1884, Mar. 9. Re: his friendliness toward dogs and his views on vivisection. Amos, Sheldon (3 pieces, 1879-83) Bonheur, Rosa (4 pieces, 1869-98) Boyle, Eleanor Vere (Gordon) ((3 pieces, c.1890?) Brown, Edward Harold, Bp. of Winchester (8 pieces, 1878-89) Butler, Frances Anne (Kemble) (5 pieces, c. 1865-90) Carpenter, Mary (23 pieces, 1858-77) Carpenter, William Benjamin (4 pieces, 1867-73) Channing, William Henry (5 pieces, 1860-83) Colenso, John William, Bp. of Natal (11 pieces, 1863-74) Collins, William Wilkie (3 pieces, 1882-83) Cooper, Anthony Ashley (7th Earl of Shaftesbury, 238 pieces, 1877-85) Darwin, Charles Robert (5 pieces, c.1870-75) Darwin, Emma (Wedgewood) (4 pieces, c.1870-90) Eastlake, Elizabeth (Rigby) , Lady (3 pieces, 1885-89) Edwards, Amelia Ann Blandford (3 pieces, 1888-89) Fawcett, Millicent (Garrett) (3 pieces, c.1885-90) Froude, James Anthony (34 pieces, 1861-92) Greg, William Rathbone (3 pieces, c.1870-80) Herbert, George Robert Charles (13th Earl of Pembroke, 4 pieces, 1888) Hoare, John N (4 pieces, 1894) How, William Walsham, Bp. of Wakefield (5 pieces, 1889-94) Hutton, Richard Holt (8 pieces, 1875-92) James, Henry (3 pieces, 1893) Jowett, Benjamin (4 pieces, 1860-65) Kesavachandra Sena (14 pieces, 1863-78) Lecky, William Edward Hartpole (5 pieces, 1865-90) Lilly, William Samuel (3 pieces, 1885-86) Manning, Henry Edward, Cardinal (5 pieces, 1882-89) Martineau, James (26 pieces, 1865-97) Morley, John (1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, 5 pieces, 1880) Morris, Sir Lewis (3 pieces, 1881-c.1887) Newman, Francis William (3 pieces, 1859-76) Paget Walpurga Ehrengarde... (4 pieces, 1891) Parker, Theodore (17 pieces, 1848-60) Pécaut, Félix (12 pieces, 1863-71) Pécaut, J Elie (5 pieces, 1898) Ponsonby, Sir Henry Frederick (4 pieces, 1884-87) Rhys, Sir John (3 pieces, 1891-93) Ritchie, Anne Isabella ... (3 pieces, c.1875-82) Roberts, William Page (3 pieces, 1886-87) Spencer, Herbert (5 pieces, 1866-c.1875) Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn (10 pieces, 1871-79) Taylor, Helen (3 pieces, 1868-74) Taylor, Sir Henry (3 pieces, 1879-82) Tennyson, Hallam (2d Baron Tennyson, 4 pieces, 1882-94) Tyndall, John (4 pieces, 1865-c.1875) Upton, Charles Barnes (3 pieces, 1883-86) Ward, Mary Augusta (Arnold) (10 pieces, 1888-94) Watson, Sir William (3 pieces, c.1890-1900) Webster, Augusta (3 pieces, 1878-81) Welldon, James Edward Cowell (4 pieces, 1886-92) Wilberforce, Albert Basil Orme (7 pieces, c.1890-92)

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Drawing Book

Visual Materials

One drawing book of original and copied drawings entitled Drawing Book, creator unnamed, ca. 1888. The book is bound in light green paperboard; the front cover is illustrated with an engraved image of an open drawing books with drawing and writing instruments nearby. The title is above the drawing book. The back cover is blank. The drawing book is 20 unnumbered leaves in length, and contains 7 ink and watercolor maps and 3 leaves of pencil sketches of flowers. The maps are on the first 9 pages of the book, and the flower sketch are on the last 3 leaves of the book. The flower sketches are all dated [18]88. The maps are views of: the southeastern United States; the New England States; Palestine; the Mid-Atlantic States; the Caribbean; Australia, and an unlabeled map of Italy. Tissue paper guard sheets are bound in between each of the leaves.

