Manuscripts

Hunt family papers

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Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1863-1930.
Call number: mssHM 35843-35883
Creator: Hunt family(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Harding-Edgar, Lot 134, September 1971.
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George Lundy Hunt papers

Manuscripts

The collection consists chiefly of letters to George Lundy Hunt from family and friends, with a few business letters, dating from 1864-1877. Subject matter includes life in Ontario, Canada, and in Victoria, British Columbia; history of the Cariboo Mining District of British Columbia; gold and copper mining in Calaveras County, California; and the Fenian Invasions of Canada from 1866-1870. Also included is Hunt's diary for the year 1867, when he was in the mining town of Campo Seco, California, and a few pieces of manuscript fragments, legal documents, and ephemera.

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Myron Hunt papers, (bulk 1915-1932)

Manuscripts

The collection consists of papers dealing chiefly with the work of Myron and Virginia Pease Hunt with philanthropic and civic organizations in Pasadena, CA, from 1917-1946. There are also two sketchbooks by Myron Hunt (1894) and thirteen journals (1893-1913) of his first wife, Harriette Boardman Hunt, written from Europe, Evanston, NC, and Pasadena and Palm Springs, California, from 1893-1913. The collection also contains sub-groups consisting of the papers of Myron Hunt's son, Robert Nichols Hunt, and of the Boardman and Nichols families.

mssHunt, Myron papers

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John Hunt letters

Manuscripts

The four letters which John wrote to his family back in England describe in detail his life in a mining town in California. He talks about the climate and conditions in California, the hardships of mining, how easy it is to spend money in town on gambling and alcohol, his relationship with his Spanish girlfriend, and his desire to buy a ranch and have his family join him in California. Hunt specifically talks about Deadwood, Weaverville, San Francisco, and the following mines: French Gulch, Big Bear Mine, the Wheeler Claim and South Fork.

mssHM 68215-68218

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Houghton family papers

Manuscripts

A small group of Houghton family correspondence. Included are: two letters that Thomas Houghton wrote home from Andover, Mass. (1789, Apr. 21 and 1791, July 24); a letter to Houghton from his daughter Elizabeth (1790, Apr. 4, London); a document appointing Thomas Houghton, Jr. administrator of his father's estate (1797, July 12); citizenship certificate issued to John Harding, a papermaker, native of Great Marlow (Buckinghamshire) who had arrived to Andover from England in 1802 (1808, Apr. 28); three letters (1816-1829) addressed to Mary Agnes Houghton, including a letter of appreciation from the Salem East India Marine Society for her donation of "a medal of the Duke of York;" and a letter addressed to Abraham Marland regarding the estate of Thomas Houghton, Jr.

mssHM 70361-70371

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Henderson family papers

Manuscripts

mssHM 43251-43258

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Marsh family papers

Manuscripts

Includes a certificate of enlistment in the New York Governor's Guard for Mordecai L. Marsh, 1822; U.S. Civil War and other material for Louis S. Marsh, 1856-1863, and correspondence and material relating to Austin L. Marsh, 1915-1923. Collection contains six letters from Theodore Roosevelt to Austin L. Marsh, 1912-1918 (mssHM 42500-42505).

mssHM 42486-42507

Hunt family papers

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