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Report of demonstration at Falkirk...in support of Scottish self-government: typescript
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In this article, Patrick J. Healy writes, "Before we begin to thrust the industrious Chinaman from our midst according to law, permit me a foreigner to say a few words on the subject." He writes that while he is Irish rather than American, he feels qualified to speak on the subject as his people "usually work for low wages live largely upon potatoes and send a large part of their earnings back to Ireland." He warns that "my countryman cannot be ignorant of the existence of a secret Political party who hardly disguise their antagonism to foreigners and to Irishmen in particular", and argues against the belief that the Chinese feel the Irish have led the anti-Chinese movement. Healy believes that California cities could not be in their current civilized states without Chinese labor, and claims that those who oppose the Chinese are actually opposed to all business competition in general. Healy writes, "The most persistent opponents of the Chinese are the politicians" but are using them as a means to further their own aims. He concludes by stating his hope that "the doctrines formulated by Jefferson and affirmed by Lincoln still find a response in the hearts of the American people." With envelope.
mssHM 26406
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Report No. 35 is a study of the employment and effectiveness of the medical support of air warfare in the south and southwest Pacific (1941, Dec. 7 - 1945, Aug. 15). It is comprised of four volumes (approximately 1,300 pages). Only 7 copies of the report were prepared - this may be the only surviving copy. It is copy No. 7. The volumes are in fragile condition; covers and spines coming loose.
mssHM 80290 (a-d)
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How Am I to Be Heard?: Letters of Lillian Smith offers the first full portrait of the life and work of the foremost southern white liberal of the mid-twentieth century. Writer Lillian Smith (1897-1966) devoted her life to lifting the veil of southern self-deception about race, class, gender, and sexuality. Her books, essays, and especially her letters boldly explored the ways in which the South's attitudes and institutions perpetuated a dehumanizing experience for all its people - white and black, male and female, rich and poor. Smith's best-known books are Strange Fruit (1944), a bestselling interracial love story that brought her international acclaim; and Killer of the Dream (1949), an autobiographical critique of southern race relations that angered many southerners, including powerful moderates. Subsequently, Smith was effectively silenced as a writer. An avid letter-writer, Smith mastered the epistolary form in her work as director of her family's Laurel Falls Camp, an innovative summer camp for girls in the north Georgia mountains. There she developed her critique of southern attitudes about race and gender, her concern for children, and her theories of social change. Over the years her correspondents included Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Wright, and the leaders of such organizations as the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, the NAACP, and CORE. Margaret Rose Gladney has selected 145 of Smith's 1500 extant letters for this volume. Arranged chronologically and annotated, the letters provide a rich context for reading Smith's published work and reveal valuable personal and professional information: her courageous fight against racial segregation; her fears about remaining in Georgia, where her property was the target of arson several times; her depression at having been silenced as a writer; her thirteen-year battle against cancer; and the full burden of her struggle as a woman living and writing in the Deep South in the five decades between the two feminist movements of the twentieth century. Gladney's editorial commentary brings into central focus Smith's enduring lesbian relationship with Paula Snelling and creates a portrait of Lillian Smith which recognizes and challenges the attitudes toward gender and sexuality that shaped and defined her life, her choices of self definition, and her critical reception as a writer. Gladney argues that Smith's triple isolation - political, sexual, and artistic - from mainstream southern culture permitted her to see and to expose southern prejudices with unique clarity.
