Manuscripts
De Quincey family correspondence
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Correspondence
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters from Henry De Quincey, Jane De Quincey, Mary De Quincey, and Richard De Quincey to their brother Thomas De Quincey. There are also 34 letters from Thomas De Quincey's mother, Elizabeth Penson Quincey.
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Correspondence
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters from Henry De Quincey, Jane De Quincey, Mary De Quincey, and Richard De Quincey to their brother Thomas De Quincey. There are also 34 letters from Thomas De Quincey's mother, Elizabeth Penson Quincey.
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Starkweather family correspondence, (bulk 1849-1859)
Manuscripts
The collection consists of correspondence between Starkweather family members at home in Northampton, Massachusetts, and the four members who came to California during the Gold Rush era. Topics discussed in the letters include ocean voyages to California, agriculture and ranching in Stockton, and Starkweather family news. There is a hiatus in correspondence from 1866 to 1876. The letters after this period deal chiefly with business arrangements between Charles in Massachusetts and his brother Haynes, who had returned to California to be with his son. Persons represented in the collection by five or more pieces include: Elizabeth Starkweather Breck (5 letters), Roxana Starkweather Nowell (20 letters), Alfred Starkweather (34 letters), Almira Starkweather (12 letters), Almira L. Merrick Starkweather (10 letters), Charles Graves Starkweather (12 letters and 4 account books), Frances Loomis Starkweather (6 letters), Frederick Merrick Starkweather (7 letters), Haynes Kingsley Starkweather (1788-1866) (24 letters), Haynes Kingsley Starkweather (1822-1895) (71 letters), and Martha Phelps Starkweather (9 letters).
mssHM 54689-54932
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Clemens family papers
Manuscripts
This collection contains papers of the family of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens including 7 diaries of his daughter Jane Clampton Clemens and correspondence and records of the family, including letters from all three Clemens daughters to their parents. The following individuals are represented in the collection: Clara Clemens, Jane Lampton Clemens (1880-1909), Susy Clemens (1872-1896), Mary Mason Fairbanks, Grace Elizabeth King (1852-1932), and Elizabeth Gillette Warner (1838-1915). Note: the collection does not contain letters by Samuel Clemens; he is only represented as an addressee. The collection includes 7 diaries of Jane Lampton Clemens, spanning the years 1900-1907. HM 53346 also contains 12 photographs that were inserted in the diary's opening for 1900, Nov. 11-12. The photos are not annotated in any way but several appear to have been taken in Europe, possibly Italy. The diaries, for the most part, cover the last years of her life, while she lived in Dublin, New Hampshire and a sanitarium in Katonah, New York. The diaries detail Jean Clemens struggle with epilepsy, as well as the medical treatments for the disease, circa the turn of the century. There are also letters and records including letters from all three Clemens daughters to their father, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, and to their mother, Olivia Langdon Clemens. There are letters from various extended family members and friends to Olivia Langdon Clemens, as well as, financial records from various companies.
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Eaton Family correspondence
Manuscripts
This group of fifteen letters is made up largely of correspondence between Amos Beebe Eaton (1806-1877) and his wife and son, Elizabeth Selden Eaton and Daniel Cady Eaton (1834-1895). Amos Beebe Eaton is in Northern California during this time, and his son Daniel is a student at Yale collecting botanical samples. The letters document the family's sentiments about their separation but also describe a student's life in New Haven, CT, and a soldier's life in Northern California during the mid-nineteenth century. There is also one letter to Daniel Cady Eaton (1834-1895) from an uncle of the same name, a brother of Amos Beebe Eaton
mssHM 60678-60692
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Charles S. Greene Family and Personal Correspondence
Visual Materials
Box 3 contains letters to and from the Greene family, including correspondence and ephemera documenting Charles' marriage to Alice Gordon White in 1901 and their honeymoon trip to Europe. Also included are scattered letters from Thomas Sumner Greene; from Alice's sisters, Martha and Jane; from Henry Mather Greene, and from the children of Alice and Charles. There is also a series of letters from Alice and the children to Charles while he was on visits to Pasadena in 1918 and 1919. A small group of letters is addressed to Alice Greene from friends and family (1901-1960), as are a few to eldest son Nathaniel Patrickson Greene, and one to daughter Bettie Greene. Several of the letters in this family group concern disposition of Charles' papers after his death.
Subseries B.