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Milner, James D. Letter to George H. Birch (typescript transcription)


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    Milner, James D. Letter to George H. Birch (typescript transcription)

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    Typescript transcription of 1-page letter from James D. Milner of the National Portrait Gallery about terracotta statuette of James II.

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    James, Isaac (typescript and notes)

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    (a) "The Case of James versus Pryce: Stone's Master and the Law, being a Westminster Abbey Discovery; tried by Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Keeper on July 17th 1617" – (typescript article, with annotations) (b) two draft manuscript versions of above article (c) "Stone's Master, or a Westminster Abbey mystery solved' (manuscript draft version of similar article) (d) Notes on Isaac James (in two hands)

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    "H" entries (typescript and manuscript versions)

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    James II: "An Unpublished Statue of James II (typescript)

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    Milner, H. W. to James De Barth Shorb

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    The collection, which contains 10,844 items, consists of correspondence, letter books, manuscripts, speeches, diaries, account books, published articles, legal papers, financial statements and business records. The 10,528 pieces of correspondence are chiefly addressed to James De Barth Shorb, James M. Tiernan and Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb. The 17 letter books are related to the business and financial affairs of Shorb and Benjamin Davis Wilson. The 75 manuscripts consist of items chiefly written by Shorb and Wilson family members. The 224 items in the Business Papers include material related to Shorb's many companies including the San Gabriel Wine Company. The following subjects are covered in the Shorb collection: the Shorb, Wilson, and Patton families, David Jacks, Mariano Vallejo, Santa Catalina Island, the Mount Wilson Observatory, California government and politics, African Americans and the Chinese in California, agriculture, the citrus fruit industry, Indians of California, irrigation, lend tenure, mining, railroads, ranching, water rights, and the wine industry. The collection also documents the history and development of the following California cities: Alhambra, Elsinore, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Ramona, San Gabriel, San Marino, and Wilmington.

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    "D"-"H" entries

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