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Aeronaut autograph collection

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Description: A collection of twenty-five letters and manuscripts by aeronauts, travelers, and writers. Inlaid and bound in one volume.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1794-1889.
Call number: mssHM 14151-14180
Provenance: Purchased from Anderson Galleries, October 1919.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
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English admirals autograph collection

Manuscripts

Volume of bound autographs and correspondence by British admirals including Earl Richard Howe. Some letters have typescripts.

mssHM 60665

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Adrian H. Joline autograph collection

Manuscripts

Adrian H. Joline's three volume collection of items signed by U.S. Secretaries of War (from Henry Knox to Henry L. Stimson), Secretaries of State (from Thomas Jefferson to Elihu Root), and Speakers of the House of Representatives (from Frederick Muhlenberg to Joseph G. Cannon). Volumes contain 248 inlaid signed letters, documents, or individual signatures. Also present are portraits of cabinet members, representatives, and some spouses, and other illustrations--mostly engravings and also a few photographs, some of which are signed. Volumes were compiled in 1912. U.S. presidents in this collection include John Quincy Adams, James Buchanan, Ulysses S. Grant, James Madison, James Monroe, Thomas Jefferson, James K. Polk, William H. Taft, and Martin Van Buren; presidential items have been individually cataloged.

mssHM 4577-4803

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Correspondence Relating to the Poets' Tribute to Thomas Hardy

Manuscripts

The collection consists of correspondence bound in one large volume relating to the tribute paid to Thomas Hardy on his 79th birthday by his fellow poets. There are many letters both by and addressed to Sidney Sassoon and also Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell. Sassoon organized the tribute and Cockerell helped to put together the volume of autograph poems contributed by various writers

mssHM 39033-39087

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Aerostat manuscript and drawing collection

Manuscripts

Bound volume containing manuscripts and drawings related to aeuronautics. Text on spine is in French and reads, "Méthode pour Diriger des Aérostats." Manuscripts possibly also in Dutch.

mssHM 14181

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[Collection of clippings, etc., relating to aviation : a scrapbook

Rare Books

This leather-bound volume contains nearly 140 pages with pasted items related to balloon flights, ascents, disasters, parachutes, etc. Materials include newspaper and magazine clippings, illustrations, prints, penciled copies of illustrations, printed advertisements, handbills, balloon ascension tickets, handwritten notes, and scraps of fabric from balloons and parachutes. Among the aeronauts represented in this collection are Stuart Amos Arnold, Barret, Jean Pierre Blanchard, Robert Cocking, S.D. Dean, Andre Jacques Garnerin, Elysa Garnerin, George Graham, Margaret Graham, Charles Green, John Hampton, Harris, Robert Holland, Vincenzo Lunardi, Joseph Montgolfier, Letitia Anne Sage, Eugene Robinson, James Sadler, and Van Amburgh.

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[Collection of clippings, etc., relating to aviation: a scrapbook.]

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RB 139413

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