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Manuscripts
The collection contains correspondence and five manuscript notebooks. The vast majority of the correspondence was not penned by Allibone, and a good portion of it was neither authored by him nor addressed to him. Three of the five manuscript notebooks are by Edward Everett, one was written by Baron Thomas Babington Macauley and one was composed by Allibone and his wife, Mary. Everett's manuscripts include a biography of Baron George Gordon Byron (AL 394) and of Sir Walter Scott (AL 395) as well as a copy of his speech "In Defense of the Webster Statue" (AL 398). Macauley's manuscript is a version of his unpublished History of England, and Allibone's manuscript contains, among other items, A visit to Washington Irving, as well as an autograph copy of his letter to Queen Victoria of Great Britain. Significant correspondents include George Bancroft, Henry Ward Beecher, Sir David Brewster, Elihu Burritt, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Everett, Millard Fillmore, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thomas Hartwell Horne, Washington Irving, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Thomas Babington Macauley, R. Shelton (Robert Shelton) Mackenzie, William Hickling Prescott, L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney, Baron Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Ticknor and Robert C. (Robert Charles) Winthrop.
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Manuscripts
ff. 1-134v. [Henry Daniel] Liber Uricrisiarum. Incipit: Uryne is as mekyll for to sayne in Anglish as on in þe reynes Reyns freynsh Renes latyn lendis in Anglish. Explicit: and fordone prowe exces of the malis of þe matere and of the maladye. Explicit liber uricrisiarum et cetera. [S]ic ergo cunctorum tradidi doctrinas eorum/ Quos reperivi vel quos reperire petivi . . . Laus tibi unigenite qui labor [sic] explicit iste/ Tu qui eterne manes hunc conservare digneris. Explicit liber uricrisiarum ex ex [sic] latino in vulgare editus a Fratre I [rubric left incomplete?]. English. Kaeppeli, SOPMA 1747. Thorndike and Kibre, col. 1608. Henry Daniel, Liber Uricrisiarum or Dome of Urines, an English compilation based on the Latin of Constantinus Africanus, itself a translation of Isaac Judaeus; see R. H. Robbins, "Medical Manuscripts in Middle English," Speculum 45 (1970) 399 footnote 14. The text in HM 505 has the Latin prologue, Bk. 1 (4 chapters), Bk. 2 (said in the prologue to comprise 17 chapters, but with 18 in the manuscript, numbered 1-12, 10, 7, 77-79, 81), Bk. 3 (said in the prologue to comprise 20 chapters, but with 30 in the manuscript, numbered 1-21, 23-24, 26-30, 32-33); the Latin verse epilogue gives the date of composition as 1379. Within the text are 2 English poems: in Bk. 2, chapter 6, f. 60v, "Tred eke the kennyth/ Sonday whate letter on rennyth . . . While þou lyuist in erthe. Nascitur proprie [?] Nos et Garlandus," for which see Schuler, n. 553 and Hanna, "Addenda," n. 62; the second English poem, in Bk. 2, chapter 7, f. 75v, "As holy wrytt wytnesse and telle/ There [sic] thingis shull neuer ben full felle . . . Sely is he that this evill fleen/ For the peyne of hell shall he not sene," for which see Hanna, "Addenda," n. 2. Author and title information in the rubric of the prologue: "Hic incipit prologus in librum uricrisiarum Ricardi Dodd, Dilecto socio in christo Magistro Waltero de Ketene Frater Henricus Daniell Ordinis Fratrum predicatorum servulus Ihesu christi et virginis matris eius. Amantissime socie pluries et instanter rogasti me ut de iudiciis urinarum saltem manipulum unum florum tibi carpam atque vel breviter tibi scribam et hoc ydiomate in vulgari . . . ".
mssHM 505
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Manuscript contains a series of lectures by Henry Grove.
mssHM 46326
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Text is in Latin; fragments only, text is written in several different hands. Formerly laid into The Christian Exercise of Fasting (RB 249021), transferred from the Rare Books Department, approximately 1943.
mssHM 82942
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This collection is divided into two main parts, both arranged alphabetically. The documents relate to various aspects of Henry Warren Johnson's life and work. The bulk of the documents are notes for his manuscript, "The Story of Placerville Road." This manuscript, along with the accompanying notes and documents, chronicles his experiences traveling around California, while narrating the history of California's modernization. Other documents in the collection relate to his other book projects, his bird-banding expeditions, and his version of the history of the Post Office's entrance into California. The correspondence is largely Henry Warren Johnson's accounts of his automobile trips in California and the Pacific Northwest. According to his letters, he and his sister travelled to Morro Bay, Monterey, San Diego, Mammoth Lake, Bouquet Canyon, and Sequoia Park, all of which are in California. He also vacationed near the Columbia River in Oregon. The collection also includes several letters between Johnson and J.J. Brockliss about the Brockliss Bridge in Nevada. The last bit of correspondence relates to his political views about democracy, Roosevelt, and the economic state of the world. There are also two ephemera folders, one containing sketch maps for a manuscript and the other comprising of various printed material such as tourists' maps and newspaper clippings.
mssJohnson, Henry papers
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The correspondence files consist of letters, faxes, invoices, and book catalogs related to Edward Lasker's rare book and manuscript purchases that made up his horse library. Notable corespondents include: Blood-Horse Inc., DeWitt Clinton, Fasig-Tipton Co., J. A. Allen & Co., and James Cummins Bookseller. There is also a folder containing material regarding British jockey Fred Archer, including photographs. Several folders contain photographs of books, copies of title pages, or other resource material.
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