Manuscripts

New England Dialects, Superstitions, Etc

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Description: Written in the form of two lengthy autograph letters to Charles Godfrey Leland.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1888 June-July.
Call number: mssHM 12434-12435
Creator: Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of December 1931.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Old Ironsides: poem ; The Last Leaf: poem

Manuscripts

Also includes autograph letters, with envelopes, typewritten transcriptions, printed material, and clippings.

mssHM 12442-12448

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Robert Browning collection

Manuscripts

A collection of manuscripts and correspondence related to Robert Browning. The manuscripts include two autograph quotations, "Christmas Eve and Easter Day" and "How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix," and the autograph poem "Red Cotton Night-Cap Country." The collection also includes a forgery of a fragment of a poem (mssHM 46121). The majority of the collection is comprised of correspondence which includes letters by, among others: Willam Allingham, Eliza Bridell-Fox, Henry Fothergill Chorley, Frances Power Cobbe, Sidney Colvin, Moncure Daniel Conway, William Hepworth Dixon, Mary Gladstone Drew, Amelia B. Edwards, Havelock Ellis, William Johnson Fox, Frederick James Furnivall, Anna Maria Fielding Hall, Euphrasia Fanny Haworth, Emily Henrietta Hickey, John Camden Hotten, Charles Godfrey Leland, William Charles Macready, Edward Moxon, John Ruskin, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Frederick Wedmore, and William Hale White.

mssBrowningr

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Robert Browning collection

Manuscripts

mssBrowningr

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Anonymous diary of an officer

Manuscripts

The contents of this autograph journal contains important and interesting events relating to Cartagena, Havana, and Vera Cruz. In addition, there is a lengthy account of the Spanish expedition against Georgia and Carolina in 1742.

mssHM 237

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Receipts, bills, etc

Manuscripts

A collection of 850 items from 1841 to 1922; it consists of personal and business papers, correspondence, speeches, and a journal of Charles Maclay. Subject matter includes the development of the town of San Fernando, California; politics in the 1860s and 1870s; Methodism in both Pennsylvania and California; and the Southern and Central Pacific Railroads. Correspondents in the collection include, among others, Charles Crocker, Mary E. Maclay Griswold, John J. Haley, Thomas G. McLeran, George Keating Porter, Leland Stanford, and Robert Maclay Widney.

mssMC

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Musical scores, indentures, etc

Manuscripts

A collection of approximately 2000 manuscripts, chiefly individual letters, documents, and notes collected by Gerald John Kane for their autograph value. Also included in the collection is a group of letters addressed to the autograph collector Howes Norris.

mssHM 29330-30299

New England Dialects, Superstitions, Etc

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