Manuscripts

Celtic Bards, Chiefs and Kings

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Description: Separated from mssHM 12076 and cataloged separately in 1954.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1857-1860.
Call number: mssHM 17381
Creator: Borrow, George (1803-1881)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of March 1944.
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William Makepeace Thackeray letters to the Countess of Blessington, with original drawings

Manuscripts

The letters to the Countess of Blessington were removed from the volume by Huntington Library staff in June 1937 and cataloged separately (mssHM 15251-15294).

mssHM 40008

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The Death of Balder. A Heroic Play with Songs; in three acts

Manuscripts

Also bound in the volume: Balder's Dreams. From the Ancient Norse: a poem (mssHM 14491); a printed copy of the limited issue of the play The Death of Balder.

mssHM 14398

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Lewin B. Bowring letter to Edward Walford

Manuscripts

Item formerly enclosed with this letter has been separately cataloged: 1823, December 7. Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron to Sir John Bowring (mssHM 24055).

mssHM 24056

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[Doubleday and Company, inc.] 1 letter to Robert Graves, 1895-1985, carbon copy (L., typewritten: 1 p.), (1954, Mar. 18), [Garden City (N.Y.)]

Manuscripts

With a few autograph corrections. Note: originally attached to a letter from Robert Graves to Doubleday…, Mar. 3, 1954; now cataloged separately.

TEL 307

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The Congress of 1774

Manuscripts

Compiled by Ferdinand J. Dreer, this volume consists of extra-illustrated copies of Oration of Henry Armitt Brown : on the one hundredth anniversary of the meeting of Congress in Carpenters' Hall ... [Philadelphia] : Printed by the order of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia, 1874 and of Oration delivered in Carpenters' Hall on the one hundredth anniversary of the meeting of the Congress of 1774, Philadelphia : Privately printed, 1875. The 1874 edition is lacking title page. Pages are inlaid from the original 23 cm to 27 cm. It is followed by the title page and text of the 1875 edition. Both are extra-illustrated with correspondence to and from Ferdinand Dreer. Contains various portraits and autographs of prominent individuals and manuscripts including ones by Abraham Lincoln (mssHM 25023), John Adams (mssHM 25026), George Washington (mssHM 25043), Thomas Jefferson (mssHM 25045) and Ulysses S. Grant (mssHM 25052). The presidential items have been separately cataloged and full descriptions may be found in the online catalog. The frontispiece is an original watercolor drawing of Carpenter's Hall.

mssHM 3000-3026, mssHM 25001-25058

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Draft of a Compromise Bill

Manuscripts

In the handwritting of Daniel Webster. Separated binding housed separately.

mssHM 778

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