Manuscripts

One Woman and Sunshine

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Description: Draft of an article on Mrs. Jeanne C. Carr and the founding of Carmelita, her home in Pasadena, California.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1884.
Call number: mssHM 11908
Creator: Jackson, Helen Hunt (1830-1885)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Herschel V. Jones sale, lot 929, January 1919.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Manuscripts, letters

Manuscripts

A collection of manuscripts and letters related to Helen Hunt Jackson. The autograph manuscripts include 21 poems and three prose works entitled: "Bits of Travel at Home," "One Woman and Sunshine," a draft of an article on Jeanne C. Smith Carr and the founding of Carmelita, her home in Pasadena, California, and "The Story of Clotilde Danarosch." The largest part of the correspondence is made up of Helen Hunt Jackson's letters to William Hayes Ward, the editor of the New York Independent. Also included are seventeen letters to Ray Palmer and his wife Ann Maria Waud Palmer; thirteen letters to Mary Elizabeth Fowler, the first government schoolteacher at Soboba in the San Jacinto Valley; four letters to Henry Chandler Bowen, the editor and proprietor of the Independent; four letters to Mrs. D. J. Whipple who ran a boarding house in San Diego and later Los Angeles; two letters to Richard Egan, a Los Angeles County supervisor; and two letters by William Sharpless Jackson and Charles C. Painter.

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Helen Hunt Jackson collection of manuscripts and letters

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Carmelita NW

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A Victorian mansion sits amid landscaped grounds of Carmelita, the estate of Dr. Ezra Carr and his wife, Jeanne C. Carr, in Pasadena, California. Two people stand in front of home.

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Rustic cottage at Carmelita

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Four women and two men sit outdoors in front of a small cabin made of upright, unpeeled logs, on the Carmelita estate of Dr. Ezra Carr and his wife, Jeanne C. Carr, in Pasadena, California. Jeanne and Ezra Carr are second and third from left, near a vase of calla lilies.

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Pasadena, from Residence of Mrs. Carr

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Scenic view of continuous agricultural fields in Pasadena, California, with the San Gabriel Mountains in the distance, as seen from the property of Jeanne C. Carr and Dr. Ezra Carr (presumably their Carmelita estate).

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