Manuscripts

Collin Brooks letter to "Dear Sir"

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Description: Requesting a review for the Yorkshire Post written and signed by Gilbert Armitage for Brooks.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1928 February 21.
Call number: mssHM 15598
Creator: Brooks, Collin (1893-1959)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Transferred from R. B. Dept., Accession no. R-204944, September 1933.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Noah Brooks letter to "My dear lad,"

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In this letter to an unidentified recipient, Noah Brooks apologizes for not answering earlier on account of illness. On letterhead for The Aldine, Newark, New Jersey.

mssHM 29223

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William E. Brooks letter to Anna P. Brooks

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Letter from William E. Brooks to his mother Anna P. Brooks in Worcester, Massachusetts, written from the Standard Mines in Graham County, Arizona. In the letter Brooks writes of a flood in the area of Clifton and Metcalf which had temporarily washed away the railway line and partially shut down mining operations. He also writes of his walks, local scenery, and other aspects of his daily activities.

mssHM 74519

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Mary Jane Brooks letters to Thomas and Priscilla Marsh

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These manuscripts are a series of letters from Mary Jane Brooks to her sister Priscilla Marsh and brother Thomas Marsh. HM 19790 is dated 1853, December 14 and 15, and lists the current price of goods in San Francisco. Mary Jane Brooks also writes of her family and friends. In the next letter (HM 19791, dated 1854, February 28), Mary Jane Brooks writes further of family and friends. HM 19792, dated 1854, July 14, tells of a fire in San Francisco, but the Brooks home was undamaged. Mary Jane Brooks writes in the next letter (HM 19793, dated 1855, July 28) that her father is not doing well. He has quit working, and "thinks he is not long for this world." HM 19794, the final letter in this sequence, is dated 1856, March 4. Father is still alive, but is ailing, and Mary Jane Brooks urges Priscilla to prepare their mother for his passing. The letters are written from San Francisco, and all are signed "Aaron and Mary Jane Brooks" but letters are in the handwriting of Mary Jane Brooks. With one-page typescript of an additional letter, dated 1856, July 5.

mssHM 19790-19794

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Stephen Brooks letter to Henry Brooks

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In this letter to his brother Henry, Stephen Brooks writes of debts incurred while opening a store in San Francisco. He misses the comforts of life and the life of society, and plans to stay in California for one year. Letterhead is an image of "View of San Francisco, February 1850."

mssHM 16539

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Noah Brooks letter to the Northwestern Literary and Historical Society

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Brooks expresses his honor and gratitude for being elected an honorary member of the Society, an organization based in Sioux City, Iowa. Includes a newspaper clipping with a brief biography of Brooks.

mssHM 29222

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Phillips Brooks letter to "My Dear Sir"

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mssHM 7377

Collin Brooks letter to "Dear Sir"

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