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Album of poetry and drawings

Manuscripts

A commonplace book, possibly kept by an individual or individuals in or near Manchester, England, in the late 1820s to 1830s, containing handwritten transcriptions of published poems and some prose, some original poems, and 26 watercolor and pencil illustrations by multiple artists depicting flowers, landscapes, ships, women, caricatures, etc. Primarily transcriptions of works (chiefly single poems) by poets including Laman Blanchard; Lord Byron; Thomas Campbell; S. T. Coleridge; W. B. Colleyer; Thomas Dale; Mrs. Charles Gore; John Hall; Mrs. Hemans; Thomas Hood; Letitia E. Landon; Elizabeth W. Mills; Milton; James Montgomery; Rev. John Moultrie; Mrs. Norton; Robert Pollock, Pope; Charles Swain; Rev. C. Hare Townsend; F. Tyrell; and a poem "pretended to be" from Shakespeare about "Anne Hathaway"; as well as extracts from an essay "Genius and Talent"; "Marriage" from Roger's Human Life; and Symmons's Life of Shakespeare. The artwork includes various signatures and initials including "John Houghton, 2 January 1830"; "R. J. 1836"; I. L. Williamson Aug 13, 1828"; "J. L. Williamson, 1830"; "Lizzy"; "F. Priestley, 16 Oct. 1830"; "P.N."; "H.B."; "L.W."; and "C.B.M." One poem, which appears to be an original, entitled "A Request," is signed "I. Baker."

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Drawing and Painting Exercises After Models for Children

Visual Materials

One boxed painting set entitled Drawing and Painting Exercises After Models for Children, manufactured by W. & S. B., ca. 1885. The set is comprised of 7 sheets of paper for drawing and painting, a paper palette onto which 6 small round cakes of watercolor paints are mounted, and 11 cutout stencils made from engravings. Also included is one stencil of the initials "OEL." The 11 "specimens" include a woman holding a bowl, a man with an apron full of fruit, and various farm animals. The box that houses these materials is made of light wood and paperboard, and is hinged along the left-hand side, so it opens as a book does. Instructions are printed on the cover: "Take one of the specimens, place it on the white paper and with the pencil describe the outline of it. The figure thus sketched may be finished off by coloring with the paints. - Another mode, by placing the models on paper and marking only a few of the principal points to be afterwards continued to complete, the specimen will be found to greatly improve and increase the taste for drawing." "Orin E. Littlefield, Kittery" is written in ms., in pencil, on the back of the box. The seven sheets of paper contain original and traced artwork. One of the cakes of paint is missing from the palette, and only fragments remain of two others.

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Fanchon and Marco collection of photographs and ephemera

Visual Materials

The Fanchon & Marco collection contains approximately 1400 photographs depicting hundreds of Fanchon and Marco Inc. sets and performers between approximately 1925 and 1938. The collection also includes three boxes of ephemera, dated from around 1912 to 1940, that consist of newspapers clippings, scrapbooks of clippings, musical scores, miscellaneous photographs, and the supplemental press books that were included with Fanchon & Marco's promotional magazine, Now (later The Idea), dating from 1930 and 1931. The 16 volumes (now disbound) of photographs in this collection served as a visual inventory for hundreds of Fanchon & Marco sets and performers. The images document the actors, dancers, costumes, sets, and concepts and appear to have been primarily photographed during rehearsals before the shows premiered in Los Angeles theaters such as Loew's State Theater and the Paramount Theater. The first volume contains some photographs presumably taken in San Francisco and later volumes include a few photographs by New York-based photographers.Accompanying descriptive information is scant with few performers identified by name. A typescript inventory with Idea titles precedes volumes 1-8. The production name appears in pencil on the back of many of the pages in Volumes 1-12. Volume 13 contains stage and lighting directions in typescript on the backs of some photographs.Photographers represented in the collection are: Archer's Art Shop of Los Angeles (Volume 6, 8, 11, 13); Hollywood photographers Irving Archer (Volume 12, 13, 14), Archer's Studios (Volume 8, 11, 13, 14); Curt Fox (Volumes 5-6); Paralta Studios (Volumes 2-4); and Harry Wenger (Volumes 1, 2-4, 6). A few photographs include the imprints of Peerless Photo of Los Angeles (Volume 13), John Sirgio (Volume 13), H.W. Steward of San Francisco (Volume 1), Talbot of New York (Volume 12), Weaver of Los Angeles (Volume 1), and White Studio of New York (Volume 9).

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