Manuscripts
A Beckett-Higgins
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John Hollingshead letters
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A collection containing letters, manuscripts, and ephemera related to John Hollingshead. The letters are mostly addressed to John Hollingshead from 1860 to 1891, concerning the management of the Gaiety Theatre. The material in this collection was originally mounted in two volumes and was later removed by Huntington staff; the material still retains some glue and evidence of removal. Some items in the collection were trimmed down, with loss of text, by the original owner. Correspondents in the collection include, among others, Dion Boucicault, John B. Buckstone, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Charles W. Dilke, William S. Gilbert, Henry Irving, Blanchard Jerrold, Ellen Kean, Francis Knollys, James Macaulay, Florence Marryat, Westland Marston, Charles Mathews, James R. Planché, Charles Reade, Eyre Massey Shaw, Alexander Strahan, Algernon Swinburne, Anthony Trollope, James Whistler, Oscar Wilde, and Edmund Yates.
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Correspondence: Chapin - Farrand, G. to A-Beckett
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The Manuscript series contains 20 journals written by George E. Farrand from 1915 to 1954 as well as two printed publications. The journals include daily entries regarding his law practice, the weather, his weight, as well as details regarding family matters and world events, such as the Great Depression, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, World War II and the start of the Cold War. At the end of most of the journals, he includes a brief summary of his year, including personal, business and world events. The later journals also include numerous news clippings. The Correspondence series is arranged alphabetically by author and predominantly contains letters related to business transactions such as the merger of First National and Security Pacific Banks in Los Angeles and the Julian Petroleum scandal as well as personal correspondence amongst friends, acquaintances, and political allies, including Henry M. Robinson, George E. Farrand, Harry Chandler, George E. Hale, Lou Henry Hoover, Herbert Hoover (many through Hoover's assistants, including Lawrence Richey and Paul Sexson), and Alonzo Englebert Taylor. The Ephemera series is arranged alphabetically by subject and then chronologically within each folder. It contains separate folders for biographical and genealogical materials, cards, empty envelopes, event programs, indices and disposition of the files of Henry M. Robinson, judicial opinions, law school examination, legal documents and research memoranda, miscellaneous office documents, newspaper clippings, notes and minutes from meetings, pamphlets and printed statements, photographs, receipts, securities issues and offering materials, Senate hearings transcripts, speeches and statements of assets and "C" memoranda. The detailed indices of Henry M. Robinson's files indicate the status of his files upon his death and the disposition of those materials by his brother and George E. Farrand.
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Victor Higgins letter to Henry E. Huntington
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