Manuscripts
Jenny Lind letter to Mrs. Pfeiffer
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Jenny Lind letter to unidentified addressee
Manuscripts
Letter is mounted on paper which includes a ticket for Pew No. 109 at her Grand Concert, Buffalo, July 30, 1851; removed from a volume by Huntington Library staff, September 1938.
mssHM 22047
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Otto Goldschmidt letter to unidentified addressee
Manuscripts
Letter is mounted on paper, with auction catalogue information pasted onto paper; removed from a volume by Huntington Library staff, September 1938.
mssHM 22046
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Adelina Patti letter to unidentified addressee
Manuscripts
The letter is addressed to: My dear friend and was written from Craig-y-Nos Castle, South Wales; it was originally mounted in a volume and was removed by Huntington Library staff in September 1938.
mssHM 13258
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Charles Dickens letter to Sir James Murray
Manuscripts
An autograph letter written while Charles Dickens lived in Italy; the letter is written to the Irish physician Sir James Murray and concerns the illness of Dickens' youngest surviving daughter, Catherine (Kate) Dickens Perugini. Also included is a trimmed page with the address of Sir James Murray and a black and white engraving of Charles Dickens. The items were originally framed behind glass but were removed by Huntington Library staff.
mssHM 75953
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Collection of Robert Frost letters and poems, (bulk 1894-1916)
Manuscripts
This collection contains 59 pieces of correspondence and poems of American poet Robert Frost, chiefly consisting of handwritten poems and letters sent by Frost to Susan Hayes Ward (1835-1916), poetry editor for The Independent, from the mid 1890s to the 1910s. Items consist of: thirty letters from Robert Frost to Susan Hayes Ward (HM 7656, HM 25338-25366); eighteen loose poems signed by Robert Frost (HM 7638-7646, HM 7648-7655, HM 7657); two poems whose authorship was repudiated by Frost; apparently in the hand of Elinor M. Frost (HM 1201, HM 7647); a collection of 17 handwritten poems presented by Frost to Ward for Christmas 1911 (HM 7237); a letter from Robert Frost to William Hayes Ward, the editor of The Independent (HM 25337); two letters from Elinor Frost to Susan Hayes Ward (HM 25367-25368); three letters from Frost to Huntington Library staff authorizing access to his papers (HM 10799, HM 47622, HM 48305); and two letters from Frost related to autographs (HM 13810, HM 59545).
mssHM 1201; mssHM 7237; mssHM 7638-7657; mssHM 10799; mssHM 13810; mssHM 25337-25368; mssHM 47622; mssHM 48305; mssHM 59545