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Anna Margaretta Larpent diaries

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Description: The 17 volumes cover domestic matters as well as social, political, and theatrical events for the years 1773-1830; the diaries do not cover the years 1801, 1819, 1822-1823 and 1825. The volumes include:
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1773-1830.
Call number: mssHM 31201
Creator: Larpent, Anna Margaretta (1758-1832)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Volumes 1-16 purchased from Frances N. Beaufort-Palmer, June 1968.; Methodized Journal purchased from Frances N. Beaufort-Palmer through Maggs, June 1969.

Two license books of John Larpent

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Register of licenses issued by John Larpent from Jan. 1801 to Jan 15, 1824. The entries include the names and brief descriptions of the plays for which licenses were granted, with the name of the theatre where it was to be performed, together with the entry for the license fee. In addition to the London theatres -- the Haymarket, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, the Adelphi and the Olympic -- there are entries for provincial theaters such as Norwich, Birmingham, Margate, Liverpool, Manchester, York, Hull, and Glasgow, sometimes with the name of the manager. A few plays are crossed out as "refused." There is an entry for "An address to be spoken on Master Betty's 1st appearance in London, Theatre Royal Covent Garden Dec. 1st 1804."

mssHM 19926

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[Collection of published articles tracking the racing career of William Clift, English jockey, from 1803 to 1826]

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Collection is comprised of 6 volumes of published English racing periodicals which chronologically track the racing career of William Clift. Each volume covers 3 years: 1803 to 1806, 1807 to 1810, 1811 to 1814, 1815 to 1818, 1819 to 1822, and 1823 to 1826, respectively. The first 5 volumes contain excerpts from William Pick's Annual racing calendar, and the last volume contains excerpts from J. Hodgson's The pocket racing calendar and Weatherby's The racing calendar.

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Anna Dorothy Mason Bronson papers

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The letters in the collection cover the period of Anna (Mason) Bronson's schooling at the Thetford Academy in Vermont and her employment in the cotton mills of Manchester. The letters from Thetford provide an interesting perspective on a situation that was probably not all that common in the 1840s - a young woman attending a college preparatory school and boarding away from home. The majority of the letters were written by Anna to her parents during her six years in the mills. They are full of information on hours, wages, and working and living conditions. Because personal accounts of workers are not that common, the letters should also be helpful in resolving questions about the adjustment of young farm women to the factory regimen and the impact of industrial work upon family life. Also discussed are family affairs, including news of a brother in the California mines; evangelical religious belief; and events in and around Manchester, including fires, lyceum lectures, fairs, exhibits, etc.

mssHM 50177-50216

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Diary (Typescript)

Manuscripts

A collection of 99 items from 1841 to 1967; the collection consists of diaries, letters, documents and manuscripts primarily by John Doyle Lee. There is a letter by William W. Bishop that includes a list of names of persons in and present at the Mountain Meadows Massacre (mssHM 31237). There are also letters by and to several of John D. Lee's wives. There are six volumes of diaries by John D. Lee which span the years 1846 to 1876, as well as several facsimiles of Lee's diaries dating 1841 to 1860, and one diary of his wife, Rachel Andora Woolsey Lee, from 1856 to 1860. Many of the items in the collection are contemporary copies or facsimiles.

mssHM 26336

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Diary (Typescript)

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mssHM 31202

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Diary

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mssHM 26337 (Volume 5)

Anna Margaretta Larpent diaries

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