Manuscripts
Digby Bell letters
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Charles Frederic Moberly Bell letters
Manuscripts
Seven letters dated between September 7, 1897 and January 3, 1898 to McIlvaine. Six telegrams and letters dated between October 1, 1897 and March 9, 1898 to Harper or Harper & Bros.
mssHM 20082-20094
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Clive Bell letter to Kerrison Preston
Manuscripts
Accompanied by a carbon copy of Preston's letter to Clive Bell, March 4, 1914.
mssHM 35065
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San Gabriel Valley Land and Water Company minutes
Manuscripts
The volumes begin with the Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws for the San Gabriel Valley Land and Water Company. Following are the meeting minutes of the company from 1888 to 1893. The first volume (HM 73896) covers 1887 to March 1890. The second volume (HM 73897) covers March 1890 to 1893. There is an issue of the "Orange Trade Reporter," Vol. 3, No. 18 (1897, April 28) in the second volume.
mssHM 73896-73897
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Letters to Thomas Nast
Manuscripts
This collection consists of 14 miscellaneous letters addressed to American cartoonist Thomas Nast (1840-1902), from various friends and acquaintances. The items consist of single letters from the following individuals: Robert Bonner, 1869 March 30 (HM 15522); John Griffin Carlisle, 1890 December 26 (HM 15532); George William Childs, 1887 January 6 (HM 15530); Julia A. (Buckingham) Cox, 1889 October 7 (HM 15531); Hamilton Fish, 1877 January 8 (HM 15524); Murat Halstead, 1883 October 31 (HM 15528); Rush Christopher Hawkins, 1869 July 31 (HM 15523); Guy V. Henry, 1878 March 13 (HM 15525); George Parsons Lathrop, 1897 May 18 (HM 15534); Nelson Appleton Miles, 1881 April 19 (HM 15527); Nineteenth Century Club, 1886 September 21 (HM 15529); William Franklin Gore Shanks, 1868 December 28 (HM 15521); Henry E. Sweetser, 1868 February 26 (HM 15520); and John Russell Young, 1879 February 6 (HM 15526).
mssHM 15520-15534
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Horace Bell letters to Lewis C. Granger and Belle Granger Ekman
Manuscripts
Six letters sent by Horace Bell in Los Angeles to Lewis C. Granger and his sister Belle Granger Ekman between 1870 and 1893. In the first letter to Granger, dated 1870, Bell writes of his family life since 1862, of a lack of heirs and titles in the Gray estate and of his plans to "let the matter go to the state." In 1872 he writes of deciding not to sell his house for his wife's sake and of his son's education; in 1882 he notes "I am grieved at your silence;" in 1885 he writes of being busy in the Superior Court and of a land matter relating to Granger; and in 1887 writes that the "world of rascality here has combined under the leadership of G. Wiley Wells employed by E.J. Baldwin, to brake [sic] down my paper...and disgrace me." He further notes that "this arrant [sic] scoundrel" Wells had gone to Oroville, where Granger lived, and asks Granger to watch him and to send Bell his own recollection's of Bell's time in Oroville between 1852 and 1858. Included is a newspaper clipping with a derogatory story about Bell, which calls him a "drunken debauchee, [who] frequently found his way into the chain-gang," among other things. The final letter was sent to Belle Granger Ekman in 1893, and in it Bell thanks her for sending him a book on the Granger family, and advises her to "take the original biographical sketch and have it published in a neat centerable book."
mssHM 30938-30943
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Isaac Edwin Gates letters to Henry E. Huntington
Manuscripts
Also: copy of letter from Arabella D. Huntington and Henry E. Huntington to Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute, 1904 March 21; copies of letters by Huntington to Gates, 1904 March 26, May 5, 1905 December 23, 1906 January 18; letter from Gates to Huntington, 1905 December 15; printed notice and proxy form of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., 1907 April 12; letter from Charles M. Mapes to Gates, 1907 September 18. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate.
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