Manuscripts

Queen Adelaide letters to the Duchess of Gordon

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Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1831-1848.
Call number: mssHM 21193-21226
Creator: Adelaide (1792-1849)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of July 1958.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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Caroline Adelaide Lankershim photograph album

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An album containing 38 cabinet card studio portraits showing the family and friends of Caroline Adelaide Lankershim, the wife of Los Angeles land developer James Boon Lankershim. 26 of the photographs are of women of varying ages, including one of a young woman, presumably a Mills Seminary classmate, with the handwritten inscription on the verso: "Belle of Mills Sem. Sept. 19 1878, To Carrie from Jane." A photo by K. Takamura of Yokohama is hand-tinted. The photographs are from various studios in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City, especially Taber (San Francisco, California) and Bradley & Rulofson (San Francisco), and from Falk (New York City, New York), T.E. Stanton (Los Angeles, California), F.G. Schumacher (Los Angeles, California), and Dames & Butler (San Francisco, California).

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Four Gordons

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Winging memories : verses by Adelaide Fairbanks Denison

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Katherine Gordon Morris, Duchess of Gordon, letter to Lord Charles Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon

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The collection primarily contains letters and documents relating to Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl of Loudoun; his son, John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun; other Campbell family members; and various political and military associates. John Campbells military activities during the 1745 to 1746 Jacobite uprising in Scotland and the Seven Years War in North America in 1756 and 1757 are especially documented. Materials in the collection include correspondence, memorials, and petitions; muster rolls, returns, orders, and other military records; appointments; estate records including accounts, bills, receipts, and inventories; and land and government documents.

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Queen Adelaide letters to the Duchess of Gordon

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