Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
1780-1798
- Description
- Letters, manuscripts (including 195 sermons, 4 diaries, and 1 poem), and documents.
- Production date
- 1718-1798.
- Call number
- mssCO
- Additional description
- Sermons by William and Samuel Cooper, 1718-1783 (strongest for the period 1740-1759) and correspondence, covering international politics in relation to the American colonies (1769-1783), French officers in North America (1778-1783), and the Cooper family affairs. Among the correspondents are John Adams, Charles Hector d'Estaing, Benjamin Franklin, Gideon Hawley, Anne C ́esare de la Luzerne, Charles Gravier de Vergennes. Also included are two letters (1771, Feb. 25 and 1776, Jan. 8) from Gideon Hawley describing his life among the Indians. The John Adams items include two autograph letters signed to Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes, 1779 February 16 and 27 (CO 7, CO 13) and one letterpress copy of a letter to Benjamin Franklin, 1783 September 13 (CO 36), not in Adams' hand. The diaries cover the periods 1764, Jan. 1-1765, Feb. 2; 1769, Oct. 22-Dec. 31; 1775, 1775, Apr. 18-Sept. 23, and 1775, Ap. 19-May 17, 1776.
