Manuscripts
A survey of England's champions: manuscript
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Manuscripts
This collection primarily contains memoirs written by Lionel Allen Sheldon about men he knew, specifically generals and politicians during the Civil War period. Some of these memoirs are part of his larger work, Reminiscence of Men and Events, which appear to be unpublished. There are a few pieces of correspondence and ephemera following the manuscripts. The collection is arranged in the following order: Box 1: Manuscripts (arranged alphabetically) and 2: Manuscripts, Correspondence, and Ephemera (arranged alphabetically).
mssHM 80196-80226
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Manuscripts
This collection primarily contains memoirs written by Lionel Allen Sheldon about men he knew, specifically generals and politicians during the Civil War period. Some of these memoirs are part of his larger work, Reminiscence of Men and Events, which appear to be unpublished. There are a few pieces of correspondence and ephemera following the manuscripts. The collection is arranged in the following order: Box 1: Manuscripts (arranged alphabetically) and 2: Manuscripts, Correspondence, and Ephemera (arranged alphabetically).
mssHM 80196-80226
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Manuscripts
The collection consists mainly of letters and questionnaires written between 1904-1908 on the topic of mid-19th-century Los Angeles. Most of the questionnaires, composed by Mary A. Forman, include a correspondent’s answers, and most of the letters were written to Forman in response to her questionnaires or other inquiries. Forman presumably conducted the correspondence as a result of her involvement in the Auld Lang Syne Club. There are also a few other documents that she probably acquired as part of her research, including a small number of letters written by Southerners (possibly relatives of A. J. King) during the Civil War and a few 19th-century California letters, most of them written in Spanish. The purpose of most of Mary Forman's inquiries was to obtain very specific details or confirmation of details of Los Angeles history, from what kind of roof a certain house had to which band of Apaches killed a certain man. Because of this, the responses cover a markedly wide range of topics, and the number of authors and other people involved is unusually large for a collection of this size. General topics addressed in the documents include Los Angeles history, California state and local government, crime, medicine, architecture, education, land allotment, churches, agriculture, Native Americans, the Mexican War, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Photocopies of photographs and a brief biography of Mary A. and Charles Forman, compiled by John Steven McGroaty in Los Angeles: From the Mountains to the Sea, published in 1921, can be requested with the paper versin of this finding aid.
mssHM 68517-68598
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Manuscripts
ff. 1-188v; ff. 189-194v blank. [Psalter]. Latin. Biblical psalter, each psalm proceded by a titulus and followed by collects (here "oratio"); the collects generally agree with the Roman series, except for 12 of the Hispanic series and 27 not precisely identified; collect R74 is copied twice, after Pss. 73 and 74; the collect after Ps. 118, 96 is R11811; after Ps. 118, 153 there are 4 collects. See L. Brou, The Psalter Collects. HBS 83 (London 1949). On ff. 167-177v, canticles; on ff. 177v-181v, Gloria, Credo, Pater noster, Te deum, Quicumque vult; on ff. 181v-187, litany including Germanus, Nicholas and Louis among the confessors; Benedict, Maurus, Placidus, Onuphrius and Leonard among the monks and hermits; Scholastica among the virgins; on ff. 187-188v, added, s. XVII, an index in Italian of the psalms for the office of the Virgin arranged according to the hours of the office, and index of the penitential and gradual psalms with reference to page numbers added to the text leaves by the same person.
mssHM 1041
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Manuscripts
Records of the British garrison of Gibraltar: "Brass and Iron Ordnance Mounted in the Garrison of Gibraltar 1782," a list of the mortars, "Heights and distances as taken by the Engineers at Gibraltar," and "Bearings and distances of the Stations across the Bay of Gibraltar.' Also included are: "A Cursory Relation of an attack made by the Enemy on the 13th of Sept. 1782 with some Incidental Occurences Preceding it," followed by the "Return of Officers killed wounded & died of their wounds at Gibraltar from the 12th of April 1781 to the 31st of October 1782," and "Shot & killed wounded &c in 1783," and a dispatch of M. D'Arcon "relative to the Proceedings of the 13th of September 1782."
mssHM 52688
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Manuscripts
ff. 1-245v: [Devotions]: f. 1r-v, [misbound]: Suffrages of Augustine and Catherine of Siena; ff. 2-15v: Penitential psalms beginning defectively and litany beginning defectively; ff. 16-19: Prayers; f. 19v, blank; ff. 20-49: Office of the Dead, Dominican use; f. 49v, blank; ff. 50-58: Prayers; ff. 58v-59, blank; ff. 60-67: Prayers; ff. 67v-68v, blank; ff. 69-71, [added by a contemporary hand]: Devotional poem, Ave mitis Imperatrix/ Ave vite Restauratrix; ff. 71v-76, [added in a later hand]: Prayers; ff. 76v-78v, blank; ff. 79-87v: Seven prayers attributed to Thomas Aquinas; f. 88r-v, blank; ff. 89-97v: Long hours of Mary Magdalene; ff. 97v-106v: Prayers in hierarchical order (Angels, Apostles, Martyrs, Confessors, Virgins, All Saints); ff. 107-117: Long hours of Eternal Wisdom; ff. 117-122: Prayers; ff. 122v-123v, blank; ff. 124-125: Suffrages, including one of Odilia; f. 125v, blank; ff. 126-136v: Long hours"de beato Dominico confessore patre nostro," followed by prayers to Dominic and Catherine of Siena; ff. 136v-144: Prayers and gospel readings for various canonical hours; ff. 145-150: Short hours of Catherine of Alexandria, followed by prayers to Catherine of Alexandria and to Vincent Ferrer; ff. 150-153: Prayers; f. 153v, blank; ff. 154-166v: Long hours against sin, followed by prayers to Louis confessor (of Toulouse?), Apollonia, the Holy Spirit; ff. 166v-172v: Prayers for the dead, preceded by indulgences of Pius II and John IV; litany for the dead; f. 173r-v, blank; ff. 174-185: Fifteen Oes of St. Bridget; ff. 185v-191v: Metrical hours of the Passion; ff. 192-194v: Suffrages of Peter martyr, Ursula and Jerome; f. 195r-v, blank; ff. 196-207: Prayers to say before communion; f. 207v, blank; ff. 208-216: Prayers to say after communion; ff. 216v-217v, blank; ff. 218-226v: Devotional poem, Ave salve gaude vale o maria non vernale, sed hiis rosis spiritale; f. 227r-v, blank; ff. 228-238v: Devotions on the life of Mary and of Jesus for the rosary, followed by prayers to the Virgin; ff. 239-241: Devotions for the canonical hours on the sorrows of the Virgin; f. 241v, blank; ff. 242-243v: Prayers to Thomas Aquinas and to Barbara; ff. 243v-244v, [added in a contemporary hand]: prayer to Jesus; f. 245r-v, blank.
mssHM 49124