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The original of the Reed Peck Manuscript, an 1839 memoir criticizing Mormon actions in Missouri during the conflicts of 1838. Peck opens with a prophecy about "redeeming" Zion (Missouri) through armed force, the "interpretation" of which led Joseph Smith to call for volunteers to march to Clay County "under arms" (they were waylaid by a cholera outbreak). Peck goes on to relate alleged financial and power conflicts in Kirtland, Ohio, between, among others, Joseph and Hyrum Smith, Sidney Rigdon, and Oliver Cowdery, as well as disagreements over where in Missouri to establish a Mormon settlement. He writes that once the Mormons had settled in Caldwell County, the Mormon presidency became a "despotic government" and that it proposed a policy, encouraged by Rigdon, that dissenters from the Church be killed so that "they would not be capable of injuring the church." He goes on to say that the Mormon leadership demanded that all followers consecrate their property to the Church or be turned over to the "terrible brother of Gideon" (Jared Carter) for punishment. Peck continues that he and some others were "ever after ... opposed to the rule of the presidency" because "their word was law in religious, civil and military matters." He writes of the formation of a "secret military organization" (the Danites) by Carter, George W. Robinson, and Sampson Avard "under the instruction of the presidency," and of pretending to join the group, although he avoided taking the official oath and "declared to my trusty friends that I would never act in the office." He also remembers that Carter was later found guilty of criticizing the presidency, and alleges that he heard Joseph Smith say he would have "cut his throat on the spot" if he had been alone. The remainder of the memoir recounts the events of the Mormon War, in which Peck claims that hostilities between Mormons and Gentiles were inflamed by Joseph Smith. He begins with disputes over an election in Daviess County, leading to a "skirmish" which he says was exaggerated into accounts of a "bloody massacre of ... Mormons," leading non-Mormon citizens to fear retaliation and call for the expulsion of the Mormons from Daviess County. He criticizes the Mormons for initiating confrontations, plundering goods, and for attacking the militia under Capt. Bogart at the Battle of Crooked River, but he condemns the attack on Mormons in the Haun's Hill Massacre. He concludes his narrative of events with the arrest and subsequent escape of the Smiths, Rigdon, Wight, Parley Pratt, and others. He closes the manuscript by condemning Smith and the Church ("how can he [Smith] expect to support his character as a man of God when facts are exhibited to the world in their true light," he wrote) and by listing the sources for his narrative, much of which was allegedly based on his own eyewitness accounts. Other individuals mentioned in the memoir include W.W. Phelps, Edward Partridge, John Corrill, and Dimmock Baker Huntington. There appear to be pages missing after page 152.
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Series of letters written by Israel N. Prince to his sister Elizabeth E. Hodsdon in Falmouth, Maine. Prince's first letter traces his journey by boat from Boston to Charleston in 1850. The next several letters provide a detailed look at the hardships of frontier life in the Nebraska Territory, where Prince lives humbly ("our dogs have a more comfortable house," he writes), holds low a low opinion of many of his neighbors ("the character [of frontier people] is not what I could wish it might be," he laments), works briefly on the Burlington Railroad (which ended with "considerable loss"), and is disinterested in in the California and Kansas "excitement," although he later thought about moving to California or Oregon. Prince also urges Elizabeth and her family to come west, answers her questions about when he will return home by saying "when I came into the western country it was my determination not to go back till I had done something," writes of his many uncertainties ("I seem to myself to be peculiar in some respects," he noted, "At times I hardly know what to make of myself"), and shamefully admits his failures ("I hated to tell you that I was too poor to own a farm of any description"). Beginning in 1861 the letters describe "the great war feeling around" and Prince's enlistment in Company "C" of the 1st Nebraska Volunteers in June 1861. He was initially stationed at Pilot Knob, Missouri, and guarded bridges on the Iron Mountain Railroad, and writes of a difficult march to Springfield and an enemy raid at Georgetown, Missouri. Most of his time was spent near the Tennessee/Mississippi border between Savannah and Danville. Prince writes of his participation in the Battle of Shiloh and of the Army of Southeastern Missouri, which in early 1863 had just finished "one of the hardest campaigns of the war" (probably part of Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign). He alludes to "daily skirmishes," although also notes that his sister probably knows better than he what is happening since he has little access to newspapers or outside information. In addition to chronicling the movements of his regiment, Prince outlines the difficulties of army life, including long "forced marches," the shortness of supplies, his many illnesses, the possibility of his death, and the unpopularity of the men in command. In his last letter Prince writes that there is little hope for a promotion since "I don't believe I am a great favorite with some of the officers." Specific references are made to General John Davidson, Secretary of War Simon Cameron, General John C. Frémont, and General Justus McKinstry.
