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James A. Froude collection

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    James Madison correspondence with Alexander James Dallas

    Manuscripts

    This collection primarily contains political correspondence between James Madison and Alexander James Dallas, 1815-1816. Letters concern the organization of a peacetime military establishment; economic and financial affairs, including the Second Bank of the United States; U.S. relations with Great Britain, France, Russia, Algeria; and an astronomical observatory. Correspondence also pertains to relationships with Native Americans following the War of 1812, especially in Michigan territory (see letters from May 1815). Persons mentioned in correspondence include Jacob Jennings Brown, Andrew Jackson, Winfield Scott, Thomas Sidney Jessup, Joseph Bonaparte, William Jones, James Monroe, and Albert Gallatin. This collection also contains a small number of letters from Alexander James Dallas to other recipients, including Andrew Jackson.

    mssMD

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    Brock Collection: Papers of James A. Bates

    Manuscripts

    Chiefly official correspondence accumulated by James A. Bates during his service at Hammond Hospital and the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Included are letters, reports, muster out rolls, passes, orders, monthly returns, circulars, etc.

    mssBR Box 121 (1)

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    James Russell Lowell collection

    Manuscripts

    A collection of correspondence and manuscripts written by James Russell Lowell, including essays, poems, and short stories; included is an essay on Herbert Spencer, the poems "In Far Japan" and "At the Exhibition," and a short story, "Uncle Cobus's Story." The collection also includes two forgeries, the poems "And again to the child..." and "Zekle crep' up quite unknown." The correspondence includes letters to and from James T. Fields, John Fiske, William Leonard Gage, Arthur Gilman, George W. Smalley, George Ticknor, and John Greenleaf Whittier. A number of the manuscripts and letters are window mounted on pages removed from albums, some letters with envelopes.

    mssLowelljr

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    James Russell Lowell collection

    Manuscripts

    A collection of correspondence and manuscripts written by James Russell Lowell, including essays, poems, and short stories; included is an essay on Herbert Spencer, the poems "In Far Japan" and "At the Exhibition," and a short story, "Uncle Cobus's Story." The collection also includes two forgeries, the poems "And again to the child..." and "Zekle crep' up quite unknown." The correspondence includes letters to and from James T. Fields, John Fiske, William Leonard Gage, Arthur Gilman, George W. Smalley, George Ticknor, and John Greenleaf Whittier. A number of the manuscripts and letters are window mounted on pages removed from albums, some letters with envelopes.

    mssLowelljr

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    James E. Dolena collection

    Visual Materials

    This collection contains working plans, original drawings, renderings, correspondence, and photographs for approximately 150 projects designed by architect James E. Dolena in the mid-20th century. The majority are residential projects primarily in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills dating from 1926 into the 1970s. Many of Dolena's commercial and public projects are also represented. There are over 100 plans, drawings, and details for the landmark Los Angeles Farmers Market complex, dating from approximately 1934 to the 1960s. There are a few projects outside of California, and two projects are by architect Arthur R. Kelly. Photographers represented in the collection include Fred Dapprich and Maynard Parker.

    archDolena