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Manuscripts
Commodore Edward Preble's Internal Rules and Regulations
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
In this manuscript, Commander McKean outlines 33 articles for the operation of his ship, the Dale, which served in the United States Navy during the 19th century.
mssHM 48985
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A collection of 395 items from 1804 to 1896; it consists primarily of the correspondence of Edward Hawke Locker and his son, Frederick Locker-Lampson. Also included are a small number of manuscript drafts, watercolor and pencil drawings. Subject matter includes: biographical information for Edward Hawke Locker, Frederick Locker-Lampson and their families; Edward Hawke Locker's writings; illustrations of Frederick Locker-Lampson's books; literary contributions to early 19th century periodicals, especially the Quarterly Review; politics and government including the Reform Bill of 1832 and the slavery question; world travel and exploration including letters from Egypt, Ethiopia, the Arctic, Brazil, and India; education of children; the formation of the Naval Gallery at Greenwich; and literary affairs. Correspondents include: Matthew Arnold, William Barnes, Shute Barrington, Charles James Blomfield, John Taylor Coleridge, John Wilson Croker, George Cruikshank, Richard Doyle, George DuMaurier, Whitwell Elwin, Orlando Felix, Millicent Hawes, William Howley, Alexander William Kinglake, Frederick Leighton, John Gibson Lockhart, Charles Long, James Russell Lowell, Frances Nelson, Sir William Edward Parry, Sir Robert Peel, Granville Penn, Eleanor Grosvenor Percy, Louise Drummond Percy, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Southey, Charles Richard Sumner, John Bird Sumner, Joseph Blanco White, and William Wilberforce.
mssLR
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The collection contains 69 letters (primarily between members of the Brinley family and Edward Brinley, Jr.), 18 documents (largely relating the career of Edward Brinley, Jr.), a journal kept by Brinley on board the USS North Carolina, Oct. 1840-May. 1841, and the U.S.S. Delaware from Dec. 1843-Mar. 1844, and a portable wooden writing desk owned by Brinley. The early correspondence deals with Edward's childhood and education, his first naval appointment aboard the U.S.S. North Carolina including details about the various ports-of-call. His letters of the 1844-1845 period deal with his service on the U.S.S. Falmouth in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean during the prelude to the U.S.-Mexican War. Edward's letters of the 1846-1850 period deal with his service aboard the U.S.S. Preble during its cruise of the Pacific. Brinley's comments on the economic, ecological, and political phenomenon of the Pacific throughout these letters. The California gold rush, U.S. economic colonialism in present-day Hawaii, U.S. whaling in the Pacific, and the Chinese Opium trade are among the issues extensively discussed. His letters of 1856 were written during his service on the USS Potomac in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. They include discussions of the "filibusterer" William Walker's short-lived takeover of Nicaragua. The letters of Francis W. Brinley, Edward, Jr.'s most frequent correspondent, are dominated by family news and fatherly advice regarding the merits of hard work and respect for authority. Francis's letters do contain some interesting portraits of quotidian life as a businessman in Perth Amboy, NJ, however. The two letters of Thomas Brinley paint a dismal picture of his failed attempt at making a fortune in 1850s California. The remainder of the correspondence relates primarily to the everyday affairs of the Brinley family.
mssHM 74000-74090
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The military journal of Edward Mott of the expedition (1775, April 18-May 10) to Fort Ticonderoga, prepared for Christopher Leffingwell (1734-1810).
mssHM 2179
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William writes that his plans to bring Edward to California have been delayed, as William has not yet had a chance to purchase a tract of land for farming and cattle. Nonetheless, he writes, "in a short time Sonoro & Chihuahua will belong to the U.S." and so there will be plenty of opportunity for surveying; William recommends that Edward "follow the study in its higher branches." He also recommends drafting and that Edward "be a more skillful penman."
mssHM 4217
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A.N.S. on a postcard from Edward Gordon Craig to Kerrison Preston; written from Vence (France), where Craig lived for much of his life. The postcard was, apparently, in response to Preston's request for any letters from the artist W. Graham Robertson Craig might have in his possession; Craig also comments on Ellen Terry and the paintings of George Frederick Watts.
mssHM 83566