Manuscripts
De Quincey family correspondence
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Correspondence
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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
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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
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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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Mary Jane Brooks letters to Thomas and Priscilla Marsh
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These manuscripts are a series of letters from Mary Jane Brooks to her sister Priscilla Marsh and brother Thomas Marsh. HM 19790 is dated 1853, December 14 and 15, and lists the current price of goods in San Francisco. Mary Jane Brooks also writes of her family and friends. In the next letter (HM 19791, dated 1854, February 28), Mary Jane Brooks writes further of family and friends. HM 19792, dated 1854, July 14, tells of a fire in San Francisco, but the Brooks home was undamaged. Mary Jane Brooks writes in the next letter (HM 19793, dated 1855, July 28) that her father is not doing well. He has quit working, and "thinks he is not long for this world." HM 19794, the final letter in this sequence, is dated 1856, March 4. Father is still alive, but is ailing, and Mary Jane Brooks urges Priscilla to prepare their mother for his passing. The letters are written from San Francisco, and all are signed "Aaron and Mary Jane Brooks" but letters are in the handwriting of Mary Jane Brooks. With one-page typescript of an additional letter, dated 1856, July 5.
mssHM 19790-19794
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Stoneman family letters
Manuscripts
This small group of correspondence primarily consists of 25 letters from Cornelius MacLain Stoneman's mother, Mary Oliver Hardisty, his sisters, Katherine "Kitty" and Adele, and his brother, George Stoneman. The letters concern family and social life. Stoneman's mother frequently writes about monetary issues. For instance, in a letter dated January 31, 1888, his mother writes, "Our ranch has big money in it for some of us - it is only a question of time & endurance & as we have kept it through all this time of depression, I guess we can mosey along still further..." In another letter written in 1892, Stoneman writes about suing George Stoneman, "Father cannot sue for divorce, but I can - for he has practically deserted me&" There is a letter from Francis J. Thomas to Walter Percy in Birmingham, Alabama, where he introduces Percy to Cornelius McLain Stoneman. There is also a wedding invitation for Rufus William Burnham and Marion Barnes Bennison in 1887. The letters were also accompanied with transcripts from the donor. The transcripts are located at the end of the collection in chronological order.
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