Manuscripts

Robert Blinn Woodward letter to Samuel Arnold Pearson

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Description: Writing to his friend and business colleague Samuel Pearson in California, Woodward describes his travels to Edinburgh and Scotland. He plans to send home, from "the Giants Causeway," three pieces of stone "about 1 ft each." Woodward and Pearson appear to operate several public attractions, including a museum and garden, for which they charge admission. Woodward describes some similar ventures in Edinburgh, including "6 or 8 ropes hung to a shrivell on the top of a pole to swing round the pole by hanging on to the rings."The letter is dated 1867, June 24 and 25.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1867, June 24-25.
Call number: mssHM 19307
Creator: Woodward, Robert Blinn(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Grabhorn Collection, January 1945.
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George W. Woodward letters and poem

Manuscripts

Letters by George W. Woodward to family from 1861 to 1865. There is also a poem he wrote about his experience in the war, entitled "Something Awful." All materials are typescripts.

mssHM 49530-49538

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George W. Woodward correspondence

Manuscripts

The George W. Woodward correspondence consists of 47 letters between Woodward and Emma Ward from 1865 through 1867; 13 letters between Woodward and Ida C. Ladd; and 7 miscellaneous family letters. The exchanges with his two wives offer insight into the norms and rituals of mid-nineteenth century epistolary courtship. They explore the dynamics of gender relations in the wake of the social disruptions brought about by the Civil War and by the large-scale population movement into the West. Woodward's letters to Ward discuss the development of eastern Kansas, near the capital city of Topeka, referenced the Indian Wars of Kansas and 1867 Kansas suffrage referendum. In a letter dated 1867 July 7, he assured Ward, "I am happy to inform you that the Indians have not as yet taken my scalp, and that in this part of the state we do not apprehend any danger from them." On 1867 October 13, Woodward asked Ward for her opinion regarding: "the 'Impartial Suffrage Question' The question is submitted to the people at our next election and I want to know how to vote...There is a great division of feeling upon the subject, and I expect they will give it a big old discussion." In a letter dated 1867 November 17, he reported the measure was defeated by at least seven thousand votes. There are 7 letters from various Ladd, Ward, and Woodward family members written from 1867 through 1881. Also included is 1 cabinet card photograph of either Emma Ward or Ida C. Ladd, with a smaller torn photograph of Woodward on the back.

mssWoodward

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Robert Creuzbaur letter to Samuel Bulkley Ruggles

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Creuzbaur writes of his plans to design and build a "steam plow" and discusses the proposed agricultural advantages for his machine. He invites Ruggles to examine the machine, which he assures Ruggles "will find totally differing from any plan heretofore worked upon."

mssHM 20175

Ralph M. Pearson's Design Workshop

Visual Materials

A collection of correspondence courses and bulletins entitled Ralph M. Pearson's Design Workshop, authored and published by Ralph M. Pearson, Nyack, New York, 1937-1946. This collection is roughly divided into four sections. The first section is a run of a magazine column/articles by Ralph M. Pearson; the second section is a collection of issues of a correspondence course entitled Ralph M. Pearson's Design Workshop, Courses by Mail: Course 4 - Critical Appreciation; the third is a gathering of Design Workshop Bulletins and the fourth is a miscellaneous collection of notices and flyers relating to the correspondence courses. Most of the miscellaneous mailings are addressed to Mabel Spofford. All of these items are from her personal collection. First section: A collection of 35 installments of a monthly column/article entitled "The Artist's Point of View" by Ralph M. Pearson, as published in Forum Magazine. Most of the installments are date stamped; the dates range from March 1937 to May 1940 (the first few articles are not date stamped). Second Section: An incomplete set of a correspondence course entitled Ralph M. Pearson's Design Workshop, Courses by Mail, Course 4 - Critical Appreciation, by Ralph M. Pearson, Nos. 1-4, 6-9, 11-13, and 15 (12 numbers in total). Number 15 is dated 1942; the others are not dated. Third section: An incomplete set of issues of Design Workshop Bulletin, by Ralph M. Pearson. The collection includes No. 5 February 1937; No. 6 March 1937; No. 9 [1938]; No. 9 October 1938; No. 5 March 1939, and No. 6 March 1939. Fourth section: A collection of 17 miscellaneous notices, bulletins, publisher's advertisements and mailings relating to Ralph M. Pearson's Design Workshop Courses by Mail. These mailings are dated between March 1939 and 1941.

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Robert Turnball letter to Reverend John Beers

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In this letter, Turnbull talks about a trip he is going to take to Los Angeles (he writes from San Diego County) to look at some land. He also talks about several land grants in southern California including Rancho La Puente and Rancho Azusa; he also describes San Gabriel Valley in general and mentions some water problems in the area. The letter includes a hand-drawn map of the area surrounding Azusa and the La Puente Rancho. On the map, Turnbull writes "The land lying between Spadra [Pomona] and the Gov lands opposite Booth Ranch is the Rancho La Puente the Grant of whom your uncle bought" and "the squatters take the water out a the mouth of River carry across Dalton's Ranch on to the Gov lands the surplus reaching the Booth Ranch."

mssHM 75112

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Ivor Armstrong Richards letters to James Thorpe and Daniel Woodward

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Two autograph letters written by I.A. Richards to James Thorpe (HM 83567) and Daniel Woodward (HM 83568, with envelope); written from Santa Barbara where Richards was scheduled to give a lecture. The letters, written on the same day, were thank you letters for his recent tour of the Huntington Library given by Thorpe (Director of the Library) and Woodward.

mssHM 83567-83568

Robert Blinn Woodward letter to Samuel Arnold Pearson

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