Manuscripts

1950-1956

Description: The collection consists of 180 letters from 1950 to 1963, from more than eighty persons to Theodore Van Soelen. The letters are from artists, writers, and prominent men in public life; the subject matter focuses on art, New Mexico government, and politics. Correspondents include: Paul Horgan, Peter Hurd, Tom Lea, Paul Manship, Edwin L. Mechem, Nicholas Roosevelt, Paul Sample, Allan Shivers, John F. Simms, Edward Streeter, Robert Lewis Taylor, and Paul Dudley White.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1950-1963.
Call number: mssHM 36435-36614
Creator: Van Soelen, Theodore (1890-1964)(Opens in new tab)
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Theodore Van Soelen letters

Manuscripts

The collection consists of 180 letters from 1950 to 1963, from more than eighty persons to Theodore Van Soelen. The letters are from artists, writers, and prominent men in public life; the subject matter focuses on art, New Mexico government, and politics. Correspondents include: Paul Horgan, Peter Hurd, Tom Lea, Paul Manship, Edwin L. Mechem, Nicholas Roosevelt, Paul Sample, Allan Shivers, John F. Simms, Edward Streeter, Robert Lewis Taylor, and Paul Dudley White.

mssHM 36435-36614

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1957-1963

Manuscripts

mssHM 36435-36614

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Peter Hurd letters to Mrs. June S. Lewis

Manuscripts

The letters discuss various arrangements for the selection and purchase of a painting by Hurd as well as how Hurd worked in the course of a year

mssHM 56922-56926

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Tom Logan letters to Maude Hurd

Manuscripts

Small group of letters includes 12 letters from Tom Logan to Maude Hurd and 1 letter from Hurd to Logan from 1884 through 1885. In Logan's letters, he describes events on the Southern Great Plains, including the dispatch of his company to help control the incursions of Euro-American settlers into lands within the Indian Territory (foreshadowing the land rushes of 1889 and 1893). They offer insight into his views of Indians and of the western landscape where he served. Additionally, they offer insights into the rituals and rhetoric of courtship. Logans' letters contain varied assertions and entreaties about the pace of his efforts, the sincerity of his feelings and the depth of his commitment. In Hurd's only letter to him, she closes the circle by her excoriation of him for having abandoned their correspondence. There is a transcript included with each letter.

mssHM 83806-83818

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Myron Hunt Papers

Manuscripts

The collection consists of papers dealing chiefly with the work of Myron Hunt and Virginia Pease Hunt with philanthropic and civic organizations in Pasadena, California, 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, North Carolina, and Pasadena and Palm Springs, California, from 1893-1913. While some of the materials concern the life and architectural work of Myron Hunt, quantitatively, the collection is weighted toward the story of Pasadena from 1903 to 1946. 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. Some of the philanthropic organizations in which Myron and Virginia Pease Hunt were active are represented in the collection. These include: California Junior Republic, Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena Army & Navy League, Pasadena Association, and the Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Persons represented in the collection include: Myron Hunt, Virginia Pease Hunt, Henry A. Boardman, Robert Nichols Hunt, Harriette Boardman Hunt, and New Mexico author Paul Horgan (a friend of Robert Nichols Hunt). Some notable items in the collection include: Boardman, Henry Augustus. Autograph album of Yale College, Class of 1829 (with Catalogue of Graduates in the back). 1829 (Box 1) Boardman, Charles H. Autograph album of Yale College, Class of 1859 (with engravings of faculty and graduates and autograph letters from each). 1859 (Box 3) Horgan, Paul. Hymn and Chorale, The Eels, The Retreat (with dedications to Robert Hunt). 1925-1930? (Boxes 4-5) Hunt, Harriette Hollond (Boardman). Journals and autobiography which show the early life and career of Myron Hunt. 1893-1913 (Box 5) Hunt, Myron. Sketch books of Italian architecture made while in Europe. 1894 (Box 5) Japanese architectural drawings for teachouses (8 plans) (Box 9) Hunt, Myron. Personal letters to Virginia (Pease) Hunt. (15 letters). 1915-1919 (Box 12) Pease, Lute. To Virginia (Pease) Hunt. Letter to his sister re her forthcoming marriage. 1915, Mar. 13 (Volumes 10-11) Scrapbooks re Myron Hunt and his work (2 volumes plus loose addenda). 1903-1929

mssHunt, Myron papers, mssHM 27626, mssHM 27627

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Theodore Barrell commonplace book

Manuscripts

Commonplace book that Theodore Barrell put together between 1804 and 1846. The bulk of the manuscript is written in the same hand, most likely Theodore Barrell. Included are copies of letters (1775-1778) addressed to Colburn Barrell; devotional prose and poetry (1780-1781) including those by Dr. George Newbern Barrell; miscellaneous writings of Robert Sandeman; a plan of the Paul Alley Sandemanian church in the Barbican in London; and copies of letters (1780-1783) by Walter Newbern Barrell. The poetry and prose provide an insight into the devotional culture of the Sandemanian churches in New England and in Britain, especially in London and Perthshire, Scotland. The letters cover the events in Boston and Halifax during the American Revolution from a loyalist perspective. Walter Newbern Barrell's correspondence relates news from London, including those of the Gordon riots and their immediate aftermath.

mssHM 83496

1950-1956

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