Manuscripts

The Headlong Career and Woful Ending of Precocious Piggy

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Description: Illustrated by his son Thomas Hood (1835-1874).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1858.
Call number: mssHM 12406
Creator: Hood, Thomas (1799-1845)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Charles Sessler, 1922.
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The headlong career and woful ending of Precocious Piggy

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246028

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Thomas Hood autograph letters

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Includes Preface written by his son Thomas Hood (1835-1874).

mssHM 12386-12405

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Red Dragon ship logbook

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Log of the voyage of the "Red Dragon" from England to Africa and South America, Captain Robert Widdrington in command; kept by Thomas Hood.

mssHM 1648

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The Dream of Eugene Aram: poem: a forgery

Manuscripts

Also includes a forged letter from Thomas Hood to "My dear Smith," April 13 (mssHM 12384).

mssHM 12384-12385

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Compiled by Ferdinand J. Dreer, this volume consists of extra-illustrated copies of Oration of Henry Armitt Brown : on the one hundredth anniversary of the meeting of Congress in Carpenters' Hall ... [Philadelphia] : Printed by the order of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia, 1874 and of Oration delivered in Carpenters' Hall on the one hundredth anniversary of the meeting of the Congress of 1774, Philadelphia : Privately printed, 1875. The 1874 edition is lacking title page. Pages are inlaid from the original 23 cm to 27 cm. It is followed by the title page and text of the 1875 edition. Both are extra-illustrated with correspondence to and from Ferdinand Dreer. Contains various portraits and autographs of prominent individuals and manuscripts including ones by Abraham Lincoln (mssHM 25023), John Adams (mssHM 25026), George Washington (mssHM 25043), Thomas Jefferson (mssHM 25045) and Ulysses S. Grant (mssHM 25052). The presidential items have been separately cataloged and full descriptions may be found in the online catalog. The frontispiece is an original watercolor drawing of Carpenter's Hall.

mssHM 3000-3026, mssHM 25001-25058

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Resolution from board of directors of California Delta Farms, expressing the firm's appreciation for Sinclair's career and sympathy to his family at his passing

Manuscripts

The Henry H. Sinclair papers number more than 1,600 items, including diaries, journals, newspaper clippings, and extensive personal and business correspondence. The complete date range is 1802-1937 (bulk dates 1909-1914). Subject matter includes mostly business matters of the Great Western Power Company, Palmer Oil Company, Mt. Hood Railway and Power Company, etc.; diaries and notebooks concerning power plant inspection trips, mostly to the Kern River in California; the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association; the California to Honolulu yacht races. The collection also includes the papers of his son, Arthur W. Sinclair, pertaining to California Delta Farms, Inc. The collection also contains a diploma from Sinclair's membership in the American Institute of Electric Engineers and a manuscript, by Englishman Thomas Cowper, of calculations regarding a solar eclipse on June 24, 1778.

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