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The collection contains 759 items including 92 manuscripts, 19 of which are oversize. Most of the manuscripts are documents regarding the advertising, circulation, and financial concerns of The Los Angeles Record, The San Diego Sun, and The San Francisco Daily News from the early 1910s. The other substantial manuscripts are diaries of Adaline Rhoads and Roscoe Maxwell Rhoads detailing the social life and customs of late-19th century Indiana and early-20th century Southern California. Adaline Rhoads wrote about her daily chores, the activities of her children and her travels, including a trip in 1892 to the Grand Army of the Republic, 26th National Encampment in Washington, D.C. Roscoe Maxwell Rhoads also details his attempts to mend his health through exercise, various diets, bathing in magnetic wells and two visits to the Battle Creek Sanitarium in the late 1890s. Roscoe Maxwell Rhoads also detailed the family's journey from Anderson, Indiana to San Diego, California and their later move to La Jolla, California. The collection also contains a short story written by Roscoe Maxwell Rhoads set in Balboa Park. Other stories can be found at University of California, Los Angeles under the pseudonym "Roddney Radclif." The collection contains 102 pieces of correspondence arranged alphabetically by author, the majority of which are addressed to Horace Emerson Rhoads regarding the newspaper business. There are also a significant number of letters from Horace Emerson Rhoads regarding the newspaper business and the San Diego Athletic Club. There are letters concerning San Diego and California politics, including three letters regarding the purchase of an airplane for the governor of California. Rhoads received letters on the subject of honorary membership in the Los Angeles Record Newsboys' Club. The collection also contains letters regarding participation in La Jolla events and politics. A very small amount of correspondence relates to family matters and there is one letter and one telegram concerning the financial situation of Roscoe Maxwell Rhoads' dairy in 1916. The letter from Horace Emerson Rhoads to his aunt, Cora Binkley, contains a genealogy of his immediate family. The ephemera consists of 565 pieces arranged alphabetically by subject and are mostly newspaper clippings. The bulk of the ephemera is related to the newspaper business, especially E.W. Scripps newspapers, and the career of Horace Emerson Rhoads. Many of the newspaper and magazine articles are about the careers of individual newspapermen, their philosophies concerning the business, or their deaths. The collection also has a large number of obituaries regarding local Southern Californians. There is a large amount of material regarding La Jolla, its politics, its businesses and its early relationship with San Diego. There are a few items related to the Rhoads family, including newspaper articles, obituaries, photographs, a scrapbook and a Golden Anniversary Book. The ephemera also includes a Price List of Indian Stone Implements for sale by J.R. Nissley of Ada, Ohio and three fliers pertaining to shells, fossils and books concerning collecting these items for sale by G.W. Michael, Jr. of Morro, San Luis Obispo Co., California. There are also two photograph albums, one of which has photographs of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire of 1906. Subjects in the collection include: newspaper advertising in California; E.W. Scripps Company; Los Angeles Record; newsboys; newspaper editors in the United States; newspapers in California and the United States; newspaper circulation; 20th century history of newspapers; newspaper marketing; San Diego Sun; San Francisco Chronicle; San Francisco Daily News; William Hempstead Porterfield; James G. Scripps; John Diedrich Spreckels; Anderson, Ind.; Balboa Park in San Diego, Julian, La Jolla, Los Angeles, Pasadena, San Diego, San Francisco, Cal.; Arlington National Cemetery; Mount Vernon Estate; railroad travel in 1890-1910; Washington, D.C.; athletic clubs; Battle Creek Sanitarium; diet fads; history of health attitudes in the United States; magnetic wells; prescriptions; boxing in Reno, Nevada; Fourth of July celebrations in California; Grand Army of the Republic, 26th National Encampment, 1892 in Washington, D.C.; North Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church; World War I; California and Indiana social life and customs; women's rights; Epworth League, U.S.; Sabbath school teachers; Woman's Relief Corps, U.S.; abortion law and legislation in California; politics and government of California; child labor law and legislation in California; child welfare in California; criminal law in California; divorce law and legislation in California; interracial marriage law and legislation; marriage law in California; politics and government of San Diego; catalogs and collections of fossils in the United States; collectors and collecting antiquities of Indians of North America; catalogs and collections of shells in the United States; gas wells in Indiana; and dairying in California.
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mssHM 54458
mssHM 75851-75872
mssHM 70519-70711