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Adelina Patti letter to unidentified addressee
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Adelina Patti letters
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The volume includes 10 autograph letters written to various family members; the volume is a brown morocco folio with gold lettering on front cover.
mssHM 20378-20387
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Adelina Patti autograph book
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Autograph book of Adelina Patti when she was in San Francisco in March 1887. On cover: "Souvenir to The Great Diva Adelina Patti From her Friends and Admirers, San Francisco, Cal." With a biographical note on Adelina Patti.
mssHM 40700
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Otto Goldschmidt letter to unidentified addressee
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Letter is mounted on paper, with auction catalogue information pasted onto paper; removed from a volume by Huntington Library staff, September 1938.
mssHM 22046
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Jenny Lind letter to unidentified addressee
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Letter is mounted on paper which includes a ticket for Pew No. 109 at her Grand Concert, Buffalo, July 30, 1851; removed from a volume by Huntington Library staff, September 1938.
mssHM 22047
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John Gorham Palfrey letter to George Washington Greene
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An autograph letter written from Boston, Mass., from John G. Palfrey to George W. Greene, who was serving as U.S. Consul to Rome. The letter details a list of written works ordered by Palfrey but not yet paid for; he also mentions their mutual friend H.W. Longfellow. The letter has a red wax seal and was originally window-mounted; it has been removed but the old cloth hinges remain.
mssHM 83573
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Ninetta Eames letter to George Wharton James
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Letter written at the Madrone Lodge, Glen Ellen to "My dear friend" [George Wharton James]. Eames relates that she is enclosing a card from her adopted daughter Lynette Payne McMurray and that he would be pleased with the contents. She is at the Madrona and is feeling better. Charmian and Jack [London] are settled in the lodge with servants and belongings. Jack looks fine to her, but Charmian looks stressed trying to keep pace with Jack. She mentions that George Sterling and his wife are to go on a duck hunt up the Sacramento for a month or longer. She notes with some consternation that while they were there at the Lodge for a week while she was gone, Sterling arrived drunk and stayed that way the whole time, upsetting the household. Ninetta says that she loves the peace of this retreat and will spend time in the lodge breaking in a new cook among other things. In midwinter she expects to attend to some business in Los Angeles, but extends and invitation to her friend to come for a visit. The Cummings and Gells still live with them and speak of him frequently. She mentions that the summer people are gone, but October is cherished. She writes: "Now that the rain has washed the earth & foliage, I go forth rejoicingly, every pulse in me attune to the widespread beauty of the world. I wish you could see all the colors in the vineyards, and the mass of golden leaf drapery on the ground under the maples."
mssHM 30953