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La Mort à la Mode

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Description: Signed: A. H. Hawkins; Anthony Hope was the pseudonym of Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1900.
Call number: mssHM 12255
Creator: Hope, Anthony (1863-1933)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of October 1953.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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The Uraguay

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Handwritten English translation by British explorer and writer Sir Richard F. Burton of the Portuguese narrative poem "The Uruguay," a historical romance of South America by the Brazilian poet Jose Basilio da Gama (first published in 1769). Leaves 1-79 contain text of work followed by draft of title page, biographical sketch, and notes (leaves 80-98). The preface is signed with Burton's pseudonym, "Frank Baker."

mssHM 27954

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The casting vote

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Final handwritten draft in ink of the novelette: "The Casting Vote," signed with Murfree's pseudonym: "Charles Egbert Craddock."

mssHM 33799

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Entrées à la mode

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Recipies collected both in England and France from all the best schools of cookery, personal experience and cordons bleus. Cf. Preface.

638013

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Susan B. Anthony letter to an unnamed editor

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Letter by Susan B. Anthony addressed to "Mr. Editor, Dear Sir," written on letterhead of Fowler & Wells, Phrenologists and Publishers. Fowler & Wells published the first two volumes of Susan B. Anthony's History of woman suffrage (1881). The letter reads: "By my request our publishers mail to you tonight, the advances sheets of "The History of Woman Suffrage," that you may be able to bring out your notice of it as early as our New York papers -- the book will not be handed them until Friday. Hoping that your reviewer will give these pages a careful reading and a just if not generous report thereof. I am Sir - Respectfully yours Susan B. Anthony."

mssHM 83495

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Edward Deas Thompson letter to Peter Hardeman Burnett

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Sir Thomson requests Governor Burnett's assistance concerning the seizure by pirates of the Australian schooner "Helen" during her voyage from Sydney to Moreton Bay, Queensland. Reports indicate the ship was then taken to California. Also included is a testimory endorsing Sir Thomsen's identity, signed by James H. Williams, United States consul for the Port of Sydney.

mssHM 19388

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Receipt for poor tax signed by John Hawkins

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A receipt "for a Quarters poor tax" for Mr. Baxter's house, signed by John Hawkins; endorsed on the verso "Baxters poor levey" with the additional date of October 14, 1775.

mssHM 84